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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM MR. WILLIAMS'S BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER II FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
- CHAPTER III FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
- CHAPTER IV FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER V FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS UNTIL HIS FIRST MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VI FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VII FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
- CHAPTER VIII FROM HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND UNTIL HIS RETURN TO THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX FROM HIS DEPARTURE IN THE CAMDEN UNTIL HIS DEATH
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CHAPTER III - FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FROM MR. WILLIAMS'S BIRTH UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER II FROM HIS DEPARTURE UNTIL THE TERMINATION OF HIS FIRST YEAR'S RESIDENCE AT RAIATEA
- CHAPTER III FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS SECOND YEAR's LABOURS AT RAIATEA UNTIL THE CLOSE OF 1822
- CHAPTER IV FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS
- CHAPTER V FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO THE HERVEY ISLANDS UNTIL HIS FIRST MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VI FROM HIS FIRST, UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA
- CHAPTER VII FROM HIS SECOND VOYAGE TO SAMOA UNTIL HIS DEPARTURE FOR ENGLAND
- CHAPTER VIII FROM HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND UNTIL HIS RETURN TO THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAPTER IX FROM HIS DEPARTURE IN THE CAMDEN UNTIL HIS DEATH
- Plate section
Summary
Mr. Williams's temperament was singularly sanguine. He loved the light. He reposed in the sunshine. Bright visions of the future, and often as bold as they were bright, were continually rising up before him; and upon these he delighted to gaze. Nor did he, even for a moment, doubt the practicability of his schemes. He was always confident that his fond imaginings might be converted into glorious realities. Difficulties which others would have deemed formidable, he could scarcely discern. No man, either in the walks of secular duty or benevolent enterprise, ever exemplified or established the motto more fully, “Expect great things and attempt them.” And this was the natural consequences of his character and history. With a firm faith in God, he possessed unusual self-reliance, and almost endless resources, which could scarcely fail to widen, beyond the reach of ordinary expectation, the range of his desires, and contributed not a little to their accomplishment. Had his previous history been barren of results; had all his efforts hitherto proved vain, these causes alone would have kept him “steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.” But this was not the case. Far otherwise. God had granted to him success, and that beyond his largest calculations. And he felt its influence.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1843