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Leeds Mercury

THE LEEDS MERCURY. SATURDAY. AUGUST 20, 1887

Open-Air Mission at Ilkley.—During a visit of a few days to Ilkley, Mr. Gawin Kirkham, secretary of the Open-air Mission (London), has held several services, at which he has been assisted by Miss Winstall and Mr. Brunning, of Blackheath. He has also visited and spoken at the Semon Convalescent Home, the Spa, the Ilkley Charity Hospital, and in the Congregational Lecture Hall, under the presidency of the Rev. S. D. Hillman,.the pastor. A meeting was also held in the National Schoolroom, when the Vicar, the Rev. H. Kernpson, presided, and Mr. Kirkham gave a lecture—" Personal Recollections of an Open-air Preacher." The Mission was founded in 1853 by Mr. John MacGregor (" Rob Roy "), and has over 1,000 members, who last year laboured in 797 towns and villages and distributed more than a million of tracts. The cost of the work for the year was £1,742.

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Mr Gawin Kirkham was Secretary of the Open-Air Mission for a number of years in the later half of the 19th Century, and preached from a 9ft x 12 ft copy of this picture in Open Air meetings, Churches and meetings, the length and breadth of the UK, also visiting the United States, the Continent and the Near East.

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“This Picture is of German origin. It was designed by Mrs. Charlotte Reihlen, of Stuttgart, in 1862; and, at her request, was painted by Herr SCHACHER, a young Artist, also of Stuttgart. A Dutch Edition was produced in Holland in 1866. One of these Dutch copies was brought from Amsterdam in 1868 by Mr. GAWIN KIRKHAM. from an enlarged copy of which he has lectured nearly a thousand times. This English Edition was issued in 1883. The “History and Explanation of the Picture,” with Portraits of Mrs.REIHLEN and Mr KIRKHAM, may also be had of the Publishers.”

The picture was originally printed by publishers Messrs. MORGAN AND SCOTT. And entered at Stationers' Hall by Mr Gawin Kirkham. This edition is republished from private collection © Peter N Millward.

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