"Easter Day.--What an Easter for him! and doubtless we all who will
by and by, as the world rolls round, receive the Holy Eucharist shall
be in some way united to him as well as to all departed saints--
members of His Mystical Body.

'April 12.--Bishop came out yesterday afternoon from Auckland. After
baptisms at 5, and evening service at 7, sat till past 11 settling
plans: thus, God willing, start this day fortnight to return the
boys--this will occupy about two months; as we come back from the far
north, he will drop one at Lifu, one of the Loyalty Islands, with
large population; he will go on to New Zealand, stay perhaps six
weeks in New Zealand, or it may be two months; so that with the time
occupied by his voyage from Lifu to New Zealand, 1,000 miles and
back, he will be away from Lifu about two and a half or three months.
Then, picking me up (say about September 12), we go on at once to the
whole number of our islands, spending three months or so among them,
getting back to New Zealand about the end of November. So that I
shall be in Melanesia, D.V., from the beginning of May to the end of
November. I shall be able to write once more before we start--
letters which you will get by the June mail from Sydney--and of
course I shall send letters by the Bishop when he leaves me at Lifu.
But I shall not be able to hear again from England till the Bishop
comes to pick me up in September. Never mind. I shall have plenty
to do; and I can think of those dear ones at home, and of you all, in
God's keeping, with perfect comfort. The Lifu people are in a more
critical state than any others just now, otherwise I should probably
stop at San Cristoval. A few years ago they were very wild--
cannibals of course; but they are now building chapels, and thirsting
for the living waters. What a privilege and responsibility to go to