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JOHN G. PATON
Missionary to the New Hebrides
An Autobiography Edited
by His Brother
VOLUME III.
With a Historical Note and an Account of the Progress of the Gospel in
the New Hebrides
_Illustrated_
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NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
Fleming H. Revell Company
Publishers of Evangelical Literature
Copyright, 1898
BY
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
EDITOR’S PREFACE.
The Autobiography of my brother, Dr. John G. Paton has now, at my urgent
entreaty, been continued by him, and carried on to the present year.
It tells the Story of the Life during the twelve years that have elapsed
since Part First and Part Second were completed by the Author, and
separately given to the world.
The following words from the _Preface_ to an early Edition of the
Autobiography are equally applicable to present circumstances:—“The
Public hailed it from the first with a welcome so uncommon, and God has
in many ways so signally owned and blessed it, that it would be no
modesty, but sheer stupidity, on my part, to fail in recognizing that it
has been voted a Missionary Classic by the great and free Community of
Readers. I have therefore spared no pains in making it as perfect as it
is in my power to do, with the help of many minute corrections from
friends here and abroad, and also happy suggestions as to matters of
detail from the honored Missionary himself.”
In the original _Preface_ when the book was first published in 1889, I
said: “The Manuscript of this Volume, put together in a rough draft amid
ceaseless and exacting toils, was placed in my hands and left absolutely
to my disposal by my beloved brother, the Missionary. It has been to me
a labor of perfect love to re-write and revise the same, pruning here
and expanding there, and, preparing the whole for the press. In the
incidents of personal experience, constituting the larger part of the
book, the reader peruses in an almost unaltered form the graphic and
simple narrative as it came from my brother’s pen. But, as many sections
have been re-cast and largely modified, especially in those Chapters of
whose events I was myself an eyewitness, or regarding which I had
information at first hand from the parties concerned therein,—and as
circumstances make it impossible to submit these in their present shape
to my brother before publication,—I must request the Public to lay upon
me, and not on him, all responsibility for the final shape in which the
Autobiography appears. I publish it because Something tells me there is
a blessing in it.”
That belief was abundantly justified. The book has had a great
circulation, not only in Great Britain, but also in America, and in the
Colonies; and it has been translated, in whole or in part, into many
Modern Languages.
JAMES PATON.
GLASGOW, _February, 1898_.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
_ROUND THE WORLD FOR JESUS._
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From 1886 to 1892 23
Tour Round the World 24
Fire-Arms and Intoxicants 25
International Prohibition Proposed 25
Deputies to America 27
Samoan Converts 28
America and Hawaii 29
San Francisco 30
Salt Lake City 31
Chicago 32
Niagara 33
Pan-Presbyterian Council at Toronto 34
The Ruthven Imposture 35
Sabbath Observance 39
Rochester 40
New York 40
Public Petitions 41
Washington 41
The Presbyterian Assembly 42
President Cleveland 43
France’s Withdrawal 43
Dr. Joseph Cook 44
Dr. Blank 45
Second Probation 47
Chicago Exhibition 47
Canadian Presbyterian Church 50
Two Months’ Rush of Meetings 51
Incidents of Travel 53
Impressions of Canada and the States 59