Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of Melanesian ..., volume 1
Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of Melanesian ..., volume 1
Yonge Charlotte Mary
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Mr. Patteson worked very hard these years at translations, and there was an immense enthusiasm about printing, the Lifuites and Nengonese striving each to get the most in their own language- * Never shall I forget the evening service during those years held in the College chapel, consisting of one or two prayers in Bauro, Gera, and other languages, and the rest in Nengonese, occasionally changing to Lifu, when Mr. Patteson used to expound the passage of Scriptaie ttiat had been translated in sc...hool during the day. Usually the Loyalty Islanders would take notes of the sermon while it went on, but now and then it was simply impos- sible, for although his knowledge of Nengonese at that time, as compared with what it was afterwards, was very limited, and his vocabulary a small one from which to choose his expressions, he would sometimes speak with such intense earnestness and show himself so thoroughly en rapport with the most intelligent of his hearers, that they were compelled to drop their papers and pencils, and simply to to Listen.
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