A New Mission Field: The New Hebrides

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 11, 1912

A New Mission Field: The New Hebrides

ANOTHER mission field has been entered,—the New Hebrides Islands. In the Australasian Record of Oct. 9, 1911, appears the following: “Brother and Sister Stanley McCoy, of Norfolk Island, with their youngest child, left there for the New Hebrides, on September 7, having been engaged by a company of traders to take charge of their work for one year on Paama Island, in that group. Brother McCoy attended our last union conference at Warburton, and is known to many of our people in Australia. Sister Belden, who is making her home with their three oldest children at Norfolk, writes that Brother and Sister McCoy will be very much missed in the little church there; that they are faithful souls, and she is sure they will do what they can to teach the message to the natives. It was arranged by their employers that they should have the Sabbath. It is interesting to know that while our union conference council was in session, and steps were being taken to send missionaries to that field, Brother and Sister McCoy were already on their way to the New Hebrides, being the first Sabbath-keepers, so far as we are aware, to enter that group. Let us pray that Brother and Sister McCoy may be helped in witnessing for the truth by their lives in that dark land.”