James Chalmers, the martyred missionary of New Guinea, said:
I have had twenty-one years’ experience among the South Sea
Islanders, and for at least nine years of my life I have lived
with the savages of New Guinea. I have seen the semi-civilized
and the uncivilized; I have lived with the Christian native,
and I have lived, dined and slept with the cannibal. But I
have never yet met a single man or woman, or a single people,
that your civilization without Christianity has civilized.
Wherever there has been the slightest spark of civilized life
in the Southern Seas, it has been because the gospel has been
preached there; and wherever you find in the island of New
Guinea a friendly people, or a people that will welcome you,
there the missionaries of the cross have been preaching Christ.
(Text.)--_Missionary Review of the World._
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