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A greatly honoured, but now sainted, leader in our Church, discussing with the writer the relative importance of our Church aseemblies and courts, expressed the view that no meeting of our ecclesiastical year compared In possible value and lax-reaching result with the September Quarterly Meeting. Not the official returns of March were, in his view, chief, but rather the prayerful statesmanship and the con-e.rated programmes of September.

I. Taking the long view, and setting

things back in their true spiritual perspective, few will be inclined to question the accuracy of such a judg- ment. In this day of unparalleled opportunity, and with the carefully prepared recommendations of the Spratual Advance campaign before our Church, the September Quarterly Meetings now in session or inane-dia.ly pending, will meet, deliberate, and dissolve under a sense of enormous responsibility. Never before have we encountered conditions such as face us now. Never did life throb with greater interest and value. If it is true that. the world-situation is grave and menacing, that in itself offers the challenge, while it provides the oppor-tunity of making these to be among the greatest days of the Son of Man. To fail in Christian statesmanship now and hem is to declare ourselves unworthy of the treasured gains of the past, and traitorous to the Master's clear call in this wealthy present.

harvest truly is plenteous," said Jesus, commenting upon the ready response of the Samaritan wcenan to His presentation of truth to her conscience and heart, with its never-failing note of immediate appeal. Looking over the harvest fields to our hand, in home, in Sunday-school, among the unattached of our congre-gations, and the apparently indifferent outsider, can we not hear the authori-tative judgment of our Lord urging the same comment, and, with even greater emphasis, pressing upon us the

What is the lesson of the recent spiritual stirring in East Anglia? A true movement of the Sph-it, corning without " noise or observation," unadvertised, aini.t unarranged, being the natural outgrowth of loyalty to the law of spiritual advancement. What of the still more recent Tyneside revival, having behind it undoubtedly more of concerted arrangement and preparation, yet surprising even those who led and shared at by its spiritual accompaniments and issue? Nor are we without evidence that a genuine work of the Spirit is in progress in the delightful testimony of brethren devotedly pursuing their circuit work

that conversions are frequent, the spirit of inquiry and eagerness is such as they have never known, and that. crowds hear the preaching of Jesus

While even as we write we learn from the gifted pen of Dr. Charles Brown how it is proposed to centre immedia.ly upon the Metre-polls, and teak to girdle London within the spiritual mina seriously facing the greatest thing the modern Church has undertaken. A converted London would mean a redeemed England.!

It would be easy to multiply examples on a world scale, as witness the revival in the States and the advance over the whole field of missions, unmietakably assuring us that we are moving toward a Pentecostal era, a new renaissance of spiritual learning, leading on to a greater Reformation than the world has ever seen. It is under such conditions, then, in our name, and on behalf of thousands in our Israel who long and pray to see the Kingdom of Cod come with power, that the official brethren and sisters will gather for conference and decision during these days.

let us see the position ae it is. Within the Churches everywhere are expectation and longing such move have not often known. Outside the OWiurches a truly appalling condition of need, before winch the wisest and moet ex-perienced statesmen of our time stand baffled and perplexed, some of them, indeed, using language of the gravest Import as to the pmaible issue. Let us say of it at once that the hopeless- • near of statesmen and the failure of statesmanship is the opportunity of the Church. The failure to secure peace since the horror of the war, even like the actual calamity of the war itself, with the causes which led up to it, point to a disease and a remedy beyond the understanding and the capacity of statesmanship. It is the bu si n.6 of the Church to say God has been ignored or defied. Eternal law has been tooltisigna. We have but reaped as we have sown. God must be in reality, and not merely in name, enthroned and obeyed. Jesus, alike as Teacher and as Redeemer, must be heard and received as the only answer of Cod to man'ta need and man's sin. The remedies of Parliaments do nob operate in the region of the disease. Christ, the wisdom of God and the power of God, is the crying need of the world.

It is this fact which invests the Church with the only human authority worth talking about. And the authority thus vested in the Church is exactly what the present time needs, and what, if we read aright the restless-ness of Our time, for which the world waits. Wherever the voice of it is heard there is a r.ianse as quick and unerring as the ear to sound or ma the eye to light. We have already qualified

The Call to Advance. A MESSAGE TO THE QUARTERLY MEETINGS.

By PRINCIP AL PICKETT.

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the indifference of the " outsider " as apparent." Recent days have proved

'once more that where there is an at-lempt to find the point of contact and an attractive, arresting statement of Christ's claim, he bounds to its answer-ing hospitality as an exile toward home. May not the widespread dissatisfaction and restlessness of our time be an acute expression of that unceasing quest of the human heart for a rest and peace which alone is found in the peace of Christ's indwelling love?

IV. But these musings have led, as they

always will, into lance; of truth beyond our present purpose. Yet they will have served to reveal to us the greatness of the hour and the more than ordinary importance at this juncture of our Quarterly Meeting couneels. It is an occasion when matters of mere !routine should be taken for granted or absorb the minimum of time. The hour de-mands clear vision, a comprehensive grasp of tho situation, high statesman-Ohio, consecrated devoiren, a -splendid faith in the Church, and especially in that Gospel committed to the Church's care: Let there be no slavery to the dead hand. Let custom give way to necessity, especially where custom be-.omes a herder rather than a channel. Let our brethren meet and pray and de-liberate as the custodianaef the greatest tress.re committed to than, in one of the greatest hours God the made, so that their decisions may End practical outworking in a season of service and ingather.; far greater than any record of the mighty past.

Mow Cop in Danger! The rumour that the summit of MOW

Cop, with its picturesque castle and the " Old Man of Mow," have been acquired from the lord of the manor for quarrying purposes has arouthd the keenest interest in the public Press throughout the country. The " Daily News," " Westminster Gazette," and the " Tim." have drawn attention to the proposed vandalism. The "Man-chester Guardian," in a leading article in its issue of the 27th, expresses gratification that the kcal authorities are taking vigorous action for the pro-tection of Mow Cop, and also poents out that the slopes of Mow Cop are the property of the generations who from. its eminence have enjoyed the delight of the extensive views afforded acre. the widespread Cheshire plain. But, say they, quite truly: "Maw Cop is also a place of pilgrimage. It was under six brow that the Primitive Methodist Church held its first cause in 1807, and there are thousands of men and women all aver England to whom. Mow Cop represents a sacred day in history." This expresses the sentiment of our Church with deep 'understanding—.Mow Cop is the Mecca 'of Primitive Methodists. The memoriee of the Centenary Camp Meetings held on Mow Cop in 1907, and again in 1910, live in the hearts of scores of thousands of people who sang and :prayed and greeted one another in the name of the Lord on these

- -bietorie occasions. The Connexional "aufhorities are considering what are the most effective steps to be taken to preserve the right of way. to the summit and to save its ailment landmarks from destruction. It is a fitting opportunity for the

-denomination to acquire the summit and thus to secure it for ever to the ,public. There is sufficient Connexional .sentiment to do this, and the money ,required for the purpose would be forthcoming.

Messege of Thomas is Kempis." :By Rev. E. J. Ives. IStudjilt Christian ,Movement. Is. 6d. net.) This is a charm-ing book based upon one of the soul's classic.. All who desire to know about the

:Imitation of Christ will find food for mind and heart in these pages. The authorship is discussed and an account of (Thomas s Kempis given, and the thntenls are analysed. Another chanter deals with the message of the author. There are useful -criticisms of the book. and the value of the Imitation is luridly set forth. The reading of these pages fires one's desires es return again to the book. which ought to bo known to every devout soul.

Is the old college days my loved friend H. 0. H. Richardson often spoke of the happening's ab the famous Stock-ton races (Stockton was his native heath, and there his body, worm.et too early, sleeps). I purposed when I game North to see for myself the great sight. To-day was my first chance, ens' I decided to go. Not alone did I feel the pull through curiosity, but from the fact that a brave little band of Chris-tians from Stockton, led by Mr. Hardy, and a few students from Cliff Collage, headed by a rising young barrister, who has left all to herald Christ,' had an-nounced they would tell the Christian Evangel on the racecourse. The Chris-tian as adventurer is always magnetic and contagious. He snakes me feel I would like to do " my bit."

As I approached the race-ground I noted the challenge of the " bookies." Boldly chalked on walls and telegraph posts were such words: "—, bookie from Blackpool. Find him in the Is. Id. ring." " —, bookie from. Derby, tells the winners to-day." Chal-lenging placards .11 of sporting papers on sale containing the secrets of the day. I was struck with the big, block type used for all the posters about the races, and wished printers of Church advertisements had as much settee and life. There is not only science, but art, in successfully throw-ing the inkpot at the devil!

Within the gates the scenes almost baffle description. Thousands of people are here. Who can look at a crowd with dry eyes? " When He looked upon the multitudes He was moved with compas-sion for them, because they were dis-tressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd." What numbers of old men are here! If the face be an index to the soul some of these aged sons of God are possessed with devils. They evidently know not the secret of which Montaigne writes about, " grow-ing old beautifully." Evil passions and purposes have obliterated the family features. Dfany women are here, rush-ing to and fro, almost beside them-selves, seeking to get " the latest" about their favourite horses. But the saddest aspect about this crowd is half of it is composed of young men, the England of the morrow. Some shyly told me they were at the sores for the firth time. Some said, " They'd been brought up to it." Several said, " They wanted a new fillip, and had come to the races to get one."

Tipsters are everywhere! Scores of them are brawling and wildly 9eeati luting. It is s very Babel. Tipsters, with their " clerks," " bullies," " tin-lacks," "bouts," are doing great busi-ness. T. listen and won discover theirs is a lying tongue. Some are wearing worn-out jockey's attire for stage effect. Most of them are loudly dressed, and are evidently experts in " drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as with se cart ro They swoop money into their big bags with both hands. " That bloke never backs his own horses," I heard one sass. " but, here goes, I'll have flue hobs' worth." How easily these folk are gulled . Surely they are slaves who should be free. If money be tight else-where, it is not so here. Many ill-clad people are freely pouring it into the coffers of full-blooded sorcerera.

We move among the crowd giving attractive slips: " The biggest win to-day ? (arrist!" " Admit one free." " A special invitation: Come tin. Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you sere." Thousands are distributed. Some scoff. Some s.m surprised at being spoken to on such a subject and " in such a pls.." Some say, as they put the slip into their pocket, they'll think about it."

The races begin. As many are rush-ing to get the best positions for a

glimpse of stress the missicmers form a circle and pray. Audible prayer ie usually difficult, but prayer on this racecourse seems easy. When hell is let loose who can withhold the strong crying and tears? The horses pass the post, and a big roar sends the air. Between every race short, sharp messages are given. The Christ-filled young barrister, Mr. Norman Dunning, cues to the, passing crowd and those standing sround, " The Cross of Christ is reeled on this racacour.. Think! That Cross spells sacrifice. What do Stockton racer say? The Love of God is bleeding for you! What of Stockton races? You c-es called to do justly, love mercy, wank humbly with thy God. What are you doing at Stockton races? " One tipster enters the ring and rounds " on the saints." He thouted that he used to be " s mister," and he had " found more devils in the Church than saints." He was blatant, and claimed to speak on all subjects under the sun. I ventured to go to 'him and say, " You used to be a ranter. I am one new. You say you can speak on any subject. I've one for yes. Speak on this, ' He shall ease His people from their sins.' " He made an attempt to say something, but soon floundered and broke down. In the end I suggested, " You say you COO do big things? Yes, well, I ask you . do the -biggest thing you can ever do." " What is that? " he asked. "Get alone and pray, God be merciful to me a sinner."

I have seen at Stockton races to-day the demoralising of real sport. The horse is s beautiful creature of God. Doubtless some were at the races because they laze the horse and desire tn. sport. But my general impression is the sport on this field is not sporty. The happenings of to-day are honey-combed with fraud and trickery. Much foul language is uttered and simple joy is crucified. What I see snakes are think of the dragon in the Atho. lvpse that had, "as it were," s crown ca gold an its heed. It is all " as it were"! Everywhere are evidences of the hollowness of the gambler's pains. The ground is strewn with numbered tickets, bought at e price, with the numbers of losers printed thereon. Many are torn to shreds in angry disappointment. Some have curses written upon them. Where the fruit of gambling is so evil the root of it must be rotten. On the day I SOW these sights Mr. Isaac Foot, M.P.. a Member of the Commission now sitting on the auestion of legalising betting, states that though he is strongly opposed

frunTild; small 'inhararibt'ylieovrthet Commission will recommend the Government to adopt the plan. To legalise this devil's business would be a national disgra.. What is the Church going to do? Horatio Bth.mley said in the House of Commons had it not been for "those little Bethels " the proposal to adopt in thia thamtry the legal issue of premium hands would have been successful. Will not the Church again leave her corner and save the State from the shame of malting gambling appear respectable?

There are now only two Tendon firsts devoting themselves to the manufacture of quill pens. The senior is that of Messrs. Henry Hill and Sons, the senior partner of whom is Mr. Henry Hill, who inherited the business from his father, artd who is in direct control of the firth Per many years Mr. Henry Hill has been intimately asso-ciated with the Working Lade' Insti-tute and Home, Whitedtapel, which for the peat twenty-two years has been. doing suds good work under the superintendence of Rae Thomas Jackson, aided by his now sainted wife.

What I Hear. General Booth proposes to eaten).

his Empire Women's Migration Wark, and is appealing for £100,000 to theist him in carrying out this work. Widows and their families, to the number of 1,769 women and 1,019 children

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by this agency alrealfy been trans-ferred from unsatisfactory conditions in this country to the Cokmi..

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A recent convert to the Roman Catholic: faith, who was for many years actively associated with our Church in the Metropolis, made the confession to a prominent Connexional officiel a few days ago that it was the occasional sitting ender the ministry and teaching of Dr. Orehthd at Kase'. Weigh 1101180 Chapel that first created unsettlement in her mind, ultimately culminating in s desire to be a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

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The new volume on "London : Its Origin and Early Development," from the pen of Mr. William. Page, throws, I understand, much new light on the evolution of London, and gives in a most interesting form much informa-tion Which is quite new. He holds tho conviction that London did not exist as an entity before the Celtic age.

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Enormous losses have been inflicted op the shipping industry by the seven weeks' strike at the London Docks. No one! has gained by this conflict except the pawnbrokers and London's rival ports. The workers in our East London Mission, situated in the very heart of Dockland (Superintendent, Rev. Jaaaph Johnson), tell me that the strike has inflicted much suffering on thousands of honest workers inno-cently dr.n into the orbit of disor-ganisation, and the disastrous effects will be felt for many months to cone.

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Bishop Hensley Henson less been calling attention to the bad ventila-tion and vitiated atmosphere of many churches. He has the thnviction that much. of the inattention and restless-seas is due to atrocious ventilation. Some of our churches would gain immensely by more attention to this matter.

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After a ministry of fifty years, Rev. Jam. Stephens, M.A., et Highgate-road Baptist Church, is stout to satire. Inspired in his early ministry by George Miller, of Bristol, he sur-rendered as fixed salary and threw himself in absolute dependence on God and the freewill offerings of his people, and I understand that, though his faith has sometirbueseesbm:=1 toned, it

has never • • •

Sir William Davison, M.P.,' is reported to have said that " Germany to-clay is, apart from the United States of America, incomparably the richest country in the world in natural resources

sod industrial ermipsnent.

She has s population of 28 millions peatee than that of Great Britain. By her wilful inflation and wholesale printing of marks she bra liquidated the whole of her internal debt and debentures. Although we won the war we are paying an annual tribute of 35 million pounds a year on our debt of one billion pounds to Amerioa. We have spent some 400 million pounds in keeping our million and a half of unemployed. We are being taxed at the rate of £15 per head of our popula-tion as compared with the taxation of about 15s. per head in Germany."

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In some circuits there is a proposal coming befare the September Quarterly Meeting to authorise the appointment of an agent in each society to promote are increased circulation of this journal. There is a growing feeling that no Primitive Methodist home to complete without the Leader.

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Stockton Races. SCENES ON THE RACECOURSE.

By Rev. JOHN BRADBURY.

AUGUST 3', 1923

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 563

Woman's Views During the school holiday. mast of

our Women's Meetings chew down, but the approach of September reminds as of the importance of getting into work-ing order for winter activities. Throughout Primitive Iletheeliam, from north to south and 11,ft east to west, there at women whose

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of Christian service that presegits itself to avenge women meets with more response than this, nor affords More satisfaction in its fulfilment. To those who preach from the pulpit it must often come as a Teal discourage-ment to contemplate the small effect that preaching appears to have upon their hearers; if sermons could have saved, the redemption of the world would have been accomplished long ago. Bet while scum few are educated and soma stimulated by pulpit minis-trations, in the lives of the vast majority the results seem distressingly small.

• • • Not so in the Warren's Own. As we

gather together in intimate contact a new responsiveness is born ; heart speaks to heart, and hand grips hand in mutual understanding. To many who are hard pressed, the drudgery of life finds relief and illumination comes to the dull routine. The trials, afflic-tions and bereavements of a band of homely women become pooled, no to spank, and find alleviation in a common fund of sympathy. Now it is eternally true that the best way to learn is by attempting to teach others; tee gain by pining, we lose by holding back. Thus the leaders of this work find themselves as much blessed as than whom they seek to help, possibly more so. There have not infrequently been among not those who have grown into the too common habit of nursing a sorrow of molehill size until it has become a mountain of tragedy. A temple of sorrow has been erected in which to enshrine a trouble of quite ordinary proportims, and the owner has installed herself as great high priest,

• • • Brought, however, into contrast with

the silent heroism of women who bear physical sufferings without respite and yet whose circumstances demand °awe-less toil, personal anxieties assume a right perspective, and .11-pity gives place to concern for others. Thus salvation comes to helper and to helped, and chords of sympathy bring sweeter music into lives that have been timelese or discordant. It is cheering to Mims that, in approaching this work, our leaders generally give keen reoognition to spiritual needs and make a sincere attempt to regulate the weekly programme accordingly. Our mission is not to entertain nor to emu., but to draw hearts into holy fellowship by the winsomeness of our own lives.

• r. • The personal element must be culti-

vated ; ands grow by contact with souls. Perhaps the most precious gift that any of God's children can acquire ie Ur quality that draws hearts heaven-ward by the silent fragrance of its own; it is worth rank discipline of thought and of conduct to attain this, but even the most ammonplace among to may became so radiated with gracious influences that they flow forth unconsciously. This is the true rich., the greatest asset tee can bring to Christ's service. HOW Shall we attain it? One said thus: " In preparing to go among my women, my special prayer is that divine influence may flow to than through the grip of my hand, that the tenderness of the Master's voice may be 171 my tone, His light within any eyes " ; and here was the secret of a marvellously winsome life. In preparing our programme, let no not forget also to prepare ourselves

From J. M. Barrie: " When you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why Gel sent her into the world—it was to open the minds of all who looked to beauti- ful thoughts., HONOR.,

London Church Council. I was glad to read in the Leader that

Mr. W. H. Pinliorn had been sleeted President of our London Church Coun-cil. He well deserves the honour. Ilia emanation with our Church is life-long. Gin father for many years ren-dered unique service to the temperance cause, and his devotion to the interests of Primitive Methodism was constant and intense. With Mr. Pinhorn as President and Rev. J. E. Thorp as Sec-retary, I an quite sure a lot of energy will be put into the work, and I hope their efforts will he rewarded by large attendances at the meetings. The pro-gramme outlined shows that topics of highest importance will be discussed. But if a word of criticism may be allowed, I an afraid that some of the subjects will be dealt with too late to ensure the greatest effect. The Spiritual Advance Campaign ie to be considered in November, but before that time I hope the movement will be in full swing in all our London churches. In that case the discussion, though uieful, may not be of the highest pos-sible utility. The taxation of betting is a burning question nor, and Rev. E. Benson Perkins can deal with it as few men can. But who can tell what is going to happen between now and next 3farch ? I think it is not unlikely that the time for decisive action may then have passed.

Encouragement for the Delicate. Dr. C. F. Aked, who years ago was

famous as a Baptist Minister in Liver-pool, is now pastor of the First Congre-gational Church—known as the 31il-lionaires' Church—R a nsas City, U.S. A. He is on a visit to England, and the other Sunday, preaching at Streatham, ie reported to have said : If the records of the lives of heroic invalids were destroyed they would lose some of the hright.t pages in the history of mankind. When I was ill Dr. John Watson undertook to comfort me by telling me weird stories of preachers who had lived for a longer span of his than one ought to live with only half a lung —clergymen who had lived so long that their congregations were in fear lest they should live for ever. One of then lived so long that he became a terror to the congregation from whom he had a retiring allowance, because he not only had a colleague, but the colleague wanted a third man, so that it seemed ae if there was going to be s g.logical formation of colleagues, one upon the other, raised on the old sandstone of this man aged ninety, who from the age of twenty-five possessed only one lung. Another man did no well with one lung that it was said that if he had had two hie congregation could have net in their homes and heard him quite distinctly."

Too Old at Forty,-Five. I recently heard of a circuit which is

wanting a minister next year, and in the absence of the present superinten-dent the officials met to consider the matter. A member of the meeting pre-sented a list of twenty names, buthefore considering any of than a resolution wan passed " that no minister be in-vited to this circuit who is over forty-five years of age." I do not know which to wonder at most—whether the crass stupidity or the lack of Christian principle which such a resolution sug-gests. At forty-five a man is in his prime, and the best-known ministers of nest denominations are mostly beyond that age. Ordinary intelligence ought to he a qualification for official life, but that is surely lacking on the part of men who net in this erratic way. A majority of them were, I understand, above forty-five themselves. How would they like the standard whichthey fix for others to be applied in their case ? Presumably they have heard of the golden rule, and profess to have some regard for it; but a more flagrant violation than 'his pan hardly be

imagined. I axe not wanting a station, and I am above forty-five, but if I were eligible and invited I should give a cir-cuit a wide berth if I knew it had passed each a contemptible resolution ae the one in question.

Whitehaven Centenary Celebration Fran September 8th to 10th our

friends at Whitehaven will be cele-brating the centenary of one work in that town and neighbourhood. A splendidly illustrated souvenir has been published, and from this I gather that two of our pioneers RHOHOTIO.1 Whitehaven in the summer of 1823, and a number of conversions took pia.. In the August of that year William Cloves visited the tawn and onamenced a campaign which con-tinued for some months. The birth of our Church ie said to have dated from that time. His work was not confined to Whitehaven, but °altar, Eitiemont, Harrington, Workington, St. Bees and other places were also visited. Nnmermis quotations are given from his journal, the last being for December 31st, 1923. " We held a Wakhatight and sew the New Year in. There were a great many people, and it wen a goad time. The work is doting well been I aun fond of Whitehaven, but I am going to leave it for London." The souvenir gives a historical sketch of each place on the circuit. It records the labours of a long and able succes-sion of ministers, and rightly says, " Wonderful work has also been done by tainted laymen right throughout the century." I hope the services which wilt commonce a week next Saturday may be a fitting climax.

His Ninetieth Birthday. I heard the other day of Mr. John

Lloyd, who, on Friday last, celebrated his ninetieth birthday. Mrs. Lloyd is only a few years younger than her husband, and the old couple are held in highest esteem by troops of friends. Mrs. Lloyd is an enthusiastic supporter of the Women's Missionary Federation, and both she and Mr. Lloyd are keenly interested in all Christian work. I do not know how long they have been connected with oar Church, but an told that Mr. Lloyd served for thirty years as steward at our Mosley-street Church, By rton-on-Tren t, and for twelve years was .nneoted with Bath-street Church, Ilkeston. Our friends are now living at Ripley with their son, and both are enjoying fairly good health. On his birthday Mr. Lloyd received many congratulations, and, though a bit belated, I very heartily wish him many happy returns of the day.

MOW Cop Again. Some weeks ago, in the light of

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By CHRISTOPHER GOODWILL. When my mentor wheedlingly rug- minutes with but slight pauses, and the

pelted that it would be, nice to spend annoancement that she was zeidy to our holiday at the lovely resort where start, would go by .the camel, and

three- dozen years ago a happy pair the journey be delightful—bpi were honey-mooning, and added that apparently to no purpose. Unper-we should be favoured with the fellow- turbedly the slogan was repeated, dread-ship of my ministeteson, his wife, and hilly M. earnest was the pleader, yet no that precious bit of animated nature, note of irritation or impatience crept three-ymr-old grandson Brian, I knew into his voice. I felt sorry for the mum, that everything was already arranged, and jokingly said to my company, and that I might as well yield grace- "Why not tell them there will be etrew-fully to the sorcery of my temptress, berries and cream on the journey, and and so the hottest days of this year see if that will fetch them?" when found ue beside the sea, enjoying to Brim protested, "No, Dandad. there the full its manifold diveraione and isn't any strawberries and cream." Still delights. All too soon the pleasant the importunate not cried aloud, and season passed, but though the holiday still none answered. Then I noticed he be over its benison abides. "Same- left hie perch, whispered, a lady min thing is mine, each morning I hear the sands, who immediately boarded the

- eh of the sea," while " the life " Mermaid," speedily to be followed by en lived is portion, of all that is others. Yet again and again the nat-

l.st in me." man shouted, " Any more for the motor Someone has said that " a holiday boat," and again and again descended

is to Selah in the Psalm of life," but to bombard the halting ; nor ceased he surely, while this, it is mom, for it until the "Mermaid " was packed with makes a music all its own, whose merry passengers, one of the merriest echoes pleasingly haunt us in succeed- being Brian in his .mother's .re, no ing days. So hove I found it. To Inger able to resist the witchery of the hoe over again in grateful runtime- pleader's eloquence. Each succeeding Lion the joys of seaside days is both day the said boatman won my admire-congenial and profitable. One of the tion by his pluoky perseverance, and chief delights of such a sojourn is just gave to furiously to think about other to be once more in close contiguity to and more serious matters—but there, the see, and to feel anew its wonderful the Editor does not leant a sermon, and endhantments. Wordsworth says:— the motor-boat can later serve to point " Two voices are there, one is of the e moral. " I told you, Dandad, there

sea, were no strawberries," earl Brian on One of the mountains, aeh a mighty the boat'a return, amid the laughter of

voice." all who knew the joke. To hear them both is a, privilege un- Few features of my holiday are more speakable, but not easy es it to say congenial than my daily dip in the the vision and voice of which is the brine, which I always find refresh-Trio, impressive. I on however, ing, renewing and exhilarating. No band to confess that from my first swimmer I, who doubtless cut a peculiar sighting of the no that has held no figure as I indulge in wave-splashing. in irresistible thrall, and never more What matter? None could be happier to than now. Never feel I that holiday than I when the wayes and hill°we are has been mine unless the sight, sound rolling over me, for I love the rush and and smell of the oea be one of its the,/ roar of a comparatively rough Sea. Two

It is s joy beyond wools incidents in conneotion with my bathing just to stand or sit upon its margin, to tickled me. After disentangling my

its wizardry, die., of its o,,,,,jog, morning, I flung It from Me as far 86 I thrilled by its music, think of its ...la throw it, when to .9 surprise u treasures, ponder its ministries, lady bather I had not noticed shrieked, welcome the tonic of its ad., drink " 0, dear, wee that an octopus?" I mouthfuls of its life-giving ozone, see turned to see whence came the shriek,

great God in it all, end reverently and assured the terrified Lady that it to whisper, " The Sea is His and He was only a bit of seaweed. She appealed made it." It is one of His gift. immensely relieved, and said, "Oh, I

on .glad. I havea perfect dread of the ootopm," then swam finely far out, laughing as she went. Another day, just as I was finishing dressing, a knock resounded on my van door. " whet is it7 " I asked, thinking it was the machine man come to hurry me to "Please," said a woman's voice, "a lady bather has forgotten the number of her van, and we are trying to find which it is." "Sorry," said 1, " it it not this," more grateful for a strongly bolted door than I oars say. Lepea of memory in such circumstances was very unfor-tunate, and exposed the girl to a gored deal of innocent banter. There were at Least sixty vans on the beach ; mine was 67. Just as I emerged I learnt the girl had diecovered hers—it was 13.

Another delightful holiday diversion is meeting old friends, and there is no place like the promenade of a seaside for this. This year I not fewer than usual, but the pleasure of running up against these tooth utter unexpectedness was priceless, their smile a bit of heaven ; their words, music; their handshake, a love revelation ; their g.sip, lovely entertainment. Oh! what laughter we had—laughter that kindled smiles in the faces of passers-by. Here is a well-known minister of outs; I ex-press my surprise he should be reading the "Daily Mail," when he reminds no of the circuit steward at the Con-ference, who speaking of the Stationing Committee, said his circuit had had to take what was left! And here is a dear friend from Lancashire—a real Oneiiphonis, for he path oft refreshed me. What glorious times I have *ant

DR. DALTON.

An Impression and an Appreciation.

By Rev. GEORGE A. METCALFE. A visit to Scarborough has awakened

old memories and added fresh fuel to old fires. One name has been respon-sible—not;- Scarborough, with all its varied charm, but Edwin Dalton, who chanced to be spending a week-end with hie old friends at St. Sepulchre-street, with whom the second week-end in Angast has been a special fixture sin. 13131. Mine ware a fine galaxy of preachers--Ferrier Hulme (President of the W.leym Conference), Moffat Gautrey, David Donald, Edwin Dalton. With me, the last was first for very spacial reasons; it drew me, and I fol-lowed on, right glad to share the warmth and fervour of Primitive Methodism, though one of another fold.

Mme wee a reflective mood on the way. I was retrospective and intro-spective. Thirty years ago how differ-ent Was life to me. Then mine was a neyeboy's lot on the bottom rung of things. I was one of God'e poor things --the fifth sparrow without values ac-cording to social reckonings. Edwin Dalton was then in the Loads dietnct. at Armley. The only sermon I heard hire preach was the sermon of his life. It wee telling with the masses, for " the common people heard him gladly ".; it told upon me, helping me to realise the Divine value of my low level—help-ing no to see in my bottom rung the first step upward. The past week-end gave no a chat.ce to acknowledge my indebtedness.

The cheering sight within the walls of the fine old church in St. Sepulchre-s..et bore witness to the unfailing popularity of the one who is at once the Greatheart and the wise wit of his Con-nexion. The secret of his popularity was patent in eve, phase of the ser-vices. Here was a high priest with bells and pomegranates about the hem of his preaching mbee. Religion with this man is no prosaic round of dullnese, no kill-joy, no morbid sentimentalism. It is a robust thing delighting itself in fathers, and attractive by the feast it freely supplies equally with the feast it enjoys. Here le a.purveyor of sunshine and smile, music and mirth, lyric and laughter. breeze and bouyancy. There is tonic here as in the sea-swept breezes or the wind-swept theatherlands. One is braced for life's sterner things as he listens. The religion of Edwin Dalton ao traffics with the Master's heart the, it nemls must traffic with all hearts it is so Divine and so human. His "Love has a hem of its garment which

reaches the very dust • It touches the stains of the streets and

lanes, and because it can, it meet. It dam not not on the mountain, it

is bound to tome to the vale It never finds its fullneee of mind till

it falls on the lives that fail." That explain much. It holds the secret of the.preacher's winsomeness, of the heareee regard. Tears fall, and one is batter for the stirring of his depths. Laughter ripples, and one is thankful for hopes that aro born and new joys kindled.

Dr. Dalton is a living symbol of the perfect naturalness of all truly spiritual religion.. You know it is real and you know it is life—full, free, abundant. glorious. There it nothing artificial, nothing superficial. It is life harnessed to the gleam, linked up to glorious fires that at on. warn and illumine. Who can be criti.1 but the sanctimonious? Surely the sanctified on glad. They know full well that while such an one as this preaches society at its lowest ebb will never lack an inspiring friend, nor will the Gospel of our Lord lack a faithful exponent who will preach it with heart and areal and mind and might.

On the Sunday night of my visit a " traveller" was born, or so the doc-tor said. Well, the message was timely, inspiring, consoling, Quickening. and all Methodism everywhere would be better for the hearing.

bestowed upon us to enjoy. • Hut other delights are there, and

amongst them I should put en a °mi-mic.ua place the exciting diversicma of the beach. To squat upon the sand, or lazily to sit in the deck-chair pro-vided by a man w.ho was a paragon of politeness, and note, in the inter-vale of one's reading, all that was going on was a real treat. The seagulls careen ing in the air and dipping in the sea with inimitable grace, the children playing and paddling, apparently tiro lessly, to the accompaniment of marry laughter, visitors garbed in variegated dress, some so loud as literally he soreem, and others outdoing the famous coat of many colours, neigh boors sleeping or even snoring, or helk. ing in all sorts of dialects and of all sorts of things, including parsons, col-lection and corns, forgetful that eavesdropping was unavoidable, gloriousmusio broadcasted from the pier orchestra hard by without an aerial, snatches from Pundh and Judy, who were nearer still—all these contributed their quota to our cup of joy. But nothing amused me more then the way in which one robust, pleasant-faced seaman touted for trippers on our first visit to the sands—an example to all in the pertinacity that conquers. " Any more for the motor-boat! "cried he in ton. stentorian.

The sea, run-kissed and placid, was certainly alluring, the " Mermaid " all that could be desired. Everything seemed propitious. I thought there would be an immediate response. But no, the cry continued for at least fifteen

wider his roof! Here is a man from the Midlands who, a, he holds my hand in vice-like (fashion, excitedly tell, no he shall never forget a sermon he heard no preach twenty years ago, text and diecouree are as fresh as when he lis-tened tome. I innocently ask himayhat the text wee, ea I don't remember the occasion. Now I wish I had not, for he blushes and stammers and tells no again it will live for ever in his memory, and it did 'him a world cf good, but I must excuse him for not just then being able to recall either text or theme. I tell him not to worry, and that I have a rether bad memory my-self.

One day a group of very old friends laid sic,. to me who talked of the grave and the gay. One of them told no ho owed his soul to a sermon I preachei, and as I looked upon the strong and u.ful Christian who had evolved from the new-born babe whose first 07 I caught ing yea. ago I was profoundly moved, and thanked God that seed-time is succeeded by harvest; another .id I had officiated at his marriage, and did a grand day's work that day, with which. his wife agreed. Another asked no if I remembered being at a school anniver-any, listening to a young preacher who preached, without acknowledgment, one of My .rmons, and how later at tea one of the school officials remarked in the presence of myself and tie plagiarist, " Meister, dun yen know what we'en been .yin' 7 " And whee I said " No," continued, " Why, we'en been sayin. as Ernest gate more like you every time as we hearin"im preach."

I enquired if a certain brother had married again, when I encountered a. gust of mirth. " Married again? " cried one of them, Not half, two got his fourth wife." I now understand the mirth, and tell them how Father Hal-lett once spoilt a love-feast I was con-ducting by saying, " I hien the Lord for what He's done for me. Pm got three good wive. in Heaven, bless 'em, and another on the way." Yee, the gay and the greys mingled in our conversation, but the gay not less than the grave was to chaste that angels might have lis-tened unblushingly to each story told. Space forbid. mention of many other diversionswhich proved sheer delights—games, clock-golf in especial, rambles, drives, concerts, reading—but a word must be given to the unequalled delight of Sabbath worship. We worshipped in the same shrines as on our previous visit--Tlethodist morning, Congrega-tional in the evening. In the morning the sanctuary was packed by reverent people, Wile Were reverent enough to be in time. I thought—but no, I must for-bear. On! the unutterable joy of a day in God's House, with God's people, in God's presence! What an uplift the singing of hymns, which were a fitting vehicle for the soul's aspirations! What a meal one found In the Scrip-tune that were read ! Frankly, the preacher sorely disappointed me, first because of a holy whine which doubt , less had become a. habit, -seCondly cane his prayers and sermons were so 'redly . irrelevant and feeble. Still, humbly I confess it, I went to the sanc-tuary to meet the All-Holy, and I met Him, and my soul was blessed. Even-ing, the sanctuary was not to Well attended, but the service was inspira-tional throughout. No depressing note there, the message had a freshnese, directness, and dynamic that made wor-ship a time of vision, uplift and rap-ture. •

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565 AUGUST 30, 1923

AMONG THE PRESBYTERIANS.

But for eey recalling a passage in the Book of Job I should have written this article a fortnight ago. To be accurate, not this article but one nearly like it in matter, but unlike it in spirit. An old friend had been discussing with me the housing problem, and we were congratulating our local authorities and private enterprise on pursuing at vigorously schem. whereby several thousands of houses would be provided for this rapidly growing holiday resort, "I've got a splendid elite," says he, " for a house for you when you superannuate. Come and see it." Before I re.vered ability to answer be had led me d through the front door an to the lawn. " When you superannuate." How seemingly unkind and impertinent the suggestion seemed! I called to mind afterwards, in mitigation of his often. sive remarks, that he had " sat under" most cd the four hundred and fifty-eight sermons that I have preached from eey present pulpit in Blackpool. I say " sat under " advisedly, in preference to heard. 13. his had been an offence not easy to forgive, and had I have " etched into print" then hot words would have come expressive of -wounded feelings—shall I admit, of wounded pride, per-haps! But the text which saved mer-it may do a like .rvios for others--was this, " I will complain in the bitterness of my soul." Linked with the. accede Dr. Parker's comment upon them—" this is natural but rut-.."—helped me to a wise silence until my disturbed feelings have been calmed somewhat.

The prospective site for the house had ranch to commend it. It was in a delightful avenue—a cut de sae, too—with delightful outlooks of landscape and seascape. To build there would be, as auctioneers' advertisements often, though not always truthfully, say, to have " a desirable residence, beautifully situated." On returning home I found letters awaiting me, and in one of these a friend had enclosed a brief poem. Two lines caught my eyes " Let me live in a house by the side

of the road, Where the race of men go by."

So the housing problem was with me still! I went to my study to complete preparation for the pulpit ministra-tions of the morrow. We had just returned from -our first and never-to-be-forgotten holiday in Switzerland, and the sermons which lay -upon the desk reflected our holiday experience. Our first view of the J.gfrau, the crossing of a glacier, the afterglow upon the Eiger and the Minch had furnished illustrations.

But that p.m! I could not rid my mind or soul of it. " Let me live in a bouse by the side of the road." It held me in a tyranny that seemed unkind and all-compelling. My first thought, half d.perate, was to preach about it and be done with it " Done with it," I caught myself saying, " no, not finished with it; . there is something to be done with it besides making the theme of to-marrow's termer. Make it first the prayer for your own life, and then take it as God's precept for it, too." And thus was I shown "a more excellent way."

In thew days of noisy, dusty and hurrying traffic it is a great advan-tage to build your house away from the side of the road. But whilst this is quite right as It a house, it is equally wrong as to a life. Many seccumb to the temptation to build their lives as far from the side of the road as they possibly 'can. Some do it with indifference to the needs of the weary, the sad and oppressed. Others with cynicism and scorn of " the rare of men that go by." "I hale the vulgar crowd and keep them at a distance," said Horace, .d many there be of like sentiment. They do not wish to know or care to feel. Deliberate and calculating selfishness dotermines many to build well off the

Rev. Joseph Ritson in Motherwell.

During the absence on .holiday of the inister of Brendon-street U.F. Church,

Motherwell (Rev. J. M. Ritehie,WA.), the pulpit was occupied by Rev. J. Rit-son, an ex-President of the Primitive Methodist Conference. This is the third occasion on which Mr. Ritson has acted in this capacity for this church, end may be regarded as an eloquent proof of the satisfation he has afforded the con-gregation. Mr. Rilson is a favourite with young and old. His talks to the children are relished by the young folks and also by their senior., " chil-dren of an older growth." Natural history—el which Mr. Rason is a life-long etudent—furnishes him with many illustrations, which he uses in the hap-piest way. His addresses to the maturer members of his congregation are full of surprises and suggestiveness. They abound with literary and histori-cal references of great variety and com-prehensiveness. This veteran preacher and prophet is no " extinct volcano." He is full of fire, and the hot lave of burning words issues from him with im-petuous urgency ; the urgency of a man charged with a great meseage, and fear-ful lest it be not delivered within the proscribed time.

Mr. Ritson is no pessimist. He data not believe that this age is worse than its predecessors, or that the world is going to the devil. His faith, like the faith of every Christian, saves him from believing that. His wide and accurate reading of history, his experience of life and his knowledge of human nature but confirm his faith. He is no die-hard. He does not look et things from one angle only. He does not adhere to the modes of thought and expression that prevailed even a generation ago. He is extremely modern. The newest books are pressed into service. The problems which perplex and baffle the world to-day are faced and sympathetically dealt with. Neither is he a killjoy. He data not banish laughter from the hearth or humour from the pulpit. Not once nor twice in the course of a ser-mon has a ripple of laughter gone round the congregation at some abated re-mark or witty aside. He knows that laughter and happiness ought to have a place in human life.

In listening to Mr. Ritson one has the uneasy feeling that the hearer gets too much from the preacher. A, know-ledge of history, philosophy, literature, economise and theology is served out to him. A short attendance et such s ministry could give the most unlettered individual a culture which a university graduate might envy, and all for a trifling expense and minimum of exer-tion. When to this is added the

. greater consideration that one is put in possession of the highest wisdom—that knowledge of God and His wonderful salvation through Christ ; that he gets his faith strengthened, his spirit re-freshed and inspired, then he feels that the balance is hopelessly against him. There is no alternative for the honest hearer but to repay each ronnificenre by conceding the one thing the preacher eo earnestly and insistently asks--a fuller consecration to the service of God. J. M.

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" The Treasure of Tre The Riders from the Bea,,.

side of the road. Whilst to others, their most p.ave dread is fear of the democracy, and this driv.ths.lusion. Notwithstanding all this, David Grayson calls it " The Friendly Road,' and at it is. Such remoteness from the side of the road is bad for those who at build, and equally so for the world which needs their love and help.

A friend of mine recently asked an aog.intance whether he had been to church that Sunday morning. The answer was, " No, it was late, service had started, at I didn't go in, but I saved threepence!" The man who builds his life away' from the road

oubtless often congratulates himself on what he has saved. But his losses are Treater than his gains. We are in. dined to spend all our pity upon the poor who go by his gates unhelped. Bet a deeper pity, though mixed with indignation, should be ours for him who has closed hie gates. He imagines he is better off for not knowing or help-ing the toilworn and saddened lives of others " There is," says Percy Ains-worth, "a holy tender something that is called sympathy ; he can ill afford to forgo the gracious life-enriching op-portunity of service—the priceless right to help his weak brother." The world has lost by his .1fieh seclusion, but his has been the greater depriva-tion.

Unlike these, our Saviour built His house by life's roadside. The proof of this lies in the Incarnation. Also, how accessible He was during His earthly life, and is still in His spiritual pre-sence. " And when He beheld the mul-titudes He was moved with compas-sion." In this, as in all things good and right, He is our Pattern and our Power. Instructed by example, and in-spired by His love, time would fail to tell of those who have built and are building close to human need. "It was left to the Gospel of Jeans Christ to teach men the wider obligations of

their common humanily and their true relation to this aching world." Front thousands of such learners I cannot for-bear to summon the witness of one. No better illustration in modern days can be found than the life of the late George Cadbury.

To those who associate remoteness from " the dusky roads and rambling marts" of life with Quakerism this re-cently published life will bring a need-ful surprise. We may write him down in our thought and love as one who truly loved his fellow-men. In a long life, lived ever near to human need, there was no trace of remdeacension or air of patronage, but running through it, like a thread of gold, the glad con-sciousness that life's glory and joy lie along the road of sacrificial service. There is laughter and gladness to be shared, as well as sorrow and tears, as God has given many of us to know.

If we are to admit the world's pain into our heartsjve must first admit the world's Saviour. In my earlier minis-try poetical perorations were much in fashion, and I here confess I WWI " ad-dicted " to them! But fashions in preaching, including peroraAions, have changed. Mine was a strong- tempta-tion that Sunday morning to finish with a verse from that poem, but a more ex-cellent way, and much more difficult, was the one the Master led me to choose. And so for petition in prayer and precept for practice in life let tie repeat:— " Let me live in a house by the Bide of

the road, Where the raes of men go by ;

They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong,

As good and as bad as I.

That why should I sit in the scorner'e .at,

Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in a house by the side o'

the road, And be a friend to man."

thae'l;laM:OurgrZtdriorttY117e■ months.

A House by the Side of the Road By DAVID OAKLEY.

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. AUGUST'30, 1923

CHAPTER IV. "Aotiostiag We Will Go."

v Jane Dennison grew hilarious when . she saw the faces Soho had to fill up ! relative to his randidatuw for the !ministry.

" They want to know more about you than the folk who have brought you up

flenow. Give day and year of birth? !There isn't any =toe or WORIALI I know i can do that," Jane spoke with ohnonical authority.

" No wonder a man who has bees a travelling preacher for twenty years feels he knows o lot about the world v4iee. they expect a lad to know all

',there is on this paper." Jane found ;her meatiest delight in the following ;mosey: " Hes the candidate made any - engages:seat relstive to marriage?. If so give name and address of the young

(wonout." For a moment Jane took on an assumed seriousness, and looking at

'John whaleingly, mid "My word, lad, but if I ever hear of such non-sense! But ne sensible leas would ever think of tying herself to a lad who would have to keep her waiting seven years. Plenty of better men would come along during that length of time. There's Marpry Brewton; it's a cer-tain truth the won't have to wait seven years for any man. When the fanners' sans gee to know wtlat wonderful prise

:cheeses are being turned met at The !Knoll ' stand in it queue wait- ing their tun to dismiss 'patrimony

lariat Margery. Some farmers' sons have a bit of serge, that's tree!"

Jahn listened amusedly to Jane whilst she kept in the realm of the ,abetrad, but when she began to get to lillustrations he stayed further progress 'with s kiss. Jane world have kept on with the illustration, if she had known the cause for such a pleasant efkset.

" One person loves me, and works Per me. She is altogether •delightfill,, and

l ie the only nne who has any meaning, in ray realm of love."

Jane submitted to a further indig- • tiny, but prevaricated to the extent of •saying: " That may be true for the present, and it's only of the present the paper speaks. Not a word ie there about the future. Pethaps the authori-ties think there is no need to trouble

ert the future. Like me, they think iensible girl will want to wait all

hat time. Yet there's no knowing *hat the men with the wee bow and arrow may he up to."

John switched Jane on to another set of rails. "I wonder what Jerry will hhink about all the conditions? If the members of the quarterly meeting answer ell the questions uncondition-ally they will take a big responsibility upon themselves."

" Jerry will have the time of his life if he happens to he fractious."

Jane was wrong for once. When dlie quarterly meeting did C131110 Jerry was a hero. He moved the document (be signed as a carreot record and for-warded to the proper authorities

'Jerry felt a bigger man when he got saying like that out on the spur of

tilie moment. He began to wonder fsrhether he wasn't qualified to be a ',delegate to Conference. For once in a ,way Jerry wee not in a minority of ,one, but in a majority - which was m lone Such an anomaly made the quer-/early meeting unique.

After the meeting James hitched up ,Bucephalus, and Jerry and John got into the trap fee the trip home. Con-,vereation was very excited, far the in-ppiration el the quarterly meeting was ,with Vlore all. The pitch of their voices was high, and the 'tearer they got to " Whinberry " the higher the

pitch became. The paw of Bucephalus became more exhilarating, too.

The vivacity of the little party attracted the attention of the squire, who hove in sight just as they were nearing home. He sew on horseback, having been trying a new hunter. The harvest had been early, and hunting practice' was possible. •The happiness of the friends was a cue to the squire, who knew them well. He greeted James with a staccato " Afternoon, Dennison! Been hunting? I under-stand Bawds a mighty hunter."

The squire had some idea of very similar welds being somewhere in the Bible, but he would have had great difficulty in fixing them—a lot greater difficulty than the man to whom he was speaking.

James was delighted to catch the squire in cock high mood. 'flaking a note of it for further use, should opportunity emerge, he answered the inquiry by saying: " A mighty hunter is Bnce, without doubt. There isn't a better in the length and breadth of the islands ; in fact, I should think he is the best hunter in Europe, Asia, Aims, America and Australia." Jamee hod been listening to John getting up his geography. " Not much at fox-hunt-ing, perhaps, but when it is monkey-hunting Boos is out for blood every time. He never fails to get a brush, once he starts. Buce may seem slow and sluggish, but s red rag to a. Intll nn't in it with Buce when he sees a monkey. A bull to Buce is like a tor-toise to a streak of lightning if it's monkeys he's after. It's a kill every time."

The squire looked at the =assuming Byre contemplatively. Here was some-thing beyond his reach attogether. Delighted with Jamie' whimsicality, however, he parried What stet of meet did you get the heat time you went-1" The squire appeared to be lost for a word, so James prompted:: " Monkey-hunting."

Forthwith James commenced a. man hunt. Laughingly, he said to the

the best "f'oleinliges-coT:tryd om,:r:t.there", and some of the best fa& cost of it, too. The weather might have been better, but weather never stops monkey-hunters. The fever gets into the blood, and then the monkey has to look out."

" I'm glad it isn't gout or rheu-matism they get into their Mood, or the weather would snake a trarawdous difference." The squire was giving a testimony possibly. " I've been fox-hunting on the welds since I was. lad, but it is the first time I knew monkey-, hunting went on here."

" You've missed a lot of joy, sir. Joy well worth paying for, too. A joy which never loses its charm, either. As for Duce, when he sees a monkey on a. root he haslet a minute's -peace until it is =coked dean off."

"Like the other monkey which is on the table so often, eh? Doss Bute carry a stink ? " The squire roared at his own whimsicalities.

"When Buce knocks a monkey off a roof he never has any need to repeat the operation. It's a kill every time."

" You've given yam horse the wrong name, Dennison. It's Pepsin you ought to !have called him, although I don't see any wings about him." The squire ran a glance over James' pedestnan steed. Jain. 056 00671- pletely at sea, and for the time being the squire forged ahead. James, not knowing why Hum ,ought to be called Pegasus, went back to firmer ground.

If you want !something to stir your blood you ought to to ect a. kill when we are out after a monkey. You shout Tally-ho I ' when the fax is

away, but see Shout 'Hallelujah!' When a monkey is brought dowfi."

The squire's horse grew restless, and he had to rein it in. Buce had oym,- pathetic regards for Ms more arlkto-eratic companion. He, too, had met with a cheek in his peaoaful progress to abundant oats, but it was becoming the protest should come from high society.

Comparative order being restored, James enlarged upon has theme. " The best of monkey-hunting is, see never have a close season. We find one monkey and kill him, and then we look for another. If we can't find one we invent one sometimes, and so we make life a continuous feast of finding and shooting monkeys.

The man-hunt started in dead earnest, when the squire asked what it cost to keep the hunt going. Then James told him what was the ideal of his heart. " We want a chapel at Wuffenham which shall be a place of beauty, sir," James said quietly.

The squire considered for a moment, and then confessed: " Well, Dennison, since you room to Wuffenha.eo you've saved me no end of time. The extra Messure I have got out of life as a COD-sequence is worth a trifle. I suppose you keep your men busy at the chapel they haven't time to go rabbit- hunting, however keen they are after monkeys. So I'm not asked to sit on the Bench very much."

The end of the discus:elan came with the squire promising a, itompound note when the foundation-etones were laid, and a piece of ground en which James had built many a fairy palace, if there ie any association between a. Primitive Methodist chapel and a. fairy pale... James would have been as dogmatic as Jane on the subiect "II there isn't then there ought to be."

The reason why Bow tried to break the record for a sprint to " Whin-berry " must not be set down to oats only. Buce was a Primitive to the nails in his shoes. and speed was his way of showing the joy of his heart. It isn't every horse that is in at the naminating of a candidate for the ministry nalt dthtehe birth .d al_ meat test; one

pranced up the drive to the farm to celebrate the fart that the " old. chariot " was Mill being rolled along.

When John had been through me ordeal of the " oral " loot ewer lacked for a theme which miarantesd him an interested audience. Sometimes, if the troth is to be told, the folk at" Whin-berry " would start him reciting his adventures.

" Were the examiners kind when they akked you questions?" Jane world ask quizzically.

"It all depends on what, yen me= by kindness. U being kind is to show up the weakness of your friend, I met with kindness in the superlative degree. Words I never heard of, or wad of,. came up in the dictation test, Where they were dug up is a mystery. I've read the missionary report, but I never knew we had mission stations in the back blocks of Australia or in Central America. If it is missionaries they are after for Central America, I'm the man, for I would persuade the people there to give their monists:um easier names. ' Where is Mount Popo-

"PeM'"tnd' tne would r as Jolnircled a kettle

Tell me the rivers of Australia." John would say " A good thing I kept in touch with Tam Newbold, or perhaps I shouldn't have known there wens any rivers there at all. It's the far places you want to know when you

Then would come the greet tit-bit. John would look at Jane and my:

The stump speech ' is the nal thing. A Londoner was asked what 11k-flueace Primitive Methodism had in rural England. I we. *d that ques-tion fee mitself, for I Was the yerang kan from the Wuntry."

"Aye, they're A cute lot, are the examiners. I wouldn't be surpldif they didn't do it of "'et Jane was severe upon the suplosed scheming of the examiner. JOil has not without some idea she was near the truth!

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"My, but I was in good fortune's hooka for all that. My speech was upon the associations of Primitive Methodism with Art, Where to begin I did not Isnow. The upheaval within me abotit 'Choked me, but it went down

uick as it embered begun. Then I re-

reoatt44'uftbntem.theIt'sut hear Jerry saying, ' Four walls and a roof are good enough far me, and what does anything further amount to?' Then came the rush! I saw the roses and the wallflowers, the firs and bellies, and the lovely green lawns outside the chapel, and a shrine in which we could meat to worship in spirit and in truth and in the beauty of holiness. I saw it all! So I told the examiners, althoigh I didn't know any theory of Art, I came from a place where we sought to make it a reality in religion and work."

"Good for you, lad," James would utter, with a lump in his throat.

In due course Jame waxed sarcastic about the way the Synod handbook had dealt with John. Whilst another " candidate for the written " was fixed up at a lowly home, opposite John's same Noss the terse declaration

Makes own arrangements." "It's true! a prophet has no

honour in his own country. If the lad had been going thirty miles away no end of a fuss would have been made of him. It's just like the folk sot Dron-field ; one of their own lads has to take pot-lock. As though he hadn't, got enough to think about with oil them books to carry in hie head."

Despite Jane's severities, the Dron. field folk Mies, there was only one home for their own lad. What was the use of having a Synod if their own can -didate could not be at home? As for meals—well, the whole of Dronfield supplies would have been his if they would have helped in any way. That am whew Bow came in, for he had', royal time. For Bow the Synod week was a veritable succession or Saturday nights and Sundays. James summed up the position in a word or two when

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Before the week was through John would have called upon all that was -within him to support the truth of James' aphorism.

(To be continued.)

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A STORY ABOUT OUR OWN PEOPLE.

The Wilderness & The Rose. By AMBROSE ALLCOCK.

AUGUST 30, 1033

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 567

entry into other ONIIMI/DiCWIS at one time, and at the same time was retain-ing his position and its emoluments in our Church, and while doing this was fouling hie amt, the people conceived this conduct unworthy of any Christian gentleman, and more so of a Christian minister. I felt the suspicion, but never gave any intimation that it was affecting me. The people's homes were open to me, and I entered one and all without partiality. I carefully avoided entering into any con.realien with anyone concerning my predecessor's

ur work. I felt I was the subject of a terrible and altogether unaccount-able isolation. No minister in the die-trin gave me a welcome, and they de-liberately shunned me in the street. I was many weeks in the little town, and never eminieter gave me any sign of recognition, and there were nine in the district. I was greatly perplexed and much distressed. I was determined to and it or know the muse. An oppor-tunity came, end I did not fail to embrace it. The laeokmondwike and District Sunday School Union held an annual open-air united demonstration. All the ministers of the town were ex-pected to take a part. I was invited and accepted the invitation. Some thousands of people attended. I deter-mined, if at all possible, I would man a mark in the interests of my people and my own. I prepared myself as thoroughly as my power. would allow. I am afraid I lost sight of the glory of God and the good of men.

When the °cession arrived I went at the time appointed, and no one recog-nised me. I deed at the foot of the steps leading on to the platform. In a few minutes a procession of ministers appeared, headed by a very distin-guished resident and the vicar of the parish. The proceeeion pawed me with-out recognition of any kind. I was greatly pained. Being invited to speak by the committee of management, I took a place on the platform, still with- ;tes.:/edregegn an

As thezeett;r:

minister sitting by my side and, moving hie heed toward me, he said, " This will be Mr. Dalton, I presume?" The minister replied," I presume it is." Then, turning to me, he said, " Mr. Dal-ton, I presume'!" I .id, " That is my name, sir." He then said, " It is your turn next." I replied, I ern afraid sexes-That curtly, "I am ready." The other speakers were not accustomed to nor adapted for open-air work, and could only make a very small proportion of the people hear. I had been well trained, and had greatly practised open• air work. My voice was clear and strong. Sly first sentence rang out to every corner of the field, and far beyond. God greatly helped me, and the vast congregation of young and old just Ilene upon Te, lips. For twenty minut. I delivered myself on the duty of the Church, the home and the country to the young life of the times. I attempted no apology and made no re-ference to my recent experiences, but spoke as though I had authority. When I sat down every man on the platform wished to speak to me. I could not resist a sadden impulse, perhaps it was a little rude, but, remembering the treatment T had received, I deliberately rose in my place, walked off the plat- form, and spoke to nobody.

During the week following the lead-ing minister of the town was commis-sioned to interview me and express the regret of the ministers for what had happened and for the manner in which I had been treated, and to express a hope that I would forgive the past, and also to assure me they hatl been misled. They had been informed that my people had treated my predecessor badly. and without any inquiry they had decided to have nothing more to do with Primitive Methodism. After enquiry and explanation he aseured me my wel-come would be hearty, and all the help they could render would be readily and

H1LD'S HAVEN.

A Sunday Evening's Impressions. A house of God in which there are no

conflicting shadowe, all the light streaming in from one windowed wall, illuminating a galleried church with its yellow gold, relieved by the content-ing towhee of colour from curtains about the choir and argan—sach'ia the setting. We are joining in the hymn, " We dame at early morn to sing . .." —not strictly true for all, perhaps, but true for most of us. A few well-eli.en and fervent words lead us to the heart of Ora 'Worship, andsoon We We rejoic-ing in the fellowship of the saints and in our communion with the invisible. The New Testament.providee its own immortal and unforgettable lemon from the undying beauty and power of the Master's utterance, the Sermon on the Mont. This is read with a due sense of its 'weight and impressiveness, and the mind leaps out in newly-aroused thought One singer arises, and the burden of her song is a most impree- eive appeal—" O Divine Redeemer." The upward yearning of the immortal ion is uttered in waves of inspiring sound. Another prayer links us to-gether afresh in a supplication of need and a quickening of imagination. And, of mine, there are more hymns, heartily sung.

The preacher rises to address himself to his chief work, the sermon. We take a good look at him—a sturdy, well-built figure, with a voice of great rich-ness and power. He makes at once an impression of earnest sincerity and tenth of character. A mobile and ex-pressive face reinforces every word and enhances the appeal. There is no straining after effect and no genes-tionalism. Not many -words have been end, but every mind is vividly pictur-ing s certain point on the road from Jericho to Jerusalem

' -which probably

supplied the Divine Man. with His immortal alternative of the broad and narrow ways. That inescapable choice

tnrcen tot anew to DS all. It is a y modern setting forth of ancient

truth, backed by fine argument and a richly human pereonality. No one who is sincere with himself can escale its implications or shirk a decision. A hash falls on the congregation time after time. We are more than prepared for the singing of "Jesus, San and Shield art Thou." The words of blow-ing send us out again into the narrow, pinureeqbe and precipitous streets of Whitby. We have added to our holi-day meanorise a vivid impression of the personality of Rev. Fred W. Beal, and eahoes of the voice of Mise Ruby Hall. of Jarrow-on-Tyne, will often resound through the chambers of the mind as we roam the moors or haunt the ancient sea-ways of Mid's Haven. W. D.

I had posted my refusal of the invi-tations to some very attractive circuits, who all warned arurious to have my humble service: and had offered very tempting salaries, and had rendered myself empty handed. I wee the sub-ject of the severest temptations and mental dineese Satan suggested that I had plated myself in a hopeless con-dition, and I should have to bs stationed by the Stationing Committee and Con-ference, an experience I simply dreaded. I had learned that to be with-oirt a. station and one to be found for use was most undesirable. The suspense was short-lived, for next day 1 received the unanimous invitation of the Heck-mondwike Circuit, and without any ineuiry I accepted it, and my mind waa quite at ease. Many of nay friend:, being surprised at my decision, strongly condemned eat but not a few com-mended me. All were compelled to acknowledge that my acoaptance was net based on salary or Connectional pro-minence. One of my greaten admirers said to me, " Dalton, I am told you have accepted the invitation of the Ileclunondwike Circuit." I confirmed the report, upon which he said, " Well, well ! there is only one step between the sublime and the ridiculous." And I replied, "No, and I have taken its" I had never a doubt with regard to the wisdom of my decline. I heard dis-turbing reports as to the condition of the circuit, but when I entered I found that one-half had not been told.

I have not known a eircait so com-pletely wrecked. Three places in the Batley Circuit had been attached to it by the previous Conference, and the Batley minister made my colleague. My predecessor had resigned our minis-try, and had sought admission into either the Congregational or Anglican Chnrohea, and had been received by the Anglican.' Before his resignation he had lost both touch and sympathy with our denomination, and had allowed everything to drift, and only held on until a mutable opening came from else-where. He had not spoken kindly of our people to the ministers of the locality, and, without any inquiry into the fade, they had decided to have nothing more to do with Primitive Methodism. The appointments had been either neglected or very in-differently taken. Administration had drifted into a loose state. Societies had been insulted and religious fervour dis-counted. The finance. of the circuit had bean woefully neglected, and had it not been for the diligent oversight of the circuit steward and a few aged and devoted officials the circuit must have collapsed. These facts had never been made known to me. However, had they all been communicated to me, so nen-fidemt wan I of my Divine call to this ephere of service, that if I had been made familiar with the worst condi-tions that confronted ens I should have accepted the invitation. The Almighty showed me the other side. I saw that while there were arduous tasks and immense responsibilities, there would be successes which would be more than a

compensation for any sacrifice I was asked to make. I hoped to have the sympathy and co-operation of the ministers in the district.

I had always maintained a warm regard for ministers of all denominw tione, and generally met reciprocity ; been there awaited me an unutterable lerpriere. The members were reluctant to gips me their confidence. The officials, with a few exceptions, assumed o enspiclons Eitlitude. Their

Fdhien. had been rudely ehaken, and y had fallen into the common error oncleding that all were alike, and I

found they were judging me by my pre-decessor They were not troubled that he had resigned our ministry. They Were Oharitable enough to acknowledge that nay man, at any than, had the right to change his position; but when

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cheerfully placed at our disposal, and he was desired to express a hope I would, allow the whole matter to drop. I ex- pressed my pleasure at their .nclusicm,' but the matter was before the public;

the public, in the interests of my people and I must make the position clear to

and my own. I was invited to speak at a great town's meeting. I embraced the

hefactsaters and .gate

iut, me ad my the public. people a lofty place in the esteem of the public, which we hold today. When I' was elected President this minister wrote an appreciative article to the public press, in which he said, " Primi-tive Methodism may depend upon their.

President defending his own people." Immediately upon entering the cir-

cuit I gave myself -without reserve to the work of the circuit I preached on the. Sunday morning at 7 o'clock at the " Fountain." I then took three services in the chapels, and on many Sunday evenings at 8 o'olock I spoke at great temperance gatherings. I also took special work, and several days in a week took two services. I was worthily assisted by a good colleague and a will- ing band of workers. All suepicion soon vanished, and the circuit wee all alive with workers and givers. A glori-ous revival was enjoyed at almost every, place in the circuit, but especially at Dewsbury Moor and High Town. I could record several remarkable cases of providential interposition on behalf, of needy saints I will venture to give a beief account of the most remarkable. G— was a blanket weaver. He had al little plot of land. He kept a any, and' annually fed a pig for household pur-poses. One year, near pig-killing time, his pig died. He was standing in the pigstye as a neighbour passed to Ins' work. The neighbour said, " sorry, led, tha' lest thi pig," " Why," said 0—, "Ali didn't bean a pig vri mah."' Immediately after his cow died, and he was greatly distressed He wee .socustonied to fall asleep in his chair after dinner. Three days in succession he dreamed that he took a spade and ar riddle to the field, filled the riddle with: soil, and riddled it. When the soil had passed throagh the riddle there were some coins remaining. lie took them to Huddersfield and sold them, and. brought a cow home, for which he had, given £17, and he had £4 in his pocket with which to buy a pig. No wonder that his favourite text ever after wag. " And the barrel of meal wasted not,". etc. I would like to have raid of another who began married life with' fourpence halfpenny, and became one of the. great.t carpet manufacturers in, the world. Lout £33,000 in one day, and although without a penny a gen-tleman gave his name as secnrity at the bank for him, and saved him, and after an honourable career he died wealthy.

The terrible strain of my experiences in York, together with the hard work in Heekmondwike, landed me in a state of nervous debility, which, although woe physically strong, rendered me in-capable of preaching and even of con-ducting family worship. Medically ad-vised, I took my family on to a farm and worked with the farmer's men day by day Sir four ninths, and then, as advised by my doctor, accepted an in-vitation to the Carlisle Circuit, where I could have the advantage of the bracing air of Cumberland hills.

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The Primitive Methodist Leader. Incorporating the Primitive Methodist and the Primitive Methodist World.

Thursday, August 3o, 1923.

The September Quarterly Meetings Within the next weak meet of the

September Quarterly Meetings will be held. Arrangements for the autumn and winter work are ordinarily made at these gatherings, and consequently they may be regarded as the moat im-portant circuit official meetings of the year. On the present occasion there is an added signifioance, arising from the fact that spiritual advance should everywhere be the dominant considera-tion. Loyalty to the Conference and fidelity to our trust alike forbid any cirouit to treat this matter lightly. A great campaign is already in pro-gress, and every society in the denomination should fall into line. There ie a consensus of opinion on the part of three who can discern the signs of the times that there comes to us at this juncture a greater opportunity for advance than we have known for many years. The tone and the decisions of the Quarterly Meetings will be deter-mining -factors in issues of supreme importance. The formal and routine business may well be dispatched quickly, but time must he given to the consideration of equipment for service -and methods of advance. Local condi-tions vary so much that we do not pre-sume to give detailed advice. We would, however, emphasise a passage written by William Arthur above 'Arty years ago: " We wane in this age, above all wants, fire, God's holy fire, burning in the hearts of men, stirring their brains, thrilling in their tongues, glowing in their coueteriarices, vibrat-mg in their action., expanding their intellectual powers, and -fusing all their knowledge, logic, and rhetoric into a burning stream." Let every Quarterly Meeting seek that fire.

M. Poincare's Answer. The eagerly awaited reply of M.

Poincare tothe British Note of August 11th was nubile:4.cl ors Thursday last. Its tone woe friendlyebut in substance it was so unyielding as to serve oe e cold douche to those who cherished the hope of conceesions. France's stranglehold on the Ruhr will not be relaxed until German passive resistance cermet In that event the pressure would be modified, but the occupancy of this rich territory will continue until the reparation claims have been fully die-ohergel. The idea of a committee of imparts to Ascertain Germany's capacity to pay is resented. It is claimed that the Treaty of Versailles bee given to the Reparation Commiesion all the powers that could he assigned to such a Committee. The debts to England and the United States are acknowledged, but them, says the reply, " cannot be paid .until we have received from Ger-many whet Germany owes us. We shell claim from Germany over and above the 26 milliards whatever is claimed from us. France does not give up one centime of her reparation claims." The professions of Germany ore discounted. and a strong belief is expressed in her capacity to pay if only she had the will. Our Prime Miototer is away on holiday, which no doubt he very much needs It will be some little time before we know whether England will take eeparate action, as suggested in the Note of August 11th; but it appears likely that further die-mmion with France will lead M no satisfactory result.

The "Daily Herald." We are sorry to know that the

" Daily Herald " is in serious financial difficultim. We do not often agree with its politics, but, nevertheleas, re-cognise that it serves a very useful per-rosa as the daily organ of the Labour Movement. It has had a precarious existence, and more than once its :loath

has ,appeared to be imminent. Its cir-culation is about two-and-a-half times greater than, it was a year ago, and its advertisement has ales increased, but notwithstanding thee improvements it cannot live unless further help is forth-coming. At a meeting held a seek ago

Ct:ttelpaget iwiTs 761 1 Ttt'e- and teleraame areoeited'07rome all over the country expressing determine tarn to " stave off date." In the spring of this year an effort was made to eecu.re a financial backing of 2120,000, and by means of a pledge scheme the oirculation was to be greatly increased. Neither project was fully realised, and now an argent S.O.S. message is issued. Labour Members of Parliamnt are par-ticularly alarmed. Their leader, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, eays: " An Oppo- sition without a paper is an army without shells," while many others declare that should the " Herald " not survive the greatest disaster will have come to Labour that this generation has known. We hope the call for adequate assistance vein meet with a worthy response.

Present-Day Miracles. Monday's papers gave prominence to

an address delivered the previous evening in Westminster Abbey by Rev. R. C. Griffith, a Norwich vicar. On the subject of faith healing a good deal has been said which finds no warrant in the teaching of the New Testament But when a credible witness beam testimony to Meta which have come under his own observation his testi-mony cannot be dismissed as mere claptrap. He declared that he had known the blind receive sight and had Been cancers disappear on twenty minutes. Hearing had been restored to people who were stonecletif, and they had knelt at the foot of the altar and publicly given thanks for all God's goodness to them " This great work," said the vicar, " for which I am. here to speak, I tell you quite candidly, is upsetting altogether the religious life of the people in East Anglia in the sense that they are beginning to wider-stand their religion to be a spiritual thing.. It is not merely the healii, of the body. That is a minor matter. Souls are converted, and !aim is renewed in many lives, and partiou-larlp among those who have not received the AIM of healing." He went or to say ' I have seen thousands of people waiting outside two little slum churches from 9 o'clock in the morning till a quarter past 11 at night, kneel-ing in the streets and gutters of the city in prayer for those on wham hands are being Mid within those little shrines" An address of this character must have been something new in Westminster Abbey, and the widely circulated report will see doubt elicit inquiry and further testimony.

A Betting Tax Forecast. Mr. Isaac Rot, M.P., thinks there

is every likelihood that the Committee cm the Taxation of Betting will, by a slight majority, raped that a tax is both practicable and desirable. These who have noted the discussions which have taken place in the Committee will not be surprised at this, as We trend has been in that dinectiom. Mr. Foot and some other membets will not sub-scribe to this declaration

' and we sin-

cerely hope the advice of the majority will nob prevail. About the Practice, bility of a tax we say nothing; hot on moral grounds the proposal should ire fought with all the reeourcee the Church can command. The Nencere far-mist conscience is sound on the matter, and we believe that the Church of England will in the main be found on the right side. The Bishop of

Lichfield soya: " opponent of gambling is no enemy of sport; indeed, .e reason why he hates gambling is -because it ruins every epcct which it touch. The re.gnition .1 betting by the State would give a sense of respec-tability to the whole business, and

would encourage many to begin a habit wliidh, . experience shows, grow. and spread. like a noxious weed." The project will he urged by specious pleas, but we regard it as one of the most dangerous proposals submitted to Par-liament in our time.

The Wisdom of a Mystic. By Rev. J. E. STOREY.

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THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 569

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DO IT NOW IT IS NOW OR NEVER Bend on at once to Rev. W. B. GOMM% 19, Gordon Terrace, Idle, Bradford.

Proceeding by rail recently to a preaching appointment, I bad . my chosen travelling companion a pocket edition of " Meister Eckhart's, .Ser-mons." Eckhart was a Dominican monk, born about A.D. 1260, and died at Cologne in a.c. 1327. Ile was a profound thinker—so considerable a thinker, indeed, that he has been called the " Father of German th.ght." A wise and an inspiring companion I found him, and one who was, withal, strangely serene. It was to a sermon on " The Nearness of the Kingdom " that my bookmark guided me. Short,-with no verbiage obscuring the inner meaning, experimental in its references, it was a sermon that brought me the strength of a pure and radiant joy, and the release and relief of a great peace. Making " the King-dom " but another name for God, Eckhart meets one at the very outset with assurance and audacious faith " I have a capacity in my soul for taking ill God entirely. I am as sure as I lave that nothing is so near to me as God." What amazing, rebuking audacity-" a capacity for taking in God en-tirely' ! What serenity and strength of assurance," I am . sure as I live that " ! Yet one is conscious of no offence. Rather there is only reassur-ance and the communication of a like serenity. " Deep answers to deep." Eckhart. only seems to be voicing the intuitive certainties of cme's own heart and mind, voicing them with the simple directness of the speech not of argument, but of testimony. Doubt-less there seems some thing paradoxical in thiri simply made claim. It sounds and looks contracting the Infinite to the meagreness of the finite; like putting the fullness of the sun into a dewdrop. The confession has to be made—there is paradox here. But what of that? Experience snakes a fool of paradox, or shall I not rather say vindicates manya paradox? Whet can be more paradoxical than that egotism and freedom, from self-concern should co-exist in the one individual? Yet in the life of all richly great men that strange contradiction is unfail-ingly resolved. Is it not a paradox that incre.ing moral purity and fullness should develop an ever-deepen-hag sense of unfitness and moral short-coming in the good man's heart? Yet of what is it that the noblest are ever most acutely conscious'? Not of their own right to glory, plainly. No need to shrink from paradox therefore. Over and over again the soul dares to a ffirm that the Incomprehensible is nevertheless the real. Eckhnrt wins the acquiescence of robust faith, an in the heart of any measure of pure love of God there will he found like exultant certitude. For, after all, is it era incurably mysterious? Is it not to be expected that Love should impart itself wholly and whole? Moreover, love is not susceptible of quantitative alleaSUP26. It is only the persistent habit of applying standards that do not apply which makes it seem. strange to claim that in the soul there is a Capacity " for taking in God entirely." We will bs forever trying to carry over into the spiritual, apace-and-time-beggaring realm, the tyranny of tem- poral and spatial terms. True, we cannot utterly repudiate the terms, for then we must crease to think ; but we can repudiate their tyranny, refusing to regard as unreal, for example, those existences which we nevertheless can-not weigh by the ounce nor measure by the inch. But Eckhart goes on to greater

intimacies. Man may have, indeed has, God very near him_ " God is nearer to me," he says, " than I am to myself "; but that does not of itself constitute man's happiness. His happiness does not nr:se from this, that God is near him, and in him, and that he possesses God; ; but from this, that he knows the nearness of God, and loves Him, and is aware that ' the Kingdom of 'God is near.' " I suppose a man may be really " in love" and not fully understand that such is his case. But he cannot be uncon-scious of the inward disturbance being in love has brought with it. So the nearness of God to his soul has often done no more fora man betimes than to make him restless and create in him a. divine discontent. The issue may be happy or otherwise, accord ing . the man .construes his inner disharmony and divines its cause. But when he comes to a knowledge of the troth of God's indwelling him, and when he renders God the homage of such love as he may bear Him, is that man's peace exceedingly great. But how many of us foil to appropriate the riches which lie to our hand. Entombed miners brought to the surface must surely have a vivid joy in the sweetness of that fresh air most of us breathe heedlessly. So, I have often thought, must the soul's sense of God be under-stood to be in the hearted the man who knows His nearn.s and loves Him with singleness and passion a radiant 'joy a serene elevation, a shining peace. This need be foreign to none. Yet how many of -us can veraciously claim it? But such intimate and personal knowledge of God ie not without strain. Pb, sincere souls but soon discover that. Not one of the great mystics but knew it deeply and well, and of the great mystics Eckhart was one of the greates t. Therefore he says : " If the soul is to know God it must forget itself and lose itself, for . long as it contem-plates self it cannot contemplate God." But that is no easy task. Put it in the words of another great mystic " It is a less thing to renounce what one has; but it ie an exceedingly great thing to renounce what one is." Yet this is not without the wisdom and love of God. Ars Eckhart says: " It is not from severity that God demands much from men in order to obtain the knowledge of Himself ; it is of His kindness that He wilts the soul by effort to gem capacious of mweiving much, and that He may give much.”

It ie good to keep company with souls so wise and so well versed in the matters of supremest moment. When one ex-plores the riches of each well-kept souls and divinely enlightened minds as that of this man who peactised to such pur- pose presence of God many of life's ordinary ambitions appear very tawdry and very ragged. But one wonders whether a life so rare is for men of commoner clay. And yet why not? Surely Evelyn Underhill is right: " We too may heal the discords f our moral nature, learn to judge existence in the universal light, bring into con-sciousness our latent transcendental sense, and keep ourselves so spiritually supple that alike in times of stress and hours of prayer and silence we are aware of the mysterious and energising contact of God." If she is wrong, then God has cheated us, and our fairest hops are at best but miserable dupes.

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Cheering news has just come to hand from Jersey that Rev. W. E. Goodreid is gill making satisfactory progress.

Rev. Henry YmII, who is leaving the North, where he has exercised such a ;nog and eucceesful ministry, will take up his reekleme Cricklewood, North London. He has recently visited the scenes of his early ministry at, Lowick, Berwick and Edinburgh. At Millfield he addressed great gathering of friends in the phi. whipe he commenced his probe- lien. He its good health, and preaches with all old maight and vigoto.

Before leaving Jersey Rev. J. H. Hirst and Mr. W. H. Ilamflett on behalf of the Christian Endeavour Tourists, sent a letter to the editor of the " Jersey Evm• ing Poet," in -which they publicly Married thanks to Miss Beauchamp, Messrs. R. F. Wills and .Mr. F. B. Offen for their brave effort in saving life, and to Dm.

Mrs. Le Feuvre), Mr. and . Le BOOST., for their splendid nursing and kindly attention paid to Rev. W. E. Goodreid during his critical illneee follow-ing the bathing accident at Anne's Port, Jersey.

We are desired to wake an emendation Eo the lest 1:78O7Tnhcillohr"CoalPern'dwrit!es7—r ••The gentleman who rescued me was Mr. F. B. Offen, one of the chauffeurs, and when he had got me to within a few yards of the rocks Rev. Daniel Dunn, of Maidenhead, swam to us and handed a ray to the chauffeur, who was becoming ex ousted by his effort ip supporting me

swimming against the tide. I never saw Mr. Wills in the water, so that it must have been he who assisted Rev. W. E. Goodreid. . . Some of the young ladies and Mr. G. F. Jordan gave me splendid assistance.,

• • ..... Mr. J. H. Morton, secretary of the

Laymen's Missionary League, late of

trim, but now residing in Leicester,

andt■rer Wyre'Pirjavwerers ComisaUry,G:n1 is now a Freeman of the City of London. The Company received its Charter from

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. . . . .

The West Midland District Spiritual Adv.. Campaign Committee met at Queen-etreet, Weat Bromwich, tinder the chairmanship of Rev. John Bennett. The husinme was dispatched under the guid-opcliof Rev. D. Cooke (secretary). The

te■er. rev-Lee 7aUveth a devotion,

• address on " Going op into the power,' a linotatinn from our earliest annals, which teas followed by a most profitable season of prayer and conversation. Mr. Pearce urged a careful elady of Elev. George Faweeth's powerful message in the Leader of August 16th as cue of a chorus of ,appeals for spiritual advance in the *igloos journals of that week, if not the wy b.t. of theta all,

• • ..... W. J. Walker, of Batley, con.

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Churches and People.

ft.i.:ce. The ant of .thro.articlee on

writhten rth:0 LtYe'rlly' M'P."AY Murray, M.P. for West Leeds, rwill'bne eagerly read. In view .of the Antonin Spiritual Advance Campaign, Rev. Percy B. Carden will contribute a storing article !On " Now! The Crusade," setting forth .the objmte for which thp Church must Contend. Our next issue *ill elm contain .the first of a series of " Ecclesiastical :Portraits "—ekethhes of prominent but ;nameless leaders in the denomination. The present is a favourable opportunity to 'secure many new readers. We hope our 0arge censtituencg of helper. will reinforce ,our aploeal during the sessions of the Sep. tember Quarterly Meetings.

• • • Ministers denying the correction of

their addresses ae given in the Year Book should forward the corrmtions to the Leader office, 17, F.ringdon-street, E.C. 4, by September 10th, when they will be inserted free of charge. Those received after September 10th will be insebpd at the charge of one shilling each prepaid.

the offertories are excellent. Apart fro.. the new site fund of £4,500 there is now

11LT ;:httltozeZti7L: accom- modate the ever-enlarging attendance. Rev. D. Oakley's ministry in Blackpool continuously increases in influence.

. . . . . . . . The attention of young men who have

an inclination for the Methodist ministry is called to the appeal of 'Rev. C. H. LaW6 in to-day'e Leader. Mr. I.aws is at present adi

titortrge7nVe=ttal of the New Zealand Methodist Church.

. . . . . . . The " Whitechapel Herald " for Se

tember is a memorial number to Mrs. Jack-s., whose contribution of life and service to her husband's work in connection with Elie Boys' Institute wee of the highest worth. The " Herald " will be read with the deepest interest in all parts of the denmaimtion. Mr. Jackson pays a moat devoted and loving tribute to hie glorified comrade

' a tribute such as in other for

he paid to her sagacity and seal throe out the whole of their married life. " Herald " contains many pictures of Mrs. Jackmn which will be prised by hosts of friends.

Rev. J. G. Bow.an has received this fine commendation of his Hartley Lecture on " Christianity and Culture " from Rev. Dr. John Clifford :—" Thank you very heartily for your Hartley Lecture. - You have chosen a most timely theme, ex-preemd and set it forth in clear and strong language, enriched it with mom, apposite literary quotations, and made obvious the way in which Christianity enters into and ennobles the different, realms of human culture. Your book will render fine ser-vice to the young .d eager epirits of the upcoming generation."

Revs. W. H. Whiting, of Burnley, and H. 0. MacRow had a fine introduction to the " Burnley.to.Colne " group of circuith in a spiritual campaign convention at Trawden. In the afternoon Mr. Whiting gave a forceful address on " Spiritual Advance," and in the evening Mr. MacRow epoke effectively to young people on " Beryl. and Fellowship with Christ." Both were warmly received and their services much appreciated. Mrs. MacRow is taking preaching eervices on her hus-band's new circuit. She is an arresting preacher and convincing platform speaker. Like her father, she has excellent qualifi-cations. Her father, Rev. T. G. Coster, was an able Congregationalist and hymn writer. Four of hie hymns—, 0 God our Father, throned on high," " From north and south, and east, and west," " Dont thou boy beneath the burthen? " and " King of the city splendid "—are in our Supplement.

Itwill be known to many of our reader. that our choir at Whiteinch, Glasgow, its femme for its excellence. It is a prize choir, and at the last Musical Tournament in Glasgow was moat successful. It is fortunate in i.e conductor, Mr. W. H. Wend, and it is also fortunate in having a musical miniater,,Rev. J. H. Maughan. A

teinoog rzpooliomenoot jidastobeepnrozadied ttemproin

gramme for the Glasgow wireless next Sunday evening, September 2nd. They are the second choir to receive this recog-nition. We do not doubt that many who will be listening-in next Sunday evepp g will be interested in knowing that the pro-gramme is provided by the choir, who ender such splendid service every Lord's ey in their own church. The programme

or next Sunday evening its as follows :-Items by the choir Processional, " For all the saints " (R. Vaughan Willis.,) chorale, " For the beauty of the earth " (Bach); anthem, " Seek ye the Lord " (tenor solo by W. G. Wood) (J. V. Roberts); anthem, "Ave Maria " ; anthem, " 0 Saviour of the world " (Sir J. Goss); part. song, "God send the night" (R. Somerville); .sloe by Miss Sou, McKinney, " How lovely are Thy dwiellinge " (S. Liddle), " Carolling et Toon " (R. Clover); solo. by Rev. John H. M.0., " Just the same" I" De Prof.dla Csamoltava ") 09..

Jude), " Th.ke be% God " (Stanley Dickson). A short address will also be given by Rev. J. II. Maughan. Our readers everywhere will congratulate our Whithinch friends on this recognition.

This week's " Friend " mntaim a fiat. terilipotice of Mr. Memhim:a new boll, " Li t from Ancient Letters." Among Many appreciative things it eays " Friends will find it worth their while to add thin excellent little book to the shelf whjch contaiue St. John Thackeray's Septuagint Grammar, Moulton'e New Tee. thment Grammar and the little collection of Papyri by Milligan. Mr. MeachimNi book contains valuable discussions of the nature and mope of contemporary correspondence, but its most important portion is the fifty

cPlgrng4. iivi°411 ti'mv";:ltenit, rmiclina thated in the papyrus letter.... Mr. Mea. chim, svhii has ransacked the LILY. and the New Testament hi searOt of parallels to his papyrus idioms and Phrases, is to be congratulated on a sound, thorough and extremely useful piece of work," In a vcry kindly closing sentence the reviewer ("J. P. N.") hopes that when Mr. Mee- chips " hats gained more self-confidence he will shed some of his very endearing diffidence and be enabled to unload his pages by omitting a g.d many unneces-sary references to emineot modem authori-ties." The " Friend " is extremely well edited, and the current number, among much other excellent matter, has a striking article on " The Teaching of Jesus about Reticle.' Relationships," a topic very dear to the heart of the Quaker community.

One cheering sign of the times, notwith-atandiug the great induetrial depression, its the generous offertories at Sundayachool anniversaries. In the struggle to make ends meet,—and in thousands of home. it

lift!. ones.stritgloeretohdedicoy Ilreocotio,00nbefrciord.

cashire ie working three days s week,T;;, the collections at Brierfield a week ago were over £200. In that congregation wee a widow who during the last year hae had a terrific fight to keep the wolf from the door, but she managed to eave 6e. for Anni-versary Day.

The Tyneside Church Council com-mences the winter'. campaign on Sep. !ember 14th, when a united Communion eerviee will be held in the Central Church, Newcastle, preceded by a sermon by Rev. George .Ayre, who has received a hearty welcome on his return lo the North.

• ' • • • • • • Councillor S. Pilling, the esteemed

steward of Helmshore Circuit, has been unanimously invited to become Mayor of Haslingden Borough for the ensuing year. To the great regret of the townspeople, Mr. Pilling feels compelled to decline the well-deserved honour. He has for two years been the on the chairman of the Education

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• The numerous friends of the late 111r. Morrie Jones will be interested to know that the Liverpool Third Circuit has decided to erect, a tablet in Zion Chapel to his memory. Mr. Jones' servieee to the Church, and particularly to our mis-monames, were of a unique order. Any appreciative friends who approve of the above can send a small donation to A. V. Kinniah, 62, Breckfield-road, N., Liverpool, and thus perpetuate the memory of a good man and a loyal Primitive Methodist.

Wood-street Church, Ripley, has pub up many records its hr of fifty year, and a fact of ieteree ea just Geer noted. Mr. and Mrs. Hy. 31 dy, who attend the church, have a diethic4on that would be difficult to excel. They have brought up a family of seven children, and not a single late mark has been placed against them throughout ten years on attendance at the Sunday-school. This is [humors remarkable seeing the children, some of whom are now married, have all been reared in a miner'. small home. II meake volumes for the industry and interest,of the father and mother.

The Missicnary Executive, at its meet-ing last Thursday, gave a cordial welcome to Miss Amy Richardson on her return from Jamestown Girls' Institute. It le expected that '_Hiss Richardson will now remain at home, and will be engaged in visiting the Women's Missionary Federa-tion meetings, where her services, com-bined with her long experience and tramp eiV0 knowledge of African work, will 1ie pf great value.

At the request of the West Midland District Missionary Committee, Black Heath Circuit has offered to transfer Spring-street Church, Laiseley, to old, bury Circuit, and thus relieve the Su, tentatim Fund Grant. •

. . . . . . The recent annual Filey fishermen's

Sunday setiriges et Scarborough were quitea ,access, conddoted by Mk-. T. Crimille. A band of ten occupied the pulpit motns Mg and evening, and a epecially en. coodudthrogoong rime elf the sernoeso;vizaht,la

the closest '"afZntlren gni the hale audiences. I tae dierno the fishermeir held a large sheeting on the shore, which

Ztitr!crorleV7'IliVW=dawtitei evident i Wrest lb the powerful Gospel deliverance.. mod collection was taken on behalf of the Scarborough Hospital.

We regret to learn that Rev. J. E. Hughes, of Southport, hee had a mei rel.se and lies in a precarious conditi . Iductrayar 0,,b, to our itooltd who hs'is wane; on he'r father WV this meet loving and faithful care.

. . Bev. and Mrs. W. H. Collins will ea

for Fernando Poo on September 32511, This will be Mr. Collins' fourth term of service.

. ,•Mr. Henry Needier, eldest son of Mr.

and .Mra. G. Needier, of Holderness-r , Hull, and grandson of CouncillorMeed of Withernsea, has been successful in part

Cl'igar hat that. The YTI:reie"daleinarnfig has had a Ion an baton:able connection with Hull Primitive MeLhodism, .d the younger members give great promise for future service in the Church.

. . . . . . . Great interest has bean awakened in

the .North in the mmtinga addressed by the Hon. Mrs. Ellen Smith, who is the first woman 'Cabinet Minieter, and the first lady to be elected to the Canadian

i ParliEment. Lf Canadans affectionately, call her "our nort

" vrasm:OrnnP2: with. Holywell Chard/ is the Nor9t, Shields Circuit before going Lo C.ada.,

Thomas Alfred Canliffe, eon of Mir. and Sire. T. Conliffe, formerly of Saul-etheet, Prelim, trMtiofthelh CertificteTha heNorerl

Universitiee, obtaining distinctions in Greek and Latin. Be has also obtained a Lancashire County Council Scholarship

Ireelb.y7arhee. 8:11Tre isk.nco'bruileect'efi with Lancaster Church, rendering seroicM Be a teacher and member of the choir:

Quaker Experience.

" Silence .4 Worship (Rudy hi Quaker Experience." By T. Edmund Harvey. (Swarthmore Prem. 2e. net.),

An attractively-written introduction 14 a big subject. The first treatment its bib- torical. The danger et a dead and formed silence hue always been real, but to very; many the anemia has brought the erne' rience of the Upper Room—. my chain,' fell off." A Methodist feels the kinship between the Quaker meeting aod the elm. meeting. Robert Barclay deecribes the " inward travail " taking place in a silen5 meeting : " Sometimes the power of God will break forth. Every individual will b etromrly exercised m in a day of battle and thereby trembling and a motion of th body svill be upon most. From this th name of Quakers—i.e., Tremblers—was firs reproachfully cast upon us." There is an impressive section dealing with the plat of

ellercf i;!eth-o Methodists will be wise to ponder.

circuit. The kindness of the members and the brotherliness of the ministry have proved very real in hie ale..

. . . . . . Crowded and frequen Ely o761,lowniog

sovval contributims of outstanding gig-

ntetnc3=hbe, 171t4Po'craTli, asusual,

in circuit duties. He has been greatly The Leader ft". next week will cheered by the splendid generosity of his

ENDEAVOUR TOURISTS STARTING FROM "BALMORAL.

AUGUST 30, 1923

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER

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South Wales Mission. Opening of Cordele, New Church.

it will be seen in an advertisement Wrenn that the South Wales Missive ter busy with a forward movement in

E

.seierection of a new school-cher& at

uroh eaten... Coedely is a large sly. This is a fine bit of real

itiining village, and untie now has been

ELgreatly neglected. There is no church,

I or public building in the village; spiritual and social interests of the

people have received no attention. The children of the villag have been with-out a Sundayeohool. The work is deminiecent of the early days Of Primi-tive Methodism, and efhould appeal to all who are anxious for the extension pf the Kingdom of Oboist. The build-iczis.any7illbeartiful one on the main

prove a laving centre of beneficent activity. The Welsh Navi-gation Steam Coal Company, realising the need of this eherch, have given fifty guineas, and, along with the Missionary Committee's asistanee, and donations collected by Rev. G. Kendall, about half the cost has been raised. Ae the sod-cutting and stone laying ceremonies about 1,000 people gathered to show their sympathy in the movement, and it is expected that the opening ceremony on September 8, at 4 p.m., will attract a large number from all parts.

Rev. John H. Rine, the general miseionetry secretary, will preach the opening sermon and address the public 311.ing at 7 o'clock. Tea will be pro-eided in the Thomastown Chum% at 5.30, and Mr. Hirst will preach on Sunday, September 9, and lecture on Monday, September 10, at 7 o'clock. South Wales Mission as an outpost of our Church, and is engaged in erten- eion work an several place*. A new church is to be erected at Tonyrefail shortly, and the task is tremendous. About £6,000 is needed in all, and Rev. George Kendall, 28, Tylethaewen-

Tcmyrefail, Glamorgan, 6. Wales, will be glad to receive donations Iron our generous people.

Upon alighting at the station one feels a distinct tonic in the bracing atmo-sphere so much sought after by visitors from all parts of the country.

Saturday was the day of arrival, and the lounge was filled after dinner in the evening, when the Matron and Rev. E. J. T. Begnall welcomed the guest., several of whom entertained the com-pany with. song. and recitals. As the days flew by strangers became friends, new fellowships were formed, and Bal-moral House maintained to the full its well-known reputation for " comrade-ship." Miss Pirkis and the staff threw themselvee into the spirit of the tour and were heartily thanked for their ready co-operation. Everybody praised the wok for the excellent table and the staff for the gracious manner of serv-ing. We did not bear of any hitch or complaint from even the most exacting, and those who were visitors at Balmoral for the first time were constant in their appreciation of its general furnishing and accommodation. The spacious and beautiful grounds at the rear, with tennis courts and bowling green, were an additional attraction, whilst bil-liards and ping-pong tournaments were arranged in the large reereation-room.

The mornings were usually spent in walks to places of interest in Buxton and neighbourhood—Poole's Cavern (one of the most wonderful in the United Kingdom), Corbar Woods, etc --and none will forget the singing of " All hail the power of Jester; name" on the lop of Solomon's Temple, from -which a fine view was Obtained of Buxton and its surrounding hills. In the afternoon an opportunity was given to visit by motor coach the delightful dales and moors of Derbyshire, and as three coaches were for the special use of Balmoral House, the excursions were most thoroughly enjoyed, and an un-doubted appetite was created for the ever-welcome evening meal. Visits were made to Mensal Dale, Tadding-ton, Ashford, Tideswell, Chatsworth House (the beautiful seat of the Duke of Devonshire), Haddon Hall (dating froat William the Conqueror), Bake-well and other places. A whole day was given to Dovedala Under the guidance of Mr. F. A. Holmes, J.P., who rendered great service to the tourists on many occasions, train was Wren to Alsop-en-le-Dale, and after lunch et a charming farmhouse the party walked through what has been called "the world's divinest dale." The " Lion Rock," the " Twelve

Endeavour Tour at Buxton.

• NEWS FROM THE DISTRICTS.

Salisbury and Southampton. The District Committees met at Win-

ton on Wednesday, August 15th, at 11 a.m., Rev. Geo. Preece in the chair, and Mr. Case' in the vice-chair. The ministers entering the district—Revs. E. W. Room, Percy Webb, J. G. Ferri-day, H. Gregory Taylor and Geo. C.

iddleton—were given a most cordial *ion. The 'report of the deputa-

tion to Guernsey was received. The deputation was impressed by the loyalty and liberality of the officiale and members. It was their belief that with decreasing trust liabilities and a bold policy at Delancey the outlook would improve. The energy, business ability, and devotion of the present min-ister are worthy of the highest praise. Letters of sympathy were sent to the relatives of the late Rev. William Tay-lor, of Sturmiruiter Newton, end the late Bro. }Larne., Woodfalle. The circuit quarterly reports were received, and the Suetentation Fund levies were agreed epos. The applications of the Bland-ford Circuit for a grant from the Gen-eral Chapel Fund and a loan from the Jgbiles Fund were approved.

" Teachers and Taught," beaded in 1909, which was the first journal is this emintry to inrhlieh a series of coerces on graded Scripture leseons, is announcing a series or literary competitions. Full par-reelsre will be found in the current number. Teo 'pineas are offered in prizes for the hest three original stories which, without doing violenoe to the his-

rical narrative, deal in an imaginative er with any Bible character. For

in ce, Job, the Centurion in charge of the Crenifixion

• Gahm, Eatychua

Daniell the Scribe, Doeg the Edomite,

•NiPthherPs' sad TAaught ". is its strong special beetle of

iterary interest. Its guidance is most Inable with regard to recent literature

the Bible, modern religious thought, psychology, child study and religious education and the welfare of youth. ''t'eachers and Taught" is published monthly at 4, Fleet-lane. E.C. 4, pri. 3d. net.

Apostles " caverns, well-wooded slopes, crags and torrent., silent pools—all made a charming Beene, and the day will long be remembered with joy, not-withstanding the showers at its dose. The party felt a new inspiration from Moore's hymn, " Thou art, 0 God, the life and light of all this wondrous world we see," as they sang it on the very spot from which it was composed. Another great excursion was made to Rudyard Lake and the Dane Valley. But the

half can never be told of a holiday at Buxton, and there was a general con-fession, " We must come again." Rev. E. J. T. Bagnall acted as warden in the first week and Rev. C. Humble during the second.

Garden Fete at Barrow. By the kind permission of Councillor

and Mrs. T. Gardiner, a very successful garden fits svas held in the ground. at

Ansdell," Fairfield-lane, on Thursday. In the afternoon his Worship the Mayor (Alderman W. Fainbairn) presided, and encouraged all present by his optimistic forecast of the revival of trade in the near future. An excellent programme was rendered by the following artistes : Mra. Richards, Bra. Corbin, Misses Cain and D. Chadwick and Mr. W. Savage. Tea was served on the lawn, after which various outdoor games followed. In the evening the circuit steward, Mr. J. Hods-kinson—in the unavoidable absence of Councillor .Pearson—presided. Varied items were rendered by Mrs. Richards, Miss Cain, Mr. McIver, and Mk. and Mre. Dunstan. The accompanist was Miss Whitham. Rev. J. E. Thistlethwaite, newly-appointed minieter to Dalt, gave a brief address. Rev. T. A. Young ex. pressed.rner thiaonrks.nolowinCouncimllorti and

of their beautiful grounds, well'aaot"o the 2.1fayor and the artistes, and a very hap, function appropriately ended with the Doxology. Proceeds for circuit funds.

Social Progress. " The Christian Revolution." By Henry

T. Hodgkin, M.A. (The Swarthmore Press. 7a. 6d. net.)

Thom who acquainted themselves with Mr. Hodgkin's earlier book, "Lay Rea. gion," in this "Christian Revolution Series" will be prepared for a thorough and impartial discussion of the problem set forth in these pages—The Method of Social Progress. The book heaths immense advantage of attempting a theoretic recon-struction of social life, and therein differs so widely from that numerous class of hooks that merely set forth the facts as they are commonly known. " The Crea-tive Dream," "Pb, Way:, .0 False Starts," " The Home," " The School," " The Church," " The World of Mum try," "The Heart of the Metter," are topics which reveal the writer's pro-gramme. The author'. judgment is excel-lently balanced, and all theories of pro-gress are brought up to and examined in the light of the ethical teaching of Jesus. Altogether an excellent book.

Hartley College Committee. The quarterly meeting of the Com-

mittee was held on the 23rd inst., Mr. J. W. Tonga being in the chair. A cordial welcome was given to Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Pickett on their entrance, for the second time, upon the duties of Principal and Matron. It was a joy to see the new Principal looking so well in health. The Committee has grate. fully received the Insurance Company's generous grant of £500. The receipt was also reported of £20 17s. 6d. from the Christian Social Union for ex-penses of the recent " Retreat " at the College. The Scholarship Sub-Com-mittee was appointed and requested to prepare its recommendations for the September meeting. The Disciplinary Sub-Committee was also appointed, and it was slated that it has not been necessary for it to meet for many years. The Principal reported the number of students to be twenty-five of the first year, twenty- of the second year, nine of the third year (including the two Bul-garian students), and nine of the University ; total, sixty-three. One of the first-year students, 3Ir. Lu x ten, will commence immediately his training to be both a minister and a medical missionary.

An application from the Manchester District for the co-operation of the students in Spiritual Advance Mis-sions led to an animated discussion. Everyone sympathised with the object in view, and none wished to interfere unduly with the students working hours. How to combine the two ideals was the question. Ultimately a plan was evolved by which students who are willing to assist may be enabled to do so for a few week evenings each, the arrangements to be left to the Prin-cipal. It was agreed to accede to the request of the General Committee for a student to go to the South Wales Mi•- sion es a probationer, although it was a:: felt by all that this course 0.1141 always he avoided in securing circuit supplies, if possible. A sub-committee which is considering the training of students in the principles of Sunday-school work was re-elected.

Cannock Musical Festival. SuccessIal Choirs.

The songs of Zion should go forth from our sanctuaries on the Sabbath Day with zest, and if there should be any doubting of the fact that Primitive Methodists can sing, then the following should cast this away. Al the Cannock and District Musical Festival our various choirs made themselves heard. On Saturday the Male Voice Challenge Cup was obtained by Church Greeley Choir, the adjudicator (Dr. Carodog Roberts) highly commending the members, saying the rendering was " A most artistic performence. An ex-cellent tonal blend and the chromatic harmony much clearer than the other choirs." Ie the mixed choir competition the Willenhall (Russell-street) Choir ob. tained third prize; also in the Ladies' Choir they took third prize, the adjudi-cator saying, " A well-drilled choir. A good steady rendering." In' the solo „oinfliotitTnaLthi&brvi;to7h,,solios conductor

or the 'Chard; Greeley' Choir, and in the so nano Taileht"l2ntls,LhinpgiraT. On Monday evening the children's compe-titions took place, when the first prize and "Express and Star " trophy was won by Fallings Heath Choir (Darlaston), the cc. market being, " Good healthy tone, well controlled, good enunciation, unity of movement. Charmingly rendered." The weed position was taken by Bridglown Choir. The children from Fallings Heath were trained by Mr. and Mrs. J. Griffiths and Bridgtown by Mr. H. Boot. In the children's solo competition Gladys Giles (Fallings Heath) obtained first prize.

Christian Endeavourers and other friends have had a great holiday at Buxton this month, for though the romance of a Norway or Swiss holiday may be lacking, yet Buxton has charm. all its own, and what may be lacking in fiords and alps is compensated for in some degree by the romance of its his-toric associations and the unrivalled inland beauties of this mountain spa. Buxton is the highest town in England, and has undoubtedly the finest air.

b72 THE PRIMiTIVE METHODIST. LEADER. AUGUST 30, 1923

Church Unity. Canon Hancock Preaches in Win-ch: pier Chapel. Cathedral cities are perhaps not the most congenial sort for the growth of Primitive Alethodism, but Winchester seems just now to be an exception. We have fine property in Parchment-street, under the very shadow of the Cathedral, a fine organ, a.n excellent. choir, and good congregations. Since the present minister—Rev. Henry Parrott—began his ministry, three years ago, the debt of £729 has been reduced to £129, and it is hoped by October of this year that the whole of the debt will be wiped off I Mr. Parrott hoe been a member of the City Education Committee for over two yearn—the only Nonconformist member —and by his presentation of the ca. for Nonconformity many hardships have he. removed and concessions creditable to the Anglican members of the committee have been made to Non-conformiat children. It is perhaps es Hon. Treasurer and Chairman of the Executive of the School Children's Care Committee that Mr. Parrott hoe done work that has meet appealed . the members of other churches and the citi-zens generally, and as a mark of the plate he hoe won in the respect of the clergy and ministers of the city Rev. Canon Hancock preached in our church in Parchment-street an Sunday evening. Bah,. he commenced a remark-ably evangelical sermon the Canon expreawd his pleasure at being invited to occupy the pulpit of such a strong and vigorous Nonconformist church, and after the service promised to repeat his visit et some future time. This is the second time the Canon has preached in our church since Mr. Parrott com-menced his ministry, as well as being present to give an address on the °sea-site of the visit of the President of the Conference, Rev. H. J. Taylor, last February. We regard this visit of Can. Hancock as one of the bent ex-pressions of the growth of a kindly epirit towards Nonconformity, and also a fine tribute to the work of our church. New Zealand Methodism. Appeal for Ministers. The New Zealand Methodist Confer-eine is greatly in need of minielere and home missionaries. The met Minutes show that eighteen appointments to circuits are vacant, and eleven appointments to home minion stations. These vacancies are due to losses from our staff as a result of the ar, to the closing of our college and the rbsence of candidates during the struggle, and to the fact that since then the steady growth of settlement, has outpaced the number of men offering. The Oversee Dominions, where, in addition to the normal in in the population, there ie a rapid growth through immigration from the Motherland, require a larger pro-portion of candidates for the ministry than in a more milled land. am therefore commissioned to make an appeal to British Methodism for, say, twelve or fifteen young men to assist in our New Zealand work. I shall be glad to enter into correepondence with any )W71!/':gan'rnstudentdirn 'COST; ministry

may be moved by our appeal .d who may be willing to consider transferring his ministry overseas subject, of course, legefirr7r y7unn7" consent. eco,' et especially preachers, apt to learn, willing to serve, possessed with seal for the. Kingdom, who would be willing . take .np work for a year or two as home minionaries with a view to their later becoming candidates for the ministry. The New Zealand Con-ference will bear such a share of the travelling expenses that the cost to such young men shall be exceedingly small, .d will guarantee employment imme-diately on their arrival. I shall be most happy to heart from any. who ay be willing to help us in our end. I have my.lf been a minister of the New Zealand Church for over thirty-six years, end, were I beginning my life-work afresh, with all my present experience, I should desire no happier and more ample sphere than our healthy, progressive, and most truly English Dominion provides. C. H. Laws. Cl..Bank of New Zealand, 1, Queen V ictoria-street, London, E.C. 4.

A Visit to War Graves in France. By the Rev. J. Marcus Brown. Many relatives of those who died in

the Great War have, no doubt, often tried to picture the situation of their graves in the lands across the seas. It is believed that nearly all who fell in France and Belgium have now been gathered into the three thousand ceme-teries scattered over then two coun-tries A recent pilgrimage under the guidance of the Y.M.C.A. tee enabled me to see a number of these sacred spots, and I should like to assure those who have been unable to visit the grave, of their loved ones that every cemetery I visited is " beautiful for situation," and the graves are tended by careful curators who are ex-Service men. Wimereax and Terlincthun are com. pleted ; Boulogne Eeet, Etaplee, " Strand," " Hyde Park Corner " and " Royal Barks" are nearly eon ; and the London Rifles, near to the famous " Plug Street," though awaiting the necessary materials, is kept like a garden, and both British and French workmen spare no pains in discharging the trust which is placed in their hands. The plan of the cemeteries provides a method by which any grave is easily found, and in many cases officers and men lie side by side. No expense seems to have been spared by the War Graves Commission to make them all that loving hearts could desire. The Stone of Remembrance and the Cross of Sac-rifice are to be found in all the ceme-teries that are nearly completed, and trees and fiowere add to their beauty. I returned from my pilgrimage greatly comforted, and perhaps this brief account may help others to find corned. tion in the knowledge that, though the graves of our kindred are far from us, they are in the keeping of those. who regard their privilege as sacred trust-which they splendidly fulfil. An Honoured Worker. On Tuesday evening a hash of friends gathered at Cathays Church, Cardiff, to do honour to Airs. C. J. Youngs on her very much deplored departure from Cardiff for East Anglia. For the last seventeen years our friend has so entered into all the activities and life of this church that her removal is felt by many to be a calamity. The friends met on Tuesday exp.et their high appreciation of the devoted and invaluable services which she has ren-dered during that period. Mr. J. Goman, the oldest member, official and local preacher, Messrs. T. Dainton, T. Donald and Roberts voiced the universal feeling in speaking of Mrs. Youngs' manifold activities in the school, C.E., Sisterhood, Ladies' Auxilary, sick visitation, etc. Rev. G. Baldwin, on behalf of the church, pre- sented Mrs. Youngs with beautiful silver-plated casserole, and Miss War-dale, who has shown singular devotion in various •church. activities, with a lady's companion, and spoke of the sin-

gular place Which the former occupied in the religious and social life of the city. Mrs. Youngs hoe also been pre-sented by seven separate organisations with fitting tokens of their appreciation of her work and worth. Mr. Youngs, who is retiring from his official duties under the Government, will be leaving in a few months. Their loss to the city of Cardiff will he keenly felt. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Rev. T. Jackson, Whitechapel acknowledges with thank. the receipt of 5e. from " Wellwisher," Eastbourne, .d 6e. from " Inasmuch," Overcast. Rev. R. C. Shreeve desires to acknow- ledge the receipt of 10s. from " H." and 5e. " W. E. K." for the Challice fond. Rev. J. R. Ellwood, Clapton desires to acknowledge the receipt of " Anon.," Mosalane, Walkden, ; " Inasmuch," Overseal, 51,

Norwegian Holiday Party. As intimated -in the Norwegian IlloIday report of lost week's issue, a group of this party remained for an extra week, and have just reached Newcastle by the s.s. " Leda." This last week is deemed by all the best. Ail were particularly delighted with their oil:orients in and ab=ut Odds., in the Hardanger. From there the party motored all day, rising gradually to encwfields shout 3,000 and 4,000 It high, ond in the evening reached DisMen. From here to Skein the next day was taken by boat along lake, and occupied a long day. Two cloys were spent at Christiania, and this proved . most interesting and delightful experi- env.. The croas-cotentry journey by train !once Christiania . Bergen occu-pied another full day, and to corny parts the train passed through snow tunnels, while for long distances the railway line is enolosed by wooden fences and roofe to prevent being blocked up by snow. Unfortunately the North Sea passage by the s. Leda " was s stormy experience, but nit arrived eafely at Newcastle to scatter homewards, and greatly de-lighted by all Norwegian experiences.

Churches and Raffling. Sm,—I read with pleasure the manly letter by Rev. W. J. Targett in the Leader on the above question. I tried, early In life, to differentiate in my own mind between raffling, draws, etc., held in connection with churchee, hospitale and all other Christian institutions, and gambling. in its various phases indulged in by the " wield " as we term it. I have failed to do so; and I wonder if anyone can draw the line of distinction big enough for me to see it. The love of a " gamble " is inherent in most natures, whether they admit it or not, and it ie necessary Lo keep it well under central or it will soon control us. I have heard people say when buying a ticket that they are " doing it for the good of the cause." But ask them to give it without a thought of a possible •' win " and half of the people would object. What does that show Sc anyone with one eye open? An old lady bought a twopenny ticket for a counterpane that was . be raffled. She proved the " lucky winner," and this is what she said—. I would have given it back if I could have afforded it." She had paid twopence and other folk nineteen and tenpence (it win valued at e sovereign), and yet the was imagining that the gift would he, on her part, one pound. This sort of thing does not help people in their Christian life. It given them false conceptions, and is a factor in the deterioration ortheir immortal souls. Let keep our churches clean. Christ overturned the tables of the money changers in the Temple in the der of His flesh. I wonder what He would do if He came in fleshly form to-day into some of the eanctuarin raised in Ilia name and heard the announcements ! I do not say !hie in a frivolous, irreverent way, but I do think He would not care for the ways .d means often used to keep His church. going.—Yours, etc.,

Preston Brook. BEATRICE A. Erse.

Temperance Campaign Fund. We are desired he acknowledge the receipt of the following contributions to the Fund :—Dourne Band of Hope, Sc.; Beverthorp C.E., Cleethorpea, 2e. 6d.;

Nelson -street C.E., 5e. ; Ashington C.E., 21; Anon., 2s. 6d. ; Mr. J. Walks (led donation), 21; Rev. G. Bennett (3rd dona-tion), 10s.; Emley Moor CE., 10s. 6d.; Rev. G. Truster, £1; J. Crompton, £1; W. M., New Southgate, 10s. ,• Wed Felton C.E., 5,.; Mies A. Stout, 10s.; Resale-road C.E., Sc. • One in Sympathy, Oldham, 2s.; Uaworth 'Colliery S.S., 10s. • Welton C.E., Se.; B. Warhuret, £1; A. 'Warcup, ye. 6d.; F. Yeomans, 5e. • H. Massey, 10s. ; W. and F. Firth, £'1.; R. acme, £2 2s.; S. Shepherd L1 ; H. Mason, g1; E. Walmsley, £1; F. Knox, J.P. 10e. ; Pilgrimetrest S. 10s. 64.; Benwell (3.9r, 6s. ; T. Walker, 5s. • Mrs. Rudd, 01; J. Wilson, 6s. ; Wm. and J. Young £2 ' Bridge, 21; E. Ponting, 21; W. Turner (3rd donation), £1; J. W. Redfern, £1.

Young Crusaders at Wotk. By Rev. T. GRAHAM. A vita to the headquarterwei the 76th Company of the London Boys' Life Bri-gade happened to coincide with the first gathering after camp, and camp domi-nated conversation and programme, Thirty, members and officers had been by the sea, spending their time in the fields, woods and water. The evening afforded an inn- f young tcectdere at wnr.g rt:Vinngc. el at gamee. These little fellows of eignt to twelve learn much more than they suspect

by teamthe

games coinneluecte.dmIserthe.irzsztar. boys of twelve to fifteen were smartly lashing together a wooden structure for ne in case of needed rescue from Bre. Half the senior section, mainly tall youths seventeen to nineteen, had been to camp, and the other half had not, and I found all these in the B.L.B. Bible Class vestry passing round camp snapshots, the captain using the free and easy hour for helping some new comers to feel at home. Later on I found there were girls upstairs under instruction in Final, Aid.

Observing what was going on at this centre during the evening I noticed three things. The first was that of occupation. Officere and membera were all doing some-thing, and something useful. By lively g es in which they gambolled and feu ghed the lafeboys were learning to "play the game " of life, and by gentle physical exercises they built up their muscles. Boys of thirteen or fourteen are very important individuals, and they gave themselves more serionly to manual work, mainly clearing up camp furniture. But they were learning to help themselves and to depend upon their own arms and brain.. My second impression was of the social atmosphere of theft young crusaders. They were all happy in their lively com-radeship. At once they were practising two difficult arts, that of acting from their own initiative an.dr:tlsoi j..hriLorfdrLeogrei...ising, twha'stlel'etn*iethet dried. goodness. These officer, are teachers, school secre-taries and Endeavour leaden, and the bon are scholars and junior and inter-mediate Endeavourers. They are all work-ing out the Sunday-what and Endeavour programme of good living in some ap-proach to actual life. At the close, at Lilo captain's command " Uncover," the boys doffed cape and eilently and reverently stood whilst the chaplain offered a boys' prayer. The chaplain had been present, throughout the evening, moving about in social chat or serious business with various people. There would be fifty or sixty per-sons about those rooms, .d I have the notion that he got personal conversation with nearly everyone. What a chance for a minister or school superintendent, The boys learn all sorts of useful arts, including signalling, transport, music, various crafts, cooking, etc., but the most necessary and popular accomplishment in the Boys' Life Brigade is First Aid in can of accident. An accident occurred unfor-tunately which showed the value of this training. Before the'Lifeboya left the big room, in one of the gam., a lad rushed too fast across and fell against the platform, making a deep gash in hiacheek, from which blood freely dropped on the floor. The team assistant, a youth of six-teen, immediately placed the boy in a comfortable position and pressed Lhe facial

Cory in order to check the flow of blood. In the absence of the B.L.B. expert the Girls' Life Brigade First- Aid officer was sent for from upetaire, and she dealt suit-ably with the case. After the parent had seen him he was gently -moved home. It was pleasing to e. the happinees and keenness of these young crusader., and it is equally pleasing to reflect that similar thing. could be Been on weekday evenings in many of our denominational schools. These organisations of the Primitive Methodist Young Crusaders' League are fine adjuncts for the Sunday-school.

A an correspondent sends a account of the courageous ect of Miss Beatrice Oaken-foil,' a scholar in Horeemarket Sunday-Northamp.n t While on holiday at Lt&ren.nothnormlit,lyths,l,tte sihTswe.n joi,,inrge: out than anyone el., started back to shore. Then she heard cries for help .d swam to where a man of about thirty was in di fficulties, having bad a heart attack. Although Him Oaken/till is only fourteen, she Wee able bring him to shore. With harp took teoattnbit:ct%-kd. him nearly three hundred yards. The tide was coming in, and it was rather a choppy sea. Having done Ilia she slipped quietly off said the man did not know the name of Are rescuer.

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Bournemouth Firet.--Church anniver-sary services were held at Branksome on Sunday and Monday, August 10th and 20th, when we were favoured with a visit by Rev. W. Swales, of St,. George's Hall, London. On Sunday Mr. Swales preached morning and evening, and his sermons were of the anticipated high order. In the afternoon o musical service was held and a fine musical programme Wile given by the choir under the conductorship of Mr. J. E. Hazel]. Short addresses were given by Revs. W. Swales and Ezra E. W. Ramm. On Monday a tea meeting was held. which was much enjoyed by the members of Branksome Church and visitors from other circuits. The evening meeting, presided over by Mr. W. A. Wyatt, will long be remembered, Rev. W. Swales lecturing on "The Need of the Hour." Meagre. H. Hawes, W. Miller and Rev. H. Gregory Taylor uttered words of appreciation and thanks to all who contributed towards a good anniver-sary. The services were a great success, and the visit of Rev. W. Swales has been a source of great blessing.

MARRIAGES.

In the presence of a large congregation in the Jubilee Church, Hull, the marriage of Mr. Herbert Croker and Miss Elsie Boll, was celebrated on August 10th. The bride, who was accompanied by her father. wore a charming gown of white broche crepe de chine and a lace veil and orange blossoms, and carried a bouquet of likes and white heather. The bridesmaids were Mimi Gladys Bolton, sister of the bride, who

aendehlisleil:Lie'teeC"1:6‘;;%ife:1 lemon crepe de chine and carried a basket. of tea roses. The duties of best man were carried out by Mr. Denis Croker, brother of the bridegroom. The reception waa held in the schoolroom, and later in the day the happy pair left for Llandudno. The Revs. T.

IME Straker and Mr. E. Kirby presided at the organ.

Many friends gathered at Manor Park on August Ilitth to witness the wedding of Mr. John Hawes and Alias Gladys Fair- weather (daughter of Mrs. Final)). The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. Potter. The bride was given away by her uncle, Mr. Kydd, and Mr. James Fair-weather, brother of the bride, made a capital best man. The bride looked ex. tremely pretty in her white gown and orange blossom, and, with her bridesmaids

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eIe offi sire lilt V egro% Colliery rk'd a member of the St. John •ArnbutalInC, Division (Bolsover). The bride is well known been 0 Griclley .trdh 13;lsover,

Sunday- school arlarXenmler of the Te'df7, removing to Bolsover. She is also a highly valued member of the teaching staff at the Shuttlewood Council Soho, Rev. J. Blayney officiated. The bride

7.11t"rtertZed'pthe'tV1,0F.:erclp:7 chine and beads, and wore a silver lace grey hat to match trimmed with paradise plumes. The bridesmaid, Miss Ann.e Poynton, wee charmingly attired. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. John Kirk. Mr. Herbert Brown acted as beat man, and Mr. Cyril Watson as

EMITzr..tzeiryt1,70'heeTurii'.'l Hall, Greeley. The happy pair were the recipients of a large number of presents.

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G71 THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. AUGUST 30, 1923

IN MEMORIAM. Mrs. Eliza Maland.

Our deer mother, Eliza Maland, at the age of seventy-seven, passed into the Homeland just before the dawn of the Sabbath of August 12th, and was re-united to father, from whom the had been separated lay space, but not by spirit, for thirty-seven years. The last few months were spent amid conch weariness end pain, endured with exemplary patience and un-failing trust in her Divine Father's good-ness, and greatly cheered by the tender, loving ministry of Siiter Jennie and other loved ones, and a continuous consciousness of the presence sad aid of the Saviour. From her earliest years mother was asso-ciated with our Church, being a member of the Higherland Society, Newcastle, Staf-fordshire. for nearly half a century, where she is held in reverent and affectionate re-membrance for her services in Band of IWpe and choir and for her generosity, gentleness and nobility of character. Her greatest joy was that each of her four children was actively engaged in We ser-vice of Christ, whose prosperity therein was her chief concern, and to her prayers and winsome piety they trace much of their fruithilness. Many friends gathered for her interment at the Rosary, Norwich, on August 15,1,. Rev. John Southall officiating, assisted by Alderman H. J. Waters—one of mother's chief friends riming her eleven years' sojourn in Nor- wich.

JOSEPH MALAN°.

Mrs. J. H. Richardson. On August 21st the church at Intake,

Sheffield, suffered a loss which is keenly felt by the passing of H... J. H. Richarro son the beloved wife of the circuit steward and sister of Rev. E. Vaughan. Mrs. Richardsonwas greatly respected at Intake, where she had passed all lien life. For many years she was an earnest worker, a member of the choir and interested in all that pertained to the welfare of the church. Her loss is deeply mourned by, a large circle of friends and throughout the ircuit. Very tender sympathy is ex.

tended to Mr. J. H. Richardson and the two young children deprived of a loving mid devoted mother's care, and to Mr. A. Vaughan, her father, and family, in the sad loss they have sustained. The inter-

ent took place at Intake Cemetery, con-ducted by Rev. M. Holmes in the presence if a large nut.er of friends, Mr. F. Newton and Mr. M. Moore with others representing the Intake and Mosboro' circuit.

Mr. John Smith. After a long and faithful stewardship

Mr. John Smith was suddenly called to hie reward on Sunday, July 1s1, aged sixty-eight years. Early in life ho identi-fied himself with our Penton Strand Church, and was soon placed on hie Plan. When quite a young an he removed to Pontrilas, Herefordshire, to take the sanagement of the village smithy, and at once joined our cause at Ewias Harold, Dem Circuit, where long and lonely journey° were the lot of Local Preachers. These were to him a joy and delight. Twenty-six years ago he removed to Bir-mingham, associating himself with the " Conference Hall," whsre he took an active part. Subsequently, on the death of the leader of an undenominational Bible class, he was invited to b: .come its leader, and filled the position hp oil his death with marked success, seeing a class of about twenty grow intro one of upwards of eighty. Mr. Smith was a most lovable char.., and greatly beloved by miniature and people alike. His remains were reverently laid to rest in the family grave at Yardley Cemetery.

Mr. Thomas Mosley. kflanyash Church and the Buxton Cir-

cuit have mistained a heavy loss in the passing away of Mr. Thomas Mosley.•For fifty yeare a local preacher, he was also revered as a man of integrity and MI- awerving loyalty to high ideals. His family of sons are rendering distinguished servlea in E1710118 churches in the county. The crowded church at Monyash on the day Si interment bore testimony to the widespread respect and esteem in which he had been held. Rev. G. W. Meadley conducted the service. Mr. It. Milling-ton gave an address. Mr. R. Mostar] offered the prayer. At Bakewell Cemetery • large nucolor of residents met the cortege. The serail. at the graveside iris conducted by Halve. G. W. Meadley end J. H. Veal. A largely attended meanorial service was conducted by Mr. W. Bradbury, of Buxton, in out kfonyash Church on Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Sarah Ann Teals. 'Our Rawdon Church has antlered ss

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is that as the feathers on the wings of a bird are all numbered; as the leaves of a pl int aro all numbered ; as the rows of grain on a cob Of maize aro all numbered ; as the atoms in a molecule of every chemical compound are all numbered, w the words and eve, the letters in the true Next, of Scripture are numbered." The Heptadic Structure of Scripture I. a sure and certain proof of the verbal inspiration of the Divine word. In a volume of 400 pages the author deals with the numbers 7, 10 and 3, until one is completely bewildered as well ne amazed. They control and govern and explain everything. They are the defence against the higher critics, with whom our author will have nothing to do; they are the •' hedge which God has placed round His word to guard it against error." But if the author is not a higher critic, he is a. ssverely sharp lower critic, and does not hesitate to alter readings and verses and the number of the Psalms, etc., in order to make them fit into his Hoptadic scheme. We confess that if the choice lies between this Spiritual Arithmetic " and the Higher Criticism, we should unhwl. Lastingly choose the Higher Criticism is being much more simple, plain. intelligent and helpful to the soul, than this amazing farrago of figures. If the inspiration of the Scriptures depends upon an argument like this, it is in a hopeless case, but fortunately it dcee not, There are some persons we suppose who find comfort in this " spiritual arithmetic," but for our. aelvee we wonder why the evident scholar. ship of a man like the author of this book cannot he turned to hotter account. If this kind at thing appeals to anyone here is the real article in its beat form for 12s. 64,

oldest member, Atm Sarah Ann Teal, at, the age of sixty•two. She was converted when about twelve years of age, .d imme. diately commenced to serve in the church and Sunday-school, of which she became secretary, and continued in that office for many years. She also rendered eplendid service for many years as one of the lead- ing

at:rarn11,,11:1:dye;.:.1 connection with the ladies' class, and as long as able she attended the services regularly, and supported the work gener-ously right to the end. She was interred in the Rawdon Parish Churchyard, after a service had been conducted in our own church by Rev. C. H. Randall, in which he paid a tender tribute to her membry.

Mrs. J. Bennell. Mre. Bennell received her call to the

Homeland on August 14th, at the age of eighty years, after a long and painful illness. For many years the was an active member of Barnes Green Church, Newt al Heath Circuit. Her home there was always a place of welcome to the ministers and students of the Manchester district. The call of her Church ever had first claim upon her thought and time, and church and home were inseparably connected. Since her retirement to Stokenchurch, her native heath, she with her husband has been a ceaseless worker for the welfare of our local society. The interment was pre• ceded by a service conducted by Rev. W. Rose, who oat assisted by Rev. F. S.Berry (Congregational). A large audience was present both at the church and graveside.

Mr. Bandy. On Thursday, August 9111, at the Did-

dington-road Cemetery, Wellingborough. Mrs. Bandy, of Little Irchester, was laid W rest. Deceased was the highly respected wife of Mr. G. Bandy, and was at one time a regular attendant at our Wellingborough Church, where for many years her husband was choirmaster. One of We .119, Rev. E. Bandy, is a Presbyterian minister in New Zealand. Rev. T. R. Spray conducted the burial service, both in the church and at the graveside. The following friends were present :—Mr. G. Bandy (husband), Mrs. F. Daniels (daughter), Mr. and Mrs. S. Bandy (son and daughter-in-law), Mr. F. Daniels (son-in-law); Mrs. H. Guess. Mrs. G. Dollimore and Mrs. t. Dollimore (sisters), Mr. F. Bone (brother), Ma, G. solace and healing to hundreds Dollimore, Mr. A. Bandy and Mr. Gregory (rothers-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. E. Daniels. (11[-sufferers who had not known Mrs. J. T. Welch and Mrs. Elkton (friends). rest from skin torture for years,

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International Lesson. Joshua' the Pioneer.

Joshua, Chapter I. September 9.

By FRANK HOLMES. A good way to secure the right atmo-

sphere for this lesson would be to 'read the poem "The Burial of Mama," by Mrs. C. F. Alexander, or arrange the Sunday before for the class to read it. That the thought that while God buriee His workmen His work reeds to be car-

on could be effectively introduced the lemon read. Then Joshua's life work up to this point could be traced

with the help gained from the following facts There are several other forms of his name—Oshea, Hashes, Jehoshua, Joshua, and in the New Testament, Jeans (Fieb. iv. 8). The relation of his name to that of our Lard is obvious. I. meaning may be given m "The Lard is Salvation." Joshua is spoken of in the lesson m " Moses' Minister "—that, is, his

h.anal attendant and helper; and cue xxiv. 3, xxxii. 17, and xxxiii. 11.

should he consulted m illus.ative of its meaning, with other passages which will he found in the article on Joshua to the Teachers' Bible. He was in command of Ie.) in their victory over Amalek (Exod. xvii. 91, when Aaron and Hur bald up the bands of Moses. As we learned in our last lesson, he waa one of the twelve men chosen to "spy out,"

from th..11C.riaeritnt'nryd was possible stsigletwt:

s le i110lad?Odv Nu%ttiel, i,xv.6it train

Ninn. xxviii.

18, xxxiv. 17, Dent. i. 38, iii. 28, xxxiv. 9 that by character and aervice he had won his way to confidence, and was marked out as the euccessor to Moses.

Enough is given to show that Joshua had served a good apprenticeehip and that he had been loyal, obedient and courageous all along. We shall not be far wrong if we interpret this to mean that the peopit as that Joshua 71daswretp11 in their con-fidenoe, and that in his own inward feel. ing Joishlia had felt the call to be ready when Moses died, Calle- to higher sec. vice do not spring up by magic; they come as the crown of discipline and fidelity. It is the loyalties of life that beget insight? The power to see that something needs doing implies some measure of ability to do it; and "respon-sibility is simply our response to our ability." These, again,. are the souls who ere sure of the presence of God with them in the doing of their work. The Divine assurance is the fine fruit of fidelity. All these points are emphasised in the lesson —loyalty, obedience and courage. This latter is reiterated—" only be the any courageous." The failure at Kadesh Minn. xiii.) illustrates the need of this virtue.

All these qualities are part. of the Christian charm., inde.ed, they are theme raised to their high. forma. Christ always strikes the heroic note. iWe are " to endure hardness se good sol-there." The spirit of the Cron is the very nerve of the Christlike in character and service. Therefore let ydar emphasis be on the heroic loyalties. God buries His workmen, but being " SpiriV" He needs you , and I to carry on His work. He •needs Josh. to lead end faithful ones who will loyally follow that the .nark of the world, may be well dcme. Com-pare the answer of the Reabertitea in verse 17f. Let the children also see that the good apprentice makes the best toaster and the best follower.

Arolneology has taught as that at this 'ad. Canaan wen tinder the rule of

and under settled government. • 1200 B.C. this rule waa greatly weakened owing to anarchy at home„and Scholars incline to this date as a prob. b. one for the settlement of the Israel-.. Note that "the law" in Joahua's ay could mean only the first forms of

I 1111 given by Moses for the guidance of e people up to that time. For the his-

toric conditions see the introduction to the Books of Joshua and Judges in a Modern commentary, also the article on the " Tel-elarmarna. Tablets " (far the

.arclusological facts) in an encycloniedia, or Dr. Driver', lecture on Modern Research and the Bible. "The Burial of Moses" by Mka. C. F. Alexander, is in-Suded in most collections of popular r ems. See Barrie's famma booklet on • 'Courage " and Babcock's lines with the refrain " Be strong" in the Fellowship Hymnal.

Kind

Hearts.

Jesus and the Fishermen. Some fishermen were amongst the best

friends Jesus ever had. it the Gospels you often read about the Sea of Galilee. It was only a small inland sm, thirteen atlas long and six mil. wide. In the time when Jesus lived near the sea swarmed with fish, and there were himdreds of fishing boats on it, besidm paaeenger ehips to take people from me side to the other. Fishing was sometimes done by line, bat oftener by letting down a big bag net. Usually the fish were. caught in the shallow water and at night, and the fishermen were brave, hard-working men. Jesus took a deep interest in thein and their work. • Four fishermen who became fast friends

of Janus were Andrew and Peter, Jame. and. John, two pairs of brothers. They had knovrn Him for some months, and had apart a lot of time with Him, when one day a most wonderful thing happened. In the merning Jesus wars on the sands, close by the sea, with a big crowd of people round Him. They were so eager to hear all that Ho was saying about God and the True Religion that they pushed and pushed each 'other until they almost pushed Jams into the water. There were several boats drawn up on the beach. One of these belonged Lo Peter, who, with his brother, wee near by, washing their nets. They had been out fishing all night. Again and again they had lowered their nate, and, after waiting a while, had drawn them up again, hoping some fish would he in them, but every time they were disap-ointed. During the whole of the night

they did not catch one fish, and they were very tired when they returned to the shore. They could not hope to catch any fish in the daytime, so they were washing the sand and dirt out of their nets, ready far the evening.

Jesus climbed into Peter's boat and asked him if he would push it out a little from the land. This he did, and Jesus sat. in the boat 'talkin' to the people on the slme. When Ha had finished speak-ing He said to Peter " Gel into your Mat, push it out into deep water, and let down your nets for a haul of fielt•' To Peter that seemed a useless thing to do. He had fished in that lake ever since he wae a boy, and nobody ever ex-pected th catch fish in the daytime. Be. sides, there did not seem to be arty fish in that part of the lake, else they would have caught some in the night. But already Peter had learned that Jesus was vCry wise, knowing things that nobody else knew, m he said : " Master, all night long we have worked hard and caught nothing, but at Your command I will let dawn the nets." When they had done this each a vest number of firth came into the nets that they began to break. So they signalled to James and John to come and help them; they ran., and they filled both the boats m that they almost sank.

Peter was astonished and terrified. " How did Jesus know the ghost of fish wad there? " And he maid ".Master, go away from my boat, for I am a sinful man, and not goad enough to be with You." But Jesus mid : "Don't you be afraid; from this time I will teach you to be a catcher of men." He was their helper in need, for by the sale of fish

'ft). =7: food ail cloth

families. By Hie care for than He won their confi-dence, an that they were glad to have Him far their Companion and Friend and to be His helpers in the work of catching others for Gad and His service.

Ora Baron.—A teacher was having a time of it. The clam was very dull,

or pretended Lo be, and the boys seemed as if they could not answer the easiest questions. " What is a person called who steals? irked the teacher. There WEIS no answer. "Now, Herbert," said the teacher, " suppose I was to put my hand in your pocket and take out a .parry , what would you call me?" "A blooming magician," replied Herbert, " for I ain't get a perry ."

Bost wishes from your Big Brother.— Rev. Arthur Jobb, 93, Mere-red, Leicester.

Endeavour Topic. Songs of the Heart.

(8) A Song of the Sanctuary. Psalm Maxi, September 2.

By Rev. R. C. NOBLE. Tho lesson ranks among the Pilgrim

Psalms, and expresses the emotions of the devout Hebrew contemplating the worship in the Temple, the experiences of the way thereto, and the individual blessings as he shares the glory of the dwelling of hid God.

1. The Calf o/ the Sanctuary.—The whole man anticipates the time of war. ship. Every part of his being glows with healthy excitement. The reason of dull. nen in worship is that we bring nabbing. With pleasurable feeling we view our evening's music, our meeting good society, our visit to fresh places of in-terest. We are never dull an such "m-anna. Imagination, observation, wit and sympathetic interest are endowed with a new liveliness. We appear at our best. The human appeal of this psalm moves so deeply because it ia a pare and simple ex-pression of joy in participating divine worship. Come to the home of the Lord next Lord's day with the earn, keen

reigdtoavnedre:11% ;'1!!).gr.etirth.rgbItIneet of his heart (1) Freedom. Is there a better way of telling the unrestricted life of God's Mum than the Psalmist's picture of. the swallow? She is the bird of freedom. She is no songstress, but as she circles the air her swift movements be. token her delight in life. (2) The little intruder trusts to good feelings for pro-tection. Unendowed by nature with de-fensive faculties, she thrusts herself upon the sympathies of men. Confidence is the atmosphere of the temple. Nature's order is reverted; the weak are nurtured by the strong.

(2) The Approach to the Sanctuary.— The pilgrim travelled a long way to the home of his delights, harassed by diffi-culty. Only the sway of strong impulses can overcome obstacles. It i3 often more convenient to absent oneself from worship. A zealous heart for the Lord's house defies all obstructions. To have tasted the refreshing experiences of God a presence will M.oce all reasons of neglect and destroy every counter attraction. The spring sunshine will mad us with new zeal to praise Him who made the can to shine. Drab winter days will lead us to seek Him who turns the winter discon-tents to glorious summer. Wearied with strain, broken by life's tragedy, strength will be sought where God comes nearest to the heart. Our " Valley of Baca," the vale of weeping, become. a spring. The fullcomfort of God is only possible to one habitually visiting the mnetuary.

3. !'he Pre -ence in the Sanctuary.—Prayer, -^ain, communion are the exer-cises through which the soul reaches God. The great danger irs formalism. Familiarity with divine things, without due sense of God, degrades religion by separating it from practical life. Culti-vate control and eelf.mastery, the power to withdraw from the world and to centre the.whowle,itillonemGaiy tiiineo.opfht::;

of the concluding portion of atmosphere scrip- ture. Humble waiting will be a neces- sary .preparation for duty. The meanest occupation, even of a doorkeeper, will

Isranve'ith:astr:itlif ttfaanneetvoBur"th:i a throne in the realms of Satan. The humblest suppliant shares the splendour of God's glory; a happy state against which the smiles of the world pear

meres' 7ieT A f adhe'lt'nf reviconscencare never together for lose. True happiness grows out of an upright character. The summon bonwn, the chief good, is only found in the fear and trust of God.

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THE PRIMITIVE ME THODIST LEADER. AUGUST 30, 1'23

Church News. Bakewe11-Prof. A. Lewis Humphries, M.A., visited this circuit, for the week-end, conducting a most profitable local preachers' conference Youlgrave on the

82iurday evening. Mr. A. Marsden, CC., presided. A d iscussion, afterwards well sustained, was opened by Rev. J. H. Veal. On the Sunday the Professor preached at Bakewell to large congregations, diecoureex that will be remembered for good. Mies Anne Prince was the soloist in the evening service.

Bexhill (Christ Church).-A very suc-cessful garden fete wm held in the grounds of Haddocks Hill House (S. Carey, Esq.). Rev. W. R. Bird introduced Alderman A. G. Wells, ex-Mayor, to perform the opening ceremony. Several influential citiaens were present and a very largo number of the general public. The town's band gave fine selections of music. The financial results exceeded 2200. Bunton.—In connection with the Endeavour Holiday Tour our London-rmd Church held special services on Sunday, August 19th, when Rev. E. J. T. Bagnall preached able and thoughtful sermons to crowded and appreciative con-gregations, visitors being present from all parts of the country. By thy kindness of the committee, a garden party was held in the splendid grounds of the " Bal-moral" on Wednesday afternoon, August 22o d, when in the pretence of a large amembly of Buxton and District friend, including also the members of the Endea-vour Holiday Tour, the Mayoreis of Buxton (Miss Wall) declared the garden party open in a felicitous speech. A vote of thanks to the Mayoress wee moved by Rev. H. J. Taylor, of Liverpool. Others taking part in the proceeding. included Rev. E. J. T. Bag II, Rev. G. W. Mhaelley, and Mr. Walter Wilson. There was a "record " attend.oe at the tea, but rain prevented the sports being held. In the evening a firstclass concert waa given by " Balmoral " tourists in London-road Schoolroom under the chairmanship of Rev. E. J. T. Bagnall, who con-gratulated the artistes and the secretaries, Mies Rains and Mr. Bunting, on the sm. easeful manner in which all arrangements had been made, resulting in a subs tantial sum being handed over to the church funds.

Chorley.-A large)/ attended garden party was he'd on 'Saturday last at Shev-ington. The friend. met in the schoolroom at three o'clock, Mr. .d Mrs. Barrett graciously receiving the guests. Mr. Bariatt, who is home on leave from Africa, gave . interesting address. Conn, cillor T.. W. Hall, the senior circuit. steward, presided. Rev. S. Walpole and Mr. T. Derbyshire expressed thanks to the host and hostess, and Rev. T. Sowerby Councillor Hall and his co-steward, Mr. J. Rimmer. Led by the Wrightington Brass Band, the company marched to Mr. Booth's farm, where an excellent tea wee provided. After tea the friends spent happy time on the field in games, sport. and social intercourse, the band render-ing aelectione of music. Councillor Hall messed thanks to the local secretary, Mr. Jack Rimmer, and the Shevington friends for their excellent arrangementa. Proceeds for Circuit Fund satisfactory. A largely attended meeting was held at Coppull on Wednesday, August 22nd, to

Lid farewell to Mr. Thos. Parkinson and his family, who have eine° left for America. Rev. S. Walpole presided, .d addressee were delivered by Messrs. T. Derbyshire, J. E. Bibby, Ti Grundy and Rev. '1'. Scwerby ( circuit superintendent). All the speakers expressed their high appreciation of the valuable and splendid service ren-dered by Mr. Parkinson es local preacher, society eteward, choirmaster and young men's teacher. During the evening pre-sentations of a cabin trunk .d fountain pen were made to Mr. Parkinson, break-fast cruet. to Mrs. Parkinson, and fountain pens to Norman and Harry. Mr. Parkin-son, who has gone to take to a student pastorale in the M.E. Church. U.S.A., ha' won the esteem not only of the congrega-tion to which he belonged, but also of man., others outside, m was evidenced by the fact that. he Ives the recipient of valu-able presentatiom from the local branch of the Miners' Federation, of which he was secretary, and also from the officials of the colliery where he was employed. Earnest wishes were ex end on every hand for his success in his new sphere of service. A musical programme by the choir added to the pleasure of the meeting.

Enfield (Chase Elide)-" It, does not matter what label 16 on the bottle as long

ae the lie the right kind." So . Br in his opening address at the • garden. gathering on ednesday; August 22nd, held in the beautiful grounds at Fir Tree House. In a stirring appeal Dr. Brass advised as equipment for the task before the Church., which is tremendous one (the conversion of the 'world), that, she required two things—religious instruction .d experimental religion. (Daring the evening a fine con-cert programme was rendered by the Chase Bide Choir, assisted by local artistes. The gathering was a most auc- cessful one. Walter Easy and S. Lane were both present, and took part in the proceeding, which realimd over £12. Thanks were expreeeed by Messrs. T. W. Watson and G. Willgress to all the workers. Lowlok.-A very successful circuit gathering was held at the Lowick Church on August 16th. A service was held in the afternoon, when Rev. Henry Yooll, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a former minister of the circuit, preached an inspiring sermon. At 4.30 a large company sat, down to tea. At 5.30 a musical programme was 'given by members of the various churches. At the evening meeting the speakers were

Revs. H. Yooll, G. W. King, of Chatter-le-Street, .d Mr. T. Foster, of Woolen, The chair was taken by Mr. S. March, of Belford, assistant circuit, steward. Total proceeds, £7. Nottingham Belsoad.-Forster.streel Church has met a long- felt need by installing the electric light through-out the church, in addition to re-novating the building. The rmpening services vrere held on Saturday and Sun-day, August 18th and 19th. A public tea was provided on the Saturday, when a goodly abfet:r=efrOi7e'r'whthm'Cei= cllor A. Parkes presided, supported by the minister, Mears. W. Morris (circuit

steward), G. Hodgkinnon and A. Walker. The choir rendered a musical programme, arranged by the choir leader, Mr. F. Dalton. During the evening the light was switched on by Councillor A. Parkes, after which the choir sang " Send out Thy Light " very effectively. On Sunday the services s were conducted by Rev. Jame. Kirby, and in the afternoon

a mueicalservice was arranged by the choir leader. The financial result was gratifying.. Tides ..I.-The school .niversary was held on Sunday last. The preacher for the day was Prof. Humphries, M.A., and the church and lecture All were crowded at both services, many visitors to the locality being present. The sing. ing of the 'children was a delight,; and the congregational singing an inspiration. The choir, assisted by an orchestra, ren-dered " And the glory " and " Hallelu-jah," Mr. J. Oven—an old mholar-eang the recitative and air, " Comfort ye ' and " Every Valley." Mr. V. Slack war, organiet, .d Mr. A. Slack con-ducted.-The addresees by Mr. Ilsonphries were moat helpful and encouraging. The collections realised £37.

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Bridlington.-Two delightful garden meetings have been held this month. The firm, at " Katrine," the residence of Mrs, F. E. Herepe. Miss Heaps presided in the absence of Mr. Rhodes. Mrs. Hard• wick read the missionary letter, and a sitaftoid address as gyms by. Rev. J.

" Hohnleigh," Lhe residence of Mr. and Mre. Geo. Reed. Miss Coates w. the president. Mrs. Redhead read the mis-sionary letter. R.. Tom Sykes gave the addreee. A most enjoyable time amidst the " glory of the garden " made us feel there is " good in everything." A generous collection was given fen the mis- sionary

fund.. Hoyland and Wombwell. - The monthly meeting was held at Wath.on- Hearne on Thursday. Mrs. Hinchliffo, of Wombwell, preached a very helpful

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