Alfred Sadd's Faithful Sacrifice in the Pacific

When the Japanese invaded the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific they found a young English missionary there. He had been given the opportunity to leave the Islands when danger threatened, but he determined to remain with the native Christians and share their hardships and seek to comfort them in their tribulations.

There came a day when the Japanese guards put down on the ground in front of the young missionary the Union Jack and ordered him to walk over it. He refused, but instead walked around the flag.

Once again they commanded him to walk over the flag of freedom and honour, but this time they threatened Alfred Sadd with death if he refused. With set face, calm and unafraid, young Alfred Sadd quietly walked around the flag, and within a few seconds he was put to death by the brutal Japanese. He was loyal to his earthly King, and as a missionary of the Cross of Christ he was loyal to the King of Kings. He had crowned Jesus Christ as King on the throne of his own life, and he gave that young life— young and strong and free— in the service of others, seeking by his witness and his example to extend Christ’s Kingdom.