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“...site, more
healthful and central in the missionary’s judgment, must
be sought for the Namau district.
wing to the lack of efficient help the report of Moru
District is not encouraging. Two causes are named by
Mr. Pryce Jones—the failure of the South Sea supply
of teachers and our “lust of territory.”” Three South
Sea teachers were lost to the Mission, among them
Alesana who had been a tower of strength. _ There are
certain students of Papuan life who would like to keep
the people heathen, as museum specimens. Mr. Pryce
Jones quotes the lament of one such scientist who pictures
with regret an evening service, in which under the light
of three or four hurricane lamps a number of men, women
and children are chanting and praying together; he
regrets the substitution of this “‘ solemn performance ”
for the ** amusing obscenities of a rollicking native dance ! ”’
But the writer himself brings an evidence of the power
which the Mission has had; and his perverted views
offer at the same time a...”
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