So shrub and weed. Neither horses, cows, or sheep can live there long. there is no fresh beef or mutton, and one of the first missionaries nearly starved on Apaiang. There was food, but it was not of a kind to nourish him. The Morning Star arrived just as he was sinking away. He was carried on board, and fed with the milk of a cow until able to bear solid food and so his life was saved. On those green rings of coral islands there are no hills, or streams; few land-birds and few flowers. You would see no villages. At a mission-station you might find a church, a house for the missionaries, a house for strangers, a store, and five or six small native houses, and the natives call that "city great!' The other islands, such as Kusaie and Ponape, are volcanic and have mountains two or three thousand feet high. They are covered with forests, and are alive with birds of bright plumage and sweet song. There are the bread-fruit, banana, cocoanut, lemon, orange, and other tropical growths, with a great variety of timber trees. But even here there are no cultivated fields or pleasant towns. The people build their little reed houses under the trees, and pull up a few reeds around them, in order to plant bananas and yams, the vines of which they train upon the trees. WHAT THE MISSION HAS DONE FOR THE ISLANDS. In 1878, at the end of twenty-six years, there were six American and thirteen Sandwich Island missionaries in Micronesia. They had reduced four of the languages to writing -for the islands have different dialects - and had translated the New Testament and many books and Christian songs. There are thirty-four churches and about fifteen hundred church-members. Many hundred of the natives can read well, and on some islands all the population is in school. The churches have themselves begun the work of foreign missions, and have sent ten teachers from their own number to heathen islands. THE PONAPE BOARD OF MISSIONS. At their Monthly Concerts in 1874 they contributed nearly one thousan.. dollars for supporting their missionaries. Most noted among these teachers are Opataia and his wife, Princess Opatinia. Opataia is a simple, sincere, honest Christian, and his noble wife has long been an efficient teacher. She was born to good King Hezekiah while he was a bloody chieftain, and was one of the earlier ones, with him, to embrace Christianity. The missionaries have sent to America photographs of Opatinia and the teachers, of which the engravings on this and the next page are copies. In the picture of the group of native missionaries, Opataia (Obadiah), the husband of the princess, sits in the center. On the right stands David, on the left is Moses of Princess Opatinia. Mokil, and at his feet sits Moses of Ponape. At the farewell meeting in 1873, when Opataia and his wife sailed for the Mortlock Islands, to teach others the blessed gospel they had believed, their words moved many to tears. Opataia said nothing could turn him back. Opatinia said she freely and gladly gave up all her chieftainship and her comforts that she might make known the love of Jesus to the heathen. "On their passage down," said Mr. Sturges, "when we landed on those dark shores, and when we came away, all along, their faces were full of sunshine and their hearts of hope. I shall never forget the saintly smile of that Princess Opatinia and her noble husband, as they stood in that mass of almost nude savages on the beach and waved their final farewells to us as we moved off in the boat to return to the ship. The hope may I add a holy ambition of my life was realized: my life was spared to see some of my adopted children landed as teachers on foreign shores." In sending away these teachers the island churches have sent their best, and that makes the best of those who remain. Their letters are read at the Monthly Concerts, to the most interested and attentive audiences. The letters breathe not one whisper of discontent that they have gone, but are full of joy and gratitude that the longing of their hearts is realized and they are now on heathen shores. FRUIT OF THEIR LABORS. In less than five years, these Ponape Christians had established seven churches with 338 communicants on the Mortlock Islands, and one church with 272 members on Pingelap. The rude, wild people support their teachers; build them houses, bring them food and do their work, that they may be free to teach. Even in time of famine, when the people were starying, the teachers were not left to suffer. There are now fifteen hundred members of native churches in Micronesia, and the Morning Star is said to be as dear to them all as it is to the missionaries. 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