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20 years ago, and has been conducted by Mr Hammond. Aborigines from the
Murray River and other distant parts of the territory have been induced to
settle there, to attend on Christian instruction and worship, and to exercise
agriculture and various useful arts. Eight years ago Mr Hammond could
reckon 18 decided converts in persons whose confession of Christ whose
new habits of industry and piety, whose benevolent concern for the good of
their fellow creations and especially of their own race, and whose patience in
suffering gave evidence of [?] real and blessed change in their hearts.
The Point Macleay mission is of recent establishment. The following statements
were more [concerning] if as the annual meeting of the Aborigines Protection
Society in June last [see pp 34a 35]. The Revd R. L. Chase of Melbourne
published a memoir of a boy belonging to the Wimmera Tribe, who was for
some years under his care, and exhibited decided Christian characteristics
The London Missionary Society sent to the colonists of this country a
faithful Minister of Christ, the Revd L. E. Threlkeld, who during eleven years
labours at Lake Macquarie and the Lower Hunter instructed many, and
prepared a memorial of the aboriginal language which has enriched the
Philology of the world.
The Revd Pastor Johann Gossner of Berlin organized a band of
Nine missionaries, who through correspondence between Pastor Gossner and the Revd
D Lang of this city were directed to Moreton Bay; and there did
much to improve the temporal condition of the blacks and to render
them useful to the settlers, though they saw no decided evidence
of conversions. Father [Anjello?], an Italian [Priest?] gave up his life in a mission at Port Essington.
The Wesleyans set on foot a mission at Buntingville near Geelong,
where the Revd Wm.[Tuckfield?] and the Revd [M Hursh?] laboured for 5 or 6 years, [with?]
the tribe they fought to save has [wasted] down to some 8 persons. At
Bathurst and elsewhere, the Wesleyans have numbered among the recipients
of instruction and the members of the clan of the church and four individual
aboriginies who gave evidence of conversion. The Revd A.W. Van der [Kiste?] records some.
Heretofore it has seemed as if the time were [not?] come for the
Presbyterians as a body to do anything for the evangelization of the
aborigines; but it would be [a person?] of gross ingratitude on my part not
to mention here the fact that one Presbyterian congregation in Sydney- a
congregation that has in many ways exhibited a Missionary spirit - gave
as their contribution towards a mission of which I was the agent to the aborigines of the North Western Interior =======£150====
===========other christion friends in Sydney, Brisbane, and
elsewhere contributed to the [???] mission
A new and promising mission to the aborigines has been
Commenced at [Coranderrk?] on the Yarra about 40 miles from Melbourne
of which the Rev Robert Hamilton of the [K.P?] Church [..?...]