VETERAN MISSIONARY'S DEATH.
Christianity has lost a. great teacher and tine scholar in the deatli recently of Canon Edward Sell, aged 93, at Bangalore, India, where he worked for 67 years. Canon Sell, who was born at Wantage, Berkshire, was trained in the Church Missionary College in London. At the age of twenty-six he sailed for India, and devoted his life to missionary work, particularly among the followers of Islam. From 1865 until 1881 he was head-master ol the Harris High School for Mohammedans in Madras; and for the next 39 years was the Church Missionary Society's secretary in Madras. He was the author of fifty books, mainly on Mohammedanism, among the best known of which are " The Faith of Islam," " Life of Mohammed," and " Islam: Its Rise and Progress."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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