SOUDAN UNITED MISSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2819, 4 December 1924, Page 2

SOUDAN UNITED MISSION.

A lantern lecture featuring the field and the work and workers of t ho Soudan United Mission, was delivered in the Preshyteiian Church on Thursday night. Mr Priestley, the New Zealand secretary of the Mission, was the lecturer. Thte chairman, Rev. F. McDonald, briefly introduced the lecturer, and spoke of the importance from a purely Empire standpoint of the work being done in the Soudan. The lantern was ably manipulated by Rev. F. Peryman. The lecturer showed how the desire of the missionaries is to check Mohammedan aggression by running a belt of Christian Mission stations across the Soudan. The work is being done by all the churches—who work as one. The work has the active support and approval of the British Government in the Soudan. It is a work of varied character, medical, educational, sosial and religious. Many slides showing the urgent physical needs of the people, as well as featuring the schools, the scholars and the converts to Christianity, made plain iiow great a blessing to man is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, It was a most interesting and instructive lecture, and was greatly appreciated by the audience, which nearly filled the church.