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John G. Paton (1824-1907) was a Scottish missionary to the New
Hebrides. Before sailing there with his newly wed wife in 1858, he was a city missionary
in Glasgow for ten years. Began work on Tanna, an island inhabited by savage
cannibals; later worked on the island of Aniwa. He gave to the Aniwan people the
first hymnbook in their own language and translated the New Testament into their
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John Gibson Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides.
John Gibson Paton: Scottish Missionary.
John G. Paton: The Apostle of Christ to the Cannibals...
John Gibson Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides.
John G. Paton. Short
biography.
John G. Paton. Biography.
Online book
John G. Paton. Short
biography for young people.
Pioneer Missionaries: John G. Paton. Short
biography for young people.
John G. Paton's Life Text.
Selections from The Story of John
G. Paton Today for Young Folks...
John G. Paton On His Godly Child Training.
John G. Paton On Total Abstinence.
Marriage and family:
John Paton married Mary Ann
Robeson (born 1840) just before sailing to the New Hebrides in April, 1858.
They were sent to establish a missionary station on the island of Tanna. On
February 12, 1859, a son, named Peter Robert Robson was born, but Mrs. Paton
died on March 3rd, followed by their baby boy on March 20th.
Returning to Scotland for the first time in 1863, John Paton married Margaret
Whitecross (born 1841) at Edinburgh in 1864. She was a "woman of great piety
and strong character," who assisted her husband up to her death on May 16,
1905. They had two daughters and eight sons. One daughter and two sons died in
infancy; one son at died at age 2 1/2. Two sons became missionaries in the New
Hebrides and one daughter married a missionary there.
Recommended books:
John
G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides.
An autobiography edited by his brother James Paton.
Published by Banner of Truth, 1994. 524 pages. ISBN: 085151667X. First
published in 1889. Another edition Missionary
Patriarch: The True Story of John G. Paton published by Vision Forum.
524 pages. ISBN 1929241372. See
more Christian biographies.
The Story of John G. Paton Told for
Young Folks by James Paton. New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1892.
See Electronic text edition. |
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