MISSION OF HELP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10101, 24 September 1910, Page 5

MISSION OF HELP.

OPENING JN MASTERTON. " The Mission that is now in progress through New Zealand comes to Masterton on Saturday, October Ist. The Misaiotier who is assigned to this parish is the Rev. H. K. W. Farrer, hector of Rridpo;t, Dorset. He ia not a stranger to the colony, having lived in the neighbourhood of Tauranga. About twenty years ago he was ordained by the Bishop of Salisbury, when the present j Bishop of Wellington was Examining Chaplain in that Diocese. He ii a particularly good speaker and : preacher. In a letter received from Mr Farrer, written before he left England, he say**, "I am greatly looking forward to our Mission, and to renewing my acquaintance with New Zealand, for I have a very great love for the country, having worked there from 1878 to 3883, and done the various labours of the usual settler. I don't think I shall be able to ride bare-backed or use a 14ft stock-whip after so many years. I have been able to get a number of my people to pray for the Mission, and have had special cards printed to ensure regular intercession. lam I carrying with me a'A Message of ; Greeting and Goodwill from the Salisbury Synod to the Church in New Zealand, and the Wellington Diocese in particular." The letter closes "with the aasurarce of tne great joy it is to re-visit New Zealand, and the sure hope of the prej se n ee of God and His quickening

Spirit." Mr Farrer has been conducting Missions at St. Sepulchres* Clmrcb, Auckland, and Ormondville. He says the way in which the work has gone forward in Auckland far exceeds the wildest hopes of the Missionera.