10 ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS 
a century. Entire groups of these islands that crowd the 
waters of the South Pacific have now been evangelized by 
the efforts and sacrifice of thousands of brave men and 
women who there have wrought for God during these years. 
Perhaps in no other part of the world have greater victories 
been won for the cross of Christ. The brilliance of these 
is thrown into clearer relief when seen against the terribly 
dark background of human depravity and unrestrained bru- 
tality that everywhere met the missionary pioneer in his 
labor. 
But the work in some of these lands is still unfinished. 
There still are islands unreached by the gospel, and there 
still are tribes to whom it has not yet been taken, or who 
still resist its power. In the sincere hope that the story of 
brave, devoted lives may prove to be inspirational, especially 
to the youth of our own church, and be used by the Lord 
of the harvest in raising up laborers in places where the 
great work still remains unfinished, the facts of this volume 
have been compiled. 
My purpose has been, not merely to show with what self- 
sacrifice and courageous effort the gospel seed has been sown, 
nor yet to reveal the awful depths of depraved savagery from 
which these island peoples are being lifted by the gospel; 
but rather to show that, in the places where human need 
seems to have reached its lowest depths, from the sacrifice 
of missionary effort and of missionary lives, a harvest, boun- 
tiful as any in the history of missions, is being reaped to the 
glory of God. 
In undertaking to collect the facts that fill this volume, I 
have determined, in deep and reverent memory of the gallant 
men and women whose deeds are recorded, that theirs shall 
be the voices that speak to the reader from its pages. They 
have lived and labored, and many of them have died, to ad- 
vance the name of Christ in dark places, and their deeds of 
unselfish service still adorn the missionary cause in which 
they labored. 
