THE BOOTH MISSION
By way of winding up his 16 days’ mission in Dunedin, Mr Herbert Booth his photo-drama lecture entitled The Soldiers of the Gross ’ at Burns Hall last night. The audience filled the building. The lecture embodies an outline of the history and heroism of the early Christians. The pictures prepared for the lecture were got by training a volunteei company of over 600 men, women, and children, the costumes and the scenerybeing specially prepared. Mr Booth has delivered this lecture in many parts of the world, and Dunedin now accepts it us an original and highly' interesting contribution to the general knowledge on the subject. At the' close of the meeting an announcement was made that Mr William Bradley, of the Egypt General Mission, Alexandria, is at present in Australia, and intended during the next few months coming to New Zealand. Mr Bradley and his wife hospitably entertained thousands of our men when far from home in the service of the Empire, and was known as “The Soldiers’ Friend.”
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Evening Star, Issue 17279, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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