A FAMOUS MISSIONARY WELCOMED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 155, 1 July 1914, Page 7

A FAMOUS MISSIONARY WELCOMED.

" If you go to Central Africa." said Mr. Dan Crawford, missionary, explorer, and scientist, when speaking last night nt a meeting in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, "and talk Africa, Africa. Africa, you will soon discover that the i..Hives, do not kiM.w what you mean. '.".eir mime for their country is 'Tho Land of tiie L. :g Crass." The welcome last night v.is tendered by the churches in "The Land of the Long While Cloud."' there was a good representative gathering, and the Rev G. B. Monro presided. Rev. XV. E. Gilluni (vicar of 'St. Matthew's) 'Welcomed Mr. Crawford on behalf nf the Anglicans and the 'Bishop nf the diocese. Welcomes were also tendered by Rev. (1. Bond (Methodists). Rev. Kirwin (president nf (he Baptist Union). Rev. Walker (Presbyterian). Mr. S. W. Sniecton (Congregational), and Mr. Hugo ILiriop. on behalf of the Rrethren. Mr. Crawford, who receive,! quite an ovation, said be had just come from the Land of the Long Grass, after having been 2:1 year,? there. He was sorry he bad left it. ami would be glad to gel back again. He had been shut up with the l'.ible. People onl-ide had their cemeteries of dead books called libraries, and their miff pastry named " lierature." lie was sick of oecloiasticism—be was an old-time soul-saver. God was the President of the Anti-Snob Lena-rue. and snid: "The last shall 'be first." Thai gave a chance for the poor African. In Africa where he was, a man bad to go and shoot his supner. No L.mar of the gun, no supper! (Laughter.) TheAfitcan .still thought of God as a malignant, silent Tleiiion. His messa-re to Auckland w\s frnm John xvii.: "Father, while 1 was in the world I was the litrht of the world, but these (that is Auckland) arc still in the ■world." God had spoken: it wa.s in His hook crystallised for them. The speaker said be had soon found be must live, with .Mr Africa in bis own dirty little den of disease; he must got to the back of tlie black man',? 'brain. and think black, not while. K/.e-kiel s.ii.l: "1 sat with the men where they sat."' That was what he bad tried tn do in \fries. (Applause.) Tl.e a,lire.?? wa.? listened to with manifest interest, being enlivened, with flashes of lunnoiir and lifeline) originality.

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