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last evening Miss Billings, deputation from , Australasian Foreign Missionary Society, Jt «'ho has been labouring as a missionary w yean in the New Guinea Mission, gave J® interesting address on the work of the Sf® o ' l in tie Grafton Road W'eslcyan lurch. There was a good attendance. The . ® v - H. R. Dewsbury presided, and suitably produced the speakei of tlio evening. Miss ft v' 5 l '"'' X!( ' 'he original condition of , 6 New Guineans, and the methods adopted g wo mission to raise these degraded and Righted races to the higher piano of Christi"My and civilisation. She described ilic .jol system and also the social condition • [»»! "1 people. Hie missionaries did not imL* 6 wiropoan customs and modes of clothJ on . \. e people, but let them live healthy Its'"?' lives, '° wear what wis suitable ior feu, provided it was in accordance ! ten! was right and proper. Miss j , "nip^ distributed a number of ''mercy I to,iM 0 " Ga & °' f am >'' os > in which they t tti. a !ma " weekly contribution towards | .mission, and thus learn the practice of i £ n * n ? , 'e giving. Mount Albert had azrscd i ES r*"' a young child, who would be I JSS fij I;' 10 ro'wi.on. work, and die 6jcp. WcMit - ® ?!?&? that Grafton Road iroiild fe fltaJLu • Bml ' ,r re<!>on?ibility. A practical kof tu ?• was . pen of the style of dress {£ feliiAt. 1 '? 1 !® *!"•: who attended flu minion of RinjJ i? !^ n , n , wse 8^fl ? If » number P W« I if scholars in the Net? Guinea I ' toe.of "Hold the ForkMk-■**. 3«»t. opened : , S ' M , ? f Victoria *nd,H#»k»'» j? »re included, in our gnat cash sale I ,er^ now ho 'Dg held.—Tonson Garlick

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10969, 25 January 1899, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10969, 25 January 1899, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10969, 25 January 1899, Page 5