SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
e WORK FOR MISSIONARIES. Somo phases of life in tho South Sea Islands were described by Dr. Wood, Bishop of Melanesia, in an address which lie gave at St. Paul's Chapter Houso, Melbourne, last weok. Tho Bishop's experiences show that the natives in certain of tho missions,'having lost tho enthusiasm of tho early days' of their conversion to Christianity, are much inclined to fall into _ a. state of indolence, and return to their old superstitions. Persuaded'when civilised to abandon warfare, they liavo no- longer any need to mako bows, arrows, spears', or other implements of combat, ana ' shell money is littlo in demand, for it is either brought from Birmingham or gives place to tlio ourrency of civilisedi countries. To rouso tho islanders from this condition of. somnolence to something like their former alertness, to restore to them their lost interest iit ■ life and direct it into proper channels' is tho great task of the missionary. Another reform difficult of accomplishment is to turn the.natives a\vay • their club-houso rites, or such of then* as aTe impure.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 6
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179SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 6
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