Category: Biographies
So much of a man's cast of character depends upon his home and parentage, that no biography can be complete which does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it must often be f...
With the year 1860 a new period, and one far more responsible and eventful, began. After working for four years under Bishop Selwyn's superintendence, Coleridge Patteson was gra...
11. CHAPTER XI. ST. BARNABAS COLLEGE, NORFOLK ISLAND. 1867--1869.A new phase of Coleridge Patteson's life was beginning with the year 1867, when he was in full preparation for the last of his many changes of home, namely, that to Norfolk Isla...
13. CHAPTER XII. THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870-1871.The prosperous days of every life pass away at last. Suffering and sorrow, failure and reverse are sure to await all who live out anything like their term of years, and the miss...
8. CHAPTER VIII. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE AND LIFU. 1857-1859.It seems to me that the years between 1856 and 1861 were the very brightest of Coleridge Patteson's life. He had left all for Christ's sake and the Gospel's, and was reaping the...
7. CHAPTER VII. THE MELANESIAN ISLES. 1856-1857.And now, in his twenty-ninth year, after all the unconscious preparation of his education, and the conscious preparation of two years, Coleridge Patteson began the definite work...
6. CHAPTER VI. THE VOYAGE AND FIRST YEAR. 1855-1856.When the See of New Zealand was first formed, Archbishop Howley committed to the care of the first Bishop the multitudinous islands scattered in the South Pacific. The technical...
10. CHAPTER X. THE EPISCOPATE AT KOHIMARAMA. 1866.The removal of his much-loved correspondent did not long withhold the outpouring of Bishop Patteson's heart to his family; while his work was going on at the College, according...
5. CHAPTER V. THE CURACY AT ALFINGTON. 1853-1855.Preparation for ordination had become Patteson's immediate object. As has been already said, his work was marked out. There was a hamlet of the parish of Ottery St. Mary, at a c...
4. CHAPTER IV. FELLOWSHIP OF MERTON. 1852--1854.In the summer of 1852 Coleridge Patteson stood for a fellowship of Merton, obtained it, and moved into rooms there. Every college has a distinctive character; and Merton, if not...
2. CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD AT ETON. 1838--1845.After the Christmas holidays of 1837-8, when Coley Patteson was nearly eleven years old, he was sent to Eton, that most beautifully situated of public schools, whose delightful...
3. CHAPTER III. UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT BALLIOL AND JOURNEYS ON THE CONTINENT.University life is apt to exert a strong influence upon a man's career. It comes at the age at which there is probably the most susceptibility to new impressions. The physical g...
12. chapter xxvi.'It strikes me that the way to teach a class or a congregation is to bring out the doctrine from the very words of Scripture carefully, critically examined and explained. Only t...
1. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL, 1827-1838.So much of a man's cast of character depends upon his home and parentage, that no biography can be complete which does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father a...