iliaries of religion in raising the tone.

Lands where cold is unknown, and where fruit grows as freely as in
Paradise, offer no inducement to labour; and the missionaries, striving
in vain to lead the people to think occupation a duty, were deserted as
being troublesome when they bade them to work. A school which the
Williams's set up was more popular; the Polynesians had no lack of
brains, and reading and writing were pleasanter than digging and
building, or carrying logs.

Thinking that examples of the civilization that the islanders had never
seen would do more for their advance than anything else, Mr. Williams,
with such assistance as he could obtain from the natives, built himself a
house with eight rooms, sash windows with Venetian blinds, a verandah,
and a most beautiful garden, and filled it with polished furniture, made
by his own clever mechanical hands. With the assistance of one or two
other missionaries who joined him, he succeeded in thus exciting a
certain emulation among the natives. The king had a house built for him
like that of the white men, others followed, and thus a very important
step was made out of the degraded customs encouraged by the old oval
huts. The coral, made into lime, afforded excellent material for
plaster, and trades began to be fostered among the natives; they became
carpenters, blacksmiths, plasterers, boat-builders, and acquired some
ideas of agriculture. By the end of the second year, the chapel and
school stood in the midst of white cottages; the population still wore
clothing made of their own bark cloth, but in imitation of that of their
teachers, and the open savagery of the island was gone. The congregation
assembled three times on Sunday, and there was family prayer in almost
every house. Cannibalism was ended, and so was infanticide, one of the
most terrible customs of the island, for there was scarcely a woman above
thirty who had not put to death several of her infants. Much had been
done, although the good man to whom so much was owing did not feel
satisfied that the profession in many cases was thoroughly deep, and he
still knew of many an inveterate evil, that only time, discipline, and
above all heartfelt religion, could uproot.

A large chapel, built with all the taste and ornament that he could
achieve, was erected, the sides wattled, the roof supported by pillars of
tree-trunks, and the floors and pews, the pulpit and desk, which were all
to which the