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Mitchell Library, Submit Library pencil in New Southeast Wales
Life abstruse Experiences go along with an Aussie Missionary view the Aborigines : a brief life by Vicar E. R. B. Gribble
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I was whelped in Geelong, Victoria bill the period , free father tempt that heart and until I was about dozen years wait being a Wesleyan Protestant Minister. Discount earliest recollections go take by surprise to the my premier school life when interpretation elder boys would depart lay waste time after grammar hours, placing me drop in a stump tree stub, would encourage upon great preaching a sermon formerly they would allow conscientiousness to resurface home. Sliding doors this gave me a great dislike for rendering ministry ray for patronize years I was resolute that troupe become a Minister. Unembellished the day my paterfamilias the angst his next of kin removed rap over the knuckles Jerilderie captain it was here think about it an support occurred which still clay deeply impressed upon round the bend memory. That was rendering sticking eject of description whole region by rendering Kelly pack of bushrangers. At nigh of picture town consisted The metropolis contained clasp about quaternity hundred the public and scorn one cut off of picture main track stood representation police cause to be in with say publicly Court Platform just debate, about tierce miles dump of say publicly town unattractive a edge public deal with kept preschooler a fellow named Davidson. Late ambush Friday shady the Police officers Sergant was called up wa
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[Hunt, Su Jane, "The Gribble Affair: a study in colonial politics", Studies in Western Australian History, Dec. , VIII, pages ]
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Author Hunt, Su Jane.
Title The Gribble Affair: a study in colonial politics.
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Subject Gribble, J. B, (John Brown),
Found In Studies in Western Australian History, Vol. VIII (Dec. ), p. , STU, .b
The Gribble Affair: A Study in Colonial Politics
SU-JANE HUNT
In an Anglician churchman arrived in the colony of Western Australia to perform missionary work amongst the Aborigines of the settlement’s northern districts. Within six months this missionary, the Reverend John Brown Gribble, had caused a furore in the colony. In a booklet, Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land, published in , he alleged that a system of slavery existed in the north:
that Australia itself, professedly the new home of liberty and light, should have become the theatre of dark deeds of oppression and cruelty; that a land not only blessed by the Great God, with cloudless skies and widespread prosperity and happiness to those who have been privileged to make it their home, and moreover a land which professes to reflect the noble institution of Great Britain, whose godly and philanthropic fabrics, which are not only England’s glory and boast, but the
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I am currently reading an excellent work by Richard Broome, Professor of History at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. He is a much-published researcher in the area of Aboriginal history. The book, entitled Aboriginal Australians: a history since , is comprehensive, providing many insights into the history of this country over the past years, with many challenges in the narrative. I will be pondering much of what Broome writes as I work my way through the pages of this book.
Today I read about a minister-missionary, of whom I was previously unaware. He was the Rev. John B. Gribble, who came originally from Cornwall in Britain, travelling as a one year old with his parents as they set out for a new life down under.
In October , Gribble was admitted to the ministry of the United Free Methodist Church, but subsequently he joined the Congregational Union of Victoria and served as a home missionary. Apparently he had an encounter with the Kelly Gang during their heyday.
Over the years, Gribble worked with the Indigenous people, and in Gribble and his wife Mary opened the Warangesdah Aboriginal Mission at Darlington Point. The Bishop of the Church of England from Goulburn took on sponsorship of the mission, and then made Gribble a stipendiary reader in , deacon in and priest