An unbeliever confronted a converted Fiji cannibal chief,
saying, “You are a great chief, and it is really a pity that you
have been so foolish as to listen to the missionaries. Nobody
believes any longer in that old book called the Bible, or in
that story of Jesus Christ. They have all learned better, and I
am sorry for you that you have been So foolish as to take it in.”
The chief’s eyes flashed as he said: “Do you see that great
stone over there? On that stone we smashed the heads of our
victims to death. Do you see that native oven yonder? In that
oven we roasted the human bodies for our great feasts. Now, if
it hadn’t been for the good missionaries, and that old book and
the love of Jesus Christ, which has changed us from savages into
God’s children, you would never leave this spot. You have to
thank God for the gospel, for without it we should have killed
you, and roasted you in yonder oven, and have feasted upon you
in no time.”
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=Christianity, Reasonable=--See REASONABLE RELIGION.