en in coming from the landing that
morning, taking this time a path outside the mission premises. Past the
house with the row of pillars in front, which Eleanor learned was a
building for the use of the various schools. A little further on stood
the chapel. It was neat and tasteful enough to please even an English
eye; and indeed looked more English than foreign on a distant view; and
standing there in the wilderness, with its little bell-tower rising
like a witness for all that was good in the midst of a heathen land,
the feelings of those who looked upon it had need be very tender and
very deep.

"This chapel is dear to our eyes," said Mr. Rhys. "Everything is, that
costs such pains. This poor people have made it; and it is one of the
best pieces of work in Fiji. It was all done by the labour of their
hearts and hands."

"That seems to be the style of carpentry in this country," said Eleanor.

"The chief made up his mind on a good principle--that for a house of
the true God, neither time nor material could be too precious. On that
principle they went to work. The timber used in the building is what we
call green-heart--the best there is in Fiji. To find it, they had to
travel over many a mile of the country; and remember, there are no oxen
here, no horses; they had no teams to help them. All must be done by
the labour of the hands. I think there were about eighty beams of
green-heart timber needed for the house--some of them twelve and some
of them fifty feet long. In about three months these were collected;
found and brought in from the woods and hills, sometimes from ten miles
away. While the young men were doing this, the old men at home were all
day beating cocoanut husk, to separate the fibre for making sinnet. All
day long I used to hear their beaters going; it was good music; and
when at the end of every few days the woodcutters came home with their
timber--so soon as they were heard shouting the news of their
coming--there was a general burst and cry and every creature in the
village set off to meet them and help drag the logs home. Women and
children and all went; and you never saw people so happy.

"Then the building was done in the same spirit. Many a time when I was
busy with them, overlooking their work, I have heard them chanting to
each other words from the Bible--band against band. One side would
sing--'But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven of
heavens cannot contain thee; how m