THE JOHN WILLIAMS.
MISSION STEAMER'S VOYAGES. SYDNEY, January 13. ' Every few months the London Missioffary Society’s steamer John Williams puts into Sydney after voyages to the islauas 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 ho will still be on the ship when it has travelled its millionth mile in missioni work. During his peroid of service, Mr Fraser caculates that scores of thousands °_f natives have been converted to Christionity by missionaries working from the John Williams. j.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 48
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181THE JOHN WILLIAMS. Otago Witness, Issue 3802, 25 January 1927, Page 48
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