A Mission Opportunity Among the Big Wambus

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 6, 1916

A Mission Opportunity Among the Big Wambus

BROTHER C. H. PARKER, of Atchin, New Hebrides, writes of a visit he had just made to the island of Malekula, where dwell the Big Wambus, the fiercest and most cannibalistic tribe in the New Hebrides. Brother Parker is the first white man to set foot among these savage heathen. He says, “This people are killing and eating those of other tribes every little while. A year ago they killed a boat’s crew at their landing, and only twenty-four days ago they killed a number of bushmen and ate them. It is dangerous to go among them. We expect to send a missionary to this people.” After Brother Parker had given treatments to some of their sick, and had shaken hands with a few of the women, the big chief, and his brother, who arranged the interview and served as a bodyguard, took Brother Parker to a beautiful site which they offered him for a mission and school, promising also to put up buildings. Brother Parker saw in this “God’s hand opening the door to us, and saying, ‘Come in, I have need of you here among this people.’”