Missionary College Takes Shape in New Guinea
NEW GUINEA has a missionary college well started with buildings, students, etc. W. G. Lawes writes of it: “In all the work that has been done we have had the ready help of a number of natives from the surrounding villages. Every piece of timber used in our buildings has been carried up from the coast (two miles) on men’s shoulders. We can not always get help when we want it; but the people have been very good and willing. Of course we have had to pay them for their services, but the rate of wages is not high, and,12as waistcloths and shirts are most in demand, we thus help the people in their efforts to get the externals of civilization. I ought, perhaps, to explain more fully our purpose in establishing the college. The name may appear misleading, and yet it is the best for the object we have in view—viz., to train and fit young men to be teachers of Christ to their countrymen. Before we receive a candidate, we must have evidence that he is a sincere Christian, and then he must be able to read in his own language. That is all. The minds of the most advanced are only just opening, and the time has not yet come when any, except a very select few, will acquire knowledge from books.”—Missionary Review.