IN SOUTH AMERICA
MISSIONARY SUCCESS
S&.FETY AMONG SAVAGES.
(By Telegraph.) /(Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. A passenger by the Kotorua, which arrived from England this morning, wsis the Rev. Alan Ewcbank, formerly secretary of the Church of England, :south American Missionary Society, yvhose. work now extends over' the 'whole length and breadth of the Continent. Mr. Ewcbank said the conquest of South America was complete, and the work was in full swing on the Amazon headwaters just as at Terra del Fucgo, in the Far South. He stated that on one of his visits ho journeyed 1300 miles up the Eiver Plate, and sojourned among Indians who had been wild and hostile before coming under the mission's influence. Previously a European would have carried his life in l.is hands there, yet he could now s'.i/cp in comparative peace beside a firo lit to keep the snakes and mosquitos away. Darwin had said that the South could never be conquered, but the missions had proved that Christi- j anity would be just as great a success in Patagonia as anywhere else in the universe.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19261224.2.81
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 8
Word Count
186IN SOUTH AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in