HEART OF AFRICA MISSION

Evening Star, Issue 18034, 31 July 1922, Page 3

HEART OF AFRICA MISSION

AXD WOULD EVAXGELISATIOX. AX INTERESTING .STORY. Hiss Constance Brandon, one of the important officers in a mission known as the World’s Evangelisation Crusade, which has sprung from the Dealt of A:r.c:: Mission, founded in the Belgian Concu just before the won. i allied Dunedin on Saturday, and was wi.u.ucd at an informal lea at the i.M.C-A. rooms, attended by about fifty. Th' llcv. I'. A. I’vbur, presided. Mi.-a ilrandon gave tlir.-e present an intimate account of the origin of her present tour mid of the wont <n the mission in the heart of Africa, describing particularly the splendid work accomplished by the native evangelists. .At 7.30 Miss Brandon gave an illustrated lecture to an audience that filled the Hanover Street Church Hall. The Her. 1!. 11. K- Kempton presided. Miss Brandon proved herself a gifted and must interesting speaker, who held the closest attention of her audience lor quite an hour and n-ha!f with the arresting story she had to toil. The narrative was illustrated with a series of lan lorn pictures, many or them tastefully colored. Miss Brandon told of thrilling incidents on tho first journey of Messrs Biudd and Buxton. which lasted nine months before they reached Xiangara, in the heart of Africa; of the pioneers' difficulties and dangers; of tho savage, and degraded customs of the natives: of tho readiness of multitudes of them to receive the Christian message; and of the unmistakable evidences of thoir changed lives. Views were shown of the large nativd churches, and of different classes of industrial work carried on by tile mission. Mr IStudd, who though aged and physically exhausted, refuses to go homo till more reinforcements come out, is demanding fifty more white helper?, to meet the appeals of the natives. Twelve were sent out last year, and it is hoped, to send out twenty-five this year. Among these a doctor is most urgently required. Miss Brandon described the mission as international, interdenominational, evangelical, ami inspiralional. The lantern was manipulated by Mr W. L. Simpson. Miss Brandon, who delivered a number of addresses yesterday, was t:> speak to a meeting for women ohly at the Y.W.C.A. this afternoon, and will deliver another lantern lecture in the Burns Hall this evening,, when many fresh slides will be shown.