"This monograph is an expanded version of a lecture presented at a meeting of the Uniting Church Historical Society (S.A.) on Sunday 6 May, 2012 in Pilgrim Uniting Church, Flinders St., Adelaide. The lecture was presented as part of South Australian History Month in the year that marked the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Ernabella Mission by the Presbyterian Church, and the 60th anniversary of the opening of the church and the first baptisms at Ernabella."-- P. 2