“INTO ALL IKE WORLD”

Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 10

“INTO ALL IKE WORLD”

iISSIOHARIES DEDICATE!) Last night, in First Church, Miss E. M‘ Donald (Methven) and Mr Norman .iiuoron (a sou of tho late Dr Andrew Camorou) were dedicated and farewolled before going to take up work in tho Sudan under tho Sudan United Mission. ! The Rev. W. Walker presided. At present there are ten New Zealanders serving the Sudan United Mis- . sion. Tho Chairman read a number of messages, either of greeting or of apology in being absent. He and the Rev. ( Eric Evans olfered prayer. 1 Tho Rev. A. G. W. Standage said that as tho minister of the Maori Hill Presbyterian Church, of _ which Mr Cameron was a member, it was natural that he should speak very largely from a personal standpoint. lie was suro that tho good wishes ho was about to extend would bo echoed by all tho congregations of tho land. Mr Cameron came to them from a home of great and good influence. They knew how fragrant were tho influences of that borne, not only those who shared it, but others, too. The speaker referred reverently to tho Into Dr Cameron, whom they fain would have with them that night. Ho went on to say that Mr Cameron came .also with his own Christian experience and character. They parted from him with regret; but they handed him oyer to tho wider work lie had been called to with pride and gratification. To him and to Miss M'Donald also they extended their best, wishes. Tho Rev. G. H. Jupp, convener of tho Foreign Missions Committee of tho Presbyterian Church, offered prayer of dedication. The Rev. Professor Hewitson, on behalf of tho local committee of the mission, gave an address, touching on the chief purpose of a missionary’s life and work, and some things that might lead to the attainment of that purpose. Man’s first duty was to glorify God and enjoy Him for ever; hut other ends and purposes were necessary. They were missionaries of the Lord Jesus Christ, going out to found and conduct a school in which Jesus Christ would bo the subject of their tcachino-. They must know their subject, and they must know their scholars. They gav ere church builders, and they were empire builders, preaching “the kingdom of God is at hand, and the kingdom of heaven is love.” They must know tho people they were among, hearing in mind that they were different, physically and mentally, from other races." The missionaries mud consider the peopled political condition, remembering that they were awakening to a knowledge Hint tneir country had been sliced up by great Western Powers, and to a belief that the white men then edit of thorn as black filth. The missionaries must observe the country. _ its climate, rmography, and geological features, they ,v,„A be •'enna’eWl abo with the religion of the people. Always they must remember that tho master key was syinpntby. . 11 Mr Cameron and Miss M Donald thanked the speakers, for their kind words and their counsel. _ Beth said they had been influenced in their deeßion to take up missionary work by Dr Karl Kumm, Mr Cameron momtionino- also the name of Dr John Kirk. The Sudan’s need, they felt, was great, and they had merely answered tho call; “ Whom shall I send and who will go for ns?’’ , . ! ’ Mr J. Priestley, dominion secretary 1 of the Sudan ■United mission, said that in God’s good time these_missionaries mi<dit come hark to them in peace and in health. Let thorn bo surrounded by t], e prayers of the people they nerc leaving.'to take up the high adventure of winning the people of that far country to the kingdom that was without frontiers.