The Gospel’s Call in the Solomon Islands

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

The Gospel’s Call in the Solomon Islands

“THE isles shall wait for his law,” is being literally fulfilled in the Solomon Islands. Missions have been established there for some years; ours, for only a short time. Brother G. F. Jones writes regarding the answering of a new call for a new station: “This is a right up-to-date heathen country of cannibals, head-hunters, and devil-worshipers. Yet withal there is a wonderful change coming over the people. There is an intelligent yearning after truth. They persistently call for missionaries. After much counseling together of chiefs, they select what mission shall settle among them. Passing by others, they have appealed to us. The attraction is not the missionary, nor a new mission, but the law of God. A prominent native who has taken part many times in head-hunting raids, the other day said to me, ‘Here are my two boys. Take them to worship Jesus, and they shall be missionaries for Malaita,’ which is doubtless one of the most savage islands in the world. Another old warrior chief, noted for raiding far-away islands, said, ‘All my people shall be as your people, and your Sabbath shall be their Sabbath.’ These are encouraging omens that God’s Spirit is working upon the hearts of the heathen in a special manner to draw them to the truth for this time.”