A Missionary Relic
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WHEN Rev. Thomas Baker was murdered by the mountain natives of Fiji in 1867, there was hanging on the wall of his home at Davuilevu, what is now an old-fashioned barometer. After Mr. Baker’s tragic death, the instrument was handed over by his widow to Rev.
Jesse Carey—a fellow missionary—in memory of his close and helpful associa tion with her husband.
Mr. Carey lived to a ripe old age, and shortly before his death in 1914, he handed over the barometer to his son in-law, Mr. J. W. Kitto, 0.8. E. Mr. Kitto has had the instrument reconditioned, and now it goes back to Fiji to be hung in the Baker Memorial Hall at Davuilevu —only a few hundred yards from where it hung 80 years ago. On it is a small silver plate with the inscription; “Used by Thomas Baker and Jesse Carey, 1859.” —“Methodist Missionary Review”,