AT A LANTERN LECTURE.

North Otago Times, 5 December 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

AT A LANTERN LECTURE.

'A missionary just returned from his labours in the Rocky Mountains wns giving an account of his work in it lecture illustrated by lantern slides.

He was so placed that fie could not see the screen, but not thinking It worth while fo alter the nient, ho left things as they were, and consequently never knew that the operator at (he lantern had begun at the wrong end of fho box, and all the slides were coming on in the wrong order.

A fine photograph of a couple ol buffaloes wns gravely declared by the reverend gentleman as being a picture of two of his earliest and most devoted converts, and he described with great unction how onc ! : was a lay reader, and the other I aught in the mission school. A view of a Red Indian war-dance with a number of naked savages brandishing their spears and capering excitedly round a huge fire, was described by tho good man as a meeting of the directors of the home missionary socioty, and he asked them specially to notice Mrs. Vandyke McGregor, as being the second on the" right, while Mrs. Mcflregor, who wns in the audience, had to be carried out in hy-' stories. Illustrations of clubs, bows and arrows, etc,, were referred to as the weapons by which he had been graciously permitted to further his work, while he dismissed an imposing view oMiis own mission* chapel as one of the' greatest'cnusos of iniquity in the district, and one whichhe hoped would'be speplily removed/