THE CHAPMAN – ALEXANDER MISSIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1059, 20 June 1912, Page 4

THE CHAPMAN - ALEXANDER MISSIONS.

An official souvenir which has been published by T. Shaw Fitchett in connection with the visit to Australasia of Dr. Chapman and Mr C. M. Alexander and Party claims to be the most ambitious piece of religious journalism ever published, and the claim is justified. Beginning with a condensed account of the Mission conducted in Australia in 1909, the story is told of the Party’s tour through the East, across Canada and America to England, back to the States and once again to Wales, through Ireland, and out to Australia in March of the present year. The reading matter is widely varied—and includes articles, sketches, interviews and verbatim reports of many of Dr. Chapman’s sermons. The illustrations are remarkably fine, comprising twenty-two large plates on art paper, and perhaps a hundred other portraits and views. The plan of dividing the one hundredodd pages into a dozen or more sections placed iu order of date is admirable, and every section makes a delightful bit of reading. The volume, which measures fifteen inches by ten, is contributed to by Dr. W. H. Fitchett, the Rev Alex. Stewart, m.a., W. W. Rock, the Rev S. Scholes, G. T. B. Davis, Robert Harkness and W. A. Somerset Shum, who is also responsible for the editing and the artistic arrangement of the volume. The price is is fid posted from the office of T. Shaw Fitchett, 376 Swanston Street, Melbourne.