"EGYPT AND THE PYRAMIDS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 47, 14 February 1908, Page 2

"EGYPT AND THE PYRAMIDS."

Thosewho attended the Very Kev. D u Sullivan's lecture in the Theatre Royal iaa an intellectual and elocutionary treat, Such word : pictures were drawn otUe work and dangers of the missionaries m Egypt and west A&ica, of the Stately and historic piles of ancient h S)'Pt, of tlie landscape scenery of tli» regions of the Nile, and of the results 01 tlie centuries of oppression iu Egypt .that the limelight illustrations were almost a superfluity. And it was iu' explaining the failure of mail to convey »y any picture or canvas anything like a true representation of the scenic attractions of Egypt ail 4 the Nile that the rev. lecturer most vividly impressed their beauty upon his hearers. Father O'Sullivau first dealt with the work of the Society of African Missions, nf J uliH'li society he was a representative. He spoke from over twenty years' experience in tlie mission fields of Egypt and drew attention to the huge preponderance of tlie pagans. The society's territory embraced West Africa, whose record fully justified the term "the white man's grave." Fifty yeiu . s ago there were iu this territory forty millions of pagans, Mohammedans, and fetish-worshippers, worshipping as a god everything but God, Now they had 30,00(J negro Christians, three bishops, 100 Sisters, 53 churches and chapels, aad ! -dO missions, which might truly lie said to, have grown over the graves of the missionaries, lour hundred of whom had given their lives in this great work of Christianity, humanity, evangelism, and civilisation. He was at Lyons with about seventy other priests preparing for mission work. Of them only four or nve remained. He mentioned the great work wlifcfl was being done by the Sisters in treating sickness and disease at the tree dispensaries, and claimed that here "they were doing an Empire's work. Comparing Egypt with West Africa, he said that whilst Egyut was intensely hot, it had not a deadly climate like that of the Gold Coast. He gave a glowing description of the fertility of flie Nile, and then explained m a most entertaining mid instruetive style a large number of limelight scenes of Egyptian landscapes -and buildings and others illustrative ot the Gold Coast' Irish ruins, and the lakes of Killarney '

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