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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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de for theirpastors, and manage their own affairs as soon as pos-sible. There is however a very marked Presbyterianelement manifest in that polity, the annual meetingof missionaries and native pastors being a kind ofsynod. Representing an undenominational society, 148 AMONG THE CANNIBALS. we do not feel bound to follow any particular formof church government ; consequently we are eclectic.The grand distinguishing feature of these Poly-nesian and New Guinea churches is their zeal in mis-sionary work. They have experienced the blessingsof Christianity, and they lay themselves and theirsubstance freely upon the missionary altar. Withmany of them the extension of Christs kingdombecomes a passion. Missionary meetings are themost enthusiastic gatherings of the natives, and tobecome a missionary to the heathen is the highestambition of Christian young men. The churches inthis highly favoured land have much to learn in thisrespect from the piety, faith, and devotedness ofthese young converts.
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HE regeneration of the world beingGods work, we may expect it toproceed like all other great changesin the world and the universe,slowly. Everything in natureteaches us to xvork and ivait. Noform of existence is presented atonce complete and perfect. Theforms of vegetable life have theirgermination, their budding, their flowers, their ripenedfruit or seed, their stately and progressive growth.And when their decay comes on, it is but pre-paratory to a resurrection of new beauty, without 11 40 ISO AMONG THE CANNIBALS. any interruption to the mysterious continuity oflife. Analogous to this are the forms of animalexistence. A feeble beginning; a gradual growthand development of strength, beauty, and sagacity.Minerals are formed in the bowels of the earth byslow, secret, but sure processes. By the abrasion ofrocks soils are collected, and barrenness is clothedwith verdure, and waving forests spring up and be-come so ancient that no one can tell the story of theirbirth. The ocean gradually

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