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In this paper I use some of the personal accounts of two Anglican missionaries to the Arnhem Land area in the early twentieth century to gain an understanding into their perspectives and motivations. It is a story of love; the love that brought these missionaries to north Australia, and the relationship they shared. Permanent European settlement of the Northern Territory took place more than three quarters of a century after the settlement of New South Wales. The townsite at Port Darwin was surveyed in 1869 and was ‘the last of the colonial capitals to be established, and ... the only one to lie in the tropics’. 2 Settlers in the Northern Territory were both informed by experiences of other settlers elsewhere in Australia, and of the brief but consistent history of failure of European settlement in the region. 3 There was a distinct parallel between the experiences of permanent European settlement and the role of Christian evangelical missionary work in the region. Missionary work in the Top End proceeded relatively late in Australian missionary history and similarly, followed a string of unsuccessful attempts. 4 Elsewhere in Australia the experience of European settlement had accompanied loss of life for Aboriginal people through usurpation of resources and spread of disease and so it was widely believed that Aboriginal people were dying out. Missionary work was a sacred obligation for Australian men and women of Christian good will to take up work to disseminate God’s message to those who had not heard it, and might not ever have the opportunity to do so.

You in Your Small Corner: The Love Song of Alfred J Dyer: Early Days of Church Mission Society Missions to the Aborigines of Arnhem Land