AIZAWL, Aug 31 - The Presbyterian Church, the largest church denomination in Mizoram today observed �Ramthar Ni�, the anniversary of the arrival of Rev DE Jones, the Welsh Missionary who established the Presbyterian Church in Mizoram.
Rev Jones, known to the Mizos as �Zosaphluia� or the older missionary was sent by the Welsh Presbyterian Church to establish the Presbyterian Church and landed in Mizoram soil on August 31, 1897.
Earlier, two pioneer missionaries � Rev JH Lorraine and Rev FW Savidge landed in Mizoram, then known as the Lushai country on January 11, 1894 while the fist missionary to land in the Lushai country was Rev William Williams, who reached Aizawl from Syhlet (now in Bangladesh) in 1891. � PTI
