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Pioneers and Founders

CHAPTER X
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He must afterwards have left the boat, perhaps to catch more water, and have been too weak to climb back into it, for his remains were on the beach.

Williams lost the power of writing sooner, and no more is known of his end, though probably he died first, and Pearce must have been trying to prepare his grave when he, too, sank.
What words can befit this piteous history better than "This is the patience of the saints"?
The memorial to Allen Gardiner has been a mission-ship bearing his name, with her head-quarters at the Falkland Isles.

We believe that these isles are to become a Bishop's See.

Assuredly a branch of the Church should spring up where the seed of so patient and devoted a martyrdom has been sown..


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