MISSIONARY FAREWELL.
• LEAVING FOR BOLIVIA. The Choral Hall was well filled last night, the occasion being a meeting of those interested in missions generally to bid goodbye to Mr and Mrs George Allan (who are returning to their work in Bolivia after a furlough in New Zealand), and to Mr and Mrs Johnston-Turnbull and Miss Cresswell. who are shortly leaving for the same field. Mr A. H. Heycock, who was in the chair, said that the meeting had been called in connection with the Bolivian Indian Mission, which had arisen out of the Australasian South American Mission, now reorganised. The work to be done was amongst the Indian tribes of Bolivia. The mission was undenominational. All of the missionaries present had had experience. Mr and Mrs Allan were pioneer missionaries—had been in the field in South America for the past eight years. They had returned home at the special request of the local Council when the mission was reorganised. Mr Allan was going out as superintendent of the field. He pointed out that all interested in the welfare of the mission would have to help to maintain those sent out. The Bev. Mr Perry, a member of the Council, said that they had taken a great responsibility in regard to • .this mission work. They had, however, in the director, a wise man. He was a capable man, who had organised councils in Scotland, England, Australia, and' in all the cities of New Zealand, and had gathered together many men who now took a deep interest in the work. He made an appeal to all to support those going out by pravet, and also to help to maintain them. He finished by wishing the missionaries present good health and splendid success at the fields of labor. . All of the missionaries returned thanks in appropriate addresses for the kind things said, and allmade reference to the importance they attached to obtaining the sympathetic interest of friends when they were away. A happy gathering was brought to a close with the singing of ; God be-with you till we meet again.'
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Evening Star, Issue 14035, 16 April 1909, Page 8
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347MISSIONARY FAREWELL. Evening Star, Issue 14035, 16 April 1909, Page 8
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