Sda Hold Camp-Meeting

At Goroka

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HE annual camp meeting of the North-east New Guinea Mission of Seventh-day Adventists was held

July 21-26 on the grounds of the New Guinea Highlands Missionary School, Kabiufa near Goroka.

Australian delegates were Pastor Petersen, Youth and Education Sec retary, and Dr. Harrison of the Syd ney Sanitarium. Pastors White and

MacFarlane and Mr. Ellison repre sented the Coral Sea Union Missioi (Lae).

Headquarters staff and missioi directors with their families fror Omaura-Kainantu, at the one end o the Highlands, to Wabag, at th other, attended, besides hundreds o native missionaries, students am native lay members.

Educational and religious film attracted a nightly audience of mor than 2,000, but the highlight of th evening meetings was Masive’s elo quent description of his recent tou of Australia and New Zealand; hi large audience listened with rapt at tention throughout.

On the last afternoon a large am greatly interested crowd gathered t( witness the baptism by immersion o 32 converts in a font especially mad( for the occasion.

Of the stories told by the nativt missionaries, perhaps the most inter esting were brought by natives of th cannibal Fore area of the Kainanti district. One man told how he am his wife were surrounded by arme< cannibals who demanded their beau tiful, plump child to eat. A 1 missionaries from that area repor that many are already giving uj cannibalism.