Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . lained and ap-plied, together with singing and prayer, well andhappily occupied our Sabbath evening hour. Onthe first Sabbath of the month we have theordinance of the Lords Supper, and on thefirst Monday of the month a missionary prayer-meeting. In dividing our labours and arranging our de-partments of instruction in 1844, it was agreed thatmy fellow-tutor, Mr. Hardie,* attend to systematictheology, church history, arithmetic, and geography ;and that I take up Scripture exposition, practicalth
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . lained and ap-plied, together with singing and prayer, well andhappily occupied our Sabbath evening hour. Onthe first Sabbath of the month we have theordinance of the Lords Supper, and on thefirst Monday of the month a missionary prayer-meeting. In dividing our labours and arranging our de-partments of instruction in 1844, it was agreed thatmy fellow-tutor, Mr. Hardie,* attend to systematictheology, church history, arithmetic, and geography ;and that I take up Scripture exposition, practicaltheology, or the work of the Christian ministry,Scripture history, writing and composition, and na-tural philosophy. We both arranged also to de- * Mr. Hardie retired from the Samoan Mission a few yearsago. His place in the Mission Seminary was for a time filledby the late lamented Rev. George Stallworthy. On the deathof Mr. Stallworthy, last year, the Rev. H. Nisbet, my fellow-labonrer in former years at Tanna, received the appointment, andwas removed from his station on Savaii to the MISSION COTTAGE AT PORT Grave of Mrs. Paton and her infant Son. Page 480.
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