Charles Darwin, the scientist, described the Terra Del Fuegans
as the most degraded specimens of humanity he had ever seen.
He considered them beyond the reach of civilization. The
missionaries carried the gospel to them, and Darwin, seeing the
change wrought, said with great frankness and willing publicity,
“Truly the missionary’s message is a magician’s wand.”
(2055)
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Rev. Egerton R. Young, a missionary among the Indians of Canada, tells
of an obdurate old man whose heart had been touched by the missionary
whose ministrations had brought his child back to health:
He attended an open-air meeting standing at first a quarter of a
mile off. At the next meeting he drew a bit nearer, then nearer
still. Six weeks later he was among the circle kneeling at the
foot of the cross, making his confession. “Missionary,” he said,
“I was a fool, but now I have got the moss out of my ears, and
the sand out of my eyes, and I see clearly, and I hear all
right. I am so glad I came.”
Was it not of such scenes as these that the prophet was thinking
when he wrote, “The eyes of the blind shall be opened and the
ears of the deaf unstopt.” (Text.)
(2056)
See EVIL TURNED TO GOOD.