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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.

PAGE Notes by the Way .. 329 Our London Letter By W. Kaye Dunn, B.A. ... . 330 The Late Rev..). Stuttard . 1. 330 Correspondence _ 330, 332, 333, 334, 335, 338 United Methodist *Table Talk. 331 Our Provincial Letter. By Bruce W. Rose •.:: -. 331 News of Our Churches 332, 334, 341 Off to China. By S. E. D. ..

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• ... 332 Letters to Young Ministers. IV. To Visit or Not to Visit.

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... 333 Indentured Labour in East Africa. By W. Udy Bassett ... 333 The Social Outlook. By Bramwell Dutton . .. 334 Letters of Christopher Hunt 337 James Harrison Rigg, D.D. By Wm. Wahin.shaw..• .. 337 International Lesson. etc. 1.. 33.8, 339 The Chariots of the Lord By Joseph Hocking ... 340

Notes by the Way. WE earnestly invite the attention of all our

readers, in London and in the provinces alike, to the Missionary Demonstration which is to be held

in the City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, The. next Monday afternoon and evening. City Temple The afternoon meeting is specifically Meetings. in the interests of Home Missionary

work, and will be presided over by Councillor Wm. Brettle, J.P., of Nottingham, and addressed by the Revs. G. Hooper, Henry James, and J. Moore. Miss Elsie Neden will be the soloist. In the evening the singing will be led by a large United Choir, which will render three choruses, with Mr. George Coles as soloist. Dr. Townsend is to be in the chair and addresses will be delivered by Principal H. S. Redfern, of Ningpo, Dr. George Hanson, of Marylebone Presbyterian Church, the Rev. F. J. Dymond, of Chao Tong, the Rev. C. Stedeford, and others. All the members of our London churches are earnestly urged to endeavour to be present, and visitors from the provinces will be very specially welcomed.

IT should not be forgotten that whilst this Demonstration is -held in London it is not a London Demonstration but a denominational one. It is-held

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missionary zeal among our churches, and to provide a means whereby the funds of our missionary society may be enriched. All three objects are of special and interrelated importance ; but we are at this precise moment exceedingly anxious that the third object should not be forgotten. Our funds are much in need of help and it behoves us not to let pass the present opportunity of giving that help. Will as many of our friends as possible, between now and Monday, kindly send contributions, great or small, to the Rev. C. H. Poppleton, 202 Portway, West Ham, London, E. ? Much will have to be done before the amount of last year even is reached.

THE natural shortage of wheat through the last harvest being smaller than usual has naturally tended to send up the price of bread during the last

few weeks. After the privations Gambling which the winter's lamentable lack in Food. of employment has brought with it,

this is nothing short of a calamity for the poor, and one would have thought that this aspect of the matter would have appealed to every heart. But greed of gold eviscerates men and makes them willing to profit by the very miseries of men and women and little children. So a certain Mr. Patten, of Chicago, has been conducting what is called a bull operation in wheat, that is, he has been buying or obtaining control of immense supplies,

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present or prospective, which he is keeping off the market in order that the price may rise and he may sell at a large profit.. Rumour says that already he has " made " a million of money by his nefarious and inhuman traffic in the hunger of his fellows. It is not rumour that the price of the four pound loaf rose one halfpenny in London on Monday. We hope we are not unchristian, but we cannot help endorsing the language of the " Westminster Gazette " when it says, " We heartily wish Mr. Patten every kind of disaster in his conscienceless attempt to squeeze vast wealth out of the necessities of the poor, and as we read the account of his proceedings it occurs to us that modern states may some day, like ancient ones, have to find means of protecting the defence-less millions against forestallers and regraters." We say an emphatic Amen to that sentence and especially to the last part of it. It ought to be counted a crime for men to gamble in the food of the nation. Individualism is one thing ; individual-ism become a national peril and menace is another thing.

THE past week has been a dark one for those who, like ourselves, regarded the Young Turk movement as ushering in the dawn of a new and

brighter day for the unhappy empire The Counter.. of Turkey. We had all hoped that Revolution at long last the world had seen what In Turkey. it believed to be impossible — a

revolution at once sudden, peaceful and effective. It looks as if that hope were in grave peril to-day. It was only possible through the action of the army : now the action of part of the army is making it impossible. The Young Turks' government has been grievously displaced by a government of reaction and the tool of that man of diabolical clever-ness, the Sultan of Turkey. As we write there are rumours of soldiers marching from Salonica in defence of the deposed Government and of troops summoned by the Sultan from Asia Minor in support of the new Government. Whether the revolution is at an end is not absolutely certain ; what seems certain is that in any case, lost or won, it may not after all be a bloodless one. Strange that, as the Authorized Version puts it, " every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood " ; strange that humanity can be redeemed and move forward towards its happier shores only as the tides move—over many obstructions and with many a resurge and set back. But as surely as the tides do move forward—Canute or Abdul Hamid notwithstanding — under the pull of planetary powers, so surely shall the waters of freedom lave and cleanse and vivify every shore and nation. Tyranny and Abdul are for a while : truth and liberty are for ever. So we shall do well to hope on. As we go to press the army under the Young Turks beleaguers Constantinople and the fate of the Sultan is in question.

* * * * * ON Tuesday Mr. Asquith introduced into the

House of Commons a Bill for the Disestablishment and partial Disendowment of the Church of England

in Wales and Monmouth. Among Welsh Dis- other things it involves the vacating establishment by the present four bishops of their Bill. seats in the House of Lords ; the

cessation of all patronage, public and private ; the appointment of new bishops in future by the Crown, only on the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury or of three Welsh bishops ; the creation of separate Welsh Synods. Cathedrals will be State property but left for the use of the disestablished Church, though the parish churches and the incumbents' residences will be the absolute property of the Church, while the burial grounds will be handed over to the parish or urban authority, all public and private rights •being ex-pressly reserved. The Bill will be welcomed by Wales, and though there is no prospect of its pass-ing into law this session—or any other while the anomalous and sectarian power of the House of Lords continues, we hope it will be given 'a second reading by an overwhelming majority. Nothing less than such a Bill will do justice to the unanimous and ardent demands of the overwhelming majority of the Welsh people. We note with interest that the Opposition met the Bill with a dilatory motion only and not a direct one.

* * * * * SOME months ago our greatly respected and able.

East Africa missionary, the Rev. J. B. Griffiths, and others, referred to "Indentured Labour " as

obtaining in East Africa. The Rev. Indentured James Harrison, who is an enthu- Labour in siast for missions, was perplexed by East Africa. the reference, because nowhere in

the publications in his possession,

Governmental or other, could he find any allusion to indentured labour conditions in East Africa, and in a communication which appeared in our columns in February last he reproduced a letter from one of our Government departments saying that " no in-dentured labour has been introduced into East Africa." On another page we print a letter from the Rev. W. Udy Bassett, another of our East Africa missionaries, on the point. The phrase " Indentured Labour " has associations which affect its connotation to different minds. There is nothing in East African labour conditions which runs on all-fours with Indentured Labour as we have known it among the Chinese in the Transvaal ; but - some labour conditions in East Africa evidently have characteristics which warrant both Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Bassett in applying the adjective indentured to them. As a matter of fact there is indentured labour it seems in East Africa ; and as described by Mr. Bassett it is an ugly-looking thing, too ; but it is evidently not what the Government department quoted above means by indentured labour and pos-sibly not what Mr. Harrison understands by it. It is clear that the matter cannot be further elucidated in our columns by a correspondence carried on between writers in England and East Africa. The sort of thing Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Bassett under-stand by Indentured Labour is described for us in Mr. Bassett's letter, and there at present, so far as we are concerned, the matter may, we think, rest.

Our London Letter. MIGHTY moral issues are at stake. Thank God many eyes see what is now going on.

I make no apology for returning to the fray, and now for the rest of this London Letter other pens shall have my space.

W. KAYE DUNN. *

"Sir Edward Grey shows that the modern states-men have failed," writes the " Nation," in an article on "The Bankruptcy of Statesmanship." "Well, they did not always fail," it continues. "There were those who made a real impression on the Europe of their day, and who, by mere force of personality raised the standard of nations. As long as Gladstone lived, it was felt throughout the world that in every crisis there was one voice that would be raised for the righteousness which in international relations is the sole alternative to force and fear.

" Gladstone could make his protest not only because he was a man of great powers—powers which it is not in men to command—but far more because he had a trust, which is not beyond the capacity of contemporary statesmen. He trusted the British people, and among them, above all, he trusted British Liberalism to respond to his call, and he was rarely deceived, and never wholly disappointed.

" While Gladstone lived the great Liberal Party of this country was an organized expression of the moral force which alone can break through the meshes of militarist delusion.

"Liberalism lives by moral force, by humanitarian feeling and by the bracing tonic of the conflict.

"There exists in the Liberal party of to-day, and in the ranks of organized labour all the world over, latent but real, the same feeling for peace and the things that make for peace; the same readiness to respond to guidance in the paths of international sanity, to weather the storms of the Press and the pavement, the same willingness to maintain, and the same capacity to carry through to success, the old battle against international hatred as the main obstacle to domestic progress. The forces are there. They only need the inspiring voice and the guiding hand."

* * * * * "Nothing has done more to damage this Govern-

ment than its lack of courage," says the "British Weekly," discussing. the situation. " Ever since the day that Mr. Birrell's Bill was allowed to perish in the dark, without any attempt being made to use the constitutional powers to the end, the prestige of the Government has gone down and down. The timidity and silence with which the rejection of the Licensing Bill was received by Ministers dealt another blow, almost fatal. Men said to themselves everywhere that there was no fight in this Government.

"The Liberal Party needs a great Leader to-day —daring, adventurous, enthusiastic, a. master of strategy, and a Captain in battle. During its whole history the Liberal Party has never been so near complete extinction in Parliament as it is to-day."

* * * * * " More than once during this past week I have

felt that if there were a three-cornered election here my vote might go to the. Socialist. I am not a Socialist, but I am absolutely sure that if socialism meant the worst that its enemies ever predicted, the results would not be a thousandth part as horrible and as wicked as a European war would be. All too tardily is the Government recognizing the neces. sity of firmness against the criminal lunatics who are abroad. I fervently hope they will refuse to enlarge or anticipate their naval programme. if not, I cannot help remembering that the Socialists at least stand for the essential Christian doctrine of the brotherhood of nations as against the bastard patriotism which says, " Thou shalt love thyself and hate thy neighbour." And if the other parties forget the supreme duty of seeking peace and pursuing it, / must find a party that remembers it."

James Hope Moulton, of Didsbury College, in the " Manchester Guardian."

The Late Rev. J. Stuttard. MR. F. BRADLEY, Pendlebury, writes :- I was very much upset on opening my UNITED

METHODIST last week to find the announcement of the death of the Rev. J. Stuttard. In your notice no mention is made of the fact that he laboured in the Salford Cir-cuit, and amongst our members here, the news of his death has been received with great sorrow. We knew him as a lovable man and fine preacher. His love of preaching was very marked. On one occasion he told us at a preachers' meeting that he was going for his usual holiday, and intimated that he had a preaching appointment during same. When it was suggested that he ought to rest during the holiday, he remarked, "that he had never had a holiday without a preaching appoint-ment, and hoped he never should, preaching was his forte." He was a teacher of homiletics, and as such laboured amongst our students at College some years ago. In this capacity he was very helpful to local preachers, and if the experience of other Circuits was like that of Salford, the "locals" will feel that they have lost a good friend.

The editor of the " Hexham Courant " wrote the fol-lowing in the leader columns of his last issue :—

"The death of the Rev. - John Stuttard is a loss not only to the West End Church, but to the town generally. His death has evoked universal regret, and the large and representative attendance at the funeral on Satur-day showed the marked esteem in which he was held by all classes of the conimunity. The Rev. C. H. Hocken, preaching in the Wesleyan Church on Sun-day morning, voiced the feelings of his congregation in expressing their sincere sympathy with the deceased gentlemen's relatives and the church of which he was the beloved pastor. Of the late Mr. Stuttard it may be said : To him that loves the light of breaking dawn the dawn

will break anew, And he that does his best, leaves naught undone that

man can do." Many expressions of sympathy from local churches

have reached Mrs. Stuttard.

Hired Local Preachers.

SIR,—Having read with deep interest the letters which have appeared in your excellent paper on the above subject, I am anxiously awaiting some additional light to be thrown upon the same, for the benefit of those who, like myself, are comparative strangers to the system. Nothing approximating to such a system existed in the late B.C. section, and I have failed to gather that it prevailed among the late M.N.C.,,and have only made the acquaintance of it in the late U.M.F.C.

In each letter we have been informed that the recom-mendation of the Committee to be submitted to the forth-coming Conference is an injustice to the brethren con-cerned, which from my point of view • casts a grave re-flection upon the work of the Committee. It is such an easy thing to censure the Committee, but from DIY knowledge of its members I am fully persuaded that the question in all its bearings received their most care-ful consideration. My object , in writing is to obtain, if possible, more light upon the subject, in order that the 400 members of the Conference may be able to cast their vote intelligently, and I shall be glad if any of your

readers can inform us : (1) How many Hired Local Preachers were erhployed

at the time of the Union with ten 'years' efficient ministry'

behind them? (2) What status and security of tenure had they prior

to the Union? 1

Light upon the foregoing may help us to discover the injustice complained of.

I am, faithfully yours, St. Clear, Liskeard. C. G. WEETMAN'

[Perhaps some official who can speak with authoritr. Y

—ED. U.M.3 on the subject will kindly answer Mr. Weetman's tette

April 22, 1909. . THE UNITED METHODIST. 331

PERSONAL. The Rev. W. Locke Smith has been elected

President of the Lowestoft Free Church Council.

Mr. Sam Brooks, a worker in connection with our Bolton Circuit and brother of the Rev. J. B. Brooks, of Halifax, has been elected a labour member of the Radcliffe District Council for the Black Lane Ward.

NIr. John Dodson, sen., steward in Norwich Cir-cuit and ex-sheriff of the city, has just been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the city.

Congratulations to these friends on their new honours.

On Easter Tuesday, the day Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher Jones and Mrs. Hedley sailed for China, the Rev. F. B. Turner was expecting to leave Tientsin for his railway journey to England via Siberia. He hopes to arrive by the boat train at Charing Cross to-morrow week, and to proceed to Sheffield on the Saturday or the Monday following.

By the will of the late Rev. I. B. Vanstone the Preachers' Annuitant Society of the late B.C. sec-tion benefits to the amount of £50.

Under the will of the late Mrs. Payne, of Kings-brompton, £330, with two years' interest thereon, is given to our West China Mission, and £600 is given to seven of the local preachers in the circuit, viz., Messrs. T. Blackwell, R. Melluish, J. Quick, S. Coles, R. Chidgey, W. Steer and T. Priscott.

Miss Boyd Bayly, the authoress of " Jonathan Merle," has written another volume, which Messrs. Jarrold and Sons promise for early publication. The story, which is entitled " Nancy. and Her Small Holdings," deals with the struggle of a newly-wedded village " couple " who, starting with the acquirement of a small holding, by dint of real grit develop into prosperous farmers. The story is told with the usual charm and style of the gifted authoress.

The Rev. W. T. Shapley, who was a Bible Chris-tian before the Union, and is, we understand, about to visit England, has spent twenty-one years in Australia, says the Rev. W. F. James, of South Australia. He superintended several circuits in South Australia. After Union he did good circuit work in this state and rendered valuable service as Foreign Missionary Secretary. Some five years ago he was transferred to Queensland and now super-intends one of the most important circuits in the state. He is also member of the Executive, Exam-ining and Advisory COmmittees, and has been Book Steward for three years.

* * * * * "ENCOURAGING OUR SIDE."

Mr. Robert Lawson, who is an active worker at our aggressive and successful Dewsbury Road Church, Leeds, writes :

" It is not much I can do on the literary field ; I'm as helpless here as I am sure I should be on the football field. But I am eager to encourage our side ' on the denominational weekly field,

especially when they deserve it. And this they do, beyond the power of my poor pen. What I want to say is : Well done, Mr. Editor ! We're proud :3f you, and we're proud of your men, especially the regulars.' The letters from London,' Hudders-

field,' Old Clarendon,' and The Ancient ' are just splendid. The International Lesson, Primary De-partment, and C.E. Prayer Meeting Topics, I am sure, could not be in better hands. Again I say, Well done all of you."

DEATH OF DR. RIGG. We deeply sympathize with the immediate rela-

tives and also with the Wesleyan Methodist Church in the great loss which has befallen them in the death of the venerable Rev. Dr. Rigg last Saturday. He has counted for much in the history of Method-ism since the stormy days of 1849. On the whole he has been a conservative but progressive Method-ist statesman. The disruption period in Methodism, as he confessed in his Encyclopaedia Britannica article, taught his church and other churches much.. It taught him even more. He discerned with clearest vision that the policy of Wesleyan Methodism which produced the disruptive proceedings of the thirties and the forties of last century was an impossible policy for the new times, and with wonderful Prescience and rare skill he set himself to the task of reshaping that policy so as to meet its new needs and spirit. It will be to his lasting honour that he did this in a way which, whilst effectual, involved a minimum of friction in Wesleyan Methodism. He

introduced a leaven which is still working on and will work long after his death, more and more pre-paring for the time when there shall be only one Methodism in the British Isles. No man understood the peculiar genius of Methodism better than he did, and it was fitting that the last thing he pub-lished should be a pamphlet on the class meeting as a means of nurturing the ethos and essential spirit of the Methodist form of Christianity. In his death one of the greatest of Methodist statesmen passes from this mortal scene.

* * * * * SHERNHALL STREET, WALTHAMSTOW.

As will be seen by an advertisement in another column the ceremonies in connection with the open-ing of the new Sunday Schools and Institute take place on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday of next week, at Shernhall Street, Wal-thamstow. This effort to provide adequately at once for the children and for " the man in the street " is admirable, and we hope it will be attended with great success from the beginning.

* * * * * PRIMITIVE METHODIST MEMBERSHIP.

The " Primitive Methodist Leader " of the past few weeks has been giving the returns of member-ship which are to be presented to Conference. We regret to see that on the returns from the British Stations there is a net decrease of 120. "These figures are certain to be modified," says a writer in the " Primitive Methodist Leader," " but at present there seems little hope of a decrease being avoided. This calls for enquiry but not for pessimism."

* * * * * NEW EDITION OF TUNE BOOK.

Friends who use the excellent Tune Book origin-ally published by the U.M.F.C. Book Room should notice that our Publishing House has just issued a very handy and dainty edition on thin paper, in superior cloth and with red burnished edges, at 7s. 6d. It is only half the bulk of the older editions of this Tune Book, and will be found very accept-able. Two tunes not found in the first issues are found in this, viz., " Hollingside " for " Jesu, Lover of my soul," and " Melita," set to " Eternal Father, strong to save."

* * * * * CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

The Rev. R. Pyke, Perry Lodge, Allenby Road, Forest Hill, S.E.

* * * * * The " Pocket Guide to May Meetings and to

London" for 1909 (J. E. May, 68 Fleet Street E.C., id., per post 2id.) contains, inter alia : (1) Copy-right coloured map showing the elevations of Lon-don's principal buildings ; (2) an indexed list of meetings and sermons ; (3) a list of (a) cab fares, (b) exhibitions and museums, (c) churches, etc. A most useful publication for its purpose.

* * * * * ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

D. H. P. : Sorry we have not room for your letter. We have not room for a general discussion of the questions raised by you.

E. L. B., Brotton, Clovelly : Thank you for your letter. We note the point you make. But there are still local preachers trained and at work in many towns though undoubtedly the great majority of them are found in country Circuits. We have forwarded your letter to our contributor.

Our Provincial Letter. THE SOVEREIGN INTEREST OF THE

CHURCH. DEAR MR. EDITOR,—When last Thursday's issue

reached me, I was reading Mr. Mott's brief but weighty book on "The' Future Leadership of the Church." I join the Rev. G. G. Hornby in an earnest hope the contents of this thought-compelling volume will be read by all who have our denomina-tion at heart. On turning to the paper, however, my eye caught the headline which sent me sadly and speedily to the page which told the passing of John Stuttard. My memory called up the tall, spare figure, with clear, searching eyes no spectacles could dim, as I last heard him preach at Whitley Bay, on those "who passing through the valley. of Baca make it a well." How many men have opened a sermon on this text with the words : " Etymolo-gically considered, the word Baca is a well indeed from which we propose this morning to draw water for our refreshing "? For half an_ hour we drank deep of the draughts he brought up, for John

Stuttard was a studious worker, who always had something to draw with. We have lost a man of rare gifts, a circuit minister whose pulpit was royally occupied in loyal service for " another King —one Jesus."

A few sentences from Mr. Mott's book may here serve the double purpose of indicating Brother Stuttard's vision and outlook to those who knew him not, and provoking some timely reflections. We cannot look upon the Conference roll of losses thus far among our laity and ministry, without con-sidering what Mr. Mott considers the sovereign interest of the church, viz., leadership. Without doubt our late friend would have subscribed to these words—nay; one might almost accept them as his testament to the churches, remembering his pre scient eye :

" I want to live," said Phillips Brooks, shortly before his death, and gave as his reason that the next twenty years would offer greater opportunities for the Christian minister than any other like period in history. In vital importance there is no work comparable to the Christian ministry : to preach Christ : to lead men to become dis-ciples of Christ as their Divine Saviour and Lord : to build them up in Christian faith and Christian charac-ter : to minister to them in the deepest experiences of life : to enlist, train, and inspire Christian workers : to organize and administer the varied activities of the Church. For men who are really capable there are more great openings in this service of the Christian Church than in any other department of the modern world (pp. 15, 16).

It is refreshing to find this purple note struck by an advocate of the place of the Church in the world. Too often the call to the ministry is in grey, unheroic colour that makes the rising man-hood of our church, which is intent on doing, being and achieving, think that here is no call to the heights resplendent. President Eliot, of Harvard, whose name has been in the press recently as a possible American ambassador, said recently :

The ministry does not hold the high place in the social organization which it used to hold, and the other professions, learned or scientific, have stronger attrac-tions for well-bred and well-trained young men of force and character.

Probably one great reason of this is that we have not as human agents painted and appealed after the manner of Christ. Garibaldi offered men wounds, and men followed. Do we not need in our churches to appeal for both lay and ministerial leaders to come forth to service with the fact before us that there is a sense in which Jesus calls to the heroic in youth ? It may stimulate our able young men to remember that Christ, in Shakespeare's line,

Comes to ope The purple testament of bleeding war.

If our people will see this they will respond to Mr. Warrington's hint that "the thoroughness of the education of our ministry depends upon the wishes of our people as a whole," by " concentrating on one College," and THAT SOON, because they realize the "paramount importance of our sovereign interest—leaders." Let there be no mistake here—half measures spell disaster. Any temporary scheme should be the nave of a whole cathedral we mean soon to build.

(1) Why? The sovereign interest of our Church is a ministry of strong men. " To secure able men for the Christian ministry is an object of transcend-ent, urgent and world-wide concern. It involves the life, the growth,. the extension of the Church—the future of Christianity itself " (Mott, p. 3). " It is evident that no society of men can hold together and realize great objects without thoroughly qualified leaders. The Church of Christ is no excep-tion : Wherever the Church has proved inadequate it has been due to inadequate leadership " (p. 4).

(2) This sovereign interest determines our lay leaders. " Unless there be an adequate increase of able young men entering the ministry, the Church will soon cease to have strong laymen. Strong men are needed to influence strong men " (p. 60).

(3) It determines our 'denominational service to the nation and the world. " If Christianity is to guide and inspire the great cities, more of the ablest young men must devote themselves to leader-ship of. the Church. The cities are stategic posi- tions " (p. 30-32). "The rural population also requires men equally capable and profoundly im-pressed with this problem, willing, like Kingsley, to regenerate a little patch of moorland " (p. 38). And the problem of foreign missions is on the home field awaiting the large man at home, who thinks in world-terms of the obligations created by that religion which is the sovereign interest of man, calling to-day for our choicest sons.

Yours fraternally, BRUCE W. Ron.

United Methodist Table Talk.

332 THE UNITED METHODIST. April 22, 1909.

MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS. Rev. Henry Faull has accepted an invitation to Eccles

Church, Manchester South Circuit, from next Confer-ence.

Rev. B. J. Ratcliffe has accepted an invitation to the Birmingham, Small Heath, Circuit, for 1910. Rev. E. H. Smith remains in the Circuit another year.

Rev. W. Locke Smith has accepted a cordial invitation to remain in the Lowestoft Circuit a fourth year, till 1911.

Rev. W. H. Lockley has accepted a unanimous invita-tion to remain in the Stockport Circuit a fifth year, till Conference 1911; and Rev. J. S. Hockin will succeed the Rev. J. B. Goodhand in the same Circuit at next Con-ference.

Rev. H. Bolitho has accepted an invitation to remain at Bath Street, Poplar, for a third year, ending 1911.

BLACKPOOL. StOIlelayillg ON Good Friday a further stage in the of New progress of Blackpool United Methodism Church. was reached, when the foundation stones

of a new church in Newton Drive (Layton) were laid. The success of the work in this district is such that ampler accommodation is a matter of urgency. Since the cause was started this neighbourhood has developed considerably, and spurred on by a grant of £650 from the Extension Fund, the little band of workers has entered into the task of building a new edifice with enthusiasm. Accommodation will be pro-vided for 500 worshippers, and the new church will cost (exclusive of site which is already paid for) about ?62,500.

Lovely weather favoured the event, and there was a large crowd gathered round the site. The Rev. C. M. Shaw directed the proceedings, and was supported by the Revs. George Jobling (pastor at Layton), Bramwell Dutton and F. J. Wharton (formerly of Blackpool), David Heath, W. Francis, J. Gibson, and J. S. Balmer; while among the prominent laymen present were Coun-cillor W. P. Burnley, J. P., Mr. S. Newton, J.P. (Ash-ton), and Mr. Robert Turner (Rochdale). Foundation stones (representing £50 each) were laid by Mrs. John Crosland (on behalf of Springfield Road Church), Mr. J. Sackree (on behalf of Layton Sunday School), Mrs. S. Newton, Miss Lumb, Mrs. W. Wild, the Rev. J. S. Balmer (on behalf of friends), Mr. J. W, Crowther, Mrs. C. M. Shaw (on behalf of friends), Mr. G. H. Ridsdale (on behalf of Layton Church), and Mr. B. Revill (for Springfield Road School). Each of these ladies and gentlemen was presented with a trowel by Mr. H. I. Wilson, Mrs. H. I. Wilson, the Rev. C. M. Shaw, Mr. H. Gosling, Miss Elsie Wild, Mrs. Hadley, Mr. William Wilson (Preston), Mrs. Bragg, Mr. J. Turner, and Mr. H. Moodycli ffe respectively. The Rev. George Jobling having presented a brief report, the Rev. Bramwell Dutton delivered an interesting and characteristic ad-dress, after which tea was provided in the school. A public meeting was held in the evening, and was of a most enthusiastic character. Mr. Bold Aldred presided over a large attendance, and addresses were given by the Rev. F. J. Wharton, the Rev. W. J. Boote (Wes-leyan), the Rev. S. Gamble-Walker (Congregational), the Rev. B. Dutton, and Mr. S. Newton. The latter generously gave a sum of £13 16s. 11d. to make the day's collections up to £50. The total proceeds, includ-ing grant, stonelaying, donations, tea and collections, amounted to £1,268. Solos were rendered at the eve-ning meeting by Madame Susie Higson and Mr. Will Crumblehulme, while the choir (under Mr. W. L. Crumblehulme) rendered a couple of anthems. The whole proceedings were most enthusiastic and encourag-ing. [Well done, Layton !—En., U.M.]

BOSTON. Death of THE death of Mr. Philip Clark, senior, an Octo- formerly of Spalding, took place at his genariaii. residence, 59 Liquorpond Street, Boston,

on Friday week. Had he lived until the following day Mr. Clark would have reached his eighty-ninth birthday. Born at Tydd St. Mary, the deceased gentleman only received three days' schooling in his life. At the age of eight, he commenced work at 4d. a day, and when old enough went to farm service. Having saved a little money, over half a century ago, he entered upon a small holding at Spalding, and afterwards purchased the house and land now owned and occupied by Mr. Thorpe, on the Cowbit Road, Spald-ing, where he lived for many years, in fact, until he retired, from active business. A few years ago he went to live at Boston, and on the occasion of the recent celebration of the coming into force of the Old Age Pensions Act, he was one of the invited guests and en-joyed the distinction of being the oldest gentleman pre-sent. Mr. Clark was one of the original members of the United Methodist Church' at Spalding, and an origi-nal trustee of the Crescent Church. The funeral took place at Spalding, the body being taken by road, the 1:ev. G. Whetton, of Boston, officiating.

CHELSTON, TORQUAY. Memorial A FIRST step in the scheme for the im- Stonelaying. provement of our Chelston estate was

taken on Easter Wednesday when the memorial stone of a new school was laid. The opening part of the ceremony was held in the chapel, presided over by Mr. J. Hepworth, after which an adjournment took place to the site at the rear. Mrs. Hepworth laid the memorial stone, and over a score of bricks were laid by children of the school. We were favoured with beautiful weather, and a goodly number of people wit-nessed the ceremony.

After tea a public meeting was held, presided over by Mr. J. Bradbury. Two helpful and stirring addresses were given by the Revs. W. Treffry and E. M. Moyle, and Mrs. Dyer contributed to the pleasure of the eve-ning by two well-rendered solos. Total proceeds for the day were upwards of 4'55. On completion-of the school the friends hope to commence the renovation of the church.

STAPLEFORD. Twenty-live AT the Circuit quarterly meeting, Mr. Years a J. E. Daily was presented with an illu- Circuit minated address and a purse of gold in Steward. recognition of his faithful and efficient

services as secretary ever since the forma-tion of the Circuit twenty-five years ago. Every church in the Circuit subscribed to the testimonial, and the treasurer, Mr. George Smith, was selected to make the presentation, having been a co-steward for many years. This pleasant duty was performed at the tea table in a happy and appropriate manner. After expressing his thanks for these tokens of confidence and appreciation, Mr. Dailey gave several interesting reminiscences of his official connection with the Circuit, pointing out speci-ally the marked growth of all the places on the plan during that period. In the concluding words of the address, it is hoped that Mr. Daily may continue yet many years to serve the Church of his birth and choice.

STOCKPORT. Circuit THE centenary of the 'Stockport Circuit Centenary has been suitably and enthusiastically Celebrations. celebrated. Four former ministers of the

Circuit conducted services on the Sunday : Rev. G. S. Hamby, at Mourit Tabor; Rev. G. W. Crutchley, at Portwood ; Rev. J. A. Bedward, at Hand forth ; and Rev. J. S. Jones, at Cheadle Heath. A Circuit Young People's demonstration was held in the afternoon at Mount Tabor, presided over by Mr. Joseph Goodison, and addressed by the Revs. G. W. Crutchley and J. S. Jones. A public tea, on the Monday, was followed by a splendid meeting at Mount Tabor. Members were pre-sent from all the churches in the Circuit. In the much-regretted absence of Councillor R. Johnson, J.P., the Circuit treasurer, the chair was taken by Mr. John Henshaw. Addresses, mainly of a reminiscent charac-ter, were given • by the Revs. G. S. Hamby, W. H. Lockley, J. A. Bedward, and J. S. Jones, Messrs. W. Lister, J.P., and George Gee. Highly-appreciative references were made during the evening to the series of lectures recently given by the _Rev. W. H. Lockley on "The Story of the Stockport Circuit," and it is hoped that they will be published. This old and loyal Circuit has won for itself a splendid position in town and district, and was never more vigorous than to-day. Rich as its history is, its members do not spend too' much time in looking backward : they fervently anticipate even better days ahead.

WINSFORD. Sunday THE foundation, stones have been laid in School connection with the extension of the Sun- Extension. day School of our High Street Church.

The extension, which faces Baker's Lane, has been rendered necessary owing to the limited accom-modation in the present school. At present the average attendance is about 450, and classes have to be held in the chapel and vestry. Instead of having one large room, the new building will be divided up into class-rooms. The total cost of the work, including furniture, etc., will be about £1,200, towards which- there was a sum of £320 in the bank prior to Monday. The Rev. E. Lang presided, and was supported by the Revs. W. H. S. Snow (Sandbach), G. G. Whitfield and F. W. Henshall. The hymn "Except the Lord the temple build" was sung, prayer was offered by the Rev. W. H. S. Snow, Ps. cxxii. and cxxvii. were read by the Rev. F. W. Henshall, and an address was delivered by the Rev. E. Lang. The ceremony of stonelaying was then proceeded with, stones being, laid by or on behalf of the following : Mr. John Stubbs (on behalf of the trustees), Mr. Edmund Davies, senior (on behalf of the Sunday School teachers), Mrs. John Stubbs (Swanlow), Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Noden, Miss Hall, Mrs. Alfred Stubbs, Miss F. L. Dodd, Miss Laura Stubbs, Mr. Hector Moore Stubbs, Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Dodd, Mr. Rupert-Bennett (on be-half of Mrs. Bennett and family), Miss H. B. Stubbs, Mr. W. W. Hall (on behalf of the young men's Bible class), and Mrs. W. H. Shaw,

A public tea was held in the old school, there being about 300 present. Mr. T. Massey presided over the sub-sequent public meeting, and addresses were delivered by the Revs. E. Lang, and W. H. S. Snow, and Messrs. Plumbley, Griffiths and Dodds. Proceeds of stonelaying amounted to £130. On the following Saturday 135 bricks were laid by scholars, each placing a contribu-tion on the brick. The total amount raised in this, wav was £27 10s. The trustees have now in hand about half the sum required-512.

OFF TO CHINA. A LARGE- number of friends assembled at the railway

station to bid "God-speed" to Dr. and Mrs. A. Fletcher Jones and their three children, when they left Breaston, on Easter Monday morning, for Southampton, en route for North China. Mrs. Poxon and family, and the Revs. T. Scowby (Hucknall), R. R Bell (Derby), and A. Broadfield (Breaston)-were amongst the number. There were many Wesleyans and members of the Church of England present, in addition to our own people. The present writer was one of a little band which accom-panied our friends to Southampton. It included Miss E. Mills, Miss J. Plackett, and Mr..' J. Poxon (of Breaston), the Rev. J. Sydney Jones (of Fenton), and the Rev. S. Edwin Davis (of Bulwell).

I wish it were in my power to convey my experiences to those people who sneer at the suggestion of hardship in the life of a modern missionary. I returned from that journey with a profounder respect for our noble band of missionaries, and with a. much clearer idea of the self-sacrifice demanded of _the soldiers-of the Cross who leave home and friends and the comforts of Western civilization for the heat, dust and fevers, fleas, bugs and mosquitoes, the loneliness and physical danger, and all the discomforts of a typical oriental country.

Our party was augmented on Tuesday morning by Mrs. H.edley and her son Percy (who were going out to Tientsin to join the Rev. J. Hedley), Miss Whitehead (of Blyth), Mrs. Flowie, Miss Bull, and the Rev. J. Norris (of Southampton), and Messrs. T. and V. Hooley (of Stockport), who had come to see- our friends off to China. We all boarded the tender which conveyed the passengers and luggage to the N.D.L. s.s: "Liitzow," and accom-panied the missionary party to the steamer. It was evident that many people were thinking of our friends, for fifteen or more telegrams and a large number of letters came for Dr. and Mrs„ Fletcher Jones from differ-ent parts of the Connexion. Even the, children were not forgotten—and-Esme received as many as five "wires."

We had the opportunity of inspecting the "Liitzow," and were delighted to And that it was a very clean, com-fortable and well-appointed boat. When the time came for us to return to the tender, and the steamer gradually disappeared from view, we realized that the missionary is not the only person who is afflicted with the "blues" on such an occasion. Handkerchiefs- were waved long after hope was abandoned that the signals of farewell could be seen by those on the steamer.

We returned to Southampton sadder than we went out, and yet proud of our association with those who are in the van of Christ's army. S. E. D.

" PERORATION OR APPEAL ?"

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—The letter of "The Ancient " this week' (No. III.) is very good, and is another example of the many ways in which you are dealing so commendably with essentials in THE UNITED METHODIST.

I heartily agree with this letter ; yet a big "but" rises up as I conclude the reading. Has the appealing preacher been "killed. " or "choked" because there are not those present in our services to whom an appeal can be made? In the old days, praying, expectant people brought unconverted friends, neighbours, rela-tives, and the preacher, aiming for results—got them! Now, if the preacher appeals, it is almost always draw-ing the "bow at a venture." Again—are our chapels designed for soul-saving? Are not the young people (among whom we are supposed to find our most fruit-ful ground for appeals) sometimes placed behind the preacher's back, and with every opportunity afforded them for leaving the services without staying to the prayer-meetings?

Other questions occur, but as one who has often made the "appeal " and hopes to do so again and again, I would take the opportunity of saying that,our churches —officers and members—must again conspire with their ministers—young or old—in a prayerful co-operation

which will provide both ground and atmosPhere for the

preacher's appeal, and then both appeal and right response undoubtedly will be forthcoming.

Yours sincerely, U.M.M.P.S•

BATLEY (Zion).—At the close of the public worshiP, a service was held for the recognition of some nineteen members who had recently joined the church. The ser-vice was conducted by Rev: G. Eayrs, and Rev. Princl"

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News of Our Churches.

pal J. S. Clemens,

CONTENTS FOR MAY: The Revival in T'ai-Yuan-Fu. Mrs. SOOTHILL. Foreign Secretaries' Notes of the Month :—

I.— key. HENRY T. CHAPMAN. II.—Rev. G. PACKER. III.—Rev. C. STEDEFORD.

" Beside the Red Mountain." A REVIEW. Home for Furlough. Rev. F. J. DYMOND. Dr. A. Fletcher Jones. Rev. S. E. DAVIS. The Outlook. EDITORIAL. My Decision for Foreign Service. Mr. J. SMITH. " The Desire of India." A REVIEW.

Thought for the Month. Rev. R. BREWIN.

Text for the Month. Famous Names Recalled. V.—John Innocent.

Rev. G. PACKER. Sectional Missionary Conferences. Motives for Missionary Work. C.E. Topic.

Rev. JAMES ELLIS. Our Women's Auxiliaries. REPORTS. The East African Problem.

Sir HARRY H. JOHNSTON, G. C. M.G., K. C. B. Incident from the Field. Rev. W. LYTTLE. Missionary Sonnet. Rev. A. J. SANTER. " Aloes and Palms." A REVIEW.

Rev. J. D. CROSLAND.

A recent tribute, unsolicited. (The italics are his.) I have seen most missionary papers, but the ECHO

comes toP on its merits." April 12, 1909. Dr. FLETCHER JONES.

24 pages. Well Illustrated. Everyone should Subscribe to it Monthly.

Tbe . . Missionary Echo.

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OPENING of the FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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April 22, 1909. THE UNITED METHODIST. 333

MY DEAR BROTHERS,—I should like to say a word or two about an aspect of your ministry which, though frequently discussed, is, I am per- suaded, often misunderstood. I wonder if you have ever met a minister who has languidly assured you that he has "no time for visiting." If you have not you are fortunate ; but it won't be very long before he will come across your path. My first bit of fraternal advice to-day then, is this, Don't for your own soul's sake get into the harmful habit of saying that you have nd time for this, and no time for that. You have all the time there is, as the old divine once caustically said to his colleague. Besides, you generally find that the man who has no time to visit, has time for a good many other things which to our poor judgement at any rate, do not seem quite necessary. But, a little later, you will get nearer the mind of your very busy brother, and you will discover that he does not much believe in visiting. That, of course, is why he has no time for it. In a moment of frankness he may tell you that he has very little sympathy with the man who goes round " tea drinking " and "gossiping." In that case, you see that he who is too busy to visit, has not, by his marvellous devotion to study and preaching, raised himself into that atmosphere of philosophic peace and benignancy which quite delivers him from unkind reflections on brethren whose methods differ from his. Or should it be that he is not disposed to underrate the importance of visiting, he may begin to excuse himself by saying that he is "not cut out for it." He is so reserved ; he cannot wear his heart on his, sleeve ; he cannot put himself into touch with all sorts of people the moment he enters their homes. Now you are not so overwhelmed by this brother's humility as to fail to see in it perhaps something which looks on close inspection to be more like pride than humility. The very tone sug-gests it. One of ,the devil's most effective methods is to make us believe that we are altogether too superior to adopt the methods by which a com-monplace man has succeeded. So then another of my " don'ts " to-day is this, " Don't make yourselves believe that you are not cut out for homely tasks and popular methods." It only really sounds im-pressive to the man himself, when he says that his forte is preaching. If it were so, he would soon find out that true preaching is a man speaking the words of Christ to a brother man ; and that the avenue from heart to heart is kept open by constant and sympathetic intercourse.

Now I know, of course, that in certain circuits you will never do enough visiting to please some people. When I was a young man, I found that every now and then, when some aspect of our church work did not appear satisfactory, two or three of my leaders would find the reason for it in my inattention to visiting. I was tempted to retaliate and say it was more probably due to their long faces and perpetual winter of discontent. But one soon comes to find out that retorts of this sort give only a moment's pleasure to those who indulge them, and make future work much more difficult. We must, however, avoid the common mistake of showing our resentment of an ungener-ous criticism by making the imaginary fault a real one. If it were necessary to urge the importance of visiting, I would point to the High Church parson and his curate. See how busy they are. See how they hurry in and out of poor people's homes. I have a suspicion, and I may as well say it now, that we Nonconformist ministers have much to learn of these men. They don't attract the people to Church by their ritual and music Chiefly, but because they are seen to be really interested in the welfare of their people. And we which beware of that worst kind of Pharisaism, vhich is content with making unkind observations about " the parson in petticoats." At any rate he Works, and so must we if we are going to succeed.

If I were beginning again, I would keep a register of every family and make sure that no home was un

entered at least once a year. One benefit result-ing from such a register is that it checks the error of always going to the same few homes—a habit which, followed in the name of duty, demands for its proper description a less lofty word.

I could write a long letter in enlarging on the obvious advantages to your ministry which accom-

pany visiting. You will discover many unknown heroes, and far more heroines. You will be favoured with many a secret which will make you a humbler man. You will come speedily to have a real human affection for your flock, and you will bind your people to you by cords stronger than were ever woven by simply preaching " thoughtful " sermons. Go into the homes of the people as a brother. Be frank and cheerful. Don't be afraid of small talk ; believe me, your, own talk is not always large. Watch your opportunities for such words as shall bring the claims and love of Christ before the people. Don't feel always bound to pray with your people. This I know is rank heresy ; but I am of opinion that if our visits come to be regarded as official, they soon lose something of their fresh-ness and value. Yet, •having said that, I should not be happy if I did not add that most ministers are in danger of making the grave mistake of not praying frequently enough in the homes of the people.

I am, Dear Brothers, Yours affectionately,

"THE ANCIENT."

Indentured Labour in East Africa.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST. DEAR SIR,—In the, correspondence column of your

issue of February 4th appeared a letter on the above subject from the pen of the able and respected protagon-ist and well-known correspondent on industrial mis-sionary enterprise—the Rev. James Harrison. With your kind permission, I should like to reply to Mr. Harrison's letter.

The only natural conclusion at which your readers must have arrived after a perusal of Mr. Harrison's letter was that in East Africa nothing approaching the nature of " indentured labour " or " forced labour " exists.

Possibly Mr. Harrison is not aware of the East Africa " Master and Servants Ordinance," by which it is possi-ble for me or any other person to secure the services of natives for any period up to three years. The "Contract of Service " is signed before a magistrate and is of a very binding character. It may be said that the native voluntarily enters into the agreement. Yes, he does, and so did the Chinese coolies who came to South Africa, and so do the slaves on the Portuguese cocoa plantations. An indentured person here may not go from his master's premises without leave, and if he does he may have to forfeit a month's wages, or may be sent to prison for a month with hard labour.

It is not inconceivable that a master, away on a lonely plantation, and free from the moral restraints of a civilized community, might be unjust and exacting. For example, there is nothing, as far as I can gather, to prevent him making his employees work seven days a week I I have heard it hinted that this is done, but I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the statement. At Nairobi I have seen coloured men doing manual labour on the Sabbath on the premises of Europeans. If this is done openly, it is reasonable to think it may be done in secluded districts.

Again, suppose I am a planter and am preparing my land for the cultivation of rubber or cotton, as the case may be. If my object is the securing of a dividend—six per cent or more—I shall be eager to get as much work out of my employees as possible. The Govern-ment does not tell me what constitutes a day's work for a man ; I decide that for myself. Let me illustrate what I want to say. Among my hundred or more coolies I have say, a few strong men, who in the course of a day can with ease prepare thirty holes for the planting of young coco-nuts, or can clear ten yards of thick bush. I may therefore expect all my men to do the same, for they are paid at the same rate of wages. But it may happen that twenty men fail in their allotted task. I can then fine the delinquents half a rupee, or it may be a rupee—their wages for two days. If I were holding their wages for a few days' work only the chances are they will run away. I could then avail myself of the law, and if the runaways are caught, they may be imprisoned for two months with hard labour, or fined two months' wages, and compelled to return to my plantation. If I am a tyrant they are not likely to get a reduction in the quantity of their day's work !

Re "forced labour." Would the following be con-sidered to be of this character, if it could be proved to exist? A Government official has to go on a long "safari," and requires the services of forty or fifty porters. He sends out his local askaris. (policemen), who have to bring in the necessary number of men from the surrounding tribes. If willing workers are not found, then unwilling persons are brought in and compelled to carry loads.

Ever- since my arrival in Africa, and how long before I do not know, there has been a persistent clamouring on the part of the white settlers for outside "indentured labour." To all intents and purposes, as I think I have shown, there is now existing a kind of local "indentured labour." The Government may call it by what name they like—"registered labour," "contract of service," or anything else ; but some of us think that if it was a " terminological inexactitude " to call the " indentured labour " of South Africa, "Chinese slavery," it is equally incorrect to call the present labour conditions of this country by their present terms.

The following information may also be apropos. In the "Advertiser " for February 26th there is a report of a meeting held at the Government House, Nairobi, when the labour question was again discussed, and it was de-cided, on the suggestion of His Excellency the Governor, Sir James Hayes Sadler, K.C.M.G., to CABLE the Colonial Secretary requesting permission for the importation of "indentured labour."

I am confident that no extensive plantations can be a success without imported labour, and if granted no one doubts but that it will prove a boon to the settlers ; but may our Church be saved from adopting hasty measures that might result in "burnt fingers."

I do not know Mr. Harrison personally, but I have read with deep interest and attention all his letters, and have carefully perused his pamphlet. Perhaps, in-directly, I was the means of starting this very prolonged discussion, for it was I who called the attention of the Rev. Robert Swallow, M.D., to the interview which appeared in the "Daily News " in September, 1907, and Dr. Swallow's reply in "The Free Methodist " set the ball rolling. Yours faithfully,

W. UDY BASSETT. Rib& Mombasa, B.E.A.,

March 27th, 1909.

Letters to Young Ministers. IV.—TO VISIT OR NOT TO VISIT.

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THE UNITED METHODIST. April 22, 1909.

The Social Outlook. Peace.

"THE greatest British interest is peace." This dictum remains a permanent principle unaffected by " jumpy patriotism " in our own land or assumed menace by any other nation. Tile people's welfare, free commercial intercourse, the sacredness of life and the security of treasure are all conditioned by this element being conserved in our national life. The people of this country are in great danger of being used as tools to engender strife between two nations. Interested scaremongers are working on the fears of the populace to gain their end. The lengths in misrepresentation to which a certain type of newspaper will go are amazing, and the bastard patriotism which claims to represent the feeling of the country is best described as impudent.

It is astonishing how soon we forget. Not a decade has passed since we were engaged in a war with a small people which brought us no glory and added 260 million pounds to our indebtedness. Looking down the years, and viewing the conflict with sane, clear minds, few will be found to justify that war which cost us so much in life and money and reputation. And yet our people are in danger of repeating the screaming farce, of legislating in a panic, and of creating bogies which, apart from riot in the mind, have no existence in fact.

Egoism. The infamy of making the defence of the nation

a question out of which party advantage may be gained cannot be exaggerated. Any party which exploits a panic of its own creation for individual gain lowers the national honour and plagiarizes national sentiment. As in the brave days of old, in matters that concern the interest and welfare of all none should be for a party but all for the State. If these scaremongers are to be believed and fol-lowed, no other nation has any right to do what we may do with impunity. If the Government of another country follows our lead, it is a piece of impertinence on their part and aspersions are cast upon their motives and suspicion generated as to their intention. We may build Dreadnoughts to guard our commerce and secure free intercourse on the seas ; they may not. If they have the hardihood to build ships we must build more, and increase our strength in a given ratio until the cost of living, magnified by taxes, reaches the limit of endurance. This is a policy of bluster and weakness and un-worthy of any great nation.

The rising generation is in peril of becoming ready prey to adventurers in the future. Boys' periodicals are invaded with highly imaginative and descriptive stories of invasion. The virgin mind is being impressed with the sinister designs of other nations upon us. The movements of friendly nations are subtly and cunningly distorted out of shape, and a disordered and suspicious idea grips the imagination of the youth of our land. This is bad leaven which eats its way in the dark and one day it will issue in a patriotism which is summed up in terms of carnage and blood.

True Patriotism. The obtrusive by its persistent pressure, is apt to

obscure the real and solid features of national life and valour. The truest patriot is he who attends to the moral needs of the people, who tries to erect a new Jerusalem in the land of his birth. He who builds a school is as much a defender of his land as he who constructs a fort. He who for a lifetime patiently instructs the young in principles that destroy enmity is as great a hero as he who imperils his life to slay his brothers. Those who give money and labour to build and maintain schools are as sincerely patriotic as those who pledge a nation's credit to build ironclads and to equip battalions. To strengthen a nation at its base is as great a work as using modern engines of war to wipe out a State. What about the large army of men and women who toil on week-days for the bread that perisheth, and on Sundays, with rarely a holiday, teach the little class or speak to the multitude con-cerning the great truth that "man does not live by bread alone "? Are not they patriots? Do not they love their country ? Yes, with all their hearts. Their love of the fatherland is vicarious, costly and sacrificial, and they are a mighty force for good in the nation. They contribute to the health, wealth and moral force in the community. They enrich rural England ; they redeem the sordid squalor of congested cities ; they charge men in wharves and warehouses with the mighty impulses of a noble passion. Withdraw the regular, consistent, patient toil of obscure men and women from our midst and

the country would be infinitely worse ; instead of fearing a foreign foe and a foreign invasion we should have a revolution in our midst and anarchy with its trail of blood would ride roughshod over the land. Beware of scaremongers and music-hall patriots !

BRAMWELL DUTTON.

To the Editor of THE UNITES METHODIST. SIR,—Referring to the article in a recent issue by the

Rev. Bramwell Dutton, I desire to suggest what I deem would be a gradual but certain means of improv-ing the social outlook, namely, that members of • the Nonconformist Churches should pay more attention to elections, and secure that the right men are put upon public bodies. Nonconformists are great at passing in-dignant resolutions at public meetings, but neglect doing active work in getting votes for good men when the time comes. Let me give a sample : Twelve months ago, a member of our own congregation, had served nine faithful years as a guardian of the poor. He is a retired tradesman and had not missed one attendance per annum ; was always approachable, and certainly is one of the most absolutely honourable Christian gen-tlemen I have known. He came out for re-election. We again nominated him. The Labour Party nominated a man of their own, a drink seller. There was a small poll and the drink seller had a majority of about a dozen, but there were scores of Nonconformists who were too careless to vote at all, and were surprised the following day when they found the change in the re-presentation. The Roman Catholics and Tory Church-men voted their full strength and always do. Last Christmas the Labour man moved that the inmates of the workhouse should have beer to their Christmas dinner ; he failed to carry his resolution, but he showed his quality. From my personal observation of things in our own city, I am afraid this is our hindrance in many parts of the country.

Now here is a noble opportunity for Mr. Dutton and his brethren. Let them labour carefully to rouse a serious interest in public men and public questions—laying down not so much details of action but principles. Then, too, fathers of families must interest their chil-dren in public questions by fireside talk. My own chil-dren were politicians as soon as they entered their teens, and this has given interest to our home life.

I humbly trust this hint may be of service. Yours respectfully, WILLIAM TREVOR.

What About Our Colleges ? To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—What is all this pother about the future of our Colleges? Is the question so very important? Is it a matter of life and death to us as Methodists whether we have or have not a college-trained ministry? Some of us are old enough to remember the time when we (the late M.N.C.) had no College. Were our minis- ters then, as a body, less efficient than the college-trained men of the last forty-five years? I venture to think it would be hard to find in our ministerial ranks to-day, preachers that have been through a course of study at Ranmoor that can in any sense compare with the men who laboured in our ministry prior to 1864. . . . These men did noble service in building up the M.N.C., and yet never had a college training. What was the secret of their success? They had natural abili- ties, which they willingly gave to God and the Church of their choice. They were enthusiastic preachers of the Gospel, and not essayists. Is it not a fact, that in these days we lack men of Methodistic zeal and fire? I am not against a real trained ministry; but don't destroy the man's naturalness, allow him to be himself— the College, I fear, often destroys this. . . . The cultured preacher may suit a few, but, the mass of men need teachers whose souls are aflame with love to God and love to men—and such men the "common people" will gladly hear. Oh, for preachers of the type of the early Methodist fathers I The Church and the world need them, and are waiting for them. These are rambling thoughts, I know ; they are troubling many minds, and perplexing our people. Perhaps you may be disposed to find room in your paper for these thoughts of a layman.—Truly yours,

Hanley. T. MATTHIAS. [We insert Mr. Matthias' letter because it vocalizes an

old feeling about Theological Colleges which still lingers among us, but we cannot continue discussion on these lines. Colleges are in these days an essential for the intellectual equipment of ministers, and the giving of that equipment ought not to conflict with securing what we all desire, and must have—good Methodist preachers. In this connection Mr. Rose's Provincial Letter should be read.—ED., U.M.]

GIPSY SMITH AT KANSAS CITY.

ALL the American missions of Gipsy Smith's present tour have served to increase the momentum until the latest has exceeded the others in numbers and enthusiasm, At Baltimore, Washington, Cleveland, New York, Pitts-burg and St. Louis most remarkable scenes were wit-nessed, but at Kansas City a greater work of grace was accomplished perhaps than even those who are most familiar with it realize.

The Convention Hall was altogether too small to` ac-commodate the crowds ; even for the meeting for men it was packed, and for two weeks night after night

has witnessed hundreds and even thousands turned away unable to get in.

At the closing meeting, which was advertised to be-gin at eight o'clock, every seat was occupied before six o'clock, and about 15,000 people were turned away. Overflow meetings were held in the big tent south of the hall, and at the Second Presbyterian Church, Fifteenth Street and Broadway, as well as in the streets, which were addressed by various ministers of the city.

Seldom has any city been stirred as Kansas City has been stirred, and seldom has such a stirring been ac-complished by such manifestations of real power as these.

A Local Preacher's Jubilee. MR. JAMES THOMPSON, of Gosforth, Newcastle-on-

Tyne, has just entered upon his jubilee as a local preacher. Mr. Thompson attained his seventy-third birthday on Thursday, March 11th. He was born of Methodist parents in Bulman's Village, Gosforth, New-castle, and has belonged to the one church and Circuit all his life. Mr. Thompson traces his conversion to special evangelistic services held by Messrs. Waters and Nesbit in 1853 in the little village chapel, which was little larger than an ordinary living room. Early after this event he devoted himself to the study of the Scrip-tures, and first took up local preaching when he was entering manhood, and at the age of twenty-three he was received on the local preacher's plan as a fully-fledged lay preacher. While he was studying for the work his health collapsed, and his medical attendant advised him to give it all up. He got better and re-turned to the work, and has rendered much valuable service for over fifty years, his services being in con-stant demand. He distinctly recollects the first text from which he attempted to preach his first sermon at a watch-night service he conducted in the village church. It was Isaiah lv. 6.: "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found." The Circuit at that time was named New-castle and Gateshead Circuit of the. Free Church and was a large one, embracing twenty-six churches and extending from Newcastle westward to Prudhoe, and in an easterly direction as far as Wallsend. Some con-ception of the extensiveness of the Circuit will be gathered when it is remembered that it is now divided into four Circuits. He has been a member at Gosforth for fifty-six years, and is reckoned the oldest local preacher in the Circuit in point of length of service, and he has no intention of relieving himself from the work with which he has been so closely identified. His name appears on the Sandyford Circuit current quarter's plan for appointments at Dinnington, Hazelrigg and Spital Tongues. Regarding travelling half a century ago he has numerous interesting reminiscences to tell, one being that in order to get to the country churches in time to hold the morning service, then at ten o'clock, it was necessary to rise early to catch the seven o'clock train at the Central. Three and four services were ex-pected of local preachers each Sunday when visiting the outside chapels in those days, entailing miles of walk-ing to the surrounding villages.

[We offer Mr. Thompson our congratulations.—ED.]

Wedding. STOKES—BROOKS.

THE marriage took place on Thursday, March 25th, at Ebenezer Chapel, Lake, Shebbear (birthplace of B.C. Denomination), of Mr. Thomas Stokes, of New-port, Mon., and Miss Nan Brooks. The bride is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Brooks, of Caute Hill, Shebbear, who are very prominent members of the Unite-d Methodist Church at Rowden, Shebbear. The bride, who has been connected with our Diamond Street, Cardiff, Church and School for

about nine years,• was giyen away by her elder brother, William (master, Mutley Grammar School, Plymouth). Miss May Brooks, younger sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid, Mr. A. P. Norman, younger son of Mr. G. D. Norman, of Cardiff, fulfilled the duties of best man. Rev. Jabez Honey conducted the ceremony, and Mr. J. Dawson Hands, A.R.C.O., gold medallist T.C.L. (music master, Shebbear College), officiated at the organ. After the breakfast the happy couple left en route for Paignton, for the honeymoon. They the recipients of many congratulations and the presents were numerous.

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Our Missionary Policy re East Africa.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—In view of the meeting of the Foreign Missionary Committee shortly, I wish to ask further attention to the article in the "Missionary Echo " for December last, from the pen of the Foreign Missionary Secretary, the Rev. H. T. Chapman.

Mr. Griffiths it seems "pleaded earnestly that the policy commenced three years ago when Mr. Lory was appointed should be continued and developed gradually in harmony with our means." The Committee decided " that the present policy be continued, gradually en-larging our plantations, and tpaching our people the art of agriculture."

I wish to ask what is intended to be understood by the word, "the present policy "? What is the policy which is to be "continued "? It is spoken of as one , of "gradually enlarging our plantations and teaching our people the art of agriculture." Is not that a very incomplete and mis-leading statement, leaving altogether unmentioned the governing feature of "the present policy "?

The United Methodist Church has not had time to formulate a policy yet. If there be therefore any "pre- sent policy," must it not have been inherited along with the estates from the United Methodist Free Churches? As a matter of fact the very last Annual Assembly of the United Methodist Free Churches, consisting of the persons who two months later formed part of the Unit-ing Conference in London, deliberately laid down a mis-sionary policy in the following words :

"That in the opinion of this Committee it is not desir-able for our missionary operations to be associated directly or indirectly with any company which may be formed for developing our estates in East Africa or else-where. At the same time this Committee sees no reason why the experimental work now being conducted by the Missionary Committee should not be continued, and if these experiments show that our estates can be profit-ably worked, the Missionary Committee be recommended to consider the advisability of offering our lands in the open market on lease, or in any other way found to be more in accordance with the customs of the country."

The statement of policy embodied in the foregoing resolution was not adopted " while men slept," but in the face of most strenuous opposition. That fact emphasizes the significance of the Assembly's action.

Do not the terms of the resolution quoted show un-mistakably that "the present policy " is merely a con-tinuation of that policy of "giving up " missions which has been carried out in recent years in Jamaica, Central America, Sierra Leone, and Golbanti?

Can it be said that the policy, as stated in the above resolution, has ever been authoritatively altered? I do not know how or when. If anyone thinks it has, it would be of service if he would tell us why he thinks so through your columns. It can never be conceded as in harmony with Connexional procedure, either under the old dispensation or the new, that any officer, or com-mittee should be allowed even in " these transition times " to treat a deliberate decision of the supreme court as though it were waste paper. Failing that, there seems no alternative but to regard the resolution quoted above as the authoritative declaration of the present policy."

But did the Committee in October last understand and intend it so? Perhaps they were not acquainted with "the present policy " as stated above when they deter- mined that it should "be continued." Perhaps they thought they were beginning de novo, and intended so to begin. If they had proceeded de novo I should have been glad, and this letter would not have been written. But when they say that it is their intention that "the present policy be continued " they link themselves on to, and perpetuate, what I regard as a deplorable past. I think the Denomination would like a clear deliverance as to the policy that is to be pursued. It is becoming increasingly evident that the estates hi East Africa are of great potential value to our entire missionary enter-prise, and a policy which opens the way to the disposal of these estates " in the open market or in any other way " is a policy which will be disastrous to our mis-sionary enterprise elsewhere than in East Africa if it should be carried out. That it should be proposed to postpone the carrying out of such a policy until it can be shown that the estates "can be profitably worked " (i.e., until by the employment of Connexional funds all risk has been eliminated and the working of these estates has become a sure thing) excites in my mind, I confess, something like horror.

The danger is not imaginary. I am not fighting a shadow. Presumably Mr. Chapman, as Foreign Mis-sionary Secretary, is in favour of the disposal of these estates as soon as it can be shown that they can be Profitably worked. Can any other conclusion be arrived at in view of the fact that he supported the resolution in Committee and introduced it into, and carried it through, the Annual Assembly? Nor is he the only member of the Committee at present, nor the only officer of the Denomination who to my knowledge is in favour of the sale of these estates. That another mission should be given up cannot be regarded as incredible when so

many have been given up already, and given up quite unnecessarily. And now comes this fateful phrase from the pen of Mr. Chapman, to which no member of the Committee has yet taken exception, "That the present policy be continued." The situation needs earnest atten-tion. I appeal to the Committee to make its meaning unmistakably clear, and to secure an unambiguous pro-nouncement from the coming Conference. Let us know what the policy of the Denomination in the future is to be.

Mr. Chapman reports Mr. Griffiths as pleading earnestly "that the policy commenced three years ago when Mr. Lory was appointed should be continued and developed gradually in harmony with our means." If by this is meant that when Mr. Lory was sent out to East Africa he was sent out to prepare the way for the disposal of these estates Mr. Chapman must be accepted as an authority. All I have to say is that the policy of the Denomination was not then generally so understood. Nor do I think " the present policy " will be continued long after the Denomination realizes its drift.

Finally, Mr. Editor, is it right to append to the state-ment "that the present policy be continued " words which seem to be descriptive of that policy but are not—"enlarging our plantations and teaching our people the art of agriculture "? That is only a half-statement, and the half left out is the determining and governing feature. Is that right?

I much regret that it has been necessary to trouble your readers with such a long letter as this, but the gravity of the situation must be my sufficient excuse.

Yours truly, J. HARRISON.

The Future of Sunday Schools.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—The next Conference is setting apart a minister to superintend the Young People's Depart-ment, and in view of the unsatisfactory condition of many Sunday Schools in all denominations it is high time to face the problem, and take the opportunity to initiate a new policy, adopt new methods, and inspire new life into the Sunday School movement.

The question is, Are we going to be content with simply having a Scripture Examination, which only three or four scholars from each school can be induced to attend? Or, shall we discern the signs of the times? Either Sunday Schools must be transformed and brought into line with modern educational demands or go spark out ; there is no via media, as the steady decrease in the number of scholars only too plainly shows. . . .

Nothing is more remarkable than the changed atti-tude of the British public towards education during the last twenty years. Formerly, the sum spent on education was bracketed with the miserable amount devoted to Foreign Missions, and both were contrasted with the huge sums spent on beer and war. Formerly, any man without sufficient brains and energy to suc-ceed in business or professional life was deemed duly qualified to start a school and take in pupils. But those 1111■••■

days are gone, never to return. The educational balance-sheet is now quite an imposing document ; even small towns are ready and eager to spend thousands in building secondary schools, equipped with every possible apparatus and staffed with highly-trained teachers.

Still- more remarkable, philosophers have at length awakened from their slumbers, and child-psychology has become a centre of attention, and whereas in those good old days the teacher drove or flogged knowledge into the child's skull, nowadays the teacher is trained how to get inside the child's mind, so as to measure the storage capacity of those wonderful chambers, and arrange the treasures of knowledge that when needed they may be ready at hand.

The decline in Sunday Schools is probably a complex disease, like that of unemployment, having many causes. Some of these causes are obvious, and while it is true that some Sunday Schools are admirably equipped as regards buildings, well staffed with teachers, vigorous and flourishing, it is equally true that there are too many schools, in all denominations, lamentably deficient.

We have come to the parting of the ways, when we must catch something of the aggressive spirit of modern business life.

The inauguration of the Young People's Department is a fitting time for a full discussion of the future Connexional policy as regards our schools. Some re-forms are very obvious—such as the grading of schools, the separation of the Primary Department from the Middle School, with more of the kindergarten style of teaching ; an Upper School for those above twenty-one years of age, with autonomy of government and elasticity of method ; a practical remembrance of the fact that a little child's power of attention to one thing is strictly limited ; and other things might be mentioned did space allow.

I would suggest that those who have had experience of modern teaching methods should give us the benefit of it.

One hope I most earnestly cherish is that the gentle-man appointed Young People's Secretary shall, before entering on his duties, be sent to America to inspect the schools there. The cost would be trifling in compari-son with the results : he would come home filled with new ideas, new methods, and new life, and in going through the Connexion he could not fail to impart stimulus and inspiration to many a struggling school and many a discouraged teacher.

I am assuming that the primary qualification of the teacher is character and sympathy with young life, but the future will demand other things as well. . . .

There is a great future for Sunday Schools if they will adapt themselves to the future.

Yours sincerely, A. H. BOYDEN.

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United Methodist Church Home & Foreign Missions. LONDON UNITED MAY DEMONSTRATION.

City Temple, April 26th, 1909.

DEAR FRIEND,

THE time has arrived for making our annual Appeal on behalf of the Chairman's List in connection with our London Missionary Demonstration.

EVENTS OF THE YEAR. Since our Meeting last year Missionaries have returned to their Stations in China

and East Africa, and five additional Missionaries have been sent to China, one a trained nurse for work among women. Others are urgently required for all our Stations ; the needs of the work in South West China are especially great !

An additional Missionary will have sailed for East Africa ere our London Meeting is held, Mr. J. Smith has been accepted for Agricultural work in order • to strengthen the hands of our distinguished Missionary, Mr. J. J. Lory, and to help forward the splendid work he is doing.

A NEW CLAIM. Last Conference decided that the time had come when a Medical Department should

be added to our work in East Africa, and instructions were given to take some tentative steps in that direction. In response to our appeal the Arthington Trustees have made a promise of ,.500 on condition the Foreign Missionary Committee raise another ,i500 for the building and equipping of a hospital, and also a Doctor's house. The time is long overdue for adding a Medical section to our work in East Africa. The claims in this direction are painfully and pathetically urgent. We feel confident this new step will both command the confidence and generous and prompt help of all members of the United Methodist Church.

MISSION WORK AT HOME. This section of our Mission work must not be overlooked. There are thousands in

our own cities who are perishing for lack of " knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." We say deliberately—" perishing," physically, socially and spiritually 1 It may be that many of these people do not ask for our Gospel, may even say—" that they do not want it," but the undoubted fact of importance is, they need it ; it is their deepest need ; and what is more, it is our bounden duty not merely to place it within their reach, but lovingly to solicit its acceptance. Evangelism is the Church's first and final Mission !

We appeal to our friends from a deep sense of responsibility, knowing as we do the urgent needs of the work, to make the approaching Anniversary a splendid success in every way.

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ACHIEVEMENT To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,-I have spent several entertaining hours during the holiday season with " Eliza Bright-wen. The Life and Thoughts of a Naturalist." Edited by W. H. Chesson. (Fisher Unwin, 5s. net.) There is an Introduction, and also an Epilogue, by Mr. Edmund Gosse, who is a nephew of Mrs. Brightwen's. It is a delightful book, and would be a suitable gift to those young people who are begin-ning the study of nature, and—as I shall show later —to those who think that when they have reached sixty their best -work is done. First of all I will give a brief account of Mrs. Brightwen's interesting and varied career, and then point a lesson which has deeply impressed me.

I. Mrs. Brightwen was born at Banff, N.B., in 1830.

She was left motherless at the age of seven, and was adopted by her father's brother, Alexander Elder, one of the founders of the publishing house of Smith, Elder and Co., who lived at Streatham, which was quite a country place at that time. Her childhood was extremely lonely ; but for her uncle, who was always kind to her, life would have been unbearable. Her aunt was not only childless but lacked entirely the maternal instinct. The child found compensation from the "detestable work of darning my socks, and a microscopic amount of hemming " in her childish researches into nature, especially in her friendship with some sticklebacks discovered in a pond near by. Even in these early days she was constantly asking and wondering the " reason why." Many hours were spent in her uncle's library tracing the life history of some small creature she had discovered in the garden or the adjoining fields.

Though her uncle was a Presbyterian he scarcely ever went to church, the reason being his intense dislike to the Establishment. Her aunt being an irreligious woman the result was that Eliza led the life of a heathen, as she tells us. "Yet all the while I was longing to know the truth, and feel sure I could have been easily led to give my heart to God if anyone had tried so to influence me. Happening to stay a few days with a godly family, where there was morning and .evening prayer, I was deeply impressed ; I felt the influence of it all day and earnestly wished I had such a help at home."

After several uneventful years, relieved by occa-sional visits abroad, she married, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. George Brightwen. By this time she had become quite an accomplished naturalist, con-sidering the limited scope afforded her in the home of her childhood. She relates an amusing incident con-cerning an aquarium she had set up in the early days of her married life. It was stocked with lizards, fish, beetles and weeds, and held about twelve gallons of water. " On a certain day it hap-pened that I felt miserably unwell, and was lying on the rug with my head on a cushion, when sud-denly there was a report like a pistol shot. The aquarium glass had given way, a side had burst out, and I was deluged with the twelve gallons of water which gushed out over the carp_et and quickly covered it with fishes, weeds, lizards, all in dire confusion. I rang for the servants to bring sheets and pails and help mop up the water so as to save the ceiling of the room underneath, but, alas for ine ! they were so terrified at the lizards they would not enter the room until I had paddled about the sopping floor and safely gathered them all into a basin."

II.

Nine years after her marriage, at the age of thirty-four, she passed through a great spiritual crisis. Her record is simply told, yet it is very

AFTER SIXTY. touching. She writes in her diary : " Ever since we settled at Elderslie I have attended, as regularly as health would permit, our parish church at Harrow Weald. I felt that there the truth was preached exactly as I found it in God's Word. I only needed real decision for Christ, and a sermon I heard this evening on the text, Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,' became the means of my true conversion. I listened with deepest attention ; my whole soul was stirred ; the time had come, and the Holy Spirit brought home the Word with such power that there and then I accepted Christ as my Saviour, thanked and praised Him with tears of joy that He was will-ing to save even me who for thirty-four years had known no real peace on account of sin. I could no longer doubt His love and rose up from my knees in a perfect tumult of happiness. I could have sung hymns and praised and prayed to my Lord all night, and I quite sorrowed when the service ended and I had to take my solitary walk of two miles back to Elderslie."

From this time onward, though always shy and gentle and in, fragile health, she gave herself to many Christian activities, also spending much time in her garden with her beloved animals and birds and trees. This continued till she was forty-two, when she was stricken with acute bodily illness aggravated by mental distress. On several occasions she seemed at the point of death. She often fainted four or five times a day. For ten years she was a helpless invalid. Near the end of this period her husband died, and, strange to say, she began to recover an interest in life, apparently due to the fact that a large estate now came into her hands which required her constant oversight.

Mr. Gosse, in describing her wonderful recovery, says that it was then her real existence began. As her physical strength returned she became once more the eager naturalist. " She discovered in herself a remarkable gift of natural magic, which enabled her

BY the death of Dr. Rigg, British Methodism has lost its most venerable and commanding figure. By his length of service and by his virility and versatility, he was lifted distinctly and permanently above all his peers. In our Wesleyan Church for years he stood, like Saul, head and shoulders above his brethren.

The end was not unexpected. He had attained to his eighty-ninth year, and never could be far from " the undiscover'd country from whose bourne no traveller returns." Still, he retained an amazing amount of vitality, in spite of his age, and it was only a few weeks ago that the old warrior was compelled to rest in his tent. Keen and kindly sentinels knew that the time of his departure had come. He had fought the good fight. He had finished the course. For some days "the wave of life kept heaving to and fro," but on Saturday at noon it gently ceased to beat. James Harrison Rigg had silently retreated from the ranks of the living.

The father of the great Wesleyan statesman was John Rigg, who sprang from a sturdy Westmorland stock, entered our ministry in 1808, and died in 1857. He was a man of some repute, and it was while he was stationed at Newcastle, from 1819 to 1822, that his still more famous son was born. It is interesting to note that the boy was the first child baptized in Brunswick—then, as now, the cathedral of Northern Methodism — and the arena in which, Conference after Conference, the future gladiator was destined to wage some of his fiercest conflicts.

to win the confidence of beasts and birds, and per-haps, so she thought at least, of bees and butter-flies. Her pets increased till they formed almost a menagerie."

I. When Mrs. Brightwen was nearly sixty it occurred

to a member of her family that she might put the result of her many years' original researches in natural history into book form. Naturally she shrunk from such a task, for she was entirely un-accustomed to the art of writing. Besides, at sixty ! The idea, however, sank into her mind, and with characteristic courage she ultimately set about her task. Her first book, "Wild Nature Won by Kind-ness," met with instant success. Henceforth she was a personage. Her breakfast-table was loaded with letters daily. All sorts of enquiries and requests were made. One lady requested her to take care of a chameleon while she went abroad ; another wished her to find a home for a badger which had lost its character by killing a neighbour's hens ; a third asked a prescription for a nightingale which had lost its appetite ; a fourth requested in-structions as to the best way of sending a living stag-beetle from Kent to Cumberland. Five other books followed in due course, and when she died at the age of seventy-six she had established for herself a name as one of the best known naturalists in this country.

IV. This imperfect sketch gives but a poor idea of

this gifted, lovable woman. What I have been most of all impressed with is the astonishing fact that her best work was done between the age of sixty and seventy-six. There is a heresy abroad in these days that a man has done his best work by the time he is fifty. And some would cruelly put the age even ten years younger. The greatest positions in Church and State are now being given to very young men. In business life middle age is at a discount. 'The cry is all for youth. It seems use-less to protest against this evil, for it is an evil. I regard it nothing short of a crime to make juvenility the sole criterion of fitness. Mr. Spurgeon once said that the kindest thing that could be done to a minister who has reached the age of sixty is to take him out to some quiet spot and shoot him. But should not a man be a better expositor of the Word of God, a better spiritual guide, a better leader of men, at sixty than at thirty-five?

Mrs. Brightwen's story shows how large are the possibilities of life after middle age. It is not given to many to be still learning at eighty-three, as in the case of Mr. Gladstone. But it is likely that many a man might well have his best days before him who thinks that his work is done. At least, that it is possible to do great and good work after sixty is the unmistakable lesson of Mrs. Brightwen's life.

Yours, etc., CHRISTOPHER HUNT.

Old Clarendon.

After serving for a term as a private tutor, at the age of twenty-three James H. Rigg was in 1845 accepted as a candidate for the ministry. That year will prob-ably always rank as unique in the number of future Presidents who were received by the Conference. The list included Ebenezer Evans Jenkins, Thomas M'Cul-lagh, and Richard Roberts, who successively passed the chair in 1880, 1883, and 1885. Dr. Rigg ascended the throne first in 1878, and when it is remembered that he was crowned again in 1892, it is obvious that 1845 was a memorable year. What is also remarkable is that this quarternion of soldiers all survived until 1905, when Dr. Jenkins died. Three of the four were living at our last Conference. A few months ago Mr. M'Cullagh fell on sleep. Now Dr. Rigg has gone home, and Mr. Roberts alone remains of the distinguished group.

Af ter travelling in Sheffield, Woodhouse Grove, Stroud, Worcester, Guernsey, Hammersmith, Stockport, Manchester, Folkestone, and Stoke Newington, Dr. Rigg in 1868 attained the position where he largely won his name and fame. In that year he became the Princi-pal of our College at Westminster for the training of schoolmasters. This post he held for thirty-five years, without interruption, and only relinquished in 1903, when he became a supernumerary.

These thirty-five years were undoubtedly the most productive and the most influential in his long and strenuous career. He was a strong, brave, capable, many-sided man, and no one could be in contact

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James Harrison Rigg, D.D. AN APPRECIATION.

BY REV. WILLIAM WAKINSHAW.

338 THE UNITED. METHODIST. April 22, 1909.

with him without being impressed with his acumen and his resources. It is thirty years since I first heard him preach, and since then I have listened to him scores of times in Conference, and I have often sat with him on Connexional . Committees. In his time he has played many parts. In 1886 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Education. For six years he was on the London School Board, and for fifteen he was editor of the "London Quarterly Review." He was a most in-dustrious scribe, and in addition to numberless articles and pamphlets wrote at least fifteen books. Among the best known are "The Living Wesley," "Comparative

*View of Church Organizations," "Essays for the Times," "Leading Truths of Religion and Philosophy," and "Modern Anglican Theology."

But Dr. Rigg will be remembered most as a fearless and able ecclesiastical leader. He was always inspired by the joy of battle. To watch the thrust and parry when he and Hugh Price Hughes were crossing swords was a sight for the gods—it was nectar to every specta-tor. The old protagonist was far too often opposed to reform. But he never lost the instincts of a statesman. He always knew when he was beaten. He

Knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

His prescience is clearly shown in his masterly article on Methodism in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," when he writes : "The convulsion of 1849-52 taught the Con-nexion, and in particular the Conference, lessons of the highest importance."

The last time I spoke to the grand old man was during the Conference last year at York. I was stand-ing with a group of young ministers opposite the house where Guy Fawkes was born, when our Nestor came sauntering along. My young brethren asked me to introduce them to the patriarch, and with a smile and a handclasp for each he passed on his way.

Representation at District Meetings.

A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER. To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—There seems to be a certain amount of confusion as to the number of representatives circuits are entitled to elect to the forthcoming District Meet-ings. It is quite clear that circuits must elect enough representatives to equal the number of ministers em-ployed by it ; but as one of the circuit stewards is also, according to the Constitution, a member of the District Meeting, is not the circuit entitled, in accordance with the same Constitution to elect a representative to balance the steward? This was done in the 1908 elections, and was not, I believe, questioned. Some circuits are again carrying out the same principle of election, while others are not. This difference of procedure is being caused largely by the different interpretations put upon Note 1 on p. 51 of 1908 "Minutes." Yet Note 2 does not indi-cate that circuit stewards are included among those in re-spect to whom the Districts assign extra representatives for balancing purposes. Some circuits I know have sent in names to balance minister and to balance steward, and the appointments to balance the steward have been questioned. A high Connexional authority supports this ruling, while another of equal authority advises the contrary.

The Constitution, p. 65, paragraph 11, "Minutes," 1907, clearly provides for election of representatives to balance circuit stewards. Is it possible for the simple regulation on page 51 of 1908 "Minutes " to alter part of our Constitution, as agreed upon at 1907 Conference?

One has neither heard nor read of the Constitution being so altered as to prevent such elections. If, then, circuits are not entitled to elect these extra representa-tives, who is to elect them ? They have not been assigned by the Districts to the circuits, as the "Minutes " clearly show, and Note 2, p. 51, 1908 "Minutes," does not say that Districts have the power to assign, for no mention is made of circuit stewards.

Surely some authoritative statement can be made for the guidance of the Circuits, so that the misunderstand-ings that have already arisen may be rectified.

Yours sincerely, Amos TOMLINSON, Circuit Secretary.

Southport, April 10th, 1909.

We submitted the above letter to the Rev. George Packer, General Connexional Committee Secretary, and he replies as under :

The rule is clearly stated on page 108 of the 1907 "Minutes," No. 1. Each circuit elects "a number equal to its regularity appointed circuit preachers and one of its circuit stewards. The note on p. 51 of the 1908 "Minutes " is evidently an imperfect resume of the rule, and has probably been given from memory and without verification. The authority is to be found in 1907 rule, and not in the latter statement.

Ministers on probation are not members of the District Meeting, but are expected to attend, both for educational purposes, and also for examination at prescribed times.

The election of members in equal number to balance supernumerary ministers, Guardian Representatives, Con-

nexional officers, members of Connexional Committees resident in the District, is matter of arrangement from year to year, as per No. 1, 1907 "Minutes," p. 108. It will generally be found most convenient to give a larger proportion to the circuits entertaining the District Meet-ing than to others, though the discretionary power will also be found useful in bringing in a large representa-tion for smaller circuits, and in some way compensating for loss of circuit representation, which now gives place to District representation to the Conference.

GEORGE PACKER.

anternationat lesson. BY REV. CHARLES A. ASHELFORD, Bradford.

MAY 2ND, 1909.

PAUL'S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY. —Acts xiii. 1-12.

GOLDEN TEXT : " Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature."—Mk. xvi. 15.

CHAPTER xiii. opens the second part of the Acts of the Apostles. The Acts begins by enumerating the twelve at Jerusalem and recounting the varied activity of the Spirit given to the Church in answer to prayer; this second part begins by naming the leaders of the Church at Antioch, the new centre of religious influence, and by indicating the worldwide purpose of the Spirit in initiating what we call Foreign Missions. With this step the Church commences the second stage of her history, that of her expansion through the Roman Empire. In' cc. i.--xii. we have witnessed the progress of the Gospel in Judea, Samaria and Syria, with St. Peter as the hero; now St. Paul becomes the hero and c. xiii. tells of the inauguration of the adventurous work of organized Gentile evangelism, a matter of supreme moment to the Gentile Luke. Ramsay's "St. Paul, the Traveller" is almost indispensable in any study of Paul's missionary journeys. For an impressive picture of Judaism and Heathenism see Farrar's "St. Paul," Book V., c. xviii. ; while Weinel's "St. Paul," c. xi., gives a most illuminating account of "the Soil of the Mission Field."

The moment was opporturie for worldwide evangelism. (a) The temporal power and the inner structure of the Empire were of material assistance to missionary enter-prise. (b) The Greek language was the common medium of intercourse. (c) The religious need of men was mani-fested in the eager and widespread longing for true culture and spiritual revelation. Our lesson emphasizes the Divine initiative behind the apostles and the Church ; the Holy Spirit is the prime factor from first to last here as everywhere in Acts. Missions are of Divine origin and are part of the Divine plan for the Church.

Call and Consecration (vv. 1-3). The little group of v. 1 was in a manner representative

of "the whole world " into which the Gospel is now to be Carried. Barnabas (and possibly Symeon Niger) was from Cyprus ; Lucius was a Cyrenian from the north of Africa ; Manaen (Greek for Menahem) was a Jew ; foster-brother is here used in the secondary sense of play-mate or intimate friend : if a playmate of Herod Antipas then Manaen was of good social position, and must at this time have been somewhat advanced in years ; the last was Saul, the "Apostle of the Gentiles." In Greek emphasis or importance is secured by placing the word or name either first or last. Prophets and teachers were men of special inspiration : the former term im-plying more spontaneity of utterance, the latter a more didactic function. Rom. xii. 6 f., Eph. iv. 11. The word in v. 2, translated "ministered," i.e., offering ser-vice, has an important history. It is a famous word from which our "liturgy" is derived. The liturgy here was most likely a ministry of prayer for special Divine guidance on the question of a forward movement into the Roman Empire. The Antioch Church was in such a spiritual condition that they could hear the call of God. The mind of the Spirit may have been communicated by one or more of the prophets. It is the Spirit who calls men to special service, and His will is learnt by earnest communion with God and by noble self-restraint (fasting). "The work whereunto I have called them," i.e., the opening of a door of faith unto the Gentiles c. xiv. 27. " It was during a time of communion with the Lord that the Holy Spirit led the Church into a missionary campaign. It is always out of her deepest life that missionary enthusiasm. springs." These open-ing vv. make it clear that Paul and Barnabas were sent forth by the Church. Missionaries are the representa-tives of the Church. V. 3 speaks of a solemn scene in which God-called men, already in possession of the requisite grace, are solemnly dedicated to a special piece of work. It is a debate among scholars whether the subject of v. 3 changes, and the entire Church took part in these solemn ceremonies, and not merely the leaders expressly mentioned. The Codex Bezx inserts the nominative "all." The point to seize is that this solemn service did not constitute Barnabas and Saul as apostles ; they were apostles before this. The service was one of dedication to, not one of the communication' of grace needful for, the work. Note specially that the Holy Spirit selected the best men in the Church for missionary work , and that the Church of Antioch

readily gave Barnabas and Saul freedom from their re-gular duties and bade them "God-speed." Churches are forceful and flourishing not by keeping 'the best, but by giving the best.

Great doors turn on Small Hinges (vv. 4, 5). The dominant consciousness of Barnabas and Saul, as

they started on their work, was that they "were sent by the Holy Ghost "—a conviction that proved a source of strength in hours of loneliness and seasons of diffi-culty. John Mark, cousin of Barnabas, the son of a well-to-do matron of Jerusalem, went with the mission-aries as their attendant, perhaps to baptize and to in-struct the new converts. Dr. Chase, in the article on John Mark in Hastings' Bible Dictionary, says that v. 5 may be translated "they had with them also John, the Synagogue minister," and suggests that this may state an important fact about him which reveals how close his ties with Judaism were. John Mark's precise place in the Apostolic Age is indicated in 2 Tim. iv. 11, "profitable for the ministry." An onlooker watching the trio leaving Antioch—for Seleucia sixteen miles distant —probably in early spring and on foot, with few friends and certainly with but little cash—might well have smiled. The missionaries themselves were doubtless not aware of the immense issues of that unpretentious start. The mere fact of even beginning the attempt to convert the vast heathen world to the faith of Jesus Christ evidences sanctified audacity and sublime faith. Columbus setting sail for America had no conception of all that voyage would mean for the future of the Western hemisphere ; the men of the "Mayflower " leav-ing British shores could not know that they carried with them the spiritual destinies of a new world ; but a greater, grander work was unconsciously inaugurated by Paul and Barnabas when they quietly embarked at the port of Antioch for Cyprus. Life, commercially, socially, religiously, is made up of small things, but it is faithfulness in little things that counts. The de-parture of Saul and Barnabas from Antioch to evangelize the Roman Empire may be set over against Juvenal's scornful reproach that "the Syrian Orontes has flowed into the Tiber." Salamis, the chief city of Cyprus (copper received its name from Cyprus, where it is found) and that nearest to Syria, was not then the capital, but became so afterwards. A large colony of Jews must have dwelt there, as v. 5 speaks of synagogues. This Salamis must not be confounded with the island which was the scene of Xerxes' famous defeat. Cyprus, the home of Barnabas, was early evangelized (c. xi. 19, 20). The practice of Saul always was to go first to the syna-gogues ; it was right that the first offer of the Gospel should be addressed to the Jews ; moreover he was always sure of a good opening for his Gentile Mission among the "God-fearing, who formed part of his audi-ence in every synagogue." V. 6 summarizes the work of a considerable period ; four Greek words contain all that is said about a thorough missionary campaign throughout the whole island. "Gone through the whole island" (R.V.). Here, says Knowling, is the first use of a word (translated gone through) which has been fitly called one of the missionary words in Acts. Thus simply began "the great Christian Odyssey."

Opposition and Encouragement (vv. 6-12). Paphos—i.e., New Paphos, now Baffo—was the ad-

ministrative capital of the island, and was some few miles north of the old site famous for its temple of Venus. Here dwelt Sergius Paulus, the Roman pro-consul. Luke's title for the Roman official reveals con-temporary knowledge—an accurate touch where in-accuracy was -easy. Roman provinces were at this time of two classes, imperial and senatorial, the former ruled over by a propraetor, the latter by a proconsul. An inscription found at Soloi, in the north of Cyprus, is dated "in the proconsulship of Paulus." Sergius Paulus was a man of practical ability, of keen intelligence, interested in science, philosophy and religion. Luke dwells somewhat lengthily on the stay of the mis-sionaries at Paphos—the interview with the Roman governor and Elymas the sorcerer was to him deeply significant—the true religion appears and confutes the false in the presence of the Roman world. The etymology of Elymas is indeterminate. It is a Greek word, some say from the Aramaic for strong, others from the Arabic

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for wise; Ramsay has the rendering "Etoimas," son of the ready. It would be quite misleading to think of Elymas simply as a sorcerer or fortune-teller ; he would be regarded as a man of science beyond the age in acquaintance with the powers and processes of nature. He would not be one of a number of "mere isolated, self-constituted pretenders, but a representative of an Oriental system and religion which exerted considerable influence on the Roman world." When Elymas saw that Sergius Paulus was deeply interested in the message of the missionaries he withstood them, fearing the loss of power, position and gain. "In the East it is always believed that the governor's friend may influence his judgement ; and every suppliant, every litigant, every criminal tries to propitiate or to bribe the friend." Under the influence of the Spirit Paul scathingly rebukes the false teacher, and by a startling miracle inflicted upon him the punishment of temporary blindness : fit punish-ment for one seeking to prevent the .entrance of light into the heart of another. "The mist and darkness " is a description characteristic of a physician. The effect on the governor was most marked. He felt that behind Paul stood a Divine power ; he accordingly became a believer, and has been called "the first-fruits of Paul's Gentile converts." This was the first collision of Chris-tianity with the great religious force of magianism and Oriental theosophy, and is probably but a specimen of many such encounters. It was also the occasion when before the Roman aristocracy and authority Paul's ascendancy of character and inspiration asserted itself and a signal crisis called into exercise his hidden powers. Paul's Gentile name is here used in Acts for the first time, because for the first time the apostle is in contact with Gentiles. The change of name marks the in- auguration of a new policy. "The dropping of the Jewish and the adoption of the Roman name was in harmony with the great truth he was promulgating—that henceforth the partition between Jew and Gentile was broken down."

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HINTS AND HELPS. BY REV. W. BAINBRIDGE.

MAY 2ND.

TOPIC : "FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT—PEACE." JOHN xrv. 24-31. (CONSECRATION.)

(1) READING of Topic verses by leader (John xiv. 24 —31).

(2) Prayer chain. (a) Thanksgiving for past month—its joys, particularly Easter joys ; (b) adoration—"Rab-boni," "My Lord and my God," "And they worshipped Him"—after His resurrection ; (c) supplication for the presence and power of the illuminating spirit—Pentecost.

(3) Hymn : "We may not climb" (C.E.H. 110). (4) Leader's remarks. "The merrie month of May "

is with us—the fifth month of the year, the growing month. The word is derived from the Latin, denoting a goddess of increase Or growth. The poets have some-times used this month to describe the early part of life .-

"His May of youth and bloom of lustihood" —(Shakespeare).

"Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope and Poesy when I was young."

—(Coleridge.)

So let us regard this consecration meeting as a delight, a budding and, a blossoming containing a rich promise of flower and fruit. The topic well accords with these suggestions. Youth and age alike should be times of peace—the peace of morning, and the peace of evening—the stress and storm of life coming between. We can best find our peace, as our joy, in believing "He is our peace."

(5) Solo : "Rest remaineth " (C.E.H. 134). (6) Address on Topic—" Peace." Joy and peace are

twin blessings. They are frequently linked in the New Testament, especially in the apostolic salutations—one is the Greek form, the other the Hebrew. "For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righte-ousness; and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost" (Rom. xiv. 17). The apostle here reverses the usual order. In c. xv. 13 he prays, "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing," etc. While joy is the pure, strong gladness of the justified, peace denotes our perfect relations with God in Christ Jesus our Lord. "Being therefore justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. v. 1). Joy is a masculine virtue ; peace, feminine. Joy is the robust, merry lad, whistling, romping in and about the home. Peace is "the angel in the house." As Coventry Patmore sings :-

She was all mildness ; yet 'twas writ, In all her grace, most legibly,

"He that's for Heaven unfit, Let him not hope to merit me."

Peace, as the Latin word pax, from which it comes, suggests (i.e., fixed, a peg), is a quiet, restful, sub-dued feeling. It is a pure, internal repose—"a surface fair with the reflected sky of Christ—Christ present,

Christ to come." The deep waters of the lake can only reflect the trees on its shore, the hills sloping upwards from its waters, the sky above it, as it is at rest, full of peace. The peace of God pervades, "all the contents of the Christian life, its moving masses of duty or trial, its interspaces of rest or silence." Peace is not inert,, it is a living power. It is life, not death. It is not the machine still, but the machine properly ad-justed, well lubricated, working smoothly, efficiently. A stagnant, ill-breeding pond is not a true symbol of peace ; but the lake, into which are continually poured the streams from the hills, over which the blue sky bends with smiling face, upon which there is true life and motion.

Notice what Christ says, in the topic verses, about peace : "Peace I leave with you ; my peace I give unto you : not as the world liveth, give I unto you," etc. (v. 27). It is the same peace—a twofold peace—a legacy, and a gift. Andrew Fuller quaintly says Christ left His purse to Judas, His soul to God, His body to Joseph, His clothes to the soldiers, His mother to John, His peace to His disciples. Theirs was a rich inheritance—as ours. Three things the Apostle Paul observes about peace—it fills (Rom. xv. 13), it keeps (Phil. iv. 7), it rules—is umpire (Col. iii. 15).

Christ's atonement has brought peace. His interces-sion, through the Holy Spirit, produces peace in the believer's heart and mind. Finally, the administration of the Holy Spirit will promote peace throughout all the world, such as no Dreadnoughts can ever do. "The fruit of the Spirit is—peace."

(7) Consecration prayer by cha;rman of Prayer Meet-ing Committee.

(8) Repetition of covenant pledge. (9) Roll call. As far as possible let the responses

revolve around the topic of the month—Peace. Am I bearing this fruit? Do I know this Christian virtue? Have I Christlike repose? Has my soul found abiding peace? It

(10) Hymn : "Peace, perfect peace" (C.E.H. 127). (11) Concluding prayer to be repeated after leader : "Give us wisdom. Bless us with peace. Kindle with.

in us all heavenly aspirations. Enable us to do or to suffer Thy will, and may our purest joy be ever to glorify the Name which Thou hast exalted above every name in Heaven and on earth. Light of all creation, shed Thy quickening rays upon us, and make us glad in the brightness of Thy smile. We ask all for the sake of Christ our Saviour and King. Amen."—(Dr. Parker.)

(12). Benediction.

Primary Department. LESSON XVII.

VIRTUE LESSON : STRENGTH. AIM OF LESSON.—To teach the strong to help the

weak. GOLDEN TEXT.—" Bear ye one another's burdens, and

so fulfil the law of Christ " (Gal. vi. 2).

LESSON STORY. (1) Christopher seeks the greatest King. Once upon a

time there lived a very strong man called Christopher. He was as tall as a:giant, and so broad and strong and so proud of his strength, that he made up his mind he would only serve the greatest King in the world. He was too proud to serve anyone who was not great.

So Christopher travelled up and down, seeking for the greatest King. At last he came to the palace of one who was said to be the greatest and richest King in that land. Christopher went into the palace and asked the King if he might fight for him, and when the King saw how strong he was he was glad to have him. But one day at a feast a singer sang a song which had in it the name of Satan. Christopher saw the King look afraid, and cross himself for fear. "How is this? " asked Christopher. "Why are you afraid of the name of Satan? Tell me or I will leave you." Then the King said, "I cross myself to keep me safe from the power of Satan, for I am afraid of him." "Then," said Christopher, "if you are afraid of Satan, he must be greater than you. I will go and find him and follow him."

(2) Christopher seeks Satan. Then Christopher left the King, and went to find Satan. He travelled up and down, and at last, in a desert place, he saw an army marching, and at the head of them a most terrible, awful-looking being, who stopped and said, "Where are you going?" Christopher answered, "I am seeking

Satan, because he is the greatest King there is, and I want to serve him." And the terrible being answered, " I am Satan, follow me." So Christopher marched behind Satan, with the rest of the army. But one day they came to a lonely hill, where there was a cross reared up against the sky. When Satan saw the cross he trembled with fear, and turned back to go another way. When Christopher saw this, he asked Satan, " Why do you tremble? Tell me, or I will leave you." And Satan answered, " On that cross died Jesus Christ, and when I see it I tremble, for I fear Him ! " Then said Christopher, " Jesus must be greater than you; I will go and seek Him, and serve Him."

(3) Christopher seeks Jesus. Away went Christopher to look for Jesus. He sought far and wide, and at last he came to a cave where a holy man, called a hermit, lived. "What do you want? " asked the hermit. "I seek Jesus, the greatest King there is, that I may serve Him," answered Christopher. "Jesus is in Heaven," said the holy man. " But if He is the greatest I must follow Him," said Christopher. "What shall I do? " Then the holy man looked at Christopher and saw how strong he was. "Surely," said he, "your strength may be used to follow Jesus. Do you see that river, how deep and wide it is? Many people are drowned there trying to cross it. Go and use your strength to help people across."

So Christopher went and built a but on the river bank, and plucked up a young palm tree for a stick to steady himself by, and he spent his time in helping those who came to the riverside to cross. The weak ones he lifted in his arms and bore across, and the strong ones he held by the hand and led, and prevented the roaring torrents from dashing them away. In this way Christopher saved many people from drowning. And Jesus looked down from Heaven, and was pleased with Christopher, because he used his strength to save others. EUNICE NAYLOR.

EXPRESSION.—Drawing.

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MRS. EMMA JACKSON, BLACKPOOL. THERE has just passed away one of the oldest mem-

bers of the Springfield Road Church, in the person of Mrs. John Jackson, of Blackpool, in her seventieth year. The deceased lady, who was the widow of the late Mr. John Jackson—for many years secretary-steward of the Springfield Road M.N.C. Church—had been a member of the Society from its inception, and was one of the few remaining links of that period which saw the beginning of the cause here, some twenty-two years ago. Mrs. Jackson had been troubled for some years with bronchitis, and her end occurred somewhat unexpectedly on February 7th. She was present at the annual tea on January 20th. The funeral took place on February 10th, at the Blackpool Cemetery, the service being conducted by the Revs. Bramwell Dutton and C. M. Shaw (pastor).

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CHAPTER XXI. BENEDICT TRELAWNEY AND JUDGE

JEFFREYS. WHILE King James II. rejoiced in the fate of Mon-

mouth, and made plans concerning the future, Benedict Trelawney and William Ridgeway remained in Taunton gaol. Altogether about a thousand prisoners were huddled together in various places in Taunton town. Some were in the great wool-market, many more were in the gaol, while others were stowed away in the most convenient places which could be found, in order that they might await the coming of Jeffreys. At first, Benedict thought his judgement would be speedy, but week after week passed away before the terrible Judge appeared. From time to time he heard various rumours of what had taken place. First, came the news of the happening to Lady Alice Lisle. Her guilt consisted simply of giving food and shelter to those who were guilty of taking part in the rebellion, but Jeffreys was determined that this his first trial should end in the death of the victim. It was generally believed that Lady Alice would be set free, but, in spite of every endeavour, even among those who were most faithful to the King, Lady Alice died on the scaffold at Winchester. When Tre-lawney heard of this he knew that no mercy was to be expected. After that, news came to the people at Taunton, and reached even the ears of the captured rebels, Of the terrible scenes which were taking place. From Dorchester and Exeter came the same dread tidings, but although the Somersetshire farmers and labourers besought God to have mercy upon them, no man shrank from his doom, no man asked mercy of men. In this they were different from the man who had claimed to be their leader. He had become a whining coward, but the brave Somersetshire yokels showed no signs of fear ; they even spoke cheerfully of the doom that awaited them.

At last news came that the terrible judge was on his way to Taunton, which was the centre of rebellion, and where it was expected that • the most terrible scenes would be enacted.

"Well, one thing is in our favour," said William Ridgeway ; "it will soon be over. I hear that hanging is not such a very hard death."

"Aye," replied Trelawney, "besides, we have much to be thankful for. For although we have been guarded with special care, we have been better treated than many. We have been able to sleep at nights, and the straw is clean."

"Ave, and the food hath been good, too. Hark ! what is that? " , "They are putting up the scaffolds. Do you hear them driving in the nails? "

" Yes, well, we shall be soon hanging there ; but I do not fear. I have fought with a clear conscience, and I am not afraid to meet my Maker. There is only one thing that-- "

"What? " asked Trelawney, as the yeoman ceased speaking.

"I have been thinking about my Martha," said Ridge-way. " Not a word have I heard from her. I can't make it out."

Trelawney was silent. He, too, had often wondered what course the hatred of Mary Jeffreys would take. Hour after hour he had pondered over her behaviour to-wards him ; but although he pondered long and sorely, nothing could he understand. Never since he had been immured in the gaol had he heard of her.

" I am sure my Martha will never let me die with-out trying to set me free," said Ridgeway, presently. "She was not willing for me to join Monmouth's army, but she promised, in case I was taken prisoner, never to rest until I was set free' again. Aye, but the sounds of the hammers driving the nails into the scaffold do make me shiver. And, oh, Master Trelawney, it must be hard for you. It doth not matter so much about me, for I am but a simple farmer. But you come of a great family, and are related to the Bishop of Bristol."

"The main branch of the Trelawney family knows but little of me," replied the young Cornishman. "Doubt-less I shall be disowned altogether by all my relations ; but I could not have done other. Nay, not even Sir John Trelawney himself, if he were alive, could have done other, had he been placed as I was. Besides, I am not afraid to die."

"You think we shall die." "You know what we have heard. If Lady Alice Lisle

was murdered for giving men shelter, what will become of us? "

"Ah, well," said Ridgeway, quietly, "I shall make no fuss about it ; but oh, Master Trelawney, I do want to see my Martha."

Another day passed away, and still naught happened ; but the following day they could not help being aware that there was a great stir in the town.

" Judge Jeffreys is on his way," said the gaoler, as he came to them with food. " In an hour he will be here."

At this William Ridgeway looked at Trelawney sadly. "The trial will commence first thing in the morning,"

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went on the gaoler, "and I do hear how you rebels are to be tried in big batches. Men say that he is going to get rid of you quickly, especially as here in Taunton there be so many. Besides, the Judge is getting tired of his work."

At this Trelawney laughed incredulously. "Well, so I do hear," went on the gaoler. "Not that

he doth not delight in killing Dissenters, but I am told he suffers much with a painful disease, and he is anxious to get his job over. He bath a stone in his inside, I am told, and it fair doubles him up with pain, and that makes him all the harder on rebels."

" He can but hang us," said Trelawney, after the man had gone.

" He may torture us," replied Ridgeway. "Torture us ! " repeated the young Cornishman, like

one in a dream. "Aye, was not that what Lady Mary said to you? I

have often wondered why she hates you so, Master Tre-lawney. Evidently, moreover, she hath much power. When she told the governor that her name was Lady Mary Beaumont, he treated her with much reverence, while, when she gave him that bit of paper, he obeyed her as though she were the Queen herself."

At this Trelawney was silent. He had not told Ridge-way of his previous meetings with this girl. Somehow he could not, for even as he lay in gaol, he thought tenderly of the way she had delivered him in Fleet Street, and treasured in his heart the words she had spoken to him in the shadow of Temple Church. Moreover, she still remained a mystery to him, for while at one hour she had seemed to be his friend, she had at the next become his most determined foe.

Presently they heard a great shout, which was soon after followed by a silence, save that they heard the trampling of feet outside the walls of their prison.

"What can it mean? " asked Ridgeway. " Perhaps some one hath sighted the Judge's carriage,"

replied Benedict. Neither of them knew that at that moment the Judge's

carriage was passing along the road outside the prison walls. Yet so it was. When he had entered the town, the King's soldiers had given him a cheer of welcome, but it was not heartily given, for even they looked with loathing upon him. The crowd of yokels had filled the street to see the man, of whom the whole country was talking, but no man regarded him with affection, rather they looked on him with fear and loathing, although they dared not express the rage that burned in their hearts.

And yet many wondered as they saw his face. He lay back in his carriage, occasionally giving a careless glance on the crowd, and then closing his eyes as if in pain.

" He's only a young man either," one townsman would say to another.

" Not much above forty, I should think." "And not a bad-looking man, either." " Bad-looking ! Why, he's handsome ! Surely people

have told lies about him." "Have they? Well, I shall- see to-morrow. I shall

be in the court-house." "So shall I. I'm summoned as a witness." On the following morning the whole town of Taunton

was in a state of great excitement, for the trial of the thousand prisoners who lay in their prisons was about to commence. In the court-house, officers and men of law were fluttering hither and thither, some of them laughing merrily, while others were talking eagerly of the trial which was soon to come off. The Judge's bench, as well as the wall behind, was all hung with red, while even the table on which gray goose quills, bottles of ink, and rolls of paper were placed, was covered with material of the same sanguinary colour.

"What time is the trial to commence? " asked one. " It's timed for nine, but it'll be • later." " How is that ? "Why, my Lord Jeffreys was up drinking half the

night with Colonel Kirke, so he's sure to be late." "Ah, then, that will mean that he'll be in a terrible

temper." "Aye, that's well known. I hear that in Dorchester,

on the night before their trial, the rebels used to pray that he might be led to go to bed early, and get a good night's rest. They said it meant that he would be a little more mild with them, and perhaps condemn them to the colonies, instead of to the gallows."

"Well, for that matter, I should think hanging would be better than the Barbados and the Indies, where they are to be slaves. Hark ! what's that? "

"The Judge's trumpeter. Now then, the fun will soon begin."

But the Judge did not enter immediately. Evidently he had gone into some ante-room ; nevertheless, there was much excitement in the court-house, for a large number of prisoners were brought in. For the most part they were simple country fellows, who had spent their lives on the farms, but who, at what they believed to be fhe call of duty, had taken up arms for a Protestant King.

Among these came Benedict Trelawney and William Ridgeway. No sooner did the young Cornishman enter than he gazed eagerly towards the raised dais where the Judge's throne was placed, and then gave a sigh of relief as he saw it was empty.

The court-house was thronged to excess, even as it was during the days which followed ; but to-day the excite-ment was at its greatest, for all eagerly awaited the first appearance of the terrible Judge.

They had not long to wait, for although Jeffreys might have spent half the night drinking with Colonel Kirke, he seemed eager for his first day'S work in

Taunton. Scarcely had Benedict gazed around the court.. house than a cry of silence was heard, which was im-mediately followed by a great 'hush, while every one looked eagerly towards the door at the back of the platform.

Like people entranced they watched, while one after another entered the court-house, and then came a sound like a deep sigh.

Clad in a flowing red robe, and his head covered with a great white periwig, entered Judge Jeffreys. For a moment he stood still, and gazed around the chamber, then he went to the seat prepared for him.

" Handsome, isn't he? ' Some one said this aloud, so loud that it reached

Jeffreys' ears. Evidently it pleased him, for a smile passed over his face. Faint as the smile was, it created a feeling in his favour. After all, he was human ; and so handsome a man could not be so terrible as he had been described. Besides, he was still young. He had only just reached the prime of life, and his face might have been the face of a poet instead of "the devil of the white wig," as he has been called. Indeed, so much did that smile lead the Taunton people to hope for mercy at his hands that some went so far as to try and raise a cheer. At this the man's face changed as if by magic. A look of mad rage leapt into his dark eyes, his hands trembled with passion, and he yelled out furiously :

"Who dares create such a noise in his sacred Majesty's court. Silence, you bawling calves."

In a moment there was a dead silence again, while Jeffreys rose to his feet, his eyes eagerly scanning the prisoners that "stood before him.

"Yes, look well at me ! " he cried. "Ah, do you tremble ? And well you may. Expect mercy, do you? Well, you will not get any. Justice you shall have—aye, justice, justice. You do not deserve it, no, not an atom. You deserve only vengeance, vengeance. But so kind, so tender, so gracious, so forgiving is his sacred Majesty, King James II., that he hath sent me to administer justice. Now then, let us proceed."

He took a piece of paper, and began to read the names of some of the prisoners who stood before him.

" Yes, yes," he cried, "these be all- guilty, every one of them, there is no doubt about that—aye, as guilty as Judas Iscariot himself, but I see no names of the so-called Puritan Divines here. Where are they? "

In answer to this, some one said that Faversham had hung all that he could catch on the day of the Battle of Sedgemoor.

"Then he bath exceeded his duty," cried Jeffreys. "Aye, I say it plainly. It was my purpose to have dealt with them myself. Aye, and I would have dealt with them, too. Hath Ferguson been caught? "

" No, your lordship ; he bath escaped." "Escaped ! Ferguson escaped ! A murrain on you

all. How dare you stand before me, and tell me that the ringleader, the man more guilty than Monmouth himself, bath escaped. Oh, but I would that -Ferguson and the rest of the praying, ranting, preaching, snivel-ling, hypocritical Presbyterians and Dissenters were brought before me Have all been dealt with—all? "

"All the preachers, your lordship. " "Then, seeing I have no shepherd, I must en'en deal

with the sheep. Sheep, did I say? Nay, wolves, wolves."

He looked round the court-house again. "I wonder God hath not stricken you all dead," he cried. "Ananias and Sapphira were angels compared with you ; the men who mocked the bald-headed prophet were innocent babies compared with you ; Achan, nay, Judas himself was like the Blessed Virgin herself compared with you. Oh, you fiends, to take up arms against his loving, tender-hearted Majesty, and yet to stand shamelessly by, and not repent."

Again he looked down the list of names, as if in search for some particular one, and suddenly his eyes gleamed with savage joy.

"Ali, who have we here 1 " he cried. " Benedict Tre-lawney, one time captain in Monmouth's army. Let Benedict Trelawney stand out from among the rest."

The young Cornishman felt the blood rush into his face as he heard his name mentioned ; nevertheless he did as he was commanded.

"Ah, Master Benedict Trelawney," he cried exultantly. "Your sins have come home to you, eh? What, even Master Helstrop hath not a word to say for you, eh? No wonder, no wonder ! A youth, eye, a youth, bearing an old name, to be such a sink of iniquity ! Aye, look at him well, gentlemen, look at him well. Yes, he, that villain there, bath some of the best blood in England in his veins. True, he belongs to but an obscure branch of the family whose name he bears, nevertheless his name is Trelawney. But that is not all ; he hath Dis-senting blood in him. He is related to that arch-hyp?- crite and Dissenter, Richard Baxter, who is even now in prison. Well, let me tell you this. I have had this villain before me ere this. In London he was guilty of the foulest of crimes, but managed to escape justice ; but he shall not escape this time, warrant. Now then, Master Benedict Trelawney, I will e'en deal with you first. You were a ringleader in this vile rebellion. You have been caught red-handed, Benedict Trelawney. Now, what have you to say for yourself? "

" Nothing," replied Benedict. "Nothing ! I should think not. H

shame come into your heart at last? some

Else, s l see n s of

why hy

nothing? " "Because it would be useless to say anything." "Aye, useless, that it is ; but why useless? "

The Chariots of the Lord. By JOSEPH HOCKING.

Author of "Follow the Gleam," "A Flame of Fire," etc.

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Trelawney was silent. "What, will you not answer me? Do you dare to

mock his Majesty's Chief Justice by refusing to speak when he asks you a question ? Why will you not answer me?' You have committed one of the deadliest sins ever committed against the most noble, the most loving, the kindest and best king that ever lived ; I.have given you the opportunity to defend yourself, and yet you will not speak when I tell you. Why, you blackguard, why? Do you expect justice? ".

".No." " You do not expect justice ; why ? 'Fell me that,

scoundrel." "Because you are the judge," replied Trelawney, not

able to resist the answer that sprung to his lips. . ." What ! ." The man's eyes flashed fire. His dark skin became

purple, he gnashed his teeth in his rage, while his voice was hoarse with passion. He started from his seat as if he would rush upon him,• but seeing that all eyes were liked upon him, he managed to control himself.

"Because you are the judge," repeated the Cornish-man, "and no one ever found you guilty of administer-ing justice. Besides, as you say, you and I have met before. And. I know you will do your worst. Well, do it. I am prepared."

"Can you not see the poison coming from his mouth? " cried the Judge. "Can you not see that he is as full of venom •as . a viper? Oh, what shall I do in order to make an example of black damning sin ? "

He was about to proceed, when some one passed a piece of paper to him, which he read eagerly.

"Ah 1 " he cried exultantly. "Ah, my painful duty bath been spared to me. Listen, gentleman, listen ! "

(To be continued.)

The First U.M. Church built in London.

Church News in Brief.

Circuit Quarterly Meetings. BATLEY.—Rev. G. Eayrs presided. Numerical re-

turns showed (353 members and 64 probationers, an increase of 14 and 5 respectively on the year. The financial statement showed a balance in hand of £10. The Trust estates of the Circuit are in a healthy con-dition. Young People's department showed that though there had been some little decline in the number of names on the books, a much better attendance had been recorded. Rev. F. J. Lindley was given a "perfect " certificate. Representatives to the t'District meeting : the ministers of the Circuit, and Messrs. David Fox, t'S. Lumb and C. R. Spedding.

BIRMINGHAM, SMALL HEATH. — Rev. J. S. Hockin presided. Reports of the various organizations were regarded as satisfactory. The numerical returns showed an increase of four members on the year and a sub- stantial increase of scholars in the schools. Washwood Heath Church had reduced its debts by £825, but Muntz Street Church finances still cause much anxiety. A scheme has, however, been devised for removing all the debts by the jubilee of the Church in 1910, provided sub-stantial assistance can be obtained from Connexional Funds.

BRIDLINGTON.—Rev. W. Conrad Balmer presided. The financial statement showed a balance in hand, and there is an increase of 14 members on the year. Messrs. E. E. Yeomans and G. W. Wardley were appointed re-presentatives to the District meeting, along with the ininister and one' of the Circuit stewards. The church has had a most successful winter, and at, the close of the summer season a new organ is to be erected, and the floor of the chapel raised and reseated. During the alterations the Sunday services will be held in the Royal Victoria Rooms. Rev. W. Conrad Balmer is president of the local Free Church Council.

DURHAM.--Rev. E. L. Perry presided. Numerical re-turns 632, a decrease of 16 on the year; on trial 28, de-crease 20, caused by migration. Representatives to District meeting : Revs. E. L. Perry and J. James ; Messrs. A. Browell (Circuit steward), N. Gott, C. Todd, P. Plattow, J. Ouin and T. W. Tronholme (treasurer steward). The financial statement was satisfactory, the income exceeding expenditure by nearly £2. A deputa-tion appointed by the last quarterly -meeting- visited West Chilton in the neighbourhood of Ferry Hill, and found promise of establishing a strong Church. This is a new District, where several friends have migrated from other Circuits and formed a small church in the Work-men's Reading Room. It is hoped that a new church will be built at an early date. A committee was ap-pointed to visit Dean Bank, and empowered to try and secure a site and commence building operations at once. It was arranged that the Shercliffe and Hamilton Row

IN our advertisement columns will be found particulars of a unique chapel opening function at Earlsmead, South Tottenham, Seven Sisters' Corner, London N. This scheme is the last in London sanctioned by the late Bible Christian Conference, and the first built United Method-ist Church. The presence of Mrs. Lloyd George, the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Revs. Dinsdale T. Young and J. E. Rattenbury, with Messrs. James Branch, M.P., and Percy Alden, M.P., in addi-tion to a number of our ministers is sufficient guarantee of a right good time. In Tottenham there are about 140,000 people, and provision is made in all churches, chapels and mission-halls for less than one-seventh of the population. The district is comparatively poor. It is an important sphere for aggressive home mission work. The site at Earlsmead is generally regarded as the best in the district. The four main thoroughfares of the district meet at Seven Sisters' Corner opposite which the new church stands on its freehold site. Trams from Finsbury Park, Stamford Hill, Wood Green, Ed-monton, etc., pass the doors. And yet the church is set well back in a very wide thoroughfare and suffers nothing from the traffic.

Late Bible Christians are asked to help as this is the culmination of an extension initiated by the Home Missions Committee led by the late Frederick William Bourne and others. For the United Methodist Church there is here an opportunity and a need probably second to none in all our London District. Contributions may be sent to the pastor, the Rev. Cooper G. Hawken, 52 Downhills Park Road, West Green, London, N.

The London Missionary Demonstration.

CHAIRMAN'S LIST CONTINUED. MRS. BRAUND, Plymouth, 10s. 6d. ; Hy. Spencer,

Draycott, 5s. ; Squire Spencer, Harrogate, '15; Rev. A. Crombie, 5s. ; Rev. T. Skillings, 2s. 6d. ; M. L. Finch, Plymouth, 3s. ; Wm. Gibson, St. Martin's, Scilly Isles, ,'1; J. Thomas, Heamoor, 2s. 6d. ; G. Pratt, SOuth Acton, 5s.; Friends, 4'10; W. Woodruff, Barns-ley, 2s. 6d.; Box 12 Goole, for East African Hospital Fund, ; G. W. Sharman, Sheffield, 5s. ; J. Brook Taylor, Neath, £1 is. ; C. H. Townend, Stoke Newing-ton Common, 5s. ; R. M. Smith, Manchester, 5s. ; Not-tingham District Ladies' Missionary Auxiliary, £5 5s., per Mrs. E. Lindley ; Rev. W. G. Jolly, 5s. ; Anon., 2s.; John Heelis, Bolton, £1; D. Elbrow, St. George, Bris-tol, 2s. 6d.; previously acknowledged, £32 4s. ; total to April 20th, £66 10s. 6d.

Subscriptions to be sent to Rev. C. H. Poppleton, 202 Portway, West Ham, E.

BARROW-IN-FURNESS (Roose Road).--A fancy bazaar was held in the Town Hall in aid of the Trust liabilities. The opening ceremony, performed by Mr. J. Hutchin-son, was well attended. On the second day Mrs. R. Mullinder opened the proceedings, and Mrs. Ernshaw presided. The friends started the scheme with the view of greatly reducing the debt of £1,240, but, owing to the acute trade depression in the town, many difficulties have had to be faced. The ladies of Christ Church very generously contributed the refreshment stall, and Rev. W. T. Harris and friends from Dalton greatly assisted in the flower stall. The Storey Square Church kindly lent the stalls, etc., free of cost. Proceeds over £120, and, considering all things, the friends are grateful for such a result.

United Methodist Church Home & Foreign Missions.

LONDON MAY DEMONSTRATION

City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, E.G.,

Monday, April 26th, 1909.

Collections in aid of Mission Fund.

Remittances towards CHAIRMAN'S LIST to be sent to Rev. C. H. POF'PLBTON, .202 Portway, West Ham, B.

H. HOOKS, C. H. POPPLETON, r Local Secretaries. F. BARRETT,

*Dome tibissionz 3 o'clock. CHAIRMAN :

Councillor WM, BRETTLE, J.P. (Nottingham). SPEAKERS :

Rev. H. JAMES Rev. GEORGE HOOPER (Huddersfield) (London)

Rev. JOHN MOORE (Home Mission Secretary)

Soloist : Miss ELSIE NEDEN, L.R.A.M.

foreign omissions-6.30. CHAIRMAN :

ROY. Dr. TOWNSEND, President of Conference. SPEAKERS:

Rev. Dr. HANSON Principal H. S. REDFERN, M.Sc. (Marylebone Presbyterian) (Nlhgno College)

Rev. F. J. DYMOND Rev. C. STEDEFORD (Chao Tong, China) (Cardiff)

SUPPORTED BY

Revs. S. POLLARD (Miao Country), H. T. CHAPMAN, G. PACKER ; Members of the Foreign Missionary Committee; and others.

A LARGE UNITED CHOIR WILL RENDER DURING THE EVENING MEETING

" HALLELUJAH CHORUS " (Messiah) —Handel. Anthem : " SEEK YE THE LORD "—J. V. Roberts.

" ARISE, SHINE FOR THY LIGHT IS COME "—Elvey.

SOLOIST : Mr. GEORGE COLES. CONDUCTOR : Mr. FRED C. LELLIOTT.

ORGAN RECITAL from 6 tO)rg62n?stb yatMgit yA.TJe.mHpAeW KINS,

342 THE UNITED METHODIST. April 22, 1909.

Churches have special supervision during the next quarter.

GUERNSEY, SALEM.-Rev. William S. Welch presided. It was reported that 21 members had been received, total 269, a decrease of 4 ; juveniles 48, increase 3. Trust receipts, £347. Debts reduced, £110 10s. Voted by St. Sampson's leaders to Vale Avenue new site, £25. Cir-cuit receipts, '196 ; and missionary receipts again ahead. Messrs. J. Bragg (steward), with J. D. Windsor and E. D. Le Page, were elected to attend District Meeting.

HALIFAX NORTH.-Rev. J. R. Abel presided. The numerical statement showed an increase of 15 members and the financial statement showed a slight balance in hand. The young people's report showed that the number of scholars on the books in the five schools had decreased by thirty-eight. Representatives to District meeting : Messrs. Zima Scott, A. H. Mitchell, and L. Balmforth, with Mr. W. Patterson as reserve.

HALIFAX WEST.-Rev. William Walker presided. The numerical statement showed a slight increase of mem-bers. The treasurer's statement was regarded as fairly satisfactory. A perfect certificate was`awarded to Rev. Charles A. Davis.

HUDDERSFIELD, HIGH STREET. - Rev. Henry James presided. Numerical statement showed 843 members and 135 on trial ; increase of 12 full members. Treasurer reported finances satisfactory. Balance in hand, £16 16s. 2d. Trust debts reduced £117 during year, leaving only about ,.1,000 on trust estates in this large circuit. Representatives to District Meeting : Mr. David Shaw, circuit steward (ex-officio), and Messrs. T. Leonard, Herbert Shaw, John Smith, Alfred Roberts, and J. Henderson.

KINGSBROMPTON.-Rev. T. C. Jacob presided, and in presenting the annual report, showed that progress had been made all round. The membership showed an in-crease of 4 on the year. The mission funds have been increased. The young people's report stated that there was an increase of 3 teachers and 25 scholars. Repre-sentatives to District meeting : Messrs. W. Crockford, R. B. Ashton, R. Melhuish, t'FI. Govier, and W. Court. A special quarterly meeting is to be held to consider the advisability of building a chapel at Brendan Hill.

LEICESTER. - Rev. George Parker presided. Rev. D. B. Proudlove was given a perfect certificate. Repre-sentatives to the District Meeting : Mr. E. Deacon, Rev. D. B. Proudlove, Mr. F. Coleman, and Mr. J. FL John-son ; alternatives, Messrs. F. Beck, Worth, and Hardy. The various Connexional reports were presented by Mr.

. J. H. Johnson, Revs. J. J. Davies and G. Parker, and Mr. T. Palmer. The numerical statement presented by Mr. A. Palethorpe showed the membership for the quar-ter to be 540, with 53 on trial. The financial statements showed a small balance in hand.

LINDLEY.-Held at Outlane, Rev. J. E. Radcliffe pre-siding. Membership, 820 (year's increase, 35) ; proba- tioners, 96. Balance in hand, ,,4-46 1s. 10d. The resignation of Mr. J. E. Sykes as local preacher was regretfully accepted, with thanks for efficient service.

United Methodist Church, Shernhall Street, Vir2ILLTI-NA1VISITOVIT.

Minister Rev. T. NIGHTINGALE.

Opening of the Shern Hall TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27th. 5.0. The Door will be Opened by Mrs. WILLIAM

MALLINSON. 5.15. Dedicatory Service. Address by Mr. SILAS K.

HOCKING. The Rev. H. T. CHAPMAN will take part in the proceedings.

6.30. Tea and Refreshments. Tickets, 6d. each. 7.45. PUBLIC MEETING. Chairman : JOSEPH

WARD, Esq. (Sheffield). Speakers : Revs. Dr. TOWNSEND (President of Conference), A. T. GUTTERY, Mr. SILAS K. HOCKING, and Sir ALFRED GELDER.

THURSDAY, APRIL 29th. YOUNG PEOPLE'S DAY.

7.45. PUBLIC MEETING to celebrate the Opening of the New Buildings for Sunday School pur-poses. Chairman : J. RICHARDSON, Esq. (Oakleigh Park). Speakers : Revs. CAREY BONNER and JOHN MOORE.

SATURDAY, MAY 1st. GREAT POPULAR MEETING,

8 p.m., to celebrate the Opening of •the Buildings for Institutional purposes.

Chairman : R. W. ESSEX, Esq., M.P. Speakers : Rev. C. SILVESTER HORNE,

M.A. J. A. SIMON, Esq., K.C., M.P.

SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 2nd. 6.30. Rev. T. NIGHTINGALE will conduct a Special

Service in the Shern Hall, instead of in the Church.

MONDAY, MAY 3rd. The Choir will render, in the Church, John Farmer's

Oratorio, " CHRIST AND HIS SOLDIERS."

Collections toward the Building Fund.

Trust estates, which cost £37,274, have debts amount-ing only to £280, a reduction of £541 having been effected during the year. Marsh building fund stands at £1,348. The lay delegates to the District Meeting are Messrs. A. Sykes, F. Dyson, J. Whitaker, G. H. Fox, W. Eastwood, and J. Taylor. The arrangements sug-gested for a united plan for the five Huddersfield Cir-cuits were heartily sanctioned.

LITTLEBOROUGH.-Rev. James Harrison presided. The numerical returns showed full members, 317 ; on trial, 55 ; increase on the year, 9. Financial accounts showed a balance in hand of over £4. Representatives to Dis-trict meeting : Mr. John Walsh (Circuit steward), Mrs. John Crawford and Mrs. Thomas Ashworth. Repre-sentatives to the United Methodist Church Council : Messrs. P. H. Taylor and James Edwards.

MANCHESTER NORTH.-Rev. W. Hookins presided. The Circuit auditor reported that trust debts had been reduced -/-;379 on the year. Representatives to District meeting : Messrs. N. Edge, A. Varley, G. Brown, R. Blackwell, R. Lakin, S. Grundy, and W. H. Egerton. The numerical returns : membership 789, and 147 on trial ; _decrease of 23 members, and an increase of 9 on trial. Young people's returns : teachers and officers of the Sunday Schools, 314, being an increase of 32 on the year ; scholars, 2,591.

MANCHESTER (Openshaw).-Rev. J. W. Mawer pre-sided. Numerical report, 372 full members, increase on the year, 6. The financial statement showed that the adverse balance was gradually disappearing. Mission-ary income for- the year, £75 16s. 5d., increase

14s. 7d. Mr. H. Seddon and Councillor John Harri-son were elected representatives to the District meeting. Mr. Seddon, treasurer of the Thanksgiving Fund, re-ported that he had received payments towards that fund of £72 8s. 6d.

MossLE.Y.-Rev. John A. Bedward presided. Numeri-cal returns showed a membership of 624, with 79 on trial, increase for the year 6 members and 7 probationers. The financial statement showed that the deficit balance had been reduced to under £4. The Sunday School and Trust reports submitted were deemed to be very satis-factory, an increase having taken place in the number of scholars. Representatives to District meeting : Messrs. James Shaw (Circuit steward), John Derbyshire, W. H. Shepley, John H. Fielding, William Scott, and Hervey Buckley, with Messrs. Joseph Fielding, senior, and Abraham Ogden as alternative delegates.

NEWCASTLE, CENTRAL.-Rev. T. Stoneley presided. The returns showed a small increase in membership and probationers. The financial report was gratifying, the treasurer having a balance in hand of nearly £4. The report presented by the young people's secretary showed an increase of teachers and scholars. Representatives to District meeting : ministers and Mr. J. T. Crawford (Circuit secretary), Messrs. R. McKay, W. S. Foggin, and T. H. Anderson.

SHREWSBURY, TOWN WALLS. - Rev. Walter Cooper presided. Numerical returns showed an increase of 17 members on the year. Balance in hand of 5s. 6d. Small increase in the number of Sunday School scholars. Resolution was passed agreeing to the immediate amal-gamation of the two Shrewsbury Circuits. The uniting quarterly meeting of the two circuits has just been held, stewards and circuits officers appointed, and representa-tives elected to the District Meeting.

STOCKPORT. - Rev. W. H. Lockley presided. Financial report satisfactory. The numerical report showed 938 members and 128 probationers ; increase, 41 and 11 respectively. Churches at Levenshulme and Stockport have been united to the circuit during the year. A committee was appointed to consider arrangements on behalf of Connexional Thanksgiving Fund.

Bazaars. CAMELFORD AND WADEBRIDGE (Camelford).-A suc-

cessful effort has recently been made in aid of the new pipe organ which was placed in the chapel a few months ago, costing over £200. In connection with the effort, Rev. W. Kaye Dunn, B.A., of London, preached and lectured. There was a public luncheon, tea and concert, and in the afternoon a sale of work was opened by 25 children, representing the British Colonies. The financial result was most gratifying ; proceeds, £106, which, with the sum realized at the opening ceremony, leaves only

now to be raised. HARTLEPOOL (St. Mark's).-A two days' bazaar was

declared open on the first day by Mrs. T. Wake ; Mr. F. Yeoman, J.P., presided. On the second day Miss Xenia Yeoman reopened the sale, and Alderman J. Hunter, J.P., occupied the chair. Result, very satis-factory, £120. At the close of sale, in thanking the friends for their assiduous labour and generous gifts, Rev. G. T. Akester, superintendent of the circuit, stated that in less than four years he had seen £700 raised by that church by bazaars. The estate, church, school, and manse, as well as their current accounts, were now clear of debt, and he hoped the balance in hand would form the nucleus of a fund for the renovation of church and school in the year of the church's jubilee, viz., 1910.

MANCHESTER NORTH (Salem).-With the object of re-ducing a debt on current Trust account a sale of work was recently held. There was a large attendance on the opening day. Mr. George Brown, church treasurer, pre-sided. Mrs. Frank J. Le Huray, the daughter of the late Sir J. J. Harwood, the wife of the church secretary, declared the sale open. On the second day, the sale was opened, on behalf of the children, by Mr. P. Millward, the school secretary. Some fifty scholars took part, and contributed nearly £11. Rev. William Hookins, pastor, declared the sale open on the third day. Others who took part in the opening ceremonies were : Rev. W. Madgen, Councillors W. P. Burnley and S. Grundy, and Messrs. B. Powell, John Williamson, S. Scantlebury and N. Barrett. The secretaries and treasurer were Messrs. F. Flewker, J. Meadowcroft and J. Foster. Proceeds, £180.

SHEFFIELD NORTH (Malin Bridge).-At the annual bazaar for the reduction of debt, notwithstanding slack-

ness of trade, which has been sorely felt by many of our members and congregation, the gross proceeds amounted to the sum of £255 13s.

YORK (Monk Bar).-In further effort for the reduction of debt in celebration of, their jubilee the friends at this church have recently held a bazaar. On the first day Alderman S. W. Meyer, J.P., performed the opening ceremony, and Mr. G. H. Goldthorp presided. The second day's opening was conducted by Mrs. J. W. Proctor, with Mrs. C. Bowman as president. The third day was taken by a group of children, and purses were received by Miss Jenny Thomlinson. Proceeds, £115, very satisfactory.

General News. BRADFORD, SHEARBRIDGE (Pudsey).-At a colonial

festival, the schoolroom was decorated to represent the Colonies, and a display of curios kindly lent by the Colonial Missionary Society, added to the effect. Mr. J. J. Oddy, M.P., was to have opened on the first day, but owing to illness Mr. Joseph Muff, chairman, per-formed the ceremony on his behalf. On the second day Mr. Fred Ogden was the opener, and the children of the Sunday School officiated at the third opening. The festival was the most successful for many years. Pro.. ceeds, £193.

LEEDS (Tempest Road).-The £1,000 debt reduction scheme has been all but completed by the bazaar held recently. All the friends worked with a will, and the splendid sum of £230 was obtained.

LONDON (Streatham).-At the annual church meeting Rev. W. Field presided. The report showed that, with one on trial, the membership now totalled 90, an in-crease of 21. A good attendance of members expressed Much gratification with this result.

NORTH SHIELDS (Howard Street).-A Sunday after-noon men's meeting has been commenced. At the first meeting Mr. George Hogg presided, and Rev. J. Lineham gave the address. The deputation from the Wesleyan Brotherhood attended on the following Sun-day, and wished the new movement success.

SHEFFIELD, SURREY STREET (Woodhouse). - On a recent Sunday the superintendent minister, Rev. R. Hebbron, had the joy of giving the right hand of fellow-ship at the Lord's Supper to eleven new members.

SUNDERLAND, THORNHILL (New Lambton).-Special sermons were recently preached by Rev. W. T. Ander-son, of Sunderland, whose visit was much ap-preciated. In the afternoon a musical service was given by the choir. On Monday, under the auspices of the C.E. Society, Rev. J. H. Burkitt lectured on "A Trip to Switzerland," illustrated with lantern slides. Mr. Thomas Howe (President of C.E. Society) presided. Proceeds in aid of Thanksgiving Fund.

Anniversary Services. LONDON (Herne Hill).-At the church anniversary the

pastor (Rev. H. Hooks) was the preacher. At the eve-ning service the choir rendered. Stainer's "Crucifixion." The congregations were good. The monthly communion service was held after the evening service at which there was a large attendance, and the pastor welcomed a num-ber of young people into church membership. To each one he presented a book as a memento of the event. The service was a very impressive one. On the Mon-day evening the annual church social was held, at which there was a large gathering. Mr. W. J. Pen-nain pre-sided. Addresses were given by Revs. C. H. Buxton and H. Hooks. Proceeds,

SHEFFIELD, BROOMHILL (Andover Street).-At the forty-seventh Sunday School anniversary services the preachers were the Revs. H. G. Allchurch (Hanover Cir-cuit), and A. E. Banks (pastor). On Monday, Rev. Kunhi Krishnan (in native costume) gave his lecture on "Life in India : from Krishna to Christ." Mr. George Champley occupied the chair; congregations good ; col-lections, about £16, a slight advance on last year. The children sustained their reputation in the singing of the special hymns and anthems; Mr. A. A. Alton (conductor) and Mr. J. W. Crapper (organist).

SWELLING OF THE LIMBS.

THREE YEARS CURED BY DOAN'S BACKACHE KIDNEY PILLS.

MRS. A.- MINSHALL, whose address is Army Terrace, Station Road, Newport, Salop, over three years after her cure of kidney trouble by Doan's Backache Kidney ,Pills, said : "The pills made me well when I was ill some years ago, and I am thankful to say I have kept well ever since."

The following is the statement Mrs. Minshall made just after her cure : " I suffered for about eighteen months with sharp pains in the small of my back ; at times they were like knife-stabs. I have a lot of wash-ing and ironing to do, and the pains in my back made this work come hard upon me. The kidney secretions were thick and full of gravel, and there was a frequent desire to pass them. Being unable to sleep at nights, I felt tired out in the mornings. My feet and limbs used to swell a great deal, and at night my feet were so swollen that I could scarcely get my boots off.

"A neighbour recommended me to try Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, and I am glad to say I have been free from the pains in my back since using the medicine. My feet and legs do not swell now, I get better sleep, and I am free from that tired, dragging feeling I used to have. The urinary trouble, too, has gone. I am grate-ful for what Doan's Backache Kidney Pills have done for me.-(Signed) ANNIE MINSHALL."

Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are 2s. 9d. a box, or 13s. 9d. for six boxes. Of all chemists and stores, or post free on receipt of price from Foster-McClellan Co., 8 Wells Street, Oxford Street, London, W. Be sure you get the same kind of pills as Mrs. Minshall had.

lantteb fnetbobist eburcb. SUNDAY'S PREACHING APPOINTMENTS,

April 25tb, 1909.

Circuit.

Hackney Bermondsey Bayswater Brixton Brixton Newington Brighton

Brighton

Brighton

Leeds

Church.

King's Cross Mission, Charlotte Street. Bermondsey Mission, " Manor," Galleywall Road. Walham Grove, Fulham. Railton Road, Herne Hill. Park Crescent, Clapham Park Road. Brunswick, Great Dover Street. Bristol Road (1 minute from Marine Parade and

Front). Stanford Avenue (3 minutes from Preston Park,

Beaconsfield Road Tram). Old Shoreham Road (2 minutes from Dyke Road

tram, Old Shoreham Road Stop). Woodhouse Lane.

Morning. Evening.

H. Bolitho H. Bolitho H. Codling H. Codling W. H. Jeffries D. Watkins W. Redfern F. Galpin E. E. Lark E. Sheppard J. Ibbotson J. Ibbotson J. P. Davey J. C. Pye

S. B. Lane J. P. Davey

J. C, Pye S. B. Lane

L.P.A. L.P.A.

Appointments are inserted in this column at the rate of 2s. 6d. per quarter prepaid.

for% Sale

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ls. ; 13 Sketches and Dialogues, ls. ; 13 Recitation Books, ls. ; 13 Miscellaneous Poems, ls. ; The Rose-bud Reciter, Gd.-J. Ward, Publisher, Retford, Notts.

CHURCH ORGANS.-Several 2-manual (second- hand). Guaranteed in excellent condition.-

Specifications. apply, W. E. Richardson and Sons, Organ Works, Hulme, Manchester. Est. 1845. Ad-visers sent to all parts.

ONE MOMENT PLEASE. - Wiltshire Smoked Breakfast Bacon as supplied by ourselves to

Windsor, Castle in sides or half-sides, 8d. per lb. ; Unsmoked, 74d. Hams, 8d. Not American meat, now so much advertised.-Case's Bacon Factory, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

G1L,PEP `with ndae/of-Chuich, 'aim' Vale -Of- Bazaar. 8-iUnoles 3d. Banks & Co, ubreta" Works Keswick.

CARAVANS for Sale or Hire.-For full particulars apply to Stephen Newing, the Kingsby Carriage

and Wagon Company, Grange Road, Willesden Green, N.W.

e, A -PAGE BOOK ABOUT HERBS AND HOW `± TO USE THEM. Post Free. Send for

one.-Trimnell, The Herbalist, 144 Richmond Road, Cardiff. Established 1879.

N EW SONGS OF THE GOSPEL, No. 2. America's Best. Containing " When Love

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SWEET PEAS, 4)d. ; 25 packets Seeds, 4id. ; 20 packets Vegetables,

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