Sabbath-Keepers of New Guinea
By L. BROOKING
Among the cannibal head-hunters of New Guinea, which is a country little explored, there is a tribe of black Sabbath-keepers. The English traveler Bainbridge thus describes them: “They worship on Saturdays, and use very peculiar tablets in their house of prayer, marry only in their own caste, circumcise, eat only fish that have scales, hate pork, practise the same benevolent ideas in relation to the widows and unfortunates, and even to the minutest details they resemble the Jews.” “Among them were a number of albinos of superior physique and intellect, whose white skin, light eyes and hair, made them decidedly conspicuous among their black parents and companions.” Here is another testimony among the most degraded people to the knowledge of the worship of the true God and of his rest day. May the day soon come when the gospel messenger will take the everlasting gospel to them that they may know Jesus and wait for his appearing.