New Guinea

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 10.

New Guinea.—The Rev. J. Chalmers sends a list of twenty-six villages on the banks of the Fly River, in which services are held twice daily and three times on Sunday. “The services are very primitive, and, when conducted by the people themselves, the words spoken are very few, and these in great ignorance. I have just sent Hiro and six church-members and their wives up the river to preach Christ and hold services in every possible village. The church-members are to remain three months, and then return here for a spell. They have no education, but they know the story of the cross, and they are in downright earnest. It would have done your heart good to have seen with what enthusiasm they went. I got wearied of waiting and praying, and it was heavily laid upon me to act and do something for the heathen.”—Missionary Review.