METHODIST MISSIONARY AND PRIEST.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 65, 18 March 1910, Page 6

METHODIST MISSIONARY AND PRIEST.

"It was a goodly sight—two pious men between, whom there is popularly supposed to be an enormous gulf pulling together in, harmony on the one oar with the same object in view." This remark fell from the lips of an old 1 trader and planter of the Solomon Island's, who happened to be one of the castaways from the stranded steamer Moresby, and who reached Sydney last week. "They were the Rev. J. B. Osborne, a Methodist missionary of Papua, and the Rev. Father Raucaz, a French Roman Catholic priest of the Solomon Islands," he explained, "and they sat side by side in the second lifeboat making for Lizard Island. Two brothers could not have been more friendly, and at stated intervals they relieved one another at the oar. The Methodist missionary struck up . with 'Pull for the Shore, Sailor,' in the chorus of which everybody in the lifeboat joined heartily. Yes, it was like a picnic until the bad weather canle on, and then the two clergymen renewed their efforts, and worked together like heroes for the benefit of all. I don't profess to understand ecclesiastical matters, or to thoroughly grasp the differences which separate the various sects and denominations, but still I am satisfied that these chaps are Christians —yes, both of 'em."