I am reading through ‘How we got our Bible’ by Ralph Earle and found this paragraph inspiring:

A missionary named John Geddie settled on one of the islands of the New Hebrides in 1848. At once he set to work translating the Gospel of Mark. It was published in 1853. Ten years later the New Testament appeared, and in 1879 the entire Bible. The epitaph on his tombstone reads as follows:

WHEN HE CAME IN 1848 THERE WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN;
WHEN HE DIED IN 1872 THERE WAS NOT A HEATHEN.

 

Wow.