THE MELANESIAN MISSION.
To wish God-speed to the Bishop-Desig-nate of Melanesia (Dr. C. J. Wood) a meeting of the Melanesian Mission was held on May D at the Church House, London.
The Bishop of St. Albans presided, and was supported by the Archbishop of Cape Town, Admiral the Hon. Sir E. It. Fremantle, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Waiapu, Bishop Montgomery, and the Bishop of Derby. The chairman said that owing to illhealth he had to resign three important chairmanships, and the Melanesian Mission was among the number. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that there was constant touch between the work which went on at Lambeth, and that of tho far-ilung mission station of Melanesia, which was in some large ways practically unique. It had a peculiar romance of its own, and a history to which there was no exact parallel.
Admiral. Sir W. H. Fawkes said he feared if it were not for such missions very little would be done to give a Christian civilisation to the islands of the Pacific. He thought England, through her Navy, should do more to help this kind of work, and among other ways by preventing the sale of gin and arms to the natives. The Navy had always been associated with this Mission, and the Bishop-Designate would continue to receive co-operation and welcome from that source.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19120621.2.81
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 21 June 1912, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
226THE MELANESIAN MISSION. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 21 June 1912, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in