Looking Back: Missions and the Empire Exhibition

May 1924

Under the auspices of the Conference of British Missionary Societies, missionary work will be represented at the British Empire Exhibition this year on a scale never before attempted. The societies that are represented in this effort include the Church Missionary Society, the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, the London Missionary Society and its Women’s Auxiliary, the Wesleyan Methodist Society, the Foreign Mission Committees and Women’s Associations of the Church of Scotland, and of the United Free Church.

In the Indian section there will be an extensive display, illustrating the educational, medical, and social aspects of missionary effort, including a series of models of schools, from the village school up to the mission college, models of hospitals, and specimens of work done in mission workshops and industries.

In the African section will be found models of missionary churches built by African labour, with African money and under African supervision; and exhibits illustrating the old tribal religions, with their idols and other objects used in their worship.

In connection with the missionary exhibit a bungalow will be erected, to be used as a book-room, where all kinds of books dealing with every aspect of the missionary enterprise will be available.

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