Britain's Brave
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Spirit
Message to L.M.S.
Conference
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Dec. 3.
WHEN the missionaries maintained in Papua by the London Missionary Society met in Port Moresby recently, for their annual conference, they naturally were anxious and uneasy.
London is the headquarters of their great organisation: and the Huns have been assuring the world, for months, that they are destroying London.
But London still was on the job: and did not even forget little, distant, Papua.
A cablegram came in from London reading “All’s well here”, and the con ference was given, in addition, the astonishing information that, despite war and air raids, contributions for the development of mission work had been coming in so freely in Britain that the financial position actually was better than a year ago.
Seven native Papuan teachers were ordained at the Poreporena Church, on completion of their 10 years of training and probation. These men will take up their work as teachers and pastors in their various districts.
Those present at the session included the Rev. Maurice Nixon, Mr. P. Chat terton, Revs. F. J. Searle, J. Gilkison, H.
J. E. Short, R. Rankin, D. E. Ure, H.
A. Brown, S. H. Dewdney, R. Perry, E.
R. Fenn, H. L. Schlencker, Sister Fair hall, Miss Colledge and other ladies.