GERMANS AS MISSIONARIES
At the Genera! Assembly of tho United Froo Church of 'Scotland in Edinburgh in May, the Rev. CI. R. Robertson, oi Tranent, proposed that a committee should gather information on the relation of our missions to Governments. Tho purpose of his motion was to urge that the return'of "thi. devoted Gorman missionaries" to. tho Gold Coast of Africa, was inevitable in coursc of time. Was tho whole German nation 10 be treated us a leper nation? (Cries ol "Yos.") The Rev. A. Weir, of Ciatbridgo, opposing the proposal, said t.'iis was tho old pacifist attitudo in a now gutso. (Applause.) The Rev. A. Andrew, an Indian missionary, said the German missionaries in India wero Germans first aad missionaries afterwards. Mr. Robertson's proposal was defeated by an overwhelming majority.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 7
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131GERMANS AS MISSIONARIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 7
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