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- W60624066 abstract "A CONFLICT OF FAITHS: ABORIGINAL REACTION TO THE FIRST MISSIONARIES IN NORTH QUEENSLAND* Mr. N.A. Loos This paper is concerned with the following missions from their foundation, indicated below, to l897: Mari Yamba 1886 - on the Proserpine River - Lutheran Hope Valley 1886 - at Cape Bedford - Lutheran Bloomfield I88 - South of Cooktow7n - Lutheran Mapoon I89 - on the Batavia River -1 Presbyterian Yarrabah I89 - near Cairns -1 Church of England It should first be noted that missions to the Aborigines were seen in terms of a charity rather than as an inescapable Christian responsibility demanding an unavoidable call on the individual's or the church's resotirces. Very few Christians indeed would have considered their Christianity tested or salvation threatened by their response to the material or spiritual needs of the Aborigines. They were an optional extra. It was the aim of all invading Europeans to control the Aborigines they came into contact with. The missions aimed at probably the most total control for the belief that Christianity was the only true faith produced the imperative to convert; that is, to change how Aborigines thought, felt and acted. By I885, the necessity of establishing a village composed of missionaries and those who could be induced to abandon their nomadic life was accepted by all churches interested in converting the Aborigines. There was thus the need to develop an economic base to make the village self supporting, or partly so, to ease the financial drain on the associated missionary organization, for the missions were always starved for funds. The attempt to create a Christian village resulted in a conflict of values with the traditions, life patterns, and values of Aboriginal society. E.R. Gribble of Yarrabah noted: To instil the idea of a fixed home is the first task of the missionary. This produced a channelling of energies and resources away from purely * This subject is dealt with-i n more detail in the writer's doctoral thesis, Aboriginal-European Relations in North Queensland l86l-l897." @default.
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- W60624066 title "A conflict of faiths: Aboriginal reaction to the first missionaries in North Queensland*" @default.
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