Sabbath-Keepers at Pitcairn
By Editor
THE following item, from the San Francisco Chronicle of January 30, will be of interest to many of our readers:— "The American ship John R. Kelly has arrived at Havre from this port. On the passage she called in at the Pitcairn islands. Captain Gibbons, in speaking of the matter, said that he anchored off the island on October 13th. A boat commanded by I. Russel McCoy put off, loaded with fruit. The occupants refused to take anything in exchange but medicine and an old mail which Gibbons had brought for the island. The reason for this, they explained, was because the day was their Sabbath (our Saturday), and they did not bargain or contract on that day. They said that there were 115 inhabitants then on the island, all of whom were well. They inquired for friends in San Francisco and said that the Louis Walsh, from New York, had called in, and also the British Amyone, the latter for water, her tanks having burst." Pitcairn is the only community in the world composed entirely of Sabbath-keepers.