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Title: Mary Liddiard
The Missionary's Daughter

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: October 25, 2007 [EBook #23190]

Language: English

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Mary Liddiard, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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Mary is the daughter of a missionary somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. It
is towards the end of the eighteenth century. Some but not all of the
natives on the island have been converted. The author expounds at great
length on the central truth of Christianity.

There is an attack by the natives of another island, which Mary and her
friends survive by hiding in a cave. Later they are obliged to leave
the island by canoe. There is a great storm, but they survive it, being
picked up by an English missionary vessel. There is a happy ending,
with a great family reunion.

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MARY LIDDIARD, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

A MISSIONARY STATION IN AN ISLAND OF THE PACIFIC DESCRIBED.--THE GIRLS'
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDED BY MRS LIDDIARD, HER DAUGHTER MARY, AND LITTLE
MAUD.--MARY LIDDIARD'S NARRATIVE.--INTRODUCE TO MY READERS LISELE, THE
CHIEF'S DAUGHTER, ONE OF OUR PUPILS.--MY MOTHER EXPLAINS THE GOSPEL TO
HER.

"Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below,
Praise Him above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."

These words were ascending from the lips of a number of dark skinned
girls assembled round a fair haired English lady in a building thickly
thatched with the leaves of the sugar cane, beneath the shade of a grove
of tall cocoanut trees, in one of the many far off beautiful islands of
the wide Pacific. The building, erected by the natives after their own
fashion, was the school-house of a missionary station lately established
by Mr Liddiard, and the lady was his devoted wife. It stood upon a
platform of coral-stone, raised about two feet from the ground, while