Waiting to Hear the Gospel

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Nov 5, 1903

Waiting to Hear the Gospel

It is related that in one of the South Sea Islands, after listening to the gospel message, an aged chief ran his fingers through his long, bushy, white hair, which fell below his shoulders, and waving it before his fellow tribesmen, exclaimed, “Do you see this long white hair? The time was when these locks were as black as a raven’s wing; but they have grown white through the long years in which I have waited to hear words like these—to hear words like these!”