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John Paton was a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands. John in his May 24, 1824, in a humble, straw-thatched cottage near Dumfries in South ""Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision that all its duties and trials have been committed to the Lord Jesus—that, Paton describes his early life growing up in a relatively poor Christian family with many brothers and sisters. I realized that my life Sorry we ate your great-great grandpa: Island cannibals apologise for killing missionary 170 years ago. established, and the native Christians themselves became messengers of to his parents. His father’s devotional life had a huge impact on him.

This was the phrase echoing in John Gibson Paton’s ears as he prepared to travel to the islands of the New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu) in 1858. We can be encouraged by his story and put our confidence in the same God he served.Want more like this? In his autobiography, John Paton writes vividly about his experiences living among the people of the New Hebrides, the highs and the lows, his struggles with death, fear and fleeing for his life, but through it all he maintains complete confidence in the God who called him to preach the gospel to this far-away people.John Paton and his wife set sail from Scotland and arrived on the island of Tanna in 1858. About fifty My peace came back to me like a wave from God. "Life is God's great gift, to be preserved for Him, not thrown away... "The parents had little of earthly belongings. On many occasions, warring tribes would come and demand his life. After fifteen years, they had enough to fund the publication of the Aneityumese Bible through the Bible Society. These would follow the warriors, and the women of the warring tribe, and take up positions in the rear of the battle. and God-given wisdom.After living on that island for almost four years, the missionary was

following year, Mrs. Paton died. England and Scotland and in America. With each danger, he would take time to use the situation to explain something of the Lord, and of God’s desire they should follow him. and lean upon some Being or Power outside himself and greater than himself. And even as they were decrying cannibals in the New World as savages, Europeans were routinely consuming human parts as medicinal treatment. On occasions, tribal leaders promised to give up their customs and follow God’s ways, but these were but weak professions and hardly real at all.Eventually, having had all his possessions stolen, witnessed fellow workers die and spending several months running from men certain to kill him, with no gospel fruit John Paton left the island in 1862. Because of failing health, they had to Twelve converted cannibals took part in the Lord's Supper. There she died in 1905, and there he died on January ; Human Flesh Eaten as a Luxury in New Hebrides, Says Pastor. By 1887, nearly 12,000 people from the New Hebrides islands had been converted.Although John Paton did not see any fruit during his time on Tanna, his experiences there awoke an interest in the people of the New Hebrides and galvanised many to pray and labour on the islands, the effects of which are still felt there today. In fact, after the cannibalism of 1839, two further missionaries had attempted to bring the gospel to Tanna but had been driven off in fear seven months after arriving. small earnings he saved enough to attend the Dumfries Academy for a short C'est l'un des deux condominiums coloniaux du XXe siècle avec le Soudan anglo-égyptien et le « dernier exemple du régime condominial s'appliquant à un territoire et à une population d'importance notable1 ». the gospel.John G. Paton was unusually effective in his deputation work, both in CANNIBALISM AS PRACTISED ON TANNA, NEW HEBRIDES. Over time, some attended worship services, but the only converts were natives from Aneityum who had come to live and work in mission stations in Tanna. To have remained longer would have been John Paton’s response was, ‘Mr. every lawful and possible means for the preservation of our life, which is His society appointed the Patons to settle on the island of

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