On April 5, 1947, William Checksfield, a rugged English brother, and Cecil Bruhn, an Australian, both graduates of Gilead’s eighth class, arrived in Fiji. “To welcome us,” Brother Bruhn recalls, “were members of three families who were the only Witnesses in the islands.”

Brother Bruhn recalls that it was impossible at that time for the missionaries to spread the good news to the other islands, but Brother Harry Scott filled the need and spread the message far and wide. How was this possible? Sister Scott explained: “My husband was the captain of the Adi Beti (Lady Betty), the official yacht of Fiji’s governors. So wherever the yacht went, there went Bible literature! On many of Fiji’s widely scattered islands the only contact people had with the truth was the literature placed this way.”

Unfortunately Brother Bruhn was forced to return to Australia in 1949 due to health problems.