p. 26 | Cook Islands by A. H. Piper

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 30, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 44.

Cook Islands.

By A. H. Piper

"The isles shall wait for His law." In common with many other islands of the South Seas, yea, in common with almost every country in the world, the Cook Islands are hearing the message, "Prepare to meet thy God." Literature printed in the Rarotongan language bearing upon the second advent of Christ, the prophecies, and practical subjects, is finding its way into the homes of the islanders. The living worker is visiting from house to house, comforting, instructing, exhorting the people "in Christ's stead, Be ye reconciled to God."

In the providence of God, a training-school has been established, and here we are endeavoring to educate our youth to become useful members of society on earth and hereafter citizens of heaven. Realizing as we do that all things terrestrial are soon to be dissolved and pass away, the burden is resting upon some of our native youth to take God's last message of warning to the islands to the northwest that are still shrouded in the depths of heathen darkness.

Not only upon the youth has the burden fallen to give the message, but also upon some that are older. One Maori sister, so diseased as to be unable to walk, who has to have all her food brought to her, said to us, "O missionary, I can not go to the people and tell them about the Saviour's soon coming, but when they visit me I tell them about it." One native brother who earns but a few cents a day, puts into our hands about every three months the sum of $4.87 to forward the work.

"This Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." God is able to take the most corrupted heathen and make them clean missionaries for Him. Remember our work in the isles. A. H. Piper.