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EEWA. 375 want,5 of Fiji must be known. There has been too much crying 'Victory ! yictory ! ' in Fiji ; the people think Fiji is save/3. Look at Fiji again ! More than half this Circuit are still heathen, killing and devouring each other daily. Not more than twenty miles from this Mission-house twenty men were killed this month and eaten. Look at the Mbau Circuit, say half heathen. Look at the Viwa Circuit, say three parts heathen, at war, with all its horrors. Look at Nandi, torn to pieces again by war. A Teacher has just been killed, and now war, we hear, is declared by the Christians. Look at Mbua, three parts heathen, and the heathen Chief, the greatest Chief in the Circuit, has de- clared war on the Christians. Look at Lakemba : the Togo people there have next to no religion, and prevent multitudes of Fijians from getting any. These are facts. You must not get the impression that Fiji is saved, and that we can do without a reinforce- ment. The work must suffer unless we get more men. It will not do to wait until some of the brethren are obliged to remove, and then supply their place with new men. This is only cramping the work. You will say, ' "We know all this better than you. Fiji's wants and Fiji's state have had a thorough investigation by us, and what we have done tells you our conclusion.' Well, then, Fiji, if this is all that can be done for thee by the Churches of my country, thy bloody sons must become still more bloody, until they have filled up the measure of their iniquity, and then go down to hell to drink the dregs of the wrath of God, through the worldly-raindedness and indifference of our colonial Churches. that God may wake up the land of my birth, and raise up men to plead Fiji's cause ! " The General Secretary of Wesleyan Missions, in a letter, dated Sydney, June 7th, 1858, says : " Mr. Moore has just sent me an epistle full of triumphant joy. His Circuit is spreading, and the work is deepening. They will have an increase this year of one thousand church-members, and the same number on trial for church-membership."