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Don Takes a Bible Message To Three Chinese Miners, Tuapeka River
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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-107TitleDon Takes a Bible Message To Three Chinese Miners, Tuapeka RiverDescriptionDon standing next to three Chinese miners outside one of their homes in Tuapeka River. Don is discussing a poster with Chinese characters that discuss a Bible message. It reads: "Jesus said: I am the light of the world. Light is forgiveness, purity, brightness and sureness. Light brings kindness, brings life and brings peace. Jesus is the light." There are Chinese characters on the lower edge of the photograph below each person is that person's name.
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 260.
Caption from book: "Don takes the Bible message to three Chinese miners living by the banks of the Tuapeka River, c. 1900. From Left: Jeong Hee, Saw Loo, and Lau Lum. [Kirkland Collection]"TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1901CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupGold Mining-Buildings-DwellingsBible ClassChinese Gold MiningSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-107TitleDon Takes a Bible Message To Three Chinese Miners, Tuapeka RiverDescriptionDon standing next to three Chinese miners outside one of their homes in Tuapeka River. Don is discussing a poster with Chinese characters that discuss a Bible message. It reads: "Jesus said: I am the light of the world. Light is forgiveness, purity, brightness and sureness. Light brings kindness, brings life and brings peace. Jesus is the light." There are Chinese characters on the lower edge of the photograph below each person is that person's name. Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 260.
Caption from book: "Don takes the Bible message to three Chinese miners living by the banks of the Tuapeka River, c. 1900. From Left: Jeong Hee, Saw Loo, and Lau Lum. [Kirkland Collection]"
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1901CreatorDon, Alexander RevSubjectPortraits - GroupGold Mining-Buildings-DwellingsBible ClassChinese Gold MiningSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.Click on the image to add
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Don, Alexander Rev, Don Takes a Bible Message To Three Chinese Miners, Tuapeka River. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127687
