MANY of our readers have heard of far-off Pitcairn Island. It lies a little south of the Tropic of Capricorn in longitude 130° west from Greenwich, a trifle west of directly south from San Francisco. Its nearest neighbor of account is the Gambier group, about 300 miles to the northwest. Of these islands Mangareva is the chief.
Some of our readers know also of the story of the settlement of Pitcairn Island by the mutineers of the English ship Bounty, with their captured Tahitian wives. The early years of this settlement bore the fruits of the crimes of the mutineers, and jealousy, hatred, murder, and suicide followed, till in their sore straits the remainder sought God. From that day forward a higher standard of Christianity has been manifest among the simple natives than in any of the tropical islands. Situation apart from the great ocean highways of travel has not been an unmixed evil. The innocent people are largely ignorant of the arts and wiles and sins and vices of civilization. God in His goodness has preserved them from the vices which are destroying the peoples of other lands.
Usually persons are not permitted to remain on the island, because there are people enough there now for the size of the island, and because the faithful men among them do not wish to see on Pitcairn the corrupting, demoralizing influences which have been spread by sailors and men of commerce in the other islands of the sea.
It was not long ago that a ship’s crew were rescued, and the result to the islanders was a fearful scourge of typhus fever, and a manifestation of vicious corruption on the part of some of the rescued sailors.
One of those, who seeks thus faithfully to guard his people, who is indeed a father as well as governor to the dwellers of the island, is J. R. McCoy, a proof of whose love for his people is given below.
The Landing-place, Pitcairn Island, Which Was Damaged by the Tidal Wave.
Not long since there was told in the papers of the burning of a great British ship with her cargo on the island of Mangareva; but the brief despatches told naught of the tale of simple faith and true heroism connected therewith. The ship first came to Pitcairn Island, and her captain desired to beach her there, but Mr. McCoy, knowing the possible calamities to the islanders involved in such an act, refused, and was willing to risk his own life that his people might be saved from the possible dangers, especially morally. But the story we will let him tell, as he has told it in a letter to Mr. C. H. Jones, manager of this office, told it not for publication, but to a friend and brother:—
“Mangareva, Gambier Islands, Dec. 7, 1900.
“Just one week ago to-day I left Pitcairn Island on a four-masted British ship, the Pyrenees, of Glasgow, as pilot for this port. Her cargo was discovered to be on fire fifteen days previous to her arriving at Pitcairn. The captain’s intention was to run her on the island in order to save the crew, if possible. Owing to strong contrary winds and heavy sea on the shore, I found it impossible to carry the captain’s plans into effect, and planned, or advised, that she come to this place. At first the whole ship’s company refused to come, knowing that it was a great risk, and that the fire might break thru the deck at any moment. When the captain asked me to pilot them here and I gave my consent, the ship’s company were made willing to come; for they saw that I was willing to risk my life for their sake.
“It was after dark when I landed from the ship. A public meeting was called in the school-room, and I told my people of my intention to pilot the ship to Mangareva, if they would consent to my leaving them for a few weeks or perhaps for a few months. After an hour’s talking and advising the people, and reminding them of the time when they had shipwrecked men on the island and of the trouble made by them, I asked that all who were willing for me to leave the island for humanity’s sake should raise their right hand. The majority were in favor of my going. I told them that I was not taking my life into my own hands as some might suppose; neither did I consider the big and strong fire that would be burning underneath me every day and night; but that I did consider and realize that the strong ‘everlasting arms’ would be underneath me. Jesus left His Father’s throne and His bright home above for humanity’s sake. Why can not we?
“There was no sleeping in Pitcairn that night. While I was attending to family affairs the women were cooking food for the distressed ship’s company; the men were getting potatoes, fowls, bananas, pumpkins, etc., and at 6 A.M. I bade farewell to home and people, and sailed with a strong and fair wind for Mangareva, a distance of 296 miles (about). On Sunday morning we failed to get the chains from the hold of the burning ship to anchor her, so we ran her on the beach and saved ourselves, our effects, and a few stores. Two days later the fire broke out from the hold, and now she is all in flames and will continue to be so until her cargo of wheat and barley is burned up. The ship’s stores being in the hold, the men can not get at them. We in Pitcairn supplied them water and food sufficient to last them till they reached this place.
“We found the people here very short of provisions, there being only enough flour in the whole group to last four days. We were disappointed in not finding a vessel here to take us on to Tahiti. If a vessel does not come from Tahiti in another week with provisions, the people will be in a very serious condition. On account of recent gales the native foods are very short also. There is no breadfruit at all, when there ought to be plenty at this season of the year.
“I am glad to report that former visits to these islands with our missionary brig have produced good effects, and many are seeking to know more of the truth. Inquiries are made as to when our ship will come again. The French governor said that the Adventists are very good for religion, they stick to it, and are not like other denominations.
“If I can not get a vessel here or in Tahiti to take me back to Pitcairn, I will have to go to San Francisco and take a merchant vessel, as I did before, and risk making the island. But the chance for going from here seems favorable. We have a large amount of arrowroot, chickens, dried bananas, etc., in the island, and some of the merchants from this place may go after them. I will take dry goods from here and go home as soon as possible. This will be decided when the schooners arrive from Tahiti. I have been talking to one of the merchants here, an old friend of mine, in regard to purchasing a small vessel to run our produce from Pitcairn here. It would cost $3,000 or $4,000 Chile coin, and he wished to pay in some himself. We in Pitcairn can pay our part when we find a way of getting our produce from the island. All in Pitcairn are anxious for another camp-meeting, which I intend to hold this summer should I remain in the island.
“Your loving friend and brother in the work,
“J. R. McCoy.
“P. S.—I may charter a vessel for $700 Chile coin for home. If I do not write from Tahiti, it is because I return home from here.
“December 20. In two days I will be on my way home again.”
LOVE
By J. A. Edgerton
It holds the starry hosts in place.
It binds in unity the race.
It fills the home with happiness.
It ministers unto distress.
It is of God the seal and sign.
It is of life the law divine.
It is the soul of motherhood.
It is the motive power of good.
It is man's higher, better part.
It is the scepter of the heart.
It is the jewel without price.
It is the key to Paradise.
It is the kindly light that leads
Men onward unto noble deeds.
It is the purifying fire
That frees the mind from low desire.
It stands behind each infant's birth.
It is the sweetest thing on earth.
It is the fount of charity.
It melts our hearts in sympathy.
It makes the whole world beauteous seem.
It opens the inner realm of dream.
A guardian angel, it attends
On parents, children, lovers, friends.
It is the source and secret spring
From which proceeds each living thing.
It links the atoms, and it runs
With magic force thru all the suns.
The earth beneath, the heavens above,
Obey the gentle rule of love.
Denver, Colo. J. A. EDGERTON.
The Will of a Common Man
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man can not be taken from him.—Confucius.
FROM PITCAIRN ISLAND.
Many of our readers will be pleased to get the news from Pitcairn Island contained in the letter below from the governor of the island, to Mr. C. H. Jones, president of the Pacific Press Publishing Co. We condense the letter:—
J. R. McCoy, of Pitcairn Island.
“PITCAIRN ISLAND, Nov. 23, 1900. “Mr. C. H. JONES—Dear Brother: We are blessed in many ways here. The island, in spite of a great storm and tidal wave a few months ago, is very productive. As we have abundance of rain during the whole year, our water supply is good. We are having plenty to do all the time now. I will endeavor to keep the people busily engaged in their work. Idleness gives them time for much mischief. In all lines of work we are having our hands full; if it were only possible for me to get help, I would be glad to have it, but so many mistakes are liable to occur, and the last state may be worse than the first. I need a rest, and if our small boat don't come, I may take another trip to California on some passing ship.
“I will again mention the recent storm, that did great damage to our landing-place and other things in the vicinity. The waves washed down the boat-house, broke two boats, and filled the harbor with big and small stones. It took four weeks to put things in good shape again and ready for use.
“Since I came back here from California we have had two deaths, the first one on June 12, 1900, Guy Young, my grandson, seven years and seven months old, a dear little Christian, now sleeping in Jesus. Lucas Cipreano, a native boy from Mangareva, October 12, fell ninety feet from a cliff while chasing goats, and died instantly. His mother is in Mangareva. October 29, while cutting logs to build the new church, a log fell and broke my son Edmund’s right leg four inches above the ankle. I placed the parts as best I could under the circumstances and applied splints and bandages, and it is doing splendidly. Phonso Christian accidentally made a wound on his leg with a sharp ax. I stitched it up. He also is doing well, and will be out in a few days.
“Yours in the work, J. R. McCoy.”
THE NEW HEBRIDES CHRISTIANS.
(Rev. John G. Paton, D.D., missionary to the New Hebrides Islands, since 1858, in the Missionary Review.)
THE New Hebrides Christians are a people of simple faith, who have embraced the Gospel, and try to love and serve Jesus Christ according to their knowledge of the teaching of His blessed Word. They try to observe in their every-day life and conduct all that Jesus has commanded. They begin and close every day with private and family prayer, and ask the divine blessing on all meals of food regularly, and try to train their children in the fear of God, and for His service. Their constant, every-day walk and conversation are powerful object lessons to the heathen, and to all, of the wonderful change they have undergone by the teaching and power of the Gospel, as they try to live for Jesus and eternity. They are far from being free from faults and failings common to man; nor are any of them perfect; for we all sin and come short. There are none righteous, no, not one, except our Saviour, the God and Man Jesus Christ. But according to their light and education, they would stand a favorable comparison with a similar number of Christians, say any eighteen thousand taken promiscuously from any white Christian community. . . . They highly value and carefully read and study the Scriptures, as to man they are God’s only infallible guide and rule of faith and practise.
The Material from Which Christians Are Made.
When we began the Lord’s work among them, they were all painted, savage cannibals, without any clothing, and without any written language. The women had to do all the plantation work, while the men were engaged chiefly in war, or in talking about it. They lived constantly in a state of superstitious dread of the revenge of their heathen gods, and of their enemies, and of the spirits of the people they had murdered, and of evils brought on them by their sacred men, heathen priests, and wizards, whom they all exceedingly fear.
As heathen they have no idea of natural death, but believe that every person who dies is killed by some one through sorcery or witchcraft, in using a piece of an orange or banana skin, or something of which the dead person has eaten a part. So, after a death, they all meet daily, and with each other talk over the case to find out who has caused the death. Then, as soon as some person will name any one with whom he is unfriendly, as having caused the death, they load a rifle, and the priest or chief walks up to some young man and presents him with a loaded rifle, saying, “You are to go and shoot this fowl or hog for us.” He generally has no alternative but to be shot or take the rifle, lay it aside, and go and paint his face, neck, breast, and arms black, and return, take up the rifle, and go and shoot the innocent person, after watching for him, concealed in the bush near his house. War often follows in revenge, and in this way many lives are lost, and sometimes a whole village or tribe is swept away.
On the islands first occupied by us, infanticide was common; the aged were murdered and all widows were strangled to death when their husbands died. This was one of the most difficult savage practices to get the natives to give up, as they thought it was a great dishonor for the spirit of the husband not to have the spirit of his wife to wait upon him as a slave in the world of spirits. Notwithstanding all these dreadful savage cruelties and superstitions, even as a heathen they were an interesting, industrious people, living in villages and towns, and, like country farmers, cultivating and planting the lands around them for the support of themselves and families. Yet they have almost no buying and selling, and no money is in circulation among them. “Might is right,” and by club laws the strong oppress the weak without mercy.
The Transformation Process.
The missionary first tries to acquire the language of the natives among whom he is placed; he has no help nor teacher, but tries to pick it up as spoken by them, to discover its grammatical construction, phonetically reduces it to a written form, translates some hymns into it, and teaches the people to sing them. He also translates and prepares a small book of extracts of Scripture, giving them an account of the creation, the fall, the flood, of God’s love and mercy to men in Jesus Christ. He teaches them to read and understand it, and to receive the Scriptures of God as the only infallible guide and rule of faith and practise to all men, of all colors and countries, and that in it, by the suffering and death of His only-begotten Son, Jesus, God offers salvation and eternal happiness to all men who will accept it, believe and obey it, having repented of and given up all sin. A good God of love and mercy, so loving our lost and ruined race as to send His Son into our world to die for men and give them eternal life, is that by which divine grace enlightens the mind and moves the heart of the savage to love and serve God above all else. Hence, they delight to attend school and church and prayer-meeting, in order to learn all possible about the Saviour, and their privileges and duties in Him, whom they try to love and serve as their present abiding friend and eternal reward.
Kept in the Path of Duty
Where God calls you to go, and you go in hearty submission to His will, and implicit faith in His power, He will keep you; but if seeking your own pleasure outside the path of duty, not all the power in humanity can preserve you from the evil one. If kept at all it is thru the mercy and forbearance of God.
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
The brethren at Muscatine, Iowa, have purchased a church from the Baptists, and have it fitted up, and commenced holding their meetings in it.
C. E. Leland and wife report good results of their meetings at Port Huron, Mich. They have organized a Sabbath-school of 17 members and 2 more have commenced the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath.
At a recent meeting of the board, Dr. J. D. Shively was appointed superintendent of the Iowa Sanitarium. This leaves Pastor C. F. Stevens free, in accordance with his earnest request, to attend to other important duties.
The principal of our church-school in Grant City, Iowa, gives a most cheery report in regard to its flourishing condition. There is no reason in the world why these schools should not be a great blessing to any church that will start them. The sturdy moral truth of the Bible should be woven strongly into the education of every child.
The Sacramento, Cal., Record-Union of February 23 says: “Large crowds of interested people are nightly attending the Bible studies conducted by Evangelist C. N. Martin, at the Elkus store building, on J Street between Ninth and Tenth. The studies have been conducted along the line of prophecy, showing how the nations of the world are to-day fulfilling the Word of God.”
Our Industrial School at Cedar Lake, Mich., is reported in a flourishing condition. The spring term commenced on February 21, and closes May 15. If there are any within reach of this school who have not fully decided to avail themselves of its advantages, it is not too late for them to start upon the spring term yet. Address the principal, H. D. Day, Cedar Lake, Mich.
The academy at Woodland, Wis., begins its spring term March 5. All of our young people in that vicinity should take advantage of this opportunity to get a Christian education. And if there are any who do not hold the same faith with us, but who desire the special advantages of this school, they will be made welcome. Any one interested should address Prof. J. E. Tenney, Bethel, Wood Co., Wis.
The Indiana Conference Committee have appointed the third week in March as a time for the whole conference to engage in the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” As is well known to our readers, the material out of which these books are made is all donated by various individuals, and our publishing houses donate the work, so that the entire amount received from the sale of the book goes to the relief of our schools. It is truly encouraging to see the earnest way in which our people all over the field are taking hold of it.
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1 “BEHOLD, I send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple; and the Messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, He cometh, saith the Lord of hosts. 2 But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appeareth? for He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap; 3 and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver: and they shall offer unto the Lord offerings in righteousness. 4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not Me, saith the Lord of hosts. 6 For I the Lord change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. 7 “From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from Mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto Me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob Me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you happy: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.”
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) Whom does the Lord promise to send? What would he do? Who would come? Where would He come? What is He called? How is He regarded? What is again said of this Messenger of the covenant? Verse 1. Note 1. (2) What questions are asked concerning His coming? To what is He likened? Verse 2. Note 2. (3) As what shall He sit? Whom will He purify? How thoroughly? What will be the result? Verse 3. (4) How will the Lord regard these righteous offerings? Verse 4. See Lev. 9:22-24. (5) In what also will He come near? Against what class will He be a witness? What kind of witness? Of what are all these transgressions? What is His rule of witness and judgment? Verse 5. (6) What only has saved the wicked from destruction? Verse 6. Note 3. (7) What had the people done? For how long? What invitation does the Lord give? What promise does He make? What question is asked by the disobedient? Verse 7. (8) What solemn question does the Lord ask? What statement does He make? How does unbelief again question? How does the Lord reply? Verse 8. (9) What is the result of robbing God? How many are affected? Verse 9. Note 4. (10) What duty does the Lord urge? Why? What does He ask us to do as respects Himself? With what are we to prove Him? What will He do if thus proved? How great will be the blessing? Who says this? Is His Word good? Verse 10. (11) What will He rebuke? For whose sake? What further promises does He make? Verse 11. (12) What will be the ultimate results of such blessing? Who thrice declares all these promises? Verse 12.
NOTES.
1. My messenger.—Christ’s messenger, John the Baptist. Mark 1:2; Luke 7:27. “The Lord, whom ye seek.” Jesus Christ, the Desire of all nations. “Come to His temple.” Including all His first coming, to the temple at Jerusalem, to the people of God, to the sanctuary on high, where He ministers His own life for His people, and confirms His covenant in every soul that accepts. “Behold, He cometh.” His second coming, including the work of judgment, when He comes before the Father, as well as His appearing in glory.
2. Abide.—No one, save only in Christ’s righteousness, may abide that day, or stand before Him acquitted in the judgment. That they may do it then, He is now like a refiner’s fire to burn away all dross, like soap to cleanse. He is not only the fire through His Spirit, but He watches over the process, that the fire may not be too fierce, and yet that the dross may be consumed. “A refiner.” When the refiner of silver can see his own image perfectly reflected in the molten metal, the silver is pure. So Christ waits, yea, even kindles the furnace fires, that the dross may be consumed. “Sons of Levi.” God’s own spiritual priesthood, of which Levi was a type.
3. Therefore.—It is because God does not change, because “His mercy endureth forever,” that men are spared in their sins. Not until there is no hope, till the sinner identifies himself with the sin, does the sinner die.
4. The curse is not an arbitrary curse pronounced upon the disobedient. It inheres in the very transgression itself; and it keeps back the blessing of God, not alone from the transgressors, but from those associated with them in church capacity. They are diseased members, affecting the whole body, and not until they are separated or healed will the blessing of God come in its fulness.
SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS.
How much is a tithe? To whom does the tithe belong? God tests man in respect to time and means. What is a test with respect to time? What in respect to means? Where is the tithe to be brought? If after we have paid it honestly, it is wrongly used, shall we lose the blessing? What is the tithe?—A debt we owe, a self-assumed obligation, or God’s share in the revenue of our partnership with Him?
13 “And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers 14 and the people, and said unto them, Ye brought unto me this Man, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined Him before you, found no fault in this Man touching those things whereof ye accuse Him; no, nor yet Herod; for he sent Him back unto us; and behold, nothing worthy of 16 death hath been done by Him. I will therefore chastise Him, 18 and release Him. But they cried out all together, saying, 19 Away with this Man, and release unto us Barabbas; one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, 20 was cast into prison. And Pilate spake unto them again, desiring to release Jesus; but they shouted, saying, Crucify, 22 crucify Him. And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath this Man done? I have found no cause of death in Him; I will therefore chastise Him and release Him. 23 But they were instant with loud voices, asking that He might 24 be crucified. And their voices prevailed. And Pilate gave sentence that what they asked for should be done.”
Golden Text: “I find no fault in this Man.” Luke 23:4.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) When Jesus was returned from Herod, what course did Pilate pursue? Verse 13. Note 1. (2) What did he now say to them concerning his judgment of the case? Verse 14. (3) By what means did he attempt to fortify his judgment? Verse 15. (4) What further decision did Pilate announce? Verse 16. Note 2. (5) What reply was made to this suggestion? Verse 18. Note 3. (6) For what crime had Barabbas been condemned? Verse 19. Note 4. (7) What did Pilate still desire to do? Verse 19. (8) What was their reply to his next appeal? Verse 21. (9) How did he again urge them to yield? Verse 22. Note 5. (10) What effect did his appeals have? Verse 23. What effect did the people's voice have upon the governor? Same verse. (11) What sentence did Pilate at last give? Verse 24. Note 6.
NOTES.
1. A most foolish act.—When a man begins to vacillate, everything he does makes matters worse. Knowing the temper of the multitude before he sent Jesus to Herod, it was a most unwise act to call them back when the Prisoner was returned to him uncondemned. Then was his opportunity to have dismissed the case, but instead he called together the noisy, unruly mob, making them a lawful assembly, and virtually taking them into his counsel.
2. Chastising.—To chastise meant to discipline, correct, chasten,—to teach one a lesson,—but Matthew, Mark, and John agree that in this case the chastening was by scourging. This was a cruel infliction, but it would spare the victim's life, and was suggested as a compromise with His enemies.
3. An Omission.—Verse 17 of the Common Version is in parenthesis, and is omitted in the Revised. It says, “For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.” The fact remains, however; for the custom is mentioned by all the other Gospel writers.
4. The inconsistency of the rulers is shown in their cry for the release of Barabbas, whose crime was practically the same as that which they charged against Jesus, while at their trials Barabbas was convicted and Jesus was declared innocent.
5. The governor's inconsistency is emphasized in his persistent appeal to the people for their consent to do his plain duty, and also in offering to cruelly scourge an innocent man just to appease their unreasoning wrath.
6. Double punishment.—So Jesus, after being declared innocent, not only received the unmerited torture and mockery by the soldiers of Herod and Pilate, but He was given the compromise scourging; and, after all, was handed over to his persecutors to be crucified. In such a cruel manner was His life sacrificed that our lives might be saved.
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