This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... THE BISHOPRIC "The crying need is for leaders, first in New Guinea, after that for the northern shores of Australia from east to west. I believe we are verily guilty of neglect of an obvious duty and shall miss the blessing of God if we lose any more time in putting at the head of our Mission in New ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... THE BISHOPRIC "The crying need is for leaders, first in New Guinea, after that for the northern shores of Australia from east to west. I believe we are verily guilty of neglect of an obvious duty and shall miss the blessing of God if we lose any more time in putting at the head of our Mission in New Guinea, which is now some years old, the natural leader in the Church. He alone can speak and act with authority. I do not hesitate to state my own conviction that every Church Mission should commence with a Bishop. Let him be, if you like, the only worker at first, let him contain within himself the germ and development of all that is to come."--Bishop Montgomery of Tasmania (sermon in Sydney Cathedral, July 21, 1895). CHAPTER III THE BISHOPRIC 1898) IN his address to General Synod of 1896, the Primate of Australia spoke of "the project of a bishopric in New Guinea which has been mooted, and is to be placed before us." "Whether," Bishop Saumarez Smith went on, "the urgency of this step be so great as some of my right reverend brethren seem to think, and whether this be an opportune time to appeal for this special object or not, is to my mind doubtful." In spite of this splash of cold water from the heights, Synod straightway resolved, with only one or two dissentients, "That it was desirable to establish forthwith a bishopric in New Guinea." Nine months later, it was announced that Montagu John Stone-Wigg, Canon of Brisbane, had been chosen. Canon Stone-Wigg was no stranger to the New Guinea Mission. One of the letters that Maclaren wrote from Cooktown, while waiting to start for Samarai, was addressed to him. When one of the earliest batches of South Sea Islanders for New Guinea was leaving Brisbane in 1895, it was Canon Stone-Wigg who took...
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