. The conversion of the Maoris. sland of Savaii, and when Rev. JohnWilliams visited the islands two years after,many were found trusting in the Lord Jesus astheir Saviour. He was greatly mission was supplemented. In ten yearsthe Samoans had embraced Christianity, and thegood work has been going along there ever present staff of the London Society areseven missionaries, with their wives, and sometwo hundred native preachers and the white missionary visits theseschools, examines the scholars and offers the annual collection for missions is r
. The conversion of the Maoris. sland of Savaii, and when Rev. JohnWilliams visited the islands two years after,many were found trusting in the Lord Jesus astheir Saviour. He was greatly mission was supplemented. In ten yearsthe Samoans had embraced Christianity, and thegood work has been going along there ever present staff of the London Society areseven missionaries, with their wives, and sometwo hundred native preachers and the white missionary visits theseschools, examines the scholars and offers the annual collection for missions is re-ceived. Nearly all the children from seven yearsup can read and write. The Samoans are greatScripture readers, the Bible being their text-bookin school. Many of the natives are fine Chris-tians, while alas, the majority of them are only 154 THE CONVERSION OF THE MAORIS. nominally Christian and are low in morals. Theyhave great regard for the Lords Day. Ko workis done, and no fruit is sold to any vessel in theharbor. APPENDIX. From Sydney to Wellington. On a bright morning in the month of ]^o-vember, 1896, the writer, his wife, and little girlof five summers, stood on the wharf at Sydney,Australia, ready to go aboard the steamer Wa-katipu for !New Zealand. Lying alongside thewharf, on the other side was the Royal MailSteamer Alameda, with the Stars and Stripesflying from her mast. She was getting ready tosail in a few days by Auckland, New Zealand, forSan Francisco, United States, our home country. We had left this dear land in July, crossed theAtlantic Ocean, traveled in Scotland and Eng-land and sailed from London by the way of theSuez Canal, and Colombo, to Sydney, and now ina few days we expected to complete our journey. As we stood and looked at the Wakatipu, sheseemed very small in comparison with the fineand commodious Peninsular and Oriental Steamer Himalaya, in which we had sailed from we went aboard of her with courage, anticipat-ing that our jo
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