CHURCH MISSIONARY WORK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 50, 15 March 1937, Page 4

CHURCH MISSIONARY WORK

Bishop Chambers' Address The Rt. Rev. Bishop Chambers, of the Diocese of Central Tanganyika East Africa, who, with Mrs. Chambers, is on deputation work in New Zealnad, af ter several years of strenuous work in the Church Missionary Society field, gave two most entertaining addresses to Napier people yesterday. The afternoon address was given in St. John's Hall to a very large gathering of church people, while in the evening he spoke to the congregation of St. Augustine's Church. Bishop Chambers had a wonderfully interesting story to tell of the great develop-, ment of missionary work in this littieknown field, and of the inunense possibilities of the further deveiopment of the work. The population of the diocese of which Bishop Chambers is in charge is about 2,500,000, and the atea about 200,000 square miles, so that the bishop 's diocese is nearly oonble the size of the whole of New Zealand. There was nothing proaaic about the bishop 's story of the land, the peojile and the work. On the contrary, ifc was a graphic and moving story of missionary zeal and sacrifice, and of the brave endeavour to carry the light of Qhristianity into the dark pla«ms of the earth.