John Geddie (10 April 1815 – 14 December 1872) was a Scots-Canadian missionary who was known as "the father of Presbyterian missions in the South Seas." [ 1 ] He pioneered …

Sep 9, 2012 · In the 1840s, John Geddie left the pastorate of a church in Canada to take his wife and two small children to the South Sea Islands to begin a mission work there. After a voyage …

Jan 3, 2023 · John Geddie (1815–1872), a Scottish-born Canadian Presbyterian pastor and missionary, became known as “the father of Presbyterian missions in the South Seas.” For …

One day Geddie came upon a group of women wailing piteously and rubbing a man's corpse with broken leaves. Some were pulling their hair and shrieking violently. The man's widow, an …

Nov 29, 2009 · I was reading about the life of John Geddie, a Scot who ministered in Prince Edward Island before being sent as a missionary to Aneiteum in the New Hebrides to work …

Sep 5, 2019 · The life of John Geddie and his monumental accomplishments in Eastern Melanesia, especially on Aneiteum, constitute an everlasting memorial to the power of the love …

Nov 12, 2007 · Presbyterian missionary, the Reverend John Geddie was coercing his flock to finance a voyage to these very same far-flung islands to save the souls of the heathens who …

6 days ago · It was a heartfelt “vision to reach the unreached” that sent Dr. John Geddie to the people at Aneityum. Today a stone tablet bears testimony of Geddie’s vision for these …

John Geddie was the first missionary sent to the heathen upon the sole respon- sibility of a Colonial Church. He had in him no faintest touch of the modern German " superman," but was …

Dec 7, 2007 · Missionary life among the cannibals : being the life of the Rev. John Geddie, first missionary to the New Hebrides, with a history of the Nova Scotia Presbyterian mission on that …