During our stay of a few days, they all remained at the station, and we saw much of them.  The teachers said there were twenty-one who professed faith in Christ and had given up heathenism and desired baptism.  We visited further on to the east, and we were a week away on our return to East Cape, and after close examination of each candidate we decided to baptize them on the following Tuesday.  The service was most interesting, and well attended by persons from various places.  At night we examined the children and grown-up people who attend school, and were much pleased with them.  A few can read in the Motu dialect; others know how to put letters together and form words.  We hope soon to have one or two books in their own dialect.  Of those baptized several are anxious to be instructed, that they may be better fitted to do work for Christ amongst their own countrymen.  Already they hold services, and exhort in other villages, and when travelling they do all the good they can to others.

We are in hopes soon to receive a number of young men and women at Port Moresby, and begin our Institution, to be called “The New Guinea Institution for Training Evangelists.”  At present we shall proceed quickly, building native houses for students, and a class room to be bought in the colonies, towards which our true friends in North Adelaide contribute largely.

The harvest ripens fast:  where shall we look for labourers?  The Master has said, “Pray.”  May they soon be sent!  The light is shining, the darkness is breaking, and the thick clouds are moving, and the hidden ones are being gathered in.  We have already plucked the first flowers; stern winter yields, and soon we shall have the full spring, the singing of birds, and the trees in full blossom.  Hasten it, O Lord, we plead!

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