CHRISTIAN CONVENTION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 7

CHRISTIAN CONVENTION.

At the Wanganui Christian Convention to Ire held from May 2nd to the (ith in elusive, the Rev. H. B. Gray and Mr W. Mailis, both of Dunedin, have accepted the committee's invitation to be the speak ers Dr. Northcote Deck, of the South Sea.' Evangelical Mission, who attended th Christian Convention in 1903, is to b in Wanganui on Sunday, April 2, ant will give addresses. Among other items of interest, news ha:boon received definitely that the Rev George Grubb, whom some may remembe was in Wanganui about 10 years ago leaves England for Australasia in May and will most likely be in New Zcalam in December. He brings a party of fou; besides his wife. Dr. Karl Kiimm, of the Soudan Unite' Mission, who recently made"a remarkablt journey from the Niger to the' Nile, ha: followed up his groat speech at the Edin hurgh World Missionary Conference ir July last by sotting on foot a plan -1' make a strategic line of mission station between the two rivers, in order to stop the advancing wave of Mohammedanism—a religion that denies and scorns all that Christians hold most sacred. To man this lino of 50 stations, lie requires 150 menIn the course of gathering these, he hopes to visit Australia and New Zealand in the spring. 1