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A former stockbroker, Paul Gauguin had left his wife and five children years earlier to pursue his artistic dream at the end of the earth. (One of his letters home explains: "Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.") He took up with various Polynesian women, and his freewheeling ways made the local missionaries livid. Less than two years after his arrival, he was dead at the age of 54 from self-induced dosages of morphine to dull the pain of his virulent syphilis.
"Gauguin was a revolutionary," says my tour guide Tim as we drive through the rainforests of Hiva Oa. "He fought against the local church, he fought for the rights of us Marquesans. He lived according to his own values, and we appreciate him here still."
Despite the evil influences of this man it is good to still a church on the island...
Lets pray for the French Polynesia that the Lord would send revival their way.
"Gauguin was a revolutionary," says my tour guide Tim as we drive through the rainforests of Hiva Oa. "He fought against the local church, he fought for the rights of us Marquesans. He lived according to his own values, and we appreciate him here still."
Despite the evil influences of this man it is good to still a church on the island...
Lets pray for the French Polynesia that the Lord would send revival their way.
