CONSTER DINE, Rev. Charles

[s. 213] : Born at Little September 15, 1869. Lancashire, borough, From the time of his conversion at the age of fourteen he manifested the liveliest interest in Christian work, and in 1895 he was appointed by the Free Methodist Church, England, to Newton As his Abbott, in the Exeter Circuit, as pastor. heart was turned to the mi ion field, he soon offered his services to the Mi ionary Committee for East Africa, and, altho just before he sailed, the news reached him of the death of one with whom he hoped to be a ociated in his African work, which put new emphasis upon the malarial. climate of British East Africa, he was heard to exclaim: “I am ready for a service of sacrifice.” He first settled at Rib6, near Mombasa, British East Africa; but, soon after the A embly of 1897, he became the colleague of Mr. Ormerod at Golbanti, farther inland, and it was there that Soon after he spent the remainder of his days. reaching the foreign field he impre ed his a ociates by his intense zeal and enthusiasm and his warm affection for the people among whom he lived and labored gained for him a remarkable influence with all cla es. His self-forgetfulne led him to sacrifice himself, and, altho he was repeatedly urged to return to England for the restoration of his health, he would answer: “No, no; I have thought sometimes that I must return, but not now.” On Thursday, January 23, 1902, a second attack of fever, followed by other and worse symptoms, brought his consecrated service to an end, and on the following Sunday evening he peacefully pa ed out of the shadows into the; A CONVA: town in the western part of the island of Trinidad, W. I. Station of the PCC (1874), with (1900) 1 mi ionary and his wife, 1 mi ionary woman, 17 native workers, men and women, 2 preaching centers, 20 Sunday schools, 11 and 100 church elementary schools members. 213