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The Prospect of Cannibals

John Paton (1824-1907) was among the first to bring the Gospel to the untamed New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific. From his biography:

‘Amongst many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was,- “The Cannibals! you will be eaten by Cannibals!”

At last I replied, “Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms; and in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.” ‘

O that I would have such a heart, abandoned to the glory and Gospel of Christ!