DR H. GRATTAN GUINNESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12248, 11 January 1902, Page 8

D R H. GRATTAN GUINNESS.

HIS MISSION IX DUXKDTX

Dr 11. (.rattan Cuimicss, iI.D., who will arrive in fiiinedin next Saturday, tho 18th nift.. and ciimmence his evangelistic mission on the following day, is the son of Dr Crnttnu Guinness, D.D.. of London. The reverend gentleman was a missionary in Central Africa for two ycais, work-in? anions tho cannibal?, mid tho last two nights of liis mi.-fion in tliis city will be given up to irrapiiic (liscriptione of the work carried on by the missionaries among these cannil>al tribes. The lectures will be illuetratetl with liinelitjht views. i)r Guinness is one of tho three directors of tho Uegionf-beyond-mif-sionary Union, which -has an annual expenditure of about £25,000, and the object of •ivhii'li is to prepare niissiouuries to conduct illusions in Central Africa and South America. Recently the learned doctor has been vigorously carrying on his mission in the principal cities of Australia, beiiiir received in all parts with the utmost enthuesasm and, as a consequence, his work has been extremely successful and very rich in blessing. In Melbourne 1000 people were turned away from one meeting in the theatre. In Sydney his address to mon—the social purity mooting—was held in the Town Hall, and attended by WOO men. This addre.-s will be given in Dtmrdin cs the 19th in=t. Dr Guiur.c:-;. boinc; a phy.ii.van for tho body as well as for the soul, is specially fitted to deal uirh rhe question, which is undoubtedly one of vital importance. In his younger days the doctor was an athlete of no mean ability, with a preference for the bicycle. He is now .about 40 years of aze. and with

his foreign and liom» service he comes before the people of the colonies as a tried evangelist and luiminnary. and it is anticipated iviili every confidence that his mission not only in Dunedin, but in Cliwtchurch, WMlinjlon. ami Auckland, wliii-li he visits subsequently to Unnidin. will be fraught ■.vitli iniicii lasting K"<>d I" many people. l)n leaving New /.i-almiil he proceeds to Aim'iica, and it i- probable that lie will also vi'it mint- or the outlying p.-.rts of .South America. In response to the advertisement convening a nu'ctiiij; of Christian ministers and workers willing to support the proposed mission by l)r 11. (Jrattaii a goodly number assembled in the Y.M.C.A Room's last night. Amongst those present wore- Rev. l/r Nicholson. Revs. Lewis. .Speuce. Sutherland, liorrie, Wainwvight, and Chisholm. Mc?sre .1. Wilkinson (in the chair), lleycoik, (I- 1!. Uncus. Todd, ami (•runt. Apologies were received from tiie Revs. Oun'Oii-Siggers and .Uewitson and ■r I'. Hair. It was derided to extend a hearty invilntion to Dr Cuinno's to conduct a mission, and our advertising columns this morning emlniii a preliminary .imiminci , - inent of mooting* agreed upon by the very representative executive elected.