“For it is a fixed point in the faith of
every missionary, that the more any church or congregation
interests herself in the heathen, the
more it will be blessed and prospered at home.
“One of the surest signs of life,” wrote
Victorian Christian Review, “is the efforts of a church to spread the gospel to
the Aborigines, to the Chinese in this Colony, and to the New Hebrides, came to
this church from God. In a great crisis of the New Hebrides, they sent one of
their number to Australia for help, and his appeal was largely owned by the
Head of the Church. The children, and especially the Sabbath schoolers of the
Presbyterian Churches, became alive with missionary enthusiasm. The Congregations
were roused to see their duty to God and their fellow-men beyond these
Colonies, and a new missionary spirit took possession of the whole church.”
-From John G. Paton Missionary to the
New Hebrides
Edited by his brother James Paton
First Published 1889
Reprinted by The Banner of Truth Trust
Carlisle, PA, 2002
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