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The Fijian's Answer

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 10, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 41.

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The Fijian's Answer

AN English earl who was an infidel, went to visit the Fiji Islands. “You are a great chief,” he said to one, “and it is a pity for you to listen to those missionaries. Nobody believes any more in that old book called the Bible that they try to teach you, nor in that story of Jesus Christ; we have all learned better.” The eyes of the chief flashed as he replied: “Do you see that great stone over there? On that stone the heads of our victims were crushed. Do you see that native oven over yonder? In that oven we roasted the human bodies for our great feasts. Now if it had not been for the missionaries and that old Book, and the great love of Jesus Christ, which has changed us from savages into God's children, you would never leave this spot. You have reason to thank God for the gospel, for without it you would have been killed and roasted in yonder oven, and we would soon be feasting on you.”