{"id":251,"date":"2007-06-30T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:16:50","slug":"paton-and-the-cannibals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Paton and the Cannibals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here is a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGreatest-Century-Missions-Peter-Hammond%2Fdp%2F0958454914%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1183133833%26sr%3D1-2&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Greatest Century of Missions<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<br \/>\nIn describing the determination of the 19th century missionaries, Hammond relates this great exchange from John Paton.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Amongst many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument was, &#8216;The Cannibals! You will be eaten by Cannibals!&#8217; At last I replied, &#8216;Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms.'&#8221;\u009d (133)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes! I find myself wishing to have such quick wit, and then more importantly yearning to be marked by such clarity of purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here is a quote from The Greatest Century of Missions. In describing the determination of the 19th century missionaries, Hammond relates this great exchange from John Paton. &#8220;Amongst many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument was, &#8216;The Cannibals! You will be eaten by Cannibals!&#8217; At &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Paton and the Cannibals&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}