Life of John Coleridge Patteson

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This Etext of the Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, by Charlotte Mary Yonge was prepared by Richard Mammana, [email protected], and Sandra Laythorpe, [email protected]. More information about the history of the Anglican Church may be found at Project Canterbury, http://justus.anglican,org/. A web page for Charlotte M Yonge may be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comparative importance, so clearly discernible as when there has been time to ripen the fruit.

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