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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2325, 5 December 1914, Page 9

WELCOMED HOME

REV. A.' M. JOHNSON. ' 'A large number of parishioners of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral gathered .' in the Sydney Street Schoolroom last evening>to welcome home the Rev. A. JI. Johnson, who has just returned from a visit to England. His Lordship Bishop Sprott presided, and expressed his pleasure at haying Sfr. Johnson hack again. . ■ . ' ' '. .■•■■, Mr. Johnson _ thanked His Lordship and the parishioners very heartily for the welcome tendered Mrs. Johnson and himself. ; Hβ praised' the. work which had been done in the parish during his absence by the Rev. G. H. Harvey and the Rev. A. S. Barnett, and remarked on the great success :of *the ; sale of .work which had been held. '

Speaking of their experiences in England, Mr'. Johnson said that they had met quite a number of St..Paul's parishioners in London. They had not car r ried out their programme as sight-seers, because Men (after the outbreak of war) Belgian refugees, who had suffered terribly, Tjep'an to drift into London, no one felt liko giving ■ themselves up wholly to pleasure. They had seen the London Scottish drilling to go to the front—a fine body of men! And it was something to have lived in London when ail the lights were out, something' to have observed a great nation girding itself for the greatest:of all- struggles. During the evening, the Rev. Mr. Jiarvey, who noted as vicar during the absence of Mr. Johnson, and'who is now taking charge of the Wadestown Church, was presented with a chequo and a handsome ecclesiastical chair.