Egerton Young tells how he interested the Indians of British Columbia
through the Old Testament stories:
Some of the Indians are huge fellows, over six feet tall,
and they pride themselves on their stature. As they talked
about their height, I would say, “Listen, I have a book that
tells about a man as tall as if one of you were seated on the
shoulders of the tallest among you.” “Oh, what a story; what
talk is that, missionary?” “Well, come and listen.” Then I
talked to them about Goliath, and got them interested, and
the gospel follows. In my work among these people I found one
reason, at least, why those stories were in the Bible. Benjamin
would not listen, but he became interested in the stories, and
then he listened to the gospel.--PIERSON, “Miracles of
Missions.”
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