PIONEER MISSIONARYS' DEATH.
PRESIDENT OF METHODIST CONFERENCE. NOTABLE CAREER ENDED. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) , SYDNEY, April J. The death is announced of Dr. George Brown, president of tho Australasian General Methodist Conference. Dr. Brown, who was suffering from influenza, died in his sleep. He was in his 82nd year. His death ends the career of one of the most famous, intrepid, and successful pioneer missionaries in the Southern seas. Ho was a world-wide authority on Polynesian ethnology and the habits of leaves, and possessed a unique and invaluable collection of island curios and bibliography. Biographies recall that when, after a few years of ministerial work in Now Zealand, he offered his services as a missionary, the objection was raised that he was a meek and mild and ladylike young person, hardly suitable for the mission field. The strangeness of this commentary in view of _ih° late doctor's long and perilous life in the forefront of the battle against savagery is remarked upon.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15871, 10 April 1917, Page 6
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161PIONEER MISSIONARYS' DEATH. Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15871, 10 April 1917, Page 6
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