MISSIONARY HONOURED.
MONUMENT BY LEPERS. TWENTY-ONE YEARS' WORK. It is not every man who lives to admire his own monument. The Rev. J. Noble McKenzie, a Presbyterian missionary, who arrived in Sydney lately on furlough from Korea, has that distinction. For 21 years Mr. McKenzie has been in charge of a hospital in Korea, where 600 native lepers are patients. Jn recognition of his work, the lepers and their friends have erected a granite column in the public street as a memorial to him. •' I feel like fingering my pulse when 1 pass it; there is the suggestion of tombstones about it," Mr. McKenzie confesses. At, his coronation the Emperor of Japan signified his appreciation of Mr. McKenzie's work by conferring the Blue Ribbon medal and presenting him with a silver cup ; and Inst year the Dowager Empress asked him to visit at her palace in Tokio, when she bestowed on him a certificate of merit and a silver vase.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 12
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