Psalm 72:4
God
shall
de-
fend
the needy
among the people;
he will rescue the poor
and crush the oppressor.
*John Coleridge Patterson,
The First Bishop of Melanesia. Born in 1827, he and his companions died on this date in
1871 as a result of the odious slave trade which, was “technical-ly illegal in the South Pacific at that time, but the laws were only laxly enforced
and in fact slave-raiding was a flourishing business.”
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