Margaret Paton

Name: Margaret Paton
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Letters from the South Seas

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Margaret Paton

Category History & Biography

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Weight	1.14 lbs
Dimensions	8.8 × 5.75 × 1.2 in
ISBN	9780851518299
Binding	Hardback
topic	19th Century, Missionary Biography, Missions
Original Pub Date	1894
Banner Pub Date	Jun 30, 2003
page-count	344
format	Book

Book Description

John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides is a missionary classic. In this companion volume, Margaret Whitecross Paton gives an enthralling account of missionary life in the New Hebrides from the 1860s to the 1890s. The steady advance of the gospel in the islands is vividly described, and the whole account is set against the background of the joys and sorrows of family life. Margaret Paton writes with rare grace, humour and pathos. Letters from the South Seas is an inspiring story, full of the triumphs of Christian faith and love, and a missionary classic in its own right- a book to prize.

Margaret Whitecross Paton was the second wife of the pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides, John G. Paton. She was the daughter of the Rev. John Whitecross whose work The Shorter Catechism Illustrated was republished by the Trust. A gifted writer, musician and artist, she died in 1905.

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	Introduction	vii
	A Paton Family Table	xiv
	Preface	xv
1.	Bound for the Islands	1
2.	First Impressions of the New Hebrides	4
3.	Settling Down on Aniwa	24
4.	Glimpses of the Aniwans	47
5.	Early Mission Days	55
6.	The Church of God on Aniwa	66
7.	Death and the Dayspring	73
8.	To the Children of the Dayspring	77
9.	A Trip to the Colonies	82
10.	Family Life and Church Life	97
11.	The Shipwreck and the Angel-Child	110
12.	Home, Sweet Home, on Aniwa	130
13.	The Mission Forces at Work	148
14.	The Year of the Hurricane	161
15.	The Madness of Mungaw	188
16.	Slavers and Friends	235
17.	To Her Dear Sister-in-Law	253
18.	Days of Sunlight and Shadow	258
19.	A Tour Round the Islands in 1889	274
20.	To Her Husband	294
21.	The Passing of Margaret Whitecross Paton	310
	Key to Principal Missionaries Named	317
	Index	318

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Caroline Nias – May 21, 2022

This is a wonderful book and if it is read alongside a biography or autobiography of John Paton you will see how the two complement each other perfectly and will understand what a suitable and indeed entertaining gift his second wife was to himself and to the work. Her letters written home are full of excitement, humour and challenge and will draw you in to their family life as well as shock you by the ghastly things that often happened to them in the course of serving the Lord amongst the cannibals of the South Seas! Throughout the book there are little cameos of amusing and instructive incidents in their family life, of their many illnesses, experiences of tornadoes and rough seas and endless adventures; but all from a woman’s persepctive, which is colourful, warm and refreshing. Having read this book I think you will begin to understand why at the end of his life John Paton said that if he had had more lives given to him he would have willingly spent them all just as he had spent his one – in the service of such a great and rewarding Master who had never left him and who had enriched his life so wonderfully in spite of such terrible dangers and distresses. To God be glory! Be inspired, entertained and refreshed by this book!