GREAT MISSIONARY FAMILY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)

GREAT MISSIONARY FAMILY

"THERE are so many members 1 of the Williams family in the history of pioneer missionary work in New Zealand that it is not easy to distinguish between them, at any rate in the second generation. A book just P u b* fished, "Through Ninety Years" (Whitcombe and Tombs), covering chiefly the lives of the first oiul (liinl HMi'.ps of Wainpn, extends over Hie period from tlic landing of <•'(= first Williams apostle in New Zealand in ]S2(i to tlie dcatii of P.isOiop W. L. "Williams in llllii —lienee the titli?. It earries lis iiaek eonsideralilv over n ci'lilurv: in f:iet. inforniation i- given n.l>onc tliat. ii.-roic cliaraeter, .Archdeacon Henry Williams, who w;is an ollieer in t'i' Xavv in (lie Napoleonic Avars and the war'with tlic United .States.

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The compiler mih! chief writer of tlic • book, Frederic Wanklyn Williams, eldest. son of the late Hishop Williams, was SO 1 wart* of aco when he began the work, •iml the task of examining family ami - church activities was a tremendous one. He completed it :»b the .ige of SI, »n ' spite of suffering from illness and dnl foctive eyesight. The lilial duty :•«> u carried though has pi von readers not J only a history of the family, but aNo a wonderful series of pictures of X*jw ' Zealand life, pakeha and .Maori, particularly in Hie field of oliurcli labours. r Most of the great figures in the story —