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Title: Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tomlin, James William Sackett, 1871-
Subjects: Church of England in Australia and Tasmania Missions New Guinea
Publisher: (London) : Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o of theirown free will and on fair conditions as faras we can secure them. The execution ofthe wedding bullock ^ had also to be ar-ranged for, and not till 9 p.m. was I ableto sit down to some very necessarywriting. The attraction of the work for themissionaries is described by him thus: I know of no power sufficient to holdmen and women to such work as thisaboriginal work—with its inadequate sup-port, its absurd stipends, its cruel isolation,its tremendous heat, its swarms of fliesand mosquitoes, its loathsome diseases—except the evident spiritual results of thework itself, the growth of confidence, andthe raising of life and thought which appealto the workers if they appeal and appearto no one else.(5) Forrest The FoTvest Rimv Mission, situated 70miles down the western shore of Cam-bridge Gulf in the new Diocese of North-west Australia, is the renewal of an at-tempt made twelve years earlier by four ^ An aboriginal wedding was just going to be cele-brated on the station. River.
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The Aboriginals 215 laymen, to establish a mission at this point.Bishop Trower, when the new venture wasready to be made, accompanied the littleparty of 1 priest and 3 laymen to the spotand stayed with them for a month. TheRev. E. R. Gribble of Yarrabah fame hasbeen secured to help the Rev. W. H. Robinsin the difficult task of getting under way.It is too early to speak of results here.The missionaries and their future convertsare still eyeing each other. My impres-sion is, writes Mr. Robins, that all thesedear aboriginals play with me, as I playwith them. We bide our time, each tryingto reach the foundation of the othersmind, our motives being different. Whichwill win ? And when ? God alone knows.They cannot understand us. Tommy, thisafternoon, after I had explained to him,and he had interpreted to half a dozen,and I saw that they took in what I saidabout their bodily ailments, fever, brokenlimbs, colds, etc., therefore come and betreated—after all this, he asked, Whatyou do here ?

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