MISSIONARY PAGEANT.
EAST AND WEST -'EXHIBITION. ANGLICAN CHURCH official: opening to-day. The East, and West exhibition' under the auspices of the New Zealand Anglican Board of ilisßipns will be opened at the Town Hall tpfday, marking, a memors,ble event in the history o7 the Anglican Church ,in New Zealandi.. The, objects of the exhibition.; are ■to instruct ;ind awaken a keener , interest in . the great hiission .work that is being undertaken by the Church,
i The. Redhibition .is ..being promoted without any thought of money-making, but the .comprehensive: scale on which it kill be presented cannot fail to arouse the interest and, inspire . thet imagination of those to whom it. is hopfd to; appeal. The yiiel, courts in prill contain exhibits from Melanesia, Polynesia, China,. Japan, India, Africa, Egypt and Palestine, as well as a„fine collection of Maori curios and- works, of art. . fission , workers from thp . countries mentioned have come to the, Dominion to take; charge of £he varjous courts and to speak about the people among whom they live and work. Patrons of the exhibition will thus have the opportunity of acquiring an intimate, knowledge of the great work that is being accomplished by the devoted workers in the various mission, fields* and also of the habits s.nd lives of the teeming millions of Eastern folk, who are gradually coming into closer and more sympathetic touch with Western ideas. ' ■ >
Some conception of the scale r of 'the exhibition may be pbtained from the fact that over 1000 workers have been engaged for a considerable period in preparing for the opening day, and no 'less than 50 parishes siire actively assisting in the preparations. A feature of the display 'wilTbs the Eskimo court,' and there yviji be a wonderful 1 variety of curios from "the Pacific Islands and the other countries that will be represented. Ncth- . ing-sas' to" prepare a Maori court' that will.' bV, thoroughly representative of. the .'conditions' of Maori life; j' in the Dominion, and ; though the other exhibits will provide pageant of Eastern, colour seldom seen" in" the Occident ] the Maori display' will 'have a wide appeal.' : . ' ' . '. ' i. The exhibition will extend for; six days and ' will conclude ;on" Saturday '.evening. The official opening' will take place this evening> when'the Rev, Cecil' Watson will preside. The> opening- pepemony. will be performed by Archbishop/ Averill, Primate of New-Zealand, and on. other days the- opening service will, be taken by leading .churchmen, including Dean,-Cropper, 6f Gibraltar.; h t i» .' 'r x:y .-
; iPrtpatatiohs' been • roade< to have ■ the main m'usifeal items broadcasted, while a wireless set will be used to receive megsages in the hall from the Archbishops of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and other leading churchmen in Australia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 10
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