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PREACHED AT THE PARISH CHURCH OF

St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne Blackfriars,

ON TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1914,

BEFORE THE

Church Missionary Society

FOR AFRICA AND THE EAST,

BEING THEIR

FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY.

BY

THE HONOURABLE AND VERY REVEREND

THE DEAN OF WELLS.

ALSO THE

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

TO THE

ANNUAL MEETING, HELD ON THE SAME DAY;

AND

A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND BENEFACTORS.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL MEETING.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND ROWLAND), GOSWELL-STREET;

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY BY

I. B. SEELEY, 169, FLEET STREET; AND J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO
THE QUEEN, PICCADILLY.

SOLD IN DUBLIN BY MARTIN KEENE, COLLEGE GREEN; J. PARRY,
ANGLESEA STREET; AND T. JOHNSON, SACKVILLE STREET.

ALL Communications on the subject of the Society may be addressed to the Secretary, as follows:

“REV. JOSIAH PRATT,

CHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE,

SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON."

The House is open daily, from Nine in the Morning till Seven in the Evening.

The Committee meet at the Society's House, every Second and Fourth Monday throughout the year, at Twelve o'clock.

Vice-Patron and President,

RIGHT HON. LORD GAMBIER.

Vice-Patrons,

RIGHT HON. EARL FERRERS.

RIGHT HON. AND VERY REV. LORD VISCOUNT

LIFFORD, DEAN OF ARMAGH.

RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT GALWAY.

RIGHT HON. LORD CALTHORPE.

RIGHT HON. LORD TEIGNMOUTH.

Vice-Presidents,

RT. HON. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.

VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CARLISLE.

HON. AND VERY REV. THE DEAN OF WELLS.

SIR THOMAS BARING, Bart. m. p.

THOMAS BABINGTON, Esq. M. P.

CHARLES GRANT, Esq. M. P.

HENRY HOARE, Esq.

THOMAS READE KEMP, Esq. M. P.

COLONEL MACAULAY.

MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES NEVILLE.

HON. CHARLES NOEL NOEL, M. P.

EDWARD PARRY, Esq.

SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL, BART.
JAMES STEPHEN, Esq. M. P.

SAMUEL THORNTON, Esq. M. P.

WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq. M. P.

Treasurer,

HENRY THORNTON, Esq. M. P.
Secretary,

REV. JOSIAH PRATT, B. D. F. A.S.

Patron of the Bristol Association,

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.

President of the Norfolk and Norwich Association, RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH.

President of the Suffolk and Ipswich Association, RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH. President of the Leicester and Leicestershire Association,

RIGHT HON. EARL FERRERS.