The Stratford Evening Past WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1913. MISSIONS CENTENARY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 20 September 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Past WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1913. MISSIONS CENTENARY.

rile centenary of Methodist Foreign Missions will lie celebrated in England next month, and in harmony with this, .sew Zealand’s .Methodist Churches are a) observe two great mission days on October sth and 6th. After one huniretl years of zealous mission work, there is no diminution of the energy that characterised those who took up ;his labor in the earlier years, and it nay be set forth as evidence of this ’act how promptly-the deficit of £11.,160 in last year’s accounts was met. I'he Society is now engaged in a camwign to raise a centenary fund of .■260,(100, lof which it is understood .‘200,000 has been promised. With lit' aid of this money, it is intended o strengthen materially the existing rations in different mission districts ud to considerably augment the elision stall’. Dr. Haigh, recently apointed one of the general secretaries !' the society, has gone Home from iiina, mid the first result of his roni . a decision to send twenty more misonaries to that country. In eon■etion with the English Wesleyan dssibnary. Society there are no less ian 250 missionaries, 301 native minim's, 35! catechists, 3979 day school aciiers, 122,961 church members, 7.552 Sunday school teachers, 322,I native ('ln i-tians - Tim agents of c s )ciely operate chiefly in Africa ill Tsia. In addition to it, there :> i'm Methodist organisations of ueviea and Australia, which have at missionaries to Asia and the r ilm. The record of the Australian lurch in the South Sen Islands *s a r.ving one. especially as regards Fiji. Mg::, \mv Britain, Samoa, New Onia, and the Solomons.