MISSIONER'S TRAVELS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1937, Page 3

MISSIONER'S TRAVELS

EXPERIENCE "ON RELIEF" Mr. T. W. Graham, a missionary of wide experience, who four years ago gave a lecture at New Plymouth, has had interesting experiences since then. For more than two years before his return to New Plymouth he resided at Auckland, the city of his adoption 40 years ago, where he called together or entered meetings for prayer for wartorn Shanghai, a city in which he left behind him in 1931, some of the most open-hearted Irish countrymen he had known during his 50 years* experience as a Christian worker in many lands, including the Near and Far East. For three years before returning to New Plymouth he was in "a kind of an Arabia" as a No. 5 relief worker or on sustenance, but his testimony is that it did him more good spiritually, mentally and bodily than all his years of tlreological training. Some of these good.natured fellows, he said, gave him a hard time, but he never "split on them." He enjoyed hay-making in the Auckland domain at 64 as their fellow labourer, and having the saving grace of humour he invariably turned. the chaffing into laughing.