...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...scribable.’ Returning home for Christmas, Coley started again in Janu- ary 1851, in charge of a pupil, the son of Lord John Thynne, with whom he was t... ... In the fulness of his heart he wrote:— ‘Venice, Hotel de la Villa: May 2, 1851. ‘My dearest Father,—I have not been in Venice an hour yet, but little... ... and the deep study and searchings of heart of the last few months. He was established in a small house at Alfington—the usual habitation of the Curat... ...ch interest, as there could not fail to be with a man who had never held a government without doing his utmost to pro- mote God’s work in the Church a... ...en to be made acquainted with such a mass of information respecting Church government and discipline, educational schemes, conduct of clergy and teach... ...the Bishop had acquired a knowledge of the language, and it was more- over established in the Bauro mind that a voyage in his ship was safe and desira... ...or souls are being taught and trained for heaven through all these various agencies which seem to a distant and idle critic to be so questionable in s...

...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 ...