SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MARTYRS 205 
afternoon and raining heavily, so we could not dig a deep 
grave, only about as deep as my thigh. We placed the two 
bodies side by side and wept bitterly, for we were very sorry. 
The grave is just by the side of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson’s 
home. The road up to Lokai from the shore was covered 
with blood. 
“These are the words I have to tell you today, and I am 
finished. 
“J am your brother in Christ, 
EL erEE 
Later, Mr. Anderson, writing from Tulagi, the seat of 
government, said: 
“Yesterday we witnessed the arrival of the government 
yacht from Malaita on which were the murderer and two 
of our teachers who had been sent over as witnesses. One 
of them is Simi, whose wife was one of the two murdered. 
As we met the boys and listened to their story, our hearts 
burned within us, and I feel that you with us want to thank 
the Lord for the wonderful privilege that is ours of work- 
ing for the salvation of a people from whom such treasures 
are won. Vakukana is the second boy. He was to have 
married Akwasia. The murderer is now claiming that it 
was because of their engagement that he committed the 
awful deed, but we know that it was because the girl re- 
fused to return to heathenism. 
“Simi gives a little more detail of the murder than is 
mentioned in the previous letter, but the facts are the same. 
What has deeply touched us is the attitude he took before 
both Europeans and natives. The Europeans desired him 
to call all his fellow teachers together and take them to some 
place away from the district, but he refused, and to the 
natives he said, after assembling the leaders, ‘Do not think 
that the death of Mary has bound the work of God; stand 
firmly for the mission that has brought you the gospel; we 
will not leave you. The Bible distinctly tells us that all who 
