Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ul Samoan teachers Christ in the New Hebrides. have toiled, and where some of them have been martyred; Tanna, the missionary home of the ven-erable Dr. Paton; Aneityum, forever consecrated by the labors of theRev. John Geddie; and also Aniwa and Futuna. All of these islandsa generation or so ago were the scenes of unspeakable changes are marvelous. In place of cannibal feasts on Ambrym,there is now established a missionary hospital under the care of The Erromangans, once ferociou
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ul Samoan teachers Christ in the New Hebrides. have toiled, and where some of them have been martyred; Tanna, the missionary home of the ven-erable Dr. Paton; Aneityum, forever consecrated by the labors of theRev. John Geddie; and also Aniwa and Futuna. All of these islandsa generation or so ago were the scenes of unspeakable changes are marvelous. In place of cannibal feasts on Ambrym,there is now established a missionary hospital under the care of The Erromangans, once ferocious in their love ofhuman flesh, and with an evil fame as the murderers of missionaries,are now reckoned among the most gentle, kind-hearted, and willing 1 Cousins, The Story of the South Seas, pp. 148-154; Home, The Storyof the London Missionary Society, pp. 213-215. 2 Home, The Story of the London Missionary Society, p. 215. 3 The Missionary Record, June, 1894, p. 180. 4 Gill, From Darkness to Light in Polynesia, p. 383. 5 Annual Report of the New Hebrides Mission, 1896, p. o u THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 341 of Christian people. At Erakor, on the Island of Vate, there is acentre of Christian light and Mr. Michelsen relates somestriking incidents of Tongoa: Cannibalism is now a thing of thepast. The Prince of Peace reigns over two thousand natives. Hetells the story of a party rescued from Epi, a neighboring island,where cannibal customs were still known. The liberation was by Ton-goans, who brought these native friends to their island as a place ofrefuge. Among those thus delivered was an aged chief, who, uponarriving at Selembanga, a mission station in Tongoa, recalled the factthat thirty years before he had been there as an invited guest at a hea-then feast, and was one of those who helped to eat forty Purau men,whom the people of Selembanga had slaughtered. Now, having beensaved from the same fate, he was welcomed in a spirit of compassion bythose who
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