Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, by Charlotte Mary Yonge
was prepared by Sandra Laythorpe, laythorpe@tiscali.co.uk. 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


by Charlotte Mary Yonge




PREFACE.



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,