Peter Milne (17 May 1834 – 24 November 1924) was a Scottish missionary to the
New Hebrides (now
Vanuatu).
Milne was born in
Aberdeen, and studied at the
University of Aberdeen and the
Free Church College. He was ordained in 1868 as a missionary under the Presbyterian
Synod of Otago and Southland The Synod of Otago and Southland is a synod of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ). Originally independent, the Synod merged with the northern Presbyterian church in 1901 to form the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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, and arrived in
Nguna in 1870. By 1896 the entire island was (at least
nominally) Christian.
Milne served in the New Hebrides for more than fifty years.
Milne encouraged the production of
arrowroot as a means of paying for the printing of religious books in the local language.
Along with
Daniel Macdonald and
John W. Mackenzie
John William Mackenzie (c. 1845 – 14 October 1914) was a Presbyterian missionary from Nova Scotia to the New Hebrides (now known as Vanuatu).
Mackenzie was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and studied at Dalhousie College. He served as a miss ...
, Milne translated the
Old Testament
The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...
into
Efatese.
J. Graham Miller
John Graham Miller (8 October 1913 – 6 September 2008) was a New Zealand-Australian pastor and missionary.
Miller was born in Rangiora, New Zealand and studied at the University of Otago and Knox College, Otago. He served as a missionary in th ...
, ''Live, Volume 2'', p. 92. He and Macdonald were involved in a feud that lasted for more than fifteen years, which started with a disagreement over how to translate the word "God" in the local language.
[ Nicholas Thieberger,]
“Compromise Literary Dialect” in Efate, Central Vanuatu
" '' Oceanic Linguistics'' 47.2 (2008), p. 367.
References
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1834 births
1924 deaths
Scottish Presbyterian missionaries
Presbyterian missionaries in Vanuatu
Clergy from Aberdeen
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Translators of the Bible into Oceanic languages
British expatriates in Vanuatu
British missionary linguists