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MANCHESTER YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEMONSTRATION. (Page 518). THOMAS HARDY—A QUESTION (See below). DEATH OF MR. E. S. SNELL (Page 514).

THE MISSION OF REPENTANCE AND HOPE (Page 519). THE

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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.

Thomas Hardy - A Question.

Hardy and Nietzsche. I had read years ago the Wessex novels, and during

the weeks before my visit, had read his poems. I had also been impressed by the almost unanimous chorus of praise lavished by critics upon his literary achievement, but had wondered whether this unanimity was like that which German critics have bestowed on the work of Nietzsche. For the fact is that both writers occupy a somewhat similar place in the estimation of their respective countryman. Yet Nietzsche was a madman notwithstanding his genius, therefore unanimous praise is no proof of sanity. Thus the disturbing reflection arose in my mind, that Hardy„ in spite of his careful artistry, his great powers of description, his poetic feel-ing for nature, and his wide-sweeping imagination, was also abnormally lacking in sanity. This lack, though far removed from the stark lunacy of Nietzsche, yet vitiates and largely nullifies the value of his outlook on life. If Hardy is a psychopath, an unfortunate victim of some morbid obsession, his view of the universe and the realism of his interpretation of human life will be jaundiced thereby.

Hardy has consistently described human nature and its ways as he sees them. No man's pen was ever more faithful to his vision than his. But if the vision be wrong, his work, however artistic or informed by genius it may be, will be false to life. Other literary men of genius have been psychopaths—e.g., Strindberg, Wilde—and I submit that there is ample evidence for so regarding Hardy. Within the narrow limits of this article I can do no more than barely indicate a few examples of that evidence.

The Plots of the Novels. First there are the plots of the novels.. "Far from

the Madding Crowd" is regarded as his most finished piece of fiction. Strip the plot naked of its deft, artistic robing, and what have you? A shepherd woos a far-mer's niece, Bathsheba Everdene, but before he wins her she lures two men to their doom, as moths are drawn to a lamp. One of these is shot by the. other, who escapes the gallows only by entering_ a hinatic asylum. Before the former of these is shot he has ruined Bath-sheba's maid, who dies after utter misery, with her child

in a workhouse. In this way Hardy contrives to make the course of love run as roughly as he can. Is it even remotely true to what ordinarily happens in courtship? Yet this is typical of Hardy's method in practically all his novels. He finds, or creates, more madness "far from the crowd" than Shakespeare found in the rabble. His earliest novel, "Desperate Remedies," is "a tale of mystery, entanglements, surprise, and moral obliquity." A promising beginning! "Under the Greenwood Tree" is supposed to be, what its name suggests, an idyll. But one of his adMirers admits : "It saddens rue to read it now ; because I see and detect the young author accept-ing too complacently the common view that women are, of course, shifty and deceitful creatures, traps for trust-ing men, and that it really does not much matter." If there is this bitterness in the sweetest of the novels, what shall we say of "Tess" and " Jude "? The last words of "Tess " are often quoted, "The President of the immortals had finished his sport with Tess." Is it not more truthful to say that Hardy's sinister and subtle plot has finished its sport with Tess? " Jude the Ob-scure" is the one work by which Hardy wishes to be judged. So be it ! Apart from the preposterousness of such character-drawing as that of the impossible, philosophic infant, it is plain that the characters are arbitrarily selected and adapted to suit the plot, and that the in-cidents are designed to lead inevitably to the final tragedy, in which, of the seven persons around whom the story is woven, three children are hanged. Jude, after a career of frustrated ambition and toil, dies broken, and the remaining three are pitiable misfits in a crazy world. Concerning "The Mayor of Casterbridig-e," has Cas-terbridge, in its long list of mayors, ever had one at all like the one here portrayed—especially in the misery of his downfall? If not, what of the mirror held up to life? I submit that in character and incident a novelist ought to achieve verisimilitude to life in its larger perspective, as well as in detail. In the plots of his novels Hardy does neither.

Themes of Short Stories and Poems. A second kind of evidence of distorting morbidity is

found. in the themes of his short stories and poems. Short tales dealing with rural scenes and people in so beautiful a part of England as Wessex might naturally be expected to be redolent of health, bright with the lapd-scape's charm, and gay with the laughter of rustics. But Hardy has no eye for colour in the countryside : he sees hills and moors as grey sombre masses against a background of eternity, and he has no heart for laughter. What humour there is in the lives of Hardy's peasants is grim, and he naturally entitles the collec-tion of his short stories "Life's Little Ironies." To me the chief irony is the fact that the chronicler of the lives of Wessex folk should be a much sadder man than the most melancholy of those whom he depicts. How can such a writer do full justice to real life?

His poems outdo the stories in their gloom and un-healthiness. He names one volume "Times Laughing Stocks," another "Satires of Circumstance," and these titles would appropriately describe all. Hervey'.s "Medi-tations among the Tombs" are blithe and breezy by comparison. If any reader wishes to meet ghosts, or hear the rattle of gallows, or sit in a charnel house, or see the seamy side of life emphasised with monomaniacal iteration, Hardy's poems will exactly suit this sick desire. What are we to think of a writer who sees life at such an angle that the cumulative effect of his poetic vision is so dismal? Is his sight clearer than Shakespeare's or Browning's, or is he colour blind? And what shall we say of the taste—deliberate or unconscious, but pro-bably deliberately intended to startle and irritate ortho-dox readers—which selects and works out with meticu-lous care, in a lengthy poem, the legend of Mary of Nazareth, and the Roman soldier reputed to be the father of Jesus? Throughout the poems there is such a heavy bias ,of contempt for the religious feelings of his contemporaries, such an aversion from, or inability to see the gladder, aspects of things, and such• persistent preoccupation with the diseased phases of existence, that they cannot be regarded as other than the distorted pro-ducts. of a warped, though talented mind. (In this para-graph • I have in view all the poems except "The Dynasts.")

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AT the close of last winter I set out ora -a literary pil-grimage to the house of Thomas Hardy. I found it standing amid fields, surrounded by a grove of dark pines and leafless poplars a mile and a half away from the ancient city of Dorchester. Late afternoon was deepening into a grey cold twilight, and as it deepened a missel-thrush trilled out its soul in a rhapsody from the top of a tree beside the house. While its song swelled across the cheerless fields, challenging the gather-ing gloom, I fancied the famous writer within listening perhaps to that same song. Then the thrush became to me the symbol of a spirit and an attitude to the world, the very opposite to Hardy's own. It seemed to me the incarnation of hopeful courage and blithe joy triumph-ing over desolation and winter, thus rebuking Hardy's paralytic pessimism, with its despair, its bitter irony, and its pain.

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Hardy's Self-Confessions. A third vein of proof is to be seen in the self-con-

fessions which break out here and there in his poems and prefaces. These reveal him as conscious at times of his chronic melancholy or else as obsessed by the conception of a "blind, all immanent" necessity out of whose womb all things in us and around us pro-ceed. He sees the Universe as driven forward to a stupid fate. Monism is his creed, and he preaches it incessantly. To him the world is a fermenting mass of matter in constant evolution without goal or mean-ing, but producing in the course of ages the brief, pain-stricken consciousness of man. The force that urges things forward, is "The Spinner of the Years," and mortals are no more than motes in the air around the loom of time. The tragedy of it all is that these help-less motes can see and feel. Hardy early adopted—probably from Spencer or Von Hartmann—this view of the Universe, and it has fashioned and coloured his whole presentation of life. Through these monistic spectacles he has looked out on man and the world. But philosophic spectacles ought to be taken off now and then, and periodically the best spectacles need changing. Yet Hardy has never taken his off nor for more than forty years has he changed them.

He Fails by the Final Test. Interesting as his metaphysical self-revelations are,

they are most illuminating when they shew him as conscious of his peculiarities of temperament and mind. The classic instance is the poem which must be reckoned as in all respects one of his best—"The Impercipient-at a Cathedral service " :

"That from this bright believing band An outcast I should be,

That faiths by which my comrades stand Seem fantasies to me,

And mirage mists their Shining Land, Is a drear destiny.

Why thus my soul should be consigned To infelicity,

Why always I must feel as blind To sights my brethren see,

Why joys they've found I cannot find, Abides a mystery.

Since heart of mine knows not that ease Which they know ; since it be

That He who breathes All's well to these Breathes no All's Well to me,

My lack should move their sympathies And Christian charity.

This is noble enough, if the humility and candour are sincere and not a cloak behind which lurk -intellec-tual pride, a contempt for the superstitions and lack of charity for Christians. Hardy is not usually in the mood of Job when silenced by the whirlwind and chas-tened into awe by the sense of things too high for him. Too often he is the Percipient, and religious souls—Christians, in particular—are silly and ignorant Imper-cipients. This is evident in his treatment of clergy from Bishops downwards, of Nonconformity, of woman as incapable of -progress, and of marriage as a stupid convention. But it is good to see him now and then in a meek mood, for it betrays a feeling that he may be wrong, while others who differ from him by a whole heaven may be right. Verisimilitude is the final test of Art. By this test Hardy fails, in spite of all his technical artistry of form, for he is unable either to see life truly or see it whole. Everywhere he is haunted by the image and shadow of his own morbid self.

JOHN NAYLOR.

Death of Mr. E Snell. IT is with deep regret that we announce the death

of Mr. E. S. Snell, one of our Guardian Representatives and for many years one of the stalwarts of London United Methodism. Mr. Snell passed away at six o'clock on Monday night last. For weeks now he has been more or less in a semi-conscious condition, and his passing is a release from much weariness of body. In moments of consciousness his thoughts and words were about his many old comrades in the fight. Deep sympathy will be felt with Mrs. Snell and the family in their loss.

MEMOIR. BY REV. J. W. ARMSTRONG.

Mr. E. S. Snell was born at Liscard, Cornwall, September 24th, 1831. When a young man he came to LondOn, and became a member of the church at Jubilee Street, in the London Third Circuit. On his thirtieth birthday, in the year 1861, he by resolution of the Preachers' Meeting preached a trial sermon on a Tuesday evening at Jubilee Street Chapel, before a formidable committee appointed to hear him, consist-ing of Messrs. Chipchase, Richardson, Salisbury, Hire-son, Whait, John Akers, J. Smith, and Buffam. The committee was "so far satisfied with his efforts " as to place his name on the plan as a preacher on trial. That was no small distinction in that circuit, and with that committee and Preachers' Meeting, for they had a high conception of the responsibility of the preaching of the Gospel. I have examined the minute book of those early days, and at the first Preachers' Meeting, January 1st, 1851, with Mr. Joseph Chipchase in the chair, I find this significant sentence : "The chairman remarked that he hoped the brethren would regard that

as a regularly-constituted Local Preachers' Meeting, and that he should read over the names on the plan with the understanding that if there were any objections on account of character, talent, or punctuality, the breth-ren would deal faithfully in speaking on the subject." Subsequent entries in the minute book abundantly de-monstrate the faithful speaking and jealous regard of the Preachers' Meeting for those essential qualities a character, talent, and punctuality in their local preachers.

Mr. Snell underwent more than a year's probation on trial, not without criticism from the brethren, and after the preaching of at least two more trial sermons, he and Bro. Davy were examined by the Preachers' Meeting on two evenings, December 13th and 31st, 1862. The examiner was the Rev. Emanuel Pearson, and on the last evening the proceedings lasted four hours—from 7.30 to 11.30—and the result is thus re-corded : "The two brethren Davy and Snell having given at the previous meeting an account of their con-version and the circumstances which led to their preach-ing among us, the Theological part of the examination was, proceeded with till a late hour, when, they were requested to withdraw for a while and- the brethren speedily came to a very cordial vote as follows : That Bro. Davy and Bro. Snell having each been more than the usual period on probation, and more recently preached a trial sermon before a Committee appointed to hear them, and now satisfactorily passed their examina-tion, this meeting recommends the Circuit Quarterly Meeting to receive them as fully accredited preachers in the Circuit."

From that time Mr. Snell grew in power and acceptability as a preacher. His noble presence, splen-did voice, geniality, earnestness, and genuine Christian experience and character fully equipped him for pre-eminent service as a local preacher, and in that sphere of labour he rejoiced to serve, not only our own London Churches, but also other Methodist Churches in con-nection with the Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Associa-tion throughout the whole Kingdom, for the long period of fifty-five years.

But preaching did not absorb the whole of his ser-vices to the Church. In the year 1871 Mr. Snell was elected for the first time a Representative to the Annual Assembly, where in after years he became a familiar figure. In the same year he was eletted a member of the Book Room Committee. In 1879 he was elected Treasurer of the Book Room, a position he held for twenty-nine years. He was then constituted by the vote of the Conference a •Life Member. In these ways he has been associated with the Book Room for a period of forty-five years, and rendered faithful and fruitful service. He also served on the Home and Foreign Mis-sionary Committee, and for eighteen years served on the Connexional Committee ; he also served on the London Church Extension Committee and the Deaconess Institute Committee from their commencement to the close of his life and on the Committee of the National Children's Homes for many years. In 1910 he was elected by the Conference a Guardian Representative, and again in 1915 he was elected till 1920. And- all these things were not regarded by him simply as honours, but as opportunities for service.

In these and in many ways he has endeavoured to serve his own generation by the will of God, and having done so, he now rests from his labours on earth and has passed into the higher service and to be for ever with the Lord.

Happenings.

—Each day 150 soldiers have a free swim in the Willesden baths. —The Kitchener Memorial Fund amounted -to

£314,000 on Monday. —Some supplies of Sudan dates have already been

satisfactorily placed on the market. —The marriage rate in London in 1915 was the highest

ever recorded. The birth rate fell. —Two children born at Edmonton have been named

"Sidney Zeppelin" and "Cuffiey."

—Australia is to have an Amusements Tax. The Bill provides for a tax of 1d. on every 6d. —It is proposed to make this year's Lord Mayor's

Show a volunteer review on a large scale. --Born in the year of Waterloo, Mrs. Catherine Quinn,

of Lisburn, died last week at the age of 101. —London's water supply for the last twelve months

works out at 35.46 gallons per head of the population. —Sir J. Crichton-Browne says that 300,000 good habit-

able cottages are wanted in the country immediately. —The Birmingham Municipal Savings Bank for en-

couraging thrift amongst workers was opened last Friday. —The Australian Government has decided to transfer

the Commonwealth Merchant Fleet to the Australian Register. —The Treasury announce that subscriptions for three

year Exchequer Bonds, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, will be ready for issue on October 13th. —For the first time. for twenty years there were no

deacons to be ordained at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, last Sunday. —The Revenue of the United Kingdom for the...past

six months amounted to £163,922,899, an increase of 61,056,135 on the corresponding period of last year.

—Sir William Dunn has been chosen as Lord Mayor of London for next year. He was elected in the Court of Aldermen by the -casting vote of the present Lord Mayor.

—It is hoped to sell thirty million flags on Red Cross Day this year, and that none, of them will produce less than silver. Last year £1,036,789 was collected, but a still greater response is expected on October 19th next. —Captain F. C. Selous, Royal Fusiliers, the famous

big game hunter and the Allan Quatermain of Rider Haggard stories, has been awarded the D.S.O. He is in his sixty-fourth year, and it is forty-five years since he first went to South Africa. —Mr. John Hill, the General Secretary of the Boiler

Makers' and Ship Builders' Societies has been unani-mously,elected Chairman of the Trade Union Congress Parliamentary Committee for the ensuing year. This means that Mr. Hill will become President of next year's Trade Union Congress.

Things that are being Said

Content With Nothing Less. "WHERE there is no vision the people perish." . . .

Take hold of the vision ; be not disobedient to it. Be content with nothing less than a new nation, a new Church, and at last a new world.—THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

Calling for the Good Samaritan. Humanity lies wounded, bleeding and robbed on the

road of life, and calls aloud, not for priest or Levite, but for the Good Samaritan, ready to give his time, his pains and his money to heal its wounds, restore its health, and give it a start towards a new and freer and fuller life.—DR. JOHN CLIFFORD.

Only With God. _ Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and

until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end. He may have his- friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honour. But all the things fall into place, and life falls into place, only with God—only with God.—MR. BRnsusTG, in Mr. Wells's "Mr. Britling sees it through."

Sharing Control of Conditions of Production. While I feel that there is at present little prospect

of a fundamental alteration in the wage system, I do not see that there is any hindrance to an even imme-diate adoption of some system by which Labour should be admitted to a share in the control of the conditions of production.—BISHOP GORE, in the "Times."

The War and Ascetic Religion. The war will almost certainly revive the ascetic note

in religion. Some of us who have remained- at home feel we can never live anything but a sacrificial life after this ; for others have given their lives for us, if only for our- sins; and our own lives are forfeit.—REV. DR. W. E. ORCHARD, in the "Challenge.'

Free Church of England Conference. It is no breach

' of confidence to say that there was

a steady growth from day to day both of agreement and of momentum ; that is, of the resolution to go for-ward in securing an adequate practical outcome of a Conference, which could not fail without disastrous effects to the cause that all have at heart.—The "Metho-dist Times."

A World to Live In. I want to live in a world that thinks of its people

rather than of business, of consumers rather than producers, of users rather than makers, of tenants rather than owners ; in a world where life is more im-portant than property and human labour more valuable than privilege.—MR. F. C. HOWE, the United States Commissioner for Immigration.

The Serious View of Life. It would be of immense value to the future of the

nation and Empire if the serious view of life now taken by our fighting men could be taken by the people at home. We want more life in the spiritual sense, indi-vidually and collectively. How this can be brought about is a problem well worthy of the consideration of the best types of men and women in all ranks of society.—The "Hospital."

Rooted in the Fields of Eternity. With the death of Jesus our earthly life for the first

time struck root in the fields of eternity ; and it is this that we mean when we say that we are saved ; saved for new hopes, new work and continually growing affec-tions ; for a retrieval of things done wrong in the past and for worthy fruit in the futurt; saved with a salvation never hereafter to be reversed or frustrated.—DR. J. R. MOZLEY, in "The Divine Aspect of History."

Worship as a Means. The great mistake of the medieval church was the

exaltation of worship into the real business of life—making it an end, instead of a preparation for life and service. The correction of that mistake was the greatest service of the Reformation, which declared that the life of the statesman, the merchant and the artisan, could be in the truest and highest sense a religious life. Wor-ship was a means rather than an end, a means to a life of practical usefulness. —DR. HASTINGS RASHDALL.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS. Rev. J. E. Swallow, 19 Hartington Road, Bolton. Rev. S. Gordon, 253. South Lambeth Road, London,

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CHILDREN'S HOME. (Founded by Dr. Stephenson.)

CHIEF OFFICE : 1041122 CITY ROAD, B.C. Principal: Rev. W. HODSON SMITH.

Will our Friends remember the needs of our great family in this time of stress and strain. Gifts of money and also of clothing will be greatly appreciated. W. HODSON SMITH.

Remittances from the U.M. Churches should be sent to the Treasurer, Rev. HENRY HOOKS, 12 Farringdon Avenue,

London, B.C. Cheques crossed "London City and Midland Bank."

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OUR PRESIDENT. The Rev. James Ellis sends us the following note.

It will be read with pleasure by all our readers. But may we respectfully utter a caution? Please do not let any of our friends write to the President yet asking him to serve them on special occasions. They will soon learn from our columns when the President is prepared to take full work. Here follows Mr. Ellis's note :

"I am sure that it will be of interest to many readers of the UNITED METHODIST to know that our beloved President is climbing the hill-path to glorious health. He was worshipping at Shernhall Street Church, Wal-thamstow, yesterday, and after morning communion gave the writer great joy by his quiet talk in the vestry. There are many golden days in store, so it seems to me, for one so richly endowed and so worthily esteemed."

REV. JOHN McNEILL' AND THE Y.M.C.A. The Rev. John McNeill, the well-known Scottish prea-

cher, has at the invitation of the Y.M.C.A., resigned his church in Canada, in order to help the Y.M.C.A. with its war work.

MINISTERS CHANGING CIRCUITS. Our autumn List of Ministers changing circuits was

duly sent out on Wednesday, September 27th. We are willing to send a copy to any circuit or church official who will send us a directed envelope and a penny stamp, and say at the time of application what his office is. If more than one copy is desired a halfpenny for each addi-tional copy should be sent. Application should be made only to Rev. Henry Smith, Editor of the UNITED METHO- nisi', 188 Rye Lane, Peckham, London, S.E.

* * The following United Methodists are serving on the

various committees appointed at the Conference on Free Church Federation last week : Committee of Faith, Rev. Dr. David Brook and Mr. G. P. Dymond, M.A. ; Corn-inittee on Constitution, Rev. Dr. Packer, Sir Walter Essex, M.P., Mr. W. Mallinson, J.P. ; Committee of Evangelisation, Rev. 1'. Nightingale, who acts as secre-tary, and Mr. Joseph Ward ; Committee on the Ministry, Dr. Brook, Rev. James Wright, Mr. R. Turner, J.P.

PERSONAL. Wolstanton Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme, has

suffered a great loss by the death, very unexpectedly, of Mr. A. Bickerton. He was treasurer both of the Trust and the Society, greatly esteemed for his devotion, his liberality and his genial, kindly spirit.

Last week's issue of the "Christian World' Pulpit " contained no less than two sermons by United Methodist ministers, namely, the Rev. Ernest F. H. Capey and the Rev. Lewis H. Court.

At the annual meeting of the Midsomer Norton and District Free Church Council, Rev. W. H. May was appointed President, Councillor A. E. Chivers, treasurer, for the twelfth time, and Rev. J. Tims Waylett, secre-tary—all connected with our Radstock Circuit.

The Rev. S. J. Finch, who at the annual meeting de-clined the office of president, suggesting -the election of a prominent layman, has now been unanimously elected secretary of the Winchester and. District Free Church Council.

PRIVATE NORMAN WOODHEAD. We regret to announce that Private Norman Wood-

head, West Riding Regiment, was recently killed in action in France. He was a member of the Young Men's class, and before the war a regular attender at our Shearbridge' Road Church, Bradford. Part ,..of his training was taken at Brocton, and when on leave he spoke in warm appreciation of the ministration of Cap-tain A. C. Lockett, who took long tramps to visit him when in hospital. CORPORAL HAROLD FURNESS POPPLETON.

We deeply regret tc; announce that Corporal Harold Furness Poppleton, only son of the Rev. C. H. and Mrs. Poppleton, died on September 18th of wounds re-ceived in the Somme fighting. Very tender sympathy will go out to Mr. and Mrs. Poppleton in their great sorrow.

LANTERN LECTURES. _ The Lantern Lecture Season is shortly beginning=

already one or two lectures have been given. The Lantern Lectures Bureau has made special preparation for another busy season. Mrs. Pollard has revised the lecture, "Sam Pollard, the Hero of S.W. China " ; Rev. G. P. Littlewood has revised the one he prepared some years ago on " In and Out of the City of Eternal Peace." Rev.- A. E. Greensmith has revised his on "A Visit to Sierra Leone." These are good lectures. Rev. Jas. Ellis wrote a new lecture last season on the slides, "Our East African Missions," and Mr. Frank Mimmack prepared a new lecture on " Meru, the Highlands of British East Africa." Mr. H. S. Redfern, M.Sc., is using the slides on Ningpo, and Rev. J. W. Heywood-those on Wenchow. The lecture on "Sam Pollard " was given last night (Wednesday) at Edgehill Girls' College. Will Missionary Secretaries, and others, please make early application to ensure their dates. The charge for hire and insurance is but ls. 3d., carriage both ways being paid by hirer (2s.). A stamped post card, ad-dressed, should accompany each inquiry and booking. Write, Rev. W. Bainbridge, 71 Stopford Road, Upton Manor, London, E.

BRADFORD MID-WEEK SERVICES. For some years a service has been held under the

auspices of the Bradford and District Evangelical Free Church Council in the Kirkgate Wesleyan Chapel, Brad-ford, on Thursdays from two to three o'clock, followed by a meeting or a service in the evening at 7.30. At these gatherings some of the most notable preachers in the Free Churches are heard. The syllabus for the ser-vices from October 5th to March 27th next has just been issued. Among those who are to preach are Dr. Camp-bell Morgan, Rev. T. Charles Williams, M.A. (Menai Bridge), Dr. J. D. Jones (Bournemouth), Rev. Thomas Phillips, B.A. (President of the Baptist Union), Rev. J. Ernest Rattenbury, Rev. J. E. Roberts, M.A., B.D. (Manchester), Rev. A. T. Guttery (President of the Primitive Methodist Conference), Rev. Alexander Con-nell, B.A., B.D., and Dr. Griffith-Jones. Twenty-three preachers altogether are announced. We are glad to find among the number three of our own United Methodist ministers—Rev. W. M. Simm, Rev. T. Sunderland, and Rev. T. Nightingale.

We notice that the Council is continuing its excellent School for Christian Workers on each Friday evening during the coming season. The lecturers include Rev. David Glass, M.A. (Rawdon College), Thomas A. Pye, LL.M., M.A., Professor E. J. Price, M.A., B.D. (United College, Bradford), and Rev. W. Bradfield (Ilkley).

* * PREACHING IN WAR TIME.

The following striking lines by Rev. Erward. Shillito, the colleague of Rev. Dr. Horton, appeared in the "Daily News" :

"One looks at me with distant eyes, As though far hence his treasure lies ; Another spent last week in hell ; One knows to-day that she must dwell Alone till death ; and, there are some Waiting for cablegrams to come ; Before another Sabbath ends That soldier takes his leave of friends ; This is the last time he will take The bread and wine for Jesus' sake. When bursting shells to men proclaim Death's new insatiable name,— When in the hazard and the loss They dimly see the Eternal Cross,—When a thousand voioes cry,

Prepare to meet Him, God is nigh ! ' What need of words from men like me, When all around their steps is He, The God who draws them by their fears, The God who wipes away their tears? "

DECISION DAY, SUNDAY, OCT. 15th. Are your Leaders' Meeting and

Sunday School Teachers' Meeting pre-paring for Decision Day ? Are you praying for its success ? Are you following up your prayers with effort to make the day successful ? The day is golden in its opportunities and illimitable in it possibilities.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. A number of ministers are informed that their com-

munications as to changing circuits came too late, and that is the reason why they are not printed in our List.

Young People's and Temperance League Committee.

MEETING at Scotland Street, Sheffield. In the absence, deeply regretted, of our President, Rev. Thomas Shaw-cross was elected chairman, Rev. A. H. Robins was elected minute secretary. The booklet by Rev. E. C. Urwin, B.A., B.D., on "Doctrine and Polity," is to be issued immediately at the price of three -halfpence, and will be used as text-book for Senior Division Examina-tion in 1917. In response to a request that the issue of Examination results might be made sooner, a very careful estimate of the work done and the time taken to do it was presented by Rev. W. C. Hope, Examina-tion Secretary, showing that we are already doing as speedily as most folk and better than some; but that it may be possible to speed up some two weeks. In response to instruction of Conference, a Sub-Committee was appointed to prepare recommendations re the re-organization of the work of the Department. Essays on f"The Evils of Smoking," both adult and juvenile, for which Mr. A. E. Chivers, of Radstock offered prizes to the value of six guineas at Conference, will be return-able next March, and the matter of adjudication upon them was referred to a Sub-Committee. Rev. W. H. Faulkner was asked to prepare circular letters to Churches and to Parents on the matter of Junior Church Membership, and Rev. W. C. Hope to prepare suggestions for a booklet for the use of Catechumen Classes. The secretary reported a slight and gradual increase in the number of Schools responding to the Conference appeal for a subscription of on shilling and sixpence per hundred scholars, also that, in spite of the War, his receipts in gifts from Circuits, etc., visited during the last six months had equalled those of the corresponding period of last year. After dinner at the Sheffield Reform Club and in anticipation of tea at Scotland Street, hearty thanks were accorded to the friends of the circuit.

THE young people who have entered for the examina-tion on November 8th, have, I hope, already been gathered into preparation classes. If in any place such a class has not been formed, I appeal to the school authorities to render such assistance at once.

Sunday School secretaries have been supplied with cir-culars for the teachers in their schools, relating to the new scheme of Teacher Training adopted by Conference. I want to hear of classes being formed, and to have the names and addresses of persons—actual or prospective tea-chers—who desire "Tuition by correspondence," so that I can put them into communication with the Rev. A. H. Boyden, B.A., B.Sc., B.D., who has kindly consented to render such assistance. The text-book for the present year is "Concerning Religious Education," Parts I. and II. only, which is published by Headley Bros., Bishops-gate, London, E.C., at is. limp covers, 1s. 6d. cloth boards. I am anxious that this course of study should be taken up by young people who, though not teachers now, may be teachers in the immediate future. May I suggest that there are, in many places, people who can-not take up active service in the schools, who could in vite a few young people to their homes and form classes, even though they be but small ones, for the study of this book, and so help to provide the teachers of the near future. If this should reach the eye of any young per-son for whom such a class is not open, please remember that Mr. Boyden will be very glad to help you by corre-spondence. Let me hear from you.

S. C. CHALLENGER. 324 Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

The Essay subject—papers to be sent in by December 6th—is on "The Value of Hymns in Public Worship and in Private Life." Will the readers of this 'column be good enough to remind young men and women of this matter, and urge them- to prepare and send in their papers? "The Hymn Lover " is a valuable book on hymnology, by W. Garnett Hordder (Curwen' and Sons, 5s.), and intending essayists may profitably consult it.

I hope that Sunday School authorities will make ade-quate preparation for Young People's Day (October 15th), and for the after care of those who set out upon. the Christian path. I have had letters which testify to much culpable carelessness in the matter. A communication now before me says, "Last year at the matter was overlooked until the. Sunday before, and the superin-tendent thought it a good chance to go away for .The week-end." It is a pity : the 'school, the Church, and the world too, as well as the individual scholar, all suffer in consequence. Letters to scholars, decision cards, book-lets, designed to help in this work—the great work of the school—have been provided. A circular has been sent for each Sunday School secretary, and other secre-taries also, referring to this and other matters, and it is certain that proper effort will produce good results. It is hoped the effort will be made. Please ask what your school people are doing.

The "Young People's Topics" for .1917, which are admirably fitted for use in connection with Young People's classes, Christian Bands, and similar societies are now ready. They deal with "God's Kingdom in China," "Our Lord's Person and Work," and "Drink and the Nation." Much praise is due to those who have arranged these "Topics," and it is to be hoped that what has been provided will be used. The classes using the "Topics" provided for the present year have found them most useful, and the "Topics for 1917" cannot fail to be interesting and stimulating. There are great pos-sibilities ahead, and it is of the utmost importance that our young people should be helped to make the best possible use of them, and a consideration of the matters dealt with in these "Topics" will be of advantage. I shall be glad to send 'specimen cards to people who will consider the possibility of using them in the classes with which they are associated.

An examination of the register of branches of the "League of Abstainers" shows that a number of " Rallies " are due. I have sent out a reminder, which ought not to be needful, to each local secretary, and hope that action will at once be taken. Fear of a small meet-ing should not be allowed to hinder arrangements. It will be good to give inspiration to the few, and perhaps the number may, through the Rally, be increased. There is very great need for much more zeal and labour to be put into temperance work. I shall be glad to hear from those- who require help, in this enterprise, and from those who .will undertake to form new branches.

The Editor's address is 188 Rye Lane, Peckham, S.E.

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THE UNITED METHODIST. October 5, 1916.

Young People's Day, October 15th.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST. DEAR SIR,-May I follow up my last letter, re Young

People's Day (October 15th), by a further appeal to our ministers, local preachers, Sunday School teachers and officers? The day will only be worthily observed if we have real co-operation among all.

To our preachers I would respectfully say, "Let there be no pulpit where there is no word for the young of the flock." Surely you can find a simple Bible, or other suitable, story told from your heart. Forget the grown-ups,- and your message will not be in vain. Short and simple prayers and suitable hymns will make the children feel that they are welcome. Do not keep the little one so long as to weary them, but send them out before you begin your sermon. This will have the added ad-vantage of giving you an opportunity to speak faith-fully to those of us who are parents and teachers.

Let us make the .evening service a Young People's service (if teachers do their part you will get the young, folk there). Remember the boys at the front. Give an op-portunity for silent prayer, so that Mothers,' wives, sisters, and friends may be able to put their own private petitions. Those who will most need your word of appeal and lov-ing advice are the youths and maidens of about sixteen, for whom the present time has such peculiar perils. Give them a helping hand. Offer them the strong right hand of the helping Christ..

Do not seek to force decision, but woo it. If we, who are teachers, have been busy, your task as preachers will be made less difficult. Above all, come to our aid in the strength of the Lord, and not in the power of your own word.

To Sunday School teachers and officers I would say : This is your day. Let each ask, "What am I going to make of it?" Make it a day of consecration and prayer. Every primary scholar should catch the note in the teacher's voice which echoes the Saviour's tone. Superintendents would do well to send letters to teachers (especially should primary leaders appeal to their young teachers). Teachers should send private notes to scholars (much more can be done thus than by public appeal). If possible a quiet interview should be sought. Do not multiply words, or magnify self. Give an invitation to the church services, and when the young people come sit with them--not as policemen, but friend: Help the preacher by your prayers and interest. Follow up any impression made, and do not despair if you do not see immediate results. I have learned that more goes on in the minds of our sixteen year old boys and girls than we give them credit for, and behind an exterior which rebuffs our advances may be a heart hungering for our help and love. At least we can let them know where they may find us if they should happen to want us—we shall be ready for them. That will help them greatly. But let me repeat with solemn emphasis : Everything depends on 'the teacher himself or herself. Let us pray for humility—that is the first essential. Then we may go on to ask for power and wisdom.—On behalf of the Y.P. Committee, I am, yours very cordially,

ARTHURH. ROBINS. P.S.—May I remind teachers that Rev. S. C. Chal-

lenger has prepared letters suitable to send to scholars? His address is 324 Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

Allocation of Extra Members of District Meetings.

THE following letter has been addressed to the Dis-trict Secretaries. It is printed here for the informa-tion of all who are interested in District Meeting affairs :

DEAR BRETHREN,-You have doubtless already noted the Resolution on pages 23 and 24, "Minutes, 1916, and will be prepared to assist in future elections being made in strict conformity with the original intention in 1907.

Each circuit, according to our constitution, elects freely as many representatives to the District Meeting as equal its ex officio members, viz., the full Connexion ministers it employs, and one of its circuit stewards; and with this there can be no interference.

Guardian Representatives, supernumerary ministers, Connexional officers, and members of Connexional Com-mittees are also ex officio members of the District Meeting. The Connexional Committees thus repre- sented are seven, viz., General Connexional, Home Mis-sion, Foreign Mission, College, Chapel, Book Room, and Young People and Temperance. Exactly as many additional members have to be elected by the circuits, and their allocation is fixed by the District Executive. This distribution may be made to give smaller circuits increased representation, or for the convenience of cir-cuits which have to arrange for hospitality the extra members may be allotted to the circuit or circuits where the District Meeting is held.

In order that 'an exact proportion may be maintained, you are requested to forward to me by October 15th a list of the Guardian Representatives, supernumerary ministers, Connexional officers, and members of Con-nexional Committees resident in your District. This will be checked by the General Connexional Committee and returned to you, on which you will instruct the circuits to elect extra members in such numbers and on such plan as your Executive may decide.

It is a small point, and perhaps not of serious import-ance, but it may be noted that by this method the District Meetings are composed of an equal number of ex officio members and of members freely elected by the circuits. The new regulation is simply designed to secure an accuracy in the constitution of the District Meeting that has not previously been generally reached.

Relying on your co-operation, yours truly, GEORGE PACKER,

Connexional Secretary.

Conscientious ODjectors. MEMORIAL TO MR. ASQUITH.

A MEMORIAL has been presented to the Prime Minister regarding the treatment of Conscientious Objectors. It is signed, amongst others, by William Archer, M.A. (the well-known dramatic critic), Councillor Margaret Ash-ton (Manchester City Council), Arnold Bennett, Lord Henry Bentinck, A. Clutton Brock, •Dr. John Clifford, Lord Courtney of Penwith, MisS Margaret Llewelyn Davies, G. Lowes Dickinson, M.A. Fellow King's Coll., Cambridge, Leonard Doncaster, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.'S., Fellow King's Coll., Cambridge; H. A. L. Fisher, Vice-Chancellor Sheffield University, Dr. P. 'F. Forsyth, Principal, Hackney Theological College, Sir Edward Fry, G.C.B., F.R.S., LL.D., Dr. A. E. Garvie, Principal New College, Hampstead, R. C. Gillie, M.A., ex-Moderator Presbyterian Church of England, Professor A. J. Grant, Leeds University, Edward Grubb, C. H. Herford, • Litt. D,, Professor of Literature, Manchester University, Silas K. Hocking, W. T. Johnson, M.A., Fellow King's College, Cambridge, Miss Susan Law-rence, Dr. F. B. Meyer, Mary Macarthur, J. 0. F. Murray, Master of Selwyn, Dr. W. E. Orchard, Earl Russell, Lady Strachey, G. Unwin, Professor, Manchester University, Graham Wallas, Lecturer, Lon-don School of Economics, James Ward, Fellow. Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Memorial is as follows : We the undersigned beg respectfully to lay before

you the following considerations with regard to those conscientious objectors to military service who refuse the offer of alternative civilian service.

According to the policy announced by Mr. Forster on August 16 these men after completins,

4' their sentence of

imprisonment are to be sent back to the army and, dealt with under the Army Act. In answer to a questfOn Mr. Forster stated that they would probably be sent to France ; and according to Section 9 (1) of the Army Act "Every person subject to military law who . . . dis-obeys in such a manner as to show a wilful defiance of authority any lawful command given personally by his superior officer . . . shall, on conviction by court martial, be liable to suffer death or such less punish-ment as in this act mentioned." The charge in fact brought against conscientious objectors has been that mentioned in this Section. And it will be remem-bered that under it 34 conscientious objectors were sen-tenced to death in France, though the sentence was afterwards commuted. It does not appear from Mr. Forster's statement that the men with whom we are now concerned will be regarded as entitled to any fur-ther consideration as conscientious •objectors. There is then at least grave risk that they will be condemned to death and shot.

It is not necessary to share the opinions of these- men (as in fact many of us do not share them) to feel an uncompromising hostility to this policy. The men in question may be mistaken, but they are undoubtedly sincere. They have proved their sincerity already by suffering for their beliefs. And before they are returned to the army they must have proved it again by facing what they knew, after Mr. Forster's announcement, to be the prospect of death. That many if not all of them will face death, and if need be suffer it, we have no doubt.

Such men, whatever they are, are not "Shirkers." They believe it to be their , duty to make their protest in this way against war.

Their objection to alternative civilian service is a logical result of their objection to war. If by civilian service they release other men for military service they will, they hold, be sending others, to do that which they themselves think it wrong to do. We may be sure that if they consented to do this they would be accused of cowardly inconsistency and with reason.

On the other hand, if they are left to themselves they are the kind of men who will make it their main object to serve the community to the best of their ability in ways which their conscience approves.

The number of these men is not large enough for the issue of the war to be affected one way or the other by their serving or not serving. To shoot them would be to inflict upon them the death penalty, not because they 'have committed any crime, but because they hold certain convictions. They have already been punished for disobedience. It appears therefore that their dis-obedience is to be regarded as a continuing act and that punishment is to be continued also until they desist from it. Therefore the more their disobedience is the result of sincere conviction the more they will be punished for it, so that the offence for which they are to be punished is their conviction itself and the aim of punishment is to make them recant from that conviction. We believe this to be a precedent of the worst possible omen for the future of liberty in this country. We therefore re-spectfully urge that the only course consistent with that policy of respecting conscience which was embodied in the Military Service Act is to give these men the un-conditional exemption for which the Act provides, and which in fact has been given in other cases where no scruple of conscience is concerned. The policy against which we are protesting is contrary to the plain inten-tion of the Act that no man should be forced into the Army against his conscience. It is contrary to the definite assurances repeatedly given that conscientious objectors who through error had been passed into the Army should not be liable to the death penalty. It is contrary to the pledge given by Lord Sandhurst on July 4th, when he said, "If the man will not do national work, he will complete his sentence of civil imprison-ment and then be discharged from the Army."

Recognising as we do the anxiety you have displayed from the first to avoid anything that resembled doing violence to conscience we venture with some confidence to hope that you will secure the reversal of a policy which could hardly have been adopted save through misapprehension as to the real character and position of the men who will be affected by it.

Young People's Topics. BY REV. J. T. BREWIS, 'B.A., B.D.

THE DISCOVERY OF THE BOOK. 2 Kgs xxii, xxi. 1-16, 16 ; Deut. xii. 1-12.

(For the week beginning Oct. 15th.) Tins week we have to consider a notable occasion in

the history of Israel on which a particular book so im-pressed the responsible and ruling classes at Jerusalem that they, on the basis of it, tried to carry through a reform of religious life and practice. The story of the finding of the book may be read in. 2 Kgs. xx. The book was found in the temple at Jerusalem—perhaps in the course of temple repairs—and its contents were deemed so important by Hilkiah the priest that he handed it over to Shaphan the scribe, who without delay brought it to the notice of the king, Josiah. This hap-pened in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, i.e., 621 B.C.

How the book originated and how it came to be secreted in the temple, we do not, know with absolute certainty ; but, having regard to the general religious conditions prevailing in Judah before Josiah ascended the throne, and also to what can be gleaned from 2 Kgs.

respecting the general character and scope of the book's teaching, we may conjecture with practical certainty how the book came into being and found its way into the temple. Josiah had been preceded in the kingship by Amon and Manasseh, who for half a cen-tury "did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah." The religious condition of Judah during the long reign of Manasseh was notoriously bad. Manasseh had little thought for maintaining Jehovah-worship in its purity. He sanctioned and encouraged idolatrous and abomin, able practices, and appears to have welcomed foreign religious innovations and customs (2 Kgs. xxi. 1-6). Under his rule the advocates of a pure Jehovah-worship —i.e., the prophetic party—were exposed to persecution, and 2 Kgs. xxi. 16 is to be understood as a reference to the suppression and 'martyrdom of those who disap-proved ,Manasseh's sinful ways and strove to keep the national worship free from idolatrous taint. Under such conditions we can well understand how the prophetic party might refrain from speaking their views to obvi-ously hostile hearers, and might take to writing them instead; they would shrink from 'undue publicity, which could only bring suffering and death upon Mem without securing any advantage for their cause, into a wise -secrecy. Now the book found in the temple was clearly a product of the prophetic spirit. Hilkiah described it as "the book of the law," and from the whole story we gather that the writing was directed against what was wrong in Israel's religious life and practice and advocated certain lines of reform it pronounced woes upon those who transgressed Jehovah's laws, and made loyalty to Jehovah's commands a condition of well being. Putting all these facts together we may conclude with tolerable certainty that the book (1) came into being during Manasseh's dark reign, when prophetic speech was useless and unwise; (2) represented the mind of a school of earnest advocates of pure Jehovah-worship, who mourned over Israel's degenerate ways and longed to bring her to a better mode of life ; (3) was hidden away in the temple in the hope that it would be found at a later time and that thus the prophetic teaching which in Manasseh's day could not be openly spoken might receive due consideration and perhaps be effec-tively acted upon.

This book read by Shaphan the scribe to Josiah the king produced a deep impression upon the latter. For Josiah was genuinely anxious that Jehovah should have His due, and he perceived at once that much that the book condemned in' the way of religion was in vogue throughout his kingdom, and much that the book en-joined had either never been introduced or had been allowed to lapse within his realm. It seemed clear to Josiah that the woes which the book pronounced upon wrong-doing must descend upon him and his people, and that the blessings pronounced upon well-doing must be missed. A sense of impending evil oppressed the king. But he did more than fear and sorrow, he acted promptly and strongly. First, he sent a deputation to Huldah the prophetess to enquire whether the book was really authoritative and trustworthy. IHuldah being of the pro-phetic party gave a .verdict in favour of the book, and Josiah, now confirmed in his fears and in. his belief that swift action was needed, set about carrying out reform on the lines suggested by the book. This reform must engage our attention in the next study.

Teacher at Ningpo College Wanted.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST. DEAR SIR,-Will you kindly allow me to 'make use of

your columns to draw the attention of your readers to the appeals made in the August and September issues of the "Missionary Echo" for a young man of culture and missionary zeal to join me as a teacher in the Ningpo, College?

I know that it will be very difficult for many young men to leave this country at the present time, but this need not prevent them from consecrating themselves, even in the midSt of this awful conflict, to this most fruitful sphere of Christian service, and preparing to engage in it at the conclusion of the war.

I am hoping to sail in the middle of December, and it would give me the_greatest joy to confer, 'before that wtime, with any who may feel called to this great life work.

Thanking you for extending to me the use of your columns on behalf of the missionary cause.—Yours faithfully, H. S. REDFERN.

1 Claughton. Road, Colwyn Bay.

October 5, 1916. THE UNITED METHODIST. 517

NOT even Scotsmen, I believe, set much store upon the poems of John Stuart Blackie, but there is music in them,- and life, for all that.

"God of the Sabbath, on Thy holy day 'Tis meet to praise Thee! . . .

. . . Thou art more than all The shrines that hold Thee ; and our widest creeds Are but the lispings of a prattling child, To spell the Infinite . . .

May all our Sabbaths be A ripe and mellow season to my heart, Lovely as golden autumn's purple eve, Genial as sleep, whence the tired limb refreshed Leaps to new action, and appointed toil, With steady hope, sure faith, and sober joy."

Prof. Blackie's "Notes of a Life'? are, as we might expect, fearless, unconventional jottings. The Sabbath, in his day, wore throughout Scotland—let me quote his exact words—" an aspect of severity, awfulness, dullness and stupidity." Dr. Jowett has told us how his Edin-burgh landlady used to open the harmonium and lock the piano on the Sabbath day. Mrs. Blackie was a lady of the same conviction until her husband revolted.

Sunday Music. One Sunday evening, shortly after marriage, the

Professor asked his wife to touch the keys of the piano and to recreate his soul with a little psalmody. Her reply was :

i" No—not on Sunday." "Why not? " he asked; "Surely psalm-tunes may be

played on the home piano on Sunday as well as sung in Church."

No, she would not. "But why?" "The servants would not like it." "What! " cried Blackie ; "are we to be the slaves of

our servants in such matters? They ought rather to follow us. Besides, do you imagine, my dear, that the servants would mistake the Hundredth Psalm for

Maggie Lauder? ' " But tie good wife was not to be persuaded. What

did the Professor do? He might have bought an organ, but that would only have built up the superstition which he wanted to break down. "Determined not to give in to such superstition in my own house, I imme-diately rose, and set myself to tinkle the keys the best way I could, and persevered in this practice, Sunday after Sunday, till at length I got Artaxerxes and St. AsaPh, two of my favourite tunes, pretty fairly at the end of my fingers." Was the Kitchen shocked? It was not long before the servants took occasion to remark to the lady of the house : "Aye, it's wonderfu' what a pious man oor maister is ! He spends the whole Sabbath eve, frae tea-time to dinner, singing the Psalms o' 'David! "

Oliver Wendell Holmes—a kindred spirit to the Scotch Professor—writing of Puritan New England days, sings :

"Hush ! 'tis the Sabbath's silence-stricken morn, No feet must wander through the tasselled corn, No merry children laugh around the door, No idle playthings strew the sanded floor. The law of Moses lays its awful ban On all that stirs. Here comes the Tithing-man."

The Tithing-Man. Mrs. Alice Morse Earle (vide "Child Life in Colonial

Days" and "The Sabbath in Puritan New England ") introduces us to this important individual. He was a town officer, and had several neighbouring families under his charge, usually ten,. as the word "tithing" signifies. It was his business to enforce the learning of the catechism in these ten homes and to encourage Church attendance. He inspected taverns, reported dis-orderly persons, and forbade the sale of intoxicating liquor to them. He could arrest persons who ran or rode at too fast a pace when going to meeting on Sun-day, or who took unnecessary rides on that day, or otherwise broke the Sunday laws. Within the meeting-house he kept order by beating out dogs, correcting unruly boys, and waking those who slept._ The Journal of Obadiah Turner, of Lynn, has the following entry, under date June 3rd, 1646 :

"Allen Bridges hath bin chose to wake ye sleepers in meeting. And beingmuch proude of his place, must needs have a fox taile fixed to ye ende of a long staff wherewith he may brush ye faces of them yt will have napps in time of discourse, likewise a sharpe thorne whereby he may pricke such as be most sound." And who could help napping in time of discourse

during hot summer afternoons when the sermon lasted, as a general thing, from one to two hours? At the opening service of the first church in Woburn, Massa-chusetts, the Rev. Mr. Sytnmes preached between four and five hours ! Cotton Mather, on the occasion of his own ordination, prayed for an hour and a quarter, and preached for an hour and three quarters. Dr. Lang, of Norwich, always prayed for an hour ; and an early Dutch traveller who visited New England asserted that he had heard there on a Fast Day a prayer which was two hours long. These long prayers were universal and most highly esteemed,--" a poor gift in prayer" being a despised clerical shortcoming. Had not the Puritans left the Church of England to escape "stinted prayers? " The tithing-man, we can believe, would have his work cut out for him. The fox-tail staff would be no idle wand in his hand. He would need to use it with some vigour if only to keep himself wide-awake during prayer and preaching. The men were more fre-

quently attacked by him than the women, and it was not always a sense of chivalry that led him to spare the rod and spoil the women. It was not easy to dis-cover whether the women were awake or asleep. "Ye women may sometimes sleepe and no one know by reason of their enormous bonnets." And the ladies have allowed bonnets to go out of fashion ! Ah ! there are no tithing-men now.

The Ministry of Song. BY REV. T. A. JEFFERIES, F.L.S.

(4) HORATIUS BONAR. PSALM CL.

(C.E. Topic for Oct. 15th.)

The Man. HORATIUS BONAR was born in Edinburgh, Dec. 19th,

1808, and educated at its High School and University. He became one of the best-known ministers of the United Free Church of Scotland, beginning his minis-try at Leith, whence he passed to Kelso, an appoint-ment • which he held for nearly thirty years, till 1866. At the Disruption in 1843 he had become the minister of the Free Church of Kelso, from which he was moved the the Chalmers Memorial Church, Edinburgh. In 1853 he was made a D.D. by the University of Aber-deen, being a great scholar, especially of prophetic literature. In 1888 he was Moderator of the General Assembly. For a time he was editor of the "Chris-tian Treasury," "Presbyterian Review," and "Quarterly Journal of Prophecy " ; he published also more than a score of religious books. He is best remembered, how-ever, as the author of three series of " Hymns of Faith and Hope," selections from which are used in almost every modern English hymnal. The writer of the notes in the C.E. Year Book "remembers him as a notable preacher to children, for whom some of his hymns were written," says that he laid great stress on the significance and value of the Lord's Supper, and took the deepest interest in evangelistic missions. He died the last day in July, 1889.

His Hymns. In our Hymnal (Methodist Free Church Hymns)

there are thirteen hymns by Horatius Bonar, some of which are exceedingly precious. One of these is per-haps our greatest hymn of intercession, namely, "When the weary seeking rest" : the fullness of its grasp and the tenderness of its touch give it a. wonderful power to enlist the sympathies of each in the deepest needs of all. Another deservdly populae hymn, full of the power and tenderness of the Evangel, is "I heard the voice of Jesus say," finishing with that strong note of self-committal—

"And in that light of life I'll walk Till travelling days are done."

Bonar's evangelical zeal comes out in many of his hymns besides this one. In our book we have "Not what these hands have done " and " I lay my sin on Jesus," while that hymn of powerful appeal so often used in special missions, but not included in our collection, "Yet there is room," is from the same hand. , There is one triumphant song of praise in our book by this writer which deserves to be far better known and more widely used than it is : I refer to No. 354, "Blessed be God, our God." The last verse thrills. one :

"The victory is out! For us in might came forth the Mighty One, For us He fought the fight, the triumph won :

The victory is ours ! " The use of this hymn necessitates the learning of the special tune, Syrnphonia, but it is well worth while, Another fine hymn of praise is "Fill Thou my life, 0 Lord, my God." Faith is well represented in Bonar's poetry by " 0 strong to save and bless," "I bless the Christ of God," and "Go labour on." The second of these is a favourite assertion of personal trust in the Saviour, and the third is one of the great sop,gs of vrvice where the Christian life is expressed, as it always ought to be, in terms of personal loyalty to Christ.

The remaining hymns from Bonar in our collection are, with one exception, not as well known. There is one on "true words " (No. 623) which finely emphasises honesty of thought and word. There is a dismissal hymn, "Now in parting, Father, bless us," and there is one for travellers, "Great Ruler of the land and sea." The better-known one that remains is the oft-sung hymn of the future, with its solemn and bracing sense of re-sponsibility and its mighty hope of glory : "A few more years shall roll." Bonar is far from being our greatest hymnist, but he well deserves a place in the high affec_ tion of the Church who gave us "When the weary seek-ing rest," "I heard, the voice of Jesus say," "Go labour on," and "Blessed be God, our God."

Messrs. S. W. Partridge and Co., Ltd., will issue shortly a new book on Paul. It is to be entitled "Paul, the Dauntless : the Course of a Great Adventure," and is written by Basil Mathews, M.A., The author has ':ravelled over the tracks of the great Apostle, through Cilicia, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy, so that the scenes of the life-journeyings of Paul may be pictured with vividness and fidelity.. The dramatic and swiftly moving narratives of the life of the great Apostle depicts a man of gallant spirit, faring forth -on a great adventure, and who, nothing fearing, follows its chequered course to a victorious end. The authority and permanence of the book are further assured by the fact that the great experts of the Pauline age in each locality, e.g., Dr. Christie of Tarsus, Dr. .Hanauer of Damascus, Dr. Masterman of Jerusalem, and Miss Kathopathakes: of Athens, and Dr. Bartlett, author of "The Apostolic Age," have read the manu-script.

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Sunday Afternoon. BY REV. ERNEST F. H. CAPEY.

518 THE UNITED METHODIST. October 5, 1916.

THE annual demonstration in Manchester of the young people of the United Methodist Church took place in the Free Trade Hall last Saturday. Mr. C. H. Turner, of Rochdale, was the chairman, and he spoke on "Ex-perience." The Rev. T. Sunderland (Harrogate) spoke on "Romance." Mr. J. - W. Deakin (Northwich) on "Realities," and Capt. the Rev. H. D. Allen on "The Failure of Materialism."

It was as though we were being shown room by room through a house built (like one I know) about a square hall. Each room had its own custodian and interpreter, to whom, as the need occurred, we were introduced in turn by one who, as we entered the house, met us with kind words and compliments, and a shrewd saying which stripped us of pride, and warned us to walk' with humility. It was only a glimpse we had into the mys-teries, the beauties and grandeurs of these rooms—a brief glance at stark realities, and gleams and sparks of far-off glories. We caught faint perfumes of delicate fragrance and elusive charm, and low, sweet winning sounds that surely were voices in song or in prayer. It was a house of many mansions,• and, to every one who wished for it, there was given the freedom of the house —the right to enter and stay.

Keep your Young Heads. We were met on the threshold by Mr. Turner. While

we were hanging up our hats (so to speak), and our feet were still busy on the mat, he had finished with the pleasant compliments concerning youth and strength and optimism, and was saying that he missed some-thing about us that we ought to have. "Oh! indeed I " was our respectful attitude of inquiry, and our expecta-tion was to hear something that would no doubt apply admirably to our neighbour. Our deficiency, he told us, was in experience, and at first it did not seem a serious reproach. The natural, but unspoken comment was, "You can't expect old heads on young shoulders." But we were anticipated by the chairman himself, who took the thought from our minds and controverted it. "Keep your young heads (he said in effect), but acquire the experience of the ages which you may find stored in the history of mankind." We were content—and it was a mistake—to rely on our own experience. Even a child, though warned that fire burned, must test the fact for himself. And so in regard to war. The chairman con-fronted us with the startling thought that nearly every generation had its war, because one generation will not acquire the experience of its predecessor. It was on this tremendous scale that we had portrayed the conse-quence of our blind and painful gropings when all the time there was open to us the plain track lighted by the experience of our forefathers. The precept of Solo-mon was "With all thy getting get understanding." Mr. Turner's would rather read 'With all thy getting get other people's experience."

The Room of Romance. The room into which Mr. Sunderland conducted us

was pervaded with rich and subtle essences. It seemed to offer the secret of enduring pleasures and satisfaction and to conceal jewels of priceless worth which the crowd passes by for tinsel and vain show. There was a bracing, reviving air in this apartment. There was oxygen and truth and a word by which men might live a new life. Romance—not of the historical or literary kind—but the romance which transfigures the hum-drum commonplace life of the •city and the market was the theme. "I use the word " (Mr. Sutherland said) " for that state of mind which thihks more of the frag-rance of the flower than of its market value ; which puts a fine sense of honour in front of fine linen and sumptuous fare; and which, in a great epoch, dares to side with truth when truth is on the scaffold and wrong is on the throne." Mr. Sutherland spoke as one who sees the invisible, and a flagging mind craves pardon for now and then falling short of the complete com-prehension of his swift thought. He led us by stages to recognise that conscious life is made up of sensa-tions ; and that the earliest contrast of sensations is between pleasure and pain. "But the time comes when there is a greater contrast than between like and dis-like—the contrast between like and ought, between inclination and duty. That, in a sense, is the soul's awakening. When the resolve is made that the soul is to rule the body, you have entered into the realm of romance." The romance of life was to be found first of all in a man's own soul. In the home there was a spring of romance which never dried up. "I have known a little girl to offer her pocket money to relieve the burden of her mother's widowhood, and I have known a boy offer to write in a big round hand on another boy's face if he called his father a drunkard again." To discover romance in our own soul was the clue to finding it everywhere. it was to be found in love aril in sorrow. How many Rachels were mourn-ing. "We are feeling it, but we are not complaining. The spirit of submission helps to turn the burden into wings and thie sorrow into song. The way of sacrifice is the way to turn a grave into a garden and a crown of thorns into a crown of life."

Looking further on this horizon, Mr. Sunderland went on to say that love of home was meant to pass into love of the homeland and he dwelt with admira-tion on the spirit which led five million men to volunteer for their country's service in the war. In Biblical imagery there was also a description of the destruction of the Zeppelin at Cuffley—an aeroplane °climbing the stairway, of the night two miles high," and a conflict in the air between that David and that Goliath, Com-

radeship in the trenches inspired sacrifice, another demonstration of true romance. Romance gave a new estimate to life. "It is not length of _existence that counts but what is achieved during that existence," he quoted from the late Squire of Hawarden who aban-doned a hopeful political career when the war began and fell upon the field of battle.

A lady, thinking of the sufferings of our soldiers, asked herself, "Am I worth it? " "I hope (Mr. Sun-. derland said) that we are going so to live that they will say we are worth fighting for. That can only be if we cultivate the spirit of the Cross. I am not so anxious about the numbers our men will find in the Church as I am about the atmosphere they will find and the kind of welcome we shall give them. The hum-drum will have no charm for them. Pride of place and pride of purse they will treat with contempt and play-ing with religion they will not think worth the cost of the electric light." From first to last the speech was a deep searching appeal to keep alive the unselfish, the heroic, the 'romantic spirit. Its probing search into the motives and springs of action and its ringing call to follow the noblest, stirred heart and soul.

The Great Realities. If I may pursue the metaphor with which I began,

it must be said of the chamber into which Mr. Deakin ushered us that it was rather plainly furnished and, in contrast with the flashing lights of the one we were in last, its furnishings inclined to the severe and the stark. If one had to hang pictures there they would be of mountains and rocks, lightnings and storms, rifted cloud and perhaps a rainbow, or Old Testament, pic-tures and illustrations drawn from the prophets of the Hebrew dispensation. And 'this• in spite of the fact that all Mr. IDeakiri's literary references were de-cidedly modern and catholic, and were inclusive, -for example,' of the remark of Mr. Dick Swiveller that his window gave "an uninterrupted view across the street." It was no narrow or merely picturesque view that Mr. Deakin invited us to take, but "a sweep over the hori_ zon_of our duties." Hard things came into view—hard

DECISION DAY, SUNDAY, OCT. 15th.

Are your Leaders' Meeting and Sunday School Teachers' Meeting preparing for Decision Day ? Are you praying for its success ? Are you following up your prayers with effort to make the day successful P The day is golden in its its opportunities and illimitable in its possibilities.

things which, done, yield a strong content. He bade us prepare for the time after the War. "How shall we be when this cataclysm is over? " There would be great changes. A destructive and constructive revolu-tion was to be anticipated' ; but some things would re-main unchanged. There would be the same searchings after God, and they would only be satisfied Jay the divine truth which had been known to our fathers in the past. God was the great reality. The Christian religion would remain the same. A good deal of so-called religion was passing away, but the real thing would remain, flowing as 'the river of the water of life. Jesus Christ was the real King of England. If Jesus Christ was not the Door, there was no door. If He was not the Light, there was no light ; if He was not our Saviour there was no Saviour. We must aim at the perfection of character in Christ Jesus.

Over There. A wonderful welcome was given to the Rev. H. D.

Allen, Chaplain to the Forces. The audience rose to cheer him. He is a Chaplain• to the 1st Division, which was the first portion of our Army to set foot in France. He was serious and gay by turns, giving us an exhibi-tion of the lightheartedness that alternates with the grim and ghastly business of war. He had little to say about the fighting, perhaps because the time for that has not yet come, but he had several striking incidents and per-sonal experiences to relate. There were two chief things in his message. The first was the sad con-viction that the world's plans and principles have pro-duced nothing but blank despair. "Materialism has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. It has gone to bits on the application of its own principles. There is no hope for the world save in Jesus Christ." The other was his testimony to the astonishing cheerful-ness and wonderful unselfishness of our soldiers. And finked with the one idea or the other were the incidents which he used for illustration. "In the town of Albert you may see on the top of a tower a massive statue (which must have been 30 feet high) of the Virgin and Child. Formerly it stood upright, the Child Jesus up-lifted in the arms of Mary as if she invoked the blessing of heaven upon her little One. Shells struck the tower, and the statue, itself undamaged, now points to

the earth, • overhanging the roadway. rt is an awe-inspiring sight. It seems as though the Mother is now offering her holy Child to a shattered and stricken and hitherto unheeding world." Another picture was of a large grave with a cross bearing this inscription : "Tel England, all ye who pass by this monument, that we who rest here rest content." He also told of the suc-couring of the wounded by night in. No-man's-land. The stealthy crawl over the broken ground ; the brilliant star shell, lighting up the black earth ; the scythe-like swish of the machine-gun bullets; the discovery of the wounded in a shell hole and his answer, "Don't worry about me. I'm all right. Take my chum." "Greater love hath no man than this."

Romance and sacrifice went hand in hand every day in the muddy trenches of France. "The knights of the Table Round never did more valiant deeds than are performed daily by our modest heroes over there. The act of Sir Philip Sidney is oftentimes repeated. There are a great many unrecorded acts of sublime self-sacri-fice. . . War means sacrifice, and there is sacrifice here too. It is hard to lose one's life. It is hard to lose lovers, husbands, brothers, sons, or 'friends. Who stands if England falls? Who dies if England lives? '" A French gunner was ordered to fire at a house which ' was reported to be a nest of German officers. He fired, and the house fell in ruins. His officer, congratulating him on the shot, saw tears in his eyes, and demanded an explanation. "'That house was my little home, and the only property I possessed in all • the world." But Captain Allen's speech held laughter as well as tears. Two men of the Black Watch were leaning against a house when a shell struck it. The explosion blew up a bed, and sent the feathers far and wide in the air. " I say, Bill," one man said to the other while they continued to lean against the wall, "they got a chicken that time." A -Lancashire man, blinded in both eyes, his feet shot away, and a gaping wound in his side, said to the chap-lain, "Write to my wife. Make it as light as you can. Tell her-not to worry."

Mr. Allen has had the unique experience—unique for a chaplain—of a ride in a " tank." -He described some of the wonderful powers of this new engine of war, but was careful to avoid saying what would not pass the censor. We had read of the things before, but on thal account it was none the less curious to hear of it butting into trees and- houses, carrying them bodily away,- and 'umbering over ten-foot trenches. But it was not purpose to linger on these things. He, like the other speakers, was more concerned with ,the things that are -It and not seen, and his closing words were about the

love 'of the soldier for home. 'If there is one thing our men have done, it is to idealise home. You cannot know how warm a love is in their hearts for their homes and dear ones. It is for you to make those homes worthy to be idealised. When they return, let them also see the work maintained in chura and school. Keep the doors wide open. Keep the old flag flying. Cherish and train the children. Begin to prepare now for the return of the boys, so that when they come back they shall find a purer and nobler England, and a spiritual _ atmosphere more intense than ever before."

Is it possible to tender sufficient and acceptable thanks to the choir of 500 voices, and to Mr. G. W. Brand Lane; the master of the music? "A wonderful man," Sir Henry Wood recently called him. We all• think that, but it is the heart of the man we admire most. To him and the choir we offer unbounded appreciation.

J. V. RADCLIFFE.

Chaplaincies and Camp Homes. One of Our Chaplains Slightly Wounded.

ONE of our United Methodist Chaplains, Rev. R. H. Wooldridge, was wounded on September 23rd. Happily the wound is not serious, and Captain Wooldridge hoped to be out of hospital. in a week's time. "I got hit," he says, "in one of our support trenches, where I had erected a coffee stall for the wounded and fatigued as they pass back from the front trenches to the reserve lines. Some of them had not tasted' anything 'hot for nearly a week, and it was a boon to them. Of course the tea and coffee was given free to the boys. With the help of other officers it was made quite easy to procure the tea and coffee and food. I was hit by ghrapnel twice on September 22nd, but not enough to make any difference. One piece cut open my legging, but did not pebetrate to my leg. The other simply tore my jacket without causing, me any injury. The piece of shrapnel that sent me here struck my knee. I have a great deal to be thankful for. I have been on the front line now for over sixteen months and have not been wounded before nor even had a day's sickness, for which I am indeed very grateful to God."

All who know Captain Wooldridge will be gratified that his wound is so slight and that he is likely to be at work again by the time this is seen by the reader.

HENRY SNTITH. 25 Bolingbroke Grove,

Wandsworth Common„ S.W.

Flora Klickmann starts her new volume of "The Woman's Magazine" with a very attractive and useful number. There is an excellent supply of fiction. A specially inspired article on what the Queen needs just now for the wounded, will be suggestive to all women who desire to help in this patriotic service. Another in-teresting Royal item is the account by Ignatius Phayre of what is being done by the King and Queen of Spain to make' the Madrid Palace an effective War Prisoners' Inquiry Bureau. The Bishop of Durham's Open Letter to the Women of the Nation should be read- by all of them. It is specially concerned with the National Mis-sion.

Manchester Young People's Demonstration.

October 5, 1916. THE UNITED METHODIST. 519

LAST Sunday afternoon the Archbishop of Canterbury officially inaugurated the Church of England Mission of Repentance and Hope by an address delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral. "A man I am, and deem nothing that relates to man a matter of indifference to me," runs the old Latin saying. Equally, every man who can say "I am a Christian," should also go on to say, "I deem nothing that relates to Christian endeavour- and living a matter of indifference to me." That is the spirit of a true catholicity and it well becomes all Chris-tians, and not least Methodist Christians whom John Wesley pictured as "the friends of all, the enemies of none." In that spirit none of us surely can do less than regard with sympathetic interest the doings of Christians of other churches, and it ought naturally to-happen that the doings of the Anglican Church, which is associated with so much that is noble and worthy and enduring in our national life and which numbers among its adherents at least half the communicant Christians of the country, should evoke special interest from time to time. The forthcoming mission especially should evoke the sympathy, the good will and the prayers of all who put Christianity before their par-ticular churches and desire to see this England of ours a better because a more Christian England and to see embodied in its life not only a national and more or less formal profession of the Christian religion but a practice of its holy precepts and an expression of its essential inner spirit by high and low, rich and poor, learned and unlearned, employers and employees, indi-viduals and communities, rulers and people, State and nation.

Tim aim of the Mission should capture the imagina-tion and heart of all Christians. Its primary aim is not with the individual but with the community as a whole.

It must take hold of the individual if it The Aim is to take hold of the community, for of the that is the way in which all communal Mission. advance proceeds. Yet it does not ad.

dress the individual in the light of his own personal spiritual need—his need of repentance and faith and surrender to God—as an evangelistic or paro-chial mission might do. But it 'does address him as part of a whole, responsible in his measure for the defects, the shorthomings, the sins of the whole and responsible for seeing that while sorrowing over his share in the evil and repenting of it, he does to the utmost of his power what he can to correct national faults and to uplift the national life. In the sense just explained, the Mission of Repentance concerns both the individual and the community. But mainly it concerns the community. As the official Mission Bulletin says, the Mission is mainly concerned with the life of the Church and the life of the nation in their broader aspects. It is to deal with the nation as a whole, and with the Church as a whole, and with the relation of each of these to the other. In accordance with this aim the rnissioners, or messengers as they are being called, are asked to urge the nation to put God first, in international and national life, in economic and social life, quite as much as in family and individual life : to show that the true hope of renewal lies in loyalty to the lordship and splendour of God : "to create a new out-look, rather than formulate any practical outcome." Writing on the last point, Professor Scott Holland says :

- "The word of Hope is still ours to utter ; for our sin has only served to • reveal the real significance of Him whose royalty we have feared to assert, and whose Name we have failed to justify in the sight of men. In Him alone can come the Kingdom estab-lished in Righteousness, and the Fellowship that is the bond of Peace. That is clearer than ever to all men. There is, we see well enough now, one Name, and no other, in which man can be saved. If it be indeed His banner that is uplifted, men will rally to it as never before."

THE last quotation will serve to show why the mission which began last Sunday is a Mission of Hope. What of the other part of its title—Mission of Repentance?

In some quarters it is resented. "What Why a have we to repent of in this war?" asked Mission of a worthy alderman of the present writer Repentance ? only a few days ago. There are those

among us who would reply, as one has already replied, that we were right in entering upon the war ; that we had no alternative ; that we could only have kept out of it at the cost of betraying the cause of honour, liberty and truth. There was no alternative. Still even these are compelled to ask why there was

no alternative. "How was it that professedly Christian nations were driven to try the verdict of force? How had they come so to mismanage their diplomacy, the ordering of their relations one with another and their ideals of national and international life, that no other way out was possible than the terrible one we are now taking? " The nations as nations are not blameless nor free from a deep need of repentance before God and before one another. But that is not the special point to be emphasized in this Mission. The need for repent-ance is to be pressed in another direction :

"How was it that the Sovereignty of Christ had so little authority over His own Christendom, that it was driven to use the very methods and - weapons which He had taught it to renounce and to abhor? How was it that the organized presentation of Chris-tianity was powerless to prevent so appalling a disaster? For every one can see now that it is not Christianity that has failed. If only the world had been Christian, it would not be at war. It must be its representation by its accredited organs and insti-tutions that has so piteously failed to make it effec-tual. It has been allowed to lose its grip on the real facts, so that the big affairs of the world go on their own way as if it were not there. In the World of Diplomacy, of International Relationships, it does not count. In Trade and Industry it has hardly any place. Over the dominating motives and aims by which our enormous wealth is created, it has little or no control. In many departments of Business it is openly denied. It exercises no authority over the wealth, after it has been made. It establishes no over-ruling conscience, no paramount sense of respon-sibility. It is powerless to restrain the excesses of luxury, while it utterly fails to check the passion of Materialism which has overswayed European Civilization. A limitless desire for riches, for power, for pleasure, has run like a flame through the Nations. An Ethic has taken possession of our Politics and of our Public life which is in direct defiance of the meekness and gentleness of Christ ' ; and the result is that all Europe is at War ; and that we can see no natural and moral end to the War.

"So men are bitterly aware; and as they turn to us, the official Representatives of Christ, to ask why we have so deplorably failed to make His Name and claim . good, they find us implicated, by dreadful intimacy, with the very world which we exist to con-demn. By manifold ties, associations, habits, in-grained traditions, historical ramifications, intangible familiarities, infectious compromises, the Church of Christ appears to them to be involved in the same moral disorder as the world which it should leaven. They trace the curse of Materialism on us within, as on those without. They do not see that we, Church-men, contribute an ideal element to solid affairs. Commerce and Politics are not changed by our taking part in them. We take our colour from them, not they from us. In our Business and in our Political interests we are too often just as other men are. The World is not aware of any difference in its temper or habits because we take part in its doings. So they assert."

offering of prayers in its behalf. The Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, the President of the National Free Church Council, particularly hopes that the Free Churches will take up an attitude of unniingled generosity towards the Mission, that they will show unreserved joy at every success the Anglican Church may achieve and that during the Mission carping criticism and rivalry will be avoided. That ought to be easy for us, for if the Church of England lives up to the ideal it has set before itself it will not during this Mission emphasize a religion of forms and ceremonies but address itself to the central and vital things in which all Christians should agree. Surely as Christians we ought to wish them God-speed in so worthy an endeavour. But ought we not to do more? Ought we not to recognize frankly that we of the other Churches are sharers in the worldliness, in the materialistic ideals, in the communal sins, in the failures to be true to the Christian message and life which are to be repented of in this Mission? Ought we not to join with our Anglican friends in facing the facts, in desiring to understand the times, in un-reservedly resolving to cleanse our hands that we may apply the Gospel of our Lord to all the problems and needs of our day? Surely, surely, we must not only pray for our Church of England brethren, but pray with them, repent with them, seek God with them, if not in the same material building yet certainly in the temple of the soul where God comes nearest to His people with-out respect of the form of Christian creed they hold or the form of Church organization they follow. In these clays of calamity, of judgement, of appalling need, one word of Holy Writ befits all Christians without distinc-tion : ."Come, and let us return unto the Lord : for He hath torn and He will heal us; He hath smitten and He will bind us up."

Jottings. Mrs. Woods, the wife of the Bishop-Designate of

Peterborough, has a pretty wit. A churchwarden was boasting that he had prophesied that her husband would become a bishop. The good man had forgotten his precise prophecy : sometimes a convenient thing for prophets to do. But Mrs. Woods hadn't forgotten. "I remember," she said, " that three and a half years ago he told us that Leeds vicars go to Bishoprics and Brad-ford vicars to Paradise, and I don't , think that Peter-borough is quite Paradise."

The "Daily News" writer in "Under the Clock" says that there is one of the early Union. Jack posters still hanging in a public-house at the Elephant and Castle, Newington. It has been so carelessly posted on one of the doors that from outside all that can. be seen is a square of coloured glass on which in large letters is inscribed the legend, "Saloon Bar," with the words, " Fight for it ! Die for it ! " showing underneath!

Really, this is something not or dying for.

I recently gave .a story about late Poet Laureate, taken from Browne's interesting new book, Bar."

Here is another story about Austin from the same source :

"He was describing how in Switzerland, on cne of the passes, he had found two ladies in some footsore distress, and how he assisted them. When they came to the inn, he left them, but very soon they sought him out with grateful enthusiasm, and told him they had no idea he was the great Sir Alfred Austin. And were you? ' asked the gentleman to whom he was telling the story."

More tart than sweet was that humour.

Here is another of Mr. Balfour-Browne's stories : "There was a legend in existence at one time that

whenever a lie was told a cock crew. The deriva-tion of the tradition is obvious. Upon one occasion this legend was being mentioned, and someone said, If that is so, how do you account for the fact that

cocks mostly crow about three or four o'clock in the morning? " That '—and the answer is ascribed, I do not know whether correctly or not, to Mr. Chamber-lain—' is owing to the fact that at that hour the morning papers are being published.'"

That hits us poor journalists rather hard. But we laugh and admire. He was a shrewd man who fathered that answer on Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. It was worthy of him when he was in his most caustic mood—and that is saying a great deal.

But now comes something that will help to strike the balance on that biting story. Few know what notable men the Parliamentary Press Gallery has given to the country. Here are the names of a few out of many : Dickens,,Coleridge, Cunningham, Charles Russell (sub. sequently Lord Chief Justice), Sir Edward Clarke, Justin McCarthy.

One of my brethren of the Press, writincs, in the "Institute Journal," holds that all the able men have not yet passed out of the Press Gallery : " It would be possible to form quite as good an alternative' Cabinet from the Gallery of to-day as from the floor of the_ House itself,"

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THE words just quoted are from the pen of Professor Scott Holland. They state the case against the Chris-tian Church, in other words, the case against Christian

people, as many in the outside world con- A Call ceive it. In some respects the phrasing to all is exaggerated and the case as a whole Christians. is overstated. But do not let us make

too much of that. If Christians had been more thorough in their Christianity ; if they had more boldly, daringly and resolutely translated the teachings of our Lord and His apostles into the behaviour of every-day life ; if they had believed truly and purposed sincerely that He should be King in every realm of life without exception and that that wherein He could not be King should be reformed or abolished, should we have been as nations and as peoples in the deplorable condition in which we now find ourselves? • Would Materialism, Drunkenness and Impurity have had the power they possess to-day? Would the Church of Christ have been so inadequate to the needs of our times? We know that the answer to these questions is, No. For these reasons there is need to call the Churches of God in this land, and the United Methodist Church among them, to vision, to humility, to confession of sin, to re-consecration to the true Christian ideals, to all that we mean by repentance as that word is interpreted in its largest and most searching and exacting way in the New Testament. For reasons that seem to them amply sufficient, the leaders of the Anglican Church were not able to ask for the active formal co-operation of the Free Churches in their movement, though they will gladly welcome sympathy with the movement and the

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If readers knew the wonders these gentlemen work on members' speeches they would not doubt the truth of that assertion for a moment ! •

The Press Gallery has enriched its great record during the last few weeks, for one of its old members has just become the Right Hon. H. C. Duke and Chief Secretary for Ireland.

The Committee of the Gallery recently offered Mr. Duke its congratulations. Replying, he says :

"I often recall the pleasant and fruitful days—and nights—spent in the varied work of the Gallery be-tween 1880 and 1885. They were as delightful as they were toilsome. The assurance of continued re-membrance and goodwill conveyed in the resolution of the Committee is a reminder of good times which I shall always value."

The phrases "pleasant and fruitful days," "delightful as they were toilsome," "reminder of good times which I shall always value," should be noted. In presence of these things Mr. Chamberlain's (?) acid jest is freely forgiven !

But if the Press Gallery 'continues to make records of this kind it will need to offer the Prayer for Humility very earnestly !

I am just reading with avidity and delight the Rev. George .Eayrs's new book, ." Letters of John Wesley " (Hodder and Stoughton ; 10s. 6d. net). United Method-ists may feel justifiably proud' that one of their own ministers has produced a work so lucid, so scholarly, so deeply interesting and likely to be so enduring as this.

But it is not my purpose to review the book. Our Editor tells me that he has arranged for that, and the review will appear immediately.

Without infringing on the reviewer's preserves, how-ever, I may perhaps be permitted to refer to the Chapter in this book on "Wesley, his TiThes and Work," by the Right Hon. Augustine Birrell, K.C., M.P.

Readers of Mr. Birrell's essay on " John Wesley, Some Aspects of the Eighteenth. Century in Engand," pub-lished in his "Selected Essays " (Nelson), will know what to expect.

The new essay is the old essay wrought over, slightly enlarged and bettered. To say that it is racy, piquant, illuminating, vivid is to say that its author knows how to Birrellize.

The addition to the old essay consists mainly of one paragraph. It is a new paragraph and a very illuminat-ing one, but I wish the essay had contained also the substance of a favourite paragraph of mine from Mr. Birrell's essay on "Cardinal Newman."

The paragraph consists of a most suggestive compari-son between Wesley's relation to Oxford and Newman's. I do not mean that I agree with every point of the com-parison, for I don't. Let me give one point of dis-agreement, Mr. Birrell says quite truly that Newman's style had charm, but quite erroneously that Wesley's had not.

He affirms that Matthew Arnold gets near a descrip-tion of Newman's style when he writes :

"And what but gentleness untired, And what but noble feeling warm,

Wherever seen, howe'er inspired, Is grace, is charm ? "

Of Wesley Mr. Birrell writes : "Great as Wesley was, he lacked charm. As we read his diaries and letters, we are interested, we are moved, but we are not pleased."

I have been a reader of Wesley's writings for years, but they never struck me as lacking charm before I read Mr. Birrell's essay. Nor do they now. I freely admit that his style has not charm in the same measure or of the same kind as Newman's. But what ecclesi-astical style has? In this respect Newman stands alone or nearly so. The comparison therefore is not quite fair.

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Much depends upon what you mean by charm, of course. For me Wesley's writing has the charm of lucidity, 'terseness, strength, exactness, logical force, warmth, glow, persuasiveness, aye, and poetic imagina-tion. If anyone doubts the application of the last phrase let him read the sermon on "The New Creation " or that one On "Spiritual Worship."

But I am allowing myself to be side-tracked. Though I do not agree with the whole of it I wish the para-graph in the Newman essay had been reproduced, and especially this story :

"` You seem a temperate people here,' once ob-served a thirsty pedestrian (who was, indeed, none other than the .present writer) to a Cornish miner ;

how did it happen? ' -He replied solemnly, raising his cap, There came a man amongst us once, and his name was John Wesley."

Talk about charm of style ! What is that in compari-son with charm of deed like that of which the Cornish miner spoke with raised cap?

I set off with the intention of quoting same of the many good things in Mr. Birrell's essay in Mr. Eayrs's new book. I cannot quote as I would like, for my space is nearly gone, but I must give one or two quota-tions.

Here is a piece of advice about my favourite Wesley book which I gladly pass on :

"Read the Journal,' which is a book full of plots and plays and novels, which quivers with life and is crammed full of character."

Here is a sentence to set one thinking. It follows the statement that though Susanna Wesley, John's mother, had nineteen children, all of whom she taught to cry softly, thirteen of them early succumbed.

"Infant mortality was one of the great -facts of the eighteenth century, whose Rachels had to learn to cry softly over their dead babies."

My last quotation concerns Wesley himself. "No man lived nearer the centre than John Wesley,

neither Clive nor Pitt, neither Mansfield nor Johnson. You cannot cut him out of our national life. No single figure influenced so many minds, no single voice touched so many hearts. No other man did such a life's work for England."

That is a very fine and true tribute to the man whom the late W. T. Stead called St. John of England.

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(4) The judgement-hall at-Csarea therefore is again the scene of the story (ch. xxv. 6), but with Festus, not Felix, as judge. Again the Jews prefer their charges against Paul, and they probably had not lost anything in the time of waiting. The "many and grievous charges which they could not prove," would, we imagine, in-clude the accumulated tittle-tattle of provincial gossip. But the principals in the scene are Festus and Paul, and it is important to understand how the mind of the latter leaped swiftly to its decision. Festus is evidently sincere in his determination not to cross the principles of Roman justice, yet is desirous, if possible, of con-ciliating the Jews. Perhaps the prisoner will consent to be tried at Jerusalem, if -Festus is there to see fair play. "No ! " says Paul, "I know what that would mean, and I've done nothing worthy of death. Besides, I'm tired of waiting, and I want the case settled. I'm a Roman citizen, and refuse to be handed over to the' Jewishl courtts. As you provincial governors cannot settle my' case, I claim my right to take it before the Emperor himself." This was the thunderbolt that fell on the ears of Festus and the assembled court. "I ap-peal to Caesar." Surprised, Festus hurriedly consulted with his advisers,' to see if such an appeal were permis-sible, and, discovering that it was, found himself corn, pelted by Roman law to grant the prisoner's request.

(5) We may compare "the appeal to Caesar" with the right in English law of carrying the case to the supreme judicial court, the House of Lords. "The ap-peal to Csar," was an application to transfer a case to the Imperial Courts in Rome, which could reverse a decision of lower provincial courts, or decide where no decision had been reached. With certain exceptions a provincial governor was compelled, if the appeal were made, to pass the case on. What made Paul appeal? Two reasons probably : First, impatience at delay, and a desire to get the case transferred where local prejudices could not operate so powerfully. Secondly, he may have thought of it, under the circumstances, as the way God was opening, though he himself would not have chosen it, for him to_get to Rome. For in the ringing words, "I appeal to Caesar," we can hear the cry of Paul's heart, "I must see Rome."

Hints on Teaching. (a) Junior Classes. (1) Introduce the lesson as "the way to Rome." Re-

call a previous lesson (review), in which we learned that the place, above all others, to which Paul wanted to take the Gospel was Rome. But in our last lesson we heard of him being kept in prison for two whole years or more, quite unjustly, without it having been decided whether he was guilty or not.

(2) Can we imagine Paul's feelings during that long time? He had been such an active man, travelling here, there, and everywhere, never still, having all sorts of adventures,—shipwrecks, robbers, stonings, and beat-ings. How it must have chafed him to 'be kept in one place so long, with a soldier on guard and the tiresome chain always round his wrist ! Fortunately he had one consolation—his friends were allowed to look after him. We can imagine Luke, for example, coming in regu-larly to see how Paul was getting on, and, being a doctor, advising him how to keep well. But the thing that troubled Paul most was the fact that so long as he was shut up in prison there was no chance of him ever getting to Rome, or anywhere else, to preach the Gos-pel. And we can imagine him thinking about it over and over again. "How can I get free? How get to Rome?" To-day our story tells how he found a way, though not the way he expected.

(3) For one day the news was whispered through the prison—perhaps the soldier guarding him told Paul—that a new governor had come ! "Ah ! " Paul would think, "perhaps he will be different from Felix, and won't ask for bribes, but will deal justly, and set me free." ' For Paul knew he was guilty of nothing against the laws of the Romans.

(4) The new governor's name was Festus, and since it was the duty of a new governor to go on a tour round the province, he very soon set out from Caesarea for- Jeru-salem. There, of course, he got to know the peoples over whom he had come to rule, and he soon found out that one of the things they wanted was that he should give Paul over to them, and let him be brought to Jerusalem. But Festus knew that the laws of the Romans were just, and would not ,allow a man to be handed over like that until it had been decided that he was- guilty. "No! " he said, "you must come down to Caesarea, and I will examine the case there."

(5) So once again, Paul was brought into the judge-ment-hall in the governor's palace at Caesarea. How old and tired he looks, but there is a gleam of hope in his eyes! For though his enemies are still as bitter as ever, although we do not read of the Roman lawyer this time, there is a kinder, juster man than Felix for judge. Yet even Festus was afraid to do absolutely what was right. For he was a new governor, and he wanted to please the Jews, So he tried -to persuade Paul to go down to Jerusalem, and be tried there ! "To make sure," he said, "that it is fair, I will go too ! "

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THE APPEAL TO CiESAR.—Acts xxv. 1-12. As in the last lesson, so in this and the succeeding one,

the background of the story is a trial in a Roman pro-vincial court of justice. But there is a great contrast between the self-interested judgement of Felix and the more impartial temper displayed by his successor, Festus ; and the story of Paul's appearance before the latter, with its .startling climax, the appeal to Cmsar, should easily broaden out into a talk about the elementary virtue of justice.

Hints for the Teachers' Study. (1) Teachers should recognise that at such points as

we have now reached, the history of Acts touches far the moment upon the sphere of secular history. Thus the names of Felix, Festus, Agrippa, Drusilla, and Berenice are those of living personages, which appear in the pages of contemporary historians like Josephus, the famous historian of the Jews, Tacitus and Suetonius, the outstanding Roman historians of the period. It is in-deed one of the characteristics of both of Luke's contri-butions 'to the New Testament, viz., his Gospel and Acts, that he so persistently tries to relate the history of our Lord and His followers to the current history of the times, e.g. Luke i. 5; ii. 1, 2, ; iii. 1; Ac. xii. 20-23, and notes of explanation, as in Ac. x ; xxvii. 1. It was of course, most natural for Luke to do this, since he was himself a Gentile, and intensely interested in the events of the world outside Palestine, and it has its value for us, in that we are thus enabled to measure the march of time, and paint the actual background to the particular events of New Testament history. Festus is named by Josephus, who .gives some account of the events of his short procuratorship of Judaea. But some difficulty exists in regard to the date when he succeeded Felix, some plac-ing it as early as 57 A.D., but the more general opinion inclines us to the year 60 A.D. Nothing, however, is known of him; apart from Josephus and Acts.

(2) When the news 'of the appointment of a new governor in the room of Felix became known, we may imagine that, amongst others, it brought the hope of finality to at least two sets of people, viz., to Paul, on the one hand, chafing under a two years' confinement, and to his foes, baulked so long of their prey. The latter show how keen they are by the fact that when Festus, fulfilling the first duty of a new governor to visit the chief places in his province as soon as possible, arrives in Jerusalem, and gets into communication with his leading subjects there, he discovers that among the things they are intensely concerned about is the trial of the prisoner whom Felix had left him to deal with at Cwsarea. Probably under the impulse that a new governor will be likely to humour them in their wishes, they revive their old plea, that Paul should be tried not by Festus according to Roman law, but by them, the Jewish Council, according to Jewish law. (Cf. Ac. xxiv. 6 ; xxv. 8, 9.) But behind this was the deliberate inten-tion to waylay Paul on the way up from Caesarea and kill him, and if that did not happen there was no doubt what the verdict of the Sanhedrin would be if Paul were ever again brought before them.

(3) Festus, however, shows himself a more responsible exponent of Roman justice than Felix had been. When, later, he explains . to Agrippa (ch.- xxv. 16) what had happened, he mentions that he had told the Jews : "It is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity fo make his defence concern-ing the matter laid against him." And from xxv. 4, 5, we find that Festus refused to let the trial be at Jeru-salem, and ordered the Jews to appear at Caesarea, and there bring their accusation against Paul,

(6) Poor Paul He knew what it would mean—t5e Jews would try to kill him on the way ! Why could not the governor do what was right straight away, and set him free? Suddenly a thought strikes him ! "I'm a Roman citizen," he remembers, "and it is the right of every Roman citizen, if he thinks he is being treated un-justly, to ask to go to Rome, and have the case tried by the Emperor himself." And drawing himself up, he looks up to Festus : " I appeal to the Emperor," he calls out.

(7) Everybody is startled ! The Jews are angry, be-cause it means that Paul will escape them after all. Festus is surprised, and turns to question his advisers, for it means that he will have nothing more to do with the case. "Yes," say his advisers, it is quite right. You must now send him to Rome."

(8) That is how Paul found the way opening for him to go to Rome, to go as a prisoner to be tried by the Emperor ! Yet probably Paul felt very proud of that great empire, which, with its courts of justice all over the world, tried to deal justly with everybody, and allowed its citizens to speak in their defence to the Emperor him-self. For it is the first duty of rulers to be just, and though there were sometimes bad and selfish judges, like Felix, yet the Romans really did try to be just rulers of the people under them. Soon we shall have the story of Paul's voyage to Rome.

(b) Senior Classes. (1) Introduce the lesson here as a talk on " Justice," and

show how it arises from the story of Paul's second trial at Caesarea, before Festus, and his dramatic appeal to the Emperor. Behind the story lies the great judicial system of the Roman Ethpire, with its provincial law courts in every great city and provincial capital, and the right of appeal by the citizens (only citizens—not everybody) to the courts of the Emperor in Rome. (Cf. the English methods of rule in India.)

(2) Justice, simply defined, is fair treatment, and great codes of law, like the Hebrew (O.T.) and Roman codes, on which even English laws in part are based, are simply rough attempts to assure that the people ruled by them are treated, and treat each other fairly. But they are only one way, and admittedly an imperfect way, of attain-ing the desired end. Sometimes laws themselves are unjust.

(3) For underlying every system of law, and only im-perfectly expressed by it, is the sense of justice in the human heart. Men are more prone to resent unfair treat-ment than anything else. Recall the passionate protests against social injustices in the O.T. prophets, and the impulses which give rise to revolutions like that of Eng-land under the Stuarts, or France in 1789.

(4) Ultimately justice is a matter of dealing man with man. Its supreme-principle is the Golden Rule, better ex-pressed perhaps as the law of love. For there can be no real justice without love, and justice has received no better interpretation than in the apostolic maxim : "Owe no man anything, except to love one another."

Wedding. DALE—FISH.

A khaki, wedding was solemnised at Redland Grove Church, Bristol, on September 23rd, the contracting parties being Mr. Bernard William Dale (2nd Lieut. Army Service Corps) and Miss Adelaide Fish, B.Sc. The bridegroom is the younger son of Rev. T. Pointon Dale and Mrs. Dale, of. Nottingham, formerly of Bristol, and both the young people were long associated with our Redland Grove Church and Sunday School. The ser-vice was read by the bridegroom's father, and was con-cluded with prayer by the present pastor, Rev. James Wright (President-Designate). The bride was given away by her mother. The bridesmaid was Miss Davey, of Middlesbrough, while Captain J. A. Dale, of the War Office, acted as best man. The rostrum was decorated with flowers and evergreens, and the choral part of the service was led by the chapel choir, under the direction of Madame Gully. The bridegroom was over on special leave from France, and will return to his military duties at' the end of the week.

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For Our Boys and Girls. RUNNING THE RACE.

BY CUTHBERT ELLISON.

ONE day at some school sports a race was being run by a. class of the younger boys. The favourite. among the competitors was a boy who was called Jimmy. He was, without a doubt; the best runner in the class, and it was quite expected that he would win. How they did run ! A lot of the other fellows were looking on, and there were parents and friends of the boys watch. in the race, and trying to encourage the runners- wth cheering words. On all hands they were shouting : "Go on, Tommy ! " "Go it, Jack ! " "Run Stan ! " But there was never a shout for Jimmy. I expect everybody thought that he was quite safe, and didn't need any help. He heard them cheering others, and it seemed as though they had forgotten him ; and it is hard to keep going on when nobody cares. Poor Jimmy lost heart, and just couldn't run, and so he lost the race. They said to him afterwards, "Why, Jimmy, whatever was the matter? We thought you would come in first." "Oh," he replied, swallowing a lump that would come into his throat, "you were shouting, Go on, Tommy ! ' and Go on; Jack ! ' and nobody said Go on, Jimmy ! '" Yes, it is hard to keep going on when nobody cares! Have you ever seen an obstacle race? The runners

have to climb over fences and things, and crawl through barrels and sacks. It is great fun—for those who are looking on. Some of the competitors rush wildly at the obstacles. They tumble off the hurdles, and get wrapped up in the sacks, and get along but slowly. Those who know better tackle the obstacles quietly and steadily. It seems to take more time to get over them that way, but it doesn't really ; it pays in the end.

When you come to think about it, there are a lot of obstacle races in life. At school, for instance : Always there is some new thing to learn, some difficulty to get over. But, there ! patience, perseverance and pluck will get over anything. It is just the same in games. And it will be just the same when you get to work.

Why, life itself is the biggest race ! And a grand race it is ! There is 'the course that we must run ; there are the spectators who look on ; and there is the prize at the end. I have been reading .about this race. I will tell you what I have learned.

First, there is the course. It is set before each one of us. Each has -his own course to run. Nobody else can run for me; I must run. So, also, you must run your race. We must not mind too much what others are doing, whether they are doing their best or not. We must do our best.

Then there is the crowd of those who are watching us. The runner will not be looking at the spectators. He knows, though, that they are there, and their presence and cheering words 'encourage him to do his best. Also there is a "great crowd of witnesses," the heroes, the mighty ones who have run their race, and entered into their reward. Now they watch us. , In their sight we dare not fail-.

What of the goal ? I learn that in this race of life the goal is Jesus. He is the winning-post, and to those Who come in He gives a crown, This crown is not of fading leaves, such as were awarded in the old Greek contests. Neither is it of gold. It is a crown of life. The victors in this race are crowned with life.

How is this race to be won ? Just like every caner race. We must lay aside every weight that would ainder us in our running. We must watch against every temptation to turn out of our course. We must run with patient endurance.

" Run the straight race through God's good grace, Lift up thone eyes, and seek His face; Life with its way before thee lies, Christ is the path, and Christ the prize."

News of Our Churches. MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Engagements. 1917-18. In the Scotland Street Circuit, Sheffield, Rev. W.

Madgen remains a third year, and Revs. S. Wright and G. Jobling a fourth year.

In the Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester Circuit Revs. W. T. Harris, W. L. Gibbs, and F. J. Jenkins remain a fourth, third, and a second year respectively.

Kenyon, W., Wilmslow, Macclesfield Circuit. Nicholson, W. T., a fifth year at Bethesda, Elland. Tremberth, W. succeeds Rev. J. Foulger, as superin-

tendent of the ffelston Circuit. Scot ft, Walter, Halifax North, a fifth year. Holroyde, W., Blyth, Waterloo Circuit, a fifth year. Green, W. S., goes to Grays Church, London, Forest

Gate Circuit. Tonge, W. L., Manchester Road, Southport, a third

year. Cockersole, W. H., Stourbridge, a fourth year. Hooky, James, Hucknall' Circuit, a third year. Nottingham, Redcliffe Road Circuit, J. Baxter and

C. A. Davis, both a third year. Chichester Circuit, H. Rundle and F. Dennis, a third

and second year respectively.

Changes. 1917. Warne, S. L., leaves Kingswood, after six years' ser-

vice. 1918.

Nicholson, W. T., leaves Bethesda, Elland, after five years' service.

LEEDS. ON Saturday, September 16th, in connection.

with the West Hunslet Central Mission, a quarterly service, tea, and love-feast was instituted. In the afternoon a sermon was preached by Rev. G. P. McKay, Baptist minister, to a good company. The tea was fol-lowed by a meeting in the chapel, which took the form of an old-fashioned love-feast,. conducted by Rev. J. B. Burman. There was a large attendance, and many stirring testimonies were given to Christ's saving power. Though the meeting lasted for three hours, the interest and power continued to the end.. The financial result was close upon L'5. The crown of the services was, however, on Sunday night, when the preacher, Mr. R. Lawson, had the joy of seeing seventeen young people kneeling round the communion rail, and accept-ing Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Sister Ethel Simp-son, of Bowron House, the newly appointed deaconess, in giving her testimony on the Saturday night, said, "If she thought she was not going to have souls in her work she would rather die." On the Sunday evening, Sister Ethel having spoken to a girl outside the chapel before the service, and, having induced her to enter, had the. great joy of seeing the stranger kneel at the penitent form seeking Christ.

MANCHESTER. District Laymen's Missionary League.

A memorable meeting was held in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Manchester, on Saturday afternoon last. Councillor J. Willett, of Salford, had sent out an invitation for "live" men to meet him for a conference and tea, with a view to the formation of a District Laymen's Missionary League, and about eighty laymen attended, representa-tive of all parts of the District. The District chairman (Rev. W. C. Jackson, B.A.) and the District missionary secretary (Rev. J. A. Thompson) were also present by special invitation. Mr. Lewins and Councillor Rothwell submitted a resolution forming the meeting into a Dis-trict U.M. Laymen's Missionary League, and pledging it to seek by every possible means an increase of interest in the missionary work of our Church, particularly amongst the laymen associated with us. Councillor Willett was elected president, and the following as vice-

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Harvest Festivals. Aberavon (Zion).—Pastor preached to large congre-

gations. young people's service in the afternoon. Speaker, Rev. Edgar Badham. The choir rendered an-thems. At the " Harvest Home " gathering, Mr. H. J. Stokes, J.P., presided. Addresses given by Revs. 0. Arnold Evans, B.A., J. Sydney Jones, and R. H. Golds-worthy. Collections well in advance of last year.

Bacup (Waterside).—Preacher, Rev. F. Wimbush. Congregations and collections good. In the afternoon Mr. Witnbush addressed a public gathering on "England and the Next War," in which the industrial, social and religious aspects of the question were dealt with. A verbatim report of the address appeared in the local "Times."

Bristol (Gladstone Street).—A record festival. Appro-priate sermons were preached by Revs. P. W. Madge and W. Treinberth. Mr. F. Webb was chairman, of. the Bright Musical Hour. The choir won much praise. The congregations were good all day. On Monday about 100 friends sat down to the tea. Mr. W. W. Bann (Brookland) presided at the harvest home, and an ad-dress was given by Rev. T; Shawcross. Rev. W. Tremb-erth reported the ,financial results as £29 14s.

Cardiff (Cathay Terrace).—Rev. Charles Pye preached in the morning, and in the evening Mr. G. S. Westlake (of Barry Dock). In the afternoon Mr. D. H. Mordey, J.P., presided, and during the service the children presented thankofferings of baskets of fruit, etc., to be given to the wounded soldiers at the barracks. Miss Mordey received the gifts. At the Monday public meet-ing Rev. C. Pye gave an eloquent address. The whole of the services were delightful, full of great inspiration, and great help. The chapel was packed with worshippers.

Cardiff (Miskin Street).—Rev. E. P. Jones, B.A. (Presbyterian), preached on the Sunday morning, and Rev. F. J. Highley Coles (pastor) in. the evening. Heath Presbyterian Church Choir gave a musical service in the afternoon. There were large congregations. On Monday a public meeting and supper were held. Mr. Robert Roberts presided over the meeting, and an ad-dress was given by Rev. A. E. Dymond. Proceeds £31.

Castleford (Hopetown). e— The members resolved to make the festival this year the most successful in its history ; and the result has far exceeded the most sans: guine expectations. The sermons were preached, morn-ing- and evening, by Mr. G. W. Lunn, of Leeds. In the afternoon the service of song, "Golden Hill," was given by the choir, with Mr. T. Simpson as conductor, Mrs. Walters the reader, and Mr. H. Liffey organist. On the following Tuesday,' after a public tea, a harvest social was held, preSided over by Mr. J. T. Elliott, when special music was rendered by the choir and an address given by Rev. J. W. - Davis. It was announced that the total proceeds amounted to £22 8s. hi., the highest amount raised by this church at the harvest festival. Included in the amount collected was a donation of £10 from Messrs. FIy. Briggs, Son and Co., Ltd., of Whitwood Collieries. In a letter sent by them it was

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presidents : Coun. C. W. Godbert, Messrs. W. A. LeWins, I. A. Yoxall, and J. J. Fortune. The secretaries are Coun. J. Rothwell and Mr. C. Eastwood. A committee is being formed to represent every circuit in the District. So strong was the desire that the whole movement should be inspirational, and not merely a new collecting agency, that the members decided there should be no subscrip-tion fee. All the initial expenses were borne by a friend in the meeting. Practical suggestions were made, by-which Sunday School workers and local preachers could cul-tivate missionary interest. -The whole spirit of the gathering augured well for the success of the movement, and reflects credit on its organisers.

PENZANCE. School Re-opening.

After thorough renovation, the Parade Street school-room was re-opened on Tuesday evening SepteMber 21st, when a re-dedication service was held. Capt.- H. Row was in the chair, and special music was rendered by the chapel choir and "The Sunbeams." Nearly the whole of the renovation has been done by voluntary labour, and most of the materials have been given. Rev. J. Hartley Duerden said than the value of the renovation was esti-mated at £22, and the equivalent of that had been given by the generosity and devotion of friends. The church was progressing, and the position was better than it had been for years. Mr. J. J. Gribbie and Mr. W. Pas- . coo also spoke. The work has been supervised, and most of it done by Capt. H. Row and Mr. J. Pascoe.

stated that the company had decided, until further notice, to give an annual subscription of that amount to the church. A resolution of grateful appreciation of their generosity was unanimously passed.

Crosshills (Ebenezer).— A great success,. Musical ser-vice in • afternoon; Chairman, Mr. E. Redman (Wes-leyan). At Silsden, and Skipton large congregations and fine tone. Preacher at all three places, Rev. F. H. J. Thornton. At Lothersdale hearty services and singing. Preacher, Rev. J. H. Middleton (Primitive). Good hope-ful outlook for winter's work.

Halifax North (Salem).—Morning preacher, Rev. 0. P. Rounsefell ; evening preacher, the pastor (Rev. W. D. Gunstone). A united gathering of school and church was held in the afternoon, with an old Salem worker, Mr. J. Dewhirst, of Brighouse, as chairman. An ad-dress was given by Rev. W. L. Schroeder, M.A. Se-lections were rendered by the Sowerby Bridge Harmonic Quartette; soloist, Miss Faux. Collections; £12 2s. 3d.

Harrogate.—Preacher, Rev. T. Sunderland. Sunday collections over £54. On Monday evening an "At Home" was presided over by Ald. P. Chippindale, who gave a hearty welcome to Sister Clara Smith, of Bowron House. Rev. and Mrs. Ralph ,Hebbron also addressed the meeting. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Dyson, Miss Driffield, Miss Edmondson. The new Sister, who has had an encouraging beginning, made a fine-toned reply to the words of welcome. It was stated that the last three balance-sheets showed that over £3,000 had been raised • during the last three years and £600 paid off the debt. The membership of the church and mis-sion three years ago stood at 192, now 227. The insti-tutional work of the church is suffering, as, with about three exceptions, all the men under forty years of age have joined the Army.

Harrogate (Harlow Mission). — A musical afternoon was given by Victoria Park Church Choir, Ald. Chippin-dale, J.P., taking the chair. Solos by Mrs. Dyson, Miss D. Armon, and Mr. W. Rush. Evening service was con-ducted by Sergeant-Major Dodsworth. There was a concert on Monday night. A most successful festival.

lioxton (Jubilee).—On Sunday the services were con-ducted—morning 'by Mr. Fred Harding, evening by Sister - Bessie. In the afternoon Coun. Elderfield, of Tottenham, presided over a children's service, and Mrs. Fred Harding gave the address. The services for tire day were very inspiring. On the Monday a musical ser-vice was held, presided over by Mr. Stephen Gee, J.P. Fruit banquet followed. Net proceeds about £2 in ad-vance of last year.

Leeds, Prospect,—Ministers' anniversary and harvest festival. Preacher, Rev. W. Dunstan (pastor). The church "At Homes" were largely attended. On the first night "A Modern Farm in War Time," written by Mr. Dunstan, and given by the young people, was highly appreciated. The next night the host and hostess were Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ellis, and Miss Ellis and her friends gave a high-class concert. This was the pastor's eleventh anniversary, and one of the most successful.

Leeds West (Park Chapel).—Successful services. Prea-cher, Rev. A. H. Nicholas. - In the afternoon a musical service was held, at which were present a large number of wounded soldiers, who were afterwards entertained to tea by the local friends. The whole of the fruit, etc., was distributed among the soldiers at the Leeds Infirmary. -

Leicester. (Hill Street).—Preachers, Revs. Walter Leicester and W. T. Barraclough. Special music by the choir. Soloist at the evening service, Madame Alice Coleman.

London (Great Dover Street).--Appropriate sermons by pastor, Rev. G. G. Nicholson. In the afternoon Miss E. Griffin gave a "Nature Talk." to scholars. Monday evening meeting, presided over by Mr. E. F. Shrubsall, took the form of an "At Home" and pastor's anniversary. Mr. T. W. McAra, J.P., gave a very inspiriting address, and Mr. A. W. Edwards voiced a warm welcome to the pastor on his appointment for another year. Rev. G. G. Nicholson suitably responded. Financial results very cheering, being realised.

London (Waterloo Road).—On Saturday a concert was given by some members of the choir, Mr. F. Craton, pre-siding. On Sunday the pastor preached morning and evening ; and a united gathering in the afternoon was addressed by Mr. E. Abler, Mr. H. Salter presiding. A missionary tea, given by the C.E., was productive of a good collection for the foreign mission funds. On Mon-day a harvest home supper was made the occasion of a welcome - to the pastor and Sister Mary. Mr. W. H. Kempsell was in the chair. The services were specially helpful in many ways.

Manchester (Albert - Street, Bradford).—Preacher, morning and evening, Rev. Walker Blott. In the afternoon a musical- service was rendered, presided over by Mr. J. P. Bedson. Mr. Wilkinson, I.S.M., presided at the organ. An inspiring series of services that will help us spiritually in the coming days. Collections, etc., showed an increase on last year.

R1111C0111 (Oaklands Street, Widnes).—Conducted by Rev. E. Craine. The afternoon service was presided over by Mr. Leadbetter, of Connah's Quay, a former scholar. On the Monday evening a social gathering was held in the Schoolroom. Music and singing was given by a few from the Primitive Methodist choir, under the leadership of Mr. Tollitt. Total proceeds

15s. 10d.—Note, the harvest festival, reported ,last week as having been held at Runcorn, was held at Ap-pleton, in the Runcorn Circuit.

St. Mawes.—Sermons by Rev. W. F. Charlton. Public meeting addressed by Revs. W. F. Charlton, S. Shrimpton (Wesleyan), H. G. Steer (Congregationalist), and T. C. Jacob. Mr. W. H. Dowerick presided- The festival_ was a great success. Receipts £8.—Mr. R. E. Gay, who for the past fifteen years was one of the cir-cuit 'stewards in St. Mawes Circuit, has died. He was sixty-two years of age.

Swansea (Oxford Street).—Most successful series of services in the history of the church. Preacher, Rev. F. Sparrow. Musical programme in the afternoon pre-sided over by Mr. A. 4 Webber. Well attended public

meeting on Monday, presided over by Mr. J. Godfrey, and addressed by. Rev. A. W. Wardle and. circuit minis-ters. The choir rendered great help, and the congrega-tions were large. Proceeds £26, £10 in- advance of last year.

Truro (St. George's).—Rev. E. A. Coome (St. Austell) was the preacher, and his discourses were greatly appre-ciated by large congregations.. A children's service in the afternoon was presidedover by Mr. W. G. Goodfellow, J.P., and addressed by Messrs. W. L. Eddy and E. A. Thrall: The collections, etc., were the highest for many years.

Weston-super-Mare (Boulevard).—Very successful. Rev. W. Chadwick preached morning and evening to large congregations, the church being full at night. In the afternoon the choir gave a musical programme. On Mon-day, after tea, the fruit and vegetables were sold. The total reached, £27, the highest amount ever realised.

Whitley Bay.--Preacher, Rev. Ernest F. H. Capey. Special harvest anthems by choir. Congregations excel-lent. Harvest home- on Monday evening. Host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Watson, Newcastle-on-Tyne. There was a good musical programme.. Accompanist, Mrs. H. Byers. Total proceeds over ,20—a record.

Winchester,—The harvest festival services through-out the circuit have been among the most successful ever Tield. Public services and meetings were well attended. The pastor, Rev. S. J. Finch, preached the sermons at Winchester. Rev. T. Prothero, of the Ward Department, Y.M.C.A., - took the morning service at Houghton and Soberton, and also took part in the public meetings at these places, and at Kingsworthy and Houghton, ably supported by local preachers of our own and other denominations, who also took the Sun-day services at Twyford, Kingsworthy, Kingsomborne, Upsomborne, and Sparsholt. The receipts are in most cases well in advance of last year.

Anniversaries. Bristol, Westbury-on-Trym.—In connection with the

pastor's second anniversary, Rev. C. E. Oldfield (paStor) preached on the Sunday. There were large congrega-tions, especially in the evening. On. the Wednesday following the church and congregational social gather-ing had a record attendance. Mr. W. J. Taylor, church steward, presided. Brief addresses. were given by Messrs. W. T. Taylor, R. Mealing, H. G. Moody, E. V. Taylor, and Miss Gorvin. Thepastor and his wife were congratulated on the success of their work during the year. Progress was reported in every department. The great success of the primary department in the Sunday School has increased the burden of the teaching staff. In addition to sustaining all the activities of the church, useful work of a national character has been done through the Ladies Patriotic sewing meeting, for which they have been complimented by the British Red Cross Society, and supplied with certificates and badges.

Salford (Pendlebury).—The trust anniversary- preacher was Rev. H. H. Meir (Congregationalist). In the after-noon a very interesting address was given by Rev. F. Barrett. The . chair, conducted by Mr. John. Price, sang several anthems, Mr. James Rushton presiding at the organ. Collections,

General. Sheepridge (Providence).—A sweet and simple service

was recently conducted by Rev. T. P. Skilling, of South Africa, son of the Rev. T. Skilling. Apart from the excellency of the ordinary service, it was a red-letter day in the lives of the worshippers at Providence. In-stead of the second lesson in the evening, twenty young men and maidens stood side by side listening to the call made_by God, through the minister, and all an-swering in unison before a congregation whose eyes were filled with tears.

Quarterly Meetings. Aberavon, Port Talbot.--,Rev. J. Sydney Jones pre-

sided. Encouraging report given of Circuit. Sunday School and temperance convention recently held at Cwm-avon. , Treasurer reported a deficit of 15s. 5d., as com- pared with 14s. last quarter. War bonus for the ministers provided. The chairman announced Rev. James Hallett's acceptance of the circuit invitation to succeed Rev. R. Enroy at Caerau and Cymmer.

Accrington.—Rey. H. Parish presided over inspiring meeting. Reports, numerical, financial, and spiritual were encouraging, although there were points of regret • there-in. A grant of five guineas was made to a needy trust in a neighbouring circuit; it was also agreed to pay minister's salary monthly, but payments to circuit funds to.remain quarterly. The'circuit commences the new year in an Optimistic spirit.

Halifax North.—Rev. W. D. Gunstone presided. In-crease of 7 members. Treasurer's report satisfactory. Rev. W. D. Gunstone intimated that he would be leav-ing the circuit at the 'Conference of 1918. The meeting accepted. -with great regret the resignation of Mr. W. Wilson Sunderland as mission treasurer, after many years' service.

Rochdale (Castlemere).—Rev. C. B. Johnson pre-sided. Mr. Jos. Tweedale, of Shaw, was unanimously accepted as a fully accredited local preacher. Decrease of six members on the quarter The spiritual reports were passed as satisfactory. A committee was appointed to consider the question of liberating a minister for work in the Young Men's Christian Association huts. As this was the first meeting attended by Rev. J. Wynn, a hearty welcome was accorded to him.

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