Death Of Pastor

G. F. Jones

PASTOR G. F. JONES, who was a master mariner, and a veteran mis sionary of the Seventh Day Advent ist Church, having spent 40 years in mic-

sion work in the South Sea Islands, passed away at Wahroonga, N.S.W., on Septem ber 14, in his 77th year.

Pastor Jones spent many years in Eastern Polynesia, in the Solomons, in New Guinea and Papua, and, later on in Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia.

He was a man of deep piety and high culture, kind-hearted, humble, and very courageous. In the Islands, where the name of ‘‘Jonese” is known and revered, there are left to carry on his work scores, of brown-skinned men and women who will hear of his passing with profound sorrow. His wife pre-deceased him, over a year ago.