CONTENTS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
EARLIER DAYS.
PAGE
Introductory Note
3
Kirkmahoe
4
Torthorwald Village
5
Our Villagers
6
Nithsdale Scenes
7
Our Cottage Home
9
Our Forebears
12
An Idyll of the Heart
16
A Consecrated Father
19
Accepted Vows
21
Happy Sabbath Days
22
Golden Autumn of Life
26
CHAPTER II.
AT SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.
A Typical Scottish School
31
An Unacknowledged Prize
32
A Wayward Master
33
Learning a Trade
33
My Father’s Prayers
34
“Jehovah Jireh”
34
With Sappers and Miners
36
The Harvest Field
38
On the Road to Glasgow
39
A Memorable Parting
40
Before the Examiners
42
Killing Work
43
Deep Waters
44
Maryhill School
45
Rough School Scenes
46
“Aut Cæsar Aut Nullus”
48
My Wages
49
CHAPTER III.
IN GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
“He Leadeth Me”
53
A Degraded District
55
The Gospel in a Hay-Loft
56
New Mission Premises
58
At Work for Jesus
59
At War with Hell
62
Sowing Gospel Seed
64
Publicans on the War Path
65
Marched to the Police Office
67
Papists and Infidels
69
An Infidel Saved
70
An Infidel in Despair
71
A Brand from the Burning
72
A Saintly Child
75
Papists in Arms
77
Elder and Student
81
CHAPTER IV.
FOREIGN MISSION CLAIMS.
The Wail of the Heathen
85
A Missionary Wanted
85
Two Souls on the Altar
87
Lions in the Path
89
The Old Folks at Home
92
Successors in Green Street Mission
95
Old Green Street Hands
97
A Father in God
97
CHAPTER V.
THE NEW HEBRIDES.
License and Ordination
101
At Sea
102
From Melbourne to Aneityum
102
Settlement on Tanna
105
Our Mission Stations
106
Diplomatic Chiefs
107
Painful First Impressions
108
Bloody Scenes
109
The Widow’s Doom
111
CHAPTER VI.
LIFE AND DEATH ON TANNA.
Our Island Home
115
Learning the Language
116
A Religion of Fear
118
With or Without a God
119
Ideas of the Invisible
120
Gods and Demons
121
My Companion Missionary
122
Pioneers in New Hebrides
123
Missionaries of Aneityum
125
The Lord’s Arrowroot
126
Unhealthy Sites
127
The Great Bereavement
129
Memorial Tributes
131
Selwyn and Patteson at a Tanna Grave
133
Her Last Letter
134
Last Words
137
Presentiment and Mystery
138
CHAPTER VII.
MISSION LEAVES FROM TANNA.
Tannese Natives
141
“Tabooed”
142
Jehovah’s Rain
143
“Big Hays”
144
War and Cannibalism
145
The Lot of Woman
146
Sacred Days
148
Preaching in Villages
149
Native Teachers
150
The War Shell
151
Deadly Superstitions
152
A League of Blood
154
Chiefs in Council
155
Defence of Women
157
A League of Peace
157
Secret Disciples
159
A Christo-Heathen Funeral
159
Clever Thieves
160
Ships of Fire
164
Cordelia
166
Captain Vernon and Miaki
167
The Captain and the Chiefs
168
John Williams
169
Evanescent Impressions
170
A House on the Hill
171
In Fever Grips
171
“Noble Old Abraham”
172
Critics in Easy Chairs
174
CHAPTER VIII.
MORE MISSION LEAVES FROM TANNA.
The Blood-Fiend Unleashed
179
In the Camp of the Enemy
180
A Typical South Sea Trader
182
Young Rarip’s Death
183
The Trader’s Retribution
185
Worship and War
186
Saved from Strangling
187
Wrath Restrained
188
Under the Axe
191
The Clubbing of Namuri
193
A Native Saint and Martyr
195
Bribes Refused
197
Widows Rescued
197
The Sinking of a Well
198
Church-Building on Tanna
199
Ancient Stone God
201
Printing First Tannese Book
201
A Christian Captain
203
Levelled Muskets
204
A French Refugee
205
A Villainous Captain
208
Like Master—Like Men
209
Wrecked on Purpose
212
The Kanaka Traffic
213
A Heathen Festival
215
Sacrifices to Idols
218
Heathen Dance and Sham Fight
219
Six Native Teachers
221
A Homeric Episode
222
Victims for Cannibal Feast
223
The Jaws of Death
224
Nahak
226
Killing me by Nahak
227
Nahak Defied
229
Protected by Jehovah
230
“Almost Persuaded”
231
Escorted to the Battle-Field
232
Praying for Enemies
233
Our Canoe on the Reef
233
A Perilous Pilgrimage
236
Rocks and Waters
237
CHAPTER IX.
DEEPENING SHADOWS.
Welcome Guests
243
A Fiendish Deed
244
The Plague of Measles
245
A Heroic Soul
246
Horrors of Epidemic
247
A Memorable New Year
248
A Missionary Attacked
249
In the Valley of the Shadow
251
Blow from an Adze
252
A Missionary’s Death
253
Mrs. Johnston’s Letter
255
A Heavy Loss
256
The Story of Kowia
256
Kowia’s Soliloquy
258
The Passing of Kowia
259
Mortality of Measles
261
Fuel to the Fire
262
Hurricanes
262
A Spate of Blood and Terror
263
Nowar Vacillates
265
The Anger of the Gods
265
Not Afraid to Die
266
Martyrs of Erromanga
267
Visit to the Gordons
268
Their Martyrdom
269
Vindication of the Gordons
270
Gordon’s Last Letter
272
Plots of Murder
273
Death by Nahak
275
Nowar Halting Again
275
Old Abraham’s Prayer
277
Miaki and the Mission House
278
Satanic Influences
280
Perplexity Deepening
280
Bishop Selwyn’s Testimony
281
Rotten Tracts
283
Blue Bell
285
My Precious Dog
287
Fishing Nets and Kawases
288
The Taro Plant
290
The Kava Drink
290
Katasian and the Club Scene
291
The Yams
292
Sunshine and Shadow
292
Teachers Demoralized
293
The Chief’s Alphabet
294
Our Evil Genius
295
Ships of Fire Again
295
Commodore Seymour’s Visit
296
Nouka and Queen ’Toria
297
The Dog to his Vomit Again
298
CHAPTER X.
FAREWELL SCENES.
The War Fever
303
Forced to the War Council
305
A Truce Among the Chiefs
306
Chiefs and People
308
The Kiss of Judas
309
The Death of Ian
309
The Quivering Knife
310
A War of Revenge
312
In the Thick of the Battle
313
Tender Mercies of the Wicked
315
Escape for Life
316
The Loss of All
317
Under the Tomahawk
318
Jehovah is Hearing
318
The Host Turned Back
320
The War Against Manuman
320
Traps Laid
321
House Broken Up
322
War Against Our Friends
322
A Treacherous Murderer
323
On the Chestnut Tree
324
Bargaining for Life
325
Five Hours in a Canoe
328
Kneeling on the Sands
329
Faimungo’s Farewell
330
“Follow! Follow!”
331
A Race for Life
332
Ringed Round with Death
334
Faint yet Pursuing
336
Out of the Lion’s Jaws
337
Brothers in Distress
339
Intervening Events
341
A Cannibal’s Taste
341
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
342
Passing by on the Other Side
344
Kapuku and the Idol Gods
344
A Devil Chief
344
“In Perils Oft”
345
Through Fire and Water
345
“Sail O! Sail O!”
349
“Let Me Die”
350
In Perils on the Sea
351
Tannese Visitors
352
The Devil Chief Again
353
Speckled and Spotted
354
Their Desired Haven
355
“I am Left Alone”
355
My Earthly All
356
Eternal Hope
356
Australia to the Rescue
357
For My Brethren’s Sake
358
A New Holy League
358
The Uses of Adversity
359
Arm-chair Critics Again
360
Concluding Note
361
Prospectus of Part Second
362
APPENDIX.
A. The Prayer of the Chiefs of Tanna
367
B. Notes on the New Hebrides
371