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The book is, of course, a record of diplomatic relationships during the author's term of service in the Foreign Office, and a remarkably interesting record it is. But the story referred to has nothing at all to do with diplomacy. While Theo-dore Roosevelt was President of the United States, he intimated that after his term of office he intended to travel and to visit, among other places, this country. He was inter-ested in bird life, and as he had not heard. the songs of the English birds. he would time his visit so as to be in England at the time when they could be heard at their best. He wished it to be arranged that some-one who was well acquainted with lord life should spend a day with hint in the country, naming the birds as they were heard. Now Grey, in his youth, had spent much time in identifying the songs of the different species; hearing them and recognis-ing them had been a pleasure kept up every year. and all the common songs were familiar to him. He therefore replied that Ise himself would be glad to perform the ser- vice. Roosevelt came to Europe, and he had a royal progress. A very full programme had been arranged for him in England, but he managed to squeeze in a day, the very last, day of his visit, for the projected outing. and the ex-President of the United States and the Foreign Secretary of England spent a day in the New Forest listening, to birds singing. " Our time was short," writes Grey, "and the number of varieties of birds heard or seen was not re-markable; but it amounted to be-tween forty and fifty different species."

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How charming to find such a story in the midst of an account of the involved and intricate affairs of international relations! How sur- prising, too, to learn that a man living so busy a life, and holding so responsible a position, should have such wide interests and such detailed knowledge! But what a reproach, too! How many of us could recog-nise even a dozen birds by their song ?

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What an amazing wealth God has poured forth for our enjoyment; how indifferent we are to the most of it! Examples of His prodigality are to be found at every turn. Just now our hedgerows are filled, not with dozens, but with hundreds of species of wild flowers. The grass or the held is almost infinite in its variety. Sir Henry Jones expresses the wonder of it all in one of the letters he wrote to his family while on the way out to India: "Mingled with the beauty that appeals, to the eye there is a grandeur of the sound. 151y I that is Gee—'the multitudinous

voices of Ffis power. Whenever I consider that for aught man knows the world might as well be silent, dumb, barren to the ear as its sandy waste to the eye; but that instead it is crammed full of magical music, why should I, not believe in a great good God. the inventor of it all? 1 want to open my heart more to the music. He that bath ears to hear, he is the man who is blessed. There's a finer divinity than any pagan god with His hands on the harp-strings, and tny! can't He play! "

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Life is amazing in its variety, and that variety is at once an illustration and an example of the "unsearchable riches" of Christ. Do we not unduly narrow our lives when we think of the rich revelations of God in purely ecclesiastical terms The joys of religion are to be found in the Church, and in the Church are to be found indispensable means of grace. But religion lights up all life, and God has poured out all 1111-11111e wealth all around us to minister to our love of beauty and music, but also, surely, to lead its nearer to Himself—if 014 we have the eves to see and the 12,1, to hear.

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In his religious experience Paul has this same sense of expansiveness. Forgiveness through the death of Christ figures largely in that experi-ence, of course. The Cross was for him the supreme demonstration of the love of God. But forgiveness was not the only experience that he enjoyed through it. If through it Ise forgot the things that were behind, through it also Ise was enabled to press forward to the things which were before. If through it he died to sin, by the Resurrection he rose to life. And that life was one of ever-growing enrichment. For it was a life of love, and where there is love, with its giving and receiv-ing, there is always enrichment, for love grows by its exercise. Life in the risen Christ meant that Ise began to put forth those graces of character that he describes as the gift of the Spirit, lie began to experience, too. the ever-deepening joys of ser-vice, and in that service he widened and deepened his love for his fellow-men. So rich is his fellowship with Christ that the height and depth and length and breadth are unsearchable.

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Christ lights up the whole meaning of God for us. The task of every great teacher or artist is to hold up a mirror for its to nature and life. They give its aspects of truth and glimpses of beauty that had escaped its. Turner was needed to show .us the colour of the sky; Watteau to show its the incomparable beauty of trees; Dickens to show us the variety of human life: Shakespeare to show its the drama of human character. But Jesus was needed to show us the infinite wonder of the love of God.

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Up and Down in Methodism.

"Suety Pudding and Black Treacle."

MEMORIES OF AN OLD-TIME QUARTERLY MEETING.

God gave us the birds with their song, the trees and the flowers with their colour and form to teach us beauty; the mountains and seas and winds to awaken wonder within us. But when He wanted to teach an His own love, He gave us His own Son, Jesus Christ. We might fail to see the Giver behind the gifts. But God leaves nothing to chance. In a way that we cannot misunderstand, He presents us with this dramatic repre-sentation of His love. In Jesus we have the greatest interpretation of Divine love. In a life like ours, yet unlike ours, we may see its linea-ments set forth. In a life lived under normal limitations, yet transcending those limits, we may trace its trium-phant power. In His life we see Him moving men by His sweet reason-ableness, capturing them by His wondrous sympathy; in His death showing us at once the awful conse-quences of human sin and the amaz-ing range and depth of redemptive love.

If once we realise the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus, every experience of life is lit up with new meaning, and becomes charged with inex-haustible significance. The beauty of form and colour and song are the love-gifts of the Divine Lover. The marvellous handiwork and inscrut-able wisdom that have gone to the building up of the universe are a token that the Love behind is not a casual affair, but has been deeply thought out. The fellowships we enjoy are ours because of the Love that binds us all together. The moral struggle in which we engage, even the trials and sorrows through which we pass, are disciplines to fit us for a fuller sharing of the Divine Love. A whole range of explora-tion opens up to us.

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Thine.

THE LATE MRS. W. FOSTER. A Life of Service.

The Carlisle District and the Cecil Street Church in particular has just suf-fered the loss of an outstanding person-ality by the death on Sunday, July 24th, of Mrs. William Foster, of Great Corby. For over forty years Mm. Foster bail been a devoted leader in our church life, as Clam Leader, Circuit official, and member of District Committee. Mrs. Foster was an inspiring leader in the W.M.F. in the district, and responsible for the opening of many of the branches. The work which Mrs. Foster put in on behalf of the Orphan Homes of the Church will never be known, but her great mother beset was revealed in her long devotion and generosity on behalf of the orphan children. She was also

leading spirit in the affairs of the vil-lage institutes. Mrs. Foster was granted a long and rich life, for she had passed bar Bard year. The interment took plate is the Carlisle cemetery after a beautiful service in the Cecil Street Church, con-ducted by the Rev. W. H. Campbell, assisted by the Revs. G. T. Scott and J. Tweddle. A memorial address was given by Mr. Campbell, in which he paid fine tribute to the esteem and affection in which Mr. and Mrs. Foster were held.

Among Messrs. Longman's forthcom-ing books are The Animals Came to Drink, by that well-known naturalist and animal photographer, Mr. Cherry Kear-ton; Scatty: The Adventures of a High-land Fox, by Miss Frances Pitt, a lady master of foxhounds; a History of Piracy—from the Barbary pirates to the bandits of the Eastern Seas—by Philip Gorse; a new book by E. F. Benson, entitled As We Are, a companion volume to As We Were; end an interesting account of • the Christian Social Move-ment by Maurice Reckitt, under the title of Faith and Society.

HEN I was a little tiny boy," I remember that the Circuit Quarter Day, as it was then

termed, commenced at nine o'clock in the morning. The members or representa-tives came as they do now, from all parts of the circuit, which at that time covered a very wide area and necessitated in many instances an early breakfast and a good Lout of " legology," perhaps some twenty miles or more, in order to be in time for the opening ceremony. Ministers and laymen regarded being in time as one of the first essentials of their duties. What a lot of time we waste to-day in not commencing to time! Ministers and laymen seem to be alike guilty.

The farmers and tradesmen in some instances harnessed "Old Dobbin" to the trap or spring cart, and where possible would convey their poorer brethren to the meeting; but whether they rode or walked, thee were there, some in broad-cloth, some in fustian jackets with breeches and gaiters, or perhaps breeches and no gaiters, whilst others of the poorer-class appeared in their smmkfrocks. What a contrast to-day I Eight years ago the circuit I have in mind celebrated its cen-tenary by entertaining the District Synod, and for a quarter of a mile on each side of the road, both above and below the chapel, motor-cars, motor-cycles, and "push-bikes" were parked almost as thickly as possible, besides those that were accommodated in private and public yards.

To get back to my story, the Quarterly Meeting commencing so early meant the provision of a dinner or luncheon for those hungry countrymen. This function had to be thought about and arranged for some time beforehand; hence the minis-ter, society steward, and others began to look around and solicit provisions, some-one promising a ham, another a joint of beef or mutton, or perhaps both, while others undertook to supply the vegetables of various kinds.

I well remember being requested by one of the Okla., when I was perhaps only about seven or eight years of age, to go a distance of some three miles to fetch a few carrots for one of these fes-tive occasions. This meant a return journey of six miles, and to me the irony of the affair was that I never got a bite of anything from that dinner I The woman who gave the carrots was my first cousin, who had two boys of her own, one of them two years my senior, and I have

Under the happiest circumstances, an important conference of representatives of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible Society, and the National Bible Society of Scotland assem-bled last week at the Bible Society head-quarters, Queen Victoria-street, to con-sider the possibilities of coordination and co-operation throughout the world with respect to the distribution of the Scrip-tures. Sir Alexander Glegg (chairman of the British and Foreign Bible Society) presided. "

As a result of the conference a large measure of common agreement has been reached. Believing that the growth on the mission field of native churches with an indigenous leadership, together with the development of the national spirit, created a situation which calls for the sympathetic consideration of the Bible Societies, the conference invited the Boards to consider whether any modifica-tions are desirable in their operations to meet the changing conditions.

In view of the changes the British and Foreign Bible Society has made, and pro,. poses to make, in its organisation in India, the conference requested the

often wondered why she did not send the vegetables instead of my having to fetch them.

My mother was generally engaged as one of the cooks, the joints were usually baked in an oven by one of the officers, who happened to be a baker; the vege-tables and puddings were cooked in the boiler of the manse, which adjoined the church.

The chapel was totally unsuited for the laying out of hot luncheon. The seats, except a few at the front, were all fix-tures, and very high backed, so that the tables, which consisted of long planks, were laid along the top of these seats. The result was that only one person could sit or stand at the table in the aperture of each seat. The same arrangement applied to tea-meetings when they were held, but the folk managed notwith-standing.

One outstanding feature of this Quarter-Day dinner was that the first course was the pudding. an order which is reversed to-day. The custom was to make some met puddings, usually about fifteen or eighteen inches long, and five or sin inches in diameter. They were wrapped in cloths. tied at each end, and pinned along the middle. When un-wrapped, the pudding was cut into slices of about half-an-inch thick and served up steaming hot with black treacle or mo-lasses—not the highly refined golden arrup we have to-day Whether true or otherwise, rumour has it that the pud-ding was served in this way in order to cloy or dull the appetite before the more substantial and expensive viands were served—suet duff the boys of the village used to call it.

In the afternoon tea was served, and the sessions always finished with a rous-ing meting in the evening, at which several of the ministers and laymen would speak. This meeting was open to the public, and it was at this gathering that I got a look in.

To-day we usually meet at about 2.30 and finish about 6 o'clock. Some circuits I have known to hold their Quarterly Meetings in the evening; the purpose of meeting is purely business, and there is scarcely ever any time to talk about the spiritual side of the circuit. Let us hope that Methodist Union will alterfhis rush and haste, even if we have to revert to the old system of meeting in the morning and be regaled with suet pudding and molasses for dinner!

W. Wails.

society to inform the other societies of its developments, and recommended that the society and the National Bible Society of Scotland should endeavour to discover whether a closer co-operation in the administration of their work in India is practicable.

It was unanimously decided to recom-mend the three Boards to work together for the formation of a China Bible Society and the appointment of an Advisory Council at Shanghai to consider matters respecting the development of the work.

It is an impressive fact that the three societies mentioned above were responsible for the distribution fast year of no fewer than 25,000,000 copies of the Scriptures.

Mr. P. W. Thompson, M.A., who has for many years been a persistent propa-gandist of systematic and proportionate giving, publishes as a neat little booklet, The Sacred Tenth (Covenant Publishing Co., Buckingham Gate, S.W., 2d.). It is interestingly written and we cordially commend it.

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PAINFUL PREACHING.

" We want more painful preaching," wrote the Rev. George Jackson in one of his illuminating essays concerning the work of the preacher. Lest the sense of humour lurk here and call forth the face-tious, may I hasten to add that the old idea of the word is remembered in such a desire. Painful, that is, in the sense not of musing pain, but of taking pains. Archbishop Trench, to whom we are all greatly indebted, rather acidly remarks in this connection that the existence of more " painful " preachers in the sense of the seventeenth century use of the word, means fewer in the sense in which we use it.

We want greater painfulness in the in-terests of point and brevity. Oh, for the sub-editor in sermon composition! He would do a great deal of excellent wok I Emerson talks about the science of omis-sion, the art of leaving out. When the preacher is least prepared he is apt to be most wordy.

Words are like leaves, and where they most abound

Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found,

runs a wise word of Pope. In the in. terests of simplicity, too, the ruthless pruning of sentences is necessary. Sim-plicity is not only a natural gift. It is an acquired art, one of those good things which, according to Leonardo da Vinci's great saying, God sells only at the price of labour. Surely no toil is too great that will ensure swift and easy arcess, mm-palling in its point and brevity, as well as in its wisdom. to the minds of those whom we seek to gene with the spoken word.

J. M. Barrie, speeking to a company of dramatic critics about his plays, said; •• I wish I could write better, and I pre-sume I am revealing no secret when I tell you that the only reason I don't is because I can't. If there were any other reason I should deserve the contempt of every one of you." What refreshing honesty of mind! When all preachers are able to say this, there will be fewer folk able in the very face of things to ask, " What is wrong with the Church?"

The preacher must take pains to visualise the people to whom he is called to minister. What of their battle? How are they affected by the spirit of the times? Downcast, sad, bewildered, lonely, headstrong, proud, enthusiastic, hopeful—how many conditions,there are with us in worship! When the preacher enters the pulpit he will sense some things about the worshippers. Is he ready for such a revelation? Any sense of superiority must be guarded against. The preacher is the interpreter of the need he must himself feel, first of all. His must be the vision of the all-suffi-ciency of Christ, His adequacy, or, to use an old and lovely word. His fulness.

The absence of the quality of touch will spell failure. Herein is the secret of atmosphere. If God has given a man a rich, full, emotional nature, la him give it width. Why put it in chains? The sense of horizons must be in his heart if he would understand the task of preaching the Ward. It tales all sorts to make a world and all sorts to make a congregation. Modern business makes stern demand upon the spiritual fibre of those who are bearing the brunt of the battle. It is easy to forget this. Their battle is not in the temple crowd alone. Let the preacher remember this, and that to him is committed the helpful word for all life's exigencies.

He must take pains to prepare his own - heart. I am convinced the preacher's own thought and life-motive shine through his words. Verdicts for our Lord will follow vision. Our ambassa-dorship is for the King Eternal. In such painfulness we find our everlasting joy.

W. BR. W ELL-HILL.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has approved a proposal that Bishops should refer to the National Institute for the Blind for an opinion as to the suitability of any blind person offering himself as a canditlate for ordMation.

The Bible and The World. CONFERENCE AT THE BIBLE HOUSE.

AUGUST 4, 1932. THE METHODIST LEADER. 651

METHODIST TABLE TALK. Denominational Strategy.

A lady writing in one of the American papers compliments British Methodists on their hesitation in giving Methodist women ministerial

' equality with men. There is method in the madness, she discerns. If the women are to be preachers, who will be left in the church to give socials, get up bazaars, and run other money-raising efforts to pay the preacher's salary ? Smart men, these British Methodists, she thinks.

Another From America. Another lady-tells that she went to

stay with her married daughter, who bad a three-year-old son. On Sun-day morning, before they started for church, she said to him, "I want you

o to tell me, on our return home, what the preacher bad to say." After the service grannie enquired, " Well, Neal, what did the preacher say ? " The young hopeful was ready: "Oh, he just preached and preached, and he did not say anything."

Thoroughly Methodist in Character. The new hymnal, well on 'the way,

is to be for the use of Methodists in many parts of the word. One could wish that the Free Churches at least had a common hymnal. During holi-days one would more readily feel at home in any church if a familiar hymnal were in use. British Metho-dists will have this advantage as early as local churches get supplies after Union. Australia is falling into line. At the (N.S.W.) Confer-ence in June the Rev. W. H. Robin-son, of South Australia, who had made an extensive study of the 965 hymns that are to be included in the new book, was able to say that they would be "thoroughly Methodist in character," v)hatever that may mean. No less than 769 of the hymns were now in use in all the hymnals of the uniting Churches. The Rev. P. L. Black said that the Australian com-mittee desired the inclusion of hymns referring to labour and industry. Dr. E. W. H. Fowles said that the new hymnal showed " a tremendous swing towards evangelism." Some 200 of Wesley's hymns will be in-ended, but the book will, I judge, be more catholic than any previous Methodist Hymnal.

Hymns and Seasons. Some selections of hymns must

make congregations wonder. A cor-respondent informs me that at the reception of their new minister, not a thousand miles from Durham, the congregation welcomed him by sing-ing:

Servant of God, well done, Rest from thy loved employ!

The battle fought, the victory won,

Enter thy Master's joy.

That would be rather impressive. The recipient of the welcome would be wrapped in solemn thought. But hole would he feel as the congrega, tion launched out on the verse:

His spirit, with a bound, Left its encumbering clay:

His tent, at sunrise, on the ground

A darkened ruin lay?

I. have sent cut an S.O.S. I hope that it has not gone astray.

Speeding the Parting Guest. Some of our circuit stewards must

be real humorists. One of them had said Ihe usual " nice things " about the minister leaving the circuit, and finished up by making the fashion-able presentation of a wallet lined

with Treasury notes. Then he announced: "Before I ask our friend to reply we will sing just one verse: Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways."

According to custom, the meeting prolonged its amenities to the weari-ness of the flesh, and then the pre-siding steward sought to give relief by announcing, " We will sit and sing, ' Stand up, stand up for Jesus.' " 'the effect was splendid. The audience almost rolled off their seats—and then settled down to more, and still more, redundant "remarks" with renewed patience, and hope of a happy ending.

A Voice from Germany. One of my German friends, who

is a Methodist superintendent (that is, a District chairman) in one part of the Fatherland, asks me to keep my eye on German National-Social-ism, or Hitlerism. Without posing either as a critic or as an advocate, he tells how it is sweeping the coun- try., the student class are alreay enrolled. It has captured the Youth Movement everywhere. He tells me that Adolf Hitler has an enrolled army four times the size of that allowed to Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. My friend confirms the common view that war debts explain Hitler's success. It is because the Nazi movement fore-most of all stands for the repudiation of all war debts that it has spread so amazingly as to attract world-wide attention. Amid this debt-nightmare my correspondent finds the work of the Methodist Church throughout Germany more difficult than ever. That gives me concern, but the in-fluence of all this on the future of the world gives me much more. With our civilisation at the cross-roads, as it certainly is, I wonder when the Churches of Christ will be able to force statesmen to give seri-ous thought to the grace of forgive- ness. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors " — if every pulpit in Christendom could ring with these words!

Another Reform Needed. My neighbour is away touring in

his car. The distance he covers and the hotels in which he stays will be carefully recalled on his return. I have asked one favour—that he will make a record of the hotels which make out their menus in French. With some effort he would get through with those who do. But why any British hotel should keep up that ancient custom passes my understanding. One of the strangest instances is that of the English-speaking Union doing their menu cards in French.

The Prince and the Doctors. The Prince of Wales made a very

good speech at the centenary dinner of the British Medical Association last week. Ile confessed to having fallen into tlie hands of many doctors in various parts of the world, and in the course of this experience had learnt so much that he had to some extent come to be his own doctor. Doctors will join with others in laud-ing the Prince's good sense. There are some people who simply will not learn either from experience or from instruction. They know that pickles give them indigestion, but they will have pickles, and so the doctor has to listen to the same sad story, and even medical patience must be sorely tested at times. A large portion of our maladies—and not only the physi-cal ones—are the fruits of stupidity. It is often true that " it is not know-ledge that we chiefly need." More

than one ill I could name which afflicts the body politic, and con-tinues to afflict it because we are so slow to learn from experience, and so averse to putting into practice what we have been told.

A Good Word for the Hospitals. Another passage in the Prince's

speech was good to note. " I can-not refrain," he said, " from paying a tribute to all who arc helping to maintain the high level of the volun-tary contribution system." That will be marked, I hope, by all those vociferous and more or less disin-terested persons who have been so busy of late proclaiming the benevo-lent institution of the sweepstake and demanding-that we should follow Irish example. His Royal High-ness's word is a welcome reinforce-ment to those who do not want to see the spirit of spontaneous sym-pathy and voluntary aid debased. The Prince impressed the need of the hospitals—never more pressing than to-day--and expressed admiration for the generosity, even to the point of sacrifice, which enabled their voluntary work to he carried on. Such ekercise of charity—in the best Sense of the word—sweetens the life of the community, and it is far from being exhausted.

Young Aspirations. Journeying into a circuit the other

day. I heard a welcome piece of news. The junior minister had in- cidentally caused it to be known that he always liked to " get " his con-gregation in the reading of the Scrip-tures. I made a note of that, and with pleasure. Not many days after I found myself in another circuit in which a candidate for the ministry, of whom I heard a good report, led its the opening prayer. I had never seen the youth, or heard his name or anything about him. But the next morning, when the superintendent minister came to sec me off at the station, I told him under whose in-fluence the young man had been, and the name of the prominent minister whose style he had picked up—un-fortunately. I judge that no record-ing angel has ever net down the reason for this affected folly. No man would go courting with such a style or tone of speech. If some preachers kept up their pulpit speech in their own homes their wives would soon call them " over the coals."

Pulpit English. When Mark Twain complained

about the weather lie said that every-body was against it, but nobody did anything about it. It has been like

that with pulpit speech. For all these weary years some clergy and minis-ters have cultivated their mournful "drawl" in the reading of the Scrip-tures, and even in the sermon. Why; no one knows. But at long last something is going to be done about it. The Advisory Committee of the B.B.C. on Religion has had "masses of protest" against "pulpit Eng-lish," and has instituted an enquiry into the "divergence between natural speech and clerical oratory." Some of this strange oratory has been put into gramophone records to go the round of the ministerial training col-leges, to show the budding preachers of the future how not to do it. Some of the leading broadcasters, by the way they read the Scriptures, are fine examples of how it should always be done.

Literally Struck. The village smithy is one of our

finest treasures, whether or not poetically situated under the spread- ing chestnut tree. The A- C7C'S. Chronicle provides this welcome story.. The blacksmith instructed his new assistant " Now, Pat, I'm going to bring this horseshoe out of the fire and lay it on the anvil. When I nod my head, hit it hard with the hammer." Pat did—and was fired out when the backsmith recovered.

QuEs-ron.,

GT. CRESSINGHAM GIFTS. To mark the completion of the new

church and school, a special meeting was held at Great Cressingham (Walton Circuit) on Wednesday, July 27th. Mr. W. G. Carpenter (Wesleyan) presided, and a good programme of vocal and instru-mental music was given by friends from Feltwell. During the evening the Rev, W. fl. Curtis :111.1101.111,d that the follow. ing gifts to the church had been made by various friends who are deeply interested: Individual ecru-II-mm.4m service (30 cups and tray); alabaster baptihmal font ; hymn. number board and figures; two offertory bags; two bronze vases for the rostrum, and several glass vases for window sills; the whole set of hullo:. for church and school, and also the linoleum for the church floor and felt for the boor of the rostrum. The donors of these excellent gifts were heartily thanked on behalf of the trustees. A coffee supper concluded a very happy and interesting meeting.

The Life of a Christian, by John Macbeath, M.A. (Marshall. Morgan and Scott, is.), consists of four addresses based on the Epistle to the 'Ephesians, Mr. Macbeath orders his ideas under the general heads of Beginnings, the Char. acteristics, the Resources, and the Duties of a Christian Life. 'they are helpful talks, of evangelical tone. The book is clothed in an attractive picture. wrapper, which; however, appears to have no connection with the contents.

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THE problem of toleration in England is a fascinating story. Speaking broadly, it begins in the sixteenth

century as an implication of the 'English Reformation. It has been recorded in a recent volume, entitled The Development of Religious Toleration in England from the Beginning of the English Reforma-tion to the Death of Queen Elisabeth (Allen and Unwin, 21s. net), by Dr. W. K. Jordan, who is a professor of history in Harvard University. The book is the result of long and careful study of original sources and the widespread litera-ture of the subject, as shown by sixty detailed pages of bibliography. A clear definition is presented. "Religious tolera-tion presumes a positive attitude of mind which enables us charitably and sym-pathetically to hear another man whom we consider to be in error." So whilst modern toleration towards religious diversity has a large content of indiffer-ence yet, in England toleration was achieved before this had become wide-spread.

The theory of persecution of heresy had become solidified during the Middle Ages, and whilst the idea of a universal state remained it could not be easily over-thrown. Renaissance thought, however, " gravely weakened the logical cement which had so long retained intact the structure of religious persecution." Then the Reformation (though it hardened theologically) struck at the heart of this theory by its ultimate doctrine of private judgment and its transfer of power to national rulers. The preJElizabethan period had a literature of toleration, but " opinion is favour of toleration was not well-focussed." It was Its individualis-tic. Yet the main lines were touched. Already the first victory for toleration had been won because of the assumption of re-sponsibility by the State, for religious per-secution meant an ultimate interpretation of heresy in teems of a political offence. Men would come to doubt the ability of the State to deal with these spiritual matters, and a wise Government would not try force as a solution.

In the first half of the reign of Eliza-beth (until 1576) the moderate nature of the Elizabethan settlement made it pos-sible for the Government to abstain from persecution of dissent, though towards the close of the period this was modified on the side of severity, to cope with mili-tant Catholicism on the one hand and the vigorous Puritanism on the other. Eccle-siastical thought was less tolerant, though the views of Whitgift (as the great Anglican apologist of the time) were strangely moderate as compared with those of his Puritan opponent, Cart-wright. There were pleas for toleration of opinion and modes of worship, but there was no analytical defence of the idea of toleration in either Governmental or Anglican thought. The full turning away from the medigval conception had not yet come. It was still generally be-lieved that religious truth could be exactly ascertained, and therefore com-pulsion was justified.

After 1676 political developments modi-fied the attitude. Roman efforts for the conversion of England caused the Govern-ment to tighten its Catholic policy. This repression, however, was on purely poli-tical grounds, to prevent civil disorders. It thus assisted the growth of religious toleration because it was a complete re-versal of the medigval theory. Anglican thought (which dearly reflects the policy of the Government) is set forth by Hooker in his Ecclesiastical Polity, in which con-ception toleration has a large place. In the minority groups the Puritans emerge as highly intolerant, yet thereby render-ing so important a contribution that by the end of the reign of Elizabeth the theory of a uniform national religion had ceased to have much content. The Separatists declared that " prisons and gallows are no fit means to convince and persuade consciences." Of such truth the Baptists were convinced, but examples of their thought arefragr .ntary. i .

Lay thought was highly important in the development of religious toleration as having " the rare virtue of objectivity." Acontius, who gave a systematic and

philosophic defence of religious tolera-tion, extolled reason and enquiry as the solutions for the evils which beset the Church, regarding doubt as a stage on • the road to truth. Such were revolu-tionary maxims in 1666. Roman Catholic thought made no important contribution because it still clung to the ancient ideas of doctrinal uniformity. Yet a small group of English Catholics found them-selves in a position similar to that-of the Separatists, as they based their plea for toleration on their political loyalty and on the denial of the place of force in the propagation of faith. This helped to clear the air of suspicion and to win the sympathy of reasonable men.

• • • • • This volume is a permanent contribu-

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of first-hand value for the student. It is particularly important, also, in these days of deepening religious understanding.

AN INTRODUCTION TO SCHLEIERMACHER.

Among builders of theological systems the pre-erninent names are those of Thomas Aquinas, Calvin and Schleier-macher. The thought of these men is still living and widely influential. St. Thomas, in his Summa, is still the doctor par excellence of the Roman Catholic Church; the Institutes of Calvin shaped the theology of the Reformed Churches; while it would hardly be Its much to say that Schleiermacher is the founder of Modernism. " He must be regarded as the classical representative of the modern effort to reconcile science and philosophy with religion and theology, and the modern world with the Christian Church." An introduction to the study of this great thinker was needed, and the want is admkably supplied in An Introduction to Schleiermacher, by . J. Arundel Chapman (The lEpworth Press, 9s. net). In these pages the Professor of Systematic Theo- logy at Wesley College, Leeds, gives us a thoroughly sound and valuable intro-duction to the teaching of one of the most original thinkers that the Christian Church has ever known.

Mr. Chapman gives a brief sketch of his author's life, which is followed by a summary of the Addresses, in which he finds the first outline of Schleiermacher's theological programme. The greatest part of the book is given to the valuation and criticism of these, and we are made to feel that we are following a competent guide. There is a delightful and sugges-tive chapter in which comparison is made between Schleiermacher and Wordsworth.

This is evidently the work of one who knows, loves, and can interpret Words-worth. Another chapter discusses the re-lentless criticism which has been directed against Schleienmacher by the followers of Karl Barth. This is practically an out-fine of Brunner's book on Mysticism and tjte Word so far as it concerns Mr, Chaprnan's theme.

Prof. Chapman's book should receive a cordial welcome, and will be as helpful to the layman interested in theology as to the professed student. There is a brief bibliography. The addition of an index would have been an improvement,

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LAY CHRISTIANITY. In his new book, Liberating the Lay

Forces of Christianity (S.C.M. 4s. cloth, 2s. 6d. paper), Dr. John R. Mott points out what he characteristically calls three " basic lacks " in Christian leadership:— Lack of direction, of the sense of mission, and of power. His book is an interest-ing diagnosis of many of our present difficulties. At the same time we doubt whether the thesis which gives its title.to the book is a possible one and whether, indeed, it would be worth considering apart from the name of the distinguished author. The term " the by forces of Christianity " does not seem to have any meaning. " Lay " is the opposite of " professional," and surely ordination does not make a man a professional Christian I Dr. Mott himself would answer to that description better than many parsons. When on page 114 he says " It lakes laymen to win laymen ', he seems to us to be making a quite unten-able statement. We doubt if the non-Church-goer is in the least impressed by the " lay " Christianity of John D. Rockfeller, jun., who is one of Dr. Mott's exemplary characters. The day has-gone by when the story of the simple faith of the director of Standard Oil can move anything site than an inquiry. There is only one way to bring men to Christ and that is by the Christian's own sincerity and self-surrender in all depart-ments of his life. If these are present men will be won, whether the man who wins them is a parson or an auctioneer. Dr. Mott knows that quite well, but his book is written in the language of a past generation, which is a pity. A. V. M.

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FROM ALL FRONTIERS. League Societies and Education.

A request that the 'League of Nations should summon at the earliest possible moment a World Conference on Training in World Citizenship formed one of a number of resolutions adopted at the annual Congress of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies at Paris recently. It was sug- gested that the Conference should consist of a strictly limted number of administra-tors and teachers as well as representa-tives of voluntary educational organisa-tions, nominated by but not representa-tives of their respective Governments. Another resolution, dealing with educa-tion, asked the Assembly of the League of Nations to recommend to States Members that each of them should establish one or more permanent exhibits of teaching material (books, maps, diagrams, pictures, films or apparatus) that have proved useful in connection with League teaching in any part of the world.

Public Morality Council and Films, etc. The Public Morality Council has

endorsed resolutions of protest by its executive in regard to elements in certain plays, films and novels which exploit crime, cruelty, or sordid living. The Council approved the organisation of a memorial to the Prime Minister, to be signed by representative leaders of religion and education and social workers. The memorial urges the coordination of the views of the respective authorities responsible for the control of films, plays and publications, on the interpretation of She term " obscenity," and to that end

recommends the permanent establishment of a representative Consultative Com-mittee on the lines of that recently set up in connection with the Film Censorship and Licensing of Cinemas, to be subject to periodical election and to include women; also similar committees to confer (a) with the Home Secretary for the suppression of objectionable publications, and (b) with the Lord Chamberlain m the subject of licensing plays. It is urged that by these means the authorities will be able to avail themselves of representative opinions in a regularised way, and an opportunity will be afforded for closer contact between these authorities and the general public.

U.S. Churches Reply on War Debts. The Federal Council of the Churches

of Christ in America has published its reply to the manifesto signed by more than fifty leaders A Christian Churches in England, appealing to rile churchmen of America and other lands "to press for the cancellation of reparation payments and of international war debts." After pointing out that " in so far as the European peoples are relieved of the bur-den of the debts, a corresponding burden is placed upon the American people," the reply suggests that, although the United States would doubtless tot be willing to assume this additional border: f .t were urged on legal grounds, it " ought surely to be willing lo consider the matter when proposed as a question of Christian brotherhood and mutual helpfulness. Quite apart from the theoretical justifi.- tion which might be made for continuing either reparations or debts, "the misting

world situation renders attempts to con-tinue them on their present basis futile and harmful," and the judgment is expressed that a downward revision is necessary. It is frankly gated, however, that the American people are not likely to be willing to make further reductions in the war debts unless the debtor nations " show strong determination to reduce their armaments." The amounts due the United States are shown to be "far smaller than the expenditure of the debtor nations on their military establishments," and there is .0 pronounced insistence that a downward revision of the war debts should " go hand in hand with substan-tial reductions in the military and naval budgets of the nations."

Chinese Reactions to Shanghai.

Miss Edith M. Pye, writing in The New World, quotes from a number of letters received from Chinese Chris-tians and peace-lovers, revealing the reaction upon them of the Shanghai tragedy. A woman professor, who pre-sided at a peace meeting of the Women's International League in Nanking in 1928, writes: China and her people used to have unquestioned faith in the League of Nations, but alas, we found shat we have made I great mistake. . . . I am very sorry to tell you that my idea has been greatly changed. . . . Being a Chinese, I am bound to work not for peace, but for justice.' A Chinese nurse writes When you see the bad condition of China, do make you feel very, very discouraged indeed. . . . Please do pray lot for me and we women in China., A

schoolmaster in Central China writes ' As teachers of the New Chi., we have endeavoured to leach that justice triumphs in the world. We have a great responsi-bility toward our students, who are very much excited and worried at this time. . . . We Christians . . . have a great responsibility for the peace of the world and for the civilisation of the future.... There is need for the people to approach this question from the standpoint of world interests and not from national view-points; also the traffic in munitions of war from the West to the East should be stopped. We are the children of God and members one -of another.'

Dr. Moton's Records of American LYftehtngs•

Principal Robert R. Moton, of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, is render-ing a valuable service in the field of race relations through his regular reports, re-leased every six months, on the lynching situation in the United States, says Zion's Herald. For the first the months of 1932 his records show five lynchings, the same number as for the first half of last year., Ten years ago (1922) there were 30 people lynched in the first six months. During the first six months of the present year officers of the law prevented lynching in 13 instances, two in Northern and Western, and eleven in Southern States. Of the five persons lynched, two were white and three negro. The distribution of cases was one each in Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio and Texas. " There is cause for rejoicing," comments the Herald," in the comparison of the figures for the first six months of 1922 with those for the same period in 1932. Slowly but surely, Christian ideals are gaining in power.',

AUGUST 4, 5932. THE METHODIST LEADER. 653

" Hullo, Children ! " BROADCASTING HAPPINESS IN THE CHILDREN'S

HOUR.

/HAVE no need to apologise for my hobby of occasional broadcasting. I find it a delightful recreation. I

enjoy the family life of the studio. I have learned much of the inside of an educational medium that in wrong hands could be more pernicious than the worst films. I have been able to make experi-ments that have proved profitable in more ways than one.

My friends often ask me four ques-tions. What does it feel like to stand before the microphone for the first time? Why did you take up this hobby? How do you manage in the stadia.? And then, usually with becoming hesitation, Could I ever get a similar opportunity?

Before the Microphone. When one stands before the micro-

phone in a studio, to read perhaps a first story, there is a very eerie sense. lion of isolation. Your hand seems to tremble inordinately, and you wander if the tiny flutterings of your pas,rs are thundering in the ears of countless lis-teners. It then strikes you that peri.aps there are no listeners, and the unre-sponsive microphone cannot tell you.

So you enter into living sympathy with the priests of Baal, who cried aloud, but there was none that answered, nor any that regarded. You half-turn, still reading, to catch a glimpse of the others in the studio. They have retired to dis-tant divans and seem oblivious to you. That gives some comfort. At least, you haven't disturbed their peace. So once more you face that mechanical con-science. that carries your words to so many ears. You forget the walls of the studio. They have fallen out of con- sciousness, and you feel like a preacher in a great dark cathedral, with a sleepy choir behind him, and not even a hollow cough to tell him that at least the sex-ton is somewhere, sitting waiting till he can conduct him to the equally silent but crowded graveyard!

With familiarity of practice the task loses some of its terror, but ever the microphone stands on its foursquare pedestal, a dominating Sphinx that seems to demand constant obeisance, a recording angel that never betrays its own estimate of your thoughts and words. Even though you know that it is not yet in operation, it menaces. It is, indeed, like a conscience; one cannot hope that it is asleep without fearing that thereby it has been awakened to activity.

Grizzle the Dragon. I have been associated with a studio that

has the privilege of presenting to its chil-dren the only Broadcasting Dragon in the world. Ile is called Grizzle, and his reality can be vouched for by scores of thousands of kiddies. They know him

better than most of us know prominent people in Society, or in Parliament. They have heard 'his lugubrious voice so often that they understand him and his needs. They believe in his harmlessness, at least for good children, and even send him chocolates!

Grizzle is the " realest " dragon that never was. Now this is lovely, and child-like. But there is another side to this un-sophisticated acceptance of " radio" characters. What impression are children apt to get, when they hear, in the adult programmes, the burlesques of the living Negro, as presented by our jolly friends Alexander anal Mose? Would it not be a wise thing if in the children's hour a differont, and more lifelike, sound-picture of Africans were given to impressionable hearers? Commending the African

My intimacy with African life led me to offer to appear, if that is the word, in the guise of Kofi, an educated Gold Coast negro. I told of native life, especially its lighter side, and ended up each programme with Anansi stories, the forebears of the

tales of Brer Rabbit.

Friends in the secret considered the effect of the experiment. To my delight, I re-ceived invitations from their children, who wanted to meet " Kofi," in spite of his colour. "He was so nice." Of course, to accept would be to destroy an illusion, but I know many gracious Africans whom I would gladly send in Kofi's place, knowing that the children would like them, too.

Ina similar series, designed to present the Chinese as other than the servants, bandits and assassins of the cinema world, I enlisted the aid of a missionary from China. We talked together in unknown tongues, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that his Mandarin dialect was considered to be no more comprehensible than my own Falai, an African dialect! Unfortunately, the troubles in Shanghai arose, and we thought it wise to end the series early, but " Ping " and " Pong " won their place in the children's hearts, and like " Kofi," appeared again in " Request Week."

An " Uncle " In Danger.

The wonderful way in which children accept the reality of " Wireless Person-alities " is shown by the following experi-ences with my own children, aged nine and four. They know of my hobby, and listen critically to each broadcast. Now, in one series I took the part of Harley Quinn, a playful and fantastic character, whose en-trances and exits always savoured of magic. One night I had appeared in the studio, having slipped clown a moutbeami For my exit, I literally " popped c tf," vanishing like a bubble when pinched ty one of the uncles. Imagine my surprise, on reaching home, to lied nu smiling wet-

come frorn the boys, but red eyes and tes.r-stained faces looking up in sistoaishreent. They had imagined that Daddy had in-deed disappeared from earth, and never expected S. see me again !

After that we arranged that Harley Quinn should leave more decorously. Once, however, Harley Quinn got locked up in an office, and when the door was opened, lo, he had vanished through the keyhole! On reaching have I found my nine-year-old with clenched fists mid a face scarlet with anger. " I'll kill that Uncle Eric for locking you its that office!" he said, fiercely. I fear that it was only the iliaicelt , of a tramfare that saved Uncle Eric's

In the Stadia.

The policy of the B.B.C. is to get ex-perts in all departments, and I was not surprised to find that in our studio our pianist was a brilliant young man who has conducted his own worlcs in the Queen's Hall concerts. Our &tigers, likewise, are in the front rank, and have given recitals in the adult programmes, whilst the lady who announces the programme is a well-known writer,- with .a wonderful gift of dealing with the young. Usually there are not more than four or five of us in the " Hour," and this means that everyone must be prepared to" double "parts. We have no " Noise Effects " studio to help us, and that means that all our subsidiary

TFIAT the principle of forgiveness is better than a formula or indictment for the purpose of turning an enemy

into Ts- friend is, of course, the faith of every true Christian. The L.111.111110 Con-ference has staged a remarkable demon-stration of this principle. It is indeed an amazing accomplishment, and weshall not hesitate to express our sense of relief and gratitude, even though the possunist may remind us -that failure at Geneva may negative this success.

It would be unwise, as it is untrue, to say that this achievement is [hie solely to the untiring efforts of the British Premier. He would he the first to dis-claim such credit. His own words, spoken some time ago, befit the ciecusion. "If any honour that has come to me is shared by others, then its video is in-creased."

Many will recall Mr. MacDonald's crea-tion parable at Geneva when he' spoke of the angels who cried, n This is slow." But the sixth day came—the day of accomplishment. ' And," the Primo Minister commented, " our sixth day will come, and on that day we shall have accomplished a work which will be re corded in the most illustrious pages of history." That day has come.

There were those—few its manlier, it is true—who said, on the occasion of the Treaty of Versailles, that forgiveness wax the only way out of a &stressful and bitter experience such nn the Great War proved to be. It is not surprising that they were as a voice crying its the wilder. ness. But, with the passing of the years and the coming of a saner outlook, many have rallied to their point of view mail at last Governments, bankers, business Men and economists alike have ,nicest ft similar opinion. Mr. Lloyd George's book on The Truth about Reparations and War Debts, was a significant con-tribution to this point of vi, while at the same time a confessio

ewn that Sir

George Paislt, the eminent economist, ens right when he said that, " The statesmen who drafted the Peace Treaties had a very inadequate idea of the steps needed to repair the mischief of the war." Let us thank God that at last the nations of the world are taking the right steps to-ward, repair. It is worth noting that whatever Germany pays will now be

noises must be done in the studio by any artist who happens not to be talking to the children. It is hard world, and of course, great fun, for five people to be doing eight characters, five animals, a chorus of mermaids, a band, and in addi-fiat to sail a Wooden Shoe " thousands of miles through live scenes, all in the course of thirty minutes!

We invent all sorts of expedients to give us our effects. The only occasion that I indulged in campanology was in a broad-cast when a peal of bells enlivened the ether. 0 was produced by hitting eight glass tumblers, of various sizes, with a pencil ! They were tuned, of course, by adding water to each, until the notes were correct.

The Way to the Stadio•

So many people would like to try their skill at this novel medium that it would disappoint if I ignored this question. Frarddy, I don't know of any royal road. The B.B.C. is still in its infancy. They are naturally anxious not to get stereotyped in matter of method. They are always glad to receive stories, especially if they can be adapted to dialogue form. But each station has its own standard, and it would be well to write for a particular station, after studying its style.

The organise, can't tell anyone how to write a suitable script, but will be most courteous to those who make suggestions or offer material. Already there is a grand tradition behind the B.B.C., and if the Children's Hour is not the most remunerative, it is a jolly- thing to think of innumerable kiddies whose lives are gladdened and outlooks sweetened by its aid. I think that Jesus would have loved the Children's Hour, and would have delighted to tell His stories in it.

known as rersinstruction payments, and uwt aS comp,r.ation for dansage which, it was said, she deliberately eallSed.

At the time when Herr Von Pape, be-came German Chancellor, our newspapers were careful to inform us of Iii, past history. Hence to mar, who read those fenr.sine pen-pictures the Herr Von Tepee of Laosanne demanding that the moral character of German youth should be freed from the stigma of war guilt mfist have presented an enfgma. But Christians are familiar with the idea of change being wrought in litintan charao-ter; indeed. we are being told often, if we will only listen to those who speak alout the Germany of to-day and who leave the past alone, that a remarkable change tlf spirit IMS Mine to the German people. A rev,nt Mum eat by the Ger-man correstondent of an important Eng-lish newspaper reads: " In the Start-theatre or the Hatis Vaterland, in the tram or in the I7 ntlergrolmil, in thelleiels-stag or the Gewerkseaftliaes, in the Kar-stadt or the tiny shop of the back street, is the West End or in the East End, the note of goodwill and cordial relationship was sounded. At tittles 1 was scarcely able to believe that I was moving about in a toiletry where once war passion had floated the sweet reaminableness almost of an entire nation."

The spirit of forgiveness that now per-voila, the elm embers of international conferences will aid this spirit of friend. lirICSSGerManY, find, we hope, its the words of Mr. George Lens:Miry, will mark the beginning of better relations between Germany and France.

As Christians," rejoice in hope," believing that this changed atmosphere and now spirit are signs that " a loftier race than e'er the world has known " is coining into being.

The popular Dr. F. W. Beecham con-tributes to the August Sunday at Home (Is.), and Mr. Arthur Porritt, the well-known journalist. tells " What I Have Learned from Life." Travel is repre-sented by articles on Roumania and Chile, and " Our Friend llsc Bear," while May Marshall interprets " The Children's Plea for Summer Holiday..

BY

REV.

STEPHEN

J. GIBSON,

Debts and Forgiveness. A NOTE ON LAUSANNE.

BY REV. J. W. THUFtLBY.

654 THE METHODIST LEADER. AUGUST 4, 1932.

Are We Nearer Disarmament ? THE END OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE

CONFERENCE BY BERTRAM PICKARD.

Chairman Disarmament Committee, Chrutian International Organisations.

A Council of Declarations. A SUGGESTION FOR THE DAYS AHEAD.

BY THE REV. JACOB W. RICHARDSON.

T HE first phase of the Disarmament Conference is over. After six mouths of wearisome discussion

the Conference stands recessed probably until January, 1933, but with important preparatory work to continue through the agency of the Bureau, which will meet again on September 21st.

A resolution has been adopted by 41 votes to two (Germany and Soviet Russia) with eight abstaining. The warmest advocates admit that is is only the modest beginning, a promise of better things to come; whilst many of its supporters, notably the group of eight Small Powers, led by Senor Madariaga, have made it clear that their support is given on the understanding that the resolution be eventually interpreted in a manner that will yield its maximum rather than its minimum implications. In addition to providing for an extension of the Arms .Truce, and for the future procedure, the resolution has a three-fold function. It establishes the chief aims and purposes of the Conference. It records certain important agreements already reached in principle; and it indicates the way in which certain other agreements are to be sought.

Few will deny that since the days of the Draft Convention, a great advance h.. been made as regards the definition of aims. " Reduction " has been qualified by " substantial," which in its turn is given meaning by reference to the Hoover Plan.

Again, the principle of qualitative disarmament, with the 'promise it holds out of a partial solution of the twin problems of equality and security, has—despite the 1,otorious efforts of the experts tee dislodge it—been firmly entrenched in the resolution. For most of this pro- gress and for other important gains, we owe a deep debt of gratitude tee President Hoover for his couragoeus initiative.

Among the agssements reached in principle, upon specific questions, the two most important relate to bombing from the air and chemical warfare. It must be conceded that the total prohibition of bombing from the air (if it were tee mean the destruction of the whole existing apparatus of aerial bombardment) would be a big step towards the abolition of military aviation, and would represent very import-ant concessions on the part of France and Great Britain. The question as tee whether the resolution holds out such a hope is a complicated one. The speeches of Sir John Simon and ht. Herriot give hope that the present military equipment for bombing will largely, if not entirely, disappear, provided (and the conditions are admittedly difficult to fulfil) agreement can be come to as regards the character-istics of other military aircraft, as we:, as conceming the restrictions to re imposed upon civil aviation. There still rrtnains the evident loophole left in the resolu-tion for the bombing of inaccessible regions (e.g. the Phillipines, or the North-West Frontier, or Morocco), for the purpose of so-called " pacification." Without doubt, one of the major tasks of public opinion in the immediate future will be to secure the total abolition of bomb-ing from the air, without reservation of any kind.

The case of chemical warfare is parallel. ,Everything depends upon whether the resolution will be inter-preted tee include the prohibition of pre-paration for chemical warfare, and not only of its use. Again we take hope from M. Herriott's speech, and from the un-compromising attitude in this matter it the group of eight S.tes above referred to. Dr. Christian Lang's model speech shun d be studied in this connection.

• • • • • When we examine the further series of

questions that ate to be studied during the Confer..ee recess by the Bureau and various special committees, grounds for Lope are less substantial. The question of effectives is complicated, not only by the different conditi.s obtaining as betvrten

conscriptionist and n.-conseriptionist countries, but also because of differing circumstances as between those countries where semi-military formations (e.g. Fascist militia) exist and those where they dee not. It is something, however, that President Hoover's plan for effectives has been agreed tee as basis for discussion.

It is also an important gain that the principle of budgetary limitations has been accepted. There are many difficulties in the way of its application, but it is thought that the patient work of the special committee on National Defence Expenditure will provide a sufficient basis for the application of a method that in the long run may prove of revolutionary importance.

The naval question—perhaps the key tee final success or failure at the Con-ference—is tee be carried a step further at a special Conference of the chief naval powers in the autumn. Space forbids that the grave issues outstanding should be treated here.

Another important gain is the decision to study the possibility of controlling the " trade in, and private and state manu-facture of, arms and implements of war." It has become increasingly plain that unless something be done tee cope with what has been well styled " The Secret International". any and every step towards disarmament will be rendered vain.

There remain the major political demands of France for " security " and of Germany for " equality." The German Government voted against the resolution, and has stated that it cannot promise future co-operation in the Conference unless the principle of " equality of status " be forthwith recognised.

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ETTER go out into the town and see if I can find the old chap," 1 reflected.

It was old Dick Russell I was going out to see. Somewhere I had heard that, he was going out to South Africa to joia his son, and my wife had just been tad that he was on the point of departure.

Dick was one of the familiar characters iee the town, a former cabman, compul-sorily retired from his own occupation by the fact that cab-horses had vanished from the roads, and now gaining some sort of a livelihood by such service as he could render charabanc proprietors during the summer season, and by labour, more or less casual, in hotel yardd during the winter.

I liked Dick. He was not a member of my flock, nor of any ecclesiastical fold—never had been, as far as I knew. On the contrary, there was always on his brown visage and in his honest dark eyes a touch of shyness and of half. pleased, half-bewildered surprise when the parson stopped to have a word with him, no matter how often those occa-sions might be.

Dick would have a good send-off, I knew. Everybody would be sorry tee lose sight of him, and I should not have been surprised tee hear there had been .me-thing in the nature of a carousal the night before. He would gee out tee his son laden with the hearty good wishes of his friends in the home town.

But there was just one thing which no one would be likely tee say tee him, not because their hearts might not mean all that the words conveyed, but because the phrase was not such as they would be likely ever tee have trained their lips tee b.. And it war just that one thing I was going to say tee Dick when I found him, as I presently should, somewhere in the town.

/ HAVE for some years been exercised in mind by the long-established practice of making declarations on

matters of public and religious import at annual Synods and Conferences. It is unquestionably necessary and good that the Church of Christ should in its corporate capacity attempt tee express from time tee time the mind of Christ in relation to the wide range of the problems and evils of life; and also that it should embody those expressions iee categorical terms for all who will tee read. That is one method by which the Church may guide, inspire or constrain the social mind and will. And by means of it Methodism may make its specific emphasis. For the practice of making these declarations by " Resolu-tion " there can be nothing but general approval.

But for the haphazard method by which the practice is carried out, and for the unsatisfactory results of that method, one can develop little respect. At the District Synods it is common experience that questions of serious import are suddenly thrown at the heads of the representa-tives. No time is given to weigh the pros and cons; no time to reflect on the relation of the particular " resolution " to declara-tions of preceding Synods. Sometimes local conditions of life and industry deter-mine the issue. More often, the readiest debater, the most eloquent pleader, carries the " mind " of the assembly. The result frequently is, as this year, that one Synod says one thing, and ether Synods say other things. And the cynic says, " What is Truth?"

Then we proceed tee the annual Con-ference. There we seek tee regulate expression (or is it to save time?) by appointing during the sessions a " Public Questions Committee " tee prepare and present the " re.lutions." If a principle of selection for the committee is operative that principle is obscure. However,

Rumour had not lied. Dick was leav-ing us. He was standing by the small booking-office in one of the hotel yards, picking his teeth with a straw, when I came across him, but spick and span and polished as 1 had never seen him before. A murmur from someone inside the box brought his eyes in any direction, and he came towards me.

" I hear you are leaving us, Dick," I said.

" Yes, sir. Nothing to do here, and` my son has been at me for years to come out to him. I think I'm doing right."

" its sure you are, Dick," I told him, heartily. "There's nobody like your own, you know. When are you going? "

" By the twelve-twelve train, sir." Dick thumbed a gigantic lever watch from his waistcoat pocket, and glanced at his bag by the wall.

" So soon? " I said. " Well, good-bye." 1 held out my hand. " I shall be thinking about you. Good-bye, and— God bless you."

And then a strange thing happened. Dick gasped. Slowly his face became brick-red. He swallowed noisily. Then, clutching my hand in what felt like a flexible ham, he stammeringly ejaculated " G—good luck, sir."

" Dick's equivalent," one might call it, for that is what it was. One might find the situation amusing, only somehow the laughter dies out of it as one gazes, leaving only a strange, gripping pathos. " God bless you," said I. " Good luck, sir," replied Dick. He would have given anything tee be able to rise to the height of a " God bless you " in response. I could see that. But he couldn't

" Ought 1 tee have given him some-thing? " I asked myself later, and had a curious; humbling feeling that I had

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amidst the rush and excitement of Con-ference that committee sits at the tired end of the day and decides on a formula for such important, complicated and far-reaching questi.s submitted tee it. And when the formula is presented to Con-ference, once again the ready debater, the astute official, the eloquent pleader or the pugnacious advocate, carries the " mind " of the House- And the Conference says soand-to I

But when that is said, what does the Church say. The Synods say conflicting things on the " Means Test." Con. ference also says something. The Wesleyan Conference says something different. One Conference regards the " Conscientious Objector " as a trouble-sorne simpleton and glorifies the another declares war to be contrary to the mind of Christ and regards the militarist as a knave and a pest, yet appoints its Army and Navy Bc_rd and recognises military distinctions. At home we ol ject to providing sectarian religious teaching out of public funds; in Africa we accept public money for the same purpose, and smile.

Can we save ourselves as Methodists from this foolish predicament? Or, at least, can we not reduce it to a minimum, and dee and say something consistent and dignified?

The Roman Church refuses to hurry or be bullied on great questions it deliberates carefully and long—doubtless too long on some matters; then when it does speak it speaks with authority and weight. The Anglican Church likewise assembles from time to time i. Lest minds and devotes considerable time and thought to the great questions of common life. Consequently it speaks forth with duly considered judgment and with corres-ponding weight of utterance.

Is Methodism so endowed with superior insight and intellectual acumen that it can pick up these difficult problems and shoot them off on the spur of the moment—and shoot straight every time? This is a matter of real importance, and Methodism should give it thoughtful consideration; for Methodism will be of such strength and influence that its judgment will weigh in the balances of social and religious life.

1 suggest that the Methodist Conference should appoint a " Council of Declara-tions." This should be compounded of the best minds and spirits in Methodism—but not just departmental secretaries, please. They are too preoccupied with administration. It needs men who are disposed to matters of mind rather than of machinery. And, incidentally, Clare are some good minds to whom the tabula-tion of aratistic and the recording of minutes are not congenial. This Council should meet in retreat from time to time and study matters of current importance, and prepare through the year worthy and wise declarations concerning faith and social action for the guidance of and endorsement by the Conference. The privilege of any Methodist assembly tee petition the Council should be safeguarded. If Conference desired tee amend a declara-tion of the Council the subject should be referred back to the Council.

By some such means as 1 have outlined we should have reason tee hope that Methodism through the coming years would speak to the world with developing consistency, with judicial weight and authority, and with becoming dignity, con-cerning the important questions of our time and generation I

given him something, a sense of startling privilege, as when some soul, eager and glad, yet conscious of deep unworthiness, is permitted to bring a gift tee an altar.

I received a scrawled, straggling letter from Dick, a month or two after his arrival in South Africa.

little chapel near hare itl'Yhees7arre, "tca'nad 1 went with him. First time since I was a child. And 1—you remember what you said to me? 1 felt that He did. sir."

There was a short postscript, but this was indecipherable. My wife says it is " God bless you."

W. H. SATURMs

SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS. A BENEDICTION.

AUGUST 4, 5932. THE METHODIST LEADER. 655

Final Full Missionary Committee. FAR.REACHING PROPOSALS FOR RHODESIA.

HE final meetings of the General Missionary Commi.ee were held

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our beautiful church at Stoke Newington. on Wednesday and Thursday, July 27th and 28th. We are greatly indebted to the Revs. J. Mainwaring and C. W. Burgin- for excellent preliminary arrangements; and to our London friends for their warm-hearted hospitality.

We have met together, as a committee, for the last time, and the missionary department, like every other, is passing through the period of transition. It is impossible to break away from such gOodly traditions without something of heart-ache. We trust, however, that the spirit of camaraderie which has invariably

'characterised these gatherings, will persist in the united Church; and that future concerted action may result in the real advance of the Kingdom.

A cordial reception was given to Mr. Victor Murray, M.P. (Vice-President of Conference) and he was unanimously elected chairman. The Rev. G. Fawcett served as secretary. Sympathetic greet-ings were sent to the Rev. A. Baldwin, and Messrs. W. Savage and E. Adams, who were absent through sickness; and to Mrs. G. Wiles, who has recently under- gone an operation.

Home Missions. Home missionary business was intro-

duced by the Rev. G. E. Wiles with the patience and courtesy we have learned to expect from him. The effect of industrial depression on so many of our circuits, and the consequent calls for assistance, have made his tenure of office a period of intense anxiety. He has sought, how- ever, to apportion the funds at his dis-posal equitably, and all who have had dealings with him have been impressed by the soundness of his judgment and the largeness of his sympathy.

A welcome letter from the Ittv. Thomas Jackson was read by the secre- tary. His fiftysix years as an East London missionary constitute a record association with the General Missionary Committee. Ina message breathing the spirit of gratitude and hopefulness, he recalls his happy relationships with the successive secretaries.

We are relieved to learn that our gifted missioner, the Rev. Tom Sykes, has recovered from his recent illness. The terms regulating his engagements have been amended. Churches desirous of securing the services of Mr. Sykes can do so without being pledged to any specific payment, and consequently his ministry will no longer be the monopoly of the wealthier societies.* In future the Mis-sionary Society will ask for the total pro-ceeds of the final week-end, whatever these may be.

The Rev. J. T. Barkby summarised the magnificent work done by the London Forward Movement Committee. It was realised that the success of the move-ment has been largely due to the fore-sight and sacrifice of Mr. Barkby himself. He was heartily thanked for his dis-interested services.

With the consummation of Union, the publication of Advance, our splendid mis-sionary magazine, will cease. It has deserved a greater popularity than it has achieved," for since it was first published nine years ago it has been a veritable mine of missionary information, and has been the means of saving the missionary funds hundreds of pounds. Mr. Barkby has .celled as editor, and has wan our abid-ing gratitude.

Sympathetic reference was made to the passing, at the advanced age of 99, of Mrs. Bengrey, Craven Arms Circuit, me of the Most devoted missionary collectors sir Church has produced. In the year 2850, as a young married woman, she accepted a missionary box, and for 72 years the same box has been in um. In later years, when bed-ridden through infirmity, the box was by her bedside, and her visitors were counted as her clients. Poor, from the world's point of view, she was rich in Christian graces; and inspired by her love for the Master she collected, throughout the years, £170. The box, surely a sacred casket, has been taken over by her daughter, and we trust that for many years this wonderful family tradition may be maintained.

Sertentation Fund.

Applications for grants from the Sustentation Fund were considered on Wednesday night. Apart from minor modifications and adjustments, the recom-mendations of the secretary were accepted. The value of this fund .nnot be over-estimated. In addition to home mis-sionary stations, there are 178 aided circuits in Primitive Methodism. The Work in Africa.

In the enforced absence of Mr. Victor Murray, M.A., the Rev. J. G. Bowran presided over the African Session on Thursday morning. Miss Shearman, who in the near future is returning to Nigeria, was welcomed by the committee, and her choke little address in reply greatly impressed her hearers. The business was introduced with characteristic abil:y Ly the Rev. George Ayre. The greater part of the time was devoted to the considera-tion of an exhaustive statement from the Rev. J. G. Soulsby, detailing a proposed policy for the development of our Northern Rhodesian Mission Field. The proposals, which indicate the vision and statesmanship of their compiler, were consisely outlined for us by Mr. Ayre. A large map of the district was on view, and enabled us better to visualise the situation. Consequent upon the building of a new capital at Lusaka-Kafue, readjurtmenets in the misisonary personnel are essential. Convincing reasons were given to justify the withdrawal of the European mission-ary from Nanzhila 111 favour of a native minister. Lines of educational develop-ment were suggested, and the need for further buildings (schools, churches and manses) was stressed. The report in- cludes the request from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, for us to take over the Sesheke District, sacredly associated with the name of Francois Coillard. The proposals were heartily supported by the Revs. W. Chapman and W. E. Curry, and met with the unani-mous approval of the Committee.

The Committee is convinced that Northern Rhodesia should constitute a separate district, under the chairmanship of Mr. Soulsby, and the following resolu-tion was unanimously adopted for sub-mission to the Foreign Missionary Com-mittee of the United Church.

" That this Committee is unanimously of opinion that considering the wide area of the work in Southern and Northern Rhodesia, there should be two districts as at present. The adequate superintend-ing of such an area would be an imp.- Bible task for one chairman. The time taken and the expense involved in dele-gates travelling to an united Synod would be a handicap to the work. The difference in the languages and the social status of the people is another reason for retaining two districts. Educational admidstration and grants are under different authorities with divergent policies. The economic position and the difference in European occupation between North and South constitute other reasons for the status quo. A special reason for pressing that the two districts remain is that only recently has our work been co-ordinated under a chairman with the result that a fine spirit of unity and progress has been generated and great opportunities for development and extension are being seized. New boarding schools for boys and girls me being established in Kasenga. The corning of the capital to Lusaka offers great opportunities where we are the only missionary society under-taking native work, and the Director of Education has made proposals for our undertaking the education of the natives there. The proposal to take over the whole of the work of the Paris Evangelical Mission in the Sesheke district into our work and the proposed new developments in the Chipembi, Men.. and Chitanda District make it essential that the work should be continued under a separate chair-man for the time being. These enter-prises, together with the developments taking Place in - other areas, will require the full time attention of such a chair-

The proposals of our North Rhodesian Synod are for a United Synod in 14ki3, and the formation of two districts immedi-

ately thereafter, with a Committee of Consultation between the two and a biennial or triennial Provincial Synod to consider specific matters of common concern.

The reports from the Nigerian and Fernendian Stations cannot be dealt with in detail. They reveal some striking con- tra.. On the one hand is financial stress, and on the other abundant signs of increasing usefulness. The member-ships shows a general increase, in spite of increased handicap. Political unrest and the revival of heathen practices are un- settling one or two stations. Services generally have been well attended, and the spiritual side of the work has progressed. A very encouraging feature is the success of our educational activities. The train-ing of local preachers represents fruitful service, and our medical ministries have been crownedwith blessing. Mr. Ayre told the story of one native Christian who, being without money, sold his umbrella during the rainy season in order to pay his class money. Inevitably we smiled, but the story suggests a loyalty and devotion which is beyond praise. " The Peacemakers."

The Rev. J. B. Hardy, WA., proposed a resolution of thanks to the Revs. C. P. Groves, B.A., B.D., and R. W. Collin, the joint compilers of this wonderful booklet.

The concluding meetings of the G.M.C. were in every way worthy of the out-standing occasion. The beautiful church at Ravensdale-road, Stamford Hill, was well filled on Tuesday night for the ordination service of the Rev. E. G. Young—the last ordination of the Primi-tive Methodist Church. The Rev. J. T. Barkby conducted the proceedings with his accustomed dignity and grace, and the ordinand related his call to the minis-try with fitting modesty and feeling. He referred especially to the encouragement and stimulus given to him by the Rev. George Kendall, and to the kindness and help of the Crossways Church during his period of service there.

The Rev. W. Potter, in his ordination charge, gave an impressive reminder to Mr. Young, and indeed to all, of the supreme business of preaching—the pre-sentation of Jesus. Mr. Victor Murray followed with an equally thoughtful and provocative address to the church. He recalled the fact that in ordination there are three sets of people concerned. There is God, to Whom a full-time service is offered, there is the man who offers him-self, and there is the Christian com-munity which makes possible this full-time service and gives a man his com-mission. Very effective stress was Mid on the fact that we are partakers together with the missionary in his task. We commission him to do it, since we with him are called to it, but cannot go. He told of an ancient vicar, in illustration

While our representatives are trying to do the impossible, and, as some of us think, the unwise, and even tin-Christian, in Ottawa, the Statistical Abstract of the British Empire appears. It covers the seven years ending 1930, and is a most useful book of reference. Its figures in-elude every corner of the Empire.

It is satisfactory to find that 94 per cent. of the children in England and Wales between the ages of ten and eleven are attending public elementary schools. They total to just over five and a half millions. Council schools get over three millions and a half; Church of England almost one million and a. half ; Roman Catholics about a third of a million; Wesleyans over 20,000; Jews over 5,000. The average number of scholars in the class. is 40. In secondary schools the

It is choicely phrased, and is pack-full of invaluable matter for the missionary pro-pagandist. Committee Nominations.

Certain of those nominated to the Foreign Missionary Committee of the United Church being eligible as ex-offioio members, the Revs. E. W. Smith and .C. P. Groves, B.A., B.D., were added to the nominations.

The following were nominated to the Sustentation Fund Committee of the United Church : Revs. W. H. Campbell, R. J. Fenwick, J. E. Gilbert, Messrs. A. E. Harding, R. W. Trower and J. W. Gargett. Women's Miselonary Federation.

The report presented by Miss Bowes is very encouraging. The ladies of our Church, guided by their efficient secre-tary, trio triumph over every economic difficulty. It is hoped that Miss Bowes will find even greater scope for usefulness in the United Church. Young People's Department.

The Rev. J. B. Hardy, M.A., the mere-tary of this department, is at once enter-prising and efficient, and his report of the manifold activities greatly pleased the Committee. The missionary letters issued from time to time are both informative and inspirational. The Stamp Bureau, for which Mr. Ileslop is responsible, is becoming increasingly popular. The Rev. J. S. W. Stanwell is preparing two new lantern lectures for use next winter. An interchange of lectures and slides with the Wesleyan Missionary Society is recom- mended. Judas E. PIIILLIPSON.

of his point, who could hardly walk a hundred yards, but who came towards hiin waving his paper, calling, " We've won, we',e won the boat race—Oxford sm." We were to feel we were in the store team as the missionary. Our faith-fulness or unfaithfulness would deter-mine very largely the faithfulness or un-faithfulness of his work.

The Rev. J. Mainwaring, on behalf of the donor, Mrs. Odell, made the ordinand the presentation of an Efik translation of the Scriptures. The Rev. George Ayre offered the ordination prayer.

On the following everting Mr. Richard Fletcher, J.P., was the genial president or the public meeting, and delighted his many friends by the vigour and vision of his address, in which he recounted the past and prospected the future of the Missionary Society. Mr. Ward Green, J.P., as vice-chairman, received a cordial welcome for his worth and service' sake, and fittingly spoke of the service of our Church in the villages.

A most graphic account of work in Nigeria was given by the Rev. C. T. Smith, who placed the whole audience in his debt by his pictorial presentation of first-hand missionary incidents and facts. The meeting concluded with an address by the Rev. Robert Ferguson, on Hon. Evangelism. A speciaT word of praise must be given to the organist and choir for the splendid help rendered at both meetings.

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size of classes is, as a rule, between 20 and 30.

Attention is being paid to small schools, many of which are redundant. In one county alone we are informed that there would be a saving of over fifty thousand pounds a year if every superfluous school were closed. To tackle this problem would almost everywhere raise the re- ligious difficulty. That is always the trouble. Some folk insist on provision at public expense for denominational teaching. The only hope for the moment along this line is the agreed religious syllabus. Happily this is more and more coming into vogue. Our friends every-where will do well to co-operate in this reconciling work, and at the same time to strengthen in every way possible the provision of religious education by the church and Sunday-school. H. J. Minor,

The Evening Meetings. ORDINATION OF REV. E. G. YOUNG.

The Education Outlook. FIGURES FROM THE "STATISTICAL

ABSTRACT."

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me, Kit," said the young artist, as he sat in his unpretentious studio.

There was a worried look on his face. Things were not going well. His pic-tures were not selling.

" I didn't want to do that, Cliff," re-plied Kitty Saunders, looking sadly into bey boy's face. " But I'm afraid I shall bare to try—and forget."

" Yes, you must obliterate me from your mind as if I had never existed."

Clifford Merton had hoped by now to have made his position fairly secure. He had never disguised his ambition for wealth, but since finishing his course at the School of Art disillusionment had steadily pursued his path.

" Look here, Kit, we have talked about this before. I've no money; I've no prospect."

'• I know, Cliff, it's awfully disappoint-ing for both of us. And then that other thing troubles me—you know you resent my interest in religion."

" Yes, Kit, I do. The fact is we have no alternative. Forget all about me. Go right away. Find some nice girl friend."

Both of them knew that the crisis had come--that further argument would be futile. They decided on their separate ways, and Kitty Saunders passed out imo the grey, Led world.

SX months afterwards Clifford

Merton found his position gradually getting worse. He was beginning

to despair. People had no money for pic-tures. Besides, he was conscious that his craftsmanship was not yet touched with that sense of reality which gives life and soul to the canvas. His technique was lacking in that something which gives breath and individuality to a canvas. His landscapes were not sufficiently convinc-ing; his portraits had not enough vitality and soul-colour in them.

Throwing aside his palette. he began pacing the lloor of the studio.

" Dash it all, this is a poor game! " He looked into the mirror over the

mantelpiece, and the face that he saw distressed him with its deep and poignant gloom.

" Is it all worth while? " That hang-dog look of the face in the

mirror startled hits. Something arrested him; challenged the deeps of his sod.

Clifford Merton resumed his work; he accepted the challenge. It was an honest attempt to answer his own question.

" Yes, I must make it worth while. Besides, it would be cowardly to cave in."

The picture on which he was engaged needed a few final touches. He was con-vinced it was better than any work he had previously done. Would " Break of Dawn " fetch its price? He was not at all sure, for he had suffered so many re-verses. There were times when he thought that his sun would never rise.

" After all, money isn't everything." And the young artist recalled that motto which had hung on the walls of his old lecture-room, " Art for art's sake." Then he wondered why he had not caught its full significance before. In these' dark days of penury he was struggling to be-lieve that craftsmanship is its own reward, and that to create has higher values than monetary gain.

Another hour's work and " Break of Dawn " would be ready for exhibition. Fifty guineas would be a fair price. Clifford Merton was desperately in need of the money. But—" what chance "?

That vacant frame-stand in the far corner of the studio caught his eye. No, he was just unable to do the very thing he had advised Kitty Saunders to do.

•' He had tried to forget, but to obliterate was an impossible task. Had he not on one occasion told her that religion was all tosh? Kitty's sea-blue eyes, luminous with understanding, and that rare touch of sympathy on her face, had in them some deep secret which he was now be-

ginning to comprehend. He continued to hold on; wrestling with despair es if struggling with some grim and monstrous octopus.

THERE had always been something charming about Kitty. Her pleas-ing smile and vivacious nature,

together with her good common-sense, had added to her attractiveness. Kitty had been the secretary of a Sunday-school, and her religious convictions had given to her a strength of mind and solidity of character. She had loved Clifford, but his lack of interest in- her church work had been to here source of disappoint-ment. He had drifted from the faith of his parentage. Notwithstanding his artis-tic temperament, the pull of the age had drawn him away from the finer loyalties. He had been losing touch with reality. Kitty had never sought to irritate with an objectionable insistence on her point of view. She was wiser than that, and Clifford knew it. Along with her work in the Sunday-school, she had been cap-tain of the Girls' Brigade--and a splen-did captain, too. This sort of thing had annoyed Clifford. Kitty knew he was suppressing an inherent religious faculty struggling for expression in the depths of his soul. She was aware also that Clif-ford's other faculty of art needed to be radiated with the glow of a religious faith.

It was that light which was now be-ginning to illumine Clifford's world, and all the splendour of that light was like a stretch of rainbow-colour on Clifford's canvas—but. unlike the rainbow arch, it was destined for a more permanent hue.

CONNOISSEUR'S estimate of " Break of Dawn " had begun to attract attention. The favourable

comments brought an inquirer to the studio.

•• Yes, madam, this is the picture," said the young artist, in reply to his client's inquiry.

" There is something about it which pleases me immensely," said the prospee-tive purchaser. " I like the rich blend-ing; the tone of the colouring."

" Thank you! " " The scene reminds me very forcibly

of a strek-h of country on the horizon of my childhood haunts."

" That is interesting, madam I " After some further comments the pic-

ture was bought, and Clifford received his cheque for fifty guineas.

He was obviously pleased. The turn-ing in the long lane had come at last. Money rolled in faster than he had ever dreamed of. But the thought of work-ing for material gain had dropped con- siderably out of his calculations. He threw himself into his work with a zest and determination hitherto unsurpassed. His pictures were now taking on a new form; they began to glow with indivi-duality; they became luminous—a mirror of the artist's expanding soul. And while that expansion was taking place Clifford had not forgotten Kitty. flow could he forget her?

" She was pretty and she was wise," mused the young fellow. " Her religion was a reality after all. Site was reality."

FTER a couple of years of hard work and continued success, Clifford Merton received a commission to put

on canvas a piece of country in North Wales. The scene embraced a large stretch of woodland, with a touch of the sea, southwards. The execution of the work would necessitate frequent visits to the place. Clifford decided, therefore, to

_combine work and rest for a time. On looking down an estate agent's list, he observed that a bungalow was vacant and could be rented for an indefinite period. .It commanded a view of the very scene he was commissioned to paint.

Accordingly, Clifford corresponded with the agent and came to terms. On err sal he found to his delight that the bungalow, with its adjoining gardens, was adrnir ably adapted for his purpose. There were possibilities in this new commission; Clifford saw in it a potential future. But he had one regret—if only she could have shared that future.

" Does the place happen to suit yer, sir? " questioned the estate agent, on Clifford's arrival.

" It suits me down to the ground." " Well, yer know, Mr. Merton, if it

isn't just to yer liking I can fix yer up with another little spot."

" No, thank you! I'm sure I shall be all right here."

" I was only thinking, the other place is a bit further away from the beach; it might be rather distracting for yer here."

"Thank you I But this is just the place -for the focus I need."

Clifford was a bit Irritated; he could scarcely understand the man's persis-tency. He understood it later.

As he began to settle down to his work he observed a little place of worship beautifully situated just off the pro- menade. The sight of it seemed to give him a strange, deep joy.

In the glorious -sunshine of the long summer days, and under the blue canopy of heaven, Clifford's work advanced. 'Every day saw an added touch of beauty to the canvas; the gorgeous woodland and the haunting music of the waves were gradually forming into a harmonious whole under the skill of a master craft. mm

Towards the end of the week there was a large influx of new arrivals to this pic-turesque haven—visitors came for re- juvenation of mind and body. There were some tennis courts not far from the bungalow. Those bright young things with their racquets and shoes swinging in the sunshine attracted Clifford's atten-tion es they passed. He liked the tan of their faces; their laughter; the varie-gated colours of their dresses—it was all a rich and delicious elixir to hint. Clif-ford had almost forgotten how to play tennis.

Sunday morning found him walking leisurely along the promenade. He ad-vanced towards the little church by the wayside. It was the time of service, and he went in to worship God. For some months that worship-instinct had been pushing through the traditional channels of his boyhood. He was beginning to see a spaciousness within the walls of a little sanctuary; he was beginning to find colour in religion.

srELL, well, wonders never W cease! " ejaculated aifford. He met her full in the face at the

entrance of the park. " How long have you been here? "

" Juste week. I've seen you once or twice since I came," she replied.

" Why didn't you come and speak to me? "

" But you said I had to forget , you," retorted Kitty Saunders, pulling herself together rather rigidly.

" You're looking quite pale," he re-marked.

"Ant I?" " I say, Kit, I want to tell you some-

thing; come with me, do come! " Their conversation was limited. Kitty

saw to that. The reserve, however, gradually disappeared and confidence be-came easier.

It transpired that Kitty had come for a period of rest after an operation.

" Dad insisted on me having a holiday. We really wanted to take this piece of yours."

" Oh I " And Clifford lit his pipe, smiling curiously.

" We were told that we were just too late, some fellow belonging to the paint-ing crowd having booked it."

" Now I see; that explains things," said Clifford, with a twinkle in his eye,

Both of them appreciated the joke. They met on several occasions. Kitty's

intelligent glance turned on the unfinished picture.

" It's very fine, Cliff—something dif-ferent about it from the pictures that you used to do."

" Very kind of you to say so, Kit." The girl's eyes alternated between the

canvas and the actual wooded scenery and the wades lapping the beach. Then she looked into Clifford's face.

" I am thinking you have found your soul, Cliff—your real self."

" Thank you, Kit." And. waving his hand towards the canvas, he said, quietly, " It's a reflected glory, Kik. You found my soul."

" Did I? " " By the way, Kit, have you seen the

little church on the roadside yonder? " " Yes, dear! " " We will go to the morning service

to-morrow if you wish," he suggested. Kitty smiled pleasantly beneath her

close-fitting hat—that old, winning smile. " But what about the bungalow? " ex-

claimed the girl, in a joyous ecstasy. "I did fancy that bungalow of yours."

" You can have it on conditions, Kit., " On what conditions, dear? " " That you have the tenant as well., Enough I

FOR IRISH PEACE. Mr. Lanebury and the Free

Church Council President. An embittered tariff war seeming in-

eviteble unless acme outeide influence were exerted in the interests of peace between the British and Irish Govern-ments, Mr. George Lensbury made an appeal by letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Jewish Chief Rabbi, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and the President of the Free Church Ccen. eil, to offer their services RS arbitrators between the Governments. The first three have written saying that they can-not do it. •The Free Church Council President said: " In common with every section of the community, the Free Churches are distressed at the present difficulty with Ireland. The issues raised by Mr. de Valera are so serious and far-reaching in their possible influence on other parts of the Empire that I feel it would be inadvisable for the Churches to intervene at the present time."

Five members of the Executive of the Free Church Council, who are personal friends, were not satisfied with this, and have sent a joint letter of appeal to the Rev. James Reid, the President, to re-consider his decision in this matter. Mr. Lansbury has also asked all three of these eeelceiastical leaders to reconsider their decision. The five Free Churchmen in question are the Rev. A. D. Belden, B.D. (Cong., of Whitefields), Dr. Somerville Hastings, L.C.C. (Cong.), Mr. Owen A. Rattenbury, J.P. (Wes.), the Rev. Donald 0. Soper, MA., Ph.D. (Wes., Itighbuce Mission), and Dr. Alfred Salter M.P. (Friend). Their letter is as follows:—

" Dear Mr. Reid,—We were interested to see in the Frees this morning your reply in connection with, others to Mr. George Lansbury'a appeal for your inter-vention in the Irish dispute. We should like respectfully to support Mr. Lan, bury's appeal that you should reconsider this matter. We feel strongly that in such a crisis the Church should be able as well as anxious to work for reconcili. lion, trusting in God to inspire such an effort, step by step. We cannot agree that the time is inopportune, and we would point out that, so often in these matters, to do nothing is to take sides. So far as the public are aware, the dif-ferences between the respective parties ore very slight, and should not involve an embittered tariff war, penalising the working classes and the business life of the countries concerned. Your valuable offer to negotiate might have the effect that all desire. At any rate, one Free Churches would have made an attempt to bring about peace, if you made it."

The increase in the consumption of •nillt since prohibition, says 7 he l'Jice, of the Methalist Episcopal Church, is 212.5 pounds annually for every man, woman and child in the United States.

Hartley College Staff and Officers daring Mr. Pickett's Principalship.

AUGUST 4,1932. THE METHODIST LEADER. 657

A Pillar of Our. Latter Days. REMINISCENCES OF REV. H. J. PICKETT.

BY ATKINSON LEE., M.A.

Fatalism and Christianity. A CHALLENGE OF EXPERIENCE.

THERE must be thousands of Methodists to whom the name of H. J. Pickett became familiar dur-

ing the last fifty years. For during a Long life he was mostly engaged in preaching the Gospel, to which he had devoted hiinself in early years. He came of a sturdy stock of Nonconformists in Wiltshire, his father being, one gathers, something of a village Hampden. The Picketts were born preachers, and yet amongst a family of such Henry stood pre.emi nen t.

Practical acquaintance with village life, and with business for a few years, stood him in good stead for understanding social problems which later in life deeply engrossed him. A short but intensive college period laid the foundations of his English and theological studies, which, if he pursued them always with an eye to use in the pulpit, he never ceased to believe in and to press upon others as matters of vital and intrinsic importance. A long and strenuous ministry followed, during which he spent his great natural powers in constructive religious teaching along evangelical lines, from which he

never departed. He never seemed to have any difficulties about the central beliefs of his religion, yet he was very friendly to the new knowledge, whether from higher criticism or from philosophy or from religious history. Probably his early foundations were too deeply laid in vital experiences to be seriously shaken.

Inllseoce of Ruskin.

Outside his priafessional pursuits his capacities were fed by some interests which had great effect upon him. A pro-longed study of Ruskin enriched his aesthetic nature, introduced him to types of experience remote from evangelism and widened his social outlook. The strain of prophetism in Ruskin doubtless appealed to him, and the exuberant eloquence of that master of language seems to have been formative of his own style. For he was ever rich, florid and copious in his mode of speech, and could rarely get well begun in an address in less than a quarter of an hour.

Another source of inspiration was scenery, to which he was very responsive. He had an artist's eye for landscape, and loved to portray the scenes he had con-templated, whether in England or in Palestine and the Mediterranean. There must be many who have enjoyed his de-scriptions of the Holy Land or of Greece. In this connection, too, one may notice his interest in habits and customs; he had an observant eye for the doings of Russian pilgrims or Jewish traders. But his deepest source of emotional delight outside his work was music, for which he had great natural feeling and no small degree of technical knowledge. He had an intuitive perception of what was great and fine in music, and quite late in life developed a passion for opera, even that of the newest type.

As College Principal. Others can best speak of his abilities

as preacher and administrator; as a col-league it may Ire said that he was admir-able. He generally had his own views upon lines of policy, yet he was solid-

tons to know the mind of his colleagues and to carry them unanimously with him. His success as principal of the College was very largely due to his loyalty to his friends, and to his constant consultation with them. Himself unversed in techni-cal details of educational life, be readily accepted the lead of skilled advisers, and in particular saw with joy the association of his own college with other denomina-tional institutions and with the Univer-sity. In fact, he regarded his ministry as essentially an educational one.

Few men could have sustained long periods—in one case amounting to fifteen years—of pulpit activity without inces-sant replenishment of his own stores of knowledge, in order to give out lavishly-, as he did, to his congregations. He used to relate with glee how that till he came to the College he assiduously dodged the great bulk of the committees and confer-ences upon which so many ministers spend their time. Curiously enough, he was ready to learn from the most un-likely quarters, in the last period of his life going sometimes with the present writer to a famous Roman Catholic

Church, and returning with the remark, " Thank God for such preaching as that in this city! "

Ills Political Interests. In social and political affairs he was by

nature a Radical, and he never ceased to develops. In his earlier days a believer in freedom, even to the extent of appre-ciating Bradlaugh, the free-thinker, he became more Socialistic in his later days. When he saw what was happening to Liberalism in the war and afterwards he said that it made one ashamed to think that one had ever belonged to such a party. Like many others, he was grievously shocked by the war, and was torn between two impulses, pacific and warlike, in a fashion almost disruptive of his essentially , cosmopolitan nature. He urged many young men to go to the war, yet said he regardtx1 it as his best piece of work at that time that he had been able to prevent a friend from doing like-wise.

In his last years he was a close student of foreign affairs, and spoke despondently of the world situation, often predicting troubles which to other people were only on the horizon. His judgment was some-what slow to be formed, yet firm and decisive when made, and rarely at fault in the larger social issues. In minor practical matters he recognised his own lack of subtlety and finesse, and readily submitted with a sort of good-humoured diffidence to the piloting of more adroit— especially feminine—management. But his native courtesy was such that it seemed to come quite according to ex-pectation to hear him described as " one of nature's gentlemen."

Two or three times in his life he suffered from extreme physical weakness, but without any lessening of his naturally cheerful and sanguine belief in the good-ness of life. In his last illness he was tormented by sleeplessness and found idleness very irksome. But he had no feat- of death, considering it as but the opening to what he regarded as " the

Concluded or foot of next column.

The difference between a fatalist and a Christian is the difference between the equator and one of the poles of the earth. Fatalism is the opposite of trust. To the man who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity life holds nothing that can justify prayer, or belief in good-ness, or faith, or hope of things to come. To the Christian, on the other hand, life holds nothing that is unrelated to these things. If we believe in the goodness of God and in the power of love, it is impos-sible fa- us to believe that his is subject to fatalism. To one who loves God it is obvious that nothing in life happens: it occurs. God allows no happenings. There is purpose in creation. The Creator of Life makes life to subserve His purposes, and there is a usefulness about life's inevitabilities, however hard and seemingly imposible it may be for us to understand it.

It is reasonable to suppose that no-one acts in any sense altogether blindly; and it is equally reasonable to infer that He Who made us acts reasonably. differs from God in being, amoag other things, finite. Our view of events at,d occurrences is limited we see as through a glass darkly. God knows the end train the beginning. We see ends only as far as our sight allows us to see them. Our understanding, however wise we may be, ordinarily induces us to pass judgments that are immature. Even within the compass of our own life our judgment of an incident in life may prove true, and yet within the compass of the life of the next generation that judgment may prove to

have been wrong. We lose, by death, one who was everything " to us, and we begin to waver in our faith in God, wondering that He should allow such a loss; but events show what supreme wisdomwas behind the loss. We are thrown out of employment, and for a time we arc nearly distracted with anxiety; possibly we fall to the ground, like sparrows, and die. To the onlooker, it is a tragedy. But from the ashes of the occurrence arises something new and wonderful a different turn perhaps is given to things, and another of life's lessons is learned.

To regard from a fatalistic point of view anything that occurs in our life is to shut God out of our reckoning. It was not a species of fatalism that pre-vented David from building the temple; it was a Divine providence that willed, for very good reasons, that Solomon should build it. We may sometimes de-plore the fact that when we were young we " had not a dog's chance "; but it our children, or our children's children are the better men and women for the sacrifices we had to make, then our loss will have proved to be their gain. The seed of all kinds of life must die, or it will abide alone, not less cumbersome than useless. It is on the stepping-stones of our dead selves that we rise to higher and better things.

This is the sense in which the infinite remains opposed to the finite at all points in our experience. The fatalist knows no hope. He sees nothing but ends. The Christian, on the other hand, believes that all things work together for good to those who love God. He regards the " ends " as beginnings or transitions. He is for ever trying to distil out the good

larger life." Towards the end he still enjoyed discussion of human affairs of all sorts, seemed mainly concerned about the future of civilisation, and especially about the situation in which he left his friends.

His sensitiveness to the call of duty was almost excessive, being the imme-diate cause of his final collapse. Just as in the war he would have gone, if called for, to the Isle of Man to preach, despite the German submarines which were then thought to be about, so in his last days he must fulfil an engagement at the risk of his life. He lived with gusto a life filled with joyous labour and happy friendships. It was a boon to have known and worked with him for many years. The new Church will be the richer for the influences which he fostered, and which were latterly directed steadily towards that reunion which he did much to consummate.

from the " evil " around him. He be-lieves that' however bad an event may appear to be, it is not outside God's con-trol, and he trusts that somehow, at some time, God will turn it to good purpose.

In the evolution of experience we shall all come eventually to know that there is a divine purpose underlying all the doings and occurrences of life. We should aim, therefore, at trying to relate all our troubles (of sickness and sorrow) and all our difficulties and problems to God Who is our Maker. It is upon God that the responsibility rests for our final and eternal good, but it is upon ourselves that the responsibility rests for disobey-ing what we know to be His will.

W. A. D.

PRESIDENT AT

SKELMANTHORPE. The President of Gonferenee, the Rev.

Wm. Younger, visited Skelmanthorpe on Wednesday of last week, when large com-panies gathered. In the afternoon the President preached on the mission of the Measiah. The appeal of the sermon and the forceful manner in which it was preaelted created a fine atmosphere. It was a season of refreshing. Tea was tastefully arranged by the ladies of the church, and a large number sat down. The evening meeting was of a very high order, and the church was filled. The chair was taken by Mr. Field, and Miss Josephine Read, daughter of the mini. ter, rendered a solo. Mr. Younger's sub-ject, "The Present Position of Britain in the World," revealed a wide grasp of international affairs, and his utterance appealed challengingly, especially to the young men of his congregation, Thanks were expressed by the minister, Rev. G, Su tton Read.

MELTON METHODIST

ADVANCE.

Asfordby Hill New Church Opened. Joint efforts on the part of the Primi-

tive and Wesleyan Circuits of Melton were consummated on Saturday, when the new Methodist Church was opened at Asforby Hill. Large companies as-sembled from all over the Witham and Melton Circuits to participate in the inaugural proceedings, which were both pleasurable and sucoessful. Land hod been bequeathed some years before to the We_sleyan Connexion by the late Mr. Jasper Houghton, About 21 menthe ago a tent mission was held by Cliff College Students, and as the result a small Primi-tive Methodist society was formed. A joint meeting of the Methodist circuits was arranged, and the outcome was a joint effort for a Methodist Church. The unlocking of the door was performed by Mrs. Sara, this being preceded by a brief religious service conducted by the Rev. P. W. fleasam, P.M. miniater. A service followed, conducted by the Roe. J. J. Reeves, of Leanster, who is desig-nated as chairman of the new Leicester and Northants Methodist District. About two hundred people sat down to tea in the Council School.

The evening meeting was presided over by Mr. Prior, of Melton Mowbray, and addresses were delivered by the Revs. J. J. Reeves, P. W. Hassan and G. C. Dawson. Solos were rendered by Miss Olive Brotherhood, the organist in the afternoon being Mrs. Bert Moore, L.R.A.M., and at night Mr. W. Allen. The total proceeds were £94, and when the sum has reached £110 the Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd., have generoualy promised a gift of £25 to the building fund.

Slealord.—The garden party which was arranged on behalf of the church had to be abandoned owing to the inclement weather. In place of this a social was arranged in the schoolroom. After the tea the Rev. J. Saxton, on behalf of the choir, Sunday.schmol teachers and others, presented Mr. W. H. Butler with an elec-tric reading lamp as a small acknowledg-ment of his services as organist for over fifty years.

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THE DECLINE OF CHURCHGOING

THOSE who love the Church do not need to be told of the decline of Churchgoing. They are too pain-

fully aware of the fact. What they would like to be told is how the decline can be arrested. They are familiar with many of the reasons alleged for the decline, and with many of the nostrums offered to-effect recovery, and are convinced that most of them are unsound. They listen gladly, however, to an authority, even if the authority be of a Church other than their own, and even though that authority contributes little that is new. That is why an article contributed to the Man-chester Guardian by Dr. N. P. Williams, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is worth consider-ing. In an address to the Anglo-Catholic Priests' Convention, Professor Williams had said " The population of England consists very largely of decent, kindly, hard-working, respectable people, who are to be found anyhere and everywhere on Sunday mornings except within the walls of a church." In the article referred to Dr. Williams amplifies that statement, and suggests the only remedy. He writes, of course, from the Anglican standpoint, but his conclusions are easily capable of a more general application.

The professor is convinced that it would be a mistake to assume that the 82 per cent. of non-churchgoers were avowed Atheists. Even of those who think they are many, find that in the great crises of life the religious instinct is more deeply rooted in them than they had believed. The largest part of the 82 per cent. would resent being called atheists, but " they don't care about going to church," or " they don't go to church but are as good as many who do." We know the type. Every Church knows it. And we lonow the reasons given. Professor Williams summarises those he has gathered from intercourse with various types of man-kind, and they make interesting reading. The buildings are gloomy and uninviting, the " dim religious light " falling on memorial brasses and varnished pews, is funereal, and the contrast with the cheer-ful warmth of colour of the cinema is decidedly against the Church. The windows won't open, there is a " church smell " of ,pitch-pine and leather, and the visitor cannot sit where he likes. He is shepherded'to a pew, shut in behind pitch-pine barriers, compelled to maintain an hour and a quarter of concentration on worship and instruction, and to be wearied —or maddened—by over-elaborate music of the Mendelssohnian kind. So much for the accommodation. What of the sermon? This is where the outsider revels.

As Professor Williams quotes him, the sermon 's often - ill-prepared or platitudin-ous; the educated man is rarely or never told the things that he wants to know, such as what is the bearing of the work of Jeans and Eddington and Einstein on our conception of God, whether Behavi-ourism has retuted the immortality of the soul, whether evolution has antiquated the conception of the Fall, whether the Gospels can be relied upon as solid history, and so on." Evidently this type of critic expects that every parish priest should be a specialist in the higher mathematics, the sciences and the philosophies, an expecta-tion no educated man would entertain of any profession. But here are other things besides the sermon. The time of public worship, is just as open to criticism. Eight o'clock is too early for the man who wants a " long lie " on a Sunday morning, and eleven too late for the man who must have a walk, or the mother who must cook the dinner, while six o'clock spoils the evening for any- thing. Another reason offered why the masses remain outside the churches is the resentment felt at the tyrannical attempts to force the Puritan Sabbath upon those who do not accept Puritan theology, and to prohibit healthy games and innocent recreation on Sunday. And, in addition, it is alleged that there is " disgust at

ecclesiastical controversies and at the savage intolerance of some partisan religious associations, honest intellec-tual perplexity amid the strife of tongues, and, amongst those whose share in the good things of this world is least, an embittered suspicion that the Church is on the side of the " top dog," and that the clergy are hypocrites paid by the " haves " to drug the " have nots " into contentment with their lot in this life by promise of happiness in the next." So nothing is right and everything is wrong buildings, accommodation, light and smell, music and sermon, .definiteness and want of definiteness, loyalties and the lack of them. What can be done to meet such a wholesale charge as this?

We think that Professor Williams gives the correct answer. He gives the non- churchgoer generous credit for believing that he is honest in his excuse, but he says: " If we broke all our Victorian stained glass, made all our churches palaces of fresh air, light and glorious colour, shortened our services by half, demolished our pews and interned our vergers, the non-churchgoer of whom I am thinking would still not come to church—for the simple reason that there being any duty in the matter has not so much as occurred to him." We do not take this to mean that no attempt should be made to brighten buildings and services, but that this does not go deep" enough. The major question is: Should men come to church? is it a duty the omission of which leads to failure 111 the glorious art of living, or is it just a task that can be ignored like opera-going? It is the note of duty that must be sounded. Coaxing and wheedling and compromise expose to patronage that is as insufferable as it it is unsuccessful. And nothing can be hoped for from the outsider until the insider recognises this. He must show the way.

Now We Know. It is the fate of leaders to be shot at—

in this country verbally, of course. As those who are now the targets have all been sharpshooters in their time they will probably enjoy the fun as much as the spectator, and put a few more bullets in their pouches against the time of their own return to the wilderness. If open and sustained fusillades mark the import-ance of those attacked, then the leaders of the Labour Party are among the exalted of the earth. Ntr. H. G. Wells said of them at Oxford " They were hardly better than a sentimental gang, and retained all the private animosities inevitable in an assembly of untrained, ambitious, loose-lipped, loose-minded men." That is good going even for a novelist, but Mr. George Buchanan, M.P., is reported to have said, at Brad-ford, that the Labour Party was a body that was neither working-class nor Socialist. With malice and treachery it deliberately attacked the weakest and poorest people in the country, and went out to rob them. So now we know.

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LET me make my title clear. It does not refer to any natural puzzlement which may occa-

sionally have occurred to others be-sides myself on meeting a mixed party out on a hiking expedition. My concern is solely with the male sex. But the old proverb of " Boys will be boys," with which our elders of the more indulgent kind used to palliate our boyish escapades, is, if we are to believe the headmaster of Lancing College. in danger of be-coming out of date. The " Human Boy " over whom Eden Philpotts made us chuckle is no more, and Miss Richmal Crompton's inexhaustible "William" most be an anachronism and a myth. It is not that Dean Farrar's " Eric " has won the day. He, too, is extinct, if he ever existed. There are no young George Wash-ing,tons to confess to chopped cherry trees—the thought of possible con-fession would be too much for them even if they harboured so adventur-ous a thought as that of cherry-tree chopping. As for Beetle and McTurk and " your Uncle Stalky," Mr. Kipling's classic trio, they were always a trifle incredible, perhaps, though their militant and inventive mischief did provoke our boyish emulation. To-day, however, it would appear, they have no emula-tors. They are probably voted "silly blighters" by the modern schoolboy, and Mr. Kipling can look for a steady decline in royalties.

It is a sign of the times that the speech of the headmaster of Lancing in which this state of affairs was re-vealed was made last week in con-nection with the centenary meetings of the British Medical Association. That is to say, if it causes some dis-may to find the modern schoolboy figuring ini the programme of the Association's " Section of Mental Disorder" (not that he has ever been a subject entirely foreign to such consideration), it is at the some time significant of the widening range of medical interest and investigation that it should embrace a subject of such real importance as " Mental Health in Relation to Education." We have moved a long way from the days of the barber-surgeon and the apothe-cary. As one daily paper expressed it, in hailing the Association's cen-tenary, " To-day the doctor adds to his splendid role of the Great Saver of human lives that of the Keeper of human health. His mission is not only that of the breakdown gang which clears the wreckage and re-stores the service of our lives. His new and greater task is to guard and strengthen us against all such disas- ters." In keeping with this func- tion, mental and psychological condi-tions are receiving ever - increasing attention, and in this and all other aspects the health and well-being of the young are being studied as never before in history.

To come, then, to Mr. Blakiston's indictment. According to him, the modern schoolboy is a very poor specimen as compared with his fathers in their pupilage. He is a timid, tame sort of creature, without initiative, who has lost the spirit of mischief and dare-devilry. Pam-pered by his motor-car, his gramo-phone and his wireless set, he needs to he galvanised into effort, and is easily bored.. An offspring of the speed age, he finds cricket too slow for him. He is addicted to " pea-coekry "—a delight in self-adorn-

ment. If his conduct does not call for punishment as his father's used to do, it is because he is afraid of being punished. Even worse than this, Mr. Blakiston accuses him of losing the traditional schoolboy's code of honour, of " an absolute absence of the abstract principle of truth," and of easy honesty where actual money is not concerned. Altogether a rather miserable story, and a depressing one if we are to accept the headmaster's diagnosis. One would not be disposed to ques-tion his good faith, or even to suggest that Lancing College was conspicuously unfortunate in the type of boy it got to educate; but I am expecting to see the columns of the Times enlivened by the contributions of various protesting correspondents —indeed, they have already begun. It is in the nature of generalisations to be partly true.

The most obvious comment on the part of those who would be disposed to demur from Mr. Blakiston's generalisations is that his experience is presumably confined to boys of a certain class or stratum of society. Even then it is disturbing in view of traditional public school standards. But some of the background condi-tions at which he hints as in some measure responsible for the charac-teristics he deplores are in larger or smaller measure common to-day, save among the very poorest chil-dren—and some with no exception. There are, for instance, the incalcul-able persisting effects of the War, to which he ascribes a prevailing motive of fear and its moral derivations. That is a plain challenge to the right educative treatment, which is Mr. Blakiston's business. The other con-siderations mainly have to do with the characteristically modern situa-tion which is none the less challeng-ing—that of a highly mechanised age whose watchword is speed. This situation is confronting, us with a problem, and even a menace, which is not only for schoolmasters and doctors, but for all thinking folk to consider, and not least those who have a concern for life's spiritual values. Rightly the young must be regarded as the vital focus of the problem, but the older generation will have to heed the perils, for they create the spiritual atmosphere in which the young must he reared.

• • • • • There is a danger • to-day of being

spoilt and debauched by the wealth of our inventions, like a child with too many nurses and too many toys. For the development of strong and effective personality there must be some leisure and solitude for thought, in which imagination may spread its wings unforced, and reflec- tion may proceed uninvaded. For out of these, by way of venturous expression, come initiative and courageous enterprise and creative ffort. We were just beginning to flatter ourselves that we understood the " bad boy," and to recognise his mischief as a token of promise. In so far as his " badness " is of that order it is a pity that he should dis-appear. But we may be mourning him early. Youth is vitality and has a way of finding its outlets. Even these weird coveys of " hikers " are a healthy revolt against the universal motor-car. We will not abandon hope—and we will not lose sight of the fact that the key to the human problem in every age is in the soul.

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Churches and People. SPECIAL NOTICE.

The neat meeting of the General Com. =Mee will be held on Friday, September gbh. at Holborn Hall. Members are desired to keep lo mind an alteration of time. The meeting will begin al 10 o'clock Instead of 10.30.

(Signed) JACOB WALTON, General Secretary.

• • . Vtet.PRPSIDBNT't ENGAGEMENTS.—Me.

Victor Murray, M.A., announces the fol-lowing engagements August 2nd5th, P.M. Summer School, Harrogate; 5th-9th, Summer School, Llanfairfechan ; 10th-13th, Alresford Summer School.

Correspondents are kindly asked not to address any personal letters to the Editor either at this office or et his home address during the next fourteen days. All communications should be addressed to the Manager.

..... Mrs. T. J. Grainger, president of the

Women's Missionary Federation, is visit-ing Wingate on August 10th, Nibbles-worth on August 25th, and Gateshead (Prince Consort-road) on August 31st.

• • • • • • • • The Methodist Sunday-school Depart-

meats are issuing a special eight-page Form of Service, printed in two colours in attractive style, in connection with the official Broadcast Service at 3 p.m. on the Sunday following the act of Union (September 25th). Mr. Stanley Sowton, an able and experienced Sunday-school worker, is the broadcaster for the occa-sion, and he has arranged for Scripture passages, responses and prayers in keep-ing, for use in a service to commence locally et 2.30. The Service Order sheets will be a tasteful souvenir of the occa-sion. Fuller announcements will appear in due course.

It was intimated at the General Mis-sionary Cemmittee that the Rev. W. H. Collins would be retiring from the Fern., dian Mission Field on the conclusion of his present term, owing to the health of Mrs. Collins and for domestic reasons. Warm tributes were paid in the commit-tee to the value and devotion of Mr. Collins's work. He has gained the love of his people and the respect of the Spanish authorities. Mr. Collins is due to return in September of next year, when he will have put in 19 years of active missionary service in Africa.

The title chosen for the new missionary magazine of the Methodist Church is The Kingdom Overseas. This will re-place the Wesleyan Foreign Field, our own Advance and the United Methodist magazine. The first issue will appear in January.

The desire has been expressed for a medal for presentation to Sunday-school scholars and ethers in commemoration of Methodist Union. In order to provide such a medal it is essential that a certain quantity shall be guaranteed. A medal-lion with the heads ...John and Charles Wesley embossed, with suitable inmrip-lion in words on the reverse side, can be supplied in white metal, 14 inches in diameter, with safety pin suspender, at sixpence each ; special quotations for quantities. Other qualities at higher prices could also be obtained. The Book Steward, the Rev. Ernest Barrett, M.A., Holborn Hall, Clerkenwell-road, E.C.1, will be glad to hear during the next two weeks from Sunday-school officials and others who desire to obtain tech a medal.

The secretary of the Brinkworth and Swindon District Committee writes to correct our correspondent's statement in the report of the last committee to the effect that a resolution on the appoint-ment of the Union District Secretary was authorised to be forwarded to the General Committee. The matter was simply a subject of comment.

The broadcast service next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock is from Wesley's Chapel, when Gipsy Smith will both preach and sing.

. . .... Steps in the direction of the suggestions

for ministerial training in religious educe-

lion made by the recent Commission of the Methodist Churches have alr.dy been taken. The Rev. A. Hugh Fielder, B.Sc., after completing his course at Hartley College, has spent a year at Westhill Training College, and has been success-ful in obtaining the Selly Oak Colleges' Diploma in religious education. He is destined for Poplar for special Sunday-school and young people's work, for which purpose such a training will prove invaluable. It is highly probable that this form of training will be taken advan-tage of widely as soon as the Ministerial Fund makes a fourth year in college pos-sible for a number of students.

The constitution of the Girls' League of the new Methodist Church, which will embrace the former girls' branches of our Women's Missionary Federation, has been completed. The annual subscription will be one shilling, and the age standard will be from 16 to 30 approximately. There will be a General Committee, meet-

Our Holiday Competition A PRIZE OF TEN SHILLINGS is offered, with Three Con-solation Book Prizes, for the best contribution of not more

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ing not more than three times annually, a Standing Committee, District Commit-tees, Circuit Committees, and the usual branch organisation. Books and leaflets may be obtained from the G.L. Secretary, 7, Carlisle-avenue, Aldgate, London, E.C.3. .......

United Methodism has reason to be gratified by the request that the Rev. D. Howard Smith, BD., should be desig-nated for one year's service on the staff of the Union Theological Institute, Wuch'ang, Central China, which was cordially granted by Conference. Mr. Smith entered Victoria Park College in 1920, becoming Miller Scholar in 1923 and graduating B.D. of London Univer- sity in 1924. That year he joined the North China Mission, returning for fur-lough in 1931, with suggestions prepared as to the training of rural native preachers. During his furlough he has taken first-class honours B.A. in Chinese at London University. The Conference

intended designating him to a training institute for rural native preachers in North China, but in response to the above request, and in token of the spirit of Union, he has been released for one year. When his service at Wuch'ang is finished he hopes to return to North China to build up a small theological training institute.

The Rev. John Dudley's friends, far and near, will be pleased to learn that his general health has so far improved that he is able to resume the work of public speaking. On Sunday afternoon he gave the address et Four Oaks Brotherhood on " Three Golden Links in the Chain of Life." Coun. Terry, in voicing the thanks of the Brotherhood, expressed the hope that Mr. Dudley would soon pay them a return visit.

Our little church at Cliff's End, in the Thanet Circuit. the only one in a rapidly growing village, has been tackling the task of urgently needed renovation at a cost of about £90. Mrs. Charles Green is to perform the re-opening ceremony on Thursday, August 11th, as notified in our advertisement columns, after which the Rev. J. J. Leedal, chairman of the Kent Wesleyan District, will preach, and Ma, games in a meadow, etc., will conclude the festal day. Methodists visiting Thanet would do a good turn to a brave little society, composed largely of young people and small wage-earners, by supporting the occasion. Cliff's End has a promising Sunday-school and C.E. Society.

The life of the Founder of Methodism is being dealt with from every angle just now, in view of the approaching Union of the three Churches. That well-known Methodist publicist of the Tyneside, the Re,. William Wakinshaw, of Wester-hope, Newcastle, contributes an interest-ing article on Wesley's Orphan House in Northumberland-street, Newcastle, to the current issue of the Methodist Magazine. After recounting the history of this cherished Methodist meeting place, Mr. Wakinshaw concludes r " Had it been preserved in its integrity, it is safe to predict that the pilgrims who would visit it would only be outnumbered by those who now bind on their sandals and grasp their staff to render homage to Wesley's Chapel in London and the New Room in Bristol."

. . A correspondent writes One of the

few churches still holding an annual camp meeting is Banks (Southport Third Cir-cuit). Year by year it has been held for nearly a century. Though shorn some-what of its former greatness in numbers and enthusiasm, and lacking the evening love-feast, it is yet very well sustained. The village is " missioned " in different parts, morning, afternoon and evening, led by the minister. Old-time hymn, such as " Turn to the Lord," are still sung, and, judging by the addresses given et the camp meeting just held, the most orthodox could not complain that the Gospel was not faithfully and vigorously proclaimed. May it long continue and its effectiveness mightily increase.

• Mirfield Circuit's " Last Primitive

Methodist Plan " is a worthy production. Issued et lea., it contains portraits of our founders, our President, the minister and leading officials of the circuit, and is printed on art paper. Hymns for Thanks-giving Day ((September 18th) are in-cluded, when Primitive Methodism's cen-tury-and-a-quarter is to be fittingly cele-brated. The circuit is making a com-mendable effort in this connection to clear its deficiency for the entry into Union.

Zion Church, Worksop, has witnessed the ordination of a promising young man as local preacher in Mr. Walter Hughes. The Rev. George Fairfoot gave good counsel in his ordination charge, and Coun. H. Hartland, J.P., pointed the duty of the Church. Mr. Fairfoot pre-sented a Bible and gave the candidate the " right hand of fellowship," and the ser-vice was specially impressive to young people of the church.

The Rev. T. Jackson acknowledges the receipt of L. D. (Birmingham), 5s.; S. E. S., £1; Anon., £1; P. C., 4s. 6d.; Visitor (Aberystwyth), £1; four parcels, two sacks of clothing, one box of flowers, An..

NIGERIAN LEPER WORK. Seventh List of Donations.

The following additional donations have been received by the Mission Office for the Leper Colony :—Rev. E. J. T. Bag-nail, £1; Mrs. S. Haywood, 5s.; " L. and T. R.," 2s. 6d. ; M. A. Bowen. 2s. fid.; T. Molloy, £2 2s.; M. R. (Leek), £1; total, £4 12,

Scholastic Successes. I NOTICE.—Ths enema for insertion el those

eetioss is b. for IR words. Proem.

We offer our heartpcongratulations and good wiahea to the following:—

Arts. Lauren. A. Creedy, eon of Me'. A. R.

Creedy, of our Carlton-road Church, London, N.W., degree of Bachelor of Arts, with 2nd else honours in Geo- graphy, University College,. London.

Cissie Heslop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Heslop, of Hatton, degree of Bachelor of Arta, 2nd class honours in French (Upper Division), London Uni,. versify.

K. It. Savage, son of Mr. W. E. Savage, Wallingford Circuit Steward, Bachelor of Arts (external), London University.

Matriculation. Anthony Green, eon of Rev. G. H.

and Mrs. Green, of Grimsby, Matricula-tion, London University.

Beryl Viner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Viner, Margate, Matriculation, Honours Certificate, London University.

Medical.

R. Victor Coxon, of St. Dunstan's Col-lege, Catford, son of Mr. and Mn. C. Coxon, of Forest Hill Church and Sun-day School, Guy's Hospital Medical School War Manorial scholarship in Arta, value £200.

Elocution. Freda D. Cooper (Ruddington) and

Bernard Ainge (Long Eaton), awarded Gold Medals of the incorporated London Academy at the Leicester Centre Exami-nation.

DIRE CASES OF NEED

Will readers of THE LEADER take compassion on the follow-ing cases that I badly want to help at the present moment I They are all known to me personally, and I know how deserving they are. Maggie is a sweet thole Christian woman, but so crippled and poor. Both her hands are dumb, bode feet deformed; her bus. hand is blind and deaf. They ere good Christians, living ea parish relief. For years I have sent them to the seaside for two weeks at • cost of E3; this year I haven't the money, and I know how they need this change, and I don't want them to be disappointed.

A mother with six children in dire dis-tress, has naked me to take MEM of her bairns into our seaside home for • week or more—not one of hem has had a day away from the slums this year yet. To wee their little pinched faces nukes a Christian mm almost weep. I can get damn away in twos at 101- • week if someone will send me the money.

I have an old lady of eighty years, who

Ina never had a holiday in her life. She's very activa but re, poor and lonely. A dear old Saint. I want to send her to our country home for • fortnight, and can for 30f-

INASMUCH GIFTS for the above cases should be sent at once to—REV. J. E. GILBERT ST. GEORGE'S HALL OLD KENT RD.. S.E.I

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fAiDdi406141,414,411440641144900,10.4t Miss A. M. Mason, of Nigeria, will not

return to her present work after her next furlough, but it.is expected that she will eventually return as Mrs. W. J. Wood.

• • • • •

Oboro idua, in the Oron area, Nigeria, has become one of our busiest medical centres through the untiring work of Miss Stringer. A hospital block is to be erected there, of very modest character, with accommodation for out-patients, midwifery patients, female staff and sister, at a total cost of £481 10s. The material of the building will be solid earth blocks.

• • • • •

The Rev. F. R. Lloyd has prepared a splendid large-scale map of the Oron area, Nigeria, and offers to prepare others. The map is beautifully executed and will be invaluable to the Mission Office.

• • • • •

After Union our Nigerian District will be known as the Eastern Nigeria District, the Western District comprising the present Wesleyan area.

• • • • •

Ow cause at Enugu, Nigeria, is to be handed over to the C.M.S., enabling as to retain a " consul-catechist " under the direction of the C.M.S. superintendent. Our committee is suggesting as a reciprocal measure that the C.M.S. mission stations at Utonkon and Oturkpo, which are in our Idoma area, shall be handed over to the care of our missionary at Igumale.

Modified plans are under consideration for the deferred Bonham Memorial Church, at Port Harcourt. The esti- mated cost to complete is about 22,5130. A new " Wesley Church " is also con-templated at Port Harcourt, for the congregation which we took over from the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Large congregations are reported in both these centres.

The work of the African Churches Mission in Liverpool, which caters for Africans arriving at that port, is to be made known throughout our Nigerian churches, schools, institutes and hospitals.

• tt. • • •

The Clixby Farm, at Kafue (N. Rhodesia) is making such excellent pro-gress under the Rev. J. T. Lyon that it is expected to meet the estimates for the salary and allowances of the missionary during 193233. Mrs. Lyon is a splendid " farmer's wife," and renders generous service.

• • • • •

Two houses have been built at Kasenga, N. Rhodesia, for the accommodation of lepers. Nurse Booth is now in charge at Kasenga, and Dr. Gerrard has gone to Kanchindu.

MARRIAGE. Mr. G. E. Young and

Mir. A. Barker. A very, pretty wedding took place et

Acomb (York Second), let July 27th, the contracting parties being Mr. George Edwin Young, Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Young, of Scarborough, and Miss Amy Barker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Barker, of Acomb. The service was ton. ducted by Revs. J. Stanley Gow, B.A., B.D., and C. Edward Barker (brother of the bride). Mr. Bernard Colley was at the organ. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white georgette and silk lace, and veil trimmed with orange blossom. Her bouquet was of pink roses and lilies of the valley. The bridesmaids, Misses Elsie Barker and Margaret Howard, carried bouquets of lemon carnations. Mr. W. B. Abbott was best man, and Messrs. Young, Bent., Moody and Parry served as groomsmen. After the ceremony and a reception in the Assembly Rooms, York, the happy couple left for London and Torquay. Mr. and Mrs. Young, who are active workers in our Acomb Church and school, received numerous expressions of appreciation and goodwill.

ToE writer of Psalm 130 says, "Oct f the depths have I called unto

Thee, 0 God." The Hebrew lan-guage perhaps more than any other has the wonderful advantage of being this to express thought and feeling in sounds as well as words. - The sound often gives the sense. The word for depths (tehom) suggests depths, and the word for dark-ness (hqshek) suggests darkness. As we read " darkness was upon the face of the deep," hoshek and tehom both suggest what the words mean. The graminarians call this representation of sense by sound onomatopceia. " Out of the depths." The word " depths " means " deep waters."

The Hebrew cosmogony, or idea of the world and creation, was one which re-garded the earth es a floating ball upon a great, illimitable, boundless deep, upon which the huge, solid dome of the firma-ment rested, its golden lamps-the stars -hanging from it. The Psalmist has this mass of water in mind when he speaks of " out of the depths."

The Motionless Deep. The word " depths " suggests several

things to us. We are told that the waters at the bottom of the sea do not move. This motionless water is undisturbed by the breezes which churn up the surface,

'and unmoved by the ships that plough the deep. The depths of the sea suggests stillness and silence. In every respect, both psychologically es well as spiritually, this generation is beginning to learn amid its panicky activity something of the spaciousness and sacramental value of silence as a means for realising the sense of the presence of God.

This inviolable sanctuary of silence in-duces worship more than any other factor perhaps in our spiritual experience. Pieties, wrote : " The heaven of the soul is the silent heaven of love. Then let her feel how into that silent heaven the great Soul floweth in." The Infinite Spirit of God becomes known in stillness. " Be still, and know that I am God."

Silence is rich with the fullness of many tender surprises. It is not an empty silence, for there is nothing empty when God is about us. It is not a dead silence, for a dead silence is the deadest of all dead things. It is a silence filled with the throbbing presence of the Eternal God. " God's greatness flowing round our incompleteness, round our restlessness His rest."

Interludes of Silence. The practice of having silent periods

in public services is treoming increasingly popular. The idea that unless the con-gregation or the ch.r is singing, or the preacher talking, there is no worship, is an illusion. It is quite conceivable that all these things may take place without expressing the spirit of true worship. A period of perfect stillness, say of one minute only, in a service, to think only of God or of Jesus Christ and our relation to God through Jesus Christ, I have found to be most effective. This experi-ence, I know, is shared by quite a num-ber of other preachers. In the deep of stillness we must seek the Lord.

There are certain crystals, the chemist tens us, that can only come to their per-fect form in absolute stillness, when neither waves of sound nor shafts of light disturb their aim at poise and equilibrium. ' In the great empire of silence sluntber-ng truths wake to life," and these mighty ruths only become visible to the calm,

possessed and quiet spirit. Maeterlinck, in his Treasure of the Humble, tells us that " if it be granted to you to descend for a moment into your own soul into the depths where the angels dwell, it is not the words spoken by the cremure you loved so dearly that you will recall, or the gestures that he made, but it is above all the silences that you have lived together that will come back to you; for it is the quality of those silences alone that reveal the quality of your love and your souls." It is this silent communion between the soul and the living God which the poets of Israel exhorted the people to practise. " Be silent to the Lord and wait patiently for Him." " My soul is silent unto God, from Him cometh my salvation." Silence is the mother country of the strong; and yet with what tragic persistence we spend a good deal of our lives seeking places where silence is not.

Loneliness and iolltude. Then the depths suggest solitude as

well as silence. There is loneliness in the depths. The greatest visions that have come to men have come when they have been in solitude. Arnos's vision of national sin and judgment came to him in the lonely work of looking after the herds under the star-bespangled sky. I do not know whether Amos was more interested in stars than in sheep; I am inclined to think he was. The silent stars looked down upon his solitude and brought wonder and vision into his soul. Mohammed was often in isolation, and made his programme and studied his method of campaign in the desert. Buddha in his enclosed lonely soul had his vision away from the rich palaces, with their noise and pleasure.

Solitude, of course, does not necessarily mean you are the only person about. You may be extremely lonely in the crowd. Jesus was often alone in this way ; in fact, He was alone whether in a crowd or in company, alone with God. superior, higher, unique, transcendent in quality and character. There was an ethical majesty about this solitariness of Jesus. He was never known and never under-stood. There was a shrinking sensitive-ness combined with His amazing courage, the former ever drawing Him away from the noise and clatter of men. The con-quest of .1f, the most supreme conquest any of ns can achieve. can only be secured in solitude by self-renunciation and courageous self-control.

Spiritual fortitude is generated in the solitudes of the soul. Jesus went apart to pray on the mount and amid the rustling leaves of dark Gethsemane. But when we are in solitude we are not alone, because we are then alone with the Alone. Unless we know the fellowship of God in the solitudes of the soul we cannot worship and we cannot claim to have a valid religious experience.

The Deep of Death.

Then the depths suggest death. The deep of death is a still, solemn, unknown region ; it is not extinction. The Jews believed in Sheol, a place of semi-ghostly existence. The fullness of life was not there for the Hebrews,. but rather in this world. " Whom the gods love, die old." the Hebrews would have said. There is a dreadful calm in this darkest of all deeps-the deep of death. Nothing lives and moves in the deepest parts of the sea. But we are told that in the deepest parts of the sea there are phosphorescent

substances which give out faint glimmers of light, so we assume that in the dark-est of all deeps them is light. It is not without syroVic significance that there was an angel in the tomb of Jesus. The angels of light penetrate the darkness of the tomb. Heaven is to be found in such dark places..

This is a parable--light in the grave, small but real. Death with all its depths is not unmitigated darkness. Further, divers tell us there are sounds in the depths of sea, strange, mysterious, haunt-ing sounds. There is music in death. Angels sing of the resurrection glory. " In the measureless music of things, in the fervour of forces that rest or that roam "; there is the triumphant music of death conquered in the Christian faith. Jesus took light and music onto the dark-est experiences of humanity as He faced the darkness of death. Ignatius tells us that " the destruction of death began in the silence of God."

The Recesses of the Deep.

In Job 38, V. 18, Job asks " Hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?" Jesus walked upon -the deep, but with God He walks through the recesses of the deep. In the blackest caverns of the most galling and heartrending experiences the Infinite God makes a home. God is in the depths of our sorrow, as well as on the mountain top of our joy. We have thought of Him too notch as being high up, above, outside, but we arc re-minded He is within, deep doyen at the roots of our being. Both in Nature and in human personality God is deep down, central, and rooted. He abides in the un-fathomable depths of the soul, and dwells in the undiscovered places, which the psychological experts but faintly appre-hend. God hides Himself, both in Nature and in human personality. Ile was in Gethsemane as well as on the Mount of Transfiguration, and no matter how far we go down into solitude, silence, sorrow and death, we can, we may, and we do meet with God. " If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there." In these experiences He is " dark with excessive light " and hard to discern.

Paul speaks of the deep things of God. They are to be found in the deep things of humanity. " He will reveal onto Its the deep things out of darkness." Isaiah says God led them through the depths. God is not only in the depths. Ile does not only walk in the depths, but lie leads us through them. Thus we have inspira-tion to lay hold upon God that He will lead us and guide us Into the secret of his great all-conquering purpose. In His high Heaven He listens for the cry from the depths and He hears us, for in the strange sad music of humanity one can hear the deep, firm undertone of Almighty and Everlasting Love.

A CAMP MEETING CLIMAX. Record of Nearly a Century. The last sectional camp-meeting ser-

vices et Henshow, Haltwhistle Circuit, were held on July 24th. Records show that such services were held at Tower House in 1823, and at Henshow in 1820, and these camp-meetings have been im-mortalised by the late Rev. Wm. Graham in Ilentherlieht. The Rev. E. Lucas con-ducted the services this year, Mr. Nieho-las Elliott, of Cowburn, and Mr. Chas. Sowerby, of Haltwhistle, preaching in the afternoon, with a vigorous contribution from Mr. T. Ridley, the veteran Circuit Steward, now 80 years of age. At the evening service in the church Mr. G. Renwick and the Rev. E. Lucas preached, and, following an impassioned appeal by the latter, more than forty men, women and girls went forward to avow their auceptance of Christ 11 t Saviour and to renew their pledge to His service.

During the past twelve months, the Rev. David Griffiths, a blind chaplain of the National Institute for the Blind, has travelled 15,000 miles in journeys to emetically every part of the country-and he has never once got into the wrong train. Railway officials describe hint as their " happiest passenger." In the course of his work during the period, Mr. Griffiths has delivered 230 sermons old lectures,

For the Quiet Hour.

God in the Depths. BY THE REV. ERNEST G. BRAHAM, M.A.

COMPETITION COUPON The Methodist Leader. August 4th, 1932

MY FAVOURITE 'LEADER' FEATURE, AND WHY.

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to me to put up. Funny, wasn't it? " Roy Wilson, the first speaker, turned

and looked the other man full in the face as he replied : " I don't see where the fun comes in, unless you was one of the chaps that did it, and if so you had better hold "fel- tongue, for the boss may .11 me up as witness."

Micic chuckled, and then, with it short 1' Good night " to his mate, turned into a house they were passing.

They were both employed at the M. Wharf, Mick Crawley as crane:driver and Roy Wilson as watchman.

The notice mentioned was one of several placed in prominent positions that day all over the docks, and referred to it shortage in some of the oil drums sup-plied to it large firm, and it seemed that the deficiency had been traced to drums loaded at M. Wharf.

The manager, Mr. Armstrong, was held responsible, and had been accused of sup-plying them with oil under the guaran-teed weight.

The notice was also it caution against any tampering with goods waiting at the wharves, and asked any who could ex-plain the matter to report to the manager.

The workmen went to and fro from the docks to the wharves by means of it swing bridge, which was fastened back at night, and any late workmen or the watchmen had to use an emergency plank, which had it rail one side only. The men thought nettling of going over this, and rarely touched the rail unless it was foggy.

This plank led to M. Wharf, and the only other means of connection with this wharf and the road was a private door from the manager's house, which was sitttate at the far side of the wharf.

Next morning, as the men waited to pass into the docks, the main subject dis-cussed was the notice. They formed it motley crowd, representing all nationali-ties, and their faces depicted many characteristics.

On the gate being opened they soon dis persed to their various departments-- docks, factories, wharves, etc. Those passing over the swing bridge met Roy Wilson returning from his night watch, and Mid, with it leer, said to him as they passed : " Found the culprits, eh? "

The Scotsman, dour and erect, made no answer, but he gave Mick it warning look, which completely silenced him and caused some of the men to chaff him. They wondered why they did not get the usual ready wit in reply.

IN the labyrinth of close streets and crowded houses in the vicinity of the

docks stood what appeared to be it small, unobtrusive public-house. Men were often seen standing about the door, and women frequently came with their jugs to fetch liquor at meal times. It was quiet enough usually, never raided by the police, who looked upon it as harmless.

But the apparently quiet little " Blue Eagle " had it back private entrance, by which certain men were admitted at un-lawful times (the landlord being always ready to give warning), and in it back room held their meetings and drank as they pleased.

As usual, that evening, Mick, who managed the men's affairs here, arrived first, and was greeted by the landlord with some concern.

" What's this about the notice, man? It strikes me our side of the business had better close down awhile."

" True for ye," was the reply. " It's meself was just goin' to suggest it, but ye need not be afeared. I'll take good care the only witness that could tell on us shall not say it word as would bring us to book."

The two men discussed affairs in sub-dued voices until smother came. He was quietly sent away, as well as several others who came later.

AT the same time a very different scene was talcing place a few blocks away.

It was the night for the weekly service at the Mission, and, as usual, the room was full before the preacher arrived, he having been detained by the sick and needy on his way.

After a short, bright service he went round shaking hands and giving advice or help where needful. The room gradually emptied until he was left with Mr. Armstrong, the manager from M. Wharf, and his watchman, Roy Wilson ; both were among the Mission's best helpers.

The preacher, the Rev. John Fortescue, had it strong regard for both, who, though so very different in all outward appearances, worked together most un-selfishly for the good of their fellows.

Mr. Armstrong briefly stated that he expected very shortly to leave the coun-try and join his wife in the Colonies, but he would do his best during the remain-ing weeks of his stay to find another to take his place in helping at the Mission.

Mr. Fortescue was completely taken by surprise at the news, but was, of course, quite willing to respect Arm-strong's wish that the matter should be kept quiet, as the company had not yet appointed his successor.

Then came Roy Wilson's turn, and it was evident that he was in serious trouble.

" What is it, Roy? " kindly inquired his friend. " Can I help you in any way ? "

So Roy told him 'all about the trouble at the wharf, and also that he had it summons to appear as witness for Mr. Armstrong the next week, the company having sued the latter for loss caused by his apparent oversight.

" You see, sir, it's like this. I've got to witness against certain of the men who I know have tampered with the stuff, yet if I do this I'll be harming the master. When I broke my arm last winter the men clubbed together and helped us through, and it would have gone hard otherwise, as our bairn was born soon after the accident. I'll hate to bear witness against the men, but I know fairly well the lot that were M it and their leader, an' I'll have to speak truth, won't I, if I'm put on oath?"

The minister nodded sympathetically, " But that is not the worst," continued

Roy. " Mr. Armstrong's wife took to secret drinking after she lost her only bairn—a boy—in a street accident. The men say that she let them in through the private gate, and they got her drink in return."

" But surely," interrupted the mini. ter' " none of them would drink that

stuff? I understood it was oil for fuel and ertines!"

" Yes, sir, and so it is, but you don't know what it man or woman will drink once they get the love of it so keen. It doesn't matter what they drink as long as it is spirit, and so you see, if I tell my suspicions of the men they will bring in the manager's wife. He knows nothing of this, and could not tell how she got the drink. He finally sent her to relations abroad, and as soon as things are settled here, means to join her. He knows I ken who are in it, and relies on what I say to clear his name. Now, sir, what am I to do? "

" You poor fellow I " answered Mr. Fortescue, putting his hand on the man's shoulder, and then added, reverently, " God only knows."

After it few minutes' thought he ad-vised him to wait, and when the time carne, just to answer as his conscience prompted him.

" You have been a true God-fearing man," he added. " He will not fail you in your hour of need."

These words seemed to bring comfort to Roy, and he asked _his friend if he

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sssz would attend the trial to be where he could see him. The minister agreed, and with it hearty hand-shake they parted.

BOY'S home was not far from the docks, and on the evening before

the trial he kissed his wife and baby ten-derly and went off to duty in good time, saying " I shall get home early, lass, on account of the trial to-morrow, but don't you wait. Leave food out, and I'll lay down on the bench, so as I'll not dis-turb the bairn.,

On the morning of the trial the court was crowded. Masters and men were eager to know 'the result, as in various ways it would affect them all.

The accusation was taken and gone into, proof was given that the drums all left the warehouse correct in weight, and were officially sealed. It was further stated that the oil drums were taken to the wharf and placed on the siding, ready for the vessel which was to receive them, and due any day.

Managers from various parts to whom the oil had been delivered testified that many retail dealers and others complained of the drums they had received being under weight.

Detectives had been employed to trace where the shortage occurred, and they had fixed upon M. Wharf as being the spot.

Mr. Armstrong, the manager there, had not been able to supply any explana-tion, so in the interests of the many parties concerned the company sum-moned him for the amount lost by the deficiency.

The defendant, in answer, said that the men only had access to the wharf at cer-tain times, and then came and went by the bridge, which was swung back at night.

He admitted that the watchmen often used it plank bridge if the other was swung back, and there was an emer-gency door from his own house, but it was seldom used, and he kept the key.

Then the watchmen were called up, and the first three all answered to the effect that they were quite sure no one had tampered with the drums during their watch, and no stranger had been seen during or after work hours for several months past.

Mr. Fortescue, as promised, sat in a prominent place near the front, and he as well as many strangers present were surprised at the intense silence which fell on the room when the fourth and last wit-ness was called—Roy Wilson.

But the silence was abruptly broken by it disturbance at the door, and a woman was heard weeping • and lamenting bitterly.

A policeman came forward and spoke to the clerk, who wrote down it few words on it slip which was handed to the magistrate.

The whole court felt something un-usual had happened, and the silence was even more tense as the magistrate stood up and said, solemnly

" Roy Wilson, the chief witness for the defence, has been the victim of foul play. Someone has tampered with the plank bridge, and on his way home this morning he fell through into the dock and was drowned."

Pausing for it moment, he added "This being so, the negligence of the defendant cannot be proved, and no blame is there-fore attached to his character. He must, however, pay the costs of the action and a sum sufficient to cover the loss sus-tained by the prosecutors."

" Poor fellow," remarked Mr. Arm-strong, as he came out of court, talking of Roy. " I know for some reason or other he dreaded speaking up for me at the trial,' though at the same time he wanted badly to clear me. I couldn't get to the bottom of his mind—but he's

been saved the necessity now of speaking at all."

" We'll see that his wife and bairn are looked after," replied Mr. Fortescue. " Maybe it was for the best. The Lord works in mysterious ways."

IN MEMORIAM. Mr. Albert Robinson.

With the passing of Mr. Albert Robin-son the village of Ackworth hoe lost one of its oldest and most highly respected inhabitants, and our church there one of her most devoted and worthy sons. For many years, as it quarry-owner, be controlled one of the most important business concerns in the neighbourhood, and he always showed a lively interest and took a prominent part in local affairs. Mr, Robinson was it lifelong Primitive Methodist, a trustee of several of the circuit chapels, it generous supporter of his church. He was associated at dif-ferent times with both Moortop and Braekenhill societies, being one of the pioneers and largely instrumental in its establishment. The funeral service on July 25th was conducted in the Moortop Chapel by Rev, G. H. Smith and Rev. T. Banks (son-in-law). Afterwards the body was laid to rest in the churchyard of All Saints.

WOMEN'S MISSIONARY WORK. Watton.—The circuit branch W.M.A.

monthly meeting was held on Thursday at Little Cressingham. Mr, Pryer pre-sided and the address was delivered by the Rev. E. H. Palmer, of East Harting. Miss Phyllis Crowe rendered it solo. Re-freshments were served at the close. There was an excellent attendance.

Weal Auckland Branch.—Miss Walker presided over a good company of the W.M.A. at Ingleton on Wednesday. Capt. Lee gave it helpful address. Miss Anderson was the soloist. Mrs. Horner accompanied. The letter was read by Mrs. Horner. The new president, Mrs. Collingwood, and vice-president, Mrs. Cullum, were welcomed, as was also the Rev. J. A. Cullum, who led the devo-tions. The Ingleton ladies kindly pro-vided the tea. The collection for mis-sionary funds amounted to £1 17s. 2d.

Withernsea.—The Auxiliary meeting was held in the schoolroom. Rev. John Crawford (Hessler) gave a fine address on the work of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Two solos were rendered by Miss W. Barton, with Miss Greta Mathison as accom-panist. The monthly letter was read by Mrs. J. Taylor. At the close Mi. Limon paid it tribute to the way in which the new secretary (Mrs. G. H. Ireland) had begun her work. Afterwards tea was served, and the gross proceeds were £6 10s.

Weedley.—A meeting of the Auxiliary was held in the school on Wednesday. Mrs. Richmond presided and Mrs. Clay-ton gave excellent recitals. The address was given by Miss Byrom, it prominent member of the Wesleyan Church. About 70 ladies were present. Refreshments were served, and the collection realised £2 4s. 6d.

Workington.—The July meeting of the John-street Auxiliary was held at " Sum-mer View," Dislington, in the grounds of Mr. and Mrs. Stalker. Mrs. Henderson presided and Mrs. Messenger read the missionary letter. Mrs. Kearney gave a most helpful address and Mrs. Armstrong was soloist. Mrs. Gateslcie closed the meeting with prayer. Tea followed, and a very enjoyable time was spent.

BOOKS RECEIVED. The Life of it Christian. By J.

Macbeath, M.A. (Marshall, Morgan and Scott. Is.).

Prayer. Das Game. By Friedrich Heiler. (Oxford University Press. les.).

John Alfred Sharp. A memoir. By Walter H. Armstrong. (2s. 6d.) (Epworth Press).

" Like the doctor, the preacher must take the long look, he must ever see U. soul's welfare and work always to the end that men may become true sons of God. Not simply ' What they want' but what they need should be his guiding star,"— Zion's Herald.

AUGUST 4, 193± 663

In The House of Pain. SOME THOUGHTS IN HOSPITAL.

BY ARTHUR T. YAXLEY.

Thanks to the Heckler ! HIS VALUE TO THE OPEVAIR

SPEAKER.

THE METHODIST LEADER.

N a beautiful summer's day the not to discourage the vogue, but to in- dicate some of its limitations.

FIF TEEN weeks in hospital, though not by any means a unique experi-ence in this world where physical

suffering abounds, is one which few would envy. To lie for a fortnight in "counter extension " is a cruel tax. Then there was the re-setting of the fractured leg on a long splint reaching from the armpit to below the foot, with two supplemen-tary splints. A prisoner in the stocks might find more comfort'. his restraint. Splints make no decent allowance for the curves of the human frame. This for over nine weeks; then a further ten days in sandbags, after which amputation had to be resorted to. This was really a great relief. The healing was rapid and satis-factory, and I was able to return home.

• • • • • During those fifteen weeks, however, I

had some rare experiences in the inner world of thought. Being too deaf to converse with occupants of other beds in the ward, and too blind to read, I lay in a kind of isolated vacuity. I had, therefore, plenty of time to think. Some of my thoughts I should like to set out in these columns.

• • • • • Without desiring to make parade of

piety, I must record that my first thought was of God. I had not to feel after Him or to call Him to my thought. He was already there, in a kind of visitation; a great abiding, sustaining and uplifting Presence and Power. There was nothing upheaving or romantic about it, no " earthquake, wind or fire," but a quiet and effective Reality, and I learnt afresh what I have been teaching for years, that God is greater than our circumstances, and can come to us ministrantly in de-fiance of and within the limits of them. I am glad that when the authorities said it was a marvel how I had undergone one thing after another and Come through, I had the courage to bear immediate testi-mony to the " inward sufficiency " of God.

My nett thought was of religion, par-ticularly in the sense of religious belief. I overhauled, to to speak, my own belief, and I seemed to have travelled leagues away from what I held tenaciously in former times, and to have gained an en tirely different religious mentality. God is more to me to-day than ever. Religion has just as great a content and signifi-cance, but it is different, has a new tone and atmosphere. Many old ideas have lost their grip. Old sanctions have faded. Some old hymns have lost their appeal. They occurred to me by familiarity, and invited the soul to inward singing, but they seemed the empty things of a distant past. It was only as I thought of more modern lyrics that I really came to grips with the real, and the humming of these quietly to myself I found supporting and good. And in all this I seemed to see the possibility of idealising the ideal until we lose sight of the latter in the former; or, if I may put it another way, we may to clothe the real that we lose sight of the reality in the clothing. I do not imply that the past had no reality for me. It had. Nor do I wish to cast a slight upon the old hymns; but my con-ception of God and my conscious relation to Him with all related matters of belief have undergone such a change I feel born into a new religious sphere and order, rich, beautiful,

Then my thought would engage itself with the past. That is natural enough, as every man's experience lies behind him. However intelligent his anticipa-tion, he can have no experience of a future unreached. All his memories are of the past. My thought would traverse the past, especially that of my boyhood days. There were other memories, de-lightfully gratifying, of the' intervening time, but those indicated were more full and persistent. I lived it over again in all the sweet simplicity of the country-side fifty years ago. I had intercourse with men and women who marvelled r. joicingly at the luxurious beauty of their garden flowers, who found it possible to be astonished at the fruitfulness of a

common bush or productive tree, and without professing religion yet felt in the golden sunshine and pure air the mystic touch and presence of the Divine; men and women who felt in those things a real wealth, a substance and meaning for life, and the conditions where angels might tread unawares.

This is but a phase and illustration of that life which did without to much and yet had to much more, that came back to me revivified by memory, fragrant and charming as it actually was. Such memory, though touched with sadness, was nevertheless helpful, and brightened the passing hours. Modern life must have its modern ways, no doubt, but if it gains at the expense of the old sim-plicities; then its gain will not be all gain. If it gains exhilaration of speed and convenience at the loss of such joy as we found in the bleat of the Iamb, the song of the cuckoo or the good-hearted fellowship one with another, then it may not be an unmixed advantage; at least, that is how a lover of old-fashioned Ways like myself most regard it.

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And lastly, I saw as In vision. how the generations pass, each succeeding each, zestful and hopeful about its own con-cerns, ever reaching forward, and passing on the consequences to those who follow. The generations are ever passing, but life is always pressing, always reaching for-ward, always expanding, always chang-ing, and therefore always progressive. There was nothing depressing in this, but rather cause for gratitude that each generation, concentrating on its own con-cerns, should find life fresh and meaning-ful, and unconsciously become a link in the great movement trading on to ever larger issues. And when I thought of the moral urge that works side by side with the urge to progress in human life I felt that however much a matter of faith, that poet was right who spoke of the

One far-off Divine event To which the whole creation moves.

The universe may hold its secrets tightly, but it is neither fraudulent nor non-sensical.

" Don't call it ' strong' drink, mister speaker —it isn't strong enough to stand up in the glass," cried one heckler.

" Well, why pay to dearly for it, then? Isn't it a fact that, however weak in alcohol ' drink' may be judged, men who take much of it can't stand on their legs? " was the speaker's retort.

" Publicans are unemployed and licensed victuallers are becoming bank-rupt," cries another critic, " to why this propaganda? "

The week's propaganda was arranged under the auspices of the Temperance Council of Christian Church., the sub-ject being " The Drink Problem and the Nation," and the Rev. Sam Rowley was invited to organise the meetings each evening. He W MI assisted by the Revs. A. Jeans Courtney, V. South, D. Pughe, Mr. Nicholls, Mr. L. Batty, and two representatives from Salvation Army Headquarters. The "'Trade" marshalled their opposition forces, who freely and loudly heckled, geneally in good humour, but with little sound argument. " Meet me at New Inn and have one, mister speaker. You must be ' dry ' after talk-ing."

" What about America? Filled her asylums since Prohibition." Statistics were given to refute many allegations against Prohibition. How rare it is to see a public-house here labelled " Free House." Do brewers believe in liberty? Ask the licensed victuallers, who are compelled to buy even biscuits, etc., via brewers I

preacher and his people, like many less religiously inclined, feel the pull

of the open air. " Preaching in these basilicas—it's just like breathing in a lime-kiln." Besides, to many to whom we are commissioned to preach are out-side. Yet we seldom go to them because the difficulties of an open-air ministry are very great.

There is the Church. Her buildings are indispensable. How else can Chris-bans find protection from the scorching sun of rare heat waves, and the more frequent chills of wind, rain and frost? Nor is it possible, at least in the towns, to worship in the open air with that co- operation and concentration obtainable in a church. And who could teach, a Sun-day-school class if there were no walls between the scholars and an ice-cream merchant? All of which means that the regular services must be held and the properties maintained—tasks which to eat into the time and strength of minis-ters and church officials that they have little of either to spare for outside work.

Lost Attractions.

A more serious obstacle to this work is the difficulty of attracting and retain-ing attention. The brass band has not the appeal that it had. The people who stand to listen to the music go as soon as the speaker begins, or, if not, they are usually too be off to be greatly stirred by his message. A man may have a trumpet voice, but proximity is necessary for effectiveness.

Once, crowds gathered if the preacher

and his helpers sang. Now, singing sends them away, which may perhaps be taken as a sign of a more exacting taste. We have attempted to meet the case by processions of witness. Admirable things, as our Catholic friends know. But there is the necessity for numbers, and it is only when a conference is held or a tem-porary union of local churches is effected, that we are sufficiently strong. Further, they lack the appeal to reason which a speaker can make, and need to be sup-plemented by meetings. Besides, with the constantly increasing traffic, street processions must become something of a nuisance. These things are mentioned,

When Sam Rowley stated Dr. Salter's figures of -16s. average expenditure per family weekly on alcohol in Bermondsey —which, excluding abstaining families, would be 20s. per week—he was sharply challenged.

" Why, mister, out of a weekly wage of £2 15t. a man would give Ilia wife £2 10s."

A Voice: " Whatl Would he? How much do you give yours? "

" Ah I " says another, " a man who vends 10.s. out of his wage on drink is a fool."

Figures for Birmingham were given. Budgets for average families were quoted as presented to the Royal Commission showing 15s. average expenditure weekly on drink; 2s. Cid. on milk. Then Sam Rowley got out of o little bag by the stand a teapot, which was held up before a huge crowd, ever-increasing on account of the unusual object exhibited, and he related the " Story of the Teapot " (by Margaret Baker), using a long string of pennies, showing daily, weekly, and annual expenditure of one pint per day at 6d.; It. 6d. a week; LB 2s. for the year. The practical demonstration "got home," and was listened to with almost breath-less attention by o crowd of about 1,000 folk.

A rich by-product of open-air work is the heart-to-heart talks after the meet-ings by inquirers for truth—some seeking God in new ways, others battling with evil habits. What opportunities await the Church in open air spaces!

The Heckler as Aid.

Probably the greatest assistance in gathering and retaining a crowd is to be found in the presence of hecklers. The heckler may upset an admirably made speech. He will ask awkward questions. Possibly he will speak blasphemous words against the faith, and shock good folks who think the matters of which he speaks are beyond question. But he will do good ail the same. For one thing, he will draw a crowd and hold them. People love discussion provoked in this way. There are possibilities in it; elements of uncertainty. Anything may happen. If the speaker scores, good. If the laugh is against him, still good. The victor may be wrong, but this is life, anyway.

Then, too, the heckler will reveal what many who are listening think. A very valuable help, that. 'Excellent sermons are wasted because they offer remedies for ills the hearers have not got. They are as useless as a pill for a broken limb or a bandage on a cancer. The problems of the study are seldom those of the pew, and the thoughts of the regular worship-per are far removed from those of the man who has not been in a church since he was baptised. Learn a man's need, and if you have anything to offer your sermon is Gospel, but if what you are offering has no relation to the require. meats of your hearers the seed falls on the rocks. This man who presses for-ward with a problem you solved twenty years ago and imagined everybody else did the same, is speaking for lots of folks. This hungry-looking questioner, who thinks you ought to agitate for him and his fellows, is in such lack of daily bread that his body will not let him think of the Bread of Life. That sordid wretch, who lays bare his depravity every time he speaks, is a sinner Jesus came to save. There is, of course, the man who heckles because he likes to hear himself speak. Him you can silence or ignore, but most questions help the preacher to see where his listeners are.

A Great Precedent. Further, the heckler gives the preacher

his chalice to show the barrenness of life without religion. Remember the Master.

Who is my neighbour? " the lawyer asked, anxious to get the better of the argument. The answer was the story of the Good Samaritan " This man re-ceiveth sinners." Ugly sneer! But it called forth the parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin and the Prodigal Son. It looks as though many glorious sayings would have been lost to the world had not the heckler tried to score over Jesus. No Christian speaker worth his salt need fear that he will be worsted if he keeps to the central things. He knows far rnore about religion than the heckler, and though now and then he may shoot wide, most of his shots will go home.

The idea of looking upon the hecklers as an auxiliary is not my own, though I know it works. There were two minis-ters in this district, both university men, whose churches were filled on Sunday evenings, but who were greatly concerned about the people that did not go to church. They had tried the usual type of open-air meeting — singing and addresses—and had failed. Then they hit upon the idea of enlisting the heckler. He was shy, probably feeling that he would be considered rude. So they set one or two of their own people on to ask questions. The questions dealt with real problems, and they served their purpose. The crowds grew and grew, heckling be-came the fashion, and the meetings were a wonderful success.

" I preached abroad to twice as many people as we should have had at the House. What marvel that the devil does not love field-preaching? Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal, if I do not trample all these underfoot to save one soul? " So wrote John Wesley. So Methodists used to believe. Are we not primitive Methodists still?

DIOISTONIE SADLER,

Temperance Talks in Hyde Park. SAM ROWLEY AND "HECKLERS."

The Call of the Moors. ' A REVELATION IN YORKSHIRE.

THE turnpike road sweeps forward, a

ribbon of - gleaming indigo edged with grey on a far-stretching

carpet of purple heather. We slip into the coast-bound stream of travellers, all speeding hard in expectation of happy freedom. This is s friendly road in the months of holidays. We have litany hearty greetings from me, parties as we pass. _It is emancipation for all, but how diffently we shalt spend the great adventure. Some will seek hectic plea-sures and others long for a feast of beauty to the eyes and tranquil rest for tired minds.

Few highways in England command grander landscapes than this moorland road from the heart of Cleveland to the little towns by the sea, whose ruined abbey still crowns the hill, and where an artist may find his paradise in streets quaint and narrow, running uphill and down. The holiday of the thoughtful man has already begun when he climbs this glorious road to the top of the moor. The air is inc-redibly clean, strong and buoyant; black-fared sheep wander among the heather, cropping their hard-wnn and nanny, indifferent to the whirr of fleeting ears, venture down upon the verges of this kindly highway. Stacks of peat are ready for loading to isolated farms and an occasional grouse takes to wing across the butts where soon the sportntan's gun will break the stillness of the autumn morning. Above all other charms on this wide-sweeping moor is the purple heather amid the green bracken, more beautiful than human speech has ever been able to describe.

Five miles from the roast a sign-post points the way for us along a quiet road that stretches over the moor and dis-appears, it would seem, into the sky. Actually it descends to a tiny village beside the river Esk. Two years ago the swollen stream rushed through this

lovely valley in menacing flood with great uprooted trees upon its waters. Glaisdele, Egton Bridge' and Sleights—gems of sylvan beauty beloved by all who care for the loveliness of unspoiled nature—were bereft of their bridges and left with sad scenes of ravaged glory.

We climb steeply again to a kill-top that gives instant and ample reward in a magnificent sweep of landscape. Here is the fulfilment of our hopes; a village that istretches from the high moor down to the river and along the dale. And here is the music of quiet that we dreamed of in city streets. Farmsteads and cottages speak a silent welcome and places of worship stir grateful thought., of a Providence both kind and large. With deep content we shall tread the velvet turf-beside the rough moor-road and wander through the woods where running water and sun and shadow com-bine in an artistry that holds one in continual surprise. Days will be too short, but evenings will hold rare satis-faction in our cottnge rooms—Yorkshire meals, good books and fine talks.

This is Sunday evening. The Sabbath peace is unbroken and worship is heralded by bells, whose peal is carried to the far corners of the dale. It sounds a sacred privilege to people who live so dose to nature as to be very, near its Maker. The tiny Methodist Chapel is a little strange to a city worshipper, but very restful. It has the sweet smell of perfect elemlineas end an atmosphere of holy quiet. Ti,,.., village people, t., have a fine reverence in devotion. Amid simple sincerity, a layman guiding our worship, the constraint of the unseen is inescap-able. What would the message bef This was en integral part of the holiday. The right word would crown our thankfulness for this Yorkshire dale and be the supreme Satisfaction of a wonderful day. " Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always

abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

No better choke could have been merle. In this hour of detachment from the far-diatant responsibilities of life, we caught a vision of the abiding value of service, pledged by God to be more than vain endeavour. The steadfast hilts outside this little sanctuary called for a like !stability of character. The tranquility of the moorland night symbolised a new-found peace of mind and heart. The Captain of our faith had commissioned us afresh in this place of quiet beauty. Without a suggestion of ritual we had achieved true worship among a fen humble people whose unaffected sincerity made fellowship s valued privilege. In dim stillness at the end, we prayed that an unchanging God would keep, us un-movable in our high purpose. Fortunate are they who, in such conditions, are permitted a revelation of truth so atrong and necessary.

Oswestry.—By the kiqd invitation of Ald. and Mrs. Ward Green, J.P., the monthly W.M.A. meeting tuns held at " The Wood," Maesbrook. A crowded drawing-room meeting was presided over by Ald. Green, silo welcomed the mem-bers in a charming reminiscent- speech. Rev. W. R. Price offered prayer, and the missionary letter was 11.d by Mrs. Davies. An address was given by Rev. Tom Morris, the needy-appointed minis- ter. Thanks were expressed by Mrs. Denny and Mrs. Tudor. An interesting event was the presentation of a book to Ald. Ward Green by Rev. W. R. Price, in recognition of his service as treasurer of the Shrewsbury District Missionary Committee for the long term of 25 years. Tea was then provided, and a collection amounting to £1 18s. was taken.

GOLDEN WEDDING.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Bray.

Mr. end Mrs. C. Bray, of Parkgate, Rotherham, have received many con-gratuletions on the celebration of their golden wedding. They were married in 1882 by the Rev. T. Scrimshaw at Bethel Primitive Methodist Church, Parkga., of which they were members before the .present building was erected. Mr. Bray has served as a local preacher for nearly sixty years, and was Trust Secretary for thirty. Mrs. Dray was treasurer of the Rotherham Circuit brimch of the Women's Missionary Federation for 14 years from its formation. Mr. Bray has also rendered useful service in connection with the Park.. Division of the Sons of Temperance Friendly Society, of which he became a member in 1872. They have four sons, one daughter and eight grand-children, and ninny friends wish them extended years of happiness together.

IN MEMORIAM.

Mrs. Scott.

After a lone illness, patiently endured, Si,,. Sarah Scott passed into the Home-land on July 24th. She had been a ment-her of our Dunstable Church for 64 years and was one of its most faithful and de- voted servants. When 17 years of age she established a Sunday School at Mark-gate, and only relinquished this self-appointed task when celled to the wider work of loyal preaching. Iler'evangelical fervour led Is ninny requests for misson work and " specials " in the Leighton Demerit, Ilm•kliffe, Flillington and Dun-stable area. In later years Si,, confined )101' services to the Dunstable Chuich, which she served unremittingly. She was one of our few remaining links with the past, and in passing lies left us a rich heritage of love and devotion. The funeral service was conducted in our Dun-stable Church by the Revs. T. H. Berry-man and S. A. Marsh.

TEMPERANCE TEACHING

IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Sts, Would such of your readers as

know of Suilday-schonls, of any denomina-tion, in the south of England or Midlands, in which Temperance teaching is made an outstanding feature, Isiodly send particu-lars to the undersigned.—Yours, etc.,

T. GRENFELL. 30, Marlborough Buildings,

Bath.

THE WOUNDED MIND. Ex-Service Men'a Need.

SIR,—August 4th is the eighteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, and although many of the present generation have little or no recollection of the four terrible years which followed, it is as well that they and the older genera-tion should realise that there are many thousands of meat still badly disabled became of the service rendered by them to the citizens of this country. Nearly a million men were killed in the war and over two million were wounded, and today there are more than 6,000 ex-Service men doomed to a fife within the wells of mental hospitals. There are also known to be over 30,000 suffering from neurasthenia.

The Ex-Services Welfare Society is the only organisation which deals exclusively with this type of disabled man and supplements the work of the State in helping thenm. We have heard of the physically blind—pathetic figures—but it is no less sad to know that there are 6,000 mentally blind, or partially so, in our midst. This society has established hornei at Beckenham, Kent, and an industrial

centre at Leatherhead, where they are given employment on a self-supporting basis. Apart from the treatment in its homes, the society gave last year at its headquarters 8,000 interviews, provided 9,113 meals and 9,033 beds to destitute men as well as giving relief to their families. There are also 33 neurological specialists all over the country who are constantly examining applicants for treat- ment. •

I sincerely hope that readers will send contributions to help the most pathetic figures of the war—the mentally disabled ex-Service men.—Yours faithfully,

EALPII BOURN, Chairman.

50, Victoria-street, London, S. W.1.

IN THE WYE COUNTRY." SIR,—In thanking Mr. Potts for his

delightful article, may I correct one or two inaccuracies. May Hill (979 feet), which he describes as being " the highest hill in Herefordshire," is in Gloucester- shire, in the parish of Longhope. The county of Hereford contains many peaks far higher. In the portion of the Black Mounmin group, which is in Hereford-shire, we have the Blackhill (2,102 feet), another peak beyond the Olchon valley (2,300 feet), " the highest altitude," says Mr. A. G. Bradley, "in any English county south of Yorkshire." On the nothern confines of Herefordshire, among other very lofty hills is liergert Ridge (1,389 feet) giving some of the finest views in the British Isles. This hill is close to the charming little town of King tom—Yours, etc.,

BEWAN. Hereford.

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words, and must reach this office by Monday if insertion is desired the same week. They must be written on one side of the paper only. All reasonable latitude is allowed for individual opinion, but personalities must be strictly avoided. and the Editor reserves the right to abbreviate or to withhold publication if he sees fit. No letters will be printed which are not accompanied by the writer's name and address.

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Kind

Hearts

MUSICAl. TERRACE AND SPOUT COURT. •

When a minister goes to a new place to live, as I have just done, one of the first things he must do is to find his way about. That is not so very hard to do if he has any sense of geography at all. What is rather harder is to notice the names of streets and remember them m that he can afterwards tell where they all are. I am doing that now, and it is quite a delightful experience, because the people of Saltburn have given many of their streets such charming names. Some are called by the names of precious stones--Diamond, Emerald, Pearl and Ruby Streets. They must think they are already next door to the New Jerusalem.

Some years ago 1 was in a town find-ing my way abotrt and noting the names of streets, when I saw a short row of moderate-sired, pleasant-looking houses called by the name of Musical-terrace. I said to myself, " What a happy-sounding name! I wonder what kind of people live in those house," I felt sure they should live harmoniously and never have any discords with their neighbours. A name Site that ought to help folk to he good. Perhaps its first tenants were all musical people,' which was very likely, as the town was in a district famed for its music. Some few weeks later I learned from one of the local newspapers that several people had been brought to the police court there, charged with being drunk and disorderly, and they lived in-Musical-terrace ! " Oh, dear me! " I thought. " The Dame doesn't seem to have done them much -good."

Just after I had seen Musical-terrace on the day I began to tell you of I passed by a narrow, dingy, dirty opening, which was named Spout-court, and again I wondered what kind of folk lived there. A name like that seemed enough to take the heart out of anyone. I never heard anything about the people who lived in it, but I knew one man who came from a place as poor as Spout-court, and he was one of the finest men I ever had as a friend. When I got to know him he was in a very high position, for he had had a really wonderful career. On one occasion I was visiting his birthplace, and he said to me when he knew I was going there, " Be sure you tell the friends you stay with to show you where I was born." When I saw the place it was even worse than Spout-court. Yet that fine man, of such sterling worth and character, came from it.

You see, girls and boys, it doesn't matter so much where you use as what you are. You may be born in a Spout-court, and yet may come to live in lovely places by sheer force of character, as my friend did. Or you may be ban in Musical-terrace or Mayfair, where the aristocrats live in London, and yet finish up very badly, perhaps in a worse place than Spout-court. Where you live in spirit does matter. If you always dwell in Grumbling-corner, grousing about everything, and growling at everyone, your career will be a poor one until you get a spiritual removal. B. if you five in Cheerfulness-crescent or Hope-terrace you will certainly have a happy life.

Where, in this sense, do, you live? Your Big Brother,

WILLIAM Daw. The Manse,

Upleathain-street, Sallburn-by-the-Sea.

Still More New Members. We wekorne No. 19,603, Joan Sykes, of Middles-brough; and also a third list from Mr. W. Hewitt, of Burnley Nos. 19,604-8, Jeffery Tommie, Edna Dickenson, Hilda Walton, Louisa Harrison and Harry Tounsom We thank Mr. Hewitt, and wish his and his company everything that is good.

Rev, W. Green (Surrey Chapel) grate. fully neknowleclees: For Holiday and Outing Fund: Life of Faith readers, £10 lb.; M.P., £5; Margate, 2s. 8d.; W.S., 2s. 6i1.; Leicester, 5s.; Reading, clothing (2) ; Kingston, clothing; Anon., several parcels of clothing.

MARGARET HARWOOD'S COLUMN

AUGUST 4, T932. THE METHODIST LEADER. 665

Will somebody please tell me as soon as possible who is the publisher of a sketch called " The Village Choir Practice "? E. M. H. is very anxious to know. And have any of you heard of a recitation with the curious title, " Prayer and Potatoes"? H. P. wants be find this, and I shall be grateful for information.

A correspondent this week is kind enough to say, " I do admire the plucky, straightforward way you tackle the problems put to you." There are two put to me this week by parents, and both concerning girls. M. G. is worried because she considers her rather small daughter's taste in reading is very bad indeed. This young lady shows a decided taste for the stories known as "shockers," and not the slightest interest in what her mother calls " respectable magazines for girls." She loves Alice in Wonderland, and all stories for boys.

I'll tell you about two girls well and intimately known to me. They are both healthy in mind and body, and at about the age of ten, and from that to twelve, they had pretty much the same taste in literature as M.G's. daughter. They devoured " shockers " and all boys' stories, and were not greatly interested in any of the literature which wise grown-ups thought woukl be good for them. In both these cases the fathers (who had been great readers of " shockers " themselves) were very worried. They were sure their daughters would grow up with " no taste for good literature," etc., etc. In both cases the mothers were quite undis-turbed. " Let them alone es long as their tastes are clean," they advised. Both the girls concerned are growing into fine, wholesome, and very intelligent women, with a liking for, and a knowledge of, the best in literature.

Again and again if you watch families where such things are troubled about et all (in too many they are never thought of) you will find that it is a mistake to force a child's literary taste—it simply can't be done. The wise way is to educate the child well, and to interfere with its reading as little as possible. One must allow for growth and development, and the change that takes place in the literary taste of an intelligent child between the ages of twelve and eighteen is astounding. I would say to M.G., just be thankful that the child's taste is healthy. Watch, without seeming to guide, very tactfully, and then let well alone. The child had far better be read-ing healthy yarns for boys than some of the sloppy stuff published for girls.

S. M. is troubled because she says her daughter of sixteen is " very vain "; she " fusses " far too much about her personal appearance, which S. M. seems to think is irreligious. She does not want to go into an office as S. M. would like her to, but wishes to train es a hair-dresser, and her mother considers that this may foster what she thinks is inordinate vanity.

I wonder how many mothers of girls this age know the exact meaning of adolescence and what it involves. When I say that, I mean, do they know the exact changes that are taking place in the body of a girl between, say, twelve and twenty-five (for adolescence continues until that age)?

All mothers ought to get a book or books (there are quite cheap ones) which offer this knowledge. If the mother did not know these things during her own girlhood, it is nevertheless essential that she must know them for her daughter's sake. Not so that all faults may be put down to this, and excused by it; far from it. That would be a hopeless and abominable way of setting out in fife. No woman of any age has a right tp say, " I can excuse myself this or that because of a stage through which I am passing" —ruin lies that way. But knowledge is power, and if the mother knows the cause of some peculiarities in her daughter, she will understand. And there is such balm in being understood, especially when one is very young.

Adolesence affects every part of the girl (or boy). Usually the amazing change in bodily growth is visible to all. It is well to reflect that the same astounding change is taking place in the mind. This " vanity " of which my correspondent

speaks, far from being a bad thing, is go.. This girl doesn't put lip-stick and powder on to a dirty body, she spends time--more than her mother thinks advi. able—in cleaning her body, in exercising (she wants to be physically " fit "), and than she " fusses " about her clothes. I know that this fastidiousness can be carried too far, but I am sure that in this case it is rather a matter to be pleased about.

Has S. M. ever thobght that if young folk are not fastidious about the perfect cleanliness and health of their bodies, even to what she calls " fussing," they never will be later cn? Has S. M. ever met an old man or woman who has lapsed into dirty personal habits simply because they were never encouraged to be perfectly clean and wholesome in youth? (Perhaps somebody called them " fussy.")

And let the girl learn hairdressing if she wants to. Far better let her earn her living doing something she likes than set her to something she hates. Don't worry, S. M. Even if there is more vanity than there should be in your daughter, with understanding and guidance it will moder-ate in time.

The few words I said some weeks ago about imaginary ailments have hrought several letters, all from people who have to do with women who, having little actually the matter physically, have yet gone down, ruined their own lives and others, under imaginary ailments, merely because they seem to have no will power. The last thing this type of person ever thinks of saying is " I am the mast, of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." I am sadly afraid that most of these women can be helped by nobody but themselves. It's a pity they don't keep their eyes open and look for the people who receive blow after blow (not imaginary, but very real) and who keep on with magnificent cour- age .

I have a letter this very week from a correspondent whose life for years has been a series of blows that have, to quote his own words, " Flattened me out." The death of dear ones, financial disasters, the spoiling of an ambition cherished and toiled for patiently for years, all these have come.

Do you remember that song about an absurd cat called " Felix "? When I get blows myself I invariably think of that animal, and my correspondent reminds me of him. I am grateful to the person who wrote that silly song, even though I have quite forgotten the words. I have also forgotten the amazing things that happened to Felix; all I know is that he " kept on walking."

Sooner or later every one of us comes to the time when " the rain descends, the floods come, and the wind blows." It isn't always illness, or the loss of a loved one. It isn't always a great big upheaval. It sometimes takes the form of something that will mean our plodding on for days and weeks and months and years at a task we hoped was finished, or one that we don't like (and that, I think, is a bigger test than a volcano coming along).

Or there may be something for which we have worked for years with all our might and main, some good thing we do really deserve, and as our hand is stretched out to get it, an accident snatches it away. Shall we grasp adversity and make it con-tribute to our character? Or shall we sit down and pity ourselves and become weak, spineless creatures, useless . our-selves and a burden to others? We can never make a good job of life without pluck, and grit, and that capacity to " keep on walking " that the famous Felix possessed, and the sooner we teach our children this, the better.

Please address your stamped, addressed envelopes to Margaret Harwood, c/o The 'Editor, METHODIST LEADER, 17, Farring-don-street, London, E.C.4.

The New Chronicle . tells of a Quaker Sunday-school in London in which a " poster " was seen displayed. This ran

Hebron News. Reported Tragedy at Dothan.

Feared Death of Wealthy Sheik's Son. Bloodstained Coat Found.

Bereaved Father's Distress. Further News hoped for in S.S. Circles on

July 17th,

Sunday School Lesson. Serving Others:

Frank Crossley. Luke 113. 18-30. August 21.

By Rev. W. E. Farndale.

Can a Business Man be a Christian? Frequerrtly one hears the despairing cry that no Christian can hope to make a success of business. It is supposed that commerce and Christianity, like oil and water, will not mix. Business is busi-ness, and religion is religion—so it is often phrased—as though the two were quite incompatible. The lesson to-day exposes the hollowness of such a fallacy.

A Fine Sport. Francis Crossley, born in November, 1839, et Gdenburne, Ireland, as a lad excelled in sport. At nine he proved himself a fearless rider. By 12 he was a crack shot, in this emulating his father, who had been an Army major. He was also an adept at cricket and skating.

The Choice of Engineering. Though he spent two years in the Tyrone Fusiliers, yet Frank Crossley had always wanted to be an engineer, and thus at 18 he entered Sir Robert Stephen.n's works et Newcastle, passing at 22 to Liverpool to serve in an engineer's draw-ing office. Frank Crossley always knew what he wanted, and had the resoluteness which carried his through the periods of preparation and necessary drudgery until the hour struck for forth, advance.

The Greatest Choice. Whilst in Liver-pool, Frank Crossley, though he had always been regular in church attendance, became dissatisfied with bare religious observances, and grew eager for the full possession of the deepest spiritual reality in his heart and life. He made up his mind to be a Christian out and mit, and through and through. Writing to his sister with the good news, he added, " You will all see the difference at Christmas," and they did.

Business on Christian Lines. When Frank Crossley was 28 he and his brother entered into 'partnership and bought an engineering business in Man-chester. One of Frank Crossley's first acts was to kneel down in the office and pray for divine belt, in the worthy con-duct of the new enterprise. To make the business pay was et first a stiff uphill proposition. The turn of the tide came with the purchase of the English rights to a foreign patent, and then later, when Crossley himself invented a new gas engine. Many stories could be told of how Crossley practised the Golden Rule in business. Thus, by a bad error in judgment, one of his customers had ordered an engine much too small, and had actually had it installed before he discovered what a huge blunder he had made. It was entirely his own fault, but the consequences of retaining it would be serious. When Crossley heard of the case from his manager, he ordered the removal and had a new engine put in without extra charge. Realising the terrible havoc caused by drink, Crossley, who had hitherto been a moderate drinker, became a total abstainer. More than that, he refused to allow any Cross-ley engines to be .Id for hoisting barrels of beer or for driving machinery is breweries or for making electricity in public-houses. To many this seemed quixotic and fanatical; ye( the business prospered.

Leaving the Suburbs for the Slums. Mr. and Mrs. Crossley were living at Bowdon, a suburb of Manchester,' when he heard that in Ancoats, a Manchester slum, an ofd music-hall of the lowest type, called " The Star Hall," was to be sold. It was suggested that this hall might be pulled down and a mission hall erected in its stead. Mr. Crossley undertook to do this, thinking at first that he would then turn it over to the Salvation Army. A heavenly voice, however, seemed to urge him and his wife to go themselves to live and work there. Soon, therefore, they sent most of their pictures to the Manchester Art Gallery and themselves used in rooms attached to the new mis-sion hall. There Mr. Crossley, with a mission, and Sisters of the People, car-ried on aggressive evangelistic work until his death in 1897. Yet though he had exiled himself to surroundings so depress-

ing, he was radiantly happy and joyous in his service for others.

A Funeral Without Black. When Mr. Crossley passed away, the funeral took place on a Saturday, so as to make it possible for the multitudes of working people who so desired to attend. By his express orders, no black was worn, be. cause he believed that going to Heaven was no occasion for sadness. The bright spring flowers which were lavished that day in loving tribute to his memory re-minded folk of a bridal day, and that was what he would have wished, for he be-lieved that the sbuls of the righteous pass to the wedding feast of the Lord.

Endeavour Topic. Words of Wisdom:

(7) On Self-Control.

Proverbs 14, 16, 17; 16, 18, 32.

August 14th.

By the Rev. E. Maynard Wilson. Our subject touches the nerve of the

art of living. " No self-control " has to be written across the page of many of life's failures. As we read the daily story of sin we see self getting out of hand and flinging life to destruction. The un-controlled passion makes a man " an enemy to himself." Buddha said t " Though a man conquer a thousand men in battle, a greater conquer, still is he who conquers himself." Our ou n Tennyson confirms the ancient sage in the well-known lines :

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control.

These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lack of self-control is sometimes thought to be seen only in the grosser sins like drunkenness. Our reading from the Book of Proverbs shows that self- control has a wider application. It is seen there to be a matter of the spirit. These proverbs are warnings against spiritual faults. ILet us look at them.

In the quotations from Chapter 14, the need of self-control is indicated in three directions, pride, anger and speech. " The fool rageth and is confident," re-bukes a senseless and over-weening pride. There is always room in life for a reasonable self-esteem, but there is no place for the airs of Mr. Vainglorious. Next comes the caution against anger, " he that is soon angry dealeth foolishly." Again it is life out of control that is in new. Anger is sometimes justifiable. " Be ye angry and sin not " is apostolic advice. But anger uncontrolled destroys a man's usefulness and warps his judg-ment. In Tim. of Athens, Shake-speare portrays the fate of a man with an uncontrollable temper ; he comes to feel that every man's hand is against him. Third is the warning against loose speak-ing, " the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury." Some unfortunate folks are always letting their tongues run away with them. Much trouble would be saved by more self-control in the matter of speech.

The conclusion of the matter is in our relationship to God. We are brought to the heart of the Gospel. Selfishness is sin and Christ conquers sin. As the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts we shall keep ourselves in heed and be temperate in all things.

IN MEMORIAM.

Miss W. R. Savage. mi. W. Savage passed peacefully away

in the Derby Royal Infirmary on July 13 after much suffering. A funeral- service was held prior to the interment at Sunny Hill Cemetery, conducted by the Rev. E. Ball. On Sunday, July 17, a memorial service was held in St. Thomas Road Clmn•h, when sympathetic addresses were given by Messrs. Beek and Nnsh. Miss Winne always highly prised the means of grace and privileges of Christian fel-lowship and attended the services when-ever able. She served in suffering with-out complaining. Our prayer and sr. pathy go out to her parents, brothers sad friends.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, LN MEMORIAAL

666 THE METHODIST LEADER. AUGUST 4, 1932.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 7th. LONDON AND SUBURBS.

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IN MEMORIAM. Mr.. H. W. White.

On Sunday, 24th July, Mrs. Harriet Wilson White, widow of the Rev. Jere-miah S. White, joined that " multitude which no man can number " who before the throne of God " serve Him day and night in His temple." She had ,been failing in health for a long time

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the past three and a half years has been confined to her bed at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hillidge, whose loving devotion has greatly eased the burden of acute suffer-ing. Mrs. White's father was the Rev. James Boulton, who served with such distinction and for such o long period in our ministry. Hence, when our Late friend became the wife of Mr. White she found a sphere which she loved. All the Circuits on which Mrs. White travelled with her husband remember with grafi-tore )ter devotion to the cause of Christ and the self sacrificing service which she gave to His Church. However, it was in the home amongst her own family that Mrs. White was seen at her best. Our friend knew the meaning of sorrow and suffering, but yet she never lost that sweetness of disposi-tion which was ever her charm. The in-terment took place at Southport Ceme-tery, and was conducted by the Revs. Herbert Smith (of Darwen) and James Asson (Circuit minister), Runcorn. Old friends from near and fur gathered at the graveside to pay their tribute of res-

pect. We pray that the family, M this and other lands, may be divinely com-forted, and their lives enriched by the memory of a devoted mother.

Mn. G. Tucker. In the passing of Mrs. Gilbert Tucker,

the Swan-street Church, ■Loughborough Circuit, has suffered a major loss. The daughter of Rev. Charles H. Boden, Mrs. Tucker lived for the fairest ideals of our Church's life, and in association with her husband, the late Gilbert Tucker, wrought mightily to the advancement of Circuit weal. Her personal devotion was remark. able. Genuine love for Connexional interests revealed itself in untiring labour and generous gift. In " Auxiliary " enterprises her influence was dynamical. Through the " Bright Hour " she found a medium for broadcasting happiness. With a faith that shone radiantly, Mrs. Tucker faced gallantly closing days of great physical weakness, but Heaven dawned for her in quietness and peace. The .funeral service at Swan-street, to which the presence of deputations from the Local Liberal Federation, the B.W.T.A. and the " Bright Hour " gave deep significance, was conducted by the Rev. A. A. Allcock, Revs. J. W. Richard-son and J. E. Laking also taking part. The Rev. C. F. Gill paid a noble tribute to the worth and work of Mrs. Tucker. Amongst those present were the Revs. G. W. Meachim and J. T. Ecob. The inter-ment was at Loughborough Cemetery.

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At/GUST 4, 1932. THE METHODIST LEADER. 667 Receptions and Farewells.

On Sunday the Rev. J. Leonard Jones commenced his ministry at Amble, when the services were enjoyed by all -The soloist in the evening was Mr. T. Manders. On Monday a reception was held in the schoolroom in the form of a concert. Mr. W. Coltman (circuit steward) occupied the chair, assisted by Mr. R. Robson, of Stobswood, and gave to Mr. Jones a warm welcome, appealing for loyalty to him M his new adventure. Mr. Robson said Mr. Jones came to Amble at a difficult time, but he believed that the message of Methodism would still make its appeal to men and win them for God. Mr. Jones, in replying, said he felt the greatness of his responsibilities, and appealed to all to enlarge the circle of their loyalties. Refreshments were served at the close.

At the reception meeting for the Rev. E. E. Jobling at Lambert-street, Hull, the Rev. Percy Holmes presided, and also gave greeting from the Cottingham Church. Music was supplied by the Eugene Cooper Trio, Prize Band, and Mr. Kenneth Glasby, soloist. Rev. John Talbot (Wes.) gave a welcome from the Wesleyan churches, and the Rev. A. E. M. Glover, M.A., vicar of St. John's, from the Church of England friends in the Newland district. Mr. Walter Smith (circuit steward) voiced the welcome from all sections of the church, and Mr. G. C. Cook spoke for the •riew society and church to be in Endyke-lane. The Rev. E. E. Jobling replied, thanking all for the great welcome extended to himself and Mrs. Jobling.

High tribute was paid to the work of the Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Howe on the completion of their term in the Hudders-field Circuit. Mr. H. Townsend, super-intendent of the Sunday-school at Taylor-hill. presided, and Rev. F. Winterburn (superintendent) and representatives of societies spoke words of appreciation. Coun. Spivey, J.P., presented Treasury notes and a gold-mounted fountain pen, a cut-glass howl, electric lamp and a Pyrex casserole. The Men's Fireside, organised by the minister, presented a smoking cabinet. Mrs. Howe has taken great interest in the Sunday-school at Taylor-hill, and her invaluable work has

. been warmly appreciated and graciously acknowledged. Amongst presents re-ceived were an attache case and an oxidised silver vase. Music was provided by the Taylor-hill choir, Mesdames Hawley and Griggs, and Mr. Bradley.

A reception to welcome the Rev. Tom end Mrs. Morris to the Oswestry Circuit, held at Oswestry, was presided over by Ald. R. S. Parry, J.P. Speeches of wel-come were made by Mr. E. Jones, Mrs. Denny, president of the Women's Mis-sionary Auxiliary, and Ald. W. H. Plirn-

• rner, J.P. Rev. J. Price Williams (Pres-byterian) welcomed Mr. Morris on behalf of the Free Church Council, and Rev. H. R. Byatt (Baptist) spoke for the Ministers' Fraternal, while the Mayor, Coun. R. L. Davies, voiced the welcome of the town and of his own church (Wes.). Rev. J. Grainger, under whose ministry Mr. Morris entered college, travelled from Birkenhead to convey his good wishes. Mr. Morris suitably responded.

A good company gathered at Erding-ton, Birmingham Sixth, on Monday, to welcome the Rev. Ambrose G. A. Lees and family. The circuit steward, Mr. T. A. Statham, presided, and the Rev. J. Dudley led the devotions. Speeches of welcome were made by the Rev. F. W. Townsend (Wes.), Rev. Cuthbert Ellison (U.M.), Mr. J. Howard, J.P., Mrs. Dance and the Rev. J. Dudley. Mr. Lees suit-ably replied, thanking all, and specially mentioning past kindnesses received from Mr. Dudley, under whose superintendency he began his ministry 31 years ago. Solos were well rendered by Mrs. Smith and Mrs. W. Dale.

A large gathering, representative both of the Hereford Circuit and the Free Church life of the city, assembled in St. Owen-street Church on Tuesday, July 26th, to welcome the Rev. W. Tootell, Mrs. Tootell and family. Mr. G. A. Cade (circuit steward) presided. Speeches of welcome were made by the Rev. T. J.

W. Tilke (Wesleyan), Mee,s. G. Parry, F. J. Hyett, C. Parry, and Mrs. Jones (circuit representatives), Mr. W. H. Johns (Congregational) and Dr. J. Vincent Shaw, who spoke for the Free Church Council, and also for the Baptist Church, in the unavoidable absence of the. Rev. J. Meredith (Baptist). After prayer by the Rev. H. Parrott, the Rev. W. Tootell responded in deeply moving and impres sive terms. The service was interspersed with rousing Methodist hymn-singing, led by the choir. Afterwards a large com-pany sat down to supper in the School Hall. The return to the circuit of the Rev. W. Tootell, who spent two of the earlier years. of his ministry here, has given great joy to our people.

Ashtinbander•Lyne.—A circuit garden party was held on Saturday at " Garland Cottage," by kind permission of Coun. and Mrs. T. Rose, Hilton. These gardens are visited every year by thousands of people, and large sums are raised annually for local charities. Mrs. W. Broadbent, of Hyde, presided, supported by the Mayor and Mayoress of Ashton (Ald. and Miss Hall), Col. J. Broadbent, M.P., and Mrs. Broadbent. The Mayoress declared the garden party open. Exhibi-tion folk-dancing and music were pro- vided. The ladies had charge of the tea-room and stalls, whilst the young men organised competitions and games. The great success of the gathering was largely due to the untiring services of Mr. E. Davies.

Bradwell.—A meeting of the Wesleyan United Methodists of Tideswell and the Primitive Methodist Women's Own was held on Wednesday. Mrs. Pawson, of Hathermge, gave an excellent address on missionary work in China. Mrs. Wragg, divisional secretary, also spoke. Refresh-ments were served by Wesleyan friends. Mrs. Simpson voiced thanks on behalf of the Women's Own, of which she is presi-dent, and Mrs. W. Hudson, secretary, also spoke a few words. Collections were taken for Wesleyan funds.

Bradwell.—The first anniversary was held in the Trinity Methodist Chapel, Cressbrook. on Sunday. Sermons were rendered by the Rev. D. Parton, of Bake-well, and solos were contributed at both services by Mr. W. Skidmore. The choir led the singing, conducted by Mr. J. Harrison, of Litton Slack, with Mrs. H. Broomhead and Miss M. Robinson as soloists. The organist was Mr. A. Jack-son. A retiring collection at each service on behalf of the Trust funds amounted to £3 3s. 3d.

Bremley.—Miss Janet Skene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Skene, Bromley Com-mon, acted as hostess at her second annual garden party at the home of her parents on Saturday, July 23rd. A number of Janet's school friends were in-vited, and after a sumptuous tea, games and competitions were indulged in. A stall was provided with various useful articles for sale. The whole of the pro- ceeds are devoted to Janet's missionary box.

Bury Finn. — The garden party organised by the ladies of the Edenfield Church was a great success. Accepting the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hillis to Chatterton Hey, games and amusements were indulged in. Refres, ments were served, and the result of over £10 for the missionary funds is very gratifying. Appreciation was expressed to the host and hostess and to the ladies by the Rev. IV. Killcross. The church anniversary services were enriched by a visit from Rev. James Lockhart, who served splendidly, and in addition he gave a stimulating address to the men of the church in the afternoon.

Clayton West.—The members of the Emley C.E. visited the Clayton West Society for a joint meeting on Tuesday. The speaker was Mr. George Lee, whose subject was " Light."

The Clayton West Sunday-school anni-versary was held on Sunday, when the newly-appointed minister, the Rev. G. S. Read, was the preacher. Special hymns were sung by scholars and teachers.

Celehester.—A successful effort on be-half of repair funds was held on Salm.-

A real Staffordshire welcome was given to the Rev. H. M. and Mrs. Cook at a circuit tea and reception meeting held in our Silverdale Church. A representative company gathered at the reception meet-ing held in the church, presided over by Mr. Arthur Sutton, of Madeley, whose loyally to our church and circuit prompted the Circuit Qmrterly Meeting to invite him to preside. Addresses of welcome were given by Mr. W. Parker, of Halmerend, and Mr. T. Bloor and Mr. J. T. Hamson (circuit stewards). The soloists were Mrs. Bateman, of Helmer-end, and Mr. James Smith, of Silverdale. The Silverdale choir very tastefully inter-preted the anthem, " There is a Green Hill," which fell like a benediction at the close of the meeting. The Rev. H. M. Cook briefly responded to the welcome accorded.

day in the orchard adjoining the chapel, by kind permission of Mr. Hollock. The effort was organised by Mrs. E. Austen, society steward, and a willing band of members and friends. Rev. P. Davies voiced a welcome. Mr. Wm. Smith, of Colchester, as chairman, in a bright speech, introduced Mrs. A. Smborn, of Lawford, who very appropriately de-clared the fete open. Following this were the usual competitions and sports, stalls and refreshments. The Boated Wesley Guild band, under Bandmaster Taylor, provided music. Mr. H. G. Baalham, of Ipswich, was M.C.

Flacham.—A circuit rally was hold in the Hokne Parish Hall on Wednesday, Mr. R. Blackie, of Downham, presiding in the afternoon. Rev. J. A. Leafs preached a very helpful sermon, and Miss F. Harper sang a solo. Miss M. Woods was pianist. After a sumptuous ham tea, provided by Mr. R. Boldero, a concert was given. Mr. C. Morley presided, and the Downham Secondary School orches-tral party rendered a programme arranged by Miss Thorne. Musical items were also contributed by members of the society. Thanks were expressed by Mr. J. W. Able.

Haverhill.—A large company turned out for the camp meeting. In the morn-ing the Rev. W. Rose took charge. Gospel messages were given by Messrs. Argent and Shipp, the minister following up with an appeal for Sabbath observ-ance and the claims of the Church. The afternoon service was held in the church, when the preachers were Messrs. Barker and Wright. The evening meeting was conducted by Mr. I. Parkin, and took the form of a love-feast. Not a few were visibly affected when age and youth re- lated their Christian experience. The Rev. W. Rose brought the meeting to a close with an appeal for consecrated service.

Middlesbrough Second.—The first field day at Haverton Hill was held on the Furness Shipbuilding Sports Ground (kindly lent). Coon. Sterrett presided over a programme which was only com-

Birmingham flailed. — The monthly W.M.A. meeting was held on Wednesday at Tyseley. Mrs. Elt presiding. The Rev. C. I'. Grove, told of his visit to the educational institutions of Hamtiton and Tuskegee. Mrs. Cox. jun., contributed songs. The Tyseley friends provided tea and were thanked by Mrs. Elt and Mrs. Clarke. Gifts for African Funds were £3 Os. 9d.

Bournemooth.—On Thursday the Auxi-liary met in the Ensbury Park Church, under the presidency of Mrs. A. E. Reavley. Rev. R. R. Connell offered prayer; the Scripture was read by Mrs. Button and the letter by the secretary. Solos were rendered by Miss Margaret Lovelace. The speaker, Capt. Sylvia Gray, who is on furlough from Brazil, gave a most interesting and instructive address on the work of the Army in that country. Tea was served, and the pro- ceeds for the meeting totalled £2.

Brentlord.—Orr Thursday the members of the Summer Group held a " Rose Banquet " on behalf of the Auxiliary Funds. Every seat was occupied when

pleted as dusk .fell. A crowd of sp... tors watched the scholars, who had been divided into houses, compete for prizes and points. The red flag hoisted at the end of the day announced Red House vic- torious. White House gained second place over Blue by one point. Mrs. Ster-rett presented prizes to successful com- petitors. Thanks to the energetic S.S. staff were expressed by Rev. A. S. Leyland.

Oldham Second.—The annual gather-ing took place at Bardsley on Saturday, in the ground of the Oldham R.U. Foot- ball Club. The Revellers Concert Party from the Waterhead P.M. School gave a fine programme and tea was provided in the Bardsley Schoolroom. At the even-ing meeting, under the presidency of Mr, H. Ellis, circuit steward, Rev. R. Fen. guson, of Manchester, delighted the gathering with his witty and wise words. The circuit choir, under the leadership of Mr. H. Gill, contributed splendid music. Rev. L. Jones expressed thanks, and a memorable day was brought to a close by the singing of the Hallelujah Chorus,

Rochdale.—A garden party was held on Saturday, in the grounds of South Cot- tage, Shauclough, the residence of Mr. T. Howarth, J.P. The opening ceremony was performed by Ald. C. E. Dearden, with Conn. T. Fairhurst in the chair, Children of the Jarvis-street Sunday-school presented the pageant, " Crowning of the Rose Queen," the Rose Queen being crowned by Mrs. Sernper. Thanks were accorded to those who had taken part by the Rev. H. Sernper and Mr. R. H. Stead. Afterwards sports and games were enjoyed, followed by teas and r. freshments. In the evening, at a recep- tion to the newly-appointed circuit minis-ter, the Rev. A. Harrison Clulow, B.A., B.D., Coun. T. Fairhurst (circuit steward) presided, Mr. T. R. Stead open- ing with prayer. Messrs. Wadsworth, Crabtree and Taylor gave the welcome. The Rev. A. H. Clulow responded in a fine speech, which stamped him as a preacher with a great future.

Thanet.—The minister's anniversary was held at Queen-street on Thursday. Mrs. F. Matthews (wife of the society steward and a valued worker) generously gave the tea, for which Rev. T. H. Bickerton and Mr. Francklin (circuit steward) warmly expressed appreciation. Following tea, Mr. E. Gluyas, M.B.E. (Wesleyan), gave an interesting talk on " Loose Leaves from a Local's Log.',. Rev. Tilden Eldridge and Comdt. Grif- fiths (S. Army) and Mr. H. Wilkinson (Denmark-road Church) also spoke. The ladies presented a beautiful bouquet to Mrs. Bickerton and a buttonhole to the circuit ministers, who suitably responded.

WrOckwardine Wood.—The choir anni-versary was held on Sunday, when the Rev. A. Wilkes, of Tunstall, was the preacher. In the afternoon the choir gave a musical service, over which Capt. D. Price Owen, of Wheaton Aston, presided. On Monday Mr. Wilkes gave his popular lecture on " Funny Folks," Mrs. A, Woods presiding. The Rev. J. Rigby expressed thanks, and congratulated the choir on the fine Programme provided.

Rev. J. N. Clague announced grace. Mr. W. J. Bolton presided, supported by representatives of the church and circuit, who proposed the various toasts, Mr. Horace Drinkwater acting as toast-master. A concert was given by mem-bers of the Wesleyan Church, under the direction of Rev. W. Budd, M.A. the effort realised, over £8.

Branden.—A garden party in connec-tion with the Women's Missionary Federation was held on Monday in the grounds of Dr. and Mrs. Denholme, kindly lent for the occasion, under the presidency of Mrs. Hitchcock. A mis sionary address, " Causing Others to Inherit," was delivered by the minister, Rev. A. Norman Brough, and tea was afterwards served. In the evening games and competitions were enjoyed. The pro-ceeds exceeded £3 10s.

Dies. — The annual Rally of the Women's Missionary Auxiliary was pre-sided over by the Rev. W. A. Tennant. Mrs. J. Ribbons read the Scripture, and Mrs. H. Sage the missionary letter. The representative societies responded to dm

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Roll Call. Helpful words were spoken ,y Mrs. I.. C. Wright, the District Sec. .etary. Mrs. W. A. Tennant expressed he thanks, and tea was served by the Diss ladies.

DrIflield.-The monthly meeting of the 4u:rill:try was held at The Beeches," :indly lent by Mr. and Mrs. Dixon. Mrs. Ramsay presided, and an inspiring address A.:15 given by Mrs. T. Allison Brown Hull). Rev. E. R. B. Reynolds led the ringing with his concertina, and also .rndered a solo. Tea was provided at he dose.

Grimsby Third.—The Auxiliary held heir annual garden party at The Elms, Healing, by kind invitation of Mrs. H. B. Brown. Mrs. G. H. reen presided, and i firmly address was delivered by the Rev. C. Manning. Mrs. H. White' read .he monthly letter. Miss A. Snowdon, the Rev. G. H. Green, and Mr. J. R. Appleby also took part. Tea was gene, "sly provided by Mrs. H. B. Brown. Suring the evening

gar"" were

indulged n to the enjoyment d all. Keighley Second.—A successful meet-

mg of the Auxiliary took place at the Oak- worth-road Mission Hall on Tuesday, when Mrs. H. Lambert presided over a erg mile di nee. The missionary letter ivas'read

attendance. Mrs. Wolbank. sad Mrs.

Florsman, of Cross Roads, gave a very interesting address. Tea was served by

the ladies of the Oakworth-road Mission Hall, and a collecticri was taken for 'the Missionary Fund.

Norwith Second.—II was the privilege of the Girls' Branch to hold their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Hannant. Miss Alice Lockwood presided over an excellent number of members. Miss Miriam Hodgson read the missionary letter, and Miss Winnie Hill rendered a solo. During the evening other 'letters of missionary interest were read and re-freshmen. were served at the dose.

Otley Second.—The W.M.A. meeting was held this month at Yeadon. An interesting address was Oven by the Rev. L. O. Egerton. The chair was ably occupied by Mrs. Brown. The missionary letter was reed by Mrs. Yeadon, and soloist was hiss. Midget, accompanied by Mr, Mawson. Tea was served and a collection was taken on behalf of Mission Funds.

Shotley BrIdge.—The annual Garden y m W.M.A. Party was held on Tuesday '

the beautiful grounds of Mr. E. J. George. " Th H II " C , tt mrs Pratt,of

e a ' 'a" e ' ' ' Monhseaton presided, and Mr 9. Dodds ‘- " . "s the ..'h'"•: A Splendid .te' was Pre' bided by the ladies, after which a display of dancing was gl. en by Mrs. Hickford's party Si children. A good number attended.

ShIldon. — The annual W.M.A. field day, held at. Middridge on Monday, was an oolstanffing success. Mrs. Duffield

lions. M.C.M•C. for the games and erm,Pel,-

ti . After tea, a pageant was pre- rented by the scholars of the C. of E. Sunday-school, under the supervision of Mr. Holcrolt. Songs were rendered by Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Downes, and recitations by Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Slee. Mr. C. FL Douglas delighted the audi- once by his rendering of one of the old P.M. hymns. Mrs King WaS the accom- panist. The Rev. W. Duffield presided.

stbd...—On Tuesday n o Bring.and. Buy " Sale was held at " The Elms," the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Fletcher. Mrs. Grainger gave a wonderful address on her work in Africa. In the evening a garden meeting was held. Mr. Richard Fletcher presiding. Rev. E. McLean led the prayer. Special music was given by Miss Ethel Hill, Miss M. Hunter, and Mr. A. Murgatroyd. Mrs. Grainger again spoke. Her visit will long be remembered. After the meeting supper was served by. the Silsden ladies. The proceeds for the

fit" amounted to f3t3 lls. Gd. Southport Second.—The July meeting

of Me Auxiliary was held in the School. room, under the presidency of Mrs. Williamson. Rev. E. McLellan offered prayer. and the Rev. A. J. Wigley gave a eery fine address. Mrs. Hunt rendered solos. Afternoon t., kindly given by

Mrs. Gerrard, was served. and during thi afternoon a pleasant time was .spenti.it games arranged by Miss Rodwell, h is,

sworth, and Mrs. Dawson. Proceed, for funds, £5 2s.

Talke.—The monthly meeting of thr . W.M.A. was held at Milts Green H Monday. Sirs. T. H. Heath presided suppOried by the Rev. Geo. Percival, wilt nifered „et.. Mrs. Heath grace an in ter ti

prayer.- o her visit to Confer

.7, nnt7t, sisniti,te i: „swing terms of Dr

;Vown's work among the lepers. Mrs F. Woolridge was soloist• accompanied l_n Mrs. Gibbons. Miss Heel s ate a grit: ing address on " Our Personal Responsi billy to Foreign Missions." Tea followed provided by the Mites Green ladies. Thi collection at the tables realised L2 15s.

Thoruley,—The monthly meeting of thi circuit branch of the Auxiliary was hell at Shelton on Monday. Mrs. Dyson pre sided over the meeting, and an addres was given by Mrs. J. S. Nightingale, o Sunderland. Mrs. Bell read the letter and Mrs. Brown was the soloist. Oi behalf of the members, Mrs. Sink] presented to Mrs. Dyson. who is leavint after five years in the Thonley jCiruit, i silver cake-dish i and to Rev. J. Dyson on behalf of the Women's Bright Hour a fountain-pen and "Evermeavdy"ipen.cnd and it silver-mounted ash tea t•. N r. Mrs. Dyson suitably responded.

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