[?]R Anglicans

[?]ts Rushing In

Ow Or Never'

New Guinea

From a Special Correspondent

rhe Anglican Queensland Pro

;ial Synod heard some frank

ds in April from the Anglican

lop of New Guinea (Rt. Rev.

Strong) and his assistant,

lop David Hand.

E synod was held in Townsville and Bishops Strong and Hand both spoke on what has become, the various missions themselves, vexing problem of the multi ty of sects in the Territory, shop Strong told the synod 3 were still great opportunities :he Church in P-NG, but there also a danger of the opportu s slipping from the grasp of leans because all kinds of sects rushing in. i said every time he opened his stte he read of a new denomina coming in that he had never d of before. r we once surrender this ground have lost it forever”, he said, ess we grasp the opportunity we shall lose it, firstly to these r sects, which have not the l or the gripping power that ave, or ultimately to paganism”, shop Hand told the synod that opportunity in the Highlands already been lost for Anglicans, lis initial trip to the Highlands, lad found the Central High > had hardly been touched, but le last eight or nine years 33 ruinations had sent mission there. The Church of England the 34th, which was a catas

"Full Up"

sas to which the Anglican ch had been invited between and 1951 were now full up. The Michael area was one of them, there were now five other mis in that area and none of it 1 be Anglican now. jets we have never heard of moved in from America”, said )p Hand. “In one mile, known le Missionary Mile, there are denominations competing for iouls of the native peoples. The ican Church is not represented 1 because we have delayed”. ;hop Hand said that by 1961 ' would be no opportunities so it was now or never. After if it didn’t do anything in neantime, the Anglican Church t just as well admit defeat and mtrate on Papua, e work of a missionary, he

mmtnce“bout d it. and thele WaS n ° Bug men were needed badly in New Guinea and he was going to see the Australian Board of Mis sions to see haw many men he could get.

He would hope and pray that the men would be forthcoming—strong men who could share the hard work. be“ T to e iook St at h lh g e calvefof ws ”he said “Thev wfll have % walk lone d distances over bis Sfnfo S distances over big mountains.

Bishop Hand later went on to Victoria where he spoke at many rallies on the needs of the Anglican Church in New Guinea.