BOUND FOR CHINA

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 10

BOUND FOR CHINA

Itinerant Missionary Workers YOUNG AUCKLANDERS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 14. Three young women and one young man whose ages range from 20 to 24, graduates of the New Zealand Bible Training Institute, will leave Auckland in 10 or 12 days en route for China, where they will enter upon Inland missionary work. They are Miss K. Barry, daughter of Mr. Samuel Barry; Miss Joyce Ellingham, daughter of the late Mr. Ray Ellingham; Miss Nancy Tucker, daughter of Mr. A. Tucker; and Mr. F. W. Martin Taylor, LL.B., who received his degree at the Auckland University College last year. They will go to Shanghai first for training in the language school, and they will spend about six months learning Chinese. From there they will be drafted into the country upon itinerant missionary work, which will necessitate undergoing long, lonely journeys, with hardships and a constant menace from Chinese bandits. They will have no guarantee of a salary, and, In the words of the Rev. Joseph W. Kemp, minister of the Tabernacle Church, to-day, “it is not an attractive enterprise from the financial point of view.” Mr. Kemp said that the Tabernacle Church was strongly in favour of missionary work, and that within the last 10 years it had sent out nearly 30 missionaries to various countries, most of them io China and India. Others had gone to mission fields of Abyssinnia, the Sudan, Mexico, South America, Ceylon, Solomon Islands, and Papua. For the last two months these four young people had been touring New Zealand in deputation work, which consist of presenting the claims of the mission to various ’congregations, and they had been very well received.