Young, Florence S.H. — Pearls from the Pacific

London, Marshall Brothers, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a fairly typical Commonwealth woman Christian missionary's time spent evangelizing in Asia and the insular Pacific, Malaita to New Guinea, Hawai'i to China; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy and with many gutters strengthened by library reinforcing tape. Fine black-and-white frontispiece of the author, with her facsimile signature, and several other black-and-white photographic plates, printed on high-gloss paper. Brick-red cloth over boards, still legible gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library copy with accession number to spine, inscriptions and ink-stamp to endpapers, etc., else clean and bright of interior Foreword by J. Stuart Holden. Publication date not stated, but presumably 1925. Indeed, Florence Young [1856-1940] was born in New Zealand as the daughter of two missionaries herself, emigres from Plymouth Brethren from England, in which she was educated and then, after being orphaned, was posted to Queensland, Australia, where she put her Keswick Convention training to good use and began to work there and with other Melanesians in the Solomon Islands. She founded also the Queensland Kanaka Mission (QKM) and that morphed into the SSEM (the South Sea Evangelical Mission). 256 pp. plus a black-and-white map, a list of other missionaries supported by the South Sea Evangelical Mission. Florence Selina Harriet Young (10 October 1856 – 28 May 1940), according to her Wikipedia entry, was born in Motueka, South Island, New Zealand, one of five children of her Plymouth Brethren parents, but after she moved to a Fairymead, Australia sugar plantation near Bundaberg, Queensland that was owned by her brothers Arthur, Horace, and Ernest Young, began to train for a missionary future, starting there but spreading "to other plantations and met with considerable approval from plantation owners and officials." Her principles stressed "salvation before education or civilization" and aimed "to prepare the imported labourers for membership in their local established churches when they returned home." Following a six-year stint in South China, she suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1904 "she led groups of white missionaries to Malaita in the Solomon Islands, hoping to nurture the newly established churches of her protégés" (Wikipedia).rom the Pacific, which was published in London in 1925. She died in Killara, Sydney and was buried in Gore Hill Cemetery with Presbyterian forms.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good