MARSDEN CENTENARY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 2

MARSDEN CENTENARY.

UXIQUE MISSdON EXBIBITION. In the Sj'.iihioy Street Schoolroom last night Ai'ehcWeoft Havper delivered' an address esptonatwy of lilie- Marsden. ( C/esU'i'iAr.y Mission .ffixhibititsu Wli-ic-h is ] to ho hol'.i in Welliagto nexs February. ! pie.Sey.'G. H.Harvej-, actin'g-'i r iear-'af : : Hi; PaiiFß, presitif-d-Archi-lcitteffl-i HSrpef 'prefa'cerj -life ex'jvkftai!ittii;:'tfitli .sojiio/igMjori)! oibs^rrt-. Ham on the Jieedfdl inissions. ■ -Sl£s- : sioii-s to peoprSi he 'Said.,.' iv.ere acts of ju&.tio'e 4 for.'it'wduW be h. ftryinc ■jlijustifie to destroy by the- tdticb 01 \ Westevn. eiyilkation the_ -religJon .pf a. ftsopio aixT not put anything i-u its ptoee. Peo.pie sometimes satd- tba-t- it, ivas a ; great, pity for ObrigtiairJ to set -tiut toi: disturb the pagans in tiife matter pf i; their reiigioin, hut it was nqt the wi?' si(in ; a-ry_ wh& ceni.i'ttoneed Tv-hftt tv-as tbi!s ccmpla.iiied'of;; it was.; as. he bad 1 a|- !' ready remaricod, t; 1;0 to'vieli of the e'ivilisatiioii of the- w£st. _ S« <'(icl'n<3t eare wive oh-jectod ta missions, because litis* sions wero nCCourplishetl .■'.acts.', -aucl were goiftij to st;w. Mis-s-ioas; wet* already a : roinaflsably. Wfie i-nstitiiii-on., Exeii.i : ssv : p &f the Re-inaft Cath.olii; mi-s-sioii-s {wliich {were very considerable), £BifJDo,OpfJ per 1 year was being st>6Ui.on thom, fte act ! of eon«ita.iiir.g to missions was essential | in a Cjlwreh _ \yh.-wh. would live. The . : Ohurch in wbieti epbwe'bs grew over rife '. B-Jflt ]« tlie misisfaii box was a- dying iit-stit'iit-i.oi-1. Tho mission esljiM-tion was for tl-ie purpose of tcaefcing pospie aboii.t tltft reiigipn-s, awd supers'titieits of vitriols feowniries ill wljieb tlio misfijqus w y erhi v d. The Town Hall .had beets ■secured, and sixteen courts Wfiifjct ho^seii ttp—for Melanesia, NeW Guinea, Ghinn;, 80-riir/pi EortCTi Bu ; rrna, Jinliaj Mn'dagaseiil'. East Africa, ©aftnaa, H#3y Jiaiid, .Wos-t ijKiios.,Bibie Land's-; New Zealand., and mrtico lTitesibns. StowaK'ls Would be in chai-go «f tlie ftourW, and 'WcniJd exphin everytbint*. Stewards ivere. .ab-ipa.dy being taught ; tliftif. Work.. .A* 1 effo.ffc was heing Biade ■ to Ret- tbs Blsns\} of iShanty-ng afif! the ; B'febop m New 'Guinea to eoine a'utl net ' as. stewa'rd.s at tlio stalls reurcse-ntative ' cf their own- lajids ( and a : band .of nii--1 t-iyes would prohaHy fep broifpbt aver foora Metoesiil-. Tho whole of the.Coiw ; cent Ohamhef would he 3evot'e<i to Melanesia, ■beenftise Molflimsia was the ■s.peeia 1 oare of the -ObnjVli in New 2eala)«}.'_ A ebapel Would, bo Set hp in the builciinp, aivti, '.prayec, in. whicli itny and all iuigih't assist, wotfii! bo going oil the Whole- -time. The misJshMi Was riot- a '■ fflsney-rflntiiig itfieiae,. for evorytbitifi. was- to \a- given away. Tho undertaking-' liari beew fiuanc-inHy jfuaiaiti«ed .'by layr ■ men. .About 40D at 500 wOflceys Would ■ he neoe'e'cl, As. warty as twenty etawafdk 1 might he needed for every eourtAartd illen tfeero Were, the tabiefl.tis- tie' ii-fre.<btiic-nt . Apartniemti .and »fj}.e.'r phases. The value, of the iindertakfiif; would bo that they were going to -give: '_ feonietlM-ng »Way for .good without thought of rotatrn, aud were going te preach to sente who had -jwt' before, realised their rcspohsihilitiei;- ft- sernjon v/Mcb would iiev-ef he forgotten-, .Archdoab'Ofl, Harper W:as tlianked for ■ Icm address. '