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The Original Diet and Missionary Witness

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 43.

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The Original Diet and Missionary Witness

In relating his early experiences among the savage cannibals of New Guinea, James Chalmers, a pioneer worker among them, said that when the natives saw the missionaries opening canned meat, they came to the conclusion that they, too, were cannibals like themselves, and that they had men cooked, and sent out to them from their home country. Is it any wonder that the savages took this view of the matter? And could they be expected to make the distinction between the flesh of one animal and that of another? The original diet which God gave to man would not have been such a stumbling-block to these untutored savages.