A French Oceania Church with a History

iron roofing came around Cape Horn England.

"Most of the timber was found, when church was recently taken apart, to be as as the day it was put into the building; when the iron roofing was removed, the u[?] side of the thick, heavy English sheets, w[?] had been laid on redwood shingles, shone the midday sun. This roofing will go back the new church, as will the old ceiling redwood. While Captain Higgins built church under contract, the actual work done by the native carpenters of that gone day.

"The last Service was held by the Tahitian Pastor Tetuao, who announced the 2,000,000 francs required for the bull of the new church was 'safe in the be

SEVENTY-SEVEN years ago the corner-stone of this French Protestant church was laid at Uturoa, Raiatea, French Oceania. On August 8, this year, while this photograph was being taken, it was removed and will eventually become the corner-stone of a new church soon to be built on the same spot.

Writing about the old church, Mr. Charles Brown, Jr., of Uturoa, says: "The old church, after the laying of the corner-stone on August 30, 1878, was com pleted, under a contract held by my wife's father, the late Captain Stephen Higgins, of Uturoa, on May 13, 1880, and opened May 30, 1880.

"Captain Higgins, a trader, shipping man, and plantation owner, imported the redwood timber for this church from California; the