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The Book of Good Cheer.

THE/RE is widespread ignorance of the Word of God, and because of this the higher life of the nation languishes. Many people take more interest in Biblical criticism than in the Bible itself. Lord Bryce said lately that knowledge of the Bible is declining in all classes of the community, and he further said that a loss of knowledge of the Bible and of all that the ,Bible means—looking at it from only an educational side—would be incalculable to the life of the country. • It is a matter for intense regret that this peerless Book should be so slighted, for its price is above rubies. This, however, is only a passing heedlessness, and we need not fear that it will lose its place in the world. It has been fitly described as an " Impregnable Rock," and every attack upon it seems only to disclose more fully its measureless worth. Its appeal is to every race and to every age. It searches and judges and thrills men now as it did at the first, and. it is evermore seen that it adequately meets man's moral and spiritual needs. Every careful reader must be struck with its remarkable quality of contempora-neousness. It is never felt to be out of date, and it fits in with the ever-changing experiences of human life. Its widely varied readers are closely united by its spiritual power which corresponds exactly to the spiritual faculty which is their com-mon possession. Every age which with fairminded-ness gives itself to the study of it is enriched and purified. It is freer, more spacious, more hopeful, more adventurous and enterprising. Intellectual and spiritual forces are awakened and let loose, and these co-operate for the furtherance of human pro-gress. The good which arises from an open, freely circulated and carefully read Bible cannot be estimated. Nations are knit into strength by it. It instructs and exalts men and women of high station ; it refines and 'ennobles men and women in the lowliest walks of life. It defends and shelters the poor and oppressed, and nourishes : the love of liberty. It is its own sufficient witness ; its own truest apology ; and if it be read on its own terms, its purifying and inspiring power will be clearly demonstrated.

Magnificent Optimism. One very noteworthy feature of the Bible is its

magnificent optimism. It is emphatically the book of good cheer. In 'psalm, prophecy, gospel and epistle, and in the book which closes the canon of Scripture, we hear its voice "as- the sound of many waters," setting forth and joyously recognizing the great love which is for ever blessing the world. One shining height of promise calls to another. Heart after heart lifts itself up in wonder and praise, heart after heart responds across the ages-. No book beside it is so inspiring, so hope-begetting. While it recognizes clearly the sin, and sorrow of the world, it is altogether encouraging in face of all this. The messages of good cheer it contains

are well-springs of joy and strength. They have in all ages of the Church filled the purest and best with hope and courage. And do we not feel that the men who gave to the world these wonderful messages lived very near to an overflowing fountain of light and gladness? They saw foes on every side, and difficulties beset them which seemed in-surmountable ; but in presence of all that was so unfriendly they- were sure of victory, for God was with them girding them with strength and giving them songs in the night. They revealed an unend-ing life of blessedness and proclaimed .a glorious hope for the future of our race. • They taught that slowly but surely the purposes of infinite love are being carried out.

The Bible is most clear in its recognition of evils, and in this its true optimism, is seen. It ignores no difficulty, closes its eyes to no shadow howeyer dark. It takes complete measure of the enemies of mankind. It dauntlessly faces the truth, how-ever bitter and disheartening it may be. Its im-peachment of sin is most impressive. It tells in terms that cannot be mistaken that it is the " tragedy that darkens our lives and breaks our hearts," and while it offers no solution of sin, it does not treat it as though it were non-existent, or as something else than evil. Right through its pages the shameless= ness and enormity of sin are set forth without qualifi-cation. Yet in view of all the degradation and waste of sin, it is full of good cheer and confidently points out a way of deliverance. Its whole purpose is the revelation of a righteous and therefore merciful God. As Victor Hugo has finely said, "It is the book in which God renders Himself visible." It proclaims that He has put His measureless love beneath the world's sore burdens ; that He is in the midst of the dread entanglement of guilt and pain and grief that He may make crooked things straight and rough places plain ; that He never turns away with anger or loathing from the worst, and that into His face the vilest and most despairing can look with hope. He is ever near to us and telling us through His Word that the wildest and foulest past may be buried for ever. While we are powerless and hopeless in face of the disorder and impurity in our lives, He is always waiting to "give beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." When we are thinking that the darkness is deepening, He bids us look up at the first ray of dawn. -He sees that the "bruised reed" can be strengthened and restored, while we regard it as spent and worthless.

" Lift Up Your Hearts ! " Have you- ever thought how often the Bible bids

us not to fear ; how often it charges us not to faint ? It is always urging us -to lift up our hearts. It tells us that we need not fear either life or death, or quail before the sorest evils. When we sink by the way, our hopes blighted, our plans reduced to ashes, its heart-stirring command rings out, "Rise up, let us be going.." It assures us that no true work can be in vain, and as that is so, there must be neither cowardly loitering nor despair. It is always saying to those who have given up all—the world's "dead-beats "—"Try again ! There is another chance. Behold, I have set before you an open door ! " Throughout it, and bindirig it to-gether, there is a golden chain of promise and wel-come and gracious assurance, and those who read it with open mind and responsive heart find them-selves face to face with a mighty Compassion which is as " a hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place ; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." It is a good thing to listen to these heaven-sent heralds who are 'ceaselessly setting forth in rapturous strains the Everlasting .Mercy.• What is it they are for ever saying? "Wait on the Lord ; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart ; wait, I say, on the Lord."—"The Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom shall F fear ? the Lord is the strength of my life ; of whom shall I be afraid? " "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that

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goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious sees, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him." "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool " ; "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. . . . And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness. . . . And the ran-somed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads : they shall obtain joy and gladness,- and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." "All things are yours ; whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's." "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain ; for the former things are passed away."

May we not say as we give heed to one after another of these apostles of good cheer, "...How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth"?

Our dwindling and spiritless churches need, fresh vision of the sublime optimism which so brightens the Bible. This would rouse and hearten them and fit them for their great work. of leading the world to Christ. Hope dies down within us when we turn away from the divine promises and counsels and cease to feed our lamps by prayer and praise. We then begin to talk of invincible evils and the hope-less future. But how is it with those who delight in and obey God's Word? How is it with our mis-sionaries who are toiling in the dense jungle of heathenism, and with those who are pouring out their lives in the slums of our great cities ? Beneath the darkest clouds they never lose heart and never cease to hope for the Church and the world, for they see God's saving power at work and are sure of the triumph of goodness over evil. They speak with quickening and convincing force as they offer salva-tion to the vilest and the most hopeless, and rejoice with great joy as they see the gracious renewal which follows acceptance of their message.

" Over the world's wailing, the sweetest music swells, In the stormiest night they listen, and hear the bells,

the bells."

Living on the- sunlit heights of promise and en-treaty and welcome they feel that for them "the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the singing of birds is come."

JOHN TAYLOR (A).

"Historic Sanctuaries." To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—In the June "United Methodist Maga-zinc " is an article by me under the above general heading on Brunswick Street Church, Huddersfield.

I greatly regret that in a necessarily brief but what I thought was nevertheless an inclusive reference to former pastors, the family and friends of the late Rev. James King find his name omitted. He was my immedi-ate predecessor at Brunswick Street, practically closing

,' there under a sad illness his useful ministry all too early, after labouring there from 1900-1906. By a lapse of pen and memory unaccountable to me I have unwittingly pained some friends, and still more myself, by an omis-sion I note thus publicly in justice to them and respect for the dead whose toil and memory I have appeared to overlook. I was unconscious of my offence until it was pointed out to me, and I thank the friend who did it.

Yours, etc., BRUCE W. ROSE.

Proportionate Giving. To the Editor. of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,—We are grateful to you for your reference to this important factor in soul and church growth. I have always contended that as a Church we have no financial problems, our problems are really moral. I believe all instructed Christians who speak of the tenth regard it as a minimum, and would agree with Sir. Henry Lunn that one-half would be a fairer pro-portion to some, and perhaps one-twentieth to others. In our own Church an average of one-tenth would wipe out every possible deficiency, and provide a handsome sum for aggressive work inside of twelve months. Speaking from a personal experience of this minimum method for a period of over thirty years, I would just use the words of our Master and Lord : "When I sent you forth . . . lacked ye anything? And thy said, Nothing." Yours faithfully,

WM. S. WELCH.

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THE Matt) METHODIST. hint, 18, 1914.

Our Local Preachers. REPORT OR APPEAL ?

THE story is told of a very clever secretary of some institution who was hard up for funds. He wanted more clothes to supply the needs of the semi-naked urchins that clamoured at his doors. He accordingly took a very ragged pair of trousers, and having made a neat parcel, forwarded them to a kindhearted bene-factor with the following laconic statement : "This is not an appeal, it is a report." But as all who have lis-tened to Missionary secretaries, and other privileged men, must know, 'the precise point when the report ends and the appeal begins is hard to determine. I have a report to make ; • but - there is the grave possibility that it may end after the usual fashion. A fortnight ago I offered a quantity of secondhand books to local preachers who would consent to pay the postage. For a few days the postman must have been puzzled, and possibly suspected that some dark scheme was being hatched.

All the books speedily disappeared, but still the letters came. And now I have a goodly pile, neatly placed away to be dealt with, possibly, at.a later stage. Mean-while the letters containing stamps or postal orders, to cover postage are coming with most commendable promptitude, and containing many expressions of grati_ tude. It occurs to me that most of our local, preachers are good business men. I gather this from such habits as are disclosed in their relations with me. Occasionally there is a defaulter. When one was reminded some months ago that a goodly parcel of books had not been acknowledged, he replied blithely that he had quite over-looked the matter, but if I had a similar parcel at any future time he would be very grateful, etc. It is a bitter reflection that even a mortal man's moral shortcomings may add to the humour of life.

But what of those who have written and to whom no answer has been sent? Two .specimens may be quoted :

" I note your offer in this week's U.M.' I do not wish to be mean nor selfish towards any of my other brethren, seeing I have had two books from you. One, which I prize very much, "The Golden Alphabet." It is a splendid preparation for my daily work previous to going out visiting. One chapter or verse gives me valuable help each day, and I am able to pass on fre-quently to those who need a word of comfort or coun-sel something of what I have read myself. Should you have any to spare I shall be pleased to receive the same, trusting you are well, and thanking you in an-ticipation."

"Being an interested reader of the UNITED METHODIST, and deriving much help and encourage-ment which helps me as a local preacher in our big circuit of eighteen churches, I would like to avail my-

. self of your kind offer and will pay postage. Being a married man with a family one has not much to spend on books as one would like, and one feels the need of being fully equipped in these days of learning, and one likes to do the best he can. A week since I took three' services at one of our big churches. In a week's time 'I am on at the head church of the circuit, so you see this means preparation and much work, and one feels thankful for help and encouragement which you and others give week by week."

It is not an easy thing to set aside such appeals. These men ought to be helped : and some day perhaps some-thing may be done on a bigger scale. Meanwhile let us attempt something on the smaller scale.

Three things may be said very briefly : (1) No more appeals from any local preachers at present please : the list is quite long enough. (2) Have any of my minis-terial brethren books of real value which they will need no more? Such books make little or nothing if you try to sell them, and there is a more excellent way. It is good for a man's library that he should ruthlessly weed out all books that have ceased to serve. They are con-tagious. They impart their shabbiness to their neigh-bours; and they are apt also to infect the morals of other books. This is a mystery, but it is a fact. A book that has ceased to be of use, is used by some evil agency to damage good books. Now, let my brethren forward all such books to me, that they may find a second period of service among our local preachers. But on no ac-count send books that are so hopelessly out of date, as to mislead the man who reads them. Dale, Spurgeon, Matheson, Fairbairn, Cox, Maclaren, may all have had their day in the parson's study ; why not give them an-other chance. Send them to me by rail, carriage for-ward. And that brings me to my third point.

My Fund at present is about seven shillings on the wrong side. Moreover, it would be a' great delight to purchase, say, twenty new book at a shilling each, so as to enclose one in any parcels that may be sent. "This is a report not an appeal." Postal orders and cheques, even stamps, are not despised : they can all be converted into such material as will enrich the mind of many a local preacher, and cheer his heart as well.

R. PYKE. Bideford.

A Modern View of the Body. "Chastity," says Nietzsche, "so far from being a virtue,

may almost be called a vice." That is the modern view of the body and that is what it leads to. But that is rank paganism. It is a denial of God and God's laws. It is the worship of lust. It is no good mincing oui- words about it. The way it points is the downward way to the bottomless pit.—J. LEWIS PATON, 'M.A.

Things that are being Said. The Whit-Monday Crowd.

THE crowd on Whit-Monday did me good ; it made me think. It revealed a little more clearly the Magnitude of the problem which confronts the Church. For the crowd is not bad at heart. It is weak and impression-able ; easily led for good or evil. Men follow each other as do sheep. And it is true to-day as of old that the many are as sheep without a shepherd. The world is awaiting its true friends, who will compassionate it and lead it to its proper pasture.—FREDERio C. SPURR.

A Unique Experience of Mankind. I know, I suppose, as much about Julius Cwsar as

I know about Christ, but it has never occurred to me to suppose I have been in the immediate presence of Julius Caesar. There are men who have left records which bring us into closest touch with them, and we have very intimate knowledge in that sense of Dr. Johnson and of Charles Lamb, but none of us suppose on that account that we are in their presence, holding conversation with them. Yet that is what countless believers in all ages have been convinced of in their relationships to Christ. Call it a delusion if you like, but if it is, it is unique in the experience of mankind.—Rtv. W. TEMPLE.

Dr. Morgan's Five Silent Sundays. As I look back over these Sundays there are reflections

which abode. The first is that of - thankfulness for preaching. I halve heard no message void of power. In every one the living Lord has spoken to me. This has made me wonder at much I hear of criticism of modern preaching. I am seriously of opinion that hearing is as responsible a function as preaching'. There may be occa-sions when "the hungry sheep look up and'are not fed,"' but I think that often it is as much the fault. of the sheep as of ,the shepherds.—DR. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN, in the "British Weekly."

Representatives to Conference. Our leaders are sometimes dumb till they are forced to

speak. Let all who have just been elected to Conference believe that silent leaders in such a time of need as ours are a greater sorrow than our decline in numbers. Let them shun diplomacy, and urge their "Wherefore?" till all is known that may be known, and all is done that may be done.—REv. JAMES 'DUNK, in the "Methodist Recorder."

A Difference. One of my fellow guests in the country was a lively

little girl of about five years of age, who greatly amused everybody by her quaint antics. She seemed irrepressible, but one morning, in a mood of pensiveness, she took my arm and wistfully put the question, "Do you like me ? " "Well," I said, "now that you mention it, I do, rather." " I like you," she responded, and I could not do less than admit, "And I.think you are a very nice little girl." "Do you ? " she demanded, and then, not 'without a Byronic satisfaction • in the pronouncement, she declared, "Yes, I'm rather nice here, but I'm a beast at home."—The "Manchester Guardian."

What Ireland Wants. What Ireland wants more than anything else at the

present moment is a Garibaldi, some man of great ethi-cal force who will teach the nation a great self-reliance; teach her no longer to look outside herself, but to trust herself alone ; teach her that old watchwords and shib-boleths are no longer of any avail ; that a new day has dawned and that new occasions teach new duties.—" His-TORICUS," in the "IMethodist,Times."

How Violence Hinders. Violence prevents those reinforcements which must

come to •the woman's cause if it is to prevail. Thousands of thoughtful women hold aloof from the enfranchise-ment of their sex because of the violence and fury with which it is associated. They have no vivid sense of im-mediate and personal injustice with which to overcome their repulsion from clamour and riot. These women must be won ; they are essential to victory, and to drive them out of the ranks is a fatal folly.—REv. A. T. GUTTERY.

A Progressive In-Weaving. Our faith in God's loving Fatherhood rests primarily

on the fact that the Jesus who was nailed to the cross—the Jesus we know in the Gospel—believed in God. Our own minds come in to the reckoning, it is true, if we may give mind a large Greek sort of meaning—to in-clude heart, head, personality, everything that is in us —and we realize that the Christian life is a progressive in-weaving of Christ in the fabric of our being, an assimilation, an identification.—DR. T. R. GLOVER.

Not in the Way She should Go. Father (left in charge) : "No, you cannot have any

more cake; do you know what I shall have to do if you go on making that dreadful noise? " Little Girl ,(sob- bing) : "Yes.", Father : "Well, what is it? '? Little Girl : "Give me some more cake."—The "-Christian."

The Methodist Member of_the Deputation. It is said that when Prebendary Webb-Peploe went with

a Methodist and a Presbyterian minister as la deputation from the Keswick Convention to Canada, he was always taken for the Methodist member of the deputation.—M. JENNIE STREET.

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United Methodist Table Talk. The Editor's address is 188 Rye Lane,

Peckham, S.E. * * * •

OUR MISSION DEBT BAROMETER. Until Conference we purpose giving week by week a

statement as to the progress of the Missionary Debt Extinction Effort. It will be remembered that at the last Conference it was stated that the Missionary Debt which needed to be extinguished reached the sum of 4-25,000. That total was arrived at by taking the deficits at the last Conference on the Foreign Mission Fund, the Home Mission Fund and the Agricultural Mission Fund and adding a sum of £3,000 which was the anticipated deficit on the Foreign and Home Mission Funds for the year just closing. At the close of the year the' deficits, which will appear in the Conference balance-sheets, were as given below and we set out underneath the total amount received for Debt Extinction up to noon last Saturday -

s. d. Foreign Mission Fund ... 7,286 16 7 Home Mission Fund 14,629 11 3 Agricultural Mission 3,093 15 0

Total

25,010 2 10 Debt Extinction Fund

17,115 6 2

Amount still required

£7,894 16 8

The words "Amount still required" do not mean actually still needed to be raised. As a matter of fact large amounts have been reported as raised which have not yet been sent to the officials for deposit in the Bank. It is greatly to be desired that they should be sent as speedily as possible. It will be noticed that the debt was reduced by '798 Os. 2d. during the week. A very important statement on the present position of Phis effort and the need for urgent action appears in heavy-faced type in the adjoining column.

* * * * * PERSONAL.

Mr. J. Newton, secretary of the Native Races and the Liquor Traffic United Committee, after an absence of nearly three months owing to being badly injured by a motor-car, has now been able to resume his duties.

Mr. J. W. Stansfield, of our Cavendish Street Church; Keighley, after having been President of the Keighley and District Sunday School Union for three years has now been appointed chairman of the Union.

Mr. Edward Rees, son of tife Rev. T. M. Rees and an old pupil of Stafford College, Forest Hill, has been awarded an exhibition at St. John's College, Cam-bridge. [Hearty congratulations.—ED. "U.M.'1

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THE CHAPEL COMMITTEE MEETING. Rev. C. T. Wakefield writes : Will you permit me an addition to the report from

Chapel Committee? Lest there should be even the ap-pearance of an injustice done to the honoured memory of the late Rev. R. Brewin, I wish to add as per my notes, three words, so that it should read, The executors of the Rev. R. Brewin were thanked for two small sums given to the Loughborough Circuit, amounting to

* * * * * THE. INTERNATIONAL LESSON NOTES.

Save for about a month the Rev. C. A. Ashelford has week by week written the Notes which have appeared in our pages on the International Lesson for the long period of six years and a half and we have reason to know that his work has been warmly appreciated by our Sunday School readers. Owing to increasing demands upon his time Mr. Ashelford has, to his own personal regret, felt compelled to abandon this work and the Notes we pub-lish in this issue represent his final, contribution of this

' kind to our pages. We desire publicly to thank him for the high level his Notes have maintained and for the un-broken punctuality with which they have arrived at our office. We are sure that neither the editor nor Mr. kshelford's many readers are likely to forget his able service.

We are glad to be able to announce that the Rev. E. C. Urwin, B.A., B.D., one of our young and scholarly ministers, has very kindly undertaken to write the Inter-national Lesson Notes during the next six months. Mr. Urwin is an enthusiastic Sunday School worker and fully abreast of modern Methods, and it is his intention, we un-derstand, to deal with the Lessons largely from the point of view of how to teach them and not so much from the point of view of expositor. Our readers will find his Notes exceedingly helpful.

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DR. CANDLIN. All his friends will be delighted to hear that the Rev.

G. T. Candlin, D.D., arrived in this country on Saturday -last on a short furlough of some five months' duration.

Three years ago our Conference approved of a union with the American Methodists in Pekinc, in the training of our preachers in North China and Dr. Candlin was appointed as one of the tutors in connection with the scheme., Dr.

Candlin is one of the most gifted of our North China missionaries, and holds a record of which his friends are proud. He has served for a longer period than any mis-sionary now on any of our foreign stations. His friends will give him a hearty welcome home and unite in wish-ing for him a happy and enjoyable furlough.

* * * REV. T. RIDER.

The numerous friends of the Rev. Thomas Rider will be sorry to heart that for a month or more he has been far from well. Symptoms of angina pectoris developed last week into a very severe attack, and he feels very weak. He is having complete rest, and his family are hopeful that this and his own powers of recuperation, together with medical attention. will, if slowly, yet surely, restore him to such a measure of strength as his 82 years may warrant. Friends in all circuits in which Mr. Rider

THE MISSIONARY DEBTS EXTINCTION FUND.

A Statement issued by the Finance Board to all who are concerned' for the completion of this Effort.:

At its meeting on Friday, June 12th, the Finance Board received the Report of this Fund, and the following facts disclosed require urgent and immediate attention :-

1. £16,625 was in the Bank, £8,386 more required, and the effort should be completed in THREE WEEKS.

2. The margin of expectation is so narrow that any failure on the part of District or Circuit to raise its promised share will gravely imperil the success of the scheme.

3. £3,000 are promised conditionally upon the whole of the money being paid before the Conference assembles. These promises will be paid when, but not until, the rest of the money required is in the Bank. To secure this satisfactorily the sum still due should be paid by the end of June.

4. It was reported that sums of money were retained by District and Circuit Treasurers. It is most necessary that thesesums be paid in at once, and that other money being raised be paid in at the earliest moment.

5. Promises of personal subscriptions are now due, and should be paid without further delay.

6. The sums already paid are given in the full expectation that the debts will be liqui-dated, and there must be no risk of failure. To avoid that risk each Circuit and District must raise its quota, realizing that the success of the great denominational effort depends upon doing so.

R. TURNER, Chairman. G. PARKER, Secretary.

travelled and exercised his distinguished ministry will, we are sure, join heartily in this hope, and pray that his life may still be spared.

* * * * * THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.

Under the above heading the Editorial Notes of the "PrimitiVe Methodist Leader " contain the following paragraph :

It is with more than ordinary pleasure that we note the increase of membership in the United Methodist Church. The advance_ though not large is but one more indication of the new life the Church is experi-encing. Like the Wesleyan Church and our own the United Methodists have had the pain of reporting a de- crease for several years in succession. And in the United Methodist Church it has been singularly un-fortunate that the decrease should have been experi-enced each year since the three Churches became one. This fact itself, we judge, contributed its -full share to the decline ; it was almost sure to do so. Now, however, the gratifying news has come of an increase. We re-joice in the fact, and congratulate our sister. Church

on leading the way. This increase is not only a sign of the new tone and spirit of the Church, but also of the fact that the three Churches are gradually but surely fusing, as was hoped and believed by those who laboured for the union. The years of union have been a time of great and grave concern to our friends ; this happy sign will do much to inspire_ them with con-

fidence, and will allay some fears. We sincerely "E'ope the increase is but the beginning of a gracious in-gathering in all the churches.

* * * * * THE PICTURE HOUSE AND THE CHILDREN.

A certain Temperance worker states that he attended n picture palace a few night ago in a large town. During the evening a so-called comedian gave as his turn a song entitled, "bI must have my half-pint of beer." Then he offered a prize to the boy or girl who could sing the song the best, after him. Sixteen boys and girls went on the platform to compete, some of them known Band of Hope members and children of abstaining parents. After a protest by the said worker, the manager informed him that the song had been sung under similar conditions in different parts of the country. Is it by such methods that the liquor interest seeks to capture the young people and nullify Temperance teaching? It is time our Band of Hope workers kept a watchful eye on these places of amusement, where so many thousands of children con-gregate, and if an emphatic and public protest is made against anything that tends to entice children alongsdan-gerous paths, managers will not be slow to keep their entertainments clean.

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* * * * ALCOHOL AS A STIMULANT : EMINENT TESTI-

MONY. At the Berlin International Congress of Physiotherapy,

Professor Ewald, eminent clinical teacher in the Berlin University, said he had reached the conclusion that in no infectious disease has the value of alcohol been proved. It diminishes the natural resistance to disease. In the great hospital of which he is chief, alcohol is ordered only on two conditions : in severe collapse, and as a means of euthanasia, easy death in hopeless disease. "Alcohol as a stimulant is dying as hard as did blood-letting as a panacea. The latter succumbed to an en. lightened pathology, and the former is now sharing the same fate," is the editorial comment. of the "New York Sun."

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A Warning. To the Editor of TH17, UNITED METHODIST.

SIR,—It has come to my knowledge that there are two mensalling upon our ministers claiming to be acquainted with me, and to be members of my Church, and on these representations have received assistance. One pleads the difficulty of getting his wife and children to some particular place where he has secured work, etc. The other, a young man, confesses that he has done wrong, is apparently greatly distressed, and having reached the town where he had expected to get a new start is dis- appointed, and of course stranded, etc. In their generosity some of my brother ministers have given them money to return home to Liverpool, and have written to inform me of the wanderers' return. Alas! they are frauds.

I write, therefore, with your permission, Mr. Editor, to warn the brethren against the two referred to above, or any other who may call on them and use my name.

G. EDMUND WELCH. Liverpool.

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once in the year, and this is how he read : in some corner, perhaps, where he would be in nobody's way, on bended knee, with the open book, oblivious of all that went on around. This would go on sometimes for hours on the stretch. Now he was reading, with copying pen- cil in hand, now 'meditating, now praying. He loaded his wings with the rich treasures of the King's Gardens and came back to regale his friends and neighbours with what he had gathered. A large box full of his manuscripts, carefully preserved to this day, testifies to the fact that he also diligently committed his thoughts to writing.

There was another element, however, which helped to account for the charm of which the writer of the "Chronicles " speaks. His religion was not simply meant for consumption abroad ; those who lived at home tasted its richest disitillings and enjoyed it most. It had gone through the family testing-pot before it was served up to the delighted guests outside. Family worship was conducted three times a day in that home, and to be present when he prayed by his own hearth was to be lifted out of the sordid into the celestial. One of our ministers now in active work has told how, one night, after some "special" meeting he and his superintendent occupied the same room in a friend's house for the night, and he, the younger man, after having been asleep for some time awoke, to find "S'amuel Pollit " still on his knees in earnest prayer. And so it came to pass that " he could as often as he cared preach on Sanctification, for he was a shining example of the thing itself."

I knew "Mr. Pollit " well. For about six years after his retirement he lived in my house, and I have witnessed his devotion. During those years I never heard a word nor marked a gesture about which I could say, "That is not to his credit." He lived in God, but he lived for us with a wonderful absorption. Yours,

A. K.

Labour and Methodism They Must Meet.

The Secondary School Committee.

poor sick England. Oh ! the sin of it when they are not regularly meeting starving souls face to face. "The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, but swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, rot inwardly and foul contagion spread ! " That was written in 1638. Those whose hearts ache for the people, the poor way-faring people, read it again as though not printed in 1914. Poor sheep ! "Swollen with wind . . . . and are not fed ! " W. KATE DUNN.

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Attacking the Mission Debt.

THE next twenty years will be years of great social change. The question for us. is : Will the social change be saturated with religious outburst and revival ? I believe the chance is ours once more ! The world is determined to try something different, but once it gets set, it will stay there for fifty years. It is ours to speak

-for God to that great restless Heart and lead it to its now-beginning Eternal Rest.

Every great revolution in history has turned on two factors—the readiness of the people for change, and the presence of leaders to point the way. And only when these two items are in joint harness does the world advance. Great men have appeared when the world did not want them, men born out of due time. Their fellow men gave them no sympathy, and their inward impulse died down, or only lit the way to a disappointing grave. Their times were out of joint. Had Francis of Assisi preached in England during the Wars of the Roses he would have had no hearing, and the mighty Revival associated with his name would never have come about On the other hand, the people have often shifted un-easily as sheep without a shepherd. The French Revolu- tion was a tremulous moving of millions with never a God-inspired man to show the way—poor, pitiable, blind sheep, for some strange reason given no Wesley and no Whitefield, such as saved England from a similar mute outburst of unled fury, and siwwed the way to the mighty reform of the early nineteenth century.

I am convinced that we are to-day standing in the presence of a mighty conjunction not of planets but of human forces, of a great heart-hunger in the masses, and of thousands of men who have leadership within them. Every man of Christ, who can read with open eyes his New Testament, is in possession of material for leadership. "'Ye are the salt of the earth, ye are the light of the world."

Francis in his little mountain chapel had the secret, and the poor mobs in the Italian cities had the heart- ache. And apart from each other they might all have died so, they in their misery and he in his cell. But they met ! And his light lit into full blaze their smouldering wood, and there was a Kingdom of God. They met ! Simple secret, is it not ? and to do it God drove His Francis into the city streets.

What is wanted to-day is a meeting of the Methodist ministers of England, with the undone, yet heart-hun-gering people of England ! And if we do not meet, we shall miss each other, and in turn the Christ will for the time being miss His Kingdom. Let us in God's name go out and meet these hungry folk. And to meet them we must go where they are, and not preach ever-lastingly where they are not ! Simple, is it not?

Poor half-blind, struggling socialism and labour move-ment—tremendously right in their way—feeling out for things that ought to be—but short of spiritual insight ! The less religious the , social movement grows the more certain is it that it will only arrive at a new misery. I am absolutely sure that nothing but a religious move-ment, a religious socialism, a religious labour movement, can make the masses one hour a week happier. The labour lifeboat is getting terribly overloaded, too many are climbing into it for wrong reasons. Thousands have joined socialism in order to get their "rights," and they hear little •or no teaching concerning their duties. The man who joins socialism because he wants his twenty-two shillings raised to twenty-eight is a fully-hatched materialist. I am not against his twenty-eight. I would vote for it. But twenty-eight' and no spiritual secret in his bosom is only continued failure in the presence of a little more furniture. It is not a salvage, a material salvage movement that is needed, but a spiritual revolution, one with a saving Christ in it. And the unequalled leaders of what only can save England are the Methodist ministers of England. In their soul and society run five generations of salvation experience. The Methodist ministers are the qualified panel-men for

Liverpool and North Wales District. DEAR MR. EDITOR,—In the list of payments credited

to Districts in a recent issue of the UNITED METHODIST, the sum of 11s. 2d. was put down as paid by Liver- pool and North Wales District. With no explanation the smallness of this amount is apt to be misleading. The - amount simply comprises two small sums sent direct to Mr. W. H. Butler by mistake. Our money in this District for the greate'r part has come in small amounts, and Dr. Snape, our treasurer in the District, instead of sending a succession of small cheques to Rev. G. Parker, has wisely, and immediately, placed each sum as it came to hand in the bank on deposit, and will duly pay the entire contribution with the accrued interest at the end of June. For us this has been the best available plan, and we hope no one will think that

11s. 2d. represents all that this District has raised. Thanking you in anticipation of your insertion of this

brief note. I am, Sincerely yours,

EDWARD CATO, District Mission Secretary.

Halifax North.—On account of several local financial schemes this year the churches of this circuit could not possibly raise the sum allotted to them by the District Committee. But at a special circuit meeting it was unanimously resolved to authorize the circuit steward to borrow £100—the circuit's contribution—and pay it over before the forthcoming Conference, the various churches agreeing to raise the sum assessed on them, to repay the £100 by the end of March next. [Well done, Halifax North 1 Is not this a course which could be easily adopted by those circuits which have not been able to raise the amount levied on them? All should unite to remove the debt by Conference.—ED., U.M.]

Darlington (Paradise).—The circuit effort took the form of a garden sale in the grounds of "the Gables," through the kindness of Mr. Geo. Hastwell. The sale was opened by Mrs. Dixon, a Congregationalist, who is ever ready to help other churches. During the after-noon various items of a missionary character were given, including a Chinese school scene, an African hymn and a Hindu village sketch. The weather was delightful and a large number of friends gathered. With the addition of some subscriptions, the day's pro.. ceeding-s realized ,*25, which is considered as being satisfactory, following as it does closely on a bazaar.

" Samuel Pollit" : A Memory.

To the Editor of Tilt UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—In your issue of June 4th your contributor, Stephen Gough, .in his interesting "Chronicles of our Village Chapel," writes of some ministers who "travelled" in the circuit. Of the identity of the first two I am not certain, but there can be no difficulty in identifying "Samuel Pollit " as the father bf one of our successful missionaries in China!

To say that he was "a student of nature " and "a child of the open air " is true enough. He loved the great book of Nature ; it was to him the wondrous vesture of the Deity, one of the modes of the Divine Revelation, and so he observed it with some care and much delight. He rarely came home from his: country appointments without a handful of "the beautifuls," as he was wont to call the flowers and ferns and grasses he found by the way. The last little sermon he preached was to a group of children whom he met, from the flowers he had gathered in this way, just a day or so before his trans-lation. Sometimes he would be in quest of geological specimens, or he would be fascinated with the move-ments and habits of birds or of cattle.

On winter nights he kept delighted company with the heavenly bodies and kept count of their movements. He knew many of their names, and could tell you when to be on the look-out for their reappearance. And how he revelled in a thunderstorm ! As the blinding flash gave place to the deafening peal his face would brighten as he said, "The God of glory thundered." Then he would recall David's 'Psalm of the thunderstorm, with such vividneSs as though on the spot he had heard the awful reverberations and seen the rocking pines and the broken cedars of that eastern land, when the voice of the Lord uttered itself : " In His temple everything said glory " to "Samuel Pollit."

But Stephen Gough says, "It is probable he did not spend much time in the study." It is certain he never had a large collection of books : how could he with a family of five children and a salary for part of the time of per annum, and never more than £80? He was, however, a book-lover. He would sometimes tell in con-fidence the methods which as a lad he adopted to secure the privilege of the perusal of a good book ; and how his widowed mother greatly defiant of circumstances went to a sale and bought some books to encourage her boy ; and to what straits he and his family were some- times put to satisfy their hunger for the best modern literature that came 'anywhere near their range of the possible. The tale he could have told would make a tale that might seem almost incredible now. If he did not, for obvious reasons, read widely, he read deeply, and with practical ends in view. John Foster's Essays, Hodge on the Romans, and Dale on the Atonement—one of his treasures—may serve 'to indicate that he was somewhat eclectic in his tastes. One book, however, he read more than all. For a long period he read his Bible through

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—When Conference is discussing the ques- tion of the Connexional Committees, it is to be hoped that it will not overlook its responsibility for our secondary schools. In the scheme adopted at the Uniting Confer-ence, these schools were justly considered of sufficient importance Ito be allotted a fully representative Com-mittee of their own. This Committee has not yet been constituted. It should normally have come into exist-ence in 1909, but its election was temporarily postponed owing to some difficulty about a new trust. The tem-porary postponement appears now 'to have been virtually a perpetual abolition. The makeshift arrangement authorized by Conference in place of the statutory method of administration was continued in 1910, in 1911, in 1912, and in 1913, without, as far as one can learn, any resolution being passed to prolong this suspension of the constitutional provision. No information is given us as to the degree of success that has been attained in over-coming the mysterious difficulties that for so many years have rendered this section of the 1907 scheme unwork-able. Yet it is most important that the Conference should have the guidance of a strong and representative committee in dealing with the many complicated pro-blems connected with the secondary education policy of such a Church as ours. There is the further considera-tion that the practical union of the three denominations will not be complete as long as Ashville is still adminis-_tered by a governing body that is wholly U.M.F.C., and Shebbear and Edgehill by one that is eleven-sixteenths B. C.

The logical conclusion of this letter would obviously be an appeal for the election, without further delay, of a Secondary Schools Committee as provided for in the original scheme. In view, however, of the general desire for lessening the number of separate committees and of the fact that a revision of the 'committee system is now on the .stocks, I would suggest that the existing College Committee, with 'whatever modification of its ex afficio membership may be desirable, be appointed to discharge the functions of a Secondary Schools Committee also. This College and .Secondary Schools Committee would, of course, be able to avail itself of the assistance of local sub-committees in dealing with minor matters in the administration of the several schools.

Yours faithfully, HERBERT W. HORWILL.

31 The Avenue, Kew Gardens, June 18th.

Foreign Missionary Committee. The Committee met on Tuesday morning, June 9th, at

the Hart Memorial Church, Gravelly Hill, Birmingham. The Sub-Comthittee, consisting of the President, Secre-tary, Treasurer, and Revs. H. T. Chapman and A. J. Coni_ bear, met on the Monday evening to go through the agenda with a view to facilitating the business for the full committee.

This meeting of the Committee being preparatory to Conference is largely occupied with finance. The total income for the year amounted to £20,174 4s. 3d., of which amount £6,779' 11s. 6d. goes to the Home Mission Fund, leaving a balance of £13,394 12s. 9d. This amount, supplemented by special gifts, interest on lega-cies and new legacies is brought to a gross total of £15,847 Os. 7d. The estimates for the year from the foreign fields were received and totalled £19,289' 5s. 6d. The situation thus presented is a very painful one. The committee were very many hours facing the acute problem of how to meet an expenditure of £19,000 with a prospective income of £15,000. The estimates for the coming year were cut down and re-cut down but could not be brought to £15,000 without doing serious injustice to the brethren on the field and imperilling the whole of our missionary work. The committee- have only two alternatives to present to Conference and to the de-nomination : A fresh missionary campaign to increase our income at least £4,000 a year, or the closing of one or more of our stations. A more hopeful note was sounded when the secrgtary presented the report on the Debt Extinction effort. If all the circuits redeem their pro- . mises made through the District Meeting and all the in-dividual promises are paid the Missionary Debt will go, and on Sunday, July 26th, every church in the, de-nomination which has participated in this effort is' asked to join in thanksgiving. But it should he noticed that there are now only three weeks in which to complete the effort, and it is absolutely necessary that what yet re-mains to be done should be done at once.

Dr. Robson attended the committee on Wednesday morning, and was cordially received. Several matters relating_to North China were postponed to the November meeting at Rochdale, when it is hoped Dr. T. G. Candlin will be present.

All extensions and the sending of fresh men and women so urgently needed for the field• remain in abeyance until the income of our Society is increased.

Mr. and Mrs. Barriball and the friends of the Gravelly Hill Church were heartily thanked for their excellent ar-rangements and gracious hospitality extended to the members of the committee.

Sunday Afternoon. And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due

season we shall reap if we faint not.—Gal. vi. 9.

ON the far reef the breakers Recoil in scattered foam,

Yet still the sea behind them Urges its forces home;

Its chant of triumph surges Through ,all the thunderous din—

The wave may break in failure, But the tide is sure to win.

The reef is strong and cruel; Upon 'its jagged wall

One wave—a score—a hundred, Broken and beaten fall;

Yet in defeat they conquer, The sea comes flooding in—

Wave upon wave is routed, But the tide is sure to win.

0 mighty sea ! thy message In clanging spray is cast ;

Within God's plan of progress It matters not at last

How wide the shores of evil, How strong the reefs of sin—

The wave may be defeated, But the tide is sure to win.

" I Have Laboured in 'Vain." Most workers get their seasons of depression and

are moved to say with Isaiah : "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." It is a bitter reflection, but with the sincere and the diligent it is always unfair. We have no authority for. being un-fair to ourselves. A useful life is never lived in vain. If we are optimistic about other people's doings we need not be pessimistic about our own. Review, examination there should be. Goods we make and pass on to ex-aminers undergo first our own careful scrutiny. "Let every man prove his own work," says the Apostle, but he also says that the man who has wrought as under the great Taskmaster's eye will have his glorying in himself alone and not in. another. He who can truth-fully say : "I have done my best," cannot for long be a stranger to the best sort of self-satisfaction. 'Your labour is not in vain in the Lord." Let us grapple that truth to our souls •with hooks of steel. Isaiah's tempta-tion to despondency is checked by the recollection that to our divine Master we stand or fall. He remembered that surely his judgement was with the Lord and his recompense with his God. Not with his enemies, who would be ready to depreciate his best performances; not with his friends, who may be disposed to praise beyond his deserts; and not with himself, who knew too little to find a just verdict. Some of God's children whose lives are maimed and afflicted may be tempted to feel that they are out of it in all such meditations as this. They are stung by the recollection that they have been deprived of the opportunity for labour, and strength was never given them to perform any notable work. But listen ! "Whereas it was in thine heart to build a house unto My name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart." That is the unforgettable word that the ap-parent failure may hear. If in time it is in the heart to do the noblest work eternity will find the opportunity, and meanwhile we should remember "they also serve who only stand and wait." The judgment that is with the Lord is very apt to upset the human verdict. Christ's assessment of the value of the widow's mite must have

'astounded those who only had the financier's scale of ap-praisernent. The least was the largest. The rest had given the surplus that could be spared without sacrifice; she gave all she had, and in adoring worship gave her-self.—OCTAVIUS LAKE.

The. King's Business. Not all of it is done in livery ; some is done iii overalls,

some in jumpers, and some in gingham aprons. The King's business includes humble errands and lowly mes-sages. It is as important in its details as in its com- prehensive plan. It is co-extensive with the King's realm. The man you meet on the highway, the woman you catch sight of through pantry window, the child panting with haste of the King's dispatch is engaged in the King's business.

So with the business of our King. All our lives and all the time we are or ought to be on the King's busi-ness. The way we earn a living, or spend our dollars, or read our books is important to our King. Our lives should include no realms in which He fails to rule. Done for our King, nothing is so humble as to be un-worthy of us ; nothing so high as to puff us up. It is the King's b-usiness.—GEORGE CLARKE PECK.

A Prayer that Saved a Young Man. One night many years ago two young men were put

into the same room in an English country inn. One of them was a heedless, thoughtless youth. The other, when the time for retiring came, quietly knelt down be-side the bed and prayed in silence. His companion was strangely impressed. Fifty years afterwards he wrote : "That scene, so unostentatious and so unconcealed, aroused my slumbering conscience, and sent an arrow into my heart." The result was the young man's con-version to God, followed by long years of service as a Christian minister and as a writer of books which have greatly blessed the world. "Nearly half a century has rolled away," he wrote again, "with its multitudinous events, but that old chamber, that humble couch, that silently praying youth, are still present in my imagina-tion and will never be forgotten, even amid the splen-dours of heaven and through the ages of eternity."—J. R. MILLER.

Striking Success of Open-Air Campaign.

Activity of the U.K.A. in London. THE Open-air 'Campaign which the United Kingdom

Alliance is conducting from May to September inclusive is now in full swing. The June list of meetings, which was published recently, shows a remarkable series of nearly 150 meetings which have been arranged to be held in different parts of London during this month. Special demonstrations are held in London Parks on Sunday afternoons, and one of the first of these was held last Sunday afternoon (14th inst.) in Ravenscourt Park, and was addressed by Mr. Geo. Blaiklock (Barrister-at-llaw) and Mr. A. Thomson (Parliamentary Agent, U.K.A.), and a resolution passed calling upon the Government to fulfil its repeated pledges to introduce its Temperance Bill at an early date. Last year 821 meetings were held in the open-air, with an attendance of nearly 400,000 people, and this year, an endeavour is being made to hold 1,000.

This aggressive and educational work is of the highest importance, inasmuch as the Alliance is 'thus reaching "the man in the street " land teaching the principle of total abstinence and the truths of Temperance reform to many thousands of people who are not reached at all by the ordinary methods of propaganda. Already many pledges have been taken and a keen interest has been aroused in the question of democratic Temperance legis-lation. The work has been highly commended by Sir T. Vezey Strong, Rev. Dr. John Clifford, Rev. F. B. Meyer, and others, and a large band of voluntary speakers are rendering most devoted and effective service, under the direction of Mr. Alexander Thomson (Metropolitan Superintendent and Parliamentary Agent of the United Kingdom Alliance).

Golden Wedding. THERE was a happy family gathering at Carclaze,

St. Austell, on June 12th, when Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkins celebrated their golden wedding. During, the whole of their wedded life they have both been members of our Carclaze Church, Mrs. Jenkins' membership dating from her childhood. Her father and mother were local preachers from the early days of the Bible Chris-tian denomination. Her mother (Mrs. Elizabeth Menear) began to preach about 1820, and for fifty-five years served the St. Austell Circuit in that capacity. Our flourishing church at Carclaze, which now has a Sun-day School numbering over three hundred, held its meetings for the first thirty years of its history in the house of Mrs. Jenkins' parents; and their descendants have always been among the workers of the church. Mr. Edwin Jenkins (eldest son) is a local preacher and circuit steward of the St. Austell Circuit, and ex-presi-dent of the Cornwall County Christian Endeavour Union, while the fifth son is the Rev. S. G. Jenkins, superin-tendent of our Crewe Circuit. Two other sons are in America and the four daughters are all connected with our church.

Peterborough.—At the annual circuit gathering on Thursday last Mr. W. Mirfield, on behalf of the friends in connection with Peterborough and the other churches, presented Rev. and Mrs. G. C. Percival with a purse of gold, and wished them long life -and every Happiness in their retirement from 'the active work after forty years' service. Mr. and Mrs. Percival suitably responded.

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(C.E. Topic for June 28th.) Rom. xvi. 10 ; 2 Tim. ii. 15; 2 Cox. X. 12-18.

In the Early Church. IN the New Testament there are certain figures which

stand out sharp, clear, and dominant. There is the great luminous centre, the Master Himself ; there are the leading apostles ; and there is the great founder of the Gentile Church, Paul. In the background we have the unnamed rank and file, the thousands who entered the Church in those early days. But between these extremes there is a third group, whose members are not in the background nor in the full light; who move in the foreground of the great picture but in the shadows cast by the greater leaders. Of these we get brief .flimpses, isolated incidents, detached references. We catch sight of them for a moment and then we lose them. What we see does not enable us to reconstruct the personalities, but it serves to give us some impres-sion of the fulness of life in that apostolic church. The church that could boast such leaders as John, Peter, James, Mark, Paul, Barnabas, and Apollos, was rich indeed, but richer far than these names alone suggest : for if we are to get a true impression of those stirring times we must add some of these workers who are named but not fully described, not because they were un-important, but simply because there were the activities of the greater leaders to occupy the pages of the book.

To this intermediate group of important but over-shadowed labourers kir the Kingdom belongs Apelles, the subject of our study. We know nothing about him save what is stated in Romans, "Apelles the approved in Christ." It is the merest glimpse that we catch of him, yet it indicates much. That Paul should refer to him at all is proof that he was well known in Rome and that Paul had previously met or had dealings with him. And the manner of the reference shows also that he had suffered in some marked manner for the cause. He had been tested and found faithful, and the test was so thorough and well known that men spoke of him as a proved hero. He worse the Victoria Cross of infant Christianity. He was "approved in Christ."

The Test. This word "approved" is worthy of attention. You take

a pencil-case of whose quality you are doubtful to a jeweller and ask him whether it is real gold. He opens a bottle of some powerful chemical, dips the end of the case into it, takes it out, and watches the result. The metal keeps its colour, the acid can make no impression on its surface, it is genuine. Had it been a cheap imita-tion it would have turned brown or green, according to the nature of the alloy. It has stood the test. It is approved. This assaying or testing of metals is the idea underlying the word as used in the New Testament. Into what biting, burning acid Apelles had been dipped we do not know. Paul knew, the Christians at Rome and probably in many other centres knew. But the New Testament makes wonderfully little of the sufferings endured by the heroic followers of the Apostles, and the part played by Apelles is unrecorded. Perhaps he had been beaten with stripes for preaching, or ruined in business by jealous Jews, or he may have, made great sacrifices to aid the cause, or suffered from disease con-tracted in the effort to do good to a plague-stricken people. In some such way he had been tried in the balances, and not found wanting.

The Tester. Such tests as we have suggested may not be experi-

enced by all of us, yet it remains true that life is a test and that every man is on his trial. In some lives the test is very secret, but it is searching nevertheless. And it is searching because the tester is none other than Jesus, Who searches the thoughts and hearts of men, and from Whom nothing can escape. We may avoid revealing ourselves to our fellows and pass for some thing better than we are, but the final judgement rests with Christ, and for His testing we must all make ready. a‘I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne." That is a solemn saying. When we stand there shall we stand with confidence or with trembling? How empty all selfish and proud boasting seems when we think of that "great white throne "! Truly, '" not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." Let it be our aim therefore so to live as to win the approval of our Saviour. This was Paul's call to Timothy, a call we all need to hear, to work as in the sight of God, not labouring to make a good impression on the world, but to fulfil the trust com-mitted to us by Him who "bestowed upon us our talents and set us in our circumstances. "Give diligence," says the Apostle, 'to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." He had a right to make that appeal. The Lord was ever before him. No man ever worked more consistently to satisfy Jesus Christ than the Apostle Paul, and well will it be for us if we can say with him, "wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing unto Him."

Ilkeston (South Street).—At the Sunday School an-niversary Rev. T. Scowby preached the sermons. The scholars marched through the town, headed by the C.A. Band. Ald. Scattergood and Rev. J. Stephens made public appeals to the people to come to the services. The result was very encouraging, over. ''5() being realized, the highest sum for over forty years. South Street Church is full of anticipaLkm, and a spirit of unity per-vades.

Apelles " Approved in Christ."

BY REV. T. A. JEFFERIES.

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Outside Interest in Religion. But if we look outside the Churches altogether we

may observe unmistakable indications of a quickened interest in religion. Not many weeks . ago the "Athenwum " surprised its readers by issuing a theo-ligocal supplement. We are often told that nobody cares about theology nowadays. But the editor of this literary and scientific periodical is impressed by the fact that somebody cares very much about it. He says, "Many proofs come before us - of interest in religion ; and there-with in theology, which is an attempt (never quite suc-cessful) to state religion in scientific terms. Books on all sides of this topic would not continue 'to be published in such numbers were there not readers for some of them." This output is so vast and varied and of such an intellectual quality that it cannot be designed merely for "spinsters or curates." And not in the realm of theology alone does the new religious spirit find expression. "The renaissance of poetry, about which we hear so much, is a part of the same spiritual movement which displays itself on another •side as a revival in religious interest." The gist of the editorial article may be gathered from a further sentence, "for, as we have said, this revived in-terest in religion is a fact."

Another observer has arrived at the same conclusion. The "Times," as our readers are aware, issues a weekly "Literary Supplement." On April 2nd it presented a re-view of a new series of theological books published by Longman and Co., entitled "The Layman's Library." The writer cautiously begins by remarking that there may be grounds for the opinion that more interest was being taken in religious matters to-day than was the case at any time during the last century. But having said so much, he takes his courage in his 'hands and boldly declares, " it may be true that nowadays our churches and chapels are not so well filled on Sundays as they were two generations ago. But the increased number of books published on religious and theological subjects, the keen interest shown by numerous confer-ences on religious matters, the money spent on missionary work at home and abroad, the wonderful development of the Student Christian Movement, and many other similar organizations, make it clear that religion has a powerful, and we believe growing influence on present-day life."

fabo.iitaa. fact, and were prepared to welcome any intelligent dis- cussion of religion in the light of modern thought. The waves of this intellectual revival have reached the Uni-versity of Oxford. The Bishop invited the undergradu-ates to attend a mission in which 'he offered to restate the. Christian faith in n-iedorn terms. In response the Church of St. Mary was crowded night after night by audiences of over a thousand men, and the 'Bishop's door was besieged all day long by eager enquirers, and the effect has been such, we 'are told, that "no one in Oxford will ever need to apologize for his religion again."

A Revival on its Own Lines. "This revived interest in religion is 'a fact." It is not

to be expected that the new revival will be exactly like any preceding one. The new wine may burst the old bottles. It nearly always does, and much that has be-come sacred by use and wont may have to be sacrificed in the process. -But it is for us to welcome the dawn, as becomes children of the light and of the day. As Churches we must lay aside the darkness of obscurant: ism, of obsolete methods of work, or narrowness of out-look, and, above all, of uncharity and unspirituality. And as individuals we must purify our own hearts and consecrate our own lives. For all revivals are made fruitful through consecrated personalities. The Reforma-tion became effective through the personal energy of Luther ; the Methodist movement derived its impetus from the 'strange warming " of John Wesley's heart ; the modern missionary epoch arose out of the burning enthusiasm of William Carey. Whether God will call forth any great leader to go before His people we can-not tell, but all His faithful soldiers may determine to be willing in the day of His power.

L.P.M.A.A. THE General Committee of the Local Preachers'

Mutual Aid Association met at three p.m. on Saturday afternoon, at Sheffield, when a number of applications for annuities were disposed of. The following United Methodist members of the General . Committee were present : Messrs. Nicholls, Talbot, Lewin, Bennett, Cash and Surtees.

At six p.m. the aggregate meeting opened its ses-sions. Special reference was made to the loss the Asso-ciation had sustained in the death of I3ro. John Harding, who had been general secretary for thirty-one years. Scrutineers and other officials for the meeting were appointed.

On Sunday 000 Wesleyan, United Methodist and Wes-leyan Reform pulpits were occupied by local preachers, and collections were taken in aid of the fluids of the Association.

On Monday the following elections- were made to the general committee : Messrs. H.- Dawson (Huddersfield), W. J. Long (Sheffield), W. R. Owen (Hartlepool), Sir J. Tudor Walters, M.Y. (Leicester), J. Greensmith (Halifax), Gilbert Dale (London), H. Wilson (London), T. Thurgood (York), J. P. Williams (London), J. J. Hugale (Sheffield), W. Cave (Darlington), L. W. Theaker (Preston), J. T. Roberts (Preston), R. T. Thom-linson (Poulton-le-Fylde).

A long discussion -took' place on a proposal to 're-establish the benefit section of the Association as it existed before the passing of-the National Insurance Act of 1911. This proposal was negatived by a large majority.

The meetings were large and enthusiastic,_ and there is every prospect of .a successful year.

There are now 795 local preachers and their widows on the annuitant list, costing last year, ,,10,596 6s. The estimate of expenditure for the current year is expected to be P1,000.

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Our Deaconesses. Candidates for Training.

A LONG and important meeting of the General Com-mittee was held last Thursday afternoon, its main special business being the consideration of the applications of candidates for training in the Institute during the next session, which commences in October. Four applica-tions were considered—two from Westcliff-On-Sea, one from Rochdale, and one from Wednesbury. All had sat for a written examination in Scripture, Theology, and English, set by the. Rev. J. H. Squire, B.A., B.D., the Rev. E. Genner, and the Warden, respectively. The reports of the examiners were submitted and carefully considered, along with testimonials from ministers and others who had known the applicants intimately, in most cases for some years The applicants were then inter-viewed by the Committee. At the close it was resolved that, subject to the medical certificate in each case being satisfactory to the medical officer of the Institute, Dr. A. E. Cope, all four applicants should be received on trial as candidates for training in the work of the deaconess in the new session.

The Rind of Candidates Needed. It is not very likely that we shall accept any further

candidates until the spring of next year, unless, for any reason, one of those just accepted should leave the Insti- tute within a few months after. entrance. We have reason to know that a number of ministers are ac-quainted with young ladies whom they regard as suitable for deaconess work, and it may be that other ministers and friends on having their attention called to the matter may know of others who are specially suitable for the work. In view of this it may be well to state one or two things which should -be generally known by all who sug-gest the names of candidates to us. Candidates should be women in good health and with mental capacity. If they are well educated all the better ; and if they are of good address and of winning manner this is a con-siderable advantage. It is absolutely essential that they should be women of high Christian character and spiritual force ; that they should feel called to the work of the deaconess and that they should 'be members of some evangelical 'Christian Church and be recommended by those who have had opportunities of judging of their suitability for the work. As a rule candidates should not be under 22 years of age nor over 32 ; and only those should offer who are free for the work, both as regards matrimonial engagements and home claims and duties. No vows are taken by the 'Sisters ,• but all who enter upon the work must be prepared to devote to it a reason-able number of years. Yet Sisters will be at liberty to retire and are liable to dismisFial if found unsuitable. A pre-liminary written examination in Scripture knowledge, in elementary theology, and power to use correct English is conducted by the tutors of the Institute and reported upon to the General Committee.

In the case of prospective candidates I shall be glad to suggest books suitable for study between now-and the time of the next examination. I shall always be glad to send to possible candidates particulars as to the regu-lations binding upon the students entering the Institute and upon deaconesses when they enter upon their work. Also particulars as to allowances, etc., made to the Sisters.

The vital factor in our movement is the kind of women who have to carry it on, and the Committee would be grateful for .. the help of our ministers and people in securing suitable women. I cannot but think that if the matter were brought to the attention of some of our better-educated young women some of them would feel drawn to offer themselves for this work. But our ar- rangements are such that if the less well-to-do feel called to the work no financial bar lies in the way. The -essential thing is that on the part of all applicants there should be a sense of vocation, a -consciousness of a direct Divine call to the high and ,noble service which . can be rendered by deaconesses in our churches and in the homes of the people. HENRY SMITH.

25 Boling-broke Grove, Wandsworth Common, S.W.

The Yorkshire Mission Van. WE are now at Hibaldstow, •one of the smallest places

on the South Yorkshire Mission. Gainsborough has been our home for the last fortnight, and it will be many a day before we forget our visit or the kindness. shown to us.there.

We had a full programme. At noon we had dinner-hour meetings at Marshall's Engineering WorkS (they employ about 5,000 hands). In the afternoons we visited up to about half-a-dozen of the courts and yards which seem to be the main dwellings of the poorer classes. Squalor and filth everywhere 1 God's sunshine did not seem to enter ; so we went to take a little sunshine to them, to let them know there is One who loves them, and we never failed to get a kind reception. We had a fine stand for our evening meetings, and never failed to get. less than 100 present. The faces—what a studyl-the grimy legion from the works, many pale faces, and last,. but by no means the least, our friends the gipsies, who showed us no little kindness, with hints on caravan life, etc.

Our superintendent was in charge the first week, and the Rev. W. Julians the second week. Sister Lillian's work at the organ, and in leading the singing is beyond praise: She was also the s.oloist. Mr. Claude Taylor had charge of the domestic side of van life. We must not forget a good Wesleyan friend, Mr. A. Burton, who gave us an excellent address, and hopes to be with us a night or two next week at Brigg. C. T.

The Revived Interest in Religion.

By REV. T. POINTON DALE.

OUR Home Missionary Secretary is naturally opti-nlistic, but in the report which he read to the City Temple meeting he surpassed himself in the glowing description he presented of the spiritual prosperity of our churches during the past year. Mr. Moore is intimately ac-quainted with the inner life of our Connexion, both in its strength and weakness, and when he declares that the churches are throbbing with an intense desire for a spiritual revival, and that there is everywhere a confi-dent expectation that God is about to bless us, we feel that he must have good grounds for his statements. Undoubtedly a new spirit is taking possession of our people. The feeling of depression that has accompanied the numerical shrinkage of the past few years is lifting, and the tide, too long on the ebb, is apparently beginning to turn. No student of religious history, and especially no sincere believer in Christ has ever doubted that it would ; though when and how and by what agencies the change would be brought about no man could tell.

The Incalculable Element. For there is an incalculable element in all religious re-

rival. Man -may assist or retard the operations of Divine grace, but the tides of the Spirit are in themselves beyond

-human control. A true revival is never got up, it comes down. It is not the effect of human organization, but of a Divine breath. Revival is often confused with evan-gelism. -It is our duty to evangelize, but the most earnest proclamation of the Gospel does not always secure a revival. "The Spirit breatheth where it willeth." The Church is called upon not only to preach the Gospel, but also to wait on God for the times of refreshing. His ways are not our ways. His tests of success or failure may be and no doubt are far other than ours. We must learn to see His purpose in reaction, and to believe that He rules in the night as in the day. But in the spiritual as in the natural world, the day follows the night and winter is succeeded by spring.

Those who confidently expect a revival will look out for the signs of it. It is the optimist on the watch-tower and not the pessimist in the ditches who catches the first promise of dawn. Mr. Moore from the vantage ground of his official position sees it in the quickened vitality of our own Communion, and he is seconded by his colleague in the Foreign Department, 'who pro-phesies the extinction of the Missionary Debt and the greater work which that achievement will enable us to pursue.

The _Religious Note in Fiction and the Drama Such testimonies are all the more valuable as they are

found in journals not specifically religious, but conducted by men who are capable judges of the signs of the times. Attention is often called to the prevalence of the religious note in fiction and the drama. Sleeey and sentimental novels may still find many reader, bet the thoughts of the greater writers of our time turn as by an irresistible fascination to the ideas of Christ for the solution of the supreme problems of life and conduct. Students of philosophy have long been conscious of the bankruptcy of materialism, and the names of Eucken and Bergson as leaders in the spiritual interpretation of the universe are almost household words. It might now seem as if the general reading public had at last awakened to the

THE Free Churches Sectional Committee of the United Council for Missionary Education has arranged for the holding of a United Summer School for study circle leaders, Sunday School teachers and workers amongst girls, boys, and young people, to be held at "The Hayes," Swanwick, 'Derbyshire, from Saturday, August 8th, to Saturday, August 15th. The school will meet under the presidency of Mr. 'Basil Matthews, M.A., and the group leaders will be Miss Helerk P. Byles, Mr. H. L, Hemmens, Rev. W. H. Shipley, Miss Constance Pad-wick, Mr. Alfred H. Angus, B.Sc., Miss Margaret P. Impey, B.A., and Miss Mary Entwistle. The speakers include Rev. Basil A. Yeaxlee, B.A., and others. There will be a series of morning devotional addresses by the presidents of the School and a series of evening addresses by missionaries from China and others. The greater part of the morning will be devoted to work in groups, with a view to affording members of the School the opportunity of acquiring training for the special teaching they hope to do. The text book set for next winter will be the basis of the training given. Leaders of the senior study circles will deal with "The Regeneration of New China " and "The New Life in China " ; leaders and teachers of intermediate girls' circles will deal with "White Heroines of Africa "; leaders and teachers of intermediate boys' circles with "Yarns of Chinese Heroes " ; leaders and teachers of junior circles with "Talks on Changing China " ; and superintendents of primary departments with "Taro, a little boy of Japan." The afternoons are given to recreation. The total cost of board and lodgings for the whole week will be 32s. 6d. Application for 'enrolment, enclosing the regis-tration fee of 2s. 6d., should be sent to Rev. G. A. Hamson, 8 Paternoster Row, London, E.C.

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Livingstone College Commemoration Day.

Two HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR Free Church choirs, representing over 7,000 singers, have signified their in-tention of taking part in the celebration of the 26th Annual Festival of the Nonconformist Choir Union at the Crystal Palace on July 4th. As the seating capacity of the Handel Orchestra is limited to 4,000 adults, it will be seen that a rigid system of selection is necessary to keep the chorus within manageable dimensions. Mr. Frank Idle, A.R.A.M., who has been training the com-bined choirs in a series of district rehearsals, will again conduct, and Mr. J. A. Meale, F.R.C.O., will be at the organ. Miss Maud Wilby has been engaged as special vocalist.

The astounding facts that have just come to light as to the power of a new form of treatment to relieve and cure head-noises and deafness have not come entirely as a surprise to the best informed amongst specialists and experts on troubles of the ear, nose, .throat, and lungs.

The treatment in question has been named the " Hyomee Deafness Treatment," because the famous. germicidal inhalant Hyomee is one of the ingredients used in it.

Experts have by now come to regard the inhalation of the germ-destroying fumes of Hyomee as probably the most frequently successful specific known in cases of such breathing troubles as Coughs, Colds, Croup, _Asthma, Bronchitis—and especially Catarrh.

Now experts who know the wonderful power of Hyomee t6 cure Catarrh know also that 95 out of every 100 people who are deaf or getting deaf are so simply through Catarrh.

That is why they were not surprised to learn of the wonderful cures of deafness and Head-noises being brought about by the new special ".Hyomee " Deafness Treatment.

The discoverers of the Hyomee Treatment are being inundated with letters that arrive by every post for particulars which they send free as nearly as possible by return.

Deafness either present or threatened is a terrible calamity., and one that, if not stepped, gets daily worse and more difficult to cure, till it becomes chronic and incurable. Sufferers should, therefore,. not delay another hour in writing to the address below for further particulars of the free-test offer of this sound and proved new treatment.

It is a curious fact that it was the deaf themselves who first discovered the wonderful power of Hyomee over Deafness and Head-noises. Deaf people who were using Hyomee for their breathing troubles constantly wrote in that they found to their astonishment and delight that whilst curing their Catarrh, etc., their use of Hyomee had incidentally cured their Deafness. This led the Hyomee Specialists to make careful investigations, which so fully established the facts that a special Hyomee Deafness Treatment was evolved and perfected. This it is that is now effecting such wonderful cures amongst the deaf. The best feature of all is that Hyomee deaf-ness cures are not for a week—or for 30 days—or any-thing of the -kind, but that

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COMMEMORATION DAY at Livingstone College was held on Saturday, June 13th, the chair being taken by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chelmsford, and there was a large gathering of invited guests representative of many different Missionary Societies.

After prayer by the Rev. H. U. Weitbrecht, D,D., the Principal, Dr. C. F. Harford referred to the fact that the twenty-first session at Livingstone 'College was just drawing to a close, and that it was in June, 1893, that the first public announcement was made of the proposed College for the training of missionaries in the elements of medicine and surgery. In the twenty-one years more than 500 students had passed through the College and were now scattered throughout the world. He referred to the fact that at the end of this term he was resign-ing the post of Principal after twenty-one years' service, and thanked all those who had helped make the Col- lege a success, whether by gifts or in other ways. He was sure that the future of the work under- Dr. and Mrs. Wigram would be very successful, and he asked that continued support should be given to his successor as had been given to him.

The Bishop of Chelmsford desired to bear testimony to . the work that had been done by his old friends, Dr. and Mrs. Harford, at Livingstone. College. As one who travelled throughout the world he recognized the immense importance of medical knowledge to a missionary, and whilst it might be said that " a little knowledge is a dan-gerous thing," yet he felt that it was absolutely essential that men going abroad should have such training as was carefully given at Livingstone College.

Dr. Ernest Cook spoke as a medical missionary of the Church Missionary Society from Central Africa, and he gave an instance of a case where -a Livingstone College student had saved the life of a Roman Catholic Father in Uganda who was suffering from blackwater fever in a place where no doctor could be obtained. He spoke of the'many dispensaries that are scattered through the Uganda 'Protectorate, where immense benefit is conferred upon the people of the country, who are without any medical knowledge. '

Rev. E. W. T. Greenshield, an old student of the Col-lege, who is well-known for his heroic labours among the Eskimos within the Arctic circle, and who has suffered great privations for the Gospel's sake, ascribed much of his success to the knowledge he had gained at Living-stone College. Sometimes during his travels he would have to put on clothes which were frozen in the night, so that his trousers were stiff like drain pipes, tas were his other garments, yet he had to put them on and thereby suffered severely from rheumatism, which he was able to treat by the knowledge he had gained. His dental experience had stood him in good stead not only in helping the Eskimos, but actually in his own case, and he told how he had had to pull several of his own teeth. On one occasion he had no proper dental forceps, and he had practically to dig out the offending tooth, but he was suffering very keenly not only from tooth-ache, but from hunger, so that he was compelled to remove the tooth, even though he took half an hour to do so. By means of his medical knowledge he had been able to gain the confidence of some of the rough crews with whom he had sailed in the Arctic regions, and who had thought little of the parson until they found what he could do for their bodies : then he gained their confidence and respect.

Rev. E. H. Clark, a missionary of the London Mis-tionary Society from Tanganyika, stated that the train-ing he had received had not only benefited himself and his family, but had been of the greatest use to the people of Central Africa amongst whom he worked. The men who had worked at the Station to which he was ap-pointed had either been invalided or died, and he found that there was a prejudice against quinine even among some doctors. He however came with his Livingstone College training and recognized the paramount import-ance of quinine. He was in a place where there were swarms of malaria-carrying anopheles which he knew must breed in a swamp. He found out the swamp and was able to drain it, and by that means he had benefited the whole country-side, and what was formerly a most mat/at-locals region was now entirely a different place. He also bore testimony to the great help which he had found from the spiritual influences of Livingstone College.

At the conclusion of the meeting Mr. R. L. Barclay, the treasurer, in the name of the committee and staff and students, past and present, made a presentation to Dr. and Mrs. Harford of a silver rose-bowl, an album con-taining photographs of the groups of all old students, and a cheque for 4'100.

Dr. Harford expressed the very hearty thanks of him-self and Mrs. Harford for the handsome gift which had been given to them, and his earnest appreciation of the good wishes of his colleagues on the staff and on the committee, and of past and present students.

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June 18, 1914. THE UNITED METHODIST. 473

WE give on this page the totals of Adult Mem-bers, Junior Members, Members on Trial and Losses through Deaths, Removals, etc., for our Foreign

Mission Stations. Under the same Our Foreign headings we also give a summary Mission for the denomination as a whole. Returns. Dealing first with the Foreign Mis-

sion Districts, -it will be seen that the net increase is 516, which is less by 109 than the total increase of last year. The largest increase is in South-West China, 655, the next largest is Wen-chow, 150, followed by 59 at Ningpo and 4 in East Africa. Last year Tientsin had an increase of 173 ; this year, unhappily, it reports a decrease of 302. The decrease is in part accounted for by the abnormal number of removals and discontinuances. These reach a total this year in the Tientsin Dis-trict of 258, as against 103 last year. West Africa is the only other District showing a decrease (50) in Adult Members. It will be noticed that its losses through Deaths and Removals total 223 ; but last year though they totalled 256 there was an increase of 33. The losses under these two headings in West Africa do not seem to be abnormal, but under the headings Removals and Discontinuances they seem to be markedly so in Tientsin. The Junior Members on the Foreign Stations show a net increase of 114. Wenchow returns no members under this heading and is in that respect where it was last year. Ningpo returns a decrease of 15. The rest of the Districts have increases—Tientsin, 78 ; South-West China, 37 ; East Africa, 4 ; West Africa, 10. There is a remarkable increase of Mem- bers on Trial-3,480. The largest contribution comes from the Mission in South-West China, where the notable increase of 2,852 is recorded. Wenchow follows with 493, Tientsin with 88, Ningpo with 46 and West Africa with 3. East Africa has a decrease of 2. It will be noticed that the losses through Deaths, Removals and "Other-wise Ceased to be Members," total 794. The Tient-sin figures under these headings show an increase of 156, Ningpo a decrease of 8, Wenchow a decrease of 12, South-West China a decrease of 32, East Africa an increase of 6, West Africa a decrease of 33. The Foreign Mission Returns on the whole set the heart dancing for joy over a year characterized by gracious success.

* .*

COMING now. to the Total Membership of the Denomination at home and abroad, it will be noted that the Adult Membership reaches 158,654, and

shows a net increase for the denom- Our Total ination of 583, to which both the Membership. home and foreign districts have con-

tributed. The total of the Junior membership is 10,285, representing a net increase of 1,108, to which the Home Churches contributed 994- and the foreign Churches 114. The Members on Trial total 26,832. The increase of 3,480 in the Foreign Districts is reduced to a denominational one of 3,402 by the home decrease of 78. If the totals of the Adult, Junior and On Trial membership be added together they show that 195,771 persons are in this close relationship with our Churches. How soon, -we'wonder, will the total reach the much-desired figure'of 200,000? The losses by Deaths, Removals, and "Otherwise Ceased to be Members," amount to 11,816. The losses under these headings in the Home Churches represent '7 per cent of the adult membership and in the Foreign Churches just over 5 per cent. The figures as a whole should give us encouragement, but they ought not to be allowed fo inflate us. The Home results should rather humble us, for they are nothing compared to what they ought to be considering the immense means in men and money and organization which have been at the

' disposal of our Home Churches. And even our joy over the increase on the foreign fields should be much chastened by the thought that it is small as compared with what might have been, and may yet be, if only we, have the holy audacity and the fear-less self-sacrificing generosity to press in through the thousands of doors which open all around our 'brethren on the foreign stations. One could devoutly wish that with the extinction of the Mis-sionary Debt a new chapter in the development of our Missions might begin ; but we understand that so little does the increased ordinary income of the year just closed justify this, even if there be added to it the amount saved in interest through the extinction of the debt, that there is danger of our

Conference being face to face not only with the continuance of the restrictions in our missionary activity determined upon last Conference, but with an increase in those restrictions. Truly, there is need for us to rouse ourselves that we may become worthy of our vocation as a Church.

* * * * *

THE Wesleyan Laymen's Missionary Movement has no official connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. It has its own

separate organization, fixes its own Business aims, and determines its own Men and methods. All the same, it acts in co- Missions. operation with the Missionary

Society and on its own lines it is seeking to give the Society substantial help. A full-page advertisement in one of our Methodist con-temporaries last week shows one line upon which these business men are sure they can help the mis-sionary cause of their denomination. They have discovered that £2,000 a year is lost by their Church to world evangelization. And they proceed to explain how this comes about. Their missionary year begins January 1st, but the missionary subscriptions mostly reach the Society twelve or thirteen months later. Expenditure is going on all the time and the money has to be borrowed. This costs in interest £2,000. "Is this business ? " ask the members of the Wes-leyan Laymen's Missionary Movement, and they answer, "It is money thrown away. It would main-tain seven additional missionaries ! and give the Society added power without additional cost." Then comes their application : " Stop the waste. For Christ's sake, and the world's, pay your subscrip-tions now! Subscribers be ready ! Collectors be busy ! Treasurers be prompt ! " The appeal is signed by Sir George J. Smith, the President ; by the Rt. Hon. Thos. R. Ferens, the Treasurer ; and by Mr. Isaac H. Holden and Mr. William E. Walker, the Hon. Secretaries. Things have been so abnormal with us since the Union that it is diffi-cult off-hand to say how much difference would be made by following the plan suggested by our Wes-leyan lay friends. It would probably be quite cor-rect to say that the bulk of the subscriptions to our Missionary Society come in towards the close of our financial year, that all of them have been spent months before, and that interest, running to hundreds of pounds, has had to be paid because the subscrip-tions were not available earlier. It would make an immense difference if the gathering in of the sub-scriptions could be hastened by some months. The idea is one in regard to which the shrewd business men of our denomination would do well to imitate

their lay brethren of the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

THE Rev. R. J. Campbell 'has been giving a "Manchester Guardian " interviewer his thoughts about the present outlook for a reunion of the

Churches. He emphasized the evidence which is seen just now of a disposition to an understanding among the Churches. He rejoiced in the wonderful rapproachement between the Established Church of

Scotland and the United Free Church. It was a sign of the times and showed the direction in which we were moving. A few years ago such a thing would have been incredible. Methodist union, he said, was only a matter of time. In recent years there had been seen the union of three Methodist denominations in this country into one great body. The recent visit of representatives of the American Faith and Order Conference, with a view to closer union between the Protestant Churches in the English-speaking world, was the expression of a great and inspiring idea, and it was very significant that they had been welcomed in this country both in the Established and the Free Churches. At the present time, partly as a result of their visit, a con-ference was being held between fifteen representative Anglicans and fifteen representative Nonconformists. At the same time Mr. Campbell made it clear that in his own view corporate reunion all round is hardly desirable at present. It would lead to a repression of individual initiative, and he rather dreaded too great a development of organization because of that danger. Organization always tended to limit individual liberty and individual prophecy. Whether in the far future a universal Christian organization could be achieved which would • allow of the fullest individual freedom both in thought and action remained to be seen. It was not incon- ceivable, but under present-day conditions it was extremely unlikely.

BUT while Mr. Campbell said this he was dis-tinctly of opinion that the Churches should try to get together, to get into touch with each other on

practical issues. On comparing a Aids to programme of the Church Congress Knowledge and and of the National Free 'Church Understanding. Council a few years ago he was

much struck at their close resem-blance. Eliminating a few questions of ritual and the like he found that the two great assemblies were discussing the same questions—questions vitally affecting the national welfare in many direc-tions. He failed to see why these questions could not have been discussed in one united conference. Divergencies of opinion should be no bar to this. He would deprecate entirely the forcing to the front of the great historical issues which divided the Churches.

"Leave them in abeyance for the time being, and meanwhile let us co-operate. . . . I cannot see why we should not meet to discuss great matters affect-ing public morals and religious life in general with-out raising questions of principle on whch we are obliged to differ. Let us leave the matter alone until we have learned the value of meeting together in

Rev. It. J. Campbell and Church Re-Union.

The United Methodist Membership for 1914.

(OFFICIAL.)

(UNITED METHODIST SPECIAL.)

Totals for the Foreign Mission Districts.

DISTRICT. Membs. 4 A

14 14

= § ,P-, 4 Adult ff) me 4 4

VI

g A

113

cla El

. 0 E

9 .2 t..E1 gt m

si li :: 0. h,..°4

Tientsin , , , Ningpo • . . Wenchow . . ,

South West China , East Africa . . . West Africa , .

Totals .

3281 1274 3191 4805

525 2482

-• 59

150 655

4 ...

302 ... ... ... ... ' 50

•

290 144

1024 4 133

1321

78 ... . . . 37

4 10

... 15 ... ... ...

886 689

7008 9474

6 528

88 46

493 2852

. . . 3

...

...

...

. . . 2

...

39 29 82

127 11 62

115 ... . . . 5 6

161

143 ... 9 5

•.. ...

297 29 91

137 17

223

15558 868 352 2912 129 15 18591 3482 2 350 287 157 794

Summary of Totals for Home and Foreign Districts.

Home Districts . . Foreign Districts . .

Grand Totals . (net)

143096 15558

67 516

7373 2912

994 114 18591 80 3480 7 ..8.

1848 350

5456 287

3718 157

11022 794

158654 583 10285 1108 6832 3480 78 2198 5743 3875 11816

Home and Foreign Summary. Increase in Adult Membership ••• Increase in Junior Membership Increase in Total Membership Increase in Members on Trial Increase in Losses through Deaths, Removals and Discontinuances

Foreign. 516 114 630

3480 77

Home end Foreign. 583 net.

1108 ,, 1691 „ 3402 „ 140 ,,

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this way, and then let us attempt their solution, if it be thought desirable so to do." Another suggestion Mr. Campbell made was in the

direction of facilitating the interchange of pulpits. "I should be prepared to accept a bishop's licence to

preach on some specified occasion in an' Anglican pul-pit, such licence to be issued on the same terms as to a lay reader, provided it did not describe me as a lay-man. The question of orders need not be raised, but as a matter of Church discipline such a licence, ought to be necessary in order to prevent promiscuous abuse of the opportunity. On the other hand, a like liberty ought to be permitted on specified occasions to Angli-can clergymen to preach in Free Church pulpits.. If steps of this kind were cautiously taken in the begin-ning, I think the course adopted would be largely ex-tended in time to come, and would do much to pro-mote good feeling all round." These two recommendations appeared to Mr.

Campbell to be at least practical and not likely to prejudice any further steps that might be taken, in the direction of closer union. They had the advan-tage of leaving every controversial issue open. They are certainly worthy of earnest consideration.

Pen Portraits. GEORGE MULLER OF BRISTOL.*

The Philanthropist against the World. IN the latter part of the last century there were three

names to conjure with in the city of Bristol—Samuel Morley, Joseph Storrs Fry and George Muller. Is it characteristic of that city that each man was a notable saint? Morley was a statesman, but a Christian first, Fry was a merchant, but I knew a man who walked a mile out of his way most Sunday mornings for the bene-diction of seeing his face; and of George Muller who has no,t heard? If anyone of us is ignorant of the great Bristolian he may repair his knowledge by the new biography. Of old we became informed of his victories of faith by the perusal of ." The Lord's deal-ings with George :Muller ' —plain, prosaic and pedantic. Now we may read with refreshment and delight the cream of those plain little volumes set forth with the pen of a master and marshalled with the greatest grace. Mr. Harding's book leaves nothing to be desired.

I. Many are acquainted with the great doings of the

Ashley Down Orphanages who are not acquainted with the facts of the extraction of their famous builder. He was, of course, German. Born at Krappenstadt in 1805, he died in England in 1898. At 14 he was a young drunkard. At 20 he was converted. In 1829 he came to London as a minister, and in due course joined the Plymouth Brethren. His reasons were : they stood for simplicity of life and for missionary zeal at home and abroad, for devotion to Christ and for loyalty to the Scriptures of truth. This was in the dead years before the Tractarian movement. In 1829 also he settled at Exmouth over a pair of small churches, itinerating from day to day throughout the district and preaching in some weeks quite respectably often. It was here that his first venture of faith came. He resolved to give up a fixed salary and take what God sent him, for several reasons. He had the habit of setting these reasons down like another Wesley. The pew-rent system was against his mind, and the "make-up " money was often grudgingly given. The result was that he was often in a tight-enough corner, but still had enough. In 1832 he moved to Bristol, again to be in charge of two chapels and to continue to live literally by voluntary offerings, making his requests known only unto God. His preachings widened here and he founded a Scripture knowledge society of which he thought privately great things.

H. But at Bristol his monument still stands in the shape

of the goodly orphanages at Ashley Down. It may not be clear to many how Muller's faith-efforts took this particular turn. It was not primarily because of the indigence and unhappiness of child-life. There was enough of that. The children in rural districts were being fed on bran-dumplings. There were 6,000 orphans in the English gaols. • But being a German he had heard of Francke, of his pietism, which influenced Muller much ; and of his orphanages which influenced him more. To follow Francke's example became his leading idea. In 1835 he began to move. A shilling given him by a German missionary—and the • blessing of the Lord : here is the foundation of the orphan houses. The inventory of things as they come in is comical : a few shillings, 3 dishes, 12 plates, - 1 basin and 1 blanket, but Muller is reverential. Everything is accounted. He goes on praying. His determination is that he will pray for everything and ask for nothing. In one case a friend requested to know if he had any immediate needs. He replied that he only told One Person of that : and the fingers were literally grinding the bottom of the meal-tub at that moment. It is won-derful independence as well as prayer. After the build-ing of the first section, he conceives the notion of having accommodation for 1,000 children, and lives to see the day of the one-thousandth child received. It is a won-derful thing. One day they have only 24d. in hand for the commissariat, another they have to delay dinner for half an hour because of their emptiness, but in these years there passes through his hands by the prayer of faith one and a quarter million pounds for this and other objects. It was the very time that Huxley was girding against the miracles and Romanes was giving up faith

Life of George Muller." By W, H. Harding. (Morgan & Scott. 6s.)

in prayer. What fools we are ! The very powers of nature are not free from contribution. In November, 1857, the heating arrangements go wrong, and a bleak north wind sets in. The orphans simply freeze. George Muller simply prays. The workmen cannot attend for a day or two, and they bag the leak as best they may. Tuesday night the wind is arctic. The men are to be there on Wednesday, and when they arrive, behold, a south wind is blowing and they can do without the heat. •"Who only doest wondrous things." It is not only in such things either that this man's faith shines like "a good deed in a naughty world."

His wife dies. They had loved each other tenderly for many years. In–the early days had sold wedding spoons to pay for bread. An assistant asks who shall conduct the service. Willer himself does that and preaches from Ps. cxix. 68, "Thou art good and doest good."

III. But the orphanages even do not perfectly consume

this man. He is a great Bible reader. "When it is finished start it again," he says. He read his Bible one hundred times. 1-lis itineraries for preaching-stretched from Bristol to Delhi and Cawnpore, and it was quite usual for him to conduct services on twelve occasions during a week. Simple, evangelical, spiritual, those meetings must have been of untold spiritual value. Many times Mr. Charring-ton's Great Assembly Hall would be hushed with the quiet voice with which he urged his hearers Christ-wards.

And after three-fourths of a century of this so beau-tiful a life his people rose in the morning to find that he had fallen in the night, and that the change called death had come.

I" It, is the fashion sometimes to represent him as a kind of amalgam of Jerome, and St. Simon Stylites and Lord Shaftesbury and Wm. Blake, plus an unearthly quality which seems to remove him altogether from the category of men. Nay, he is a plain man ; saved by grace, separated unto God and His work, but pro-foundly human ; a homely man sitting down to tea and toast with his kindly wife, knowing full well the market price of coal and potatoes and the most advan-tageous ways of utilizing half a sheep, and the most durable kinds of cloth for making little boys' coats and knickerbockers." But when he died all Bristol and the world stood still and wondered. "There are crowds in the streets ; a flag flies at half-mast over the cathedral ; church bells are tolling ; tram-cars pull up in a long line; onlookers are wiping away their tears as the boys and girls whom the dead saint befriended come pathetically into sight ! And the bystanders exclaimed, Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.'" I wonder often what the connexionalized churches have to say to his life-long principle of sup-port by faith for all Christian work. Surely in some sense "our judgement is with the Lord and our recom- pense is with our God." G. C.

Departed Friends. Mrs. Hannah Cartwright.

Our dear friend passed away in the feebleness of extreme old age on June 4th, her birthday. She was eighty-seven years old. Advanced years, physical weakness, and dis-tance made it impossible' for her to attend our services at Manchester Road Church, Southport, but in spirit, and in all the religious sympathies of her life during these last few years, she was with us in church life and work.

She and her husband, Mr. Samuel Cartwright, who is himself in the eighty-seventh year of his life, have lived for some time in Southport, enjoying the quiet and restfulness of the evening hours of a long, happy life ; but for the greater part of their eighty-seven years, they lived in Manchester. In these years of activity and use-fulness they were closely associated with our Bethesda Church, Pendleton, and Boston Street, Moss Side, and were held in very high esteem. Mr. Cartwright is still a member at Boston Street, and a trustee of Bethesda. And now his long partnership in domestic life and church fellowship has come to an end. Only last year these two celebrated their "Diamond Wedding "—a married life longer than is given to most was given, to them, and it was singularly full of simple happiness, of a per-fect understanding of each other. Now they are separated.

Mrs. Cartwright lived in quiet ways, a truly noble life, putting love, devotion, fidelity, and goodness into all she was and did, and "adorning the doctrine of God her Saviour " in all things. She died as she had lived, in the faith of Jesus Christ, and now rests in the Southport Cemetery. She will be missed by her sons and grand-children, but especially' by her husband, who in his old age is left to live in lonely' paths what yet to him may remain of these fleeting years. The comfort is his, in a degree which is only the privilege of those separated at the extreme end of life, that the separation cannot be for long years, but only for God's "little while," and then the happy union of hearts and life here will be resumed on the other side of the river and know no break. E. C.

Mr. Slater Whitham. It is with regret we record the death of Mr. Slater

Whitham, of Clayton, Manchester, which took place at his home on May 23rd, at the age of sixty-three. He had been ailing for a considerable time, but his indomit-able spirit upheld itself bravely during that period of suffering. At last, however, he was compelled to re-linquish his work, and this was seen to have but briefly anticipated the final stage of the disease which so speedily completed its work. It was this same spirit of bravery which animated his life throughout. In the struggle of commercial life it enabled him in face of many odds to gain some degree of success, but that only such as was in consonance with the strictest conscientiousness. As a member of our Clayton Church he had been from its

inception one of its most valued officials and generous supporters. As trustees, leader, Sunday School super-intendent, and local preacher he contributed of his vari-ous ability to further its interests, as also those of the circuit (Manchester South) as .a whole. We have sus-_ tamed a 'great loss in his departure, but have still the inspiration of his noble example with us.

He leaves a widow and one daughter, for whom our deepest sympathy is felt.

The interment took place on May 27th, Revs. J. P. Treloar and E. Curtis, officiating. E. C.

Disappointed, but Determined. "WHILE we have had some disappointment, there is

much to encourage us," said the Bishop of London, pre-siding last _Thursday afternoon at the annual meeting and luncheon of the Central Sunday Closing Association, held at the Y.M.C.A., Tottenham Court Road, and re-ferring to the recent experience of the Sunday Closing Bill in the House of Lords and the 'House of Commons. "We have had discouragement in the House of Com-mons, but I feel we ought to thank God That we have got not the most easy of audiences to vote for the Second Reading of the Bill," said the Bishop, referring to the fact that the Upper House unanimously passed the Second Reading. There had been no answer and no refutations of the contention that the hours of opening of public-houses on Sundays at present were far too long. That was admitted by many who were not ready to vote for the Bill in its entirety. He did not think the Peers fully realized that 300,000 men and 22,000 barmaids were employed on the Sabbath. The old argument about the Clubs had cropped up, but the Clubs question was very much exaggerated, though he was ready to admit that there was a difficulty in, this matter that Temperance reformers had to face. They were all agreed that Clubs should be under the same regulation as public-houses, and he did not believe in one kind of legislation for one set of Clubs and different measures for other Clubs. There were many fair-minded people in this country who were not in the hands, of the liquor trade who felt that if you shut up the public-houses the people were driven to the Clubs, and one of the aims of Temperance re-formers must be to provide competition for the public-houses in the shape of places where men and women who really did not want to drink could resort and find pleasant enjoyment. Their experience in the East End had proved that they must have an antidote to the public-house.

Sir Thomas. Whittaker, M.P., in moving a resolution adopting the annual report, and expressing thanks to the Bishop of London, to Mr. T. R. Ferens, M.P., Mr. Timothy Davies, and others who assisted in con- nection with the Bill, remarked that "We are disap-pointed, I am more than disappointed, I am annoyed at what took place in the House of Commons." Sir Thomas added that when a small Bill was, brought in their opponents asked why it was not bigger, and when a big Bill was brought in they asked for a small one. These were all evasions and excuses, and the Club argument was an excuse and nothing more. The fact was they were more in favour of dealing with Clubs than ever their opponents were. The 'trouble was that they had to deal with Parliamentary conditions as they were, and it was difficult for private Members to get any legislation through at all, as a private Member's Bill had to com-prise as few points of controversy as possible. The fact was, strong Party pressure was brought to bear against the Bill and no Panty pressure for it. However

' there

was no room for discouragement, as Temperance feeling in the country was growing stronger and stronger.

Mr. Arnold Rowntree, M.P. in seconding the resolu-tion, commented on the fact that enormous pressure was brought by the liquor trade to bear on employees so as

.to- get them to say what was diametrically opposed to their own interests. He received fifty letters from public-house employees saying they wanted the Bill defeated, although the Bill provided for them to do less work on Sundays. It made TeMperance reformers porider as to whether they should not do something more drastic to remove that pressure.

Mr. Hopkins, Chief Templar of England, supported the resolution, and Canon Grant Bird, R.D., also spoke in support of the resolution, which was unanimously carried.

A resolution was also passed, on the • motion of Pre-bendary Webb Peploe, seconded by Mrs. .Servante in a thrilling speech full of pathetic facts and incidents, ex-pressing satisfaction that the Bill passed its Second Read-ing in the House of Lords and regretting the adverse vote in the Commons, "especially as it was not in harmony with the pledges of the majority of the House or of the opinion of the country."

The meeting, which was largely attended and quite unanimous, was characterized by great earnestness and -determination, which augurs well for the futui-e activity and ultimate success of the Sunday Closing Movement.

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Mr. Le Gallienne's Latest Volume.

" The Lonely Dancer and other Poems." By Richard Le Gallienne.

THIS is the title of Mr. Le Gallienne's latest volume, issued from the Bodley Head, from whence have come many of his previous publications. The copy I have before me is an early American Edition, lent to me by the author's father, to whom I am also indebted for many of the volumes—more than a score in number—by "Son Dick," affectionately so called—which look down upon me from my shelves. Two of them—" R. L. S.—an Elegy and other Poems," and "English Poems," pub-lished in 1895—contain pieces, notably "What of the Darkness? " (said to be Professor Minto's favourite poem) and "The Second Crucifixion," an outcome of the " Is Christianity Played Out? " controversy. Although they were written nearly twenty years ago, they are really not surpassed by anything in the present volume. At the same time, it would be unfortunate if the impression were conveyed that the work before us shows no advance upon the youthful outpourings of a former day and was given to the world merely to gratify the poet's fancy. Such is not the case. Mr. Le Gallienne's later work—I quote from his American publisher—"has shown a _power and beauty of artistic mystery and above all a spiritual magic of which his early work gave but occa-sional suggestion." Many of these poems have already appeared in American and English periodicals and were heartily welcomed by the large circle of friends which Mr. Le Gallienne is privileged to claim on both sides of the Atlantic. In fact, we might consider the manner of their reception in America as altogether too extrava-gant and put it down to the "tall talk " of our voluble cousins, but that the names of the poetic critics are a guarantee of sane judgement. The Editor of "Current Opinion " (Mr. E. J. Wheeler) speaks of "Flos i-Evortim," the second of the poems in this volume as "one of the finest lyrics our language or any other has produced " ; while Mr. W. D. Howells, a name honoured in literary circles in both Continents, and in regard to whose critical ability there cannot be two opinions, says, "Something of William Blake, something of Emily Dickinson is here, and the little impalpable loveliness is in many passages of this most beautiful book ; but it has a music very distinctly its own, with a haunting charm in its dying falls, and a delight in its gladder tones which I do not remember to have got from other poets. For light-ness and -finesse of what must be called critical analysis of his own joy it seems to me that this poet is at his subtlest in The Nightjar,' which he holds dearer than the nightingale. It will not do to say that Keats could have worded this better, for Keats is dead and there is no way of proving such a thesis •, but with Keats no longer alive, I take leave to be glad of the surpassing felicity of phrasing, the impassioned sense of beauty, the exquisite fancy, and not least the just and manifold spirit, which I find in Mr. Le Gallienne's poetry." Another critic, who owns to not being among Mr. Le Gallienne's passionate admirers, and who tells us that the bulk of this poet's work has not elicited, his un-qualified delight, is nevertheless constrained to add that for sheer beauty of image and delicacy of expression he has no peer among his contemporaries. "There are many bits of song which have an impalpable charm—all shimmer and suggestion—but there are also many deeper and intenser notes."

— I have quoted sufficient to show that Mr. Le Gallienne takes fairly high rank among the poets of the day, as is evidenced, if further proof be necessary, by the num-ber of votes given to him by the readers of a popular weekly for the post of Poet Laureate—although I am compelled to add that the judgement of those same readers was largely discounted in my estimation by their putting Rudyard Kipling at the head of the list.

It is time, however, that I gave my readers an oppor-tunity of judging for themselves whether or not the eulogies I have quoted are justifiable ; for which purpose I propose to give a few selections from the book, merely premising that personally I lay no claim to any special knowledge of the technique of the poet's art. At random then, I turn the pages, and this is what strikes my eye —and my ear—a piece quite appropriate to the time of the year at which I write :

"April, half-clad in flowers and showers, Walks like a blossom o'er the land; She smiles at May—and laughing takes The rain and sunshine hand in hand."

This is followed by another exquisite little gem quite true to Nature :

"May is building her house. With apple blooms She is roofing over the glimmering rooms ; Of the oak and the beech hath she builded its beams, And, spinning all day at her secret looms, With arras of leaves each wind-swayed wall .

She pictureth over, and peopleth it all With echoes and dreams And singing of streams."

Mr. Le Gallienne has his home on a houseboat on a Connecticut River, where no call reaches him, at a sgiven time each morning, to awake to the rough ways of the world, and to tread the hard road of commerce for his daily bread, so that one can quite understand his yield-ing to the spell of Nature.

"I meant to do my work to-day- But a ,brown bird sang in the. apple-tree,

And a butterfly flitted across the field, And all the leaves were calling me,

"And the wind went sighing over the land, Tossing the grasses to and fro,

And a rainbow held out its shining -hand— So what could I do but laugh and go?"

had much' more to quote, but considerations of space forbid.

Reference is constantly being made to Mr. Le Galli-enne's "Works." It really seems a misnomer. These poems bear no indication of "work." They appear to be—well, not exactly the idle thoughts of an idle fellow, but at any rate to have been produced without any great effort. They are light, airy, fanciful, bordering, many of them, on the sensuous ; songs rathers than poems, for some of them sing themselves into one's brain, such as "Don't you love the eyes that come from Ireland? " And yet he can be serious (shall I say, religious?) when he likes, as witness "An Easter Hymn," with which, while the joys of Easter are still fresh upon me, it is fitting I should conclude :

"Spake the Lord Christ—' I will arise.' It seemed a saying void and vain—How shall a dead man rise again?

Vain as our tears, vain as our cries. Not one of all the little band That loved Him this might understand.

"` I will arise '—across the years, Even as to Mary that grey morn, To us that gentle voice is borne-

' 1 will arise that bath ears 0 hearken well this mystic word, Let not the Master speak unheard.

"Celestial spirit that doth roll The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day.

The singing Easter of the soul ; 0 gentle Master of the Wise Teach us to say I will arise.'"

"Some Alternatives to Jesus Christ."

" Some Alternatives to Jesus Christ." By L. John-ston, M.A. (Longmans. "The Layman's Library," 2s. 6d. net.)

Tins able little volume conies from the pen of a lay lecturer in theology in the University of Oxford, and is a comparative study of those religious systems of the world, including the Christian Religion, which embody a doctrine of. Divine Incarnation. It is an attempt to meet a problem which presses very heavily on some thoughtful and sincere believers, .viz., the reasonable-ness of belief in Jesus as the Incarnate Son of God, in the light of claims advanced for other personages, his-torical or mythical, by the adherents of other faiths. The question, in short, which this book attempts to 'meet and answer is, Why Jesus, and not Gautama, or Vishnu, or the Bab? The result is a very well-balanced piece of apologetics.

Two of the most striking features of the book are these : (1) A very illuminating account of Babi-Behaism, the new Incarnation Faith which sprang up in Persia towards the end of the first half of the 19th century, its roots grounded in heterodox Mohammedanism, or Shiism, with its doctrine of Imam—but deriving some nourishment probably from Christian influences ; and (2) The very careful and discriminating way in which the possibilities and the probabilities of Christian influences being at work in the development of ideas of Incarna-tion in the non-Christian religions named are dealt with.

The fit-St is important because it represents a non-Christian development of an Incarnation Faith in our own time. The story is worth a brief recapitulation. The heterodox Mohammedanism or Shiism which mainly flourishes in Persia has consistently cherished, since the division from traditional Mohammedanism in the early days of the Caliphate, a belief in Imams, or express revelations of God in a human person. The Shiites believe in twelve of these Imams, starting with Ali, the murdered nephew and son-in-law of Mahomet, con-tinuing in the direct line of descent from father to son. They had all suffered violent deaths, and the last of the line " withdrew from the world " in 873 A.D. But communication was kept up for a period through a series of "Babs". or "Gates ; and when this ceased it was replaced by an expectation of the appearance of another " Bab." The expectation endured until 1844, when there appeared in Persia amongst the Shiites, a descendant of the prophet who announced his claim to be the "Blab," or "gate to Him whom God should mani-fest," i.e., the Imam. Later, the same individual, Mirza Mohammed Ali, announced a further claim to be not only Bab but the Imam himself. His advocacy of his claim, and the promulgation of the new faith aroused persecution, in which Mirza Mohammed All perished in 1852. In various forms, the sect, though stricken by division, has persisted ; and the chief mantle now has fallen upon Abdul Beha or Abbas Effendi, grandson of Mirza Mohammed Ali, under whom the sect has gained a vogue that stretches from Burma to North America. The significant point in this new movement of un-orthodox Mohammedanism is, of course, the claim to the Imamate, to be, that is, "He whom God should manifest,". made by Mirza Mohammed Ali, and his son Beha-Allah, father of Abbas Effendi, who died in 1897. But, as Mr. Johnston shows, the Imam is rather the holder of a Divine office, than a personal revelation or Incarnation, and it is this that must be borne in mind in comparing Christianity with Babi-Behaism, the latest Incarnation faith.

With regard to the second feature of his book men-tioned above, Mr. Johnson has some impressive and yet cautious suggestions to make. One had hardly thought such a good though admittedly—undemonstrable case could be made out for Christian influences at work, in

some post-Christian developments of later Buddhism. The case for their presence in the rise and development of Hindu Bhakti, i.e., "devotion " to Vishnu, is stronger. The fragments of evidence on Which Mr. Johnston rests his case for these two points are (a) general possibilities of intercourse between Europe and Asia, especially India, (b) early Christian legends connecting the Apostle Thomas with a 'visit to India, (c) the very much more definite fact, the relatively early deposit of Nes-torian Christianity in India. In the case of Babi-Behaistn, the known facts are even more pregnant with possibilities, since the religion of the Prophet drew part of its initial inspiration from both Jewish and Christian sources, and it must not be forgotten that Nestorian Christianity had a legacy to leave 'to Shiite Persia. In the case of Mirza Mohammed Ali, Mr. Johnston draws attention to the significant fact that he had "access to the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) available in Henry Martyn's translation, published at his own native place, Shiraz, in 1811, and a large amount of his literary activity was expended on the allegorical interpretation of parts of it along with the Koran." Here at any rate is a definite connection with Christianity through tradi-tion and Scripture.

The crux of apologetic of the book is, of course, in the concluding chapters, where Mr. Johnston gathers up his facts, and draws his conclusions with regard to the Christian Doctrine of Incarnation as compared with other Incarnation Faiths. These chapters are marked by the same trait of careful statement that pervades the whole book, and constitute a well-balanced and power-ful argument. We do not remember to have, seen a better presentation of the inference from the currency of Incarnation Faiths, viz., that they give expression to an instinctive craving of the spiritual nature of man for a manifestation of God in terms of human life. There is, in other words, a tendency towards belief in Incarnation native to the human spirit, and of this ten-dency Incarnation Faiths are a growing expression culminating in the Christian Faith in Jesus. The dis-tinctive marks of the latter are very clearly and un-ambiguously brought out, (1) its distinct and unmis-takable historical foundation ; since it is faith in an actual person ; and (2) its uncompromising claim for the uniqueness and finality of Jesus. It is in the lack of such absoluteness that other Incarnation Faiths conic short ; it is in the assurance and conviction with which it claims such absoluteness for Jesus that the Christian Doctrine is supreme.

The book is excellently conceived and powerfully written, and may be heartily commended. A word of appreciation ought to be added of the very full chapter analyses and the useful bibliographies.

E. C. LTRwiN.

Age of Consent.

To the Editor of TIrE UNITED METHODIST,

SIR,--May I crave 'the hospitality of your columns to remind your readers that our Bill, dealing with the above question and introduced in the House of Lords by the Lord Bishop of London, passed its second reading in April last.

It is expected that the Committee stage. will shortly be reached, and it is therefore most earnestly hoped that all religious bodies, societies dealing with the question, and all interested in moral betterment, will arrange for the passing of resolutions or the signing of petitions in favour of the Bill for despatch to Members of the House of Lords. I shall be pleased to supply copies of the sug-- gested resolution or forms of ?etition on application.

May I add that a meeting in support of this measure is to be held in Caxton Flail on June 26th, at 8 p.m. All sympathisers will be heartily welcomed.

Your obedient servant, H. M. TYRER, Secretary,

The London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality.

E. P.

Full particulars may be obtained by writing to SCHELBERT, Station Master, EPSOM DOWNS (L.B. & S.C.Ry.) N.13.—The Station is on the Downs ; thus the fatiguing journey to and from

is avoided, whieh is often so disastrous to an outing of this kind. •

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JUNE 28TH, 1914.

THE SEEKING SAVIOUR. REVIEW LESSON.

Reading : Hebrews iv. 14 ; v. 10. GOLDEN TEXT. —" The Son of Man came to seek and

to save that which was lost."—Luke xix. 10.

THE emphasis in the first quarter's review was placed on Jesus as the • Great Teacher ; • the emphasis in this quarter's review is to be placed on Jesus as the Great Saviour. It is not intended to shut the two reviews off into watertight compartments either of teaching or of seeking, for from first to last Jesus was both teaching and seeking and saving—the question is merely one of emphasis. The Golden Text summarizes in our Lord's own words the meaning and the purpose of all His activity. With-variety of method according to the vary-ing circumstances, condition and needs of men, He was always seeking and saving the lost, and preparing His disciples to carry on this redeeming work after His resurrection. He had no one stereotyped method of dealing with men—He respected, and will for ever respect, the individuality of personality. The verses from Hebrews seleCted as reading lesson direct attention to the great High-Priesthood of Jesus. Our High Priest sympathises with us, since He has passed through all our temptations yet without sin. The relation of the exalted Christ to His followers is described by apostolic writers in two conceptions, viz. : (1) Christ as Giver of the Spirit ; (2) Christ as Intercessor with the Father. "Apparently we do right to image the intercession of Christ as involving at least His mediatorial presence before God with knowledge of each of us and with pity for each—His glorified person being, as it were ,a ceaselessly prevailing appeal to the reconciling work accomplished on the earth, and also a fact which recalls intensely the perpetual needs of men still tried and tempted as Christ had been." Mackintosh, "The Per-son of Jesus Christ," pp. 376-377.

I.—Parable Review. Throughout the quarter the lessons have dealt with

several of the greater and lesser parables of our Lord. In the first lesson, e.g., we have His table talk where He is inculcating humility and disinterested hospitality. A diverting remark from one of the guests led Him to utter the parable of "The Great Supper ; the point of which is to show that it is one thing to admire the ideal of the Kingdom of God and quite another thing to consent to its rule. The Supper is a figure of the rich grace which has come to men through Christ. Note how the servant has to go out (1) quickly into the streets and lanes of the city to bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame ; (2) into the highways and hedges and constrain them to come in ` that my house may be filled." The third lesson deals with the two lesser parables about building and battling, which illustrate the serious consideration which the decision to become a disciple demands. Lessons IV. and V. deal with the three parables about lost things—the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son, which set forth God's in-tense love for the sinner and His eager desire to reclaim him. The main emphasis in these parables is not on the thing lost, but on the loser ; • it is God's loss, God's search, God's joy in finding. Lesson VI. treats of the Unjust Steward, which inculcates the use of present opportunity to 'secure future good, also the abiding value of genuine beneficence. Lesson VII. considered the parable of Dives and Lazarus, which teaches how calamitous are the results of failing to make a wise use of present opportunity. Lesson VIII. was about "Un-profitable Servants " and the parable (Lk. xvii. 7-10) sets forth the exacting demands of the Christian life. Lesson XI.• was devoted, in part. to the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, which was levelled at those "which trusted in themselves . . . righteous," etc. ; the point of the parable being given at the close, "For everyone that exalteth himself," etc.

II.—A Twentieth Century Review.

This review discusses the bearing of each lesson on some modern question, e.g. : Lesson I., Christ's Table Talk, Lk. xiv. 7, 24. (a) Our hospitality a quid pro quo business? (b) Scrambling for the best places. "If I had my life to live over again," said Dr. Bushnell, " there is one thing I would not do—I would not push." (c) Do we, really want the Poor in our Churches? Les-son II., The Journey to Emmaus, Lk. xxiv. 13-35. (a) How our eyes are holden. to-day because Christ comes at unexpected tines and in unexpected places. Sir Launfal, after wandering over all the earth in search of the Holy Grail, returns spent and aged, to find it at his own castle gate. (b) Which is the better word Resur-rection or Immortality? Lesson III., The Cost of Dis-cipleship, Lk. xiv. 25-35. (a) The peril of the sheltered easy life. (h) Is Cross-bearing out of fashion? Lesson IV., The Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin, Lk. xv. 1-10. (a) How is the Church of to-day facing the problem of the lost? (b) Is the infinite value of the human soul realized under competitive industrialism ? Lesson VII., Dives and Lazarus, Lk. xvi. 19-31. (a) The sin of not doing what we ought to do. (b). What is the great "chasm " or "gulf which separates souls? (c) Will the findingS of Psychical Research help spiritual religion ? Lesson Unprofitable. Servants, Lk. xvii. 1 10. (a) Present-day methods of causing the "little ones to stumble." (b) Discuss Bushnell's sentence, "Forgive-ness is man's deepest need and highest achievement." (c) Modern Thought and Faith. Lesson IX., The Re-vealing Spirit, 1 Cor. ii. (a) Physical and Spiritual

Blindness. (b) Discuss W. L. Walker's statement, "the great distinctive thing in Christianity is the gift of the Holy Spirit to men." Lesson X., The Coming of the Kingdom, Lk. xvii. 20-37. (a) Christ's great theme : The Gospel of the Kingdom of God. (b) Are there signs of the coming of the Kingdom? Lesson XI., The Friend of Sinners, Lk. xviii. 9-14, xix. 1-10.. Phari- saism in Organized Christianity. Lesson XII., The Great Refusal, Mk. x. 17-31. (a) Can a millionaire be a Christian? (b) Should a Christian strive to become rich? etc.

III.—A Great Texts Review. Each lesson may be reviewed around some arresting

sentence or question, e.g. : Lesson I., "For everyone that exalteth himself shall be humbled," etc. "They all with one consent began to make excuse."—Lesson II., " Behoved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory?" "Their eyes were holden that they should not know Him." "And their eyes were opened and they knew Him."—Lesson III., "Whosoever doth not bear his own cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple."—Lesson IV., "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over the sinner that repenteth."—Lesson V., "But when he came to himself, I-low many . . bread enough and to spare?—Les- son VI. "Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness." 'ile that is faithful in a very little is faithful ,also in much."—Lesson VII., " If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither . if one rise from the dead."—Lesson VIII., "Increase our faith ! " "We are unprofitable servants."—Lesson IX., "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard . . . God prepared for them that love Him."—Lesson X., "The Kingdom of God is within you." "Remember Lot's wife."—Lesson XI., "The Son of man is come to seek and to save . . . lost."—Lesson XII., It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye." The teach-ings of the lesson set forth essential characteristics of a Christian, e.g. : Lesson I., Humility ; II., Teachable-ness ; III., Self-sacrifice ; IV., Passion for souls ; V., Repentance ; VI., Foresight and Sagacity ; VII., Humanity ; VIII., Faith, and the Forgiving Spirit ; IX., Spiritual Insight ; X., Readiness ; XI., Love for sin-ners ; XII., Single-minded loyalty to God.

Ask questions, e.g., What parable tells about a man who wasted his own substance? What parable tells about a man who wasted another's substance? Hod' did Jesus teach (a) a lesson in humility ; (b) the sin of self-righteousness (c) a lesson from salt? These les-sons brings us practically to the close of the Perean ministry.

For Our Boys and Girls. THE DANDELION.

DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS, — Walking across the Halifax moor once to a Sunday

evening appointment, I saw a merry little girl gather-ing flowers. Just as I came level with her, I heard her say, "What time is it?" Thinking she was 'addressing me—though I ought to have been sure such was not the case, because she did not add, "Please "—I answered, "A quarter to six." But judge of my surprise when I found, on looking more closely, that she was talking to the remains of a flower. Holding them by the stalk, she blew at them crossways, for the answer to her question, "What time is it The flower was, of course, the dandelion. Now, hardly anything could be more com-mon, more misunderstood, than is this highly-developed plant. You find it almost everywhere in its season, ex-cept in church. I fear it is "an outsider," because its presence would not be acceptable. We reserve places, the best, in our churches for lilies and other late summer flowers, but we do not ever given one "innings" to this flower of the early summer days. Indeed you would be surprised, if we did. Yes, but why so? I think it is because most people think wrongly about the dandelion, and therefore undervalue it. They call it "weed," and other hard names, and think they have said all. Where-as, it is a most remarkable plant. Surely God did not form it without His having some wise and loving pur-pose in sending it year by year. He has delight in common things. Jesus shows us that. So I bring it before you, as an object lesson to-day.

Give it a fair hearing ! Don't be prejudiced ! Ex-amine its golden head, and you will find that it is not a single flower, but what is called a composite one. That is, each petal, as it appears to ordinary sight, is a flower in itself, producing its own seed, and possessing a re-markable method for making sure of its planting. When the golden flowers of the dandelion disappear, the stalk that once bore them, humbles itself, lying close to the ground for about twelve days whilst the seeds ripen. Then up it rises again; and there in the place of the golden blossoms, you see round fluffy balls, beautiful and perfect. From every ripened seed there has sprung up a delicate stalk, crowned with a star of down, most delicate in texture. Thus are the seeds, forming the ball of down, with their parachute arrangement, carried by the co-operation of God's wonderful minister—the wind, we say broadcast, but really "where He listeth," thus ensuring the next season's supply of plants. God has spent long years in bringing the dandelion to its present perfect form, through hard conditions. Yet of its order, Naturalists tell us, it is a far higher type of plant life than the rose or lily, and shows a better organization than even cedar, oak, or palm. Think of that now, and do not be too ready to despise anything as "common." Diligently seek, as the dandelion does, to master circumptances„though they be hard, lifting up your head bravely, and discharging your life's'mission, as it so perfectly does.

M. HODSMAN,

LOVING KINDNESS. BY. R. E. .

A LITTLE girl sat on her mother's knee. "Tell me, mother, dear, what Loving kindness ' is." "Why ask you that?". her parent 'said. ' • - "Because we read about it, just this day, in the

Scriptures at our school." "Listen to this story," said the mother. "Once there

was a little girl who was very ill, and she lay in hos-pital. She had a kindly nurse who smoothed her pillow, patted her head, and told to her nice stories to pass the long, long hours away. Indeed as kind as kind could be was she. That was kindness ' then. But the little child grew weary and longed for home, and for faces that she loved, and her mother came to see her. She put her loving hands upon the curly head of her little girl and whispered loving words into her ears. The suffer-ing girl was glad to feel her mother's touch again ; it seemed so different from all other touches, even the touch of the nurse.

"` I am tired of being here,' the little maiden said.-` Just pick me in your arms.' She stretched full out her little arms.

"The mother picked her up. "` That is what I have wanted, muvver,' said the little

girl. "That, my daughter, was Loving kindness.' " " I see," the girl replied, as she still sat on her parent's

knee; "Is God's like that? " "It is—only far better," her mother said,

Wedding. SMITH—JONES.

NOT for many years has there been so pretty a wedding at Pembury Grove (Hackney Downs) Chapel as on Wednesday, June 10th, when Miss Dorothy Evelyn Jones, younger daughter of the pastor (Rev. Francis Jones) ,was mivried to Mr. James Norman Smith. The chapel was filled with well-wishers.

The bride looked a perfeot picture in her dress of white lace, with broad white silk sash. She wore a veil and wreath of orange blossoms and carried a sheaf of pink roses.

Her sister (Miss Kathleen M. Jones) and the bride-groom's sister (Miss Nora Smith) were the two brides-maids. They Wore, respectively, pale pink and pale blue figured voile, and carried bouquets of pink and blue sweet peas, the •gifts of the bridegroom.

The bride's father conducted the ceremony, which was choral, and concluded with the "Wedding March."

A large number of guests attended the subsequent re-ception at the Rev. Francis Jones's residence, and in the afternoon the newly-wedded couple, deluged with confetti, left for Devonshire for the honeymoon.

WE have received the eighteenth Annual Report of the National Union for Christian Social Service, which contains a full account of the effective, which is being done by this Society in training unemployable " men and in the care and education of epileptic children and adults.

The Colony for "unemployables " at Wallingford, Ox-fordshire, opened last July by the Lord Mayor of London, is the largest and most up-to-date of its kind in the United Kingdom, providing, as it does, accommodation for some 140 men and 20 Christian brothers. Over 60 per cent of the men received at the Colonies of the Union are successfully reclaimed and made self-supporting and self-respecting citizens. The secret of success lies in' the self-sacrificing devotion and example of the staff and Christian brothers who liVe and work with the men and by their example and influence enable them to make a fresh start in life either !at home or in the Colonies. There is a debt on the Wallingford Colony of some £11,000, and the Council of the Union earnestly appeal for donations towards its extinction.

The second largest institution belonging to the Union is solely devoted to epileptics. Here at I.ingfield, Surrey, there is accommodation for nearly 300 children and adults. This is the largest Colony for epileptics in the country, and the great increase in the number of inmates during the past year has compelled the -Council of the Union to provide a hospital where serious cases of illness can be treated. Towards the £2,500 required to build and equip this hospital over £1,000 has been given or promised. The building is already in course of erection and an appeal is made for the balance required, so that it can be opened free from debt.

The Union also has a Training Colony for "unem-ployables" at Marple Dlale, in Cheshire, and a home and farm for epileptics -at Starnthwaite, in Westmorland, where successful work is -being done for these distressed classes.

Copies of this very interesting report, and full details concerning the work of the Union, may be had from the Hon. Secretary, 27 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.

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June 18, 1914.

Jubilee Services at Pembury Grove, Clapton.

I SUPPOSE there are but two persons now living who pioneered the, work at Pembury. These are Mr. and Mrs. James Field, of our Westcliff Church. But our hearts are stirred when we think of what has been accomplished, under God, during these fifty years. What souls have been saved I What sorrowful ones com- forted! What happy matrimonial alliances fdTfied I What other churches have issued from the loins of this mother ! What numbers of her children have gone forth to all parts of the world to carry the message of salvation heard within her walls, to lead others into the light!

Hence our people have been looking forward for many months to this jubilee, and preparing to give it a worthy celebration. For years we have had a debt of £400 upon the premises. This, we said, must be cleared off. Then there was also a current debt, which had gradually accumulated, of £300, occasioned by.new sani- tary arrangements, repairs to the estate, and a deficit in the church account. Why not demolish the whole

'700? It seemed a big task for some one hundred and thirty members to undertake. But the folks at Pembury have brave hearts. So we began the campaign last year. At an enthusiastic church meeting we inaugurated the effort. Promises amounting to £160 were made by our own people, collecting-books were distributed, sewing-meetings started, and a bazaar last December realized -/;200. This encouraged us. We had rummage sales, lectures, concerts, socials. There was a constant flow of money into the treasurer's purse, until the sum of £400 was reached.

Then we arranged for our jubilee services on the first Sunday in June, and the Monday following, with a series of pulpit exchanges, extending to the first Sunday and Monday in July, to terminate with a thanksgiving ser- vice for blessings received. On Sunday, June 7th, the pulpit was occupied in the morning by the Rev. Joe Boden, of Ilford, a late minister of the circuit, who preached a rousing sermon, with his usual fire, to the delight and edification of those present. In the evening, the service was conducted' by the Rev. Silas K. Hocking, at which the church was crowded, chairs having to be requisitioned for the aisles. Mr. Hocking's sermon was a masterpiece, and was listened to with breathless at-tention. On Monday, June 8th, we held our jubilee tea. - This was followed by a public meeting in the chapel, presided over by Mr. Charles Roden Buxton, prospective Parliamentary candidate for the division, in the absence of the Right Honorable, Sir Albert Spicer, Bart., M.P., who, after promising to take the chair, discovered that the date would fall in the Parliamentary recess, and that he would be away from home. Sir Albert, however, promised to preside at our thanksgiving meeting in July instead. Mr. Buxton made an ideal chairman. Everybody was charmed with his genial presence, and helpful words. Mr. J. F. Eminton, the church secretary, gaVe a deeply interesting report of the various organizations of the church, numerical, social, and spiritual, quite an interesting epitome of the history of the place. He showed that no less than one thousand members had been upon its books during its existence. Our treasurer, Mr. Richard Martyn, informed us that up to that moment 1;491 had rolled into the exchequer. The speakers were Mr. Harry Jeffs, late president of the Brotherhood movement, and the Rev. William Thomas, secretary of the Metropolitan Free Church Federation. Both men were in fine form. Racy, bright, eloquent, soul-touching words fell from their lips—just the men for an occasion like this.

Miss Bessie Lang sang two solos, "In Verdure Clad" -- and "The Lord is my Shepherd." The choir also, under

the conductorship of Mr. Leonard H. Grigg, organist and choirmaster, rendered an anthem with pleasing effect.

Mr. Buxton having to leave early for another meeting, his place was taken by Mr. A. H. A. Saunders, J.P. A vote of thanks, moved by Mr. J. R. Parker, son of one of the founders of the church, and seconded by Mr. C. H. Townend, son of the late Rev. T. W. Townend, ex-Presi- dent of the U.M.F.C. We sang the Doxology with real thankfulness for what had been a spiritual uplift, not easily to be forgotten.

FRANCIS JONES.

Holiday Camps for Boys. To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,—Your correspondent this week asks why we do not organize United Methodist Camps for Boys. I am happy to inform him that I know three United Methodist Schools where arrangements are being made to take a number of boys to holiday camps at the annual holidays. There are others also, with which I am not personally acquainted. These belong neither to the Scouts, nor to the B.B., but to the B.L.B., or, in full terms, to the Boys' Life Brigade. This is an organization worked under the auspices of the Sunday School Union, and, in my humble judgement, is the finest erganization of boys that has yet been formed.

I gather, however, that your correspondent would like to see camps formed, quite apart from all such organ-izations as this. The idea to me is not feasible, if it is to be carried out by voluntary workers. To begin with, the organization' and carrying on of a camp for boys is, for those responsible, very hard work, and means work nearly all the time. The officers- get very little opportunity for enjoying themselves, and one of the finest things in our work, is the way in which our young fellows will give up their own holiday for the sake of their boys. Then, again, the organization of a camp is no light matter. Whether it be a small camp

forty or fifty boys, or a large camp of three or four _hundred boys such as we are undertaking in connection

THE UNITED METHODIST. with the Oldham Battalion this year, the work needs skilled and experienced workers. In the matter of ail-ments and accidents quite a large provision needs to be made. At our camp we shall, I hope, be favoured with the presence of our Battalion Doctor. The boys kept him quite busy last year. In addition to this,. nearly every B.L.B. officer knows something of First Aid, and several of ours are St. John Ambulance men. But quite the most important thing is that the officers have to make themselves responsible for the lads, during the camp week. We are willing to undertake this grave responsibility because we are connected with the boys the year round, and know and trust everyone of them. Further than this the boys are under semi-military discipline, and are accustomed to obey their officers. Each boy signs an agreement before going to camp that he will obey all orders. The penalty for disobedience is to be sent home. Even with all this, we have our diffi-culties, and it is only our love of the boys that carries us through. I have never been in any camp where there was any serious contre-temps, but there are a great many "Might have beens." Personally I should not like to be responsible for a numfier of boys that I did not thoroughly know and trust.

Apart from these criticisms, I heartily endorse much that your correspondent says about camp holidays. But I think that his enthusiasm runs away with him a bit. His boy, for example, is going to see the sun rise. In

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MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS. Engagements.

1015-10.

Watkins, David, succeeds Rev. R. S. Hall as minister

Bluck, A., Lindley, a sixth year. Carver, George, Sheffield, Hanover, a fifth year.

of Stanford Avenue Church, Brighton. Genner, E., as superintendent of Portsmouth Circuit. Moyle, E. Marshall, succeeds Rev. Frank Collins in

the Newport Road Circuit, Cardiff. Parish, H., Bradford, Park Circuit, a fourth year, but

will then leave. Cocks, Walter, becomes superintendent of the

Shebbear Circuit. Bowker, J. H., remains in the Leeds, Wortley and

Kirkstall, Circuit, a fifth year.

Changes. 1915.

Blackwell, J. H., loaves the Fulham Circuit, after five years' service.

Hall, R. S., leaves ;Brighton, after four years' service. Hibbert, J., leaves Portland Circuit, after three years'

service. In consequence of proposed alteration in the working

of Mount Tabor Church, Sheffield, Rev. H. Robson will leave in 1915.

CROSTON. AFTER being closed since the beginning of March,

for the purpose of decoration and the installation of choir pews, the Croston United Methodist Church was re-opened on Saturday afternoon week, in presence of a large congregation, by Lady Toulmin, who also per-formed the re-opening ceremony with respect to the organ, which has been completely overhauled and renovated. The cost of the work has been about £200. Lady Toulmin, in the course of a short address, empha-sized the responsibility of the individual in contributing to the success of the services. She felt that in the Free Churches they were sometimes inclined to attach too great importance to the sermon and the work of the minister and to neglect the part they themselves should play in their homage to God and the voicing of hymns of praise. Lady Toulmin was presented with a key, in honour of her opening the church, by the Rev. W. Attoe, and with a second key, with a suitable inscrip-tion as a memento of the organ opening by Mrs. Attoe. A solo was rendered by Miss M. Smith, of Accrington and an organ recital was given by Mr. Thomas Hogg, F.R.C.O., of Preston. A meeting was held in the even-ing, presided over by Mr. J. F. Watkinson, of Accring-ton. Special opening services were held on the follow-ing day. The financial result for the week-end amounted to £36.

DEVONPORT. THE past three months has been a busy time in the

Devonport Circuit. The friends at Hacldingiton Road de-cided to commemorate its jubilee by an effort to wipe out its trust debt of £470. They faced the big task and the result was a gross return of £550. Thj'debt has been paid, and at a thanksgiving meeting Mr. Stephen Din-nick, who is in his eighty-second year, and was largely instrumental in the building of the church fifty years ago, was presented with an illuminated address appro-priately recognizing his life-long devotion to the work. The pastor {Rev. A. J. Conibear) received a similar token of esteem and recognition of leadership in the effort.—Next came an effort at St. George's. A new organ has been placed in the church and paid for, and a balance of

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August the sun rises between four and five a.m. Most of the boys I have had to do with, absolutely refuse to rise before seven o'clock, and sometimes then have to be very forcibly assisted, in a way we have at camp. Some of the lads did see the sun rise last year. They were on guard : but I never heard that they liked it very much. Again, this boy is going to bathe in "the stinging spray." It would be very unwise to allow a boy to go into the sea under such boisterous conditions unless he were an expert swimmer, and even then he would want watching. Furthermore, this boy, during his week's holiday is going "to learn first aid, to read the signals of the sea, and the lore of the woods." My experience of boys on holiday, is that they don't want to learn anything. They would a lot rather go to the local skating rink, to say nothing of listening to the niggers, if there happen to be any available. But apart from badinage, this camp holiday is a splendid part of the work we can do for our boys, and if any of your readers would like to know more of the Life Brigade movement, which by the way, is a much larger thing than just a holiday camp, and will make the request to me with a stamped addressed envelope, I will see that they are supplied with information. But the camp is splendid. It is the finest holiday a boy carr have. Beside, it gives his parents a rest.

Yours truly, Oldham. HARRY SUNMAN.

£100 placed to the trust account.—Then a bazaar for the King Street Trust, which ;realized £145 and £100 will be paid off the debt at King Street, leaving only £185 on the building. £10 of the surplus has been voted to the Missionary Debt.

LEEK. THE church at Leek successfully inaugurated a Jubilee

Debt Extinction Scheme by special services on Sunday, June 7th, followed by a re-union tea and meeting on Monday, June 8th. Rev. Dr. Brook, M.A., preached on Sunday morning and evening. His words were full of helpful inspiration, and were greatly appreciated by all our people and by many visitors who came to worship with us. A good company assembled for 'tea on the fol-lowing day, and the meeting held in the evening was enthusiastic and encouraging. An old Bethesda minis-ter, Rev. John Rogers, was the principal speaker, and received a very cordial welcome from many old friends who have pleasant memories of his ministry. Mr. T. C. Warrington, M.A., gave a very interesting résumé of the, Church's history from its foundation. Rev. John Preshous, who presided, set forth the purpose of the cele-bration of the Jubilee, and 'there was a very ready and cheery response, to his appeal for earnest, consecrated effort. At 'the close of the meeting he was able to an-nounce that in promises and gifts the fund stood at about £130. The special services were continued last Sunday by Rev. 'Henry Smith, Connexional Editor and Warden of the Deaconess Institute. Next Sunday the preachers are Mr. T. C. Warrington, M.A., and the pastor, Rev. John Preshous.

LONDON. ON Sunday last Rev. J. Rees Thomas, a minister

from Melbourne (Methodist Church) conducted the ser-vice at Fentiman Road, Brixton Circuit, S.W. It being Hospital Sunday, the subject of the sermon was "Christ's Healing Touch." Mr. Thomas said Method-ism' had a glorious past : it had also a glorious present. What he witnessed not only in his own land but in passing through the United States and Canada, and what he had already seen since being in England, was no uncertain evidence that God is with us. The touch of Christ imparted a new awareness and alertness to the needs of the hour. Methodism stood for Christ as our eternal 'contemporary. Methodism in the hand of Christ was the "live wire." The one thing against which we needed as individuals to watch was lest we

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be wire unelectrified. The forces of evil could not handle, twist, or snap the line that had the living current. For telegraphic or telephonic communication something more than the wire was needed. The wire must be elec-trified or there was no communication. Methodism had the Divine current still." The service was much appre-ciated. Mr. Thomas is on a ten months' tour. After spending a few months in England he purposes to visit several continental countries, returning by way of Pales-tine to Australia.

NOTTINGHAM. A MEETING of the United Methodist Church Coun-

cil was held in the Parliament Street Church, un- der the presidency of Rev. T. Scowby. A com- mittee was appointed to co-operate with the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Churches to further promote the spirit of unity ; to prevent unnecessary overlapping and to unite in aggressive work. Rev. A. J. Summer-field (Wesleyan) .gave a lucid and stimulating address. No doubt the movement will be to the advancement of the Methodist Church as a whole.

PETERBOROUGH. ON Thursday last the annual circuit (lathering was

held in the Westgate Congregational Church, kindly lent, our own being closed for renovation. In the after-noon Rev. Geo. Graves, of Sheffield, preached a deeply-spiritual and soul-stirring sermon. Tea was afterwards provided in the Church Hall, and in the evening Mr. Graves delivered his popular lecture on "Odds and Ends." Mr. J. Harvey, one of our local preachers, •pre-sided. Solos were sung by Miss Emerton and Mr. S. Sindall, Miss Dawson officiating at the organ. The proceeds were in aid of the circuit funds.

SWANSEA. Memorial Stonelaying.

THURSDAY of last week was, at the pastor remarked, one of the great historic days in the life and ministry of our Oxford Street Church. Not for many years have we had such celebrations and such enthusiastic gather-ings as those of Oast week. The event was full of in-terest. For some time new developments in connection with our Sunday School have been under consideration, and last March the trustees accepted the plans and de-cided to go forward. The scheme will provide for a primary department, classrooms, church parlour, etc., and when completed will give splendid facilities for better and greater work. A large gathering rallied for the afternoon ceremony, which was presided over by the pastor, Rev. F. Sparrow. Stones were laid by the fol-lowing : Mr. J. Godfrey, on behalf of the Sunday School ; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Webber, in memory of his parents; Mr. Richard Beynon, in memory of his wife and son ; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bryant, in memory of her parents, Wm. and G. Pile ; Mr.7and Mrs. W. Williams, in memory of Capt. John and Mrs. Bishop ; Mrs. F. Taylor, on behalf of her father, Mr. T. H. Toms ; Master H. P. Bennett, in memory of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Warmington ; Mr. C. Reed, on behalf of his family ; Mr. and Mrs. J. Godfrey ; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jefford ; Leslie and Graham Palmer, on behalf of their parents. Each stone represents a gift of £25, except the Sunday School and the children contributed £10. A delightful feature of the ceremony was the presentation by the architect and builder of silver-mounted mallets to those who laid the stones. These were thanked for their handsome gifts by Mr. J. Godfrey and Mr. C. Reed. After the stonelaying Rev. J. Luke gave a choice and exquisite address on the education and training of the child. After tea came the, demonstration, presided over by Mr. A, Webber, who has been associated with the church for over fifty years. Excellent addresses were given by Dr.. J. 0. Keen (an old pastor), Rev. J. H. Squire, B.A., B.D. (here on holiday), and Rev. J. Luke. The .meeting was one of the finest we have had for a long, long time. Others rendering valuable assistance were Revs. T. L. Roaers and G. W. Hicks. The trustee secretary said the total cost of the new building would be about £650, and the proceedings thus far had realized the record sum of £385, which was far beyond their most optimistic dreams.

Quarterly Meetings. Bnston, The Square.—Rev. G. Whetton in the chair.

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Whetton intimated that he had decided to remain in the circuit until 1920, in accordance with the unanimous vote of the-members at the March and -June quarterly meet-ings. The decision was received with applause. I,t was stated that new trusts had been formed in connection with the .Swineshead Bridge and the Swinshead Fen Houses Churches.

Bradford, Westgate.--Rev. J. Austin in the ch,air. A decrease of 1 full member and 1 on trial was reported. The financial statement showed a balance due to the treasurer of £14 5s. 11d. The spiritual reports from the churches showed a real desire for the quickening of spiritual life. A very full and interesting account of the Distriot Meeting wan. given by Mr. J. Hill, and the missionary report made known that the circuit's mis-sionary contribution had increased by - L2. It was de-cided to arrange for mission services for the winter, to commence with a circuit convention. . Bristol East.—Held at Winterbourne Down. . After the finances were gone through, the most important business of general interest was the consideration of the Home Mission Committee's call to open-air work during the summer. The discussion was interesting and sympathetic, and •ended in a resolve to make a move-ment as a circuit, arranging camp-meetings for the country places, and preaching in the parks for the city portion. After tea there was a public meeting with set subjects for the speaker. Mr. P. H. Taylor spoke on " Our Young People " ; Mr. Fred Robinson on '" Unity, its ideals and advantages"; Rev. E. Jenkins on "Some Signs of the Times," and Rev. W. Tremberth on " Open-air.Evangelism." Mr. S. Shepherd presided. Since the meeting Rev. W. Tremberth, the superintendent minis-ter, has obtained permission of the city authorities tp conduct open-air meetings in Eastville Park, and the circuit will hold its first meeting . on Thursday evening (to-day). The workers are: in hopeful mood.

Hexham.—Rev. E. Bocock presiding. A. standing vote of sympathy was carried to the widow and family of the late senior steward, Mr. T. 'Rowell ; also a vote to Mr. J. Wheatley (father-in-law of Rev. W. A. Todd) laid aside by severe illness. The chairman reported that up to date about £24 had been promised to Mission Debt. Debit balance against circuit to be removed and new levy arranged. Mr. J. E. Hamilton gave report - of Dis-trict Meeting, and moved a vote of . thanks to both re-tiring ministers for their services. An interesting con-versation followed. Agreeably to custom at Hexham the meeting was entertained to tea by Mr. and Mrs. John Dent, who were heartily thanked.

Huddersfield (Crosland Moor).—Presided over by Rev. T. Skillings. A decrease of 4 members was reported. The financial statement showed a balance in hand of

'38. The claims of our denominational literature were urged. Reports of the District Meeting were presented. Arrangements for 'the sectional working of the circuit were completed.

Reighley.—Mr. J. W. Stansfield presided over a large gathering of representatives. The financial report given by the steward (Mr. S. Brown) showed a deficit on the quarter." Interesting reports of the 'District Meeting were given-by Mr. Wm. r'Nixon and Mrs. Stansfield.

Leeds, Wortley and Kirkstall.—'Held at Woodside, Horsforth, Rev. W. J. Clarke presiding. The reports from the churches indicated that good work was being done, and in some cases an improved outlook—this not-ably at Kirkstall, where the church has. been rebuilt and new schools are to be opened in July. The membership returns showed an increase of 5 on the quarter. It was unanimously agreed to receive the Bachelor Lane Church, Horsforth, in 1915, this at the request of that Church and the Bradford, Shearbridge Circuit. This Being the last meeting at which Rev. W. J. Clarke would preside as the superintendent of the circuit, Councillor 173. Lock-wood moved a resolution expressing the great apprecia-tion by the friends of Mr. Clarke's able and devoted ser-vice in every department of his work, special reference being made to his most successful leadership in the re-building and extension of the Kirkstall Church. The meeting was much pleased to know that in retiring from active circuit work Mr. Clarke would reside at Kirkstall, and that arrangements had been made for him to render some further service to that church. Many affectionate references were made to the work of Mr. and Mrs. Clarke. Mr. Clarke's acknowledgement of the resolu-tion was made with deep feeling.

Lindley.—Held at Outlane •, chairman. Rev. A. Gluck. Membership 818, a decrease of 1 ; on trial 93, an increase of 2. Financial statement showed credit balance of Z•16. It was reported to the meeting that Rev. E. E. Lark, of Truro, had consented to succeed Mr. Jones as minis-. ter at Paddock. Interesting and cheering deports were given by the delegates of the Halifax and Bradford District Meeting. Rev. M. W. Chandler was heartily thanked for, his services in the circuit during the last five years.

Liverpool North.—Chairman, Rev. Bruce W. Rose. Representatives were appointed on a committee consist-ing of representatives from each of the local circuits to consider whether it was practicable to make a re-al-range-rnent of such circuits and to secure a more equitable dis- tribution of ministerial service. Mr. R. H. Roberts having recently left hiverpool to take' up his residence in Newton Abbot, a very warm tribute was paid to the many and valuable services rendered by him to the circuit and our local churches generally. Mr. Roberts was one of the most acceptable local preachers in the district, and his pulpit appearances were greatly appreciated. He was for many years the superintendent of Hamilton- Road Sunday School and a circuit officer. The generosity and faithfulness of the Roberts family to our churches has many times been recorded in the annals of our circuit and also of the denomination, and the circuit deeply regrets the departure of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Roberts and their son to Devonshire. At Hamilton Road Church especially will their loss be felt, as they have been associated with this place of worship since their earliest days. Many

brethren joined in presenting a cordial vote. of 'thanks to Rev. R. T. Rowley for his ,three years' faithful and devoted Work in the circuit, and wishing him prosperity and Divine blessing in hs future labour for our cause.

Poynton.—Chairmlan, Rev. - James Mitchell. In the absence, through continued illness, of Mr. Enoch• Wain-wright, 'Mr. Frank Higginbotham was appointed steward pro. tern., and a letter of sympathy was directed to be sent to Mr. Wainwright. The resolutions of the District Meeting were received, and a report of the proceedings at the meeting was given by Mr. Joseph Higginbotham, the circuit secretary. The financial statement showed a balance in hand of„- .4 17s. lid., and the spiritual report was given by representatives of the churches:

Sheffield, Hanover. The chair was occupied by Rev. Francis Marrs. It was clecided,to agree to the inter-chanFe of pulpits amongst the seven United Methodist circuits on the second Sunday in January next for the evening service. The claims of the Yorkshire Mission were strongly urged, and it was decided to take col-lections at the churches throughout the circuit on behalf of the work. Mr. G. H. Barker, after two years' pro-bation, was received as a fully-accredited local preacher, Rev. F. 'Marrs conducting the dedication service, and pre-senting him with a revised edition of the Bble: The mis-sionary report for the year showed the amount raised by the circuit was £342 5s. 101d., an increase on last year. Satisfactory reports were given of the juvenile missionary department, and Mr. J. W. Crowson was engaged for another year. Resolutions. of high appreciation and re-gard for devoted services were passed in regard to Rev. 'rancis Marrs, who after five years as superintendent of the circuit, leaves for Manchester ; Rev. George Graves, who after seven years at •Heeley, leaves for Bristol ; and Rev. J. W. Lowe, who after three years, leaves for Park-gate.

Tamivorth.—Rev. R. Percival presided. The secretary announced - that the amount promised by the circuit to-wards the Missionary Debt Extinction Fund was 1 •119 3s. 6d., of which £111 ls. had been paid. The meeting decided 'to make some suitable testimonial to Mr. J. P..Wation and Mr. T. M. Sadler, the two ex-stewards of the circuit, as a recognition for their past services:;Both Rev. R. Percival and Rev. J. Chinn received invitations to remain in the circuit for a fourth year, till 1916. - .Mr. S. Johnson presented the stewards' accounts showing a 'balance in hand of £14 14s. lid.

Anniversary. Frodsham (Dunham Hill).—The presence of a former

minister, Rev. J. Slack, of Riddings, combined with the ideal brightness of the day, drew together a record con-gregation at the Sunday School anniversary, in which each church in the circuit wad represented. The singing as usual was an attractive feature, led by Mr. R. Jeffs, of l-Iapsford Hall. The, collection was substantially in advance of last year.

Liverpool (Lawrence Road)..—At the Sunday School anniversary services the preacher morning and evening was Rev. S. C. Challenger (Nottingham), who gave in-spiring addresses to good congregations. At the after-noon service, over which Rev. W. Wilby presided, Misses C. Powleson and D. RUddlesden rendered their prize (Wet, "Stars of Earth," and special singing was given by the children. On 'Monday, after tea, there was a public meeting, when a cantata was given by the scholars, the conductor being 'Mr. R. Nicholson and the organist Mr. A. Hulme. Revs. S. C. Challenger and W. Wilby spoke. Tile treasurer (Mr. W. Stewart) announced that the financial result of the anniversary Was the highest for some years.

Newcastle Children's Mission.—At the Sunday School _ anniversary Dr. Townsend and Rev. R, J. Fletcher were, the .preachers. On the morning of the first Sunday a sacramental -service-was held. In the afternoon n special service for young people was presided over by Mr. Geo. Dixon (Walker). At night a musical service was enjoyed by a large company of young people. On the following Sunday flower services were held, and the three services were an inspirtation and delight. The prize distribution took place on the second Monday, when the members of the Snowdrop Guild and Legion of Honour gave a con-cert, and Mr. Mowbray Thompson, who prelsided, pre-sented prizes to nearly 100 scholars. Long service, pro-ficiency, and ambulance badges and certificates Were pre-sented to members of the Boys' Brigade.

General. London (Poplar). — On a recent Sunday the • pastor,

Rev. A. H. Headley, asked for a special, thankoffering, and the sum of about £22 was contributed, almost all by our own people. The outlook - brightens at this old church in the East End.

London (Bermondsey).—In spite of the great thunder-storm 'on Sunday afternoon last the. Manor men met in the Park and during a lull held their Park meeting—even then the "outsider" was present to hear the address. The meeting holds an unbroken record.

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