NEW L.M.S. SECRETARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 9

NEW L.M.S. SECRETARY.

REV. .FRANK LBNWOOD APPOINTED. ■ At tte quarterly board of the London ■Missionary Society on September 24, the , recommendation.' of the Secretarial Committee that Rev. Frank Lennrobd,- M.A., of Benares, should be appointed a. foreign, secretary of'the society, was adopted ununiniously. The board accepted thu offer, : made by ltev. Basil Yeaxlee, 8.A., of two-thirds of his time as a study officei and educational assistant to Rev. W. Nelson Bitton; the new organising secreta'ray of the L.M.S. It was a curious coincidence revealed by Mr., Yeaxlee,. in speaking: to the.;board after his appointment, that it was' Mr. Nelson Bitton, his hew colleague, who,while visiting Mansfield College,.first turned Mr. Yeaxlee's interest in missions' into a definite passion. ,Dr. It.- F. Horton, 'speaking'oh his .imminent tour to India, /described it as "a rare, unexpected, and undeserved distinction''to .stand side by side with a body of missionaries going out. to the field. ■ To write L.M.S. after your name was.greater, he 6aid; than D.C.L. Re was about to go out in some sense as a representative of the .society. . He had three main.objects., The first and dominating one was to carry to'the missionaries in their several stations, not criticism, and not investigation, and not even the passing, traveller's sympathy, but to convey to them, in person;.the tender love i of the Board of Directors at Home. The Rev. Frank Lenwood. is under 40 years of age, and was educated at Rugby School' and' Corpus Chnsti and Mansfield Colleges. While at Oxford he graduated with first-class • honours in classics, and won the University prize for Greek Testament, and was elected president of the union. At the end of his theological career he was for,six months temporary pastor of Queen Street Congregational Church, Wolverhampton. For the'next five and a half years ho was a tutor at Mansfield College. In 1907-8 he went for a tonr in China and India, visiting most of the'mission stations in these countries. On his return to England he offered himself to the.society-for service in India.

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