The Missionary's One-Room Fortress
On a moonless night in 1862, missionary John G. Paton crouched inside his small mission house on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Proverbs 18:10.
On a moonless night in 1862, missionary John G. Paton crouched inside his small mission house on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides. Outside, hostile warriors surrounded the dwelling, their torches flickering through the gaps in the walls. They had already killed his colleague, and Paton knew he had no weapons, no reinforcements, no ship coming to rescue him.…
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