Excerpt from The Martyr Missionary of Erromanga: Or the Life of John Williams, Who Was Murdered and Eaten by the Savages in One of the South Sea IslandsThe M'artyr - Hz's birth - Pious mother Hz's boyhood - Fond of his sisters - Ah apprentice - Faithful to his employer His remarkable conversion - Sunday school teacher.The good missionary, whose life we are about to review, was cruelly murdered and eaten by the savages of one Of the South Sea islands. When the news of his dreadful death reached our country and Great Britain, it filled the hearts of Christians with bitter sorrow, for he was one of the best and most useful mission aries ever sent to the heathen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.