LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
A MEMORIAL UNVEILED. By Telegraph-Press Assooiation-Oopyrich! London, May 15. Mr. M'Kenna, First Lord of tho Admiralty, unveiled a memorial in Ruskin Park, Catnberwell, in honour of Captain Wilson, commander of the Duff, tho first London Missionary Society's ship to go to tho South Soa Islands. Tho London Missionary Society is the agency through which the Congregational churches carry on their foreign missionary work. It was, however, undenominational when founded in 1705, and it was tho first. Protestant missionary society to send the Gospel to China, Madagascar, Polynesia, and New Guinea. Some of the most famous missionaries of .modern days have been connected with this society amoni; them being David Livingstone' Robert Moffat, John Williams, Robert Morrison, James Gilmour, .and James Chalmers. The society at present has fields of labour in China, India, Madagascar, Central and South Africa, Polynesia, New Guinea, and tho West Indies; mid in addition there are now large numbers of independent churches in tho West Indies and South Africa which have sprung from tho society's work. In other mission fields there arc also hundreds of native churches wholly or partially self-supporting.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 5
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187LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1129, 17 May 1911, Page 5
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