THE NEW GUINEA MISSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12317, 8 July 1903, Page 6

THE NEW GUINEA MISSION.

SPEECH BY BISHOP NELIGAN. A rrßLio meeting was held in St. Matthew*! schoolroom last evening under. the presidency of the Bishop of Auckland (the Right Rev. Dr. Xeligan), in aid of the New Guinea Mission. There was a good attendance. Prior to calling upon the Rev. W. R. Mounsey for his lecture on mission work in New Guinea, the Bishop delivered an address. He remarked that some people might ! consider it a mistake to have two missionary V appeals—one chiefly for white men and the '• other chiefly for coloured folk—running at the same time. So far as the monetary re ;: suits were concerned, it would perhaps hay been better had the appeals been made a' ; different times, but in another, sense it, wa a very good thing that the sympathies V the Anglican community in Auckland shouli be enlisted at one and the same time on b* half of the diocese of Queensland and Us diocese of New Guinea. It. served to brinhome to them the fact that missions, whet-he .to white men or coloured men, were all p»c ; and parcel of the same work. The messag ' was exactly the same, namely, the lovo c God and his plan of salvation, and the resui -upon the character was meant, under the dii ferent circumstances, to be the same. The* owed the bishops of these two dioceses ',' very real debt of gratitude for thus bringin; home to them the sameness and oneness o' the work undertaken in the name of Jesus Christ, no matter in what part of the world i, was® carried on. He was please/1 to be pre sent at Mr. Mounsey's meeting, because dur ■ ing the Coronation year he was immensely interested in the great meeting held at the - Mansion House, City of London, on behal' of the New Guinea Mission. It was one or the most remarkable gatherings of the kinc ever held in London, and he well remem bered circulating broadcast in his own parisl copies of the speeches made on thai occi' sioh. Especially did he " heave" .theft weighty addresses at the heads of those people who did not believe in missions. ' "There," he said to them, "you have the evidence not of the parson, bat of the Go- : vernment official and the men J who have seen ' the place, and they are prepared to back tip the New Guinea Mission for all ' they are worth." Only a fortnight before he sailed for New Zealand the Bishop of New Guinea ' —an old friend whom he had known well before he became a bishop at occupied the - pulpit of his church in London, whilst ' ho (Dr. Neligan) was preaching elsewhere m ■ the great metropolis for the Maoris. It was a _ pleasant thought that the first foreign missionary meeting he should be called to attend since his lauding in New Zealand should be on behalf of that same diocese of ' New Guinea for which his friend the bishop pleaded so eloquently" such ] a short time ' before he (Dr. Neligan) left England. ' (Applause). The Rev. W. K. Mounsey then gave his lecture, dealing most interestingly with th«.. progress of mission* work in New Guinea. ' The lecture was profusely illustrated with lantern views, and was followed with the utmost ; attention. A collection was taken up in aid of the mission funds. ;