George Patterson, Missionary Life Among the Cannibals: Being the Life of the Rev. John Geddie, D.D., First Missionary to the New Hebrides (Toronto: James Campbell & Son, 1882), p. 60

My desire to 'go far hence unto the Gentiles' is not of recent origin. As soon as I could comprehend the worth of the soul, and the duty of Christians to 'deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready…