A MISSION'S DIFFICULTIES.
LETTER rROM:THE NEW HEBRIDES*.
(By Telceranh—Press ..Association.!.-..,...'■:• '■'.'. '■■-/ ■ \ ~ Cliristchurch,', February If,' .'J'': •At the meeting ofv.thel Chrisfcbun* . Presbytery 'to-day,- the' Rev.\L. - Murtaj (clerk) read : a letter" from L the;';Eev. Thomson Macmillan,' : clerk oi'jhe :*Not'.". : Hebrides Mission'Synod,;.acknowledging : : - with 'deep appreciation the:, of - / sympathy and" 'confidence; passed-by '.the ; ■ . Presbytery in connection- with tliediffiv culties experienced- by'.the/; missionaries in the New Hebrides owing .to the hostility of the I'rcnch'officials. Ihe.letter stated that the British at Vila - ■ appeared to be powerless to check abases ; committed by French citizens. The result was 'that" certain Frenchmen l;did and said whatever they ■ pleased,'arid :' there,, *eemed to be no', redress". ThVlmissioi:-' -C aries felt, that-unless the: matter ;•■ was ..'.-' taken un thiugs "would only go'from bad ' to worsei and the natives be exploited by - unscrupulous white men. 'If.-the friends of the mission in New Zealand, Australia, and the Old Country wouldstir-up their , respective .Governments in- the iridtter, pernaps "some action would be taken, otherwise the writer 'feared '.that the French would greatly harm the work that it : increasingly difficult'to .win; natives heathenism.;...;/ '"'j\;^ : ■:■'■? -: . ,-[ j: : -' ■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1052, 15 February 1911, Page 6
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177A MISSION'S DIFFICULTIES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1052, 15 February 1911, Page 6
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