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THE UNITED METHODIST, THURSDAY, JUNE 10th, 1915.
THE WAR A TEST OF FAITH (See below). OUR CHAPLAINS AT THE FRONT (Page 272). THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN CENTENARY (Page 273).
ARE WE REALLY HELPLESS ? (Page 276). THE
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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.
The War a Test of Faith. By T. Sunderland ... Work Among the Young. By S. C. Challenger ... Happenings ;.. Things that are being Said ... United Methodist Table Talk ... Chaplaincies and Camp Home Funds. By Henry Smith Our Chaplains at the Front ... . With the 2nd Line Northumbrian Division.
By J. Peery Davey, C.F. .,. •••
Australasian Conferences of 1915. By W. F. James •••
Sunday Afternoon ... " The Missionary Enterprise (C.E. Topie).
By T. A. Jefferies, F.L.S. The Bible Christian Centenary. By T. J. Cox ... The Chapel Committee ... The Publishing House Our Deaconesses. By Henry Smith ... Notes by the Way
. !•• ••• Sergeant Cheerful." By H. F.PoPpieton
Are we Really Helpless ? By Albert Varley Departed Friends
' Bible-Searching Competitions. By Aunt Jeanie International Lesson. By B. C. Urtvin, B.A., B.D. News of Our Churches
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The War a Test of Faith. pus European War has gift a strain upon the
varied resources of civilization. It is a test of the power of arms, the wisdom of diplomatists, the value of international agreements, and, certainly not least important, it is a test of faith. The storm proves the strength of the roots of the tree ; the fire discovers the alloy in the nugget : and this war makes clear to us whether our hold on spiritual realities is limp, or firm and unshakable. My thought- runs at the moment not so much on what Faith is, as on what it has to put up with, and yet I know the two things cannot be separated. The fightings without are in league with the faith, or the fears within. Faith in the New Testament has two main meanings ; (1) The state of mind which relies on God's truth and grace as set 'forth in Christ ; (2) The state of mind which can be relied upon to honour its obligations.
I. One test of our faith is the appearance of un-
expected peril. The worst thing that can be said against us is that we were unprepared ; that we had thought too well of human nature, imagined that we were approaching the millennium, whereas we were at the gates of hell. The cynic chuckles over the discomfiture of the pacifist, and thinks he deserves a Victoria Cross because he can say with truth, " I told you so." The outbreak of war was a disappointing, and even a terrifying surprise. The issues of a half-the,world conflict seemed so tremendous that we trembled on the brink, and feared to launch away. When things look blackest, faith has its biggest opportunity. When I had least knowledge of the resources of the Allies, I kept saying :
tingencies in military campaigns. That is only another way of saying that there is room for God to work His Sovereign will. His laws cannot be set aside by the wit or hate of man. He who says "Not My will, but Thine be done," every day sur-mounts a fear.
I I. Another test of faith is unfaithfulness. A broken
word makes others seem brittle. A sacred treaty dealt with as a scrap of paper seems to lessen the value of human understandings. Nevertheless it is better to be true than to be false. A nation that keeps its word gains far more friends than a nation that gloats over treachery. The firm adherence to our pledges both to friend and foe is a rock of safety to-day. It is the denial of a moral principle in politics which is responsible for Germany's colossal outrage on the rights of other nations. We do not expect wheat from tares, or figs from thistles ; and we are over-credulous if we expect humane treatment from a Government which pro-claims from the house-tops that morality has nothing to do with international affairs. Morality, however,, cannot be limited by rivers and forts, by this or that form of rulership, it is wide and deep as the con-science of man. When we say that we are fighting militarism, we mean that we are fighting military morality, or more correctly military immorality. There is a breath of the prophet in Carlyle when he says : "If you want a blessing on a policy, it should be a piece of God Almighty's law." The nations which have kept their word are more in line with God's law, than those nations which have used their promise to trap the unwary. The sword that 'knows no moral law, is a terror to the degree of its power.. Ah, but there is a sword of the Spirit, invisible, indestructible, by whose stroke one oppressor after another has been broken in pieces.
III.
Perhaps the severest of all tests of faith is the suffering of the innocent for the guilty. This is one of the sad facts about the world both in peace and war. We are not isolated units, but links in 'a mighty chain transmissive of influence, and there is no escape. The Rachels in all the nations concerned are mourning because their children are not. The wail of human sorrow is echoed in the uttermost parts of the earth. Carlyle, in taking Emerson through the mean streets of. London kept plying him with the question, "Do you believe in a devil the noo ? " What would he have said had he wit-nessed the scenes across the Channel ? Innocence suffering for guilt shows the terrible power of evil as nothing else. But personally I gather comfort from the thought that this principle runs' up into the Godhead. God gave His Son to suffer the just for the unjust. His way of redeeming the world from sin is by innocence suffering for guilt. There is no emancipation without struggle, no progress without pain, no greater good for a greater number, without suffering. Our inheritance of freedom has behind it a story of heroic suffering, and it looks as though we can only keep our freedom by vigilance and willing sacrifice. There is no loss without its compensation, no night without its star of hope so long as we have the assurance that our suffering for righteousness' sake, is God's suffering, too, and has at the heart of it His benediction. An indifferent God is a con-tradiction in terms, isolation for infinite love is impossible. The Cross is the outstanding event in time which shows how real and close for ever is the Divine fellowship in undeserved human suffering. This vicarious suffering in every country affected by the war has opened' up countless sources of compas-sion. There is a travail to save as well as a passion to destroy. Love has entered the congress of forces : there are irrepressible influences that help and heal. And it may be that the spirit of compassion evoked in every nation in Europe will purge the military spirit, and make the greatest war in history wellnigh the last.
T. SUNDERLAND.
"God is not dead. The wrong shall Mail, the right prevail."
The succeeding days have 'revealed to us that there are other factors in the situation than big bat-talions. The economic strength of a country is a mighty shield from the enemy. Its credit cannot be demolished like a fort by a siege gun. Our com-mercial genius counts for a great deal amid the convulsions of our day. Then unabated confidence in the loyalty of our own people is finding abundant justification. There is no one from Canada to Tasmania who wants to change the. Union Jack for any other Flag. Freedom has its dangers ; it has also its compensations. The call to arms finds a response in every part of the Empire. The supply has equalled, and so far even surpassed the demand. Enlistment has outpaced the equipment. The re-resourcefulness of a great nation engaged in righteous warfare is well-nigh limitlesS. All ex-perts freely admit that there are unforeseen con-
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THE UNITED METHODIST. June 10. 1915
Work Among the Young. Happenings. Things that are being Said. THE Young People's and Temperance League De_
partment is greatly dependent upon the personal sub-scriptions of people who are sufficiently interested •in its work to render financial help. We greatly need new names on our list. That, however, is not really what I started to say. I wanted to bear testimony to the de-votion of our helpers, and to express appreciation of their action. A letter is before me in which an old subscriber says, "I enclose half the usual amount. Through the war I am losing money, but will restore my subscription to the usual amount as soon as possi-ble." Another says, "Herewith receive P.O. 2s. 6d. Sorry no chance of increase. In fact, I am putting off the evil day of retrenchment as long as possible, but it is •bound to come, although yours will be one of the last." Bath these helpers have long rendered assistance, and are good workers in their own localities. I can only hope that better days will soon dawn for them.
In. one of the many houses in which I have been a guest for a short time I picked up a book of "Reminis-cences " by a well-known minister, and read of his early life and not very admirable conduct, and of his scepti-cism. One day he heard a sermon which led him to read the Bible, and he says, "That reading of the Word of God did more than all else to shatter my scepticism and lead me to God." It would be easy to cite many similar instances of the influence of Bible-reading, and such testimonies should make Christian people eager to increase the number of regular Bible readers. It is good to learn that the General I.B.R.A. reports an in-crease of 37 branches and 11,000 members for the year which closed in April, but it is not good to hear that in England there has been a decrease of branches and members. I am sorry to say that the returns from our own Districts show that our own section of the Associa-tion contributes to the decrease. This is very regret-table, and I shall welcome the assistance of those who read this column in bringing about a better state of affairs. Will each reader see if there is a branch of the I.B.R.A. in connection with his or her church and school, and, if there is not, take steps to form one? I shall be glad to supply all needful information and to forward cards, etc.
If those who have good opportunity of knowing the facts are to be believed this matter of Bible-reading calls for really earnest attention. A well-known preacher, not of our own Church, speaks of "our widespread and pitiful ignorance of the Word of God." Such ignorance is likely to have far-reaching issues. Sacerdotalists are making big efforts to gain adherents and 'have much, ,of the external kind, to attract attention. In former days the newly-opened Bible stood in their way and, indeed, has always been their hindrance, and to neglect the Bible is to help the sacerdotalist, while to make people familiar with its teaching is to lessen the power of the Priest, That however, is not the only matter calling for consideration. We shall again report to Conference a decrease in the number of Sunday School teachers, and we are likely to continue such reporting if Bible readers decrease in number. The Bible is the Sunday School teachers' Book, 'and unless people know and love it they are not likely to take up the work of interesting young people in its teaching. Books are pushing the Bible aside which are not so well fitted to stir the soul and purify the life, and people are spending their Sundays in much 'less profitable ways than the Sunday School opens to them. I have just been looking through the June issue of the admirable "Preacher s Magazine " and find there the following, which I commend to the attention of those who should, but do not, work in the Sunday School : "To teach a few Sunday School chil-dren, week after week, commonplace simple truths—per-severing in spite of dullness and mean capacities—is a more glOrious occupation than the highest meditations or creations of genius which edify or instruct only our own solitary soul.—ROBERTSON."
The Rev. John Fleming, the new President of the Christian Endeavour Union, is one of our ministers. I congratulate him on his appointment, and on the fine opening it gives for useful work, and I hope he will have a very happy and prosperous year. The past Presi-dent visited many of our Churches, and I have no doubt Mr. Flerfiing will 'have a similar record. I wish he could go to the many churches which have no C.E. Society, or Guild, or Class for young people: We have 2,169 schools, but our C.E.'s, Guilds, Christian Bands, Young People's Classes, etc., only number 1,188. There are also 380 C.E.'s of the junior section, but in many cases these exist alongside the Senior Section, so that a large number of churches and schools need to make better provision for their young people.
S. C. CHALLENGER.
Cheslyn Hay.—The Sunday School anniversary ser-vices were of a patriotic character, and there were crowded congregations at both services, especially in the evening, when some failed to gain admission. The special preacher was Rev. W. Stephen (of Derby), who preached two inspiring sermons. Rev. Udy Bassett {from B.E.A.) read the lesson at the evening service. The singing of the children, who had been trained by Mr. ArnoldS. Hawkins, who presided at the organ, was much enjoyed. "A prayer for 'the Empire," composed by an old scholar of the Sunday School, Mr. Raymond E. Flawkins, who is know serving with the colours, was also effectively given. The collections realized £48 9s.
—A British cheese "boom " has begun. The dairy farmers in the West of England and the Midlands are said to be making cheese day and night for the troops at the front, and it is estimated that the British Army in France and Belgium eats something like 20,000 tons of cheese a week. In parts of London 11d. a lb. is being paid for cheese which could be had at 8,1d. a lb. this time last year.
, • —Twenty-nine French aviators, who dropped 178 bombs
and also several dozen darts on the headquarters of the German Crown Prince, returned • safely, though they were heavily shelled; —British Insurance Companies have paid so far about
£80,000 in respect of "Lusitania " claims, but American Companies have suffered much more, because their policy contained no war clause. —All persons sending weekly or fortnightly parcels by •
G.P.O. to prisoners of war in Germany are asked to give to the British Red Cross Society the names of the men to whom they are sent. —Przemysl was recaptured by the Germans last Thurs-
day morning. The fort was reduced by 16in. guns, the Russians suffering from lack of ammunition. The Russians did not lose a gun nor was a prisoner taken. —Among the birthday honours was the conferring of
the Garter upon Lord Kitchener by the King. This is the sixth Order of Knighthood conferred on Lord Kitchener, in addition to the Order of Merit. —High prices and decreased consumption have led to
the shutting down of many butchers' shops, and a re-striction in the number of trading days in all parts of the country. —The House of Commons has passed an Act render-
ing unnecessary the re-election of the members of the House of Commons who accepted office under the Government during the months of May and June of this year. —Rev. J. Stuart Holden, M.A., this week assumes the
editorship of the "Christian " in consultation with Mr. G. C. Morgan, M.A., the former editor, upon whom increas-ingly responsible duties devolve as Chairman of Morga and Scott, Ltd. —Lieut. R. A. J. Warneford, R.N., attacked a Zep-
pelin in the air at 3 a.m. on Monday •morning between Ghent and Brussels at a height of about 6,000 feet, and brought it to the ground. The crew were killed and the Zeppelin destroyed. —Monday last was the hottest day in the year in. Lon-
don, the maximum shade temperature being 81 degrees. —Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, says
that returns already made to the Public Trustee as custodian show the existence in this country of
97,000,000 of property belonging to enemies. —A warm discussion on the application of compulsion
to labour took place in the House of Commons on Mon-day in connection with the Ministry of Munitions Bill. The excitement was only assuaged on the Home Secre-tary giving the House the assurance that "there is not the remotest intention to use this Bill for the conscrip-tion of labour." —It is said that members of the Cabinet, exclusive of
the Prime Minister, have decided to pool their salaries and divide the amount equally. The chief sacrifices by this arrangement are made by the Lord Chancellor whose salary is £10,000, and by Sir Edward Carson, whose salary, exclusive of fees, is £7,000. The new scheme works out at £4,246 per year per minister. —News received during the week-end of German sub-
marines' activities shows that no fewer than 21 vessels, 18 of which are British, have been sunk by them. Nearly all the vessels were small fishing craft. In every case it is reported that the crews were safely landed. —In view of representations made by the exhibitors and
buyers at the British Industrial Fair, which was held in the Royal Agricultural Hall, London, from May 10 to 21 this year, the Board of Trade have to hold another fair in London early next year.
Religion, Rituals and Non-Essentials. The world is not disgusted with religion, but with
the rituals and non-essentials in' which we have lost religion.-1TILLY SUNDAY."
A Bulwark of the State. Only the man who believes that evil is "Contained"
can be a bulwark of the State.—DR. J. SCOTT DDGETT, in the "Methodist Times."
Wanted, a Lead. Mr. Punch (to the Prime Minister) : "You can get all
the willing servicq you need, sir, if you'll only organize it.' Tell each man of us what is wanted of him, and he'll 'do it."-7," Punch."
Pessimist T. Optimist. Pessimist : "You haven't had all that you wanted in
life, have you ? " Optimist: "No; but I haven't had all that II didn't
want either."—"A Man of Kent," in the "British Weekly." The Voluntary Principle.
The voluntary principle has already accomplished such great things that it may accomplish all. What we want is that the workers at home should imitate the com-batants in the field, their conquest of fear, their con-. tempt of death, their prompt obedience to discipline.—The "British Weekly."
The Venture Well-conceived. The nation 'hopes and desires that the new Govern-
ment will conduct the -war with increased efficiency and vigour, and that it will be spared harassing attacks in-spired-lay party malice or personal antipathy. If that result is obtained, the country will pronounce the venture well-conceived.—The "Daily News and Leader."
Purposeful Indignation. The sinking of the "Lusitania" was without an• effort
to save women and children. -'I pray fervently that the great wave of pure, purposeful, and active indignation may sweep around the globe, and that even the German people themselves may rise in a stern and sacred, protest against the infamy that has been perpetrated in their narne.—DR. jOWETT. Christians and Generous Temper.
Christians should show a. more generous temper and a stricter self-discipline, despite all the provocations of the war. The devilish cruelty of which Germany has been guilty creates a great temptation to hatred and re- prisals. Christians should save the nation from the wickedness and folly of that retaliation.—The "Methodist Times." Nationality Facing both Ways.
Nationality is a Janus, facing both ways. So far as it stands for the right of a people to govern itself, it stands for freedom. 'So far as it stands for the ambition to govern other people, or to destroy them, or to shape theme• into an alien •world, it stands for domination. Throughout history it has stood for both. — MR. G. LOWES DICKINSON, in the "Atlantic Monthly."
The Only Way to Touch Them. Why a man should support a paper he condemns or
opposes I have never been' able to understand. And without the total of that man's support, plus that of hundreds of thousands like him, the paper would not exist. The despised "Nonconformist conscience " killed the seven-days-a-week paper a few years ago by a sensible boycott of the publishers. It was the only way to touch them.—" A Methodist Journalist."
Paper Pellets. Lord Northcliffe is an enterprising man ; he has created
a newspaper factory on a national scale and has re-duced to a certain family resemblance all the newspapers, large and small, plain and coloured, cheap and dear, nice and nasty, with which his name is associated. But he should keep out of public affairs, which he does not understand, and confine himself strictly to the business of which he is master.—The "Morning Post."
Keep on Guard. Let us be on our guard. We are fighting for external
liberty. We must. There is no escape from. that. We must fight to the end. For that liberty is not ours to surrender. It belongs to our children, and to the generations •to come. - But our internal liberties are also at stake, and we must take the utmost care that they are not filched from us in this day of peril.—DR. CLIFFORD. Confronting Unveiled Iniquity.
We are confronting unveiled iniquity. It is far more than a national matter to-day. It is a matter of the world, and of the ideals of life for which our Master stood ; and only as:. we stand together in prayer, unity, discipline, strength, confidence, and courage can we hope for victory. For that we do hope; for that we pray ; and, more, we are 'assured it Will come.—REV. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN, D. D.
The Late Dr. IL Grattan Guinness. • He was, in the deepest sense, the product of a godly
home. I had the privilege of knowing his father and mother, and have never forgotten the days spent under their roof 'long years ago; the memory and Inspiration of that home have been with me, and are with me still, and I trust have borne some fruit in one's ministry to the glory of God. He had a father and mother who put God first, and who prayed that all their dear ones might do the same. And so, early in life, he chose the God of his father, and yielded that young fresh heart to the Lord and straightway began to, serve Him.—REV. CHARLES INWOOD.
—The tram service is now practically normal in London. —Dr. J. H. Jowett, of New York, is advertised to
preach in London on Sunday, July 4th. —A British submarine _sank a German troopship last
week in the Sea of Marmora. —The first session of the Houses of Parliament under the
Coalition Government was held last Thursday. —The number of members of the Salvation Army serv-
ing with the colours is 15,000. —There have been riots in Ceylon and many deaths as
the result of Buddhist and Moslem disputes. —Mr. H. G. Hawker broke the British record by reach-
ing a height of 20,000 ft. (nearly four miles) in an air flight during last week-end —In France expert workmen at present at or behind. the
front are being brought back to the arsenals and muni-tion factories so as to increase *war supplies. —During the Zeppelin attacks at the week-end five
deaths were caused, •forty persons were injured, and two fires broke out. —The War Office has secured a large portion of Clap-
ham Common, including all cricket pitches, for military pwposes, and the land is being enclosed.
—An improved type of respirator as a protection against gas poisoning has been adopted by the War Office on the recommendation of a special expert committee. —Sir Stanley Buckmaster, though not yet a peer, and
therefore unable to address the House, took his seat on the wool-sack in the House of Lord last Thursday. —Lieut. the Hon. T. C. R. Agar-Robartes, Liberal M.P.
for the St. Austell Division of Cornwall, and eldest son of Viscount Clifden, is among the wounded. —Although it had already voted £960,000,000 for the
war, the French Chamber last week voted an additional ,"224,000,000. —A Military Order has been issued at Portsmouth for-
bidding public houses to open before 9 o'clock in the morning on and from Monday last. —After two and a half years existence the "Daily
Citizen," the distinguished organ of Labour in, this country, ceased its issues on Saturday last. —Ninety bombs were dropped in the Zeppelin raid in the
London area at the beginning of last week. Four lives Were lost, a few people injured, and some property damaged.
June 10, 1915. THE UNITED METHODIST. 271
United Methodist Table Talk.
NOTICE.—When Articles or Letters are signed with the writers' names or initials, or with pseudonyms the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of expression. In such instances insertion only means that the matter or the point of view is considered of :sufficient interest and importance to warrant publication. The Denominational position on any subject can of course be defined only by the Conference.
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UNITED METHODIST ROLL OF HONOUR. During the past month our Old Hetton Church, Peter-
borough, has suffered sad losses in the ranks of her young men. Private Harold Burchnell, and Northants, a member of our church and school, was killed in action on May 9th, at Aubers Ridge. His' brother, Private George Burchnell was wounded in the battle for Hill 60, and is now in• hospital at Birmingham. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Burchnell, are much respected members of our church. Private Jack Anker, also a scholar, is re-ported as missing, but from letters received from a fellow soldier it seems almost certain that our young friend died in action. Private P. D. Upex, an Old Hetton boy, who travelled from Canada to fight for his country, has also been invalided to a Leicester hospital, suffering with a poisoned foot. On Sunday last, Rev. F. Hanesworth conducted an impressive service to the memory of Harold Burchnell, whose godly life has left an indelible im-pression in the minds of all who were privileged to know him.
* * * * * Rev. H. C. Putt writes in regard to his brother,
Private Edwin John Putt : Those who knew my brother will like to know he was as brave and cheery in death as he was in life. Though subjected to terrible barbarity he never gave in—but, as was his wont, set his face like a flint to fight a good fight. At 5 a.m. Sunday, May 9th, a comrade-in-arms came across him during a move back-wards. In the forward move he had been wounded in the back and arm. The comrade,- whose hand I am eager to grasp, bound up his wounds and left his water-bottle, saying, "Try to crawl to a trench, and we'll come for you." The comrade was then called to duty. Later they found my brother and helped 'him to a dug-out, awaiting the arrival of the moment for the ambulance to come. But the German counter-attack developed with such violence and success that those left had to retreat step by step, fighting for dear life, leaving all wounded behind. The enemy swarmed into the trenches and bayoneted the wounded, and the sight and the cries still haunt the brave heroes who had done what they could to prevent it. My brother's last words to his comrade were, "Dick, boy, I'll try and bear the pain like a soldier." And to those of us who knew and loved him, his words will be a call to the heroic.
* * * * * MANCHESTER YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEMONSTRA-
TION. The Manchester Young People's Demonstration will be
held on Saturday, September 25th, in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. The chairman will be Mr. Robert Tootill, M.P., Bolton, and the speakers Rev. J. H. James, M.A., B.Litt., B.D., Burnley ; Rev. Wm. Madgen, Shrewsbury, and Mr. T. R. Blumer, J.P., Sunderland.
* * * * * A MESSAGE THAT FITS TO-DAY.
The following quotation from President Lincoln appears in an article by Mr. A. P. Nicholson, in the "Contemporary " :
"Gentlemen, suppose all the property you are worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara Falls on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him : Blondin stand up a little straighter ; Blondin, stoop a little more ; go a little faster ; lean a little more to the north ; lean a little more to the South? ' No : you would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safe over. The Government are carrying an immense weight. Untold treasures are in their hands. They are doing the very best they can. Don't badger them."
The words contain a singularly apt message for to-day. * * * * *
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR LOCAL PREACHERS. For several years a summer school for local preachers
has been held at Cliff College. The war conditions of this year bring special difficulties to the young men who have usually attended. Many have enlisted. Others are needed for the work of the nation. No man engaged on work in any way connected with munitions and transport can be spared. Some, however, will be able to spare the week, and the school will be held from July 3rd to 12th next. All local preachers and local preachers "on trial" are eligible to attend. Enquiries should be made to the Principal, Rev. S. Chadwick, Cliff College, Calver, via Sheffield.
* * * * * REV; JOHN. YOUNG.
Rev. John and Mrs. Young are very grateful to the many friends who have written letters of condolence and sympathy. The letters have brought refreshment and comfort. Mrs. Young has endeavoured to reply person-ally, but if any have not received an acknowledgment she asks that it may be attributed to the great pressure the bereavement and illness have involved, not to laCk of appreciation of the comforting messages. There has been but little improvement in the condition of Mr. Young, and absolute quiet is-necessary as supplying the possibility of comparative restoration.
PERSONAL. Mr. Henry Alan Bowker, sod of the Rev. J. H.
Bowker, of Leeds, has been appointed to a Second-Lieut-enancy in the 13th Service Battalion of the West York-shire Regiment. He is a member of the Tong Road Church, and has filled the offices of Sunday School
ry teacher, assistant school secretary, and church missionary secretary.
Rev. H. C. Putt writes : "Will you please 'allow me, on behalf of my father and mother and the rest of our family, to thank all the friends 'who have sent us such comforting and inspiring messages? The blow is heavy, but we pray the sorrow may be consecrated to us and this life-giving accepted as part of the travail that makes His Kingdom come."
Rev. W. H. Gregory writes : "Will you permit me to express, through the medium of your paper, our heart-felt appreciation of the kindness and sympathy shown to us by our friends in the great loss we have sustained by the death of our dear son Sydney Maurice? It would be quite impossible to reply to each separately much as we would like to do so."
* * * * * CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
Rev. Jas. E. Arnold, Prixford Cottage, Marwood, Barnstaple, North Devon.
* * * * *TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A RAMBLING VISITOR.—Letter received. F. W.—Thank you for your letter, expressing such
warm appreciation of the articles by Revs. W. Hall and R. W. Green in last week's issue.
Women's Missionary Auxiliary. Salisbury.—•A largely,attended public meeting has been
held under the auspices of the W.M.A. Mrs. Warren presided, and among those supporting her were Lady HOsie and Rev. G. W. Sheppard, Ningpo, China. The chairman recalled that a week previously she had at-tended a great missionary meeting in London and had the pleasure of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Soothill, of China, on the platform. Their only daughter, as some of them knew, was Dorothea Soothill, now the wife of Sir Alex-ander Hosie, who probably knew more about China than anyone else. She had pleasure in asking Lady Hosie to address them. Lady Hosie followed with a charac- teristically charming address, graphically descriptive of the life and superstitions of the Chinese. In the view of the natives, our guns and modern science had driven away the "spirits" and it fell to the lot of the Christian Church to see that the spiritual was retained. Mrs. Hall presented her annual report, the main facts of which have already been set out in the report of the District Meeting. It was sometimes asked what the Women's Missionary Auxiliary was doing, and she therefore thought it well to state that they had four lady mis-sionaries, fourteen Bible meetings, five classes for girls, Classes for women, women's wards in hopitals, and were further responsible for general medical work among the Women and children. Rev. G. W. Sheppard set out to answer the question : What are the tangible results of the missionary work in China? There had been vast political changes in China, 'but greater than these was the change of outlook in the people as a whole. The face of the Chinese, as much as ours, was now turned towards the future and this great change was one of the definite results of missionary work. The speaker emphasized the importance of the mission's hospital work and claimed that the mission schools had set the pace in a new national system of education. The Chinese formerly had no girls' schools. .They did not think it necessary 'or desirable that girls should be educated. But the mission girls' schools had led the way in a new idea of womanhood—a new place for women in the home in the national life. Collections, etc., £10.
The Y.M.C.A. in 'the Camps. THE report presented at the half-yearly meeting of the
National Council of the Y.M.C.A.'s showed that there are now about one thousand centres established in various parts ftihe British Empire and in France. Just behind the trenches in France there are 200 workers co-operat- ing in the fifty-three centres. In Egypt, Australian, American and British Y.M.C.A. secretaries are 'assisting in united and' co-ordinated work that is proving of the greatest 'benefit to our troops. As soon as our soldiers land in India they have found that the Y.M.C.A. has prepared a Warm welcome of the greatest encouragement to the men.
Mr. A. K. Yapp, the General Secretary, gave in his admirable report a fine story of faithful work by hun-dreds of men and women who in the spirit of self-sacri-fice have laboured unceasingly for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the soldiers. In no case is there the slightest indication 'of anything but the keenest welcome from officers and men alike. By wise tact a valuable religious ministry has been exercised with the warm appreciation. and sympathy of the men. -
Mr. Yapp reminded the Council that the possibilities are boundless, and as a consequence fresh workers and more money are urgently needed.
Quarterly Meeting. Long Eaton.—Rev. A. C. George in the. chair. The
meeting heard' with regret of the removal of Mr. T. H. Stoddart to Manchester. Mr. Stoddart, who was circuit secretary since 1904, succeeded 'his father, who had been secretary from 1894. A resolution thanking him for his services and 'wishing him great success and happiness in Manchester was unanimously passed. The treasurer re-ported a satisfactory (balance in hand. The tone of the meeting was excellent.—Successful school anniversaries have been held at Beeston and Bramcote. F'eac'hers, Mr. Casson and Rev. A. C. George.
Chaplaincies and Camp Homes Fund.
TWENTY - THIRD LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS,
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Our Connexional Literature. In connection with the business dealt with at the
Liverpool and North Wales District Meeting the Secretary writes :—
" It is felt that our own People should be urged to become subscribers to this (THE UNITED METHODIST) amongst the other religious papers they patronize. It is a most useful and interesting paper, and I have no doubt that an enlarged circu-lation would mean a still more helpful periodical.
" There is also our monthly Magazine (3d.) which is certainly deserving of very much larger support. It is well got up, tasteful in its matter,' and well worth its price. I have taken it for years, and it grows in value.
"Then our people, particularly our young, friends, should take that admirable production, full of in-teresting and inspiring matter, The Missionary Echo.' A wider circulation would mean a greatly increased interest in Missionary work, a very much larger and fuller knowledge, both of our Mission-aries and the conditions under which they live and labour, and also of the results of those labours."
Opening of Our New Hut. AT long last, and after many delays and disappoint-
ments of one kind and another, I am able to announce that the opening of our new Camp Home at Bramshott will take place on Wednesday afternoon of next week, June 16th, at 4 o'clock. We are expecting a good time. Provision, I understand, is being made in this camp for 10,000 troops, and ours is the only denominational Camp Home yet provided. The Y.M:C.A. has four huts, and they are so crowded night by night that the officials and workers warmly welcome our coming to relieve the strain, and 'to help give adequate attention to the soldiers' needs. We hope that some of our London friends will be present. 'Mr. W. Mallinson, J.P., who is so well-known in the District will perform the opening ceremony. It is expected that an officer will be in the chair. Will our readers pray that the opening of this but may prove an unbounded 'blessing it the soldiers in every way?
Provision of Games. For the recreative side of our Camp Home life we
want a great number of games of different kinds, but, very especially, we are in want of two bagatelle boards. I imagine that in many homes there are these boards laid aside, not used from one year's end to another, and a bit of a nuisance to the good housewife because they need dusting and keeping spick and span. If friends who have no use for their bagatelle boards would kindly give them to us for the use of the soldiers, or loan them to us, we should be grateful. Will those who can help us in regard to these boards, or to any other games, please communicate direct with our minister who is in charge of the hut, Rev. J. C. Sweet, The. Manse, Liphook, Hants? He will be grateful for all the help that can be given to him.
New Chaplains. We have recently nominated three more chaplains for
the front—Private Rev. Frank Farirfax, of the West Yorks Regiment, Rev. G. E. Minnear and Rev. W. Field. Mr. Minnear expects to report himself at Shore-ham on Wednesday of' this week and to commence his work at once. About the same time Rev. William Field will join the 94th Infantry Brigade now stationed , at Cannock Chase. Will friends who have sons or brothers or others in whom they are interested in camp either at Shoreham or Cannock Chase please communicate with either Mr. Minnear or Mr. Field? Letters addressed to them at the Camp in either place will be sure to find them. By the time these lines are read I expect that Mr. Fairfax will have received notice of his appointment. It will have taken longer to get the appointment through because it involves his formal transfer from the West Yorks Regiment to the Chaplaincies Department. Two or three days ago we made another nomination, this time for a Territorial division which is to go to the Front, and I hope to be able to announce the name of the minister appointed next week.
The communications from our chaplains at the Front and at home, found in another column, will be read with deep interest.
" Officiating Clergyman." I shall be glad to hear from any United Methodist
minister who has not, sent me word about his appoint- ment as an "Officiating. Clergyman." I thank those, from whom I have already heard.
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A Good Week for Our Fund. Circuits, churches, C.E. and other organizations have
served us admirably during the past week. The remarkable oontributions from concerts held in connection with the Forest Gate and Walthamstow Circuit and the King's Cross Church will be noted ; as also the helpful gifts from Mapplewell, Stockton, Paddock, .Cornsay Port Isaac and St. Agnes. We are grateful also for the personal gifts which we have received and should dearly like to see them. multiplied. Will our friends that can help please to help us speedily? It is very desirable to get the 4'2,000 we require raised as speedily as possible, and this is a case in which he that helps at once, helps twice. HENRY SMITH.
25 Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth Common, London, S. W.
Our Chaplains at the Front I.
BY REV. H. D. ALLEN, C.F. We have recently had a large number of Canadian's in
the hospital, and amongst them I discovered many Methodists, their beaming eyes and bright faces showed they were equally pleased to meet me, one often remark-ing, "You are the first Methodist chaplain we have met, sir," They had not previously met any chaplain other than of the Church of England. It was Sunday, so we held a service in the middle ward, the doors of the other wards being thrown wide open that all might hear and take part so far as the nature of their wounds would allow. Imagine the scene, about 200 wounded men lying on stretchers—we have no beds, but the wounded are made as comfortable as circumstances permit—some lying prone and unable to move, others raised on one elbow, some sitting up, but all seemingly enjoying the brief service. While the service was proceeding I sent to my billet for the communion set, and on the conclusion of the service, the holy sacrament was administered to all who desired to partake. Amongst the number was a French soldier—a fever case—whom I had been able to help in various little ways during the week. He, too, de-sired to have the Sacrament. I was also privileged to hold a heart-to-heart talk with several of the men.
Yesterday I received a letter from Lance-Corporal of the R.H.C., 5th Black Watch, 1st Canadian
Division, who is now in hospital at Canterbury. , In the course of his letter he said—" It is only a week since I first met you, and since then I have thought of you often. I am pleased to tell you the wound in my left leg is healing up nicely I suppose, sir, that you know that I am a sinner, and I am going to ask you to kindly pray for me, for I know that I am not on the right road tq heaven. I was converted in my younger days, and I know what it is to have Christ in the heart, but I 'feel as if I cannot do the thing on my own, and therefore, I write to you .asking you to ask our God to forgive me once more."
This letter, from which I quote, is but a sample of the requests I have had from various men. I am thank-ful to say I have been able to get into close and intimate touch with many, and I think have succeeded in direct-ing their thoughts into a nobler channel' and towards a higher life. One cannot force confession from men ; if they give it, it is entirely of their own free will, and with the hope of guidance and help. That the men need spiritual direction and stimulus, tactfully and sym- pathetically given, no one who has been in close touch with them can doubt. Away from the restraints of home life, in an atmosphere less pure than that oI the home land, in a country where the moral standard is lower, and certain practices condoned or viewed indif-ferently by the populace, evil influences get a chance at men they never had to the same extent before. So here is a magnificent opportunity for the chaplains to help their brothers to play the man.
, I celebrated my birthday here the other day by watch-ing a battle. It was a magnificent sight. I was with a small group of officers standing on a low ridge of hills commanding the field of Festubert. Around us the heather was lying in the glow of earliest summer. The gorse was all ablaze with a golden glory, a glorious sight, looking like a sea of flame. The bees were buzzing all around the blossoms of the wild ; their con-tinuous humming, a pleasant, cheerful sound, and the melodious fluting of the birds, were the only sounds that spoke of peace.
I found myself repeating, half aloud, the lovely lines— "A haze on the far horizon,
The infinite tender sky, The ripe, rich tints of the cornfield,
And the wild goose sailing high,
And all over upland and meadow The charm of the golden-rod.
Some of us call it Nature, And others call it—God."
A few shells whistled overhead, a high explosive shell scattered its bullets around; one of our horses is stricken and begins pawing and snorting and plunging about, and so we are forcibly reminded that below us and not far away a grim struggle is proceeding. Our artillery has violently bombarded the German trenches for several hours. The noise was terrific, and the battlefield a mass of bursting shells, everything for a time being en-veloped in smoke. After the bombardment ceased, and the air 'had cleared, the German trenches were seen to be blown to bits. Some of our big guns were brought up into the firing line and fired point blank at the enemy. They were killed in great number and ran away in hun-dreds. In one communication trench they ran up the white flag and many prisoners were taken. They looked scared to death and glad indeed to be taken aliVe. The Canadians, accompanied by several British regiments, repeatedly charged trench after trench, shouting as they raced across, "Vengeance for Lusitania."
Chatting afterwards with one of the Canadians he said to me in his own quaint way, "Their infantry are no good at all when they have to ,face us with the bayonet. They throw down their arms and cry, ' Mercy, Kam ara d.' On our left flank we drove them right back into a village and hand-to-hand fighting took place. There were hundreds of helmets, bayonets, rifles, and pieces of their equipment lying about, but, of course, we couldn't lumber ourselves with anything like that, so contented ourselves with a good feed on their sausages, bacon, chocolate, and a go at their cigars, tobacco, and goodness knows what else. One German officer, an old man, gave me a box of cigars. I believe he thought I was going to set about him, and he gave them to me to put me off it. I had no intention of touch-ing him, as he looked in bad enough condition without me laying into him. He belonged to the 27th Bavarian Regiment, and that mob had the biggest tanning they'd ever had, and they had no stomach to fight any more."
1st Casualty Clearing House, B.E.F., France:
II. BY REV. G. F. WALTERS, C.F.
On Thursday last Mr. Wallett and I joined our respec- tive Field Ambulances, and went under canvas. On Friday the Colonel told me I had been transferred•that day to another F.A. Later in the day I received orders to pack up as we were leaving in the morning for "some-where."
Concerning the journey, when and how we were trans-ported, where we now are and where we expect to he I am forbidden to say. Suffice it to say that according to report we have had a few hours not free from danger. We have already been travelling. 36 hours, and have 18 or 20 still before us ere we stop again. What will happen then I don't know.
One of my great regrets is that Mr. Wallett did not come along
Monday. us. I understand he is to leave Eng-
land on onday. I hope we shall meet over here. Since I joined him he has been a dear friend to me. I am hoping that we shall do some good service together. I am having my first real experience of war censorship. I wrote you a long article, descriptive of the journey up till now, but the Censor says I cannot send it.
Now I must go and get some tea as we are start off presently.
P.S.—Any communication may be addressed to me-36th Field Ambulance, 35th Infantry Brigade, 12th Divi-sion, France (or elsewhere). Per G.P.O., London.
With the 2nd; Line Northumberland Division.
BY REv. J. PENRY DAVEY, C.F.
THIS week 'has been exceptionally busy ; troops have been transferred from camp to camp and from buildings to canvas. This has meant that much of my work' has been disorganized, and services have to be re-arranged according to place and convenience in new camps.
We had a fine new parade at Cramlington camp last Sunday. Attached to our own division in this place is a large contingent of the new army, and these men have joined ours for service on Sunday mornings. Also attached to our division is the 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's L.I. With this battalion are 57 declared United Methodists. If any of our good friends in Corn-wall have some relatives in the above, I shall be pleased to look them up. These men are parading on Sunday at the U.M. Church, Waterloo Road, Blyth. In this dis-trict there are four battalions of N.F., including large numbers of United Board men. This is the first time I have come into touch with these men, but now parades and preachers are arranged for each camp, where it is impossible for the men to attend a church service. , The advantage in having the men under canvas is that two and sometimes three Brigades can parade together. I have a difficulty sometimes in arranging for the service ; the various camps are a long distance apart, and in some places we have no minister of the United Board near enough to take the service. I try and arrange the time of service so that it may be possible for me to take two and often three parades on a Sunday. morning. But the distance is often too great to enable me to do as much as I would like. As it is, I often walk five and six miles between services, and that takes time.
Altogether we have fourteen parade services in the Division every Sunday morning. A few of these have small attendance, but the majority have a very fine attendance.
We are trying in some of the camps to get the men for a week-night meeting. I have little difficulty, in getting the men together for a concert or entertain-
ment of any kind. But to get them to a purely religious meeting is quite another thing.
I ought to have been under canvas this week, but there. is a very great shortage of tents. Many of the men are sleeping in recreation tents, and in two places at least the officers' mess tent is used to sleep in. How long it will be before I shall go I do not know.
Large numbers of wounded have again arrived in New-castle. It is terrible to see these poor fellows shattered and broken, and prayer with me becomes more insistent that this war shall be the end of war amongst Christian nations. To see these men is to hate the vile thing that has'so broken them.
Would friends when sending comforts to wounded relatives through me, kindly state hospital, and, if pos-sible, ward? Some of the parcels received this week have been delayed in consequence of this not being stated. Perishable goods I do my best to deliver immediately, subject, of course, to whether the patient is fit to partake of the dainties. Twice a week we hold service in oneof the wards of the 1st Northern Hospital, and to these men a brief word is spoken and a few hymns sung, the whole service is over in half an hour, but they look for-ward to this service with great eagerness. Men who have lived for months in the presence of death, have learned where to put their trust.
St. Margaret's, Osborne Road,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The Late Mr. Arthur A. Shaw. Rev. Frank Fairfax writes": Will you allow me to add a brief tribute to your
obituary notice of our lamented brother, Arthur Shaw? I wish to pay homage to a faithful and beloved friend, a man whose splendid gifts and charm of character greatly helped to enrich one's own life.
He had so many interests and achieved so much that one could never realize he was so young. He was only just thirty. , If we were tramping the moors he would point out the course of prehistoric glaciers, kindling in a companion something of his own scientific enthusiasm. Or he would discuss literature or drama, which he fol-lowed with discrimination. Or he would convulse one with lively anecdotes. He would argue a thing through, whether in a meeting or in ..personal conversation, with thoroughness and warmth, but his temper never seemed to fail ; his fine urbanity and cheerfulness were miracu-lbu.s in dispelling rancour. and gloom.
Politically he was Labour. But his social idealism was bigger than any party programme. It was part of his Christian ideal. He had an almost fierce passion for justice. His love for men took nobly practical forms. Whether teaching, or lecturing to a young men's class, or conducting a missionary study circle, or in his gener-ous treatment `of his friends, or in his devotion to his home, he seemed to do all in singleness of purpose and forgetfulness of self. He loved a 'revolutionary hymn like Carpenter's "England, Arise ! " or "The Red Flag," He loved equally that victorious passage of St. Paul's commencing, "Who shall separate us from the love 'of Cluist?" And his life was one of unquestioning faith. Into one's sorrow, as light streaming into an engulfing darkness, come those simple words of old : "He is not here. He is risen."
—The Central Board for the control of the drin1c traffic in war areas is to be presided over by Lord D'Abernon (formerly Sir Edgar Vincent). Among the members are Sir William Lever, Bart., Major Waldorf Astor, M.P., Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., and Mr. John Hodge, M.P., Labour Members, also Mr. W. Towle, recently Manager of Hotels, Mid-land Railway. There were also representatives of the Home Office and the Admiralty. —An analysis of the Census figures' shows that the
number of men in England and Wales between 18 and 40 years of age is 6,513,938. Between the ages of 18 and 39, inclusive the number in Scotland is 803,434 men and in Ireland 735,707—making a total of 8,053,079 men of fighting age in the United Kingdom. Two million men of all ages are engaged in the manufacture of war munitions.
Camp Homes for United Methodist Soldiers.
Amount Required £2,000 Amount Received up
to June 7th - 953 STILL NEEDED - £1,047
WHO WILL HELP US TO REACH OUR GOAL ?
Rev. HENRY SMITH; Secretary,
25 Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth Common, S.W.
, [For details see pi. 271.]
June '10, 1915.
Sunday Afternoon. THE RESTFUL HEART.
" I will glie you rest " (Matt. xi. 28). THE heart of the English people is "heavy laden " in
these days. A burden lies upon it which cannot be put away by exciterrient, pleasure-seeking, worldly comfort. In vain are these usual methods of relief tried. All day, in wakeful hours of the night, the weight of the war presses on the spirit. And more disquieting than any other anxiety is the unconfessed burden of personal estrangement from 'God : many hearts are restless be-cause they do not rest in Him for whom they are created. Amid all this unrest Christ stands with His gracious promise of rest, rest here, rest now, and not alone in heaven.
It is rest from every kind of unrest. Whether our bur-den is one of conscious sin, or anxiety, or bereavement, or loss of dear ones, or disappointment, or personal weakness, Christ offers to ease our hearts of their load. Christ "Comforts all sorrows, gives salvation to the weary, the afflicted, the sick, to sinners, to all that ,suffer in heart, in: conscience, and in body." • • s
If sin be your burden, Christ offers you pardon. He dissolves the heart-crushing load by His forgiving grace. At the vision of His cross the burden falls off our shoulders, and "is shut down into Christ's sepulchre." In Chet beginning of the Christian life and to our last moment we find rest from the weight of guilt as we believe "He loved me and gave Himself for me."
"In that moment He manifested Himself to me so that I could lay hold of Him as my Saviour, and showed me that it is only the blood of Christ which eleanseth us from all sin. This NVais ten- years since; and from that hour I have not had one doubt of my acceptance. Yet I have not had any 'transports of joy, nor had I when He thus revealed Himself to me : only I well remember that manifestation. of Himself was like a cool, refreshing wind to one that is fainting away with sultry heat. And ever since my soul has been sweetly at rest, desiring no other portion in earth or. heaven." —W. NEISSER, in Wesley's Journal. • Christ has an anodyne for every grief : He can fill
every troubled heart with consolation. Dr. James Chapman suffered prostrating affliction through many years; but he carried his heavy load patiently and cheer-fully, never doubting the love of God. His final testi-mony was : "I die without a care on my mind, or*a fear in my heart : my trust is in the enduring mercies."
Soul rest is obtained by coming to Christ—" Come unto Me." Nowhere else can we gain it. Friends, books, change of scene, amusements will all fail us. We are to turn away from all these and come to Christ. If we ask Him believingly He will lift the burden from our heart, or, if not so, will give us a patient, restful spirit beneath it. "Llonely Valleys are quiet; pleasant, cool, shady, full of sweet waters. With their many trees and the song of birds they give great refreshment and delight to our spirit, and there is coolness and rest in the soli-tude and silence. Such a valley is my Beloved to me." --ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS.
When the heart is weary, Weary with the strife :
When the spirit fainteth, Fainteth for the Life :
When toy courage faileth, And all hope bath died :
Turn thee, weary pilgrim, To the Crucified.
When the gourd you've tended Hastens to decay,
Every longing cherished Fading day by day :
When the loves that...blessed you - Wrecked around you lie, To the love of Jesus
Turn thee wearily. Christ gives rest. His boon of the tranquil heart is
a free gift, as we 'may give a flower to some poor sick person.' The comfort He bestows comes to us in the gift of the Comforter, His Holy Spirit. That Spirit He is more ready to grant than we are to give good gift's to our children. "I will give you rest"•, there is no doubt of our success if we apply to Him.—A Class Leader, in "Experience."
The Lord Jesus gives to His people a priceless casket called the gift of rest : it is set with brilliants and inlaid with gems, and the substance thereof is of wrought gold : whosoever possesses it feels and know that his sin is pardoned. After a while the happy owner begins to examine his treasure. It is all his own, but he has not Yet seen it all : for one day he detects a secret drawer, he touches a hidden spring, and, lo ! before him lies a priceless Koh-i-noor surpassing all the rest. It had been given him, it is certain, but he had not seen it at first, and therefore he "finds" it. Jesus Christ gives .us in the gift of Himself all the rest we can ever enjoy ; even heaven's rest lies in Him. But after we have received Him, we have to find out by the teaching of the Spirit the fullness of the rest which He bestows.--C. FI. SPDRGEON.
Was it not true of John Wesley that for many years, in his later life, he abode in the Sabbath rest that re-m. aineth for the people of God? Through all his many journeys he carried and wore the white rose of rest. Nothing irked him, nothing disturbed him. He was at peace.—W. R. NIc0LL.
THE UNITED METHODIST.
The Missionary Enterprise BY REV. T. A. JEFFERIES, F.L.S.
3. THE ACTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
MATT. XXVIII. 16-20 ; ACTS I. 8.
(C.E. Topic for June 20th.)
The S.P.C.K. THE Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge is
the oldest of the religious associations connected with the Anglican Church.' It was founded in 1698 t6 pro-mote schlools at home, and to disperse Bibles, religious tracts, and Christian knowledge generally in all parts. It has steadily pursued these objects, Mainly within the bounds of the British Empire, its wide aim making it partake at once of the- nature of an educational associa-tion, a missionary society, a Bible society, a tract society, and an emigrants' spiritual +aid society. Though mis-sions were not the chief object of its foundation it has directly and indirectly promoted missionary work 'abroad to a large extent. The Protestant missionaries who la-boured in the South of India in the eighteenth century were supported -by 'this Society, and it now supplies a large amount of needful religious literature in native languages to missionaries in many parts.
The. S.P.G. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel is
-another Church of England Association which came into existence in 1701 "for the religious instruetion of the Queen's -subjects beyond the seas . . and for the propagation of the Gospel in those parts." Its original aim therefore was tb keep British settlers from becoming heathen, but from the first it sought to use its oppor-tunities by working among the native races in the lands to which Englishmen had emigrated, and in 1821 it be-'came definitely missionary by taking up missions to the natives in India. Last year the S.P.G. had 364 mis-sionaries in Asia, 308 in Africa, 34 in Australia and the Pacific, 175 in Canada and Newfoundland, 78 in the West Indies, Central and South America, and 19 chap-lains in Europe. These number 978 and include ten bishops ; other workers in the field bring the total of the Sbciety's representatives up to 1,366.
The C.M.S. Among the Anglicns, however, the association which
is devoted directly to missionary work among the heathen is the Church Missionary Society founded, as a -result of the missiOnary enthusiasm -kindled by Carey, in 1799. Its first candidate for the work was Henry Martyn, who subsequently went to India, not-as a mis-sionary, but as a chaplain. At the present time it is a 'striking fact that the first missionaries sent out -by the C.M.S. were Melchior Renner, of Wurtemberg, and Peter Hartwig, a Prussian, who went out in 1804. The first English missionaries were William Hall, a joiner, and John King, shoemaker '(1809). The Society began operatibn-s in the Susu 'country, West Africa.
The fields of activity now nominally held by the C.M.S. are as follows : India : Punjab and N.W. Fro.n-tier, Bombay Presidency, United and Central Provinces, Bengal and Bihar, the Madras Presidency, and Hill Tribes. (The Society spends one-third of its income on India.) West Africa .: Sierra Leone, Southern and Northern Nigeria. East and Central Africa : British and German East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan. Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, and Persia. Ceylon a.nd Mauritius. N.W. Canada and British Columbia. In many of these areas there are great tracts of unoccupied territbry, especially in Africa.
As a' result of the work of the C.M.S. native churches have been formed, self-supporting and all but independ-ent, in—to take Africa as a sample--Sierra Leone, Lag6s, the Niger Delta, and Uganda. Of baptized ad-herents there are now about 208,000 in India, 1.2,000 in South China, 90,000 in Uganda, and 7,500 in Japan, with a total on the Society's lists exceeding 372,000. Uganda in 1893 'contained 1,140 baptized converts, in 1912 they numbered over 83,000.- From 1850-1860 South China (Fukien) prothiced no converts ; there are now over 10,000. Up to 1912, 86 natives had become ordained clergy, and•five had been consecrated as bishops. The C.M.S. has established no fewer than 2,904 schools and colleges, and done something toward's giving a Christian eduCation to tens of thou-sands of young n-a-fives. Medical mission hospitals have also been erected in the chief centres of their work. The missionaries of this society include many noble men, amongst whom we may mention Henry Martyn, Bishop Hannington, and Alexander Mackay.
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The Bible Christian Centenary.
BY Ray. T. J. Cox.
WHY a Centenary of the Bible Christian Church? Because it commemorates the call of simple men to high service ; the facts of the Christian consciousness for all time ; the love, self-surrender and sacrifice which are the conditions in the world of spirit, and the forces by which homes and villages are converted, and new ideals are cherished by one generation which shine in the eyes, pulse in the blood and work out new results in the generations that have followed. Surely this is its apology and its way of approach. There is nothing to dazzle about the "Centenary," but much to captivate the imagination, stir the soul, and appeal to all that is purest and strongest in Christian memory, church traditions, and .the Divine truths by which such things continue and get reborn. As we think of William O'Bryan, James Thorne, J. Hicks Eynon, William Reed, F. W. Bourne, James Way, John Dymond, and the host of sainted men who shine upon the pages of Mr. Bourne's immortal. book, and form the links in the "'Golden Chain " of Mr. Pyke's reverent effort, we learn anew that, "the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him," that "if we love one another God dwelleth in us."
There is a charm about this Centenary. It has such a power of appeal. It wraps up so much in effort, in service, in revelation and in holy remembrance. As we think of the "years that have gone," we have a vision of the things that remain. As we think of the men, we think of the terms of spiritual power. As we dwell upon the scenes of their consecrated toil, they assure us that by sacrificing life we find it. These men of the inward life recognised the Divine Love, and as the "cold heart " of William O'Bryan became warm and glowed with love born of love, a new spirit was created and a new move-ment began its course. Is not this a law in the spiritual. world? Is it not true that as a new love enters the heart of a man, a new thing is created, a new voice is heard, a new sigh is felt, and a new atmosphere envelopes a dry and barren land? As we read 'The Acts," The Bible Christian FIistory, we are instinctively back to the morning of Christianity, when the Church was a centre of radiant and radiating life, warm, rich, "tender even yet," when men and tribes and nations heard the joy notes of the Gospel, each in the tongue wherein he was born.
We associate with the origin of the Bible Christian Church a great revival. The victorious might of the infant church in Palestine, and at "Lake Farm," lay not in its dogmas, but in its fellowship with the Living Christ. The heroic motives, the strong and glad enthu-siasm, the softening and transfiguring influences were in the fellowship not open to debate.
The secret of William O'Bryan and James Thorne was in a more vivid, a revived sense of the love of God in Christ, an unveiling of the might of prayer, of personal faith in God as the most vital and practical- force among men, of the hope which kindles sympathy with struggling men, and the tenderness by which strangers become brothers of a common cause. The fruit of the labours of the men whose names will be heard from many a pulpit in 1915, is found in larger hearts, richer service, generous aid to mission work, a keener sense of educa-tion, sanitation and common good. If the divine origin of a thing is in its healthy operation, its pure motives, its deepening of the springs of personal and collective life, then "Lake Farm " will stir the souls of men for years to come. No one need be told what Wesley did for England, rescuing it from something like a French Revolution, cleansing its soul and purifying its speech : but we may need to hear of "the living water which flowed through 'Devonshire, making its waste places beautiful." As we -review the succession of the genera-tions in quiet Christian work, in Bideford, Chulmleigh, Barnstaple, and St. Austell, we have to say with F. W. Bourne : "No incident in the whole compass of Church history in which there is seen less of man and more of God." No enormous irruption into Devonshire was led by the men of- yore, but a divine life which vindicates itself in moral energy, mental insight, Christian firm-ness, and in that abiding all good things advance. They dwelt in "tents," but longed for settledness. Their chil-dren dwell in cities and long may their loyalty to great names, srreat symbols of Church life continue.
We United • Methodists may wonder at the joyfulness of this '" Centenary movement." Had we something to correspond we should leap with enthusiasm. Well, if we have no such "names,' "such traditions," we have names and traditions which we and the hearts of our children will bear high for the sanity, the chivalry, the love of liberty which they had and made precious and invincible, we shall unite our souls with their souls.
We feel our identity with these men in God. In the Divine consciousness we too live and move and have our being. It makes us reverent. It fills the heart with humbleness. We win anew a compassion for men : and we catch sight of the peak's and mountain sides that
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elevate and enlarge as we look back over the reonerations t that are gone. It is h th God e ought of our father's that in-
dividualizes us, and fills us with spirit and aim. As we think steadily of God, all external things grow pale, and we stand in relation to each other, not as sectional men, but men at different stages, at different angles, in vary-ing relationships, and feel anew that stream of life which makes the service of one generation the joy and praise of the next. And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father." It is a glorious work to carry on in new forms and by differing methods the work of the fathers; and the joy of all is, that the sons have the same well-springs of faith and hope and love.
The Chapel Committee. WE shall not soon forget our visit to Mansfield, on
June 3rd and 4th. Most of the brethren arrived on the Wednesday evening, in time to be present at an organ recital by Prof. Firmin Swinnen, of Antwerp Cathedral, Willa is now a refugee in this country. Our new and beautiful church was crowded with appreciative hearers, who greatly enjoyed the feast of music provided by the gifted ed professor.
The Committee met on Thursday morning under the chairmanship of Dr. Packer. There was a good attend-ance—the only absentees being the President, who was unavoidably detained ; Lieut.-Col. Butler, J.P., absent through military duties ; and Messrs. J. G. Watson, H. T. Goddard, and M. G. Burgess, through indisposition. Rev. J. H. Burkitt was appointed minute secretary.
A resolution was moved by Rev. A. Chadwick record. ing our high appreciation of the able and faithful service of the late Rev. C. T. Wakefield, who was a valued member of this Committee; and also expressing our deepest sympathy with his widow and daughter.
The number of applications for grants land loans was smaller than usual, probably due to the postponement of many special efforts on account of the War. The Com-mittee gave careful and sympathetic consideration to each application, and the recommendations made were as generous as the Funds permitted.
The Secretary, in presenting the balance sheets was able to announce that the Chapel Fund showed a balance in the Bank of £1,242 6s. 2d. ; while the Guarantee Fund surplus Made it possible for £635 to be Voted to the Chapel Fund, and a similar amount to the Annuity and Auxiliary Fund.
The following were appointed members of the Plans and Sites Committee : The Secretary and Treasurer, Revs. J. H. Burkitt and W. C. Jackson, B.A. ; Messrs. J. G. Watson, E. S. Butterworth, land M. G. Burgess; together with Rev. John Moore and Mr. R. Turner, J.P., representing the Extension Fund. The following officers were nominated for the coming year : Treasurer, Mr. T. Butler, J.P. ; Guarantee Fund Treasurer, Mr. W. F. Jackson; Auditors, Messrs. J. G. Benson and Sons; Secretary, Rev. E. D. Cornish.
Presided over by such a chairman, and guided by such a secretary, the business of the Committee was despatched with promptness, and the last resolution was passed by noon on Friday.
One is ,glad to record the kindness and hospitality of the Mansfield friends, led by Rev. W. H. and Mrs. Proudlove, and the Mayor, Ald. Maltby, J.P., the circuit steward. We could not doubt the heartiness of their welcome—the proof was manifest all the time.
M. DE J. LARK.
The Publishing House.
published, under the direction of the Connexional Com-mittee. The appointments for next year were heartily supported by the Committee and sent forward to the Conference, viz. : Steward, Rev. H. Hooks; Oonnexional Editor, Rev. H. Smith ; Treasurer, Mr. J. K. Baker; Editor of Magazine,' Rev. H. Hooks. The Consultative Committee for next year was appointed, its members being the Editor,' Steward, Treasurer, with Revs. A. Crombie and A. E. J. Cosson, Messrs. E. S. Snell and W; S. Skelton, J.P. Owing to the exceptional circum-stances, and in order to economize, it was decided to dis-pense with the autumnal meeting of the Committee this year. The meeting closed with a cordial vote of thanks to Rev. A. Crombie for his able services in the chair.
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Our Deaconesses. Our Consecration, Service.
I HAVE wished 'for some weeks to say something about the Consecration Service with which our Anniversary closed. It was of an unusual kind, indeed the first of the kind held in the history of the Institute, for it was the first occasion upon rwhich any deaconess has been publicly set apart among us for her great and gracious work. The honoured founder of our Institute, Rev. 1'. J. Cope, was to have conducted the service, but, to our great disappointment, he was prevented from being pre-sent by an attack of bronchitis, from which I am glad to say he has nOw happily recovered. In his absence the service was conducted by Rev. T. B. Saul and myself, Sisters Constance and Muriel taking part, as had been originally arranged. There was a good attendance of the Sisters and a fair attendance of friends interested in the Institute, and the service was a time of heart-search-ing, of deep emotion and of reconsecealtion, not only on the part of Sister Mabel Hodson. and Sister Janet Crow-ther, who were formally set apart as, deaconesses, but on the part of all of us. The service will long live in our memories, and not least the gracious words in which Mr. Saul addressed the Sisters who were being received.
Our Coming Missions. By this time of the year we usually have a good
number of applications for missions to be conducted by the Sisters in the autumn. A few ,applications are already to hand, but not nearly so many as I should like to receive. I know that a number of churches are considering the matter, and others perhaps will begin to do so when they see this note. I shall be glad to hear as speedily as possible from all friends who wish to have missions that I may begin to lay down the lines of work for the Sisters for the coming autumn and winter.
In this connection I nay say that we :have one of our Mission Sisters who can take summer work in any Church during the remainder .of June and the whole of July and August, if that is desired. I shall be glad to answer any question as to terms, etc.
HENRY SMITH. 25 Bolingibroke Grove,
Wandsworth Common, S.W.
Ministering to the Troops. REV. HERBERT J. WATTS, 2 Collegiate Crescent, Shef-
field, is acting as "Officiating Clergyman " to the Bap-tist, Cangregationel, United Methodist, and Primitive Methodist soldiers in the Sheffield Base Hospital (3rd Northern), and will be glad of a line from ministers and others who hear of any of our United Methodist boys being sent to the ihaspital, as he is anxious to minister to them.
REV. F. S. FOSTER, 79 Sandon Road, Stafford, has been appointed "Officiating Clergyman" to the Forces in Stafford, Tixall, and Brocton, and will be glad if friends will send him name and rank of each man known to be here who belongs to any of the four de- nominations — Baptist, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, or United Methodist.
REV. SAMUEL WRIGHT, 28 Vainbr Road, Hillsbro, Sheffield, will be glad to receive the names of wounded United Methodist soldiers who are now in the Wharn-cliffe War Hospital, Sheffield, and to visit these brethren and minister to them. Name, number,, and, if possible, number of ward should be sent.
Mr. Israel's Madras Tamil Mission.
In our pages will be found ,an advertisement as to the work carried on by Mr. Gnanamutthu J. Israel in India. Our friends will be interested to read the testimony of Dr. Packer, our Connexional Committee Secretary, about that work :
"The work carried on so successfully, and for so long a time, by Mr. Gnanamutthu J. Israel, might well be copied in other places besides Madras and neighbour-hood. Much is owing, doubtless, to the charming per-sonality of the Leader, who twins wherever he goes. But he has set a noble example for others to follow, and his educational, philanthropic anAci evangelistic work com-mands the admiration of all who have made themselves acquainted with it. That Mr. Israel's visit to this coun-try may be crowned with success, and that he may obtain abundant encouragement for his further schemes of ex-tensien, will be the prayer of all who know anything of the fields he is rescuing from waste and turning into fruitful gardens."
Mr. Israel will be in Southport on June 30th, and is open for engagements in :Southport or district from July 1st. His present address is 29 Botanical Road, Sheffield.
Australasian Conference of 1915 BY REV. W..F. JAMES.
THE six Annual Conferences closed in March, but reports of their final stages did not reach me until the middle of April.
New South Wales Conference, held in Sydney. President, Rev. J. Wood-house. Seven candidates for the ministry were accepted. Largely owing to adverse circumstances on the Mission field, there was a Missionary deficiency of £7,000 for Australasia, and large sums were raised toward it. Ar-eangements were made for the Cefitenary of Australasian Methodism during the year. The Home Mission meet-ing was very largely attended. Rev. W. W. Rutledge, Organizing Secretary of the Century Fund, reported that £34,000 was promised, and half the amount paid. Many indications of prosperity were mentioned in the conversa-tion on the work of God. An increase of 938 adult and 1,200 junior members was reported.
Victoria and Tasmania Conference,. the largest in Australasia, was held in Melbourne. Rev. A. T. Holden, B.A., presided. Eighty Home Missionaries are employed, and the Home Mission income for the. year is £6,210. Centenary Day . was memorable, and effective addresses were given. At the meeting which followed the Laymen's Missionary Break-fast, £2,000 was subscribed toward the Foreign Mis-sionary Debt of £7,000. Sunday Schools are conducted with new tone and enthusiasm and with vigour and suc-cess. The three Colleges continued their valuable work. Eleven ministers died last year and thirteen were ordained at the Conference. Consent was given to a number of young ministers to volunteer for the war with the understanding that, on returning, their status would be favourably considereth
South Australia Conference, held in Adelaide, was a good one. Rev. Ootavius Lake, once assistant master at Shebbear Bible Christian School, was, after over fifty years in the minis-try, elected President of the United Conference, and nobly fulfilled his duties. The Home and Foreign Mis-sion meetings were successful. A resolution, in favour of closing hotel bars at 6 p.m., was carried unanim-ously, and, shortly after, the people, by an overwhelming majority, voted for the measure. Methodist work in general continues to prosper in the State. Membership and Sunday scholars increase, and the two Colleges con-tinue to do well.
Queensland Obnferelice held at Brisbane. President, Rev. W. Smith. The heat, at Conference time, may be inferred from the fact that at one of the preparatory meetings the brethren "put aside their coats and did their business in shirt sleeves." After meeting all expenses the Home Mission Fund had a credit balance. Considerable pro-gress has been made in church extension. One minister described the appalling state lof morals in his District, which comprised seven circuits and twelve mission sta-tions within an area of 500 square miles, and it was decided to form the District into one Home Mission area. The patriotic meeting was one of the most enthusi. astic ever held in the Conference Church.
West Australia Conference held at Perth, the only Australasian capital I have not visited. I have preached and leofured in all the others. Rev. J. Tiller was President. It was de-cided to convert the City Church into a Central Mission. The change will, doubtless, benefit the capital and the State. Despite the dry season Home Mission receipts were very' good, and the meetings for Foreign Missions "were the best on record."
New Zealand Conference held at Christchurch. The Mayor gave a civic welcome. Rev. J. Dawson was elected President. A hearty welcome was given to the grand old' missionary, Rev. George Brown, D.D., President of Australian Gene-ral Conference, who conveyed .its hearty greetings. De-spite inclement weather 900 attended the Conference Garden Party. In keeping with Primitive Methodist custom a Camp Meeting was held on the Sunday after-noon and the Salvation Army Band headed the pro- cession. Effective addresses were given, and a good spirit prevailed. In addressing the Conference Dr. Brown attributed the loyalty of Egypt and India to the British method of government. As in the Common-wealth of Australia, it is believed Methodist Union will further Christ's Kingdom in the Dominion of New Zealand.
Mr. Ernest A. Baxter, Crosland Moor. The Crosland Moor Church' has just suffered an almost
irreparable loss in the , sudden death of Mr. Ernest A. Baxter in hiS fatty-fifth year. He was so able and also willing to do all he could for. Christ and the Church that many offices were assigned to him. He joined the church , in his fifteenth year. He was head master of a Council School for many years ; teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class seventeen years, with several "young men over fifty in it ; Trustees' and Pew Steward over thirteen years; teacher of Primary Department Preparation Class -since its formation ; and he had seats on church and circuit meeting. He was also general treasurer of our Idcal Belgian Refugee Committee, and acted as our interpreter. He will be sorely missed by young land old now that "his seat is empty " among us. "He was a good man " ; and desired that he might worthily earn that distinction. We accord it to him with all our hearts.
Special reference made to his work and worth on Sun-day evening, June 6th, by the Pastor. Suitable anthems and hymns were selected by the choir, of which he had once been leader. Many prayers will ascend for God's blessing to rest upon the widow and only child (Marjorie).
THE last Committee of the year met at the Westmin-ster Central Buildings, on Wednesday, June 2nd. The President was unable to be present, and his place in the Chair was taken by Rev. A. Crombie. The Consultative Committee had met •the previous evening, and their de-liberations expedited the business of the General Com-mittee. The work of the Publishing House for the past twelve months came under very careful review. In corn-Mon • with every publishing business throughout the country we have suffered many adverse effects in conse-quertce of the War. The increased cost of production, the decline in advertisement income, and the extraardi-nery difficulties in the transit of good have rendered the efforts of the Steward, the Editor, and the staff extremely difficult.
It was gratifying to find, however, that the Publishing House reported a successful year in spite of these adverse conditions. The circulation of the UNITED METHODIST and the magazines has been well maintained. The Sun-day School Lesson Helps will in the immeditae future, it is hoped, gain in Connexional interest by the addition of pages deVated exclusively to United Methodist matters. The co-operation of the Young People's Committee is sought in regard to this. The Magazine is having en-couraging success among our schools. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Pocket Book has been largely in demand.
If the week of this Committee does not easily lend itself to report it must not be supposed that its operations deal entirely with the business of publishing. A long and animated discussion took place on a vital question in-volved in the conduct of public worship arising out of a proposal brought before the Committee, and strongly-divergent views were expressed. The assumption that this is a purely "business" Committee is too commonly a mistake.
The Farringdon Library is well supported in the de-nomination, and the latest volume, "The Golden Chain," is having a good sale. Other volumes are being con-sidered. A United Methodist Handbook will shortly be
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FOR the reasons given above it has become neces-sary to mobilize, organize and direct the mechanical forces and resources of the country for the manufac-
ture of munitions. The same pro-cess, it is contended, is necessary in regard to the workers. Shall it be done by the method of compulsion or the method of free consent? That
is the pressing question. The present writer is among those who believe that the better way to do it in Great Britain is by free consent, and that the worse way is by the method of conscription. We are markedly an individualist people ; we interpret liberty very largely in the terms of personality ; we resent anything in the nature of compulsion. Through • apictral, through free choice, we have put into the field the largest voluntary army ever put there by that .method. The same appeal' to patriot-ism, to the individual powers of service, the same pressing upon the heart and conscience of the need of the country would be as effective in the work-shops of this country as in the recruiting offices, and we should like to see the mobilizing and regiment-ing of labour proceed on those lines. It will have magnificent results, greater results than ever com-pulsion would bring, and Great Britain would soon have all the munitions of war she needed. We know there would still remain slackers, a, few men to whom the nobler appeal, unhappily, is a strange and unmoving language. They could be effectively dealt with by a rigorous use of the common law of this country or, if need be, by a use of the special powers under the Defence of the Realm Act, and they ought to be dealt with rigorously. A man who slacks or skulks or "down-tools " at a time like this, when the country needs him for the saving of its life and liberty and vocation, is a coward and a traitor, and should be dealt with as such. But it is a pity to apply to a hundred willing and ready workers methods of rigour which they resent in order that you may dealt effectually with the one who, whether he resents them or not, deserves and needs their application. Free citizenship is the glory of this kingdom and empire : it should be followed by free and full and uttermost labour for the empire and
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is fighting for the liberties of Europe ; and upon " OUR country is fighting for its life ; our country
what it does—upon what it is prepared to sacrifice will depend the issue." In these
The Machine weighty words Mr. Lloyd George and the Man opened the massive speech which he in the War. delivered to masters and workmen in
Manchester last Thursday night. In view of the fact just stated there has arisen in the country a discussion of whether a form of conscrip-‘ tion should be applied to raising our Armies and to the work of equipping them. What Mr. Lloyd George said on Thursday night should suffice to set at rest the agitation so far as compulsion for military service is concerned :
" I think the opponents of conscription are entitled to say at the present moment that the young men of the nation have not refused to respond in sufficient numbers to the appeals made to their patriotism to fight the battle of liberty in any continent, whether Europe, Asia, or Africa. They • are still coming in. Their numbers are far ahead of the equipment for them, and I have no reason to doubt, from what I see of the rate at which they are volunteering, that their numbers will keep well head of equipment."
But we have come to see that the \ equipment of the soldier, the provision of guns and munitions of war, is of as vital importance as the enlistment of the soldier. The machine counts as well as the man in this war. By general consent the loss of Przemysl last week was due to the overwhelmingly superior supply of munitions and equipment of war pos-sessed by the Germans, and Mr. Lloyd George said that the last victories of the French armies are very largely attributable to the private workshops of France. So the man at home may count for as much as the man abroad, the man at the worker's bench as much as the man in the soldier's trench. Mr. Lloyd George was able to say to the workmen and masters he was addressing
"When you turn out shells you are not turning out something to merely kill the enemy ; you are turning out something which is to save the life of a comrade. . . . . . . . Every shell you turn out is a lifeguard for some of those gallant fellows who are leaving our shores to risk their lives."
kingdom in a crisis such as this. That is its true correlative.
IN this hour of national and international crisis, what should be the duty of British Christians? Dr. Campbell Morgan recently answered the question
for his own people. First and fore- British most and ceaselessly, he said, it is Christians their duty to offer intercession on and the behalf of those in authority, that as Government. they stand together with a full sense
of their responsibility in the presence of this crisis in the national life, they may in all their consultations be so guided by that Divine wisdom that cannot err, that things of minor importance may be overwhelmed and forgotten. If the Church of God might at that moment but become in our own country and throughout our empire the insti-tute of intercession Which it is intended to be, then we could strengthen the hands of our rulers and their hearts and minds in ways we hardly dreamt of. But there was not only need for intercession, but a call for people to exert influence upon the nation. It was the business of the Church to establish the State. The work of Christians at this moment is to stand in the midst of the national life for unity, for discipline, and for full and strenuous effort in every way on behalf of the great things of righteousness. He wanted to lay upon every Chris-tian soul, man, woman, youth and maiden their personal_ individual responsibility. They must live to-day in the church and in the home, in their places of business and in all their conversation with men, as those who refuse to recognise or discuss differ-ences, either within the Government or anywhere else, in the hour of our national peril and oppor-tunity. They must stand for discipline: The only true attitude of the hour was that of placing im-plicit confidence in the men who are now in authority, and they and the Christian Church should be done with all criticism which asks for information which cannot be given, and that levels at any man or num-ber of men attacks which are unworthy because they cannot be replied to. By their loyalty and devotion, and above all by their intercession, they should strengthen the hands of this Government. This is a seasonable and appropriate word of exhortation.
It is to consist of about twenty members of which the denominational organizations will be invited to appoint a certain number proportional to their scholars. Sir George Croydon Marks was appointed President ; Rev. J. Williams Butcher, vice-presi- dent ; and Rev. Carey Bonner, secretary. These are appointments which will ensure vigorous organiza-tion and the discussion of really pressing problems. Mr. G. Hamilton Archibald is being invited to join the council as representative of the West Hill Train-ing College for Sunday School teachers. Arrange-ments have already been made for a discussion at the first meeting of the Board on two matters of great importance, namely (1) The inter-denomina-tional uniform lesson, What should be our attitude towards it in view of the scheme of Graded Lessons? —to be introduced by Mr. J. Wesley Walker ; and (2) the alleged connection between the decline of scholars and the introduction of new methodk—to be introduced by the Rev. Melville Harris, M.A. If these and other questions are fearlessly faced, the new organization will wield immense influence and prove a source of great help in carrying on the greatest work committed to the home churches. We wish the new board a life of long and vigorous and helpful service.
IN an interview reported in the "Methodist Times " of last week, the Rev. Simpson Johnson, Secretary of the Wesleyan Conference, discussed
the question of shortening the Con- Shortening ference which is to be held in Bir- the Wesleyan mingham in July. The reception of Conference' the reports of the various depart- Proceedings. ments can, he -thinks, be expedited
and some time gained thereby ; but he thinks that full time and attention must be given to some portions of the Home Mission Report and to the Report of the. Army and Navy Board, as a number of novel steps have been taken involving large financial considerations, and these should be fully explained and dealt with' in the Conference. He suggests that the Conversation on the Work of God should be given up this year, and that there should be substituted a memorial service for Wes-leyan Methodists who have laid down their lives for their country, to be followed by a discussion on questions arising out of the relation of the Wesleyan Methodist Church to war conditions. He thinks it would be a mistake to abolish the Conference Sun-day. But steps have already been taken to abandon the usual social accompaniments of the Conference. The public reception by the Lord Mayor of Birming-ham has, at the request of the Conference officials, been abandoned, so has also a garden party which was being arranged for the Saturday. Mr. Johnson makes one or two suggestions that might well be followed in our own Conference proceedings, for instance, the one as to a memorial service for fellow Methodists who have fallen in the war, and the sug-gestion as to giving adequate time for the discussion of new departures in Army and Navy work. But is not the general question of shortening our own Conference worth consideration? We hear that the Plimitive Methodists are shortening theirs by three days. That is not practicable so far as we are con-cerned. But, by the simple device of each member of the Conference putting himself under the self-denying ordinance of not speaking on any subject unless there is need to do so, our own Conference might easily finish on Monday evening or at latest by noon on Tuesday, and thus enable our business lay-men to return to their homes by the evening of that day, having saved one day or more of a precious week. It is an end worth achieving, and it could be attained at comparatively little cost.
The Sunday School Losses. To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.
SIR,—One naturally regrets to read of the continued decrease in all branches of our Church and must see the logic of your argument in "Notes by the Way," etc., that numbers must in some measure convey an indica-tion of our position. At the same time, a keener super-vision of returns and a closer inspection of records may keep a falling tendency until the true basis of member-ship is reached.
We shall no doubt have the usual amount of expliana-tions and suggestions, but it would be interesting to know if the schools that are graded are doing better relatively than non-graded schools. Personally, I con-sider that sufficient prominence has not been given to the Young People's Department in District Meetings. Only a short time ago I heard a Y.P. secretary con-gratulating himself on the fact that he had been able tea get his matter discussed on the first day. That it should be necessary to so feel is deplorable, for the first day should be the proper day for such a discussion, though it is too often relegated with the "Public Oues-tions " to a depleted house, or at least to a weary place in the second day's discussion, when it has not the opportunity it deserves.
Yours truly. 'CHARLES KNOWLES.
IT is difficult for some of us to wax enthusiastic when we hear of the creation of a new organization in connection with the Christian Churches : we feel
"'Tis life whereof our nerves are A Sunday scant, More life and fuller that we School want," rather than more organiza- Advisory tions. Nevertheless, the present Board. writer confesses that he hears with
considerable pleasure of a new organization which has started within the last few days. "Mobilization " is a charmed word just now and is capturing men's thoughts as a means of help-ing to the speedy ending of this terrible war. It is a word which would spell increasing efficiency if it were applied to our Sunday School forces. Nobody can for a moment say that it is well with our Schools at the present time. Their decline in num-bers both of scholars and teachers ; their perplexities and conflicts as to the merits and urgency of new methods of work ; the difficulties which cluster around the working out of the idea of an interna-tional series of lessons and how to dovetail or in some way correlate them to a well-graded series of lessons ; the questions of how to deal with the adoles-cent, how to retain our young men and women, how to make our Sunday Schools an integral and vital part of our church life, how, in a word, to place the child where our Lord put it, "in the midst " of His disciples and His Church so that it is pivotal to all their work and aims—these are urgent matters which call for the best wisdom and the most skilled guidance which our most intelligent and prayerful men and women in the churches can give. The idea has therefore been broached of forming an inter-denominational council of Sunday School organizations which shall act as a clearing-house of Sunday School ideas and an advisory board as to policy and methods. It will not interfere with denominational organizations nor supersede in any way the local and national Sunday School Unions. It will be purely advisory and meet twice a year to discuss questions vital to the efficiency of the Sunday School and to advise on methods of work. Tansley.
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Of course, it is difficult. Witness-bearing often is. We shall be charged with indiscretion. Our church-buildings may be stoned, if not ourselves. Men will Slavishly sing, "Britons never shall be slaves " about our doors. It will be difficult. But, "To whom shall we go?" ALBERT VARLEY.
Departed Friends. Mr. William Ridsdale, Bradford.
There is something startling and sad in the end of our friend, Wm. Ridsdale, which took place on the evening of May 18th. He was presiding at a Christian En- deavour meeting when he was seized with illness, and died after a lapse of only .a few minutes in the caretaker's house. He had been circuit 'treasurer for five years, and was a trustee of the Bethel and Shearbridge Churches. He had been circuit representative to Conference and actively connected with Bethel for over thirty years, where he has been a devoted and useful worker both in Church and Sunday School. The writer was with him at the District Meeting the week prior to his death, and was his colleague as a teacher in Salem Sunday School, Dewsbury, about 34 years ago. His outstanding char- acteristic was his genuineness. He underrated his powers. His friendship was something to be prized. When once it was established between you he I would make •any sacrifice for you. If he had not been so modest' he would have done more important work. He was 'a generous soul, as was seen in his solicitous desire for the welfare of the sick and poor connected with his church. It was a real pleasure to work with him—so amiable, upright, and animated by ,a kindly, but quiet enthusiasm for humanity. He ever strove to do some-thing for the betterment of his fellows. That a career so modest should so suddenly be cut short fills us with sorrow, till we remember that his genial influence among those of his circle and all the good he did and prompted others to do, still exist and will grow and endure. These things cannot die. The writer trusted him, more than any friend he ever had. He leaves a widow and three sons, for whom much sympathy is felt.
J. H. DYSON.
Mr. George Henry Robinson, Huddersfield. The High Street Church, Huddersfield, has suffered
another great loss in the death of its oldest trustee and a former church and school treasurer and circuit steward, Mr. George Henry Robinson, whose sister was the wife of the late Rev. E. Wright.
On May 17th, he 'had to undergo an operation, and made good progress towards recovery until Tuesday, May 25th, when there came a sudden relapse, and he peacefully entered into rest, aged 77. , His name will long be gratefully cherished at High Street, for he was one of its master builders. His work in connection with the erection of the church and the removal of its debt was simply prodigious. He was a man of conspicuous ability, sound judgement, unswerving devotion and the purest of motives. He was the High Street "Chan- cellor of the Exchequer" for many years and a Sunday School teacher, counsellor and friend. His family has been closely and honourably associated with the church. from its . commencement. 'He contributed most generously to the church, circuit and the Connexion. He was a man of pronounced views and strong convic-tions and whether in favour or disfavour had the fear-lessness to stand by what he believed. to be right, but candour and courage were in him nobly wedded to chivalry and courtesy. With his sister, Miss Robinson, whose tender and watchful care enabled her brother to render such consistent and valuable service, much sym-pathy is felt.
The funeral service at High Street was marked by a representative attendance of trustees, leaders, members and friends of the circuit, fellow townsmen and free- masons. Rev. C. A. Ashelford gave an appropriate. address. The interment took place at Trinity Church-yard and was conducted by Revs. C. A. Ashelford and Herbert Lee.
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"1 don't want to dishearten you, but 53
The ominous silence following the conjunction spoke far more eloquently than the best-chosen words could have done. The speaker was the sergeant, and his eager listeners were a score or more shivering recruits, whose faces, in the dim, quavering candle-light, peeped out white and uncertain from a score or more scanty bundles of army blankets. ' We had come down from London with a party of three hundred odd to join the. Foreign Service Battalion of the —th London, and had found ourselves billeted in a hay-loft over some stables—twenty-six of us with a lance-corporal and the above very cheer-ful sergeant to look after us.
The loft certainly had its advantages : there was an abundant, or rather a superabundant, supply of fresh air, and it had a roof, floor, and two doors which, though they would not closely firmly, yet kept out quite a consider- able proportion of the wind and rain. But, when this has been said, the best, I regret to say, has been put before you. The worst, I think, is better left untold.
We were all lying in bed " when the Sergeant came in—that is, we had each wrapped our two blankets round us, and laid ourselves as gently as possible on the floor, I myself having the good fortune to lay my head next to one of the "doors." I was just wondering if it might be made to close properly. A bit of effort, perhaps, might do the job. The hinges, maybe, were strained, or . . .
"You chaps all right?" queried the Sergeant, in a fatherly tone.
He took a gurgle from one of the bundles to be an answer in the affirmative.
"That's good;" he said, and walked over to his sofa in the only warm corner the place possessed. "You'll get used to it," he added consolingly.
The chap next to me—a big fair-haired fellow—turned his face towards me, ,and smiled wearily.
"I hope so," he murmured, "my hip's as sore as blazes already."
"Don't expect I'll see daylight again," whispered an-other one, cheerfully; "I'm nearly frozen meat, now."
"You'd make good food for the troops,'" assented a third.
One or two near me laughed. Someone in a far corner sneezed,.
"O' course," said thQ. Sergeant, "you'll find it 'ard at first. You've come straight from featherbeds and good 'omes, same as me. I've 'ad to leave my wife and chil-dren, same as some o' you. It's 'ard, but it might be worse."
"Old Joe," one of our comedians, raised himself on his elboW and whistled incredulously.
"Yes," asserted the Sergeant, cheerfully, "there's worse to come! "
Old Joe dropped his head with an agonising groan. "In a week or two," went on the Sergeant, "you'll be
sleepin' out o' doors; they'll call you out in the evenin', and march you for miles, and then you'll 'ave to dig a trench in the pourin' rain, and sleep in it."
Something that sounded like a sob proceeded from the bundle of blankets that contained "Old Joe."
"Ah, yes ! " sighed the Sergeant, "the time isn't very far away when you'd give 'arf-a-quid for such a nice bed as you've got to-night. It's 'ard, I know, but it might be worse."
He paused. Not far away from me, I fancied I heard someone humming a few bars from the Dead March.
" 0' course," added the Cheerful One, "I don't want to dishearten you. I know you're keen on the job, but it's best to know the worst. I've 'ad to leaVe a wife and . . . .
"Ten children," suggested some one obligingly. "Poor feller," murmured Old Joe. "Any chance of being bought out?" came in a mourn-
ful voice from the other end of the loft. One or two hard-hearted fellows laughed. "There are thousands worse off than we are," said
the Sergeant. "Alillions," affirmed Old Joe, who was now sitting up,
and smiling affably around him, "Millions! " "Are we going to the front soon? " queried some one. ",'Course we are! " said Old Joe, apparently shocked
that anyone should ever question it. "I heard," he added, in an awed whisper, "that we are going out to bury the London Scottish, and then the second battalion of the London Scottish are going out to bury us. That's right, ain't it, Sergeant?"
The Sergeant pretended not to hear this oration. " 0' course," said Old Joe, "I don't want to dishearten
you chaps, but . . . . ." The Sergeant went to the door, and put his foot on the
top rung of the ladder. "Well, good-night, you chaps," he called out, "you'll
get used to it. Be worse when weget to the front, but 3/
"Don't want to dishearten you," murmured Old Joe. "And, after all," came the Sergeant's voice from the foot
of the ladder, "we can only die." H. F. POPPLETON.
Winnie Butler, Chirk. Last week we lost our patriarchal friend, Frederick
Lee, aged 94. Now we mourn the sudden loss of Winnie Butler, aged 17. She taught her Sunday School class with rare fidelity, her voice mingled with the Children's Choir as it brought home many an Eisteddfod prize, her place in our church's choir gallery was always filled, and she unfailingly passed on the Sunday evening from the choir gallery into the prayer-meeting, for, like Jenny Lind, she could say, "I sing to God." This Mary in' piety was just becoming the Martha in her home when, with startling suddenness, "God's finger touched her and she slept." F. R.
A WORKING MAN'S ANSWER. WE are settling down to the condition of war. The
loss of the "Titanic's " thousand stirred the sympathy of the world. A "Titanic" of men now goes down every day, and we are hardly moved. The cynic would say that at bottom we are callous. It is not true. We are benumbed by our helplessness. In shipwreck, mine explosion, or railway accident, relief comes to us in taking steps to prevent similar disasters. We have found no such relief now. A "Titanic ", will go down to-morrow, the day after, and the next day—and so on, until—
But are we really helpless? To allow such a view to abide would be fatalism, and .quite unworthy of the followers of Jesus. Vision-led, resourceful and courage-ous, we may do something to make improbable a future like catastrophe, and perhaps bring a speedier ending to the present one.
The People's Part and the Churches' Opportunity.
Ultimately, it is the people who decide whether there shall be war. We may and do deplore the secrecy be-hind which national commitments are made ; but an open diplomacy would not always avert war, since it is sometimes the people who cry out for it and the Govern-ments who steer clear of it. Before the war,. Sir Edward Grey expressly stated that he could not act without public support ; and there can be little doubt that German unanimity was secured by the people being persuaded that their national position was imperilled. Now this is significant and , hopeful, and it represents the opportunity of the Christian Churches. . There are those who jibed at the' Churches because
they failed to prevent the war. Applied particularly to any single generation the taunt was unjust, although there is ground for the fear that we have not always borne a strong witness against war and preparations for it. But we can bear a wonder-working witness now, if we will. The people, in whom there grows a sense of despair as they contemplate, the awfulness of the war, are ready for a lead. Appeals to their passion and hate are being served up daily in a large section of the press. These journals ,know all the arts of successful advertise-ment. If they can strike 'the attention often enough they will in the end make the impression they desire ; and that impression is against every humanitarian in-stinct and every principle for which Christ and His followers stand. It speaks 'much for the general good sense of the average man that he has, in the main, re-. sisted the appeals. It is a message of hope that he waits for. It isn't enough to show the follies of Bern-hardism or to hold up pious hands of protest against the waywardness of the Kaiser and his soldiers. The occasion, calls for a high effort to lead the people to sane views, to heartening, and, ere long, to peace.
A Good Beginning. Can the Churches show the people the general causes
that led to the war? That would be a good beginning. The Belgian Treaty, Alsace-Lorraine, the German. Navy, and the murder of an Archduke are points that have been mostly emphasized. But these can be understood only in the light of movements that have surged through Europe for a hundred and fifty years. The rights and responsibilities of nationality underlying the unrest, the 'aspirations, and the policies of Europe during these long years are questions of greatest moment in any attempt to sound the deeper causes of the war, and they are questions rarely referred to by our popular press-writers. One or two organizations are now engaged in opening up these hidden factors — should not the Churches take a part in such necessary work?
Fighting Vindictiveness. Will the Churches steadfastly set their face against
vindictiveness? Venomous 'headlines, and the abusive writings of men of considerable influence are doing their unholy work, and the occasion may soon come when Christian men and women will need to show whether they are for Christ or Revenge. On Christmas Day cur brave soldiers fraternized with men who are being daily described as " Huns," "Pirates," "Baby-Killers," etc. Are we able persistently to point to and work for, the time when, under the influence of the Christ-spirit, we shall again regard the Germans as brothers? It requires knowledge, imagination, and faith. Certain parts of the press are booming Mr. Blatchford. , Speak-ing of the period after the war, he recently wrote, " I would not allow a German to set foot on our soil, nor to dump an ounce of German goods on our soil, nor to meddle in our home or 'colonial affairs in any way. They are enemies and they hate us., They will always be enemies and will always hate us, and we shall de-serve what we shall get if we trust them." That is as definite and as positive as it is foolish. Shall we not as definitely and positively point in/ the opposite direction? Clearly, the Gospel is 'with us.
Working for a Lasting Settlement. Will the Churches work for a lasting settlement?
They were unable to prevent' the war, but they may do much to hasten peace and to secure it. To draw people away from the thought of crushing this State, of partitioning another, or of banishing a ruler, and to familiarize them with the idea of a Congress of the Nations, of the expression of nationality, of the neutralization of geographical danger-zones to whatever nation they may at present belong, and of the real com-munity of interest of all the peoples of the earth, will do much to pave the way to peace and to make the settlement a permanent one. This would be one of the greatest spiritual services that can be given to this stricken generation.
" Sergeant Cheerful." Are we Really Helpless ?
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Mrs. Green, Spalding. - Our Crescent Church has lost a valuable member and worker by the death on April 25th of Mrs. Samuel Green. Mrs. Green was a native of Horncastle, but came to reside in Spalding twenty-seven years ago. Almost during the whole of that time she was connected with our church, and was for some years a popular member of the choir. She threw herself heart and soul into the work of the church and circuit, and twelve months ago was elected on the House Committee. Last year, Mr. and Mrs. Green celebrated their silver wed-ding. The deepest sympathy is felt with the widower, the six children, and other relatives..
Mr. James Adamson, Coxlodge. The Coxlodge Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has suffered
the loss of one of its oldest members through the death of Mr. James Adamson, aged 75. 'Born in the village, he came of a Methodist ancestry. He was a man of quiet, unobtrusive character, and of deep piety. A pitman by calling, he served the Burradon and Coxlodge Coal Company for over 60 years. In his service of the Church he occupied all its official positions with fidelity and was to the end of his days a most regular attendant at the services. For over 20 years hig activities were limited by the results of an accident in the mine which permanently impaired his sight. He preserved, however, a store of memories of the 'palmy" days, and kept an interesting written record 'of events in church and domestic life.
Mr. Adamson was an overseer of the Fawdon Parish from the formation of the council 21 years ago, the first meeting being held in his cottage.' He was for 40 years treasurer of the local branch of the Miners' Permanent Relief Fund, and sick steward of the ancient Order of Oddfellows for a similar period.
The interment service was conducted by Rev. T. Smith, of Heaton. A. F.
Mr. E. Langley, Stockton-on-Tees. The Zion Church, Stockton, has lost a loyal worker
and its oldest member in the death of EdWard Langley, one of the founders of Zion, and a trustee and leader for over 50 years. Mr. Langley met with an accident some considerable time ago, from the effect of which he never really recovered. He died, after a lingering illness, at 78 years of age. He was a man of kindly disposition, unassuming personality, sterling Christian worth and greatly esteemed by all. The interment took place. at Stockton on Whit-Monday, the Revs. W. E. Perry and G. Wheatley ,conducting the service. F. K.
Mrs. Coventry, Stockwell. After much pain and long suffering Mrs. Coventry,
the wife of Mr. J. Coventry, superintendent of the Sun-day School, has been called to the higher life at the age of fifty-eight years. She was a woman of strong and simple faith, which proved itself in works and graces which made her character one of the most beauti-ful. She relished prayer and the Word, and showed a fine and constant devotion to Christ. She was a most loyal member of the Church, loving its services, and continually working for its success. The Sunday. School, the Women's Devotional Meeting, and other institutions all received her unwearying support ; and her influence at 'home is reflected in the splendid services rendered to the church by her sons and daughter. Mr. Coventry and his family are much loved, and are now very affectionately and tenderly rem embered.
of the trustees. In the vestibule of the Church his smile. of welcome and quiet, sincere interest in old friends and new were a -feature of the church's life. His keen, in-telligent attention as a hearer will be missed. Right up to the time of his death he kept up an interesting cor-respondence with the scholars of his class—eight of whom are serving their country and two of. whom were amongst these who bore his body to its last resting-place in. St. .Peter's Churchyard, Smithills. The funeral ser-vice, which was largely attended, was conducted by the pastor (Rev. H. Ward Kelley). H. W. K.
For Our Boys and Girls. BIBLESEARCHING COMPETITIONS.
MY DEAR BIBLE-SEARCHERS, There is a beautiful story told by Robert Browning in
one of his poems, "The Boy and the Angel," which I would like you to read when you have the opportunity. Meanwhile, let me tell it to you.
In a back street of a small town in Italy was a tiny cobbler's shop, and on a little ,stool, his head almost hid-den under a shower of curls, sat a boy named, Theocrite. The room was dark, and the rough boots needed patient mending, but Theocrite's face was bright and happy, for his heart was filled with a groat love for God. And, ever and anon, he would throw back his curls and sing a song of praise §uch• as he had heard the monks singing in the monastery near by.
One morning a monk, named Blaise, passed along the street, and, hearing the, singing, stayed to listen. When his eyes fell on the child his wrinkled face lighted up with kindly joy. Stepping into the little workroom, he en-couraged the lad by telling him that, because the song came from his very heart it would go as straight to Heaven as if it 'Had been sung by the great Pope himself. This amazed the boy, and he ,cried, "Ah, if only I Could praise God in the great way the Pope praises H im ! ' Then from Heaven God worked a miracle. That
night Theocrite became Pope of Rome, and the angel Gabriel slat on the cobbler's stool. Soon, however, there cam e another change. Instead of increasing in beauty and fullness the song' of Theocrite the Pope grew thin and empty.. It was not now his chief delight to lift his heart and voice and ' say, "Praise Gad! " His soul had found pleasure in other things, and the simple, ;pure spirit of the early days was lost.
So the angel left the cobbler's shop and flew to Rome. And as the Pope saw him come, there awoke in him happy memories of his life in the little village, and he grew sad and thoughtful. Then the angel spoke to him, and said, "The wish that was granted to you 'has been ;granted to no purpose. The work that I have been doing has been done in vain. Once you longed to praise God as the Pope praises Him, and yet so soon has your song grown weaker and weaker, until at last it has Ceased. Go back to the village, back to boyhood, back to your work and sing again the praises of God with all your heart."
And so Theocrite the Pape became once more the hurrible cobbler, that in the simple, peaceful village life he might re--learn the lessons he had so quickly for- gotten. I am, yours as ever
AUNT JEANIE. Kilham House,
Connah's Quay, Chester.
Find from incidents :
(1) .Christ walked on the sea. (2) Christ slept in a boat on the sea. (3) Christ also spoke to the people from a 'boat on the
sea. This incident is recorded by Luke. Give the reference.
Intermediates (12 to 16 years). From Luke's Gospel (first seven chapters) : (1) What message did John the Baptist preach? (2) When the people wondered whether he were the
Christ, what did he say? (3) What question did John send his disciples to ask
Christ ? (4) . What did Jesus say about John?
Seniors (16 years and upward.$). (1) Sand is described as an insecure foundation for a
house. (Quote from Matthew's Gospel.) (2) What lesson is taught by the parable. here referred
to?
(3) "Sand is weighty "; what is heavier? (a) In Proverbs. (b) In Job.
(4) Whose seed was to become numberless as the sand of the sea? (Genesis.)
ANSWERS TO MAY QUESTIONS. Juniors.
(1) Thirty years, 2 Sam. v. 4. (2) Hiram, King of Tyre, 2 Sam. v. 11. (3) They sought after him, 2 Sam. v. 17, 18. (4) Their images : they were burned by David and his men, 2 Sam. v. 21.
Intermediates. (1) Judah, 2 Sam. ii, 4, 7. (2) Abner, 2 Sam. ii. 8, 9.
(3) 2 Sam. ii. 10, 11. (4) 2 Sam. iv. 6, 7, 8, 12. Seniors.
(1) Kirjath-jearim, 2 Sam vi. 2; City of David, Jeru-salem, 2 Sam. 10. (2) (a) 2 Sam. vi. 3, 5; (b) Num. iv. 5, 6-15. (3) 2 Sam. vi, 10, 12. (4) 1 Chron. xv. 1-3, 25-28 ; xvi. 1 ; 2 Sam. vi. 17.
MARKS OBTAINED FOR MAY ANSWERS. Juniors.
100 Marks, M. Neden ; '99, E. Lee, C. Oliver, M. Oliver ; 98, E. Evans, W. W. Wright (So glad you keep on).
Intermediates. 100 Marks, C. J. W. Grieveson ; 99, G. N. Gair, E. M.
Walden; 98, W. H. Smith ; 97, W. Parsons. Seniors.
100 Mark's, R. J. Brewer ; 99, M. Akester, E. Knipe (Very clear and concise), E. A. Walden ; 98, H. Edwards.
Follow-the-King Pledges. DEAR MR. EDrroR,—There will be sent, next week,
probably by the time this letter appears, to each District Young People's and Temperance League Secretary, pledge forms on 'which members of our churches and congregatiOns can express their intention to- follow the example of His Majesty the King in the matter of absti-nence from the use of intoxicants during the continuance of the War. These "forms" will be sent by the District Secretaries just named to the Circuit Temperance Secre-taries, who will be asked to- forward them to the churches. It is hoped that good use will be made of these "forms," and that invitations to sign from: pulpits and the efforts of individual workers will lead many to follow the Royal example.
I am, yours truly, S. C. CHALLENGER.
" Free Church Year Book." THE "Free Church Year Book " for 1915, is rendered
particularly interesting in view of the fact that it con-tains the report of the annual meetings of the National Council which were held during the most critical period in the history of the country. In addition the Year Books contains much useful information of a general character regarding Free Church sections and devoted to detailed particulars of the various denomina-tions, and there is a "Who's Who" of Free Churchmen, which should be very helpful, to those who have the arrangement of united meetings. The chapter on "Church and Free Church Statistics" discloses a state of affairs that gives occasion to serious reflection. The figures show "a decrease," according to Rev. F. B. Meyer, "of nearly 3,000 Sunday School teachers and a decrease of over 57,000 Sunday scholars. This is un-doubtedly the most serious aspect of these statistics. This volume should be on, the bookshelf of every Free Church minister and layman.
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out, teachers .should read the whole of 2 Sam. xiii.—xx. Here the history is taken up at the end of David's war with the Ammonites, and brought down to the closing scenes of his 'reign. A very intimate picture—principally drawn from the "Court History "—is given of domestic troubles which confronted David and 'threatened acute danger to his throne. Amongst these troubles was the rebellion of Absalom. This is generally attributed to insolent ambition on the part of Absalom ; lit may be viewed more correctly as an episode to which in the first instance David's characteristic weakness in dealing with members of his own family contributed not a little.
(2) Briefly note the course of events which led up to the rebellion. Absalom is first introduced to us in xiii. as passionately 'resenting a cruel wrong done by his half-brother, Amnon, heir-apparent to the throne, to his own sister, Tamar. This strain of nobility in Absalom's character should not be overlooked. Here, too the first indication of David's weakness in dealing with members of his own family is apparent ; for he takes no steps to bring Amnion to book. This becomes clearer if to xiii. 21 we add, with the LXX., "yet did he not pain the spirit of Amnon his son, for he loved him because he was
* his first born " (cf. also his treatment of Adonijah, 1 Kings i. 6). This easy dealing with Amnon should be compared with the much harsher treatment meted out to Absalom when, to avenge his sister's wrong, he encompasses the death of Amnon. True, the manner in wh'i'ch he did this .was very cunning, even traitoro•uS ; and the crime of murder may hove been considered worse, in the relative standards of those times, than the sin of adultery. But Amnion for two years went unscathed
23) ; 'while 'at the end of that time Absalom, having at last avenged his sister, was compelled to spend three years in exile at the court of his grandfather (xiii. 38) to escape the "blood revenge " which the relatives of Amnon were likely to exact ; and when at length Joab, by a stratagem, induced David to permit Absalom to return to Jerusalem, it was still 'two years more before David would consent to see him and so complete the reconciliation (xiv. 24, 28,. 33). Five years spent in disgrace, feeling all the time • that the treatment was not quite fair, may well have caused Absalom to become bitter in spirit and thus contributed to his moral deteriora-tion. It was probably more than vain ambition, there-fore, which led Absalom, in the character in which we next see him, to cast aspersions on his father's ability to do justice and to suggest that he 'himself could fulfil 'that kingly service with more zeal (xv. 1-6).
(3) With this passage (xv. 1-6) begins the actual story of the rebellion. Absalom, having successfully ,‘'stolen the hearts of 'the men of Israel "--i.e., befooled them (the 'Hebrew's did not regard the heart as the seat of affec-tions, as with us, but of intellect ; hence, "to steal the heart " means " to take in," deceive or dupe)--then raises the standard of revolt at Hebron. David is evidently taken by surprise, and possibly finding the forces of revolt very strong within Jerusalem, retires from the capital to the East of Jordan, and later the same day Absalom enters the city. The story of David's flight (xv. 13, xvi. 14; xvii. 15-22) is so' ,minutely described that it has been remarked : "of no single day in the whole course of the recorded history of the Hebrews have we so detailed a record . . . From the time when, in the morning hours, he passed in haste through the eastern gate until, before the next day had dawned (xvii. 22), he and all his following had safely crossed the pord.an, every hour is crowded with life and incident,
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HINTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 20th, 1915.
ABSALOM'S FAILURE.-2 Sam. zviiie 1-15. We venture to propose some readjustment of the les-
sons for the next three weeks. The present arrangement is, very unsatisfactory. The story of Absalom is divided into two, and between the two parts of the same story comes a Review Lesson of the whole of David's life. It will, therefore, 'be better if the second lesson on Absa-lom's rebellion immediately follows the first, and the Review Lesson be postponed a lweek. Further, the sug-gested Biblical material for the two lessons on Absalom is a very meagre selection, drawn entirely from one chapter. A more complete view of the story would be gained if a beginning were made much further back in the history ; and we suggest the two following subjects : (1) Absalom's Rebellion, 2 Sam. xv.—xvii ; (2) Its Re-sults, 2 Sam. xviii.—xx. As these are the last lessons on the career of David in the present course, the Review Lesson then folloWs naturally, and the way is opened for the new series on the reign of Solomon.
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Hints on Teaching. (a) Junior Classes. (1) For the lesson here the teacher should have a, map
showing Jerusalem, the R. Kidron, Mt. of Olives, 'the R. Jordan, Mahanaim and Hebron. Begin by remind-ing the children of some of the stories we have had con-cerning David, . stories of his bravery in battle, of the friends he made, and the sins he committed. We are now to have a story about "David at home." It is'a story of David when he was coming to be an old man, and when his sons and daughters were grown to be men and women. David had a great many sons and • daughters, and they did not always get on well with one another. Perhaps the younger sons were. jealous of the one who they thought would be king when David died ; and sometimes, too, they did unkind and cruel things to each other. Two of the sons were called Amnon and Absalom ;. and they had a sister called Tamar. - Amnon, the prince, who was to be king when David died, had clone something very wrong to Tamar, which Absalom thought ,his father ought to have punished. But David did nut do so, and so, when two years had gone by, Absalom, still feeling angry with Amnon, killed him. Tell how David, who had been too kind to punish Am-none was very strict with Absalom, so that for three years Absalom was in exile for fear of his life, and for live years his father would not see him.
(2) Perhaps it 'was this that first made Absalom, when at length he was allowed to return to Jerusalem, feel that he would like to be king instead of David, but some people think that Absalom was always vain and ambitious. (Tell of his beautiful hair and of his chariots and horsemen.) Describe how he began to put it into the minds of people that he would make a better-king than his father. This was very wrong of Absalom, but people began to believe him, until, at length, he per-suaded them to make him king in Hebron.
(3) Tell of the news coming to David, of the surprise and flight 1. With the aid of the map, describe the start and the journey and picture the various people, friends and foes, they met with on the wiay. Tell of David wait-ing by Jordan for news of what was happening in Jeru-salem, of Ab,salom deciding that he would lead his army to take his father prisoner, and of 'David crossing the river in the early morning to find a safe place of refuge. End the lesson by contrasting vividly the feelings of David and those of Absalom on that night. David sor-rowful, feeling that perhaps God was punishing him for his own sins, and making him for the second time in his life a fugitive and a wanderer, yet with his thoughts always of Absalom. Absalom, nursing a grievance and vet breaking God's commandment to honour his father and obey his king ! Next week we shall hear of the terrible ,end that came to Absalom.
(b) Senior Classes. (1) A useful scheme for the lesson here would be to
consider how far David and Absalom were to blame in the events which led up to the latter's rebellion. On the one hand, David's characteristic weakness, natural affection over-riding moral judgement ; on the other hand, Absa-lom's moral degeneration, springing from . wounded pride and vain ambition, .make valuable topics for discussion.
(2) Begin with a brief account of 'haw David's later years were embittered by domestic troubles, 'amongst others repe,ated attempts by one or other of his sons to usurp the throne. The best known of these is the re-bellion of Absalom. Briefly sketch the events that led up to it, bringing out the comparison between David's treat-ment of the two princes, and indicating the first stages of the rebellion.
(3) The cause of these crowning sorrows of David's life was partly the lack of moral force he displayed at this period of his life. This may have been due to two things : (a) his natural affection overpowering his moral judgement, e.,g., in the case of Amnon and Adonijah, as well as with Absalom later ; (b) his moral confidence in himself m.ay have been shaken by the memory of his own great sin. The far-reaching effects of one sin, the undermining of moral strength that ensues, are here powerfully illustrated. Similar reflections arise from a consideration of Absalom's fall. Natural as was his dis-position to avenge his sister's injury, he sinned in taking his brother's life, and from that point a. steady moral deterioration sets in. Even his vanity and ambition seem to spring from a false self-esteem which merely covered the shame of his sin and long disgrace.
June 10, 1915.
News of Our Churches. MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Engagement. 1916-17. Mills, E.S., remains at Bishop Auckland a fourth year.
1916-18. George, A. C., remains a fourth and fifth year in the
Long Eaton Circuit.
Changes. 1916. Chadwick, VV., has intimated his intention of leaving,
the South Durham Street Mission, Sunderland, after three years' service.
MANCHESTER AND SALFORD GUILD. MEMBERS of the Guild met at Clayton for 'the annual
meeting. Mr. H. Case presided over a good attendance. An important resolution was passed and sent to the Manchester Federation of Free Churches, to enable the Hospital 'Chaplain of the Free Churches to visit United Methodist patients in the Royal Infirmary. The report of the Education Committee was given by Rev. J. Taylor. Financial reports from the Young People's Dernonstras_ tion, in the Free Trade Hall, and the Guild Funds, were given by Mr. Hodgson, and considered satisfactory. ,Min-isters leaving the Guild for other spheres received a kind, and gracious farewell through the President. In the case of Rev. H. Fa•ull, who was absent, the sympathetic expression of the Guild was communicated by the secre-taries. Next year's officers are : Rev. J. A. Thompson, president; Rev. A. E. Fletcher and Mr. W. H. Egerton, secretaries; Mr,. Hodgson, .treasurer. Rev. J. Harrison read a paper entitled "The Present Outlook, and the Free Churches." He said that the present outlook must relate to the war, the war being so much in evidence. Amidst the rattle of musketry and the groans of wounded and dying men, we are compelled to take our bearings. The modern movements, the march of mind, . the tri-umphs of culture hard been consecrated to the perfecting of the art of 'war. World power, or downfall, has be-come their watchword. The empire which has been the acknowledged, leader 'of the world in the things of the intellect, perverted its educational machinery to the pur-poses of the Prussian -monarchy. He was no advocate of ignorance, but felt that we must be economical in the demands we make upon our young people, and the time they give us must be turned to the best amount, remem-bering how much there is to 'do, and how little time there is to do it. Something more was needed for the purposes of life than the day school or the technical college. Education, with everything else, must be laid at the pierced feet of the world's Saviour. He claimed that for fifty years or more we had been endeavouring through our Sunday ,Schools and home influence to sup-ply what in merely secular .education is lacking. We could not depend on the day school to do for us what is needed. In Germany the Government had captured and utilized for its own ends the educational machine. We saw the fruit in this awful war. The Free Churches stood in the way of any such Prussianizing of England, by fidelity to worship and to the principles which that worship 'enshrines. The future of humanity and of Christ's redeeming work was, in the long run, bound up with our fidelity. Anyone who could help to greater effi-ciency in our Church work of religious education of the young, so , as to capture their minds and awaken them to the value of their heritage,' Would be rendering per-haps the greatest service imaginable to 'the cause of Christ and humanity.
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SOUTHPORT. OUR Duke Street Church has a reputation for public
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