MISSION TO LEPERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 14

MISSION TO LEPERS

LECTURES BY SECRETARY The newly-appointed secretary for New Zealand of the World-wide Mission to Lepers, the Rev. F. A. Crawshaw, spoke yesterday at the Mount Eden United Evangelical and Baptist Churches. At the latter church in the evening he stated that there were today between two and three millions of lepers in the world. In his itinerary so far he had been astounded at the want of knowledge in New Zealand of the great work his mission was carrying on. If a leper was found in a street of Auckland, how readily people would pay for his removal or amelioration But in many parts of the world the law still said, “Begone without the camp,” and they were left to wander where they could to cry “unclean.” The wife turned the husband out, tho husband, the wife, the parents, tho children. The Christian missionaries sought to gather these in compounds, and where there was hope treat them. In that very religious country, India, there was much need of Christianity, if only for these poor people, as the old faith still said, “Begone, the Gods have cursed you.” Much good Was being done in lands like China, India, Korea and South America. The new treatment was working wonders. In India there were 350 child lepers, who need not have been, because it was not hereditary, but he pleaded for 700 children of lepers who could still be saved from contact; £5 was all that was necessary to support a leper for a year, and £1 for the treatment, ahd yet multitudes were being lost in misery. He asked people to place a leper mission box in their homes. “MORTAL AND IMMORTAL” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES “Mortals and Immortals” was the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, The golden text was from 11. Timothy, 2-15: “Study to show' thyself approved unto God. a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly divining the word of truth.” Among the citations which comprised the lesson-sermon were the following from the Bible: “Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.” Job 14. 1-2. The lesson-sermon also included the following pasage from the Christian Science text-book, “Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil, which declares that man begins in dust or as a material embryo. In divine science. God and the real man are inseparable as divine principle and idea.” (page 47G.)

OPOTIKI ANGLICANS ELECTION OF VESTRY The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Opotiki. was held last week. The following officers were elef ted: Vicar’s warden, Mr. A. E. Davey; people's warden, Mr. E. A. Bunkall; vestry, Messrs. A. Braae, T. Bloor, T. 11. Peaipon. N. F. Pattle, B. S. Vickers .and R. lledley; lion, auditor, Mr. E. C. Chapman. The treasurer, Mr. Bunkall. made a strong appeal for more members of the duplex envelope system, as although there had been a good increase in the amount of the offertories. the revenue was still insufficient to pay the expenses of the year. The vicar’s annual report stated that there had been an increase of over 200 in the number of communicants. The balance sheet showed that there had been an increase in offertories of £l4O since 1927. In the same period the total liabilities had been reduced by over £2OO.