John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 3 (of 3) : $b An autobiography edited by his brotherPaton, John Gibson
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John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 3 (of 3) : $b An autobiography edited by his brother
Paton, John Gibson
Missionaries -- Vanuatu -- Biography; Paton, John Gibson, 1824-1907
And now, since this in all human probability is the closing Chapter of
my humble Life, so far as it shall ever be written by me, therefore ere
I lay down my pen, let me dwell with unalloyed delight on a few pictures
of facts that rise before me, illustrative of the work of God at large
throughout the New Hebrides. In all my journeyings, and in all my talks
and writings, though of necessity personal experiences bulked somewhat
largely, yet every candid hearer or reader will bear witness that I was
eager and careful to pay unstinted honor to all my fellow laborers on
these Islands; many of whom, men and women too, I truly regard before
God as amongst the noblest Servants of the Lord Jesus that I have ever
known, or expect to know, on this Earth. God be with them, one and all;
and though, on questions of policy and management, some of them may
differ from me, I would gladly spend my last ounce of strength in
promoting the spiritual interests of their work at every Station, and
contributing to their personal happiness and prosperity, if it be in my
power in any way to do so. All this, on both sides, we thoroughly know
and understand, as becometh the Ambassadors of Christ to the Heathen
World. I am never happier than when, as now, I try to picture the work
of God on all the Isles of the New Hebrides, and show our friends and
supporters in every Land some of the fruits of their money and their
prayers.
At North Santo, we see Mr. Noble Mackenzie and his wife with hope and
faith unfurling the Banner of the Cross; and Dr. and Mrs. Sandilands at
Port Philip, Big Bay, on the same great Island, by healing and by
teaching, pioneering for Jesus. Mr. Bowie and his wife, from the Free
Church of Scotland, are taking possession of South Santo in the name of
Christ; and if the Mission Synod agrees to plant his brother, Dr. Bowie,
along with his wife, sent out this year by my British Committee, on East
Santo, as seems desired—this, the largest and most northerly island of
the Group, with its many languages and its unknown thousands of
inhabitants, will at last be ringed round with fire,—the fire of love to
Jesus and to the souls of the Heathen.
Another great Island, with several languages, has in recent years been
surrounded by the soldiers of the Cross, and claimed for Christ—Mr. Watt
Leggatt and his devoted wife at Aulua, Mr. Frederick J. Paton at
Pangkumu, and Mr. Boyd at South West Bay—uniting their threefold forces
to bring vast and populous Malekula to the feet of Jesus. Already most
hopeful beginnings have been made. Christian Churches, with a few
Converts, have been planted at these three Stations—the nucleus, we
trust, of living branches on Earth of the Living Body of our Living Lord
in the Heavenly World.
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