Gospel By Radio
p. 87 · Read in the full issue
Planned
For Islands Natives
INTEREST was shown recently in Australia in a new system of taking the Gospel by radio to Pacific Islands natives, proposed by i new American-sponsored or ganisation, called the Christian ladio Missionary Fellowship.
The plan is that a missionary, by neans of specially prepared mat rial, will broadcast, from one cen ral point, messages in their own anguage to native communities cattered over thousands of miles, n other words, by this method, one nissionary will do the work of everal.
The Fellowship, which has head quarters in Sydney, proposes to es ablish an international missionary tation at Darwin, wherewith to >roadcast to the natives of Borneo, Tew Guinea and Northern Austra ia. Part of the organisation’s plan 5 to place, in the villages, receiv ag sets which will be worked by »edal or by battery, and will be lined to only one station. Tropic •roofed sets with fixed tunings are ow being made in the Fellowship’s workshops in Sydney, or assembled rom parts made elsewhere.
It is not explained how the Fel- Dwship proposes to get over such
obvious difficulties as the multipli city of languages in New Guinea, and inducing a native village to listen to a particular broadcast at a set time. It seems that, in order to combat the peculiar conditions of New Guinea, the only way to carry the Gospel to the natives is the old-fashioned, hard way— namely, residence among them by
a self-sacrificing European, who is prepared to care for them in many ways other than that of merely preaching to them at fixed times.
Mr. Roger Charlier, of Lae, New Guinea, was married to Miss Pam Ridgley, in Sydney, on October 26.
They will live in Lae.