150Th Anniversary Of Lms
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ON September 23, 1795, representatives "pf various Protestant churches met , in Bakers’ Coffee House, London, and founded the London Missionary Society. This Society, which has had a great influence on the development of many Pacific Islands people, directed its first activities to the South Pacific, but it is now represented also in India, China, Africa and Madagascar.
Anniversary celebrations have been held in all parts of the world in past weeks, and, among messages of congratu lations sent to the Foreign Secretary of the Society, was one from Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor of Fiji, and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific.
Rev. C. L. and Mrs. Williams, with their son, have left Brisbane for Samoa.
Mr. Parkin Christian, Magistrate, of Pitcairn Island, arrived in Sydney in October to visit his son, Richard Christian, a resident of Parramatta. He is 65 years old, and is the great-great grandson of Fletcher Christian, of the “Bounty.”
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia and New Zealand proposes to raise at least £lO,OOO as a peace thank offering for the rehabilitation of Lutheran churches and missions in war-stricken areas, especially Europe, China, and New Guinea.