THE FIGHT WITH LEPROSY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18867, 21 May 1923, Page 8

THE FIGHT WITH LEPROSY

REV. W, J. EDDY’S VISIT. The Rev. W. J. Eddy, representative of the Mission of Lepers, who arrived in Dunedin from the north on Friday night, preached in the Hanover Street Baptist Church yesterday morning and in the evening in First Church. In the afternoon he addressed a united Sunday school gathering in the View Street Congregational Hall, and later at the strangers’ tea aA the Y.M.C.A. The burden of his message was, in the words of the Conference: “There is but one Church; and that Church is the body of Christ.” When Christ was on earth in the power of the Holy Spirit, He went about doing good, and the leper was the special object of His compassion and ministry. The Church is here and now on earth, His Body; then it is the business of that Church to go about doing good, and find room for the leper. The object of the Mission to Lepers is to organise and bring to bear upon the lepers of the world the practical sympathy of the Christian Church as the body of Christ.

This evening he -will deliver his pictorial recital in Burns Hall, . and to-morrow in the Baptist Church, South Dunedin. He will describe his visit to the New Zealand leper station on Quail Island, and specially his visit to 14 asylums in India. The story will be illustrated by about ICO- slides, chiefly from his own photos. The lecture is not gruesome, but gladsome. There is no charge for admission, an offering being received to help this noble work.