The Book of the Strangers 1
Maunea's record opens the strangers' book — a scattered remnant tracing their line to father Haga, whose people fled war by ship, wrecked upon the isles, and intermarried until the religion of the fathers was nearly lost. The children spread abroad by their skill in navigation, keeping only rumors of the belief that a Christ should come. Maunea, disbelieving yet driven, gathers his family and sails west to a rumored free land, surviving hunger and despair until land is sighted. There he meets a united people who believe in Christ the Son of God — one man bearing the gift of tongues by the Spirit. The buried expectation of the fathers meets its fulfillment; they are baptized, and the history is written to be delivered to the leader of the Kingdom. This is the gathering pattern working among a people receiving truth without full confirmation.