THE JOHN WILLIAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20005, 24 January 1927, Page 9

THE JOHN WILLIAMS.

.MISSION STEAMER’S VOYAGES. NEARLY A MILLION MILES, (From Our Own Correspondent-) SYDNEY, January 13. Every few months "he London Missionary Society's steamer John Williams puts into Sydney after voyages to the islanoa of the Southern Pacific. It has been doing the same for 33 years, with the exception of a period of 12 months after the war. Three times a year the John Williams does a voyage of about 10,000 miles, and having covered 30,000 miles a year for 32 years, the John Williams has travelled close upon a million miles in its work of spreading the gospel among the natives. The record of the ship is only equalled by the record of its purser, Mr W. Fraser, who has not missed a single trip on the John Williams. He is old now, but still hale and hearty, and is sanguine that he will still be on the ship when it has travelled its millionth mile in mission work. During his peroid pf service, Mr Fraser caculates that scores of thousands of natives have been converted to Christionity by missionaries working from the John Williams.