Wakefield and Foxhiil.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 April 1907, Page 1

Wakefield and Foxhiil.

A Church anniversary meeting was held in the State schoolroom, Foxhill, on Saturday evening, when the Rev. Mr Gamble, Organising Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, gave a most interesting address on the importance of missionary work both at home and abroad. The Rev. gentleman made an >arnest appeal on behalf of the missionaries, and showed a number of diagrams, illustrative of the great work that needs to be done, also the comparative number of heathen, to those of the Christian world, the principal diagram showed the population of tho whole world (roughly) tbe 1,500,C00,0C0 —that of the heathen 796,000,000. It was also pointed out by the lecturer that there was one clergyman to every 1000 soub in Great Britain, and only one missionary to 155,000 of heathens. The lecture, which lasted about an hour, was full of interesting and instructive mater. Tlie attendance wus not large, wing to the threatening state of the weather. A collection was taknn up in aid of the Missionary fund.