“GREAT SCOTCH SKY
P 5 LOT.” MISSION SERVICES IN GISBORNE. 'Who is T. Russell Cameron? This question is on everybody’s lips. Together with his weal colleague, 3lr. Sidney Wood, 3fr. Cameron, the "Scotcn Sky Pilot,” is now in Gisborne. He has been for some years engaged in mission work. As a youth lie started out in mission work in the heart or London. Subsequently lie accompanied the Chapman-Alexander mission in their very successful world tour. At the close of the N.Z. section of the tour, at the Auckland Town Hall, Dr. Chapman made a stirring appeal to the ministers and workers in New Zealand, effectively pleading with them to open up their pulpits to Mr. Russell Cameron in his pioneer work in this Dominion. Since"that date, Mr. Cameron has had more open doors than he has been able to reswmd to. He* has been fully occupied in evangelical work m various parts of New Zealand, and he has recently returned from a visit to America and the Old Country. He is in the fullest fellowship with all who stand four square on The Word irrespective of the denomination to which they belong. His singing partner, 3fr. Sidney Wood. of Auckland", has just left his legal training and is accompanying Mr. Cameron, singing the Gospel. He hopes to leave shortly for Central Arnca as a missionary. The local mission opens on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Mission Rooms, above Messrs. Teat and Friar’s establishment, the suoject being: "The Lord’s Second Coming.” In the evening, after the c-r.urch services, a big service will be held in Everybody’.; Theatre, when 3lr. Cameion will discourse on “The Greatest Theme Ever Discussed in Heaven c-r a Hell.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6321, 25 February 1922, Page 6
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