The New Guinea Mission.
The.Bislipp of .■■; New. Guinea, writes . to the Australian Board ; , of Missions ■■ •\ to say tha,t:— By the end of March, ; ... 1918, it will be the case, l ethink, that considerably more than 1000 Papuans will have been baptised; during the . year under review, and .8000 confirmed. That m addition .to the four . : Newe Guinea . deacons we now. have ;. (two of whom were prdained : during ; /the past year) four others are under ; instruction, for the diaepnate.: Qne : deacon is being instructed with a, view to his ordination to the priesthood.. That at S. Aidan's College for tea- , : chers (at t)og"ura) which began m. . ; August as a venture of faith. with five students, there are now seventeen and ', anotner dozen applying for admission.
Their intention^^s/. 7to\d'^ote their lives to the work' of Church. Probably a few of 'them will be, later, ordained, and .more ; of them! i become • trained native • teachers. . . ; . . .
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 1 May 1918, Page 86
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152The New Guinea Mission. Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 1 May 1918, Page 86
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