A Race With Death 
Tue following story has been written by Capt. John Rad- 
ley, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary who has spent many 
years in both the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. 
The work of the Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in the 
New Hebrides has been almost wholly among savages to 
whom they were privileged to take the gospel of Christ. 
Captain Radley is a daring navigator, and such peril as he 
here describes has become, through his many years of pioneer 
missionary experience, a matter of not infrequent occurrence. 
It will serve to show the dangers through which missionaries, 
who continually navigate their little vessels through those 
dangerous seas, often pass, and also to reveal how in their 
perilous work they constantly look to God for help and 
guidance and divine keeping. The incident related occurred 
in the year 1931. Aore is a small island on which the 
Seventh-day Adventists have established a training school, 
to which raw, untaught young people are brought, and from 
which they go out in the course of time, educated and trained 
as Christian workers, to the heathen of their own and other 
tribes. 
“On Monday, Feb. 16, 1931, the French government 
launch came to Aore with a letter from the district agent, 
saying that the doctor at the French hospital on Espirito 
Santo had, while treating a case of tetanus [lockjaw], con- 
tracted that terrible disease. Symptoms had developed, and 
it seemed there was little hope of saving his life. There was, 
however, one chance, and that was if I could get the doctor 
a serum from Norsup, some fifty miles away, in time to help. 
“Years ago I had to treat a case of tetanus in the Sol- 
omons. I had no serum, and could do very little for the 
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