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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 8

Mission to Australasia

Mission to Australasia.

I regretted very much my inability to accept the high honor you conferred upon me to undertake an official and special mission to New Zealand and Australia. Molding the subject under advisement quite as long as the importance of the mission would allow, and finding it impossible to be absent from my home and country so long, I early in February of this year notified the R. W. Grand C. and R. Secretary of my declination, and requested him to advise the Deputy Grand Sire, Bro. J. B. Harmon, that under the law creating the commission the duty would devolve upon him; and I am happy in being able to state that Bro. Harmon very promptly advised me of his acceptance, and it became my pleasure to co-operate with the Grand C. and R. Secretary in facilitating his preparation for an early departure to his field of labor.

The whole subject will be so fully presented to you in the elaborate reports of the Grand C. and R. Secretary and the Special Commissioner, that I abstain from further reference to it here, beyond congratulating you upon the exhibition of good feeling and friendship evinced toward us by the brethren of that distant continent in the cordial reception extended to your Representative, and the entire success of the mission.