THE CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14275, 10 February 1912, Page 11

THE CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION.

, $\fc least a dozen personn will bo-in ovangelist party from America Writes tho Rpv. A. Stewart, M.A., in the''Southern Crass"). Tho' travelling -, ospcnses of so many oversea moans a -" ''Jirge "outlay before the mission starts. Jbouglr Dr. Chapman «md Mr Alexander themselves "accept no salary, -isqme'of the other workers aro dependent: on their salaries, and these have- ' -to be found for them whilo they aro travelling, as veil as their fares. All i this outlay was guaranteed in the mission by tho late -Mr John Converse, a- railway magnate of Phil- -, ,/adeiphia, and a leading member of the "' Presbyterian Church of tho United Spates. ' Tho council felt that Aus- ',, - tralasia- was wealthy enough, and willr iilg-toboar nil necessary financial burdens for itself. Tho committee in Sydjiey, had previously mentioned the sum . - 0f,£2000 as required for oversea es- '"' penses" and 'salaries. It was agreed to faiee this amount by subscription, 'male-' r iuß A-]ovy on each oonstitnont organi- • sation' represented in the council fn proportion to the population and wealth .of its State. Prantically the whole of . ii ha« come in, and been sent on to the . evangelists., -God. has put liberal things , * into tho hearte of tho friends of tho ,„ ''cause. Australaeia Jias the self-Tespect-sate faction tliat'.jn the present , work if 13 hand3om% paying' its own