On the Island of Malaita 
ONE cannot recall the circumstances of the wonderful 
deliverance by Providence of the missionaries working for 
the wild savages on the heathen island of Malaita in the 
year 1927, and at the time when two European government 
officials and about twenty native assistants were cruelly mur- 
dered, without a profound sense of God’s care for His serv- 
ants in that time of great peril. 
For about three years Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Anderson, of 
the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in the Solomon Islands, 
with their little children, had resided at Uru Harbor on the 
eastern side of Malaita, and were assisted by a few native 
teachers from the western Solomons. 
At the time of the massacre herein related, Mr. G. Pea- 
cock, the superintendent of the mission, was visiting Malaita 
in the mission ketch “Melanesia,” which was anchored at 
Uru Harbor. 
In company with Mr. Anderson, Mr. Peacock proceeded 
to visit several outstations in that district, and taking a small 
cutter, went to Sinarango Harbor, a few miles along the 
coast, where they anchored the boat and began work with 
the natives by attending to some of their medical needs. 
From the mission diary written by Mr. Anderson, we 
quote the following: 
“October 3. We (Mr. Peacock and I) and a company 
of natives, took the launch from Lokai to Gwagwakwala, 
then proceeding on foot visited Alinui’s home, about an hour 
in from the shore, where we gave two injections of neosal- 
varsan. (These injections were given in cases of that dread- 
ful disease, yaws.) We then went on to his brother’s home, 
where we gave four more injections, and passed over the 
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