1958 : Mr Pluckrose Organises a Missionary Exhibition

Title:  The Anglo-Celt. Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Meath, Westmeath, Fermanagh, Louth, and Longford Advertiser, cxii 5,825 3f cx 30 3f
Date:  15 February 1958
Place: Cavan

Missionary Exhibition in Cavan

The Right Rev. C. J. Tyndall, D.D., Protestant Bishop of Kilmore, in opening a Missionary Exhibition in the Protestant Hall on Thursday1 drew attention to the development of overseas work in the course of the last century in the young Churches of the Anglican Communion. His Lordship said that these were now firmly established in the Colonies and in the new African States such as Nigeria, Ghana, etc. Compared to less than 100 years ago when the first Lambeth Conference of Bishops took place in London the number of Dioceses had increased three fold.

The Bishop hoped that the exhibition would have the effect of opening the minds of Church people at home to the need for greater interest in and support of these younger Churches.

The Bishop expressed the thanks of the Diocesan Board of Missions to the Church Missionary Society and the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel for bringing the exhibition at very considerable expense and trouble from England, and congratulated the Secretary of the Exhibition, Mr. Pluckrose, on his most efficient management of affairs.

The exhibition is promoted jointly by the S.P.G. and the C.M.S., and will take place in three centres in the united diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh — namely, Cavan, Longford and Sligo. This effort is part of a year of special interest in the dioceses in the working of the Church overseas.

At the morning session of the exhibition which continued for two days (Thursday and Friday) between seven and eight hundred children from the schools around Cavan were in attendance.

1 13 February 1958


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