FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10026, 23 April 1910, Page 6

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

The Rev. A. Hodge announces a special missionary service on Sunday morning, which is a quarterly event in the local Congregational' Church, when the hymns, lessons and sermon have direct reference to the missionary enterprise and the missionary boxes which have been held by the various families during the quarter are brought in and placed upon the Communion table as upon the altar. In these days of revival of'human interests generally the foreign missionary societies are said to be proving themselves more than capable of sur viving with the "fittest." The Rev. A. H. Gullen, of Heaton Mersey, in a pamphlet published in the interests of foreign missions by the London Missionary Society (Congregational) says: "There can be no question that for many years past foreign missions have been increasing their claim to attention as never before. Our Government, Colonial Governments, Native Commissioners, Consuls, and Government agents of all kinds, are constantly having something to say about missions and missionaries, advice to give, suggestions to make, cooperation to seek, or information to ask."