A HEROINE OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 39, 6 March 1930, Page 2

A HEROINE OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

At ihe last meeting of the Lower Hiutt" Methodist Women's Auxiliary; Mrs -'Goldie was the speaker. Mrs Goldie —with'-her'(husband,-'the Rev J. P. Goldie-^-went to the Solomon Islands twenty-seven years ago as a young bride, and was the first white woman seen in that part of the Solomons which was made over to the Methodist Ohurch to support. -There was then, of course, no civilisation, no written language, although a few traders wei-e settled near the coast. Mrs Goldie saidj .that >her object was not so much to save the soul's of the people, but to make them smile, for they. neveT smiled. They were in bondage to innumerable • fears, they knew no songs, and there was. no word "love" in their language. Mrs Goldie not only taught them to sing songs and hymns (which she translated) ■but composted 2iyjnns for t/hem. Of course the mothers had not the slightest idea of >how to treat their babies.. The food they gave them was atrocious, and when tihe little ones were sick, which they very frequently were, they had no idea how to treat, t3iem, bhit as they gradually learnt how to care for them, infant mortality proportionately decreased. Apropo of tihis,\ Mrs. Goldie was once so ill that her life was almost despaired of, but she sadd that a tiny tot by the name of "Ruth" —whose life she had. saved—literally ioved her iback to life, sitting Iby her and refusing to leave Jher until it seemed as though the passionate love of the little one was instrumental in 'bringing about Mrs Goldie }s recovery.

Mrs Goidie said,. during the course of her address, that if the women in. Kew Zealand / - could see what tfceix money achieved on t3ie Mission K»ld, they would "be more deeply stirred, and give more generously. ..'..-

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