BAPTIST MISSIONARIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24101, 21 October 1941, Page 8

BAPTIST MISSIONARIES

WORK IN WIDE FIELD COUNCIL MEMBERS ELECTED The session of the annual Baptist assembly yesterday was devoted entirely to mission work. The Rev. Jl ,T. Fade, "a missionary from India, said that in Africa there were 60 missionaries to every million people, but in India there were only 14 for even million and in Bengal only eight for every million.

The report of the New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society, showed a revenue of £IO.OOO. About £2OIB had been contributed by the Baptist Women's Missionary Union during the year, compared with £lB in the rear "of its inception. The self-denial ap'peal amounted to £4730. Reference was made to the fact that next October the Baptist Missionary Society would celebrate its 150 th anniversary. At a meeting in the evening a farewell to the outgoing missionaries,"the Rev. M. J. Eade and Mrs. Eade and Miss M. Bradfield, was extended by the Rev. S. Jenkin in the presence "of a large gathering. Mr. H. T. Falla presided. On behalf of the assembly a welcome to Dr. Nola Ivory, who recently returned to New Zealand, was voiced by Mr. S. Barry. The following were elected memberi.of the missionary council:—Messrs. C. W. Dascumb, R. Grave, S. Jenkin, Irjgs, G. C. Reay, W. Rollings, R. Turner, G. X. Garlick, S. Barry. H. H. Driver. X. McGregor, G. Bycroft, and Misses E. Beckingsale, H. Rice. Missionary editor: Rev. S. Jenkin.