New Guinea Mission.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume III, Issue 2, 1 September 1912, Page 32

New Guinea Mission.

Miss Murray, who returned to New Guinea m July, was one of the earliest lady workers m the Mission, which she joined m 1896. After seven years' valuable work, during which she suffered much from malarial fever, she was obliged to resign m March, 1903, and . there seemed no likelihood of her being .: able to return to the Mission. But after nearly two years' testing at Yarrabah Aboriginal Mission, she is permitted by the doctor to resume her work m Papua. There she will find three who. were m harness when she landed m 1896. Another has never taken furlough for the 13 years of his service m the Mission, and the five missionaries' names of 1903 have become nineteen. These facts evidence the devotion of the staff, and Miss Murray's return is m keeping with it. The response drawn from the native population shows the attractive power of self-sacrifice, and the Bishop journeys continually up and down the coast confirming the ever-increasing number of baptised Christians. The white settlers , are increasing m numbers, and Churches are being planned at Port Moresby and Samarai. At the former there are now 400 white residents, and develonments are very rapid. Rev. C. Kind's translation of S. Luke's Gospel m the language of the once savajre tribes of the coast line near the German boundary is being printed m Sydney,