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Title: Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: McFarlane, Samuel
Subjects: London Missionary Society
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ages of Christendom by putting them in goodhouses and providing them with honest work, forvery soon your model houses would be like styes,and the honest work abandoned. My contention is 136 AMOi\G THE CANNIBALS. however that, supposing both classes of savages toembrace the gospel, those of heathendom find them-selves nearer the goal which civilization has beenaiming at and striving for during many centuries.What we are pleased to term civilization generallybegins in despotism, or, I might even say, in murderand plunder. A country is seized, the land appro-priated, and the natives subdued, and placed underlaws. Then, as education advances, and the subduedbegin to feel their power, the struggle begins, andgoes on for ages, between radicals and conserva-tives ; the one trying to regain the rights and liber-ties of their fathers, and the other trying to retainwhat was gained by conquest. All I can say is, thatI devoutly hope that New Guinea may be preservedfrom such civilizing influences.
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NATIVE AGENCY ANDNATIVE CHURCHES. NE of the greatest peculiarities ofthe spread of Christianity in theSouth Pacific and New Guinea is^> the work accompHshed by Jiativeagency. From Tahiti to NewGuinea, the native converts havebeen the pioneer evangehsts.Island after island, and groupafter group, first learnt the message of love fromthe lips of these simple, earnest, faithful men andtheir heroic wives. These native teachers are betteracquainted with the habits and manners and customsof the heathen than missionaries are, and so are well 138 AMONG THE CANMBALS. adapted to fill the gap between the debased savageand the European missionary. They quite naturallyavoid mistakes and dangers which a young missionary,in all the plenitude of his wisdom, is apt to makeamongst a savage people. No amount of piety orzeal or intelligence, or all combined, will preservea man from falling into grave errors, if he lacksexperience. My experience goes to show that our native teacherscan get at the heathe

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