Kokodir: Lord nganangan nulu bayan nangume ninggal.

Bamal: Bama warkangamu nangungu dudur male.

Kokodir: Nakalmun gura goalmun bama warkangamu budon puri ngado bodan guranu.

Bamal: Bobo warkangamuwe bamal ngadogo koko balkanu galmba.

1. Bama warra ninggaiga‐nula nayun dubil‐gura bodaingo milkadir manaya nullu dirlen glmba ngamburgo ningganu. Ex 28:27

2. Milkamul ngayu madega bera‐gura warra ninggaiga nayun ngayu galmba gari milkangandaya. Ps 51:3

3. Warra ninggaiga marla dirlin yirge gura dudan warra dubila — na! tjiri budo yuba kadai. Matth 3:2

4. Ngayu yandanu gura pepa ngado waminu gura nangungal yerba guranu: Ngayu milkamul mati Godgal gura nanungal warraigo ani wondara gura yumur guranda. Luc 15:18–19

5. Ngandan yerba guranda: ngandan warramul ninggal — nagandan wanga, madinda bera. Gura ngandan marla yirgal, God ngandanun dirlen dauun manaya, gura nganangan warra — ngoalgo balkal. 1 Ep John 1:8–9

Kokodir: Dauungar ngado! Yura pinal ngandan koko Godgame netchin koko yerba nama: Yura bama warra ninggaiga — Godgal dirlen marla yirge, gura nangu melbelbila milkadir gura ningganu, garko nulu yurangan dauuntchir madinu. Nayan God detchuren, nayun Propetangai gura Apostelngai warkangamu merelin. Namongu ngandan galmba muyantchir gura manubudongo Godgal yerba koko gulboigo balkanu:

God burburbudongo, nganangan dauun galmba walu pepa: ngandan milkamul madega — ngandan dudan tjiringu gurabudo dubega‐walu moaribungaga dudan‐budon dubelbil gura yerlmbawe walidatara. Wauu nganangan‐game ngandan gurabudo milkadir madega, gura wauu nanume koko dubi. Koko nanume nundu ngandanun detchuren‐yerba ngandan gari ninggai. Koko nanume nundu nganangan muri gura ngandaimanengandan namo galmba milkamul manadi. Ngandan bama warragur budo. — O, Lord, nundu ngandanun gari kuli male. Ngandan warra bera, gura Jesus bodanbudongo. Nangungu budo nudu melbego bemawe dauuntchir matinu. Nangungu murga ngandanun galmba dauuntchirgo nawa. Pepa ngandanun, nangungu nundu ngandanun galmba burbur gurala — nilangango walu yendu madinu ngandan, gura milkadir ningganu. Yerba puri nanu ngandan budo bodan guranu. Amen.

Kokodir: God burburbudongo, pepa Lord ngandanungame Jesus Christusbe, nulu wauumulgo bama Satangalgo degalganda; gura bama warragur woolmbaya gura milkadir manaya — nayun nulu pirna namalma. Nayun bamawe merinunggo nulu Apostles gura bama yendu kokodir bobo warkangamuve degai. Nayun nayungo ngaya galmba yurangan melbinu God detchurengga. Yura warra kana ninggai — manubudon yura namo dulmbilmal — manubuton yura galmba yirgalgal — nilangango milkadir matinu — dirlen God yurangan galmba makobadaigo dauuntchir ningganu, gura Jesungu yurangan galmba makobadaigo dauuntchir ningganu, gura Jesungu yura tpiriwe kandanu. Bamal: Amen.

Gulboigo Godgal yerba koko balkala:

Pepa ngandanun, tjiriwe nundu ninggalnggal. Puri gura koo nanumungu ngandan makobadaigo yiniltchir manaya — Bama warka nobungo koko nanu pinalengo mandenu, gura bobowe galmba milkadir ningganuyimidir anggali tjiriwe nanu milkadirbudongo ninggalnggal. — Mayi nila pudanu nundugo ngandanun nila woa. — Ngandan warra ninggaiga, nayun nundn milkangandaya — bamal ngandnun kuli madega‐ngana galmba dirlen dauuntchir manadinu. Satanga gura bamangu nundugo ngandanun burbur gurala — warrangu kima wudadigamu. — Warrangan ngandanun darnalabudo nundugo burburbudon‐ngunda. Amen.

Kokodir: Lord, ngado barkar warngalabudo.

Bamal: Ninabudo bodan guranu.

Kokodir: God, nundu dindalgo ani wamila.

Bamal: Lord, nundu yetchil ngato ninggala.

Kokodir: God pepa, yumur wauu, ngandan nina bodan gural.

Bamal: Yimidir anggalingun nina kanangango gura makobadaigo bodan gural.

Kokodir: Lord yuranganbe gunbo kundala.

Bamal: Lord, nganangan‐game ngandan buto gunbo kundanu.

O Lord, nundugo Sabbath yerlgargo guraigo, bama gari makobadaigo milka bobongu, bamangu gura mayingu ngambaingo dadanu. Nina milkan kana nadinu namodirbe. Namo bama nanugo netchin burnchirngaraya bayan nanume, nanugo koko nadinu nanugo koko balkanu. Ngandan namo namo nila warkangamu galmba yewaigo kadai. Nundugo ngandanunbuto koko nanumengu wauudir gurala — gura wauu nanugo ngandanun woa ngandanun pinal guranu. Ngandango koko nanugo mundal yiwarengamu. Garko ngane pinalengo koko nanu — mayi wauu ngananganbe nadega nundu dirlen ngandanun burbur gurala koko yimidirbe milkadir ninggann. Sabbathbe koko nadinu bera gura gari murga Sabbathbego milkadir bodan ningganu. Ngandan koko natega nayun wauuwego makobadaigo bnchenchinu nayun netchin milkan nadinu garko ngandan dudan tjiringu galmba gari gura dubinda, gari gura yiwarnda. Ngandan kadil Yumur nanumego mandendi — nundu ngndanun burbur gurala tamal nangugo galmba wogurnu, garko nangungu ngandan galmba nanungalgo tjiriwe miradiu. Amen.

Kokodir: Gulboigo ngadongal bandila:

Ngayu pinal, God pepa burburbudongo — nulu tjiri gura bobo balkai.

Ngayu pinal, Jesus Christus Yumur Godga nulugo — Lord ngandanun. Maria kapirgowe balkadi, Pontius Pilatusga kundadi, Birnabandi — bieni — kobarbi — Yoku wami — Godera barbi garko duyuga wanchi. Tjiriwe datai. Burla God Pepa gulboigo ninggalnggal. Yemongan garko barungundu kadanu, bama ngamburgo yerlnggar guranu duyu galmba.

Ngayu pinal — Wauu Godgo. Nulu God Pepangan gura God Yumurngan datara. Dana gulboigo God nobungo. Namo ngandan nangu koko balkalka yimidir God Pepwe gura God Yumur — Ngayu pinal Jesungu God ngandamun dauuntchir manadinu. Ngayu pinal, bama warkanobungo duyuga wanchinu gura makobadaigo ngamburgo ningganu. Amen.

Kokodir: Lord ngandanun nulu yurangan bantchenchinu.

Bamal: Wauu nanu nulu galmba bantchinu.

Kokodir: Ngandan Godga gurna koko balkanu: Lord nundu ngandanun dauun male.

Bamal: Christus ngandanun dauun male.

Kokodir: Lord nundu ngandanun dauun male O God, wauu ngandanun kandal gurala.

Bamal: Waun nanugo ngandanun galmb gari murila.

Kokodir: Dauungar ngado! Jesungu bama ngandan warkangamu walu yaba — garkigo ninggah. Namo ngandan galmba bama yendumu Godgal koko balkanu. Jesus detchurengga ngandan koko yimidir galmba kana balkanu:

God burburbudongo, mako‐badaigo ngamburgo ninggalnggal — peba Lord nganangan‐game Jesus Christusbe — Lord budongo tjiriwe gura bobowe galmba — ngandan nanu koko balkalgal — nundu bama nanu warkangamu bantchentchilla. Bama Kokomerelbagawe wauu nanugo woa, dana dirlen koko nanu pinalenggo merinu. Bama yendume galmba wauu nanu woa dana pinalen nina nadinu — koko nanu manubudon guranu — gura bobowe milkadir gura dauuntchir ningganu.

Bamal: God nundu ngandanun koko nawabudo.

Kokodir: Bobowe nundu ngandanun master yidaren — King George — nundu nangu galmba bantchenchilla bobowe gura bienegamu nangu tjiriwe dawila. Bama nangu nundu galmba pinal gurala, dana bama warragur kulidir nganday mndenu — marlangai ngarlburnu bama yendu ngambadir dirlen yinilmul ningganu.

Bamal: God nundu koko ngandamun nawabuto.

Kokodir: Bama ngandanun kulidir ninggal — danangan kima gurala — ngandanun dauuntchir madinu.

Bamal: Good nundu koko ngandanun nawabuto.

Kokodir: Bama yinilbe ngoba, dinggadir, kakadir, ngoba, bienegamu ngoba yinil — satanda gura gura bamal ngoba dirmbalbal nanungu gura koko nanumungu — nundugo danangan yetchil ninggala, O Lord, gura wauu nanu danangan woa — danangan pinal guranu gura dana nadinu — nundu danangan gari dubega.

Bamal: God nundu koko ngandanun nawabuto.

Kokodir: Ngandan pinal bera — ngandan netchin warra gura milkamul mati, gura nundu namo ngandanun kuli ningganda. Gura ngandan nanungal kokodir katara gura yerba gural: Ngandan milkamul gura warra ninggaiga — nayun nundu milkangandaya. Gura nundu bamadauun — nayun nundu gari milkangandaya. Namo nundu dodi gura wauu ngandanun ngamburgo gura kakamul bantchenchilla. Kokobudon nundu ngandanun wudega — gari gura murila. Bama mangalga yirgalgal — nundugo ngandai‐mara, nundugo mangal dumbila. Kakangu nundugo ngandanun bantchenchilla gura mangal nanumungo baitchara. Mayi galmba nundugo kana detchuren bobowe yandann — bamal dinggadir pudanu — namo nundu galmba pinalenggo matji degala warka matinu. Satan waun ngandanun dirmbaigamu, nundu ngandanun burbur gurala, gur nganangan nawa warrawego bienegamu. Bama warka, ngamuwe nundugo yetchil ninggala.

Bamal: God nundu koko ngandamun nawabudo.

Kokodir: Ngandan koko yendu nanu galmba ngana balkanu? Nundugo budo pinal. Ngandan murga yerba gural: Bama nanuga warka ngamu nanu koko balkal — nundu danangan koko nawabuto. Bama warkangamu koko nanu wonda galmba nadinu, garko Jesus kadanu ngandanun tjiriwe dawinu.

Jesungu, yumur nanumungu nulu tjiriwebuto nanungal ninggal, gura wauu kandalgal — Godbutongo — nangungu — nundu koko ngandanun nawabudo.

Bamal: Amen.

Kokodir: Gura bamal gulboigo:

Pepa ngandanun tjiriwe nundu ninggalngal. Puri gura koko nanumungu ngandan makobadaigo yiniltchir manaya — bama warkanobungo koko nanu pinalengo mandenu, gura bobowe galmba milkadir ninggnu yimidir anggali tjiriwe nanu milkadirbutongo ninggalngal. Mayi nila putanu, nundugo ngandanun nila woa. Ngandan warra ninggaiga, nayun nundu milkan‐ngandaya — bamal ngandanun kuli madega — ngana galmba dirlen dauuntchir manatinu. Satanga gura bmangu nundugo nandanun burbur gurala warrangu kima wudadegamu. Warrangan ngandanun darngalabuto nundugo burburbudonngunda. Amen.

Kokodir: God Pepa yurangan balkai gura bantchenchil, Jesus Cristus yuranganga bieny gura namo yurangan Satanbe muri.

Wauu kandalnda yurangan pinalgural gura yurangan tjiriwe dawil.

God Pepa, Yumur, wauu — Godbudongo, yurangan makobadaigo gari dubinu.

Bamal: Amen.

Kokodir: JESUS CHRISTUS, Lord ngandanun, mulugo detchuren bama dogelginu — Mathaeusngun ngandanun merelil — nulu bama nangume yerba koko balkai: Dadera yura bobo warkanobungo wamila gura bama ngamuguraigowe koko merila, gura danangan dogila “GOD PEBAWE” “GOD YUMURBE” “GOD WAUU KANDALBE.” Gura nulu galmba melbi — nayun Marcusngunda ngandanun meril — Bama koko manubudon gural — DOGEGAMU nulu tjiriwe kadanu, gura koko wangawanga gural, nangu Godngunda warra guranu gura nulu tjiri gari waminu. GOD detchuren bama doginu, gura dogegamu tjiri melbi namo yubal galmba nayun ganggal nila mandega Godgal doginu.

Godgal ngana gurna koko balkanu kana: GOD nundu burburbudon‐go, koko bama nanume nundu milkadir nama, ngandanun nundu dauunbudon nanungu ngandan murga ngamburgo ninggal, nanungu ngandan galmba warkangamu duyugawanchinu. Bama burla nayun ganggal mandega nanungalgo doginu — nangungu ngayu nanu koko balkalgal nundu nangu nanugo murilabudo, nundu melbega kana, nundu yerba gural: Koko ngado balkala, ngayu dirlen namalma, ani yiwara, dirlen ngayu yurangan‐ga miradinu; bargare miraya, bargar yurangan dirlen warlnganu. Ganggalga ngandanbudo nanu koko balkal — dirlen nundu koko galmba nawa — nulu ninabudo waminu, na, nangun‐gal dirlen miraya. Nulu bargare miradiga — nundu bargar nangungu galmba warngala, nulu bayan nanume burnggadinu. Jesungu nundu koko ngandanun nawabudo.

Bamal: Amen.

Kokodir: God, makobadaigo, nundu burburbudon‐go ninggal. Kanaigo bama warkangamu milkamulmadega nundu dirlen purai warka degai, gura bama warkangamu godanchi. Murga Noah gura bayankutchin nangu, danangan eight nundu dauuntchirgo muri. Nundu Pharao gura bama nangu purai dirniwe godirmai, gura bama Israel bama nanugo, dainggal nagga dawi. Bama warra — bama moggul, dogegamu yimiyimidir birninu gura bama nila, bama nanugo yandanu.

Nundu galmba puraingai warkangamu burbur gurai — bama warrangoalgo balkanu, Jesus, Lord ngandanunbe kana Jordanbe dogelgi.

Nundu bamawe dauuntchir ninggal, ngandan namo ganggal yemongu nanu koko balkal, bama nanugo manadinu nulu — nangu galmba burbur gurala nina gari gura dubinu — bama moggulbudo birninu, gura bama nila nanugo ngamburgo ningganu, nanugo milkadir madinu gura bama yendumegalgo, bama nanumegalgo nulu galmba garko Jesungu tjiriwe kakanu.

Bamal: Amen.

Kokodir: Marcusngun ngandanun koko yimidir meril:

Dana Jesusgal Pidagur manega, nulu danangan koko yirganu gura mangalnda karbanu, gura bama nangumun danangan ngandaimana. Jesus nayun wauumulgo nadega gura yerba gurai: Pidagur ngadon‐gal gurna kadanu, danangan gari ngandaimara, tjiri dananganbudo. Bama gari kana walu pidagurgo tjiringu wauudir manaya, nulu tjiri galmba gari waminda. Nulu pidagur dirlen dawi, mangal kambogo danangangame yidaren gura koko dauuntchirbudo balkai.

Nayun ganggal nulu galmba yimiyimidir dauuntchirgo nadinu gura murinu, ngandan nila nangu koko gurna balkanu.

Kokodir: Ngadon‐gal gulboigo bandila:

The Lord’s Prayer: Peba ngandanun, tjiriwe nundu ninggaln, etc.

Dauungar ngado. Jesungu yubal gangal nayun mandega, nangu doginun‐go gura Christian guranu. Yubal Christian galmba, namo yubal pinal — bama Christian manaya, nulu walu mangalga dadara, gari bama yendumungu, Satan‐ga ngandan mangalga dadanu, bama nangumungu, gura dodi ngandnun‐game. Ngandan‐go yimidirga kimamadinda. God Peba, Yumur, Wauu ngandanun namo murga burbur gural. Ngayu nila nayun ganggal dawangal, gura yubal nangungu ngadonga dirlen yirge. God nangu banchenchil gura nulu warkamanaya, garko nulugo dirlen yimidirgo yirganungo bera.

Kokodir: (1) Satan gura bama nangu, nanu milka bakaigamu — God dubinu gura koko nangume milkamul madinun‐go — nundu namo Satan‐ga gura bamangu gari kima madinu gura mulban‐go Godgalgo yuelelinu?

Sponsors: Yo.

Kokodir: Yubal koko bandila:

The Creed, said by Sponsors: Ngayu pinal God Peba burburbudon‐go, etc.

Kokodir: (2) Nayun koko manubudon gural?

Sponsors: Yo, ngayu manubudon gural.

Kokodir: (3) God Pebawe Yumurbe x Wauuwe ngayu nina dirlen doginu?

Sponsors: Yo, ani dogila.

Kokodir: N. N. Ngayu nina dogil.

Kokodir: God burburbudon‐go, peba Lord nganangan‐game Jesus Christusbe, nulu nina purayen gura wauungun warrangoalgo balkai, nulu nina galmba burbur guranu gura nina banchinu — bobewe nundu bama nangugo ningganu, garko nina nula dawinun‐go nangungalgo tjiriwe kadanu.

Bamal: Amen.

Kokodir: O God, peba ngandanun, ngandan nanu thanks gural, bobo warkangamuwe nudu bama Satanbe muril gura yumur nanumegal, Jesus Christus galgo dawil, Christian gural, yimidir nundu nayun ganggal nila galmba dawi gura muri. Nangu, gura ngandanun galmba, banchenchila gura burburgurala — nanugo milkadir ninganu, garko dirle Jesungu nundu ngandanun tjiriwe dawinu.

Bamal: Amen.

In January, 1886, Rev. John Flierl, the pioneer of the Lutheran Mission Finschhafen, whilst waiting to proceed to New Guinea, established mission work among the aboriginals on the Cape Bedford Aboriginal Reserve near Cooktown in North Queensland. In September, 1887, Rev. G. H. Schwarz arrived from Germany and took charge of this Mission and has remained in charge to this day, for nearly 60 years. The Mission itself was named Hope Valley. During this long period the Mission has seen many changes, happy times and sad and difficult times. Other men have laboured with and alongside of Rev. G. H. Schwarz. They have come, and they have gone. Rev. Schwarz has remained and was most faithfully supported by his wife Mrs. Schwarz. Both have, in word and deed, brought near to the inhabitants of the Reserve the Word of God, teaching them in school and worshipping with them in church. They taught them to settle down, to work with their hands, to till the soil, and assisted them to procure food and clothing. They guided them through the difficulties and the temptations of their daily lives. The aboriginals have learned to see in their missionary and his wife their father and their mother, and followed their teaching and leading with child‐like trust. In May 1942, when the exigencies of the war swept the whole Mission, the missionaries and the aboriginals, away from the Reserve and parted them from one another, a crisis entered into their lives which has not yet been overcome.

It is an interesting experience that the aboriginals on the Cape Bedford Reserve, though not all of them were members of the Cooktown tribe, and though in the mission school they received all their instructions in the English language, among themselves always used the vernacular of the district, the Koko Yimidir dialect. They possess and read their English Bibles and sing from the English Hymn Book, but their own tongue, the Koko Yimidir, speaks direct to their hearts, and their souls yearn to hear the Word of Life in their native tongue, the Koko Yimidir. That is the reason why the missionary, Muni (Mooni — Schwarz — Black) as they call him, has prepared the manuscript which is published in this small booklet. May God bless its path and bless the aboriginals who make use of it in their hours of worship and in their private reading.

It may be mentioned that this is the first book that has ever been published in any of the aboriginal dialects in the State of Queensland.

The Board of the Lutheran Mission, Hope Valley

Ani gura koko ngadogo yura gorna milkangandaya. KOKO GODGA, ngayu koko yurangantchir yurangan kaban yimidirbe yidaren — NAYUN yura gari milkangandaya Nayun netchin nawa gura bandila.

Koko Jesuwe St. John 5, 39. milkan nawa.