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Day of the Missionary

John Gibson Paton

May 24 1824, Birth of John Gibson Paton. He was missionary to the New Hebrides Islands. During his youth he was greatly influenced by the devoutness of his father who would go there times a day to his "prayer closet" and conducted family prayers twice a day. He heard a call from God to serve as a missionary. He & his family landed in a island which was full of cannibals. Painted nude men & women wore grass apron. There they started the work of God.

John G. survived his wife by nearly two years, dying at the age of 82 on 28 Jan 1907 at Cross St, Canterbury, Victoria, Australia.

They are both buried at Boroondara at the intersection of High Street and Park Hill Road, Kew, Victoria, Australia.