John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides: An

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides: An Autobiography (1889)

The autobiography of John G. Paton contains everything necessary to make it a missionary classic. Born into a Christian family near Dumfries in 1824, Paton's early years were marked by a struggle against poverty. He was self-educated, and the training ground for his life's work was the slums of Glasgow where he laboured with success as a city missionary. With 'the wail of the perishing heathen in the South Seas' continually sounding in his ears, he prepared himself to serve overseas and was ordained as a missionary to the New Hebrides in 1858. This gorup of thirty mountainous islands, so named by Captain Cook, with its unhealthy climate, was then inhabited by savages and cannibals. The first attempt to introduce Christianity to them resulted in John Williams and James Harris being clubbed to death of his wife and child within months of their arrival. Against the savagery and the superstition, despite the trials and the tragedies, Paton persevered and witnessed the triumph of the gospel in two of these South Sea islands. His life is almost without parallel in missionary annals and his account of it is moving and gripping.

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Country USA
Author John Gibson Paton
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 408
PublicationDate 2014-12-06
ReleaseDate 2014-12-06

Country	USA
Author	John Gibson Paton
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	408
PublicationDate	2014-12-06
ReleaseDate	2014-12-06

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides: An Autobiography (1889)

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