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permitted to quote part of what we said a year since :

"We regard it as a main duty to mirrcir in our pages as perfectly as may be the variety of thought, of out-look, of activity which exists among us. We represent no section, no party, no clique, no officialdom. We want to represent a larger thing, a greater thing—OUR CHURCH, as it variously expresses its life through its individual members and its collective unities in official meetings and local Churches and District meetings and Conferences, and through its manifold and varied ser-vice at home and abroad, in city and in village, in aid of the social, moral and spiritual well-being of the people. As far as our space permits, we shall welcome brief letters on subjects of interest to us as a Church and people. We shall speak as convinced Free Church-men. We shall encourage to the utmost of our power efforts to give social applications to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, whether they are made in the name of ' Indi- vidualism ' or of Socialism.' We shall not trouble about what name is given to the tree if its fruit is good. Withal, we shall act in the belief that Bushnell's oft-quoted aphorism is true, The soul of all improvement is the improvement of the soul.' We will welcome all that makes for that—better conditions of life and labour for our brothers and sisters now among us, and a better heritage in body and soul for those who are coming after us. . . . But we hold also that the dynamic of spirit is spirit, the dynamic of life is life ; that a man may have a bad heart though he has ideal surroundings and may live a noble life though he have received an ignoble inheritance ; that different personalities are not produced by different circumstances or conditions, but by different attitudes and actions under identical con-ditions '; that, in a word, character is the result of the reaction of the personality upon its heritage and sur-roundings. So, to the full we shall emphasize the re-demptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ ; the ministry of the Holy Spirit to the human spirit ; the need and possibility of a changed personality for every man ; the great truth that, as Dr. Rendel Harris has put it, grace is the antidote of heredity.' . . . We will do

our best to help to improve present social conditions ; to fight the drink fiend ; to cast out the gambling spirit ; to bring in the nobler modes of life, with sweeter manners, purer laws ' : but we shall hold that all this cannot be done effectively, cannot be done completely, except as Christ is allowed to be Lord of men's hearts and lives. We shall therefore try supremely to be the helpers of evangelism.

* * * * *

THE House of Lords has done what the brewers, the financiers led by Lord Rothschild, the Opposi-tion in the House of Commons beaten by arguments

and votes, and all the selfish and Murder as a retrograde forces in the country ex- Fine Art. pected it to do—contemptuously

kicked out the Government Licen-sing Bill on its coming up for second reading. Of course, they have done it in the interests of Temperance,—

There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

One reason why Lord Lansdowne said it should be rejected was that it did not go far enough in its proposals about clubs—a sentiment that sweetly befits the lips of the man who refused to strengthen the club clauses of his own Government's Act of 1902. It is a small inaccuracy that the same vera-cious nobleman affirmed that for every licensed house closed one club had been opened ; whereas the returns show that it is one in ten. This august revising chamber, this immaculate assembly which professes to sit in the calm heights above the fume and dust and pettiness of party strife, has done its work with becoming and seemly order and a nice and delicate sense of the fitness of things. What less could you expect of the elite among gentlemen, the real aristocracy of the nation ? " Murder as a Fine Art " is the title of one of De Quincey's most fascinating books, and their Lordships have evi-dently added its study to all their other accomplish-ments. First, 160 of these impartial legislators, before ever the Bill had assumed its final form and passed its third reading in the Commons, incon-tinently, and at the invitation of Lord Rothschild, pledged themselves beforehand against the Bill—an eminently judicial act indeed. Next, at the invita-tion of Lord Lansdowne, some two hundred peers assembled in his Lordship's house, behind closed doors, and after an hour and a half's talk settled the fate of a Bill which had occupied the House of Commons for six weeks of Parliamentary time, and the brain and best thought of some of our most skilled legislators for long months besides. But, we must not forget that things that are only slowly apprehended by ordinary minds are instantly appre-hended by genius. The consummating touch was given when these noble lords, who had made up their minds and pledged their votes before hearing a word from the advocates of the Bill in their House, gave three days of their Parliamentary time to discussing whether the Bill should be given a second reading or not. It was the touch of farce given to tragedy.

THE conduct of the Lords has a grave constitu-tional aspect. Jurors who made up their minds about the verdict before they heard the evidence

would by that act have proved them-A Grave selves unfit for their position. Is the Constitutional case different when the majority Aspect. of the House of Lords does the same thing ? The Bill was sent up by a Govern-ment which put Licensing Reform in their election addresses as among the objects they would aim at if put into power. They were put into power with an unprecedented majority, and in fulfilment of their pledges to the electorate they sent up this Bill to the Lords, backed by a majority of three to one in the final reading. But what the people's representa-tives sent up is not even given the courtesy of a second reading by the House which represents nothing but itself. The condition is even graver than that. The Parliamentary correspondent of the " Daily News " reported that Mr. Balfour was pre-sent at the Lansdowne House meeting and spoke, advising the rejection of the Licensing Bill. This was erroneous. The leader of the Opposition was not present. But if he had been, would it not hs.ve been but an outward and visible sign of an inner fact? The overwhelming majority of the members of the House of Lords are openly and avowedly members of the political party which Mr. Balfour leads, and have shown themselves docile in meeting the wishes of that party. This means that a party whom the people refused to put into power at the last General Election is actually in power ; that a party who cannot get its way in the People's House can get its way by means of the vote of its mem-bers in the House of Lords. The whole thing is an outrage upon the idea of Democracy and reduces it to a mockery. The English people think that legislatively they rule themselves. They are under a blind, blundering delusion : they are under the finger and thumb of a House that is accountable to nobody but itself. It determines what shall pass into law and what shall not pass. Electors and governments propose, but the House of Lords dis-poses. The fundamental position of Parliamentary government becomes in this way a chimera and is reduced to a delusion.

* * * * * BUT the action of the House of Lords has a

deeper significance still. Take away Lord Lans-downe himself and the late Lord Chancellor, and

what man of outstanding figure in Its Moral the world of thought, of statecraft, Aspect. and of morals supported the rejec-

tion of the Licensing Bill in the House of Lords? Was there one? Over against rejection were men like Lord Rosebery, Lord St. Aldwyn, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Lord Kinnaird, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops almost to a man. Outside the House and support-ing the Bill were the Churches of this country in an almost solid phalanx, a unanimous Labour party, a host of social reformers, the great Temper-ance organizations, and a vast mass of moderate opinion. But all this is callously, contemptuously, flippantly flouted at the bidding of brewers and financiers. The Bill is not even allowed to be read a second time ! Mr. Scott Lidgett, the Wesleyan President, told Lord Lansdowne, that if the House of Lords refused to give the Bill a second reading "that action will never be either forgotten or for-given by the Wesleyan Methodist Church." He might have said that it will neither be forgotten nor forgiven by the Methodist Church. And it won't. Some of us who have defended the House of Lords will defend it no more. Not a single word will we say in its favour henceforth. How can we? The " Spectator " warned the Lords twelve days ago :

"The greatest of all dangers, when the whole matter has been examined, is, to our thinking, that the Lords should appear to treat the Temperance question, which is of such vast national importance, in an offhand manner,—as if the Assembly were also a tied House.' People would say that they dared to be bold only when the powerful moneyed interests were arrayed behind them." The Lords have treated this question of such vast national importance in an offhand manner ! they are "a tied House " of the brewers. " Ephraim is joined to his idols, let him alone ! " But some of us can-not be content to take up that passive attitude. The House of Lords has defied all that is best and most disinterested in the Churches, in the Labour party, among social reformers, among Temperance workers, among our citizens ; very well, we take up the challenge and henceforward it is war to the knife against the continuance in its present form of an institution which has proved itself utterly unworthy of its huge powers and utterly oblivious of the deep moral and social issues involved in a

measure like the Licensing Bill. It has done what the brewers and the financiers wished ; let the brewers and the financiers and their bits of scrip deliver them in the fiery day that is coming ! As for us we believe that right is might, and that the cause of the oppressed, the tempted, the fallen, the cause of women and children widowed and orphaned and hungry through drink shall yet triumph against self interest and greed. At any rate, we mean to put our faith to the test. " Great is finance? " Yes ; but greater are truth and righteousness, and they shall prevail. So now to the war which should be to the uttermost. And may God defend the right !

* * * * MEANWHILE, what is the immediate duty ? First,

it is for those of us who feel indignant to express our indignation emphatically and decisively. If all

who so felt wrote to Lord Lans-The Immediate downe that nobleman would at least Duty. know that he had sinned against the

deepest convictions of some of his fellow citizens. Secondly, the Government ought to be urged to challenge in the most decisive manner the outrageous conduct of the House of Lords. Quietness in this case would be cowardice. It is clear that neither the churches of this country nor social reformers can hope for the realization of their ideals in the State with an irresponsible, subservient House of Lords at the beck and call of the retro-gressive and anti-social forces of the country. Therefore, that this House should be dealt with ceases now to be a party-political and becomes a moral and religious question of the most portentous significance. And if the present Government won't help us to solve it, they must get out of the way and make room for one that will. Some of us are for any Government that will help towards the realiza-tion of the Kingdom of God on earth ; we will not lift up our little finger to help one which sits down under flagrant rebuffs to the ideals of that King-dom. We shall await with anxiety the Govern-ment's action ; for talk avails nothing. What is the Government going to DO ? is the crucial question with some of us just now. And we are waiting for the answer and shall then act accordingly. We hope the Government will be brave. The braver the better !

Our London Letter. THE abolition of the House of Lords is now a

religious question. The Bar of the Peers is now the supreme Bar Parlour of the Nation, and it must go with the other tenants' fixtures belonging to the Beerage !

What, politics ? says the Trade piously. Yes, my dear Sirs ! your trade is your politics, and our Master is ours. Politics is the health of the " polis " —Greek for "city." For years you have cried, " Our only interest in the city is our trade." The city's sin, the city's sorrow, the city's suicides were ap-parently nothing to you. And now you have rolled your casks into the gilded chamber. Good ! So much the bigger blaze at the bonfire.

"We fight against powers, against spiritual wickedness in high places," says the New Testa-ment. The power of God that pulled Nero off the Roman pedestal will drag Messrs. Red-cap and Strawberry-leaf out of the British constitution.

" Alexander, the coppersmith, showed me much evil ; the Lord render to him according to his works." So prayed Paul. So pray we with altered names and altered dates. Rothschild, the gold- monger now holds open the door of the British pub. The Lord render to him according to his evil works.

Every noble aspiration of the English people is blocked by the House of Lords. Hell's hosts must shriek with sheer hysteric delight as they see our self-reforming people forbidden to break their chains. Every time the nation comes to the penitent form this ugly instrument of sin, the House of Lords, drags the penitent back to his cellar and his darkness. Christ cannot reign in England while His teachings, to become law, have to gain the ap-proval of Hereditary Selfishness.

Beer must go. Land must come back. To dis-miss your Beer you must gain the consent of the Beerage. To recover your Land you must get the Land Lords to disgorge. A pretty pass, forsooth !

Are the People of England still such Babes that they need this obsolete curiosity to brake the wheels of their chariot? Has London gone to ruin be-cause it has only one Chamber to govern it ?

We stand to-day face to face with the same kind of insolence that Charles offered to England, and for which he paid with his head. There will be no

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civil war this time, for none would fight for the Peers—but a head must be taken off. It's awkward for the owner of the head, but nothing less will keep some folk quiet.

By the power of the purse the Payers of England, the Commons, have their power. Who pays—rules ! If King Edward forgot his place the purse-holders could curb him. That same purse can curb the House of Lords. The King receives near a million a year from the nation. For that million we expect a return and his loyal assistance when a crisis arises. That crisis is here. King and Corn-mons are two votes in the Estates of the Constitu-tion against the one of the Land and Beer Lords. Two must vote down one. The King must combine with the Commons to defeat the Lords—else a Republic would be cheaper and simpler. For the Commons can defeat them both if needs be. " Sire ! We grant you this million on condition that you

. ." is the time-honoured, all-saving right

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Mr. Alfred Mann, a life-long member of the Methodist Free Church and Circuit steward of the Cheltenham Church for twenty years, has, after a hard fight, been elected as a member of the Chelten-ham Borough Council by a majority of 125.

DEATH OF MRS. DYMOND. Thousands of sympathizing friends among us will

hear with profound regret that Mrs. Dymond, the beloved wife of the Rev. John Dymond, died at Knowle, Bristol, on Tuesday, November 24th, of heart failure supervening upon bronchitis. She was sixty-eight years of age. The blow is a staggering one to our venerable friend and his family. Merci-fully he is wonderfully sustained of Divine grace in his great sorrow. The funeral took place oh Satur-day last, and was conducted by the Revs. G. Mat-thews and J. Howen Rodda. Both Mr. Dymond and his family desire to express their heartfelt gratitude to the numerous friends throughout the Connexion who, by letter or by resolution, have sent messages of sympathy which have afforded much consolation in the irreparable loss they have sustained by the death of a most devoted wife and mother.

of the Commons. No taxes without redress of grievance.

Let there be no fear of the future. Thirty-eight million people of England's forty-two are of the working classes. They are 38 to 4, in millions. The thirty-eight are waking up from their eight hundred years' sleep—and mightily refreshed, too. The four are mad to madden this thirty-eight. Still, God be thanked for their folly, since they are bent on doing it. The people of the earth will the sooner govern the earth.

Another point emerges. The Bishops are now patently nobodies in the House of Lords. They cannot save even a Licensing Bill. They would do well to get clear of the place before the real Guy Fawkes fires his slow match. Their record is not over much different from that of the rest of the House ; still, one does not want to see any fragment of the Church in the blaze.

W. KAYE DUNN.

On Sunday night week fifty new members were received into our Haddington Road Church, Devon-port. New members have also been added to our St. George's Road Church, in the same Circuit. News of this kind is ever welcome.

Our President sent a telegram to Lord Lansdowne before the meeting of the Peers entreating in the name of our Church that a second reading might be given to the Licensing Bill.

It will please members of the United Methodist Church to learn that the Earl of Carlisle presented about two hundred Petitions to the House of Lords on Wednesday last from official meetings of our Denomination, in favour of the Licensing Bill. These were sent through the Temperance Secretary of the Denomination.

REV. R. KELLEY. Rev. W. Cann, Ryde, I.W., writes us : " Hundreds of your readers, especially in the old Bible

Christian circle, must have read with deepest sorrow of the painful and prolonged illness of the Rev. R. Kelly. It is strangely sad that he should be smitten down, so soon after his retirement. Possessing a sunny tempera-ment, enriched and chastened by Divine grace, he has completed a ministry full of comfort and cheer to the suffering. And now, by all seeming, he is himself faced with the prospect of such suffering as falls to the lot of but few. Here and there, in our Church, are very many who were led into peace and the joy of fellowship with Christ by Brother Kelley. He may be well assured that these, with many others, will remember him when-ever they approach the Throne of Grace."

AN ITEM FOR THE HISTORIAN.

Rev. W. Boyden writes us : "It may be of some interest to many of your readers

to learn that Mr. 1'. Bennett, LL.D., B.A., in his book on Disestablisliment, states that not until well on in the nineteenth century was the word chapel ' ever applied in an Act of Parliament to a Nonconformist place of worship, and that the private Act of Parliament for the union of the Methodist New Connexion, the Bible Christians and the United Methodist Free Churches in 1907 gives the first instance of the term Church ' being applied in an Act of Parliament to any

other sect than the Established Church." Evidently we are getting on !

AN INTERESTING FACT. Another of our Supernumerary ministers, the Rev.

E. D. Green, Sheffield, writes us concerning what he thinks is "a unique fact." It is a very pleasing fact anyhow.

"You should know, re the Mayor of Macclesfield being a member of our Park Green Church, that there are two other gentlemen, relations of Mr. Hambleton, who are members of our church there and also members of the Macclesfield Town Council. I have been looking for some reference to the unique fact—which is this—Councillor W. Frost has been in the Council and con-tinues so this year ; and his brother, Mr. Joe Frost, put up for the same Ward this last November, and has got elected also. So that we have the Mayor and two brothers—relations of his—all in the same Council, and members of the Park Green Church. I have known these two Frosts ' since their childhood."

PAINED PERPLEXITY. The following from one of our greatly honoured

ministers gives an insight into the pained perplexity with which some of our readers regard recent hap-penings concerning the Education Compromise and the Licensing Bill.

" I am sore over the Education Compromise. Peace? There is no peace, nor will there be. The Established Church in the Council Schools I Verily, they will have captured them. I cannot bring myself to accept right of entry.' I feel paralysed by its acceptance on the part of our leaders. I am amazed at Dr. Clifford and the rest of them. The Daily News,' too ! Oh, dear ! I am desolate.

"The condition of the Licensing Bill in the House of Lords is an outrage on the moral sense of the nation. But there I We seem bound hand and foot by brewery debenture-holding lords and ladies. When Guinness's was floated over fifteen years ago a stockbroker told me that for a royal princess £40,000 worth of shares were applied for, and the whole were issued. Said he, That stock is now worth £250,000 on the market.' "

MR. G. HOLDEN PIKE. A Committee has been formed to raise the sum

of £200, to meet a similar sum promised from the Royal Bounty Fund, to form a Testimonial Fund for Mr. G. Holden Pike. Mr. Pike has been a writer for forty years, mainly on social and religious sub-jects, and it may safely be said that there is not a line or thought in his writings which would not make the reader thankful he had read it. Mr. Pike is now aged and in need, and an appeal on behalf of the Testimonial Fund has been issued and in-fluentially signed—among others by Dr. David Brook, Sir Percy Bunting, Dr. John Clifford, the Rev. J. H. Jowett, Earl Aberdeen and Lord North-ampton. Donations may be sent to the Hon. Secre-tary, Mr. Arthur H. Ward, L.A.A., 32 John Street, Theobald's Road, S.W.

OUR CHRISTMAS BOX, 1908.

Do you not think you could send for a Christmas Box to collect a little money for the National Children's Home and Orphanage? The Rev. Andrew Crombie, 12 Farringdon Avenue, London, E.C., can send you one, if you will write him. These boxes are handsome and attractive in appearance, and since 1891 have brought in more than £20,000 in coins of all sizes and values. The coins sent in these boxes last year en-abled us to care for about 100 girls and boys for a whole year. Send for one, and place it on your Christ-mas Dinner Table, and show it to your friends. You can easily obtain 5s. or more, if you try.

PLEASE DO YOUR BEST WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL BOX.

If you have been accustomed to send Mrs. Aber-crombie a trifle to make her little cripples at Alverstoke, Hants, happy at Christmas do not forget her this year.

A VERY LITTLE WILL MAKE THEIR YOUNG HEARTS GLAD.

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Our Provincial Letter. DEAR MR. EDITOR,—YOU have found it needful

to enlarge this journal and you have discovered the provinces.* By this double find you have won the laurel and the palm. You have long asked for our news ; we are glad to believe you desire to know our attitude towards you and our Connexional or political world. Quiet provincials, hidden in Devon-shire or Northumberland, who have sometimes won-dered why London's 10,000 members should possess a special interpreter (albeit they love that piquant writer) will rejoice as they read the heading of this column. They will be interested in the expository corner allotted to express the mind of a modest 138,000 provincial members, and will welcome the column that means their discovery.

We accept the service of this column with a full recognition of its experimental character and our inability to interpret at once our many-sided pro-vincial life. Among the gains of Union is a growing sense of the varied types of experience within our borders. We do not see things and values in the same way. The Northumbrian miner and the Devonport draughtsman do not look from the same point of view as a Guernsey farmer or a Lancashire spinner. The view at Burton is not the standpoint of Brighton. A Barrow shipwright and a Norfolk labourer dwell in different worlds. But by the grace of Jesus Christ our interpretation of each other's hearts and standpoints may be so mutually educa-tional and morally serviceable that our world will be served the truer for our oneness in spirit with Christ. We are all, as the marginal rendering puts it, "members each in his part." Good citizenship, we find by last week's sketches and portraits, wins recognition equally at Helston or Brighouse. United Methodism has some sterling civic coinage in provincial circulation of which it may be proud.

We adapt a well-known saying for our guidance in discussing ideas, events or policies affecting or affected by our United Methodist life. We ask the 138,000 provincial members to believe, whether they live at Plymouth or Prudhoe, "nothing common to our provincial members is foreign to this column." To be provincial and not parochial : representative yet not invidious : to state an attitude rather than enforce .a personal opinion, is no small ideal. It is an ideal with which we shall ask our readers to credit us. We shall ask also approval of attempts that can, by the nature of the task, rarely be accepted as bull's-eye shots at our target.

Let us remind every provincial member reading these lines to ponder the fact that the provinces will make or mar the fortunes of this UNITED METHODIST. A Premier winds up his policy by his " appeal to the country." He knows that London sees things done : the provinces are the judgement-seats of the mighty. London prints this paper : its editor lives there ; but we are the people to support him. London's 10,000 will not be found wanting, we believe : let the provinces live up to the size of the provincial membership. Then this column will gain an influence and our denomination will also gain in the larger constituency to which our President and Officers from time to time in this paper may appeal.

We recently attended two conventions carried out under Dr. Townsend's scheme of visitation. With other writers we deplore the small attendance at these gatherings. Can we not respect the Presi-dential office and object in a more fitting way than is the case in this discourteous indifference? Grant-ing the many claims of home, business, sickness, or the plea of distance, surely a worthier response is possible. Having reluctantly said so much, let us record other impressions. The lengthy Presidential utterances were packed with experience, appeal, fact and figures. At first disposed to resent the length, we recanted on asking the question, "Who among us could put forty-eight years' gleanings into forty-five minutes ? " The three forty-minute addresses we heard, led us to note the singular nearness of the Doctor to the medical fraternity in his advice. The progressive consultant to-day advises fresh-air, rest, light and water—the simples of nature—with wondrous results. Dr. Townsend, after half a century of toil, offers the simples of our holy religion to us. The atmosphere thus created ; the confessions evoked ; the self-criticism en-gendered ; the dissent expressed with the Doctor's findings—all show his wisdom. His worth is not only in speeches : it is in the occasions set up by his pastoral calls for moral and spiritual renewal.— Yours fraternally, BRUCE W. ROSE.

" Ambleside," Huddersfield.

What if the process hss worked the reverse way 1--ED.

MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS. Rev. E. Craine will be leaving the Bellingham Cir-

cuit at the next Conference. Rev. A. H. Hulse has accepted a unanimous invita-

tion to Redditch Circuit for next year. Rev. W. J. Michell has intimated his intention of

leaving Newton Abbot Circuit at the next Conference. Rev. E. Flower has accepted an invitation from the

West Cowes Circuit until 1910.

HANLEY. The Late OUR Bethesda Church has lost a devoted Mr. George adherent in the death of Mr. George Walker. Walker. He was closely identified with

the Bethesda Church, and for a long period of years laboured in various departments, but the Sunday School and Town Mission claimed the largest share of his devotion. To these institutions he gave unstintedly all the time and energy at his disposal. Pure love for the work was the incentive that prompted him. Bethesda owes much to his ungrudging service. Many of his confreres in these labours have gone before him, but those that remain remember him and his work with grateful pleasure, and are proud to have been associated with one so devoted. Naturally modest and retiring in disposition, he never sought positions of prominence ; he served his day and generation with unflagging faithfulness. The funeral service took place in the chwth he served so well, and the cortege was met there by a large number of members of the congre-gation and school workers. The pastor, the Rev. E. F. H. Capey, assisted by the Revs. S. Gordon and H. Rutherford, officiated. Beautiful floral tributes were sent by many friends.

IPSWICH. Funeral of ON Monday, November 23rd, the funeral Rev. Richard of the Rev. R. Poole took place in the Poole. Ipswich Cemetery amid many tokens of

respect. The Rev. R. Wilton, of Nor-wich, represented the Connexional officers and the Com-mittee. Both the Church of England and Noncon-formity united to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased minister of the United Methodist Church. The opening portions of the burial service were read by the Rev. T. Devine, of St. John's Congregational chapel. The Scriptures were read by the Rev. W. L. King, vicar of St. John's Church, and prayer was offered by the Rev. R. E. Wallis, Baptist minister, of Stoke. The Rev. R. Wilton gave the address. He said :-

" We have gathered here to-day to pay the last token of respect to the memory of a good man. There is no room for tears and no occasion for sorrow. Our de-parted friend has been spared to the ripe old age of eighty-six, and as we think of his long and strenuous life we may well say :

Life's work well done, Life's race well run, Life's crown well won,

Now comes rest.'

On behalf of the President and Connexional Corn-mittee we tender to the members of the bereaved family the Christian sympathy of the United Methodist Church. Owing to the fact that Mr. Poole has been a retired minister for the last fifteen years, he was not so well known to our people as formerly, but in the height of his power and success he had a national reputation. For about thirty years he was a devoted and faithful minis-ter of the United Methodist Free Churches, but he gained his chief reputation as a powerful and successful evangelist. From 1848 to 1863, during a period of about fifteen years, he conducted missions all over the country. As an evangelist he had great spiritual power, wide-spread popularity as a preacher, and his ministry was crowned with remarkable success. We find from reliable sources that it was quite a usual experience for him to have from 50 to 100 conversions during a short mission. In such centres as London, Bristol, Sheffield, Man-chester, Norwich, and Cornwall he drew large congre-gations, and had the joy of seeing hundreds of converts. Among his converts were many who in after years became well known, such as the Rev. W. Hubbard, for many years the pastor of Tacket Street Congregational Church of this borough, Mr. Edward Rabbitts, of Lon-don, and Mr. Smedley, of Matlock. During his palmy days a young man, then only known as William Booth, came under his influence, and he was so impressed with Mr. Poole's methods and work that he said, I will try that.' To-day that young man is known as General Booth, and his work encircles the globe as the Salva-tion Army. A long and intimate friendship existed between the Rev. R. Poole and General Booth. God greatly honoured our departed friend by using him as the means of the conversion of thousands of persons all over the land.

This should be to us a day of thanksgiving. We thank God for a long and useful life, a powerful and fruitful ministry, and a final triumph over every foe and every difficulty. Would to God our modern ministers were as zealous and enthusiastic for the conversion of the people as our departed brother was 1 May God in His mercy grant that when we are called home we may leave behind as honoured a name and as fragrant a memory as Richard Poole."

At the graveside the remainder of the service was

News of Our Churches. conducted by the Rev. A. A. Dowsett, of Crown Street Chapel, Ipswich.

YARROW-ON-TYNE. What Blocks SPEAKING at the opening of a bazaar in the Way. connection with our church at Jarrow, Sir

Christopher Furness said he had had a good many engagements to attend to that day in various parts of the County of Durham, and in order to fulfil those engagements it was necessary for him to start early and go round in his motor car. He had got a very bright day in which to see the country, and in the various places he had been to in the colliery villages in which he was interested, he had been struck with the large amount of traffic he had seen on the roads—traffic of a kind which would almost go to show that trade was not so depressed as many of them might imagine. He would tell them candidly that he had not seen in all his life so many brewers' drays on the road as he had seen that day. There were single-horsed brewers' drays, brewers' drays with two horses, and brewers' days with two horses and another horse in front to assist the other two to drag the heavy load. He had also seen that day not one but many motor vans occupied in Carrying full barrels, or returning with empty ones. He saw thrashing machines engaged on the road dragging more than one heavy waggon load, and he supposed the casks contained beer. At one part of the road one of these conveyances blocked his way. He was sure that the one thing which blocked the way to England's prosperity was the drinking habits and customs of the people. Those of them who were en-gaged in the trade and commerce of the country, and who devoted their lives to creating new industries, and to extending old ones, knew that one of the drags upon advancement in this country was the heavy national drink bill. Sir Christopher went on to urge that every effort that was made to reduce drinking should be sup-ported by all who have the welfare of the country at heart.

LIVERPOOL. THE church at St. Domingo has been thoroughly

renovated and the electric light installed. The reopening services were held on Sundays, November 8th, 15th, and 22nd, the preachers being the Revs. Principal Sher-wood, T. P. Bullen and Edward Cato. The sum of £250 is being raised by subscriptions and collections to cover the cost of renovation.

LOWER DARWEN. Reopening AFTER being closed for eight weeks the of Church. Lower Darwen Church was opened on

November 22nd, when the Rev. Charles Greenwood, of Yeadon (a former minister of the church), preached to large congregations. A musical service, given by the joint choirs of Darwen and Lower Darwen, took place in the afternoon, and was a great success. The special organist of the day was Mr. R. Walmsley, Darwen. Not only has the church been beauti-fully decorated, but a new ceiling (panelled) has been put in the chapel, with a view to improving the acous-tic properties, etc. The lighting of the church has been entirely rearranged. The alterations have met with the entire approval of the friends. The church is now one of the most attractive in the neighbour-hood. Sunday's proceeds amounted to £17, this is considered highly satisfactory in view of the bad con-dition of trade in the village.

OLDHAM. " The AN interesting new departure has been Monday taken at Union Street by the institution Lecture." of a Monday Lecture. It is started with

a twofold aim : first, of deepening interest in the Bible ; and, secondly, of dealing with difficulties in modern thought. The lectures are to be given by the Rev. W. Redfern, as far as practicable, every Monday evening in the Union Street Lecture Hall, and at the close of each lecture questions will be asked for. Sub-jects like the following are announced : "How the New Testament Grew," " Is a Restatement of Theology Necessary? " "The Theology of the United Methodist Church : What it is and what it is not," "Evolution—Does it Undermine Religion ? " " Is Man Morally Free? " etc., etc. The scheme is proving very attractive. At the first lecture the Lecture Hall was nearly full, and the audience was of a representative character.

At the annual choir festival of the Union Street Church large congregations were present at both morn-ing and afternoon services, which were bright and attractive. In the evening, when the sacred oratorio "The Creation " was given, the church was crowded out. The principals were Miss Helen Jaxon, Mr. Herbert Brown, and Mr. James Davis. The choir, under Mr. George Haslop, sang their parts well throughout. Mr. Albert Simms officiated at the organ with skill and ability. The collections were made up of 1788 coins, and reached the total of £50 13s.

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Dr. James Stewart of Lovedale.*

IN a previous issue attention was drawn to the great value of this book to ministers of religion as a source of information and inspiration. It remains to be said that it, is calculated, to be equally interesting and useful to Ministers of State.

At the present juncture few exercises could be pre:., scribed for MemberS of the Cabinet and of Parliament more truly recreative and useful than a careful perusal of this book. South Africa has already cost the nation, in one recent little war, more money than the Evan-gelical Churches of Christendom have expended on Mis- sions in more than a century past,' and we are far from having done with South African affairs. The grant of self-government to the Transvaal and Orange River Colony has been greatly applauded, and from some points of view has been very successful. It would have been more satisfactory if it had safeguarded the rights of the coloured people, and had conceded the franchise to the educated 'natives, as in Cape Colony. Instead of that, it expressly excludes the .natives, and Natal is doing its best to show us what difficulties can be occasioned, what crimes can be perpetrated more or less in harmony with the forms of law, when a minority of one race, entrusted with the government, holds a much larger population of another race in sub-jection. f The reader of these pages will be enabled to form

an estimate of the responsiveness of the South African native to mission effort conducted in a Christian spirit, and will be surprised to learn that "among the native and coloured 'people in Cape Colony the Christian Church is as powerful in numbers as heathenism is." The capacity also of the South African, native for education and industrial enterprise is indicated. "Every Kaffir is a born , lawyer." Such is the testimony of Dr. Stewart.

The ecclesiastical statesman, too, who would confront intelligently the growing problems continually present- ing themselves along the line of missionary enterprise will find these pages indispensable. And this applies not least of all to those who have the direction of our own missionary affairs. The perusal of this book would greatly widen the outlook of many good men amongst us. Dr. Stewart was a' pioneer in medical, educational, and industrial missions, and his long and wide experience and great success give his opinions exceptional weight.

"Experts• say that the character of the native is injured when he receives education gratis " (p. 109). It was given to Dr. Stewart to see the fees at Lovedale grow during four successive years, begihning with 1870, from nothing to £200, £400, £800; and £1,300. The sum for •last year (presumably 1907) was £5,500. It is intended to raise amongst 'the natives L50,000, to make of Lovedale a great South African University, and so realize one of Dr. Stewart's, most cherished dreams.

Dr. Stewart believed, with Mackay. of Uganda, in the formation of strong, educational and evangelistic centres, in contradistinction to solitary and scattered stations, or ' rather, in addition to them. Mackay reached this conclusion after fourteen years of toil; sorrow and disappointment. It was the new plan he had resolved to begin, as in his last communication to the Committee of the Church Missionary Society he in- formed them. It was the plan Dr. Stewart followed throughout his career, of which Lovedale, Umsinga, Blytheswood, tivingstonia, and Kikiyu are the monu-ments.

To United Methodists interested in the subject of Industrial Missions the particulars given of the African Lakes Corporations, Ltd., on page 139, should be of great interest. To those whose imaginations have been caught by the idea of advancing from Mombasa, Mazeras, and Ribe, into the interior, Chapter xxiii., which describes the carrying-out of such an enterprise before the construction of the Uganda Railway will be full of suggestion and instruction.

Lest in our admiration of a great missionary hero we should be carried beyond due length and forget that "the best of men are only men at the best," we are reminded that , Dr. ,Stewart, the companion of Living- stone, and friend of Gordon, Milner, and Rhodes,, was also an apologist for, if not an advocate of, the recent Boer War. How that came about the reader will find on carefully perusing the book, and perhaps may thereby be delivered from the disposition unhappily Manifested by some weak-minded people to subordinate all personal, independent judgement 'to the dictum of the "man on the spot."

Notwithstanding his attitude on the question of the recent unhappy war (the aim of which it should be remembered was declared to be "'to secure equal rights to all civilized men South of 'the Zambesi, whatever ' their colour "), it must be claimed that the good doctor ' was one of the noblest, ablest, most devoted, and most successful of all the :men who have during recent years consecrated themselves to the task of extending the' Kingdom of Christ. His biographer claims that in his

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ideas of educational . Mission work. he was thirty ' years before, his time, and very .pert

r.mently remarks,:

, "The opposition , that once existed to industrial

methods did some mischief. It distracted attention,' lessened the sympathies of many, and led others to believe that non-missionary and half-secular method4 were being adopted. On this one of the Presidents of' Robert College (Constantinople) stated, These attacks, though not without excuse, were undoubtedly a' mistake, and put back mission .work in the East a quarter of a century '" (19,8).

By mistake or, otherwise the word "industrial " has been written in the foregoing?quotation. Where "educa= tional" should have been. What, however, was written by Dr. Wells of Educational' Missions is so strikingly true of " Industrial Missions " that it is not worth while altering the word. The,rea'Aer may pronounce it either' way with equal truth and -appropriateness.

It remains only to say •that the high estimate. formed ,of this publication on first perusing it is amply sustained on a closer , acquaintance. The reader will - be, well advised if he ,should resolve forthwith on entire abstin-ence from sugar, flesh-meat, new coats, hats, umbrellas, or even from tobacco, if such be necessary, until-by some means other than stealing, he has obtained the five shillings required to make himself possessed of this treasure. And when he has read it himself he should lend it without delay to someone else. J. H.

Home, School and Church CHRISTMAS is the festival of the Home. . It is the

children's feast. It• has been consecrated for ever by the Christ-Child. It will never be out of date ; never out of fashion.

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The preparation for the festival began as soon as last Christmas glided into the New Year. The French and German • toy manufacturers sent their travellers to England early in the spring, with pat-terns of new toys and newly-designed gifts of every sort. Large orders were given, for every trades-man knows that one of the busiest and best weeks of the year, for the shopkeeper, is the week before Christmas and the money lavished on loving gifts increases from year to year. There will be no lack of choice, the rather, a bewildering variety of pre-sents will be exposed, in " Utopias," "Aladdin's, Caves," and -" Xmas Bazaars," until givers and receivers will be spoilt by the plethora.

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Some families will content themselves with making gifts to each other. Some will' go a little beyond the home circle and include cousins and other degrees of kinship. Some will remember 'those 'who have loyally served them in home or business during the year., Some will not overlook the minister's library and the minister's wife's ward-robe and larder.' Some will call together the poor, the needy and the derelicts of humanity. As Dr. Sahluel Cox used to say, "They will taste their . Christmas dainties in their neighbour's' throaf." " Blessed is he that considereth the pOor.". It is good " to eat the fat and drink the sweet;" but it is better still to " sends portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared." This is unquestionably so, for we remember the words of the Lord. Jesus, " It is more blessed to give than to receive."

These words we write to remind ourselves and each other of the duty, which is also a privilege and a joy, of remembering the poor. .There is much to be said in favour of the formation of Citizens' Committees, as on the continent, for the purpose of placing one or more needy families under the loving care of a public-minded man or woman, in order to secure personal and friendly help in time of need. This method is indescribably better than our English Charity Organization Society, which seems to have neither heart nor thrilling nerve attuned to the wail of woe ;' and which, while it• is ' keen as a hunter in detecting impostors has revolted many a needy and shrinking soul by its inquisitions and delays.

Surely each family possessing the comforts and luxuries of life—and we heard the other day of two girls in a middle-class home, whose 'Christmas presents cost their.father. 420 last December—might select a needy family and by loving observation and provision secure for every , poor member of it an observance of the Feast which will please God.

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It goes to one's heart to be told of a poor char-woman, hired to wash dishes at ,a house-party, eagerly gathering the scraps ' and bones off the' plates as they were brought from the dining-table to the scullery, and saving the orts of the guests to provide a -meal for her orphaned children. . The

. voluntary Socialism ' of 'the apostolic church made such care of others' leavings needless, for' distribu-tion was made to every man as he had need. When will that day of golden brotherhood again dawn ? Just as soon; as our Lord's law of life rules our hearts : " For even Christ pleased. not Himself." _

FRANCIS H. ROBINSON.

Best Wishes to North China.

BY REV.; S-.-- POLLARD.

,CANDLIN,in one bed, Eddon in another, and Pollard in another ! We were a trio-Lot lively missionaries ! What,yarns were related and stories told in -that pretty bedroom of the Rev. -Frank Turner's house at Tang- shan, a town on the main line from Peking to Harbin,, Moscow, and the great centres of civilization ! I was a welcomed guest. It was the time of the 'District Meeting of the United Methodist North China Mission. Providence so arranged it that instead of meeting Mr. and Mrs. Candlin only, as I had expected, I had the' great joy of meeting nearly the whole Mission. How kind these brethren and sisters were to me !- They,made me' a member of the District Meeting at once and proposed me as one of their representatives at the Sheffield, Conference. Before r had been many minutes- in , the house I was led :off to the native DiStrict Meeting, and , had the privilege of speaking a few words to a fine band of , native preachers in a language they understood. A week before, at Ningpo, I could only make myself understood by' a free, use of 'the blackboard ; here one could speak face to face and heart to heart, for froni Chihli in the North-East to Yunnan in the South-West there is but one language spoken by the Chinese, viz., the wonderful Mandarin language, which is' rapidly be-coming the book language as well as the spoken language of more than 300,000,000 of people.

I stayed at Tangshan nearly a week, ' and was deeply ' interested in all I saw and heard. The first night we had a meeting in the chapel, and the preachers listened very patiently- to my story of the Miao revival. I re-gretted very much that next w,day the preachers all re-turned back. to their stations, and so I was unable to make their personal acquaintance. That to the was a distinct loss._

Before the week was over I realized that the problems - facing our brethren in North China are similar to those facing missionaries all over the Celestial-Empire. , Only by great• patience and much wisdom and the constant help and guidance of the Holy Ghost can these pro-blems be solved.

The country around Tang-shan is so level that what little hills there are, which have come down as scouts from Mr. Hedley's hilly country, are much prized. We should think nothing of them in West China, or poSsibly we might term them grave 'mounds rather larger than usual. How monotonous the journey from Tang-ku to Tang-shari seemed., As level as a billiard table and not a blade of grass ,anywhere. Always the tiresome, fine, dusty soil, which when the wind blows defies all pro-tection and renders life miserable for some.' Where. I had been living among the Miao we had found, it very, difficult anywhere to get sites level enough for building on, and we would like a tennis court at Stone Gateway, to give our, native preachers exercise, but the idea is never likely to be carried out. '

Dust, dust, everywhere ! No grass, no flowers, and no green. Looking out of the bedroom window I was delighted to see off in the distance a long lake of- water, with trees growing from small islands in the midst: The scene was so enticing that I wished we could go - out and visit the lovely lake. I mentioned the idea to my host and he smiled. He knew, and I didn't. The enticing waters were non-existent. It was all a mirage.

Another morn I saw a scene that was real. A band of Mongolian camels, forty in number, just crawling one after another to their inn, after a long, weary jour-, ney through the night.

During the week' we. got to know each other well,% and before we separated the North China workers were •sympathetically interested in West China and the West China wanderer thanked God for the great work • in Chihli and 'Shantung.

I shall never forget some things. The kindness and sympathy of the brethren Candlin and Turner, Baxter . and Eddon, Hinds and Robson, and 'of all the ladies will remain to the end. The picture on the wall in the-dining-room of a 'beautiful young girl whose loss the mother will never get over, the wonderful Imperial, train being' built by Chinese workmen for the Empress Dowager, the bright- alertness of the missionary's son, who knew all about all the engines being built, these and many other things •rei-nain now as vivid as when I first met them.

And there is one more story of a spider on a table which I won't tell, ,even if the Editor puts the- thuinb; screw on me. That really • was the funniest incident I have ever met in China.

Let us all send 'best Christmas loVe and wishes to the noble band of missionaries in the United Methodist North China Mission, [Yea, and everywhere else.----ED.]

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They assist all Church organiza-tions and do all kinds of Home Mission work.

Two Worthy Veterans. Mr. Thomas Fearnley. •

IF the subject of this sketch has not achieved notoriety as a public servant he has made himself a name as a patient, modest, and reliable servant of God. Bro. Fearnley has reached "The Pension Age " with un-dimfned eye and a vigour that would shame many a younger man. He was one of the few at Ovenden,

Halifax, who se-ceded from the o 1 d Methodist body in the time of the Wesleyan Reform a n d joined the New Connexion. Every' office in Bethel Church and Sun-day School has been well and nobly filled ; -by him. His ex-hortations in the Sunday School, and his responses during divine ser-vice are familiar and characteris-tic. He is still a teacher of the Young Women's

Class and a Leader of the Church. His faith strengthens with advancing age ; his fervour is unbounded ; and his religious force unabated. He is verily a veteran in the Master's service. Example and precept are well com-bined in the saintly character of our beloved brother. Our prayer is that he may be long spared for further usefulness and as a Christian exemplar to others.

Mr.. Squire W..Chapman. EX-COUNCILLOR SQUIRE WILLIAM CHAPMAN has for

over forty years occupied a prominent position and been indefatigable in his labours on behalf of Bethel Church and Sunday School, Ovenden. For forty-two years he has been an active local preacher, during which time he has taken over 1,400 services. Bro. Chapman has inherited much of the fire as a preacher and Christian •worker from his father, Mr. James Chapman, one of

the Methodist Reformers. Space forbids even the enumeration of. the various posi-tions held, and the varied ser-vices rendered to Methodism by the subject of this sketch. B r o . Chapman's ser-vices have not been confined to the Church alone. He served as a member of the Ovenden Local Board for four years, and later was honoured by elec-to 'the Halifax

County Borough Council as representative of the Oven-den Ward. For five years he served in this capacity. These strenuous labours have undoubtedly affected Bro. Chapman's health somewhat, for we regret to say that at present he is practically confined to the house. Bro. Chapman has sacrificed time, service, money, and even health—all on the altar of his faith. All honour to him ! May God give him grace to bear his affliction with fortitude

EAST AFRICA.

2'o the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—The Rev. T. Chapman is' asking for a young farmer for East Africa. May I suggest that he might with profit appeal to a wider constituency' by including gardeners ft

My personal knowledge of East Africa leads me to believe that a good gardener, well up in his business, and especially in hot-house work and exotics, would be a better second to our present agricultural agent than a farmer, and could turn his knowledge of orchids, etc., to valuable account for the Funds of the Mission. He would lie far more at home with his practical horticul-tural knowledge in East Africa than a farmer. At any rate the farmer and the gardener—not a mere jobbing gardener, but a good "stove " man—would make a more complete equipment than two farmers.

Yours faithfully, JAMES SEDEN.

St. George's, Salop.

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Our Enlarged Issue. Words of Appreciation and Good Wishes.

THE PRESIDENT (Rev. W. J. Townsend, D.D.), writes : I am more than delighted with your proposal to

enlarge and improve the style of THE UNITED METHODIST. It is doing a great work in the Denomination, but is calculated to do much more by a larger circulation. I hope all the readers who now form your clientele will recommend it wherever possible and help to make it a valuable asset in our Corinexional life.

Rev. ED. BOADEN, the Ex-President, writes : THE UNITED METHODIST, if 'not essential to the exist-

ence of the United Methodist Church, is very helpful to its consolidation and extension. • It will be , a glad day for the Church when the paper is taken and read by a large proportion of its adherents. My only complaint against the paper is this : that it contains so much read-able,. interesting, "instructive, and stimulating' matter as to tempt one to read it through, at a cost of time re-quired for other duties and enjoyments. But a strong will may conquer the temptation.

Alderman THOMAS SNAPE, J.P., Liverpool. The approaching enlargement of THE UNITED

METHODIST suggests a fitting opportunity for me to offer a word of appreciation of the high, excellent and progressive spirit by which it , is characterized. De-nominational journals are necessarily restricted in their fields of operations, and, to some extent, in the nature of their articles. 'But when such intellectual ability, literary skill, breadth of view and judicious editing are combined, as in THE UNITED METHODIST, it ought to be in the hands of every one of its people, regularly purchased by every one of its families, and read every week. As an organ for news of the Churches, for free discussion of subjects of interest by various corres, pondents, and for guidance by the Editor, who has won great distinction in, his work, THE UNITED METHODIST has secured a foremost place in the ranks of the best denominational publications, and is rendering to our Church invaluable service. Our Churches should see to it, therefore, that it shall receive the largest possible "circulation:

Rev. DAVID BROOK, M.A., D.C.L., President of the National Free Church Council.

I am truly delighted that you are enlarging the sheet of THE UNITED METHODIST.. It is the one thing needed to secure its right place in the homes of our people. With the contents of the paper all of us have been more than satisfied. There is probably as much in the paper that a loyal United Methodist finds interesting as there is in any of the more pretentious religious weeklies. Now that you are making it more presentable in appear-ance, also, it ought , to command a big success,, and to discharge a great and much-needed service in these early days of fiision.

Rev. JOHN BAXTER, Secretary 'of the Sheffield Conference.

THE UNITED METHODIST ought to be in each -of our homes. It 'is bright, wholesome, and full of informa-tion. Up to the , present it has met the views of many, but the promise is of greater things than these., I am sure it is worthy of the widest circulation, for its effect is to promote personal consecration to Christ, loyalty to 'United Methodism in the home, and living workers for the Chureth.

Rev. G. PACKER, General Connexional Committee Secretary, writes through his son : •

My father asks. me to say that he wishes enlarged success for the enlarged newspaper, and hopes that,' in view of the supreme importance of an organ for uniting the Churches and bringing them into touch with each other, ministers and officers will do their , best to obtain fresh subscribers.

Rev. HENRY T. CHAPMAN, Foreign Missionary Secretary.

I feel it bolth a pleasure and a duty to call the atten-tion both the members of our Churches and congre-gations to, the new and enlarged series of our denominational weekly, THE UNITED METHODIST. It ought to have, it deserves to have, the hearty support of all. In the fullness of its denominational news, its weekly survey from the Christian yiewpoint of social and political happenings, and its catholic outlook on the trend 'of men and movements—this is the only just , standard by which to judge it—it stands deservedly high, and could rise higher with ampler means. I would urge all to become subscribers, and thus make our weekly a decided success.

Mr. Wm. A. LEWINS, Manchester. I am sure that THE UNITED METHODIST has done

much in bringing nearer together the three branches of Methodism now ,forming our United Methodist Church,_ and that since the Union it has helped all of us to realize the opportunities and possibilities that are before our new Church, with a fuller knowledge of the many men and women, and great and noble Church histories that are now the heritage of all.

'Our United .Methodist Mayors.

Ald. Whipp, Mayor of Clitheroe (fifth time). ALDERMAN WHOP, just elected for the fifth time

Mayor of Clitheroe, belongs to a family which, from the earliest days of Free Methodism in the town, has been associated with, and greatly interested in, our Moor Lane Church. The Mayor, with the Mayoress, still regularly attends the Sunday services. By his unvary-ing courtesy, urbanity, and consideration of the opinions and feelings of others, Mr. Whipp has won and holds the respect and confidence of men of all parties. A man

of great liberality of thought, and truly catholic spirit, his sympathies cannot be reserved for any particular religious Denomination or political party. He embodies the spirit of citizenship in the broadest and most human sense, and seems to feel that he belongs to the whole town, and must consider the interests of everybody in it. Long may the Mayor and Mayoress—who shares in her husband's sympathies and love of the same ideals—be spared to their town, to bind together its people in friend-ship, and by charity of heart and Christian beneficence to bring gladness and consolation to many !

Rev., JOHN MOORE, Nottingham, writes t Your prospectus' is admirable. The value. and import,'

ance Of THE UNITED METHODIST to our Churches can-not be estimated. It ought to find a .place in every home. May your faith and enterprise have their reward in increased sates and larger usefulness.

Sir CHARLES T. SKELTON, Sheffield. I look for and read THE UNITED METHODIST every,

week with much interest. Its new life has been good and informing to us as readers, and, pardon . the weak-' ness, ministers, to our,pride.. I am hoping much, and beg to congratulate Editor and readers alike.

Rev. JOHN LUKE, of Torrington. It 'is very 'important in. these ,days, when the Press

is such a power, that our Church should have an organ' bringing. before its members, week by Week,' the many aspects of our work ; that it should stimulate our people to new and greater undertakings. in the name of the' Master and for the sake of humanity ;- and that matters pertaining to our work should be notified, examined, and even be subjected to faithful, and friendly, criticism.. I hope that THE UNITED METHODIST, now enlarged, will receive cheerful and adequate support, and • be in- •creasingly helpful to our Church.

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nominational movements unless he subscribes to tile denominational newspaper. To read the weekly UNITED METHODIST is both a duty and. a privilege. It is a splendid corrective to a narrow parochialism.

Mr. W. HARDY, Codnor: The resolve to enlarge and generally improve. THE,

UNITED METHODIST will be greatly welcomed and ap-preciated by its readers throughout 'the Denomination, and the occasion: would be fittingly signalized 'by an,. extended.circulation. It cannot be denied that an organ issued and .inspired by direct denominational authority and under the immediate auspices of Conference, must in a unique sense be able to serve Connexional interests. Our churches have been well served in the past by those in charge of our denominational literature,' and will be better served in the • future in all that makes for

•consolidation and progress, if our own people will give a generous and 'loyal support. to those at the helm.. , I heartily commend to our people throughout. the Con-nexion the enlarged and improved 'UNITED METHODIST.

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The Quiet Hour.

DISGUISE. THE bird's wing wearies, must be folded soon,

It grieveth not to rest, Low hiding in its nest

That simulateth common things at noon.

Oh, whence that weirdly thrilling, rising, note As if the dusk took voice, Broke into sunlit joys,

So high o'er earth the melody cloth float?

" Oh, have a little patience ! " and thy strength Renewed, shall mount again ; Shall shake off weary pain

To find its own expression—free, at length. EL. SIE.

WHITHER?* "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou bast the words

of eternal life."—John vi. 68.

WHITHER? We seek after a great faith, after an answer to all the dark and hard questions of the age ; we seek after transparency, strength, brother-liness, after the ideas of the future and new hopes. But whither. shall we go ? What can save our people from complex entanglements, what can bring light into the darkness of social distresses ? Whither?

We knock at the door of Materialism. An old weary head looks out. Its day is past. One believes in it no longer, it can give nothing but strength and matter. For a generation it was so proud, because it did away with the illusion of faith, but now it has no more vigour left. Infidelity has outlived itself, it has had its time, and now men are asking again whether there is not something higher than this poor earthly world can give, but they know not rightly where they should seek it.

Some seek a new religion, the " Religion of the future." How it shall be constituted is not clear to them, they only know that in it there shall be much said of freedom and community of interests. They will believe in the progress of humanity, in all noble virtues, perhaps also in the great Providence which was formerly called God. We hear such thoughts, but they do not satisfy us. It is not possible for men to think out their religion for themselves. Religion must be revelation, or it is nothing. God must show it to us, we cannot make it. The Faith must be a gift, a grace, or it is mere twaddle.

In our time the deeper the desire becomes after a true, great faith, just so much higher the Person of Jesus Christ arises from neglect into prominence. He has an eternal power over the souls of men. One cannot break loose from Him.

We seek and err, we test and wander, now to the right, now to the left, and ultimately we find our-selves standing before Him again : "Lord, whither shall we go? Thou, Thou alone hast words of eternal life. The words of all others are a mixture of truth and error. Thy words are diamonds that never lose their brilliance. Thy words are still to-day clear and fresh as the morning dew, they touch to-day the consciences of men, and speak of all that moves us so deeply. Thy words, Lord Jesus, are more than words, for in them Thou livest, the unique One, the One that cannot be lost. Thou movest amongst us in Thy Spirit, we feel as Thou attachest us to Thyself, Lord, we abide with Thee.

" We have read the books of many men, we have been in many gatherings, and heard inspired speeches, but no one was like to Thee. They were all, as we ourselves are, mortal, not' only in their bodies but in their spirits. All others belong to the great mass, but Thou art Christ, Thou art the Helper, the Saviour, the Master of the world, the King of Righteousness, the Way, the Truth and the Life. We have ranged ourselves among Thy followers, have seen Thine eye, observed Thy hands, felt Thy heart, and now we can do no other than name Thee amongst the highest names a human tongue can utter : Thou art the Son of the living God. Yet there are thousands to whom it would be difficult so to name Thee, but they also will learn, They will let their old heroes and masters go, and with us confess—Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and for ever."

THE Rev. S. E. Keeble, author of " Industrial Day-dreams," and editor of the "Citizen of To-morrow," has written another strong volume of social addresses under the title of "The Ideal of the Material Life." Mr. Keeble discusses freely the social questions of the hour in their relation to Christianity. The book is pub-lished at 2s. 6d. net by Robt. Culley.

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The Institutional Church. By REV. THOMAS PHILLIPS, B.A., Bloomsbury.

THE Rev. Thomas Phillips, B.A., of Bloomsbury, was the principal speaker at the evening meeting in connection with the inauguration of a new Sunday School and Institute at Walthamstow. He delivered an address which is worthy of a wider hearing.

After congratulating the friends on the success of the undertaking, Mr. Phillips said that three years ago, when he started at Bloomsbury, Institutional Churches were everything, but no one knew the weakness or the strength of the Institutional Church so well as those in the centre. People were now "down on " Institutional Churches, but they would come round again. His experience was that the more spiritual Christians were the more constrained would they be to do Institutional work, and their spirituality would so bring them into contact with the great social problems that they could not help becoming social reformers.

The "Institutional Church," continued Mr. Phillips, "is the outcome of Keswick teaching ; for if a man consecrates his whole life to God he must go in for the consecration of commerce and politics ; so I main-tain that social work is the outcome of Keswick teach-ing."

What the Movement Stands For. "What does the movement stand for? It stands for

adaptability." There was no reason why they should not conduct the ordinary services in the Church, but they had to adapt themselves to their environment. Take the case at Bloomsbury. During the time of his predecessor, the Rev. Dr. Brown, the district was filled with men who were rich and lived in the large houses around ; they came to the church and supported it ; but now these people had gone, and the question came, "What are you to do? Are you to shut the place down ? " "No ; keep the place open and adapt it to the thousands of people around you." "There are thousands of young people in business in central London who have nowhere to go on Sunday. It is no good condemning young people for going to the public-houses if you have nowhere else for them to go. It is our duty to cater for these young people better than the devil can ; and our purpose is to make the Church a home for these young people. There is many a mother in England whose heart blesses God for Blooms-bury. You are evidently finding out the needs of the young men and women of this neighbourhood, and I pray God's blessing will rest upon you in this movement.

Misplaced Timidity. "We require more of the conquering spirit in our

work. I would rather die fighting for my life than apologise for my existence. There is one place that fits Jesus, and that is the first place ; and it is our-duty to do our utmost to crown Him Lord of all'. ' I believe Christianity is going to triumph ; but we have failed because of our timidity. We are confronted with Socialism, but why should we be frightened? Christ makes Socialism superfluous. When social reform has done its best, it cannot do what Christianity can do, for this captures the inner citadel of a man's heart, and carries social reform further still. So in regard to every aspect in life.

-"We have gone in for games and other things of a like nature : there are dangers, a lad might learn billiards at your Institute and carry it further—to the hotel. If you merely open a social institution and you are not going to surround it with Christian men and women, for God's sake leave it alone ; but if, on the other hand, the Institute is going to be the porch of the Church to bring people in, then there will be a time when they will thank God for the Institute.

Evangelising Aspect of the Work. "There is also the evangelizing aspect of the work.

The Church of Christ exists to win the democracy. We want to regard this Institute as missionary work ; behind it all is the desire to win men and women for Christ. Men of all classes are hungering for Christ, yet there are four millions in London outside the Churches. I think we can reach these four millions if we try. I do not think it is too much for a follower of Christ to influence three others for the Kingdom during the year. I am sure every Socialist influences three others to his way of thinking, and Christianity ought to be able to do it. If we did this London would be converted in a very few years. But it will not be done by ministers ; it must be done by the rank and file. I hope this new Institute will allow you to in-fluence others, bringing them into touch with Christ."

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churches. These are the blunt facts, the "facts that winna ding." What then ? These facts give the churches magnificent opportunities on the intel-lectual, the spiritual and the practical sides of religion.

So far as the difficulties in the way of acceptance of Christianity are intellectual and born of the new knowledge which has come to us so abundantly in our days, they should be met with knowledge and intellect. Here is the opportunity of our Christian scholars and teachers—the greatest since that which came to Augustine of Hippo, when he sought to meet the intellectual and spiritual questioning of his own day by writing his "City of God." So far as the alienation from our churches springs from low-toned spiritual lives, and lives marred by glaring inconsistency, ministers, teachers and church-mem-bers must give the corrective by the teaching and practice of that " higher-toned goodness which we call holiness," and by the exercise of discipline—that almost lost function of the Christian Church. " Not till the Church be fearless in its discipline," says Dr. Fairbairn, "will it seem honest to those outside it ; but were it to prove its faith by enforcing its discipline, it would reclaim the masses by compelling them into admiration and belief."

The Spirit on the Face of the Waters.

Nor does this exhaust the full, rich content of the opportunities which are given to us. Mr. Peile follows up the. paragraph we first quote above from him by another which sets out our next point with a weight of knowledge and carefulness of expression which we cannot command. Let the reader pick up the connection by referring to our first quotation from the Bampton lecturer. Mr. Peile then goes on :

"Yet some spirit is moving on the face of the waters. There are signs abroad of portentous meaning, whether they fill us with hope or despair—hope or despair, shame or self-forgetting joy that in the dark hour of our failure and unworthiness God is still wiser and stronger than His unprofitable servants. For never was the cause of Righteousness less a lost cause than it is to-day. The dim stirrings of the human mind, cut off from conscious communion with God, are yet guided by His Hand. Side by side with apparent religious indifference there grows a profound dissatisfaction with the social order as it exists ; a dull uneasiness in the individual soul, which can no longer find rest in material well-being, nor consolation in the absence of it. A sick World is crying aloud for an Evangel, but the Evangel is long in coming. The soldiers of the Cause fight on in the dark-ness, scattered and discouraged, slashing blindly in fratricidal strife, betrayed to death by the trappings they have borrowed from the world and the devil And because they have no flag, no watchword, no credo to unite them and to inspire them, the strong man armed still keepeth his palace. But the step of One stronger than he is even now at the door. Who shall that stronger be? Must we not ask, as the Baptist asked of old, with heart searchings, that mistrust not Him but ourselves, Art Thou He that cometh or look we for' another? '"

0 Opportunity ! thy name is To-Day. Next week we hope to deal with the opportunities

which come to the Christian churches in the profound and widespread dissatisfaction with the present social order.

WE are often told in rueful tones that these are days of difficulty for Christian churches. We need more frequently to sound another note, namely, that though this is so, perhaps because it is so, these are in a unique sense days of great opportunity too. "A great man," says Emerson, " is always willing to be little ; while he sits on the cushion of advantage he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, de-feated, he has a chance to learn something." One may add that he also has a chance to do something. Both chances have come- to Christian people in these days of difficulty—the chance to learn from our buffetings, straitening and defeats, and the chance to profit by these new openings for showing forth our Lord's spirit and for carrying on our Lord's work. They lie before us to-day in a profusion, variety and richness undreamed of by us.

Opening the Iron Gates.

Most of us are ready now to admit that this is so in regard to Foreign Missionary work- Never were so many open doors as frcai. us in China, and never such success ; we have there a superb chance, not hitnerto in the same measure ours, of winning a fourth of the human race for Christ. The story told in Dr. Wells's " Stewart of Lovedale," and in Bishop Tucker's " Eighteen years in Uganda and East Africa," opens out vistas of enrapturing Christian possibilities in Africa. The Hindu world is seething with a new spirit which threatens to break up its old complacencies and contentments and to give the Christian churches the golden chance of the last one hundred years. The proclamation of religious liberty in Turkey means that the Moslem world is thrown open to Christian enterprise as never before.

The angel that went before Peter is going before The Church, and iron gates that lead into cities and kingdoms are opening everywhere of their own L'ccord at his approach. And that same angel of We Lord is saying to the Church of Jesus Christ what he said to Peter, " Rise up quickly ; gird thy-selV and bind on thy sandals ; cast thy garment aboVt thee, and follow me." The fateful question is 'ether the Church will be loyal to her Lord, whet 'er she will be daring enough, and obedient enou to pass through the gates opened for her, to wi the cities and kingdoms of heathenism for the w id's Saviour. Here is, indeed, a tide in the affairs )f the Church which, " taken at the flood," will lea 1 on to something better than fortune—a great in 'athering of redeemed and saved men and women i Ito the Kingdom of God ; but which, " omitted, will leave the Church bound about in shallows and miseries. Would God she might know the day of her visitation !

Active and Articulate Hostility.

If now we turn our eyes to the homeland we shall not the less clearly hear our Lord saying to His people, " Behold, I have set before thee an open door." This is not to say that the way to it is free from obstructions : far from it. Things are as they are ; and our saying that they are not so does not make them different. Wise men face facts, and the facts of to-day from the Christian point of view have an appalling aspect. Take the following statements and put them side by side : they are of immense significance. Speaking of the state of things to-day Mr. Peile says, in his notable Bampton Lecture,

"Not only the Church, but Christianity itself, and all supernatural religion, are called in question, or dismissed as not worth calling in question. On one hand we have a comparatively small force of active and articulate hostility, which has its :value as a stimulus to closer thought and more energetic work. On the other, we are oppressed by the dead weight of spiritual inertia, a widespread indifference to dogma as the guide and motive of action." "

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We are told that whole classes of our fellow country-men have drifted away from any kind of systematic re-ligion, and that the chief cause of this departure is the impression that outward religious observances and the acceptance of creeds make no difference in action and character ; that people who go to church are no better than those who do not."

"A Wage Earner," in a letter published in our issue of a fortnight ago, puts the matter not less weightily and seriously :

" Leaving on one side at this stage the large mass of indifference to higher issues in those who are sunken in degradation and wrongdoing, we shall acknowledge, I believe, that the churches are failing to appeal to the intelligent, unselfish, upright worker. There is a wealth of altruism and generosity in him ; he is offering himself, however, not upon the altar of the churches, but in the direct service of his fellows. In trade unions, in fellow-ships, in parties that are formed for the propagation of social and political gospels, he is willing to spend and be spent. Some of my best friends are outside the churches. I know their worth ; they are far-sighted, great-hearted, high-idealed men, full of passionate desire for the uplifting of the people. In their work for the social betterment of their fellows; they have lit in many others the light of freedom. They have led men, otherwise sunken and selfish, into higher paths ; and these in their turn have entered upon similar work. And all this—be it remembered—apart from the direct appeal of the Gospel of Christ."

What Then ?

We would not minimize for a moment the gravity of any of these statements. If the second quotation is not wholly true, it and its fellows have enough of truth in them to stand on their feet and menacingly front our churches. There is a revolt against supernatural religion in all its forms ; there is a widespread indifference to the message of the churches ; there is bitter complaint that so many professed Christians are " not up to sample " ; there is a wealth of altruistic brotherly manhood and womanhood that is unassociated, and in some instances refuses to be associated, with the

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

DEAR SIR,—It amazes me to find that I am writing you my fifty-third letter. To think that in twelve months I have turned the lining of my mind inside out in the pages of this journal fifty-two times ! May I take the opportunity of thanking those who have expressed themselves in a kindly way concern-ing my humble contribution to your columns ? Only last week I received a very great compliment. I was introduced to a gentleman who turned out to be a very diligent reader of THE UNITED METHODIST. He said, " Let me thank you for your letters, Mr. Hunt. I have often thought they are worth the whole penny the paper costs ! " I hope my fellow scribes will not be hurt. I was not. It was just another instance of those inflated values of which we hear so much in these days.

Now the present' occasion is a fitting one, so it seems to me, to discuss the subject of Letters and Letter Writing. It is a large subject, and has been frequently dealt with, yet it is one that always interests us, for there is hardly, a more welcome sound in our homes than the sharp rat-tat of the postman ; neither is there a more popular institu-tion in the country than the General Post Office.

I. In Bishop Thorold's interesting essay on Letter

Writing he quotes an author who has given an account of a night's journey in a railway post-van. The sorting of the letters, the ingenious arrange-ments for dropping and taking-up the bags without stopping the train, how in one place, a black-edged packet, evidently announcing a death, jostled a silver-edged packet announcing a wedding, the countless bundles of letters, rapidly tied up by the busy officials, to be dropped into thousands of letter-boxes next morning—these things gave him much food for reflection as the train rushed on in the dark.

" In the same letter-bag there may be a letter with the offer of a seat in the Cabinet ; another, marked with spede,' from a servant to her parents, telling

them she is sent home to die ; another with a pro-posal of marriage ; another a letter of comfort, to be read and re-read in sad and lonely hours, till constant handling has worn out the paper, and fre-quent tears almost blotted out the words. Less than spoken words—for the gleam of the eye and the tone of the voice are wanting—they are more than spoken words, for they remain to be kept and pondered, perhaps printed and circulated, long after

Letters of Christopher Hunt. LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING.

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the writer is in the dust ; and the end of it all is, that letter-writing in these modern times is so universal an instrument of government and society, of religion and of kindness, of business and recrea-tion, of joy and pain, that in plain truth it is one of the most important duties of life."

To begin at the beginning : letters should be legibly written, with spelling correct, and grammar —well as good as the circumstances warrant. I have known men—and they have been among the most estimable of my acquaintances—whose hand-writing was like Sydney Smith's. Some one wrote to this divine to see one of his sermons. He re-plied, " I would send it to you with pleasure, but my writing is as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink-bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs." A family council was often held over the letters he sent when on his travels. On one occasion Mrs. Smith cut out a portion which no one could decipher and sent it to him. He returned it saying that he must decline ever reading his own handwriting Twenty-four hours after he had written it. Lord. Jeffrey, of " Edinburgh Review " fame, was' no better. Smith once wrote to him,

"My dear Jeffrey,—We are much obliged by your letter, but should be still more so, were it legible. I have tried to read it from left to right, and Mrs. Sydney from right to left, and we neither of us can decipher a'single word of it.

" Sydney Smith."

One illustration of bad spelling must suffice. A young man who was anxious to enter the ministry failed in his examination. In his distress he wrote to a friend, "God only nose what I shall do now." Allowance must be made for the state of this young man's mind at such a time, but it is evident that his examiners had not made a mistake in sending him back home. For business purposes legible hand-writing and correct spelling are indispensable. In private correspondence these are scarcely less important.

H.

It has been said that our letters should reveal their authorship altogether apart from the signature. There can be no doubt that a really good letter should be a revelation of the writer's true self. The letters of St. Paul are the most perfect example of this. Samuel Rutherford, Cowper, the Carlyles, are cases in point. They illustrate the truth of De Guerin's remark, " I live between the folds of a sheet of paper." Take the following extract :

"This grand consideration of making the noblest use of life will be very animating and consoling to you, amidst a measure of labour which would other-wise be oppressive to you. You will have the gratification of feeling that each week that passes away is filled with your very best efforts, in one of the most important departments of human industry. I earnestly wish your health may be habitually firm enough for your office, and that the health of your most intimate associate may be firm enough to bear her part of the economy. I am sorry to hear your unfavourable account of it, but wish to hope that by this time you have some more decisive indica-tions of its being soon to be re-established. I most sincerely wish she may have all the strength and animation which she possessed at those times, which I often recollect, when I used to frequent her house and her company, and derive vivacity from seeing so much of it displayed by her."

I invite your readers to attach the signature to this letter. I am persuaded that many of them will find it an easy task.

The letters of Smetham reveal a gentle, reposeful, gracious personality. Without the aid of a memoir Smetham stands revealed in his correspondence as exactly what he was in the flesh. It is unnecessary for a biographer to say that he had the gift of humour, that he was patient and forbearing, that he was kind and courteous to all. Every letter he wrote—at least, every publighed letter—tells us this plainly. The same is true of the late Dr. John Watson. The signatures alone show his keen sense of humour : The MacWatson of MacWhat, Jeremiah MacDottle, Epaphroditus Higginbotham, A. Cad-ger, Dugald MacTavish, Jeremiah MacWheep. Then take this from a letter to Mrs. Drummond, mother of Professor Drummond, " Now may I ask a favour for Henry's sake, that you will never again call me Dr. or Mr. but John, as once you did in years past. There are few of early days to say the word : will you grant me this? " This simple request summarises many pages of Dr. Nicoll's biography of his friend. He was a man to whom

friendship meant much. He was peculiarly sensi-tive to sympathy and appreciation, and the least semblance of distance and formality on the part of his friends caused him untold pain.

III.

Bishop Thorold says that it is only too evident that a great many letters are written which ought not to be written. Few will dispute this trite remark of the Bishop's. One of Ruskin's letters to Smetham contains this characteristic sentence : " I never wrote a private letter to any human being which I would not let a bill-sticker chalk up six feet high on Hyde Park wall, and stand myself in Piccadilly and say, I said it.' " Really ! Even a saint like Smetham confessed that he was unable to say this. I wonder how many of your readers could conscientiously say they are willing for every-thing they have written to be trumpeted from the house tops ? It is magnificent, but it is quite un-suited to this sinful world.

On the other hand, how many letters we ought to have written which we have not written? There are many letters of congratulation, of sympathy, of appreciation, of encouragement, which I have in-tended to write; but have allowed the opportunity to pass until it was too late. It is not that I have grudged the time or resented the trouble, it is simply that I have allowed other things to take up the time I should have given to this. Unless letters of this kind are written immediately, as a rule, the opportunity for writing them does not recur. The pity of it is our friends are apt to interpret our silence as an indication that we have forgotten them.

I AM told that the Rev. Silvester Horne has advocated, at a private meeting of the Whitefriars Club, the taxation of brain values—every individual to make his own valuation. The idea is a brilliant one, and if adopted, might go far to solve the financial problem of the State.

One of the vexations of authorship is that editors and publishers absurdly refuse to take writers, especially unknown geniuses, at their own valuation.. This was the tragedy of poor Branwell Bronte's literary life. Everyone knows the sorrow and shame that came into the lives of the shrinking sisters of Haworth Parsonage through the dissolute ways of their brother. Would Branwell have gone to the same length of recklessness, I wonder, had Black-wood accepted and printed the poems that came into his hands ? The first letter of young Bronte's which Mrs. Oliphant found when preparing material for her work on the House of Blackwood, is dated from Haworth, December, 1835, and begins in large letters :

" SIR, READ WHAT I WRITE—and would to Heaven you would believe in me, for then you would attend to it and act upon it ! " The concluding words of the letter are : " You have lost an able writer in James Hogg, and God grant you may get one in Patrick Branwell Bronte." Four months later there followed another letter : " Sir, read now at least." The enclosure was a long and closely written poem, entitled : "Misery. Scene 1st."

About a year later Branwell wrote again, im-ploring and demanding a personal interview. " Will you still so wearisomely refuse me a word," he asks, " when you can neither know what you refuse nor whom you are refusing? Do you think your magazine so perfect that no addition to its power would be either possible or desirable? Is it pride that actuates you, or custom, or prejudice? Be a man, sir, and think no more of these things. Write to me ; tell me that you will receive a visit ; and rejoicingly will I take upon myself the labour, which if it succeed will be an advantage both to you and to me, and if it fail will still be an advantage, because I shall then be assured of the impossibility of succeeding." No notice was taken of his impas-sioned appeals. After an interval of five years, in September, 1842, Branwell wrote again in a much more subdued tone, begging "most respectfully to offer the accompanying lines for insertion in Black-wood's Edinburgh Magazine.' "

Young Bronte was in high company, had he but known it. Early in 1840 W. M. Thackeray wrote to Alexander Blackwood offering a series of Round-

In this as in other things if time cannot be found it must be made.

IV. The kind of letters we like to receive will guide

us to the kind we ought to write. There are limita-tions to this counsel, of course. One morning Dr. Watson received a letter from an anonymous cor-respondent informing him that the writer had been so touched by the sentiment of one of his stories, and was generally so much impressed by his remark-able literary ability, that he had placed £1,000 to his credit with a London bank as a token of gratitude. It is the privilege of very few to write letters of this generous nature. Even the writer of this one either thought better of it, or never thought of it at all and had written in a spirit of sarcasm, for Dr. Watson never heard any more of the matter.

As to what letters should be kept, personal pre-ference will decide. Among my most treasured possessions is a red box labelled " Letters." I sup-pose most people have a box of this kind. In it are letters from all sorts of people : statesmen, authors, divines of all ranks, people with a grievance who have the courage to sign their names, and even anonymous letter writers. But those I value most, and would not on any account part with, are the letters which breathe kindness and sympathy, letters written by those who have put their heart into what they wrote, letters which chased away the shadows of the morning and made the day sweeter and brighter by their -coming.—Yours, etc.,

CHRISTOPHER HUNT. Old Clarendon.

about Papers, an offer which was respectfully—ominous word !—declined. • We learn from Sir Theodore Martin, in his life of Professor Aytoun, that " The Great Hoggarty Diamond " was also sent and declined. Thackeray's form of self-valua-tion led him to refrain from soliciting the Edinburgh journal a third time, but did not stand in the way of a warm friendship which sprang up later between himself and Mr. John.

Few attempts at self-valuation have interested me more than the estimate reached by Samuel Warren, a popular Blackwood contributor, who wrote a novel entitled : "Ten Thousand a Year," one page of which Sir Frederick Pollock declared was worth all that Dickens had ever written ! Lockhart gave it as his judgement that Warren " beat Boz hollow—anyway was fully his match." Warren's correspond-ence is a medley of sincerity and bombast. He reports artlessly the fine things that were being said about himself, how people wondered at his " pro-digious talents," and what an " immense sensation " his writings were producing in the clubs. He affirms that the great object of his story, " Ten Thousand a Year," is " the patient, close and true portraiture of character and feeling." "I assure you," he writes, "that I have heard nothing from any quarter but the highest commendation."

The taxation of brain values, the writer to be taken at his own valuation, would have fallen heavily upon Samuel Warren. He even went so far as to lay down the lines on which a reviewer might take in hand his work entitled, " Now and Then." " How easily you can say," he thoughtfully observes, "that from obvious reasons, you paused before speaking as you thought of Now and Then,' written as it is by a gentleman who is universally known to have been so busy a con-tributor to your pages ! . . . But now the public has spoken so unequivocally and almost unanimously in praise of this, etc., etc., anything you think proper. . . . The Times ' very finely (and only justly) complimented me for always writing on a level with the educated ear.' . .

I think you ought to point out the probability of many imitators of this style of writing following in my wake ; but pray express your anxious hope that such will not be ,the case, that these matters require to be handled with consummate caution and reverence such as I am sure I have shown."

I quote only one other gem from the correspond-ence of Samuel Warren. After issuing, through Messrs. Blackwood, his "Commentary on Black-stone," he writes : "The law booksellers are furious

Books and Bookmen. THE TAXATION OF BRAIN VALUES.

THE Rev. T. J. Cope writes us : "We sent particulars of the United Methodist One by One Union to a spiritually-minded friend, who is deeply in-terested in everything which makes for the pros-perity. of our Denomination.. He at once replied, saying he fully aPproved of its object and methods, and that he felt so much the importance of its establishment as to forward a cheque to meet the expenses which would be incurred by the President and other Connexional Officers in introducing it, through the ministers, to the Churches.

" Our generous friend has had much, experience of Church life, and his opinions, expressed in his letter, are worthy of note. He believes that indifference to spiritual things is greater to-day than at any time within the memory of the most aged ; that the exist-ing state of things cannot be remedied by church members lecturing one another ; but that improve-ment must begin with Christian people as individuals ; that if only one in six, or one in ten of our members were to get aglow with zeal for God and the salvation of souls, others would be influenced, there would soon be a great spiritual awakening and a glorious revival on every hand. He closes his letter by saying, ' I shall be glad to be a co-worker in so Godlike a cause as the One by One Union.' "

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During the ensuing week a letter, signed by the President and others, will be sent to every minister in our Church setting forth the aim of the One by One Union and the methods by which it is sug-gested that its work should be carried on. There will also be enclosed with the letter (1) a copy of a leaflet explaining the objects of the Union, to be used for distribution among our people ; (2) a copy of the One by One Note Book, and (3) a specimen of the Form of Application for membership. We are sure that all our ministers will give the serious and prayerful attention to these communications that they so richly deserve.

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Next week we hope to have something further to say, by way of setting forth the aims and method of the new movement among our people.

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In the meantime, we venture to prefer a request. There may be some among us who doubt of the effectiveness of the method proposed in the One by One Union. Other good souls, full of a character-istic mistrust of their own powers, may think that this is a work for gifted people. Now, we doubt not that among our readers there are many who have practised what Professor Drummond called " Button Hole Evangelism for many years, and can recount many instances of the effective use of the method. Will these readers, for the encouragement of the timid and the enheartening of the despondent, send us accounts of their experiences and of their methods? By way of authentication, not for pub-lication, the names, and addresses of the writers should accompany each communication.

COLLEGE STUDENTS. AND PREACHING.

MR. BENJAMIN PRESTON, JUN., writes that there are over three hundred of our churches that are not too far from Manchdster to be served by the students of our College, and if each of them had a student once a quarter twenty-three of our students would be engaged fully thirteen Sundays to the quarter. He' thinks this ought to happen„ and hopes that we shall do our best to help and encourage our young men, "for," says he, "if ever I feel proud of my Denomination it is when I hear these young men who are rising up to be ministers of our beloved Church."

"The Brotherhood of Man." By Philip H. Hall. (Stockwell. 2s. 6d. net.)

THIS is a volume of earnest sermons on such themes as "The Central. Man," "Thought and Conduct," "The Heredity Curse ; and Christ's Redemption," and that which gives the title to the book. ,They have the quality of arrestiveness, and must have been listened to with much profit when first preached. C.

December 3, 1908. THE UNITED METHODIST: 1:1

For Local Preachers.

ie. * * * * LOCAL preachers who are interested 4n social

questions may be glad to know that three books by Mr. Horne's suggestion ought not to be lost sight the Rev. S. E. Keeble have just been placed in "The

of. There is something in it. I am afraid though, Local Preachers' Lending Library," the works being on second thoughts, a brain schedule would invite " Industrial Day Dreams," "The Citizen of To-Mor-false returns. Who would dare to register the truth row," and "The Ideal of the Material Life." A about himself ? We live, it must be remembered, Catalogue, giving the titles and authors of the 183 in the twentieth century, not in a vulgar, self-adver- books now in the Library, will be sent post free tising age. ft is useless, therefore, to spread out for threepence. any such schedule before us. We cannot be tempted * * * * *

to send in a full and honest estimate—modesty The Revised I HOPE that all the preachers who

forbids ! Version. read this column do, or will, use the •

ERNEST F. H. CAPEY. Revised Version of the Scriptures. It would be a good thing to take a copy in the pocket when fulfilling appointments and read from

THE it in the pulpit, for trustees have not all seen it to be their duty to provide a copy for the pulpit. I

President's , Conventions. see that the authorities of the Cambridge University Press, Fetter Lane, London, have issued the Gospels

Ik and the Acts in separate volumes, at ls. 6d. net. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Matthew, Mark and John, were issued some time

ONE of the wonders of our new denominational life ago, and now we have Luke and the Acts of the is the working capacity and energy of our beloved Apostles, in the Revised Version, with Introduction, President. There seems to be no limit to his energy— notes, and maps. It is a good thing to have these he is as young as the youngest of us. When Dr. portions of Scripture separately ; and these handy

• Townsend' opened his morning meeting, he was brim- volumes, with their informing Introductions and ful of power and inspiration, and all of us were glad Notes, will prove exceedingly helpful to those who to see him so well equipped for the good work he is desire to know the meaning of these records. Much doing in the Connexion. o has been said about the wisdom of reading a book

The Convention was held in the Sandyford Church, of the Bible at a sitting, and to have these parts a beautiful new structure, on Wednesday, November of the Book in this form is an inducement to that 25th. The morning meeting was well attended. The profitable line of action. President's address on "The Efficiency of the Preacher," * * * * * was of a high order, full 'of spiritual power and fervour. The Context. DR. POPE used to remind his He pleaded for associated prayer among ministers, and students of the great need for " the gave striking instances of its value. Every revival, careful observance of the context which is sure to said lie, began with prayer. This was true of the throw light on the teaching of the text, and the first Pentecost. The whole of the members of the Church relation of the text to the writer's general teaching." were present at that first prayer-meeting. If only in our

who could attend' were pre- It is of the utmost importance that attention be paid Church every member to this. The entire meaning of a passage may be sent at the church prayer-meeting there would be a

repetition of Pentecost. Dr. Townsend, also pleaded for altered if the context be disregarded. A startling thoroughly practical and evangelical preaching. Ethi- illustration was given some time ago. An advertise-cal preaching must have its beginning and ending at ment of a book stated that a reviewer had said, the. Cross. ' This was emphasized by apt illustrations " Mr. So-and-So's book is the book of the season." from the President's own ministerial experience. The When the original article was consulted it was need of a revival of fellowship in the churches was found that the reviewer ' had said, " For ungram-also dwelt upon. Fellowship is practically dead in our matical rubbish and a total disregard of the prin-Churches, said the President, and we all felt it was too ciples of writing, Mr. So-and-So's book is the book

. true. The conversation following the ,address partook of the season." Preachers will hardly disregard the of the nature of a fellowship meeting, and was a season context to this extent, but it must be admitted that of great refreshing. meanings are sometimes given to passages of

The afternoon session was largely attended. The Scripture which do not belong to them, and which President spoke on " Our Home Churches.: their Re- would not be given if attention were paid to the vival and Extension." ' He laid great stress on our statements which precede and follow. Illustrations. wasted membership and our wasted wealth. He pointed could easily be supplied, but probably the statement out the large number of our members who were non- will not be questioned. It is to be hoped that the workers—wasted material. He said that more use preachers of the United Methodist Church will be might be.made of our Men's Bible Classes and P.S.A:'s. specially careful to study the context, find out and Very largely theSe men were outside the Church, and very many of our leaders did not want` them in ; but then ,set forth the proper meaning of their texts.

* * * * * they •should be used to advance the Kingdom of Jesus

• Christ. To lead men to Christ was the business of the Evolution. IT is a process, though it is often

Church. A telling- address on the same/lines was given spoken of as though it were a cause. by the Rev. J. Tunnacliffe Shaw, who gave some Dr. Gifford says "The gardener talks to you about strong facts from his own experience of mission work the evolution of the chrysanthemum. He says it in Leeds. After a brief but earnest conversation on our started as a little daisy; and from it was evolved work at home, the Rev. F. Galpin, our veteran chair- this beautiful flower. Evolved? It was transferred , man' of the District, who has a long and honour- to a hot-house built by a man, the flower tended able record of- work in China, made a forceful plea for by a man. Then the chrysanthemum is a daisy plus interest in foreign work. The whole session was pre- a,man. Remove the flower from the hot-house, and eminently spiritual, and we all felt it was good to be the 'heat and the soil, take away all the human there. element, and in ten years you will have a daisy.

In, the evening a large company assembled to hear The chrysanthemum 'is a daisy plus a man, and, the addresses on ".The Church in Relation to the Sunday Christian is a man plus. God." School." The . President was again most happy in his * * * * * address. "The children must be won for Christ and the Application I AM glad to find that the subjects Church," said he. "We cannot afford to lose the chil-

and Appeal. referred to in this column prove dren." To think that 90 per cent of our young people

were lost to church-membership was appalling, and sufficiently interesting to cause

must be remedied. One liked the President's] insistence letters to be sent to me. In one letter the writer, in his frequent use of "must." . Yet here lies the crux speaking of some sermons, says, "The truth ex-of the whole matter. The work , must be done—not pounded is often,' in itself, right, but the word may nor can. If the children are saved, the future preached must, if it is to be effective, be applied of the Denomination is assured. The Rev. E. Craine to the needs of the present day." And then, further, (Bellingham), Mr. H. Coleman (Gateshead), and Mr. " The brother (the preacher) too often contents him-T. R. Blumer, J.P. '(Sunderland), followed with ad- self with the spoken word, and then leaves the dresses of remarkable power and emotion. In fact, matter with no appeal, or a very formal one." This the entire meeting was a big means of grace. The is one of those matters in which " A word to the Churches will have received impetus and inspiration wise is sufficient." S. C. CHALLENGER. from the meetings. May a glorious wave of revival, break -over the ' whole district ! ...

The success of the meetings is largely due to ,the . indefatigable zeal of our District secretary, the Rev. E. Troughton, whose grace and gentleness were ap-parent through all the meetings. He deserves our warmest gratitude for the excellence and amplitude of the arrangements.

G. COATES.

at the idea that a lay bookseller—and from Scotland, too—should come upon their dunghill, and presume to publish the greatest law book there is I "

The One by One Union.

RIL helps you to eat and feeds you.

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anter national lesson. BY REV. 'CHARLES ASHELFORD, 'Bradford.

DECEMBER 13TH,'• 1908. -----

SOLOMON DEDICATES THE TEMPLE.—I. Kings viii. 1-13, 62-66.

GOLDEN TEXT.—" I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord."—Ps. cxxii. 1.

THE v. which the Chronicler puts into the mouth of Solomon in his message to Hiram, King of, Tyre, gives the best point of view for studying •this Lesson and furnishes the key to the true interpretation of the Temple erection. "The house which I build is great for great is our God " (1 ii. 5). Solomon's conception of God explains the Temple and all its wealth and glory. Our conception of God controls our life, our character, our service, our destiny. A little God means a, dwarf&l life, and a stunted service : a great God means a large life, and a richly-varied service. Solomon 's determining life-thought was—the house I- build, the life I live, the thought I cherish and the service I render must be great, for God is great. Religion is the keystone of the State and the 'founda-tion of true greatness and gladness ; it must therefore occupy the central and dominant place in national and individual life.

A Great God Inspires a Great Temple. Of nothing is the proverb, "a little knowledge is a

dangerous thing," truer than when applied to Solomon's Temple : before making dogmatic statements or symbolic interpretations the teacher should carefully and conscientiously read a really good modern Commentary or Bible Dictionary on the subject. It had been David's greatest ambition to build Jehovah a Temple, and when he realized that it was not God's Will for him he did the next best thing, stored up materials and treasure for Solomon to build it. The great space devoted to the description of the Temple building and dedication in-dicates the significance attached to the undertaking ; the event was of paramount importance in Jewish history. Solomon aimed to make Jerusalem not only the royal residence and the national capital, but the Holy City, and the service in the Temple beautiful and im- pressive. Such a religious centre would consolidate, unite, and tend to spiritualize the nation. Without doubt the Temple suggested to receptive minds larger and worthier thoughts of God, and contributed to the permanence and progressiveness of religion in Israel.

!. It became the pride and glory of the nation, and more and more the centre both of religious and political life. The reverent love for a spot so holy degenerated into superstitious adoration, so that the Temple became a national fetish. It was burned to the ground D.C. 586,

. after an existence of over four centuries. Get a mental picture of the Temple, and let its

measurements, etc., sink into the memory. It included the house and the court which surrounded and enclosed the house, altar and other belongings. There was pro-bably only one open court, added courts infer later sacer- dotal developments. The Temple building had three parts, or rather-two and a porch which is not reckoned as a portion of the house. Reckoning a cubit as 18 inches the main building was as follows : Porch : 30

" feet brbad, 15 feet deep, 180 feet (?) high. -Holy Place (hekal, nave or great house) : 60 feet long, 30 feet wide, 30 feet high. Holy of Holies (debir, hinder part or inner shrine) : 30. feet long, 30 feet wide, 30•feet high. In front of the Porch were the two great twin 'pillars mysteriously named Jachin and • Boaz, 27 feet high, 18 feet in circumference. The twin pillars of Babylonian temples represented gods : one of whom was Tammuz, and the other was called Nin-gis-zida. Professor Sayce considers that Jachin is a very passable translation of Nin-gis-zida, and suggests that Boaz may be a corruption of Tammuz. W. Robertson Smith (" Religion of Semites," Note argues with much ingenuity and erudition for the theory that they had the form of cressets, and that one of them was used for

• burning the fat of the sacrifices, that, in fact, this was the only brazen altar of the Temple prior to the time of Ahaz. The style of the Temple architecture was probably Phoenician, though Grecian and Egyptian have found able advocates. Its size may seen small com- pared to modern cathedrals and churches, but it must be remembered that the Temple was regarded as the dwelling-place of God, and was used by the priests only, and that the people Worshipped in the courts open to the, sky. The immense quantity of gold said to have been used is now thought to be an addition of later writers, 'so that fabulous and fanciful estimates of the

• Temple's cost must not be indulged in. The. Temple was a symbol of God's invisible dwelling-place. In

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point of fact the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies correspond respectively to the heavens and the highest heaven (1 Kings viii. 27, etc.), while the forecourt was the analogue of the earth which, according to Isa. lxvi. 1, is God's footstool. Josephus was quite right then when he said long ago that the subdivision of the sanctuary was an imitation of the construction of the universe (" Hastings' B.D.," vol v'. p. 170).

The Temple was begun in the fourth year and corn-pleted in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon's reign. Hiram, the half Israelitish, half

-Syrian metal designer was probably several months finishing the metal work, so that the Temple was not dedicated until the seventh month of Solomon's twelfth year at the Feast of Tabernacles.. Our opening Lesson verses give a detailed account, of , the august assembly of the aristocracy and leading citizens and of the im-posing procession and abundant sacrificings en route, and how the Ark of God was at length solemnly placed in the absolutely dark inner shrine under the wings of the Cherubim which stretched .across its en-tire breadth. The Cherubim symbolized both guardian-ship of the Ark and the Divine presence.

• Points to keep before the Scholars. • (a) It is a noble thing to see a king engrossed, not

in theatre-going, horse-racing, etc., but in zeal for God's house, and for spiritual things. (b) The people should have a worthy Temple in which to worship God. (c) No expense of time,' money, skill, devotion and sacrifice should be spared in building up God's spiritual Temple in the world. (d) Not only skilled 'workmen but labourers of all kinds had a share in the building God's house ; the ideal for the Church is work for all and all at work. (e) The building of the _Temple was the work of Solomon which contributed most to his fame, which influenced posterity to speak gently of his subsequent apostasy, and which has caused his name to be much quoted in the literature of Free-masonry.

A Great God inspires a Great Worship. The Temple would have been a failure without the

presence of God. Vv. 10, 11 give the true secret of a sanctuary—God's presence and pleasure : these give it spiritual beauty and power. A living dog is better, than a dead lion, i.e., the humblest and meanest thing that is instinct with life and power is of more value than the most majestic and imposing' thing that is dead and cold. Beautiful churches, with their ornate architecture, stained-glass windows, choice music, are no substitute for Him who fills the Holy place with His presence and glory. Spirituality is the truest wealth and greatest glory of a Church. The mightest forces are ever the unseen and spiritual forces. Man has contact with two worlds—the material and spiritual. Both have their legitimate place and function, but the spiritual must always take precedence. As has been already pointed out, to the spiritual this glorious Temple on the highest eminence of Jerusalem 'became a means of heightened spirituality, to the unspiritual it became a fetish and a snare, the "house of God " in a very gross, literal and superstitious sense.

Solomon's prayer at the dedication shows that he pos-sessed the lofty conception, the simple faith and the sincere devotion which constitute true spiritual worship. It is one of the grandest utterances to be found in pre- Christian devotional literature. The choice of subject in the successive divisions of the prayer seems for the most part to have been suggested by the catalogue of curses contained in Deut, xxviii, 15-68 : this passage to some extent forms the model of the prayer. The Century Bible gives an amended text of the concise and actual formula of dedication vv. 12, 13 uttered by Solomon when the glory cloud filled the Temple.

The sun has Jehovah set in the heavens ; He (Himself) has resolved to dwell in thick darkness, Built have I a lofty mansion for Thee, A place for Thee to dwell in for (all) ages ;

and adds, " the utterance is a fervent expression of the king's realization of the n\ystery of the Being of Jehovah, the all-creative God, as well as the condescen-sion displayed in His self-limitation to dwell amongst men." The darkness and the splendour alike were symbolical of the Being of Jehovah:in whom mystery is illuminated with radiant glory. In the Christian dispensation the individual Christian' is God's Temple. The Shekinah of the Christian Church is the Spirit : He dwells in the individual 'Christian and • in the Church. Give God the best in worship—the-best build-ing, the best preaching, the best singing, the best listening. --

A Great God inspires a Great Character. (1) Great living. Think of what God has done and

suffered, and is doing and: suffering for humanity. The lavish sacrifices of Solomon and the. people_ amaze us-22,000 axen and 120,000 sheep. It was an expression of grateful love. Love is generous, and ever seeks direct expression. God rejoices,- not merely in our material gifts, but in our self-giving.

(2) Great rejoicing. The people returned from their worship refreshed and elate with joy. Worship should never prove a weariness, but a wing of the soul. The old hymn says "Him serve with mirth." The rest and worship of the Sunday should never be divorced from

the life and work of the week, it should be its inspira-tion and refreshment.

(3) A great character. The Jewish Temple was a building, the Christian Temple is a believer. God dwells in us that we may become God-like. , Christ-likeness is our high calling. May we solemnly and joyously dedicate these living tern-pies to Him.

Christian Enbeavour Deaver Meetings •

HINTS AND HELPS. BY REV. W. BAINBRIDGE.

DECEMBER 13TH.

TOPIC : "BOOKS THAT DELIGHT AND STRENGTHEN."

PROV. IV. 1-9 1 TIM. Iv. 13-16.

THE spirituality of the Christian Endeavour movement' has so often been written upon and spoken about that I -do- not need even to mention it here. The SOciety was not established for literary, musical, or social, ends—it was intended to be a help to these and other forms of the true and complete earthly life. Whatever gifts or talents—possessions—the true Endeavourer 'has„ they will be improved because he is an Endeavourer.- He is " the good and faithful servant " who is concerned about his Lord's "goods."

Largely, the meeting this week may be given up to the social arfd literary. Let it be called a "Book Social." The Social Committee should work it. Sug-gest the week previous that every active and- associate ► member bring his favourite books—two or three. 'Have a table near the door, on which these can be placed as the members enter the room. The names of the owners should be written in the books to avoid loss or incon- venience afterwards. These books — a small library easily got together—might be inspected.during the even-ing.

Further suggest that each member wear the title of some, book, either in plain or symbolic form. The title of a book might be written and pinned- on the coat or dress ; or a picture or drawing representing a certain book. For example, Edward Whymper's "Scrambles, ' amongst they Alps " might either be written solely as a title, or represented by a picture cut out of a paper or magazine, or a drawing — rough sketch — of Alpine climbers crossing the Mer de Glace or ascending Mont Blanc. In no case should the author of the book be stated. Later, an interval should be allowed for in-spection of labels, and a prize ,awarded to, the one-furnishing the largest number, of authors of books represented. - ' During the evening "book charades " might be intro-

duced. The Social Committee should previously, choose four or , five members to prepare these. No word is spoken—the book is' represented by dumb' show. "The Little Minister " or "The Scarlet Letter " need only be named to illustrate, this item..

Ten minutes should be allotted to "My, Favourite Book and Why:" Ten members, known 'readers, should be asked to prepare a paper each, of not more than 100 words. These should be read. If the presence of a literary person, minister or layman, can be secured,' have an address'of not more than ten minutes on " How and What to Read." Refreshments should Nbe provided, and a collection made to, cover expenses.

The outcome of thiS? Better', rnore choice reading, of Course. If Reading Circle is formed; all the better. One delightful winter was spent by a dozen of us meeting in the home, and ''discussing books read, or reading selections from favourite poets. Another winter in a Tennyson Class. We read, most thorolighly; the , larger poems of the late poet-laureate—a most profitable series of evenings—both socially and literary. .

Take the following as a programme, and': cyclostyle it : 7.30. Hymn : "Come, let us all unite and sing "

(C.E.H., 14). 1.35. Prayer by Leader. 7.40. Reading of Topic Verses. 7.45. Hymn : "Seasons in their noiseless courses_ "

(C.E.H., 62). 7.50. "My Favourite Book, and Why " '(Teri Meiribers). 8.0. Inspection of books on table. 8.10. Solo. 8.15. "Book Charades." 8.30. Address : "How and What to Read." 8.40. Solo. 8.45.- Book Titles Competition and Award. 9.0. Refreshments, etc., 9.25. Closing Hymn and Benediction.

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Primary :Department Lesson.

LESSON XLVIX. DAVID RETURNING 1SAUL'S EVIL WITH GOOD.

1'SAM. XXVI. 3-12.

INTRODUCTION TO LESSON STORY.

ASK the children : Do, you remember the story I told you last Sunday about David? Can you tell it me?

LESSON STORY.

David the outcast. When David saw the three\ arrows fall on that side of the stone, he arose and climbed up the rocky hillside, and never stopped until he was far away from the king's tent, alone amidst bare ,rocks and crags. There he found a cave in which he lived, hiding by day, but at night creeping forth to gather berries and drink from the _stream. Then, too, the grey wolf, stole forth, and the fox, and black bats flitted -up . and down. David's fine clothes got very ragged, and his hair grew so long that he looked wild. He was very lonely. Often he prayed to God, and he made verses in which he told Him all his troubles, and he never forgot how Samuel had -anointed him to be king, nor how God had helped him to kill the giant.

David spares 'Saul's life. One day Saul came up the hill, and he 'rested in his cave and there fell asleep. David crept in and looked at him. He could have sent his sword through him, but he wouldn't. Instead he took it and cut a piece of stuff out of Saul's cloak. When Saul awoke ,he saw the hole, then he saw. David. David said : "0 king, I cut your robe, I could have killed you, but' I will never lift my hand against you." And Saul was ashamed of himself, and returned home without harming him, though he had set out to kill him. Yet in spite , of David's goodness to him he con-tinued to be against him. Therefore David travelled a long way into another part of the country. There he helped the Israelites to fight the Philistines, and won the battle for them and became their captain.,

Again 'David spares Saul's life. Again Saul came to fight him, bringing a great army of men. When night came David sent some of his men to creep into Saul's camp ; and they returned saying he and his men were fast asleep in their camp. Then David with one ,captain crept through the long grass to the place where Saul's

-army lay. There was Saul asleep by the camp fire, his 'sword struck in the ground by him, and his 'skin water-bottle near. "Let me send my sword through

him," whispered the captain. "No," said David, but he took Saul's-sword and water-bottle, and stood a little away.

Saul awoke, saw his sword was gone, then David holding it, and knew he had stood over him whilst he slept, yet had not killed him.

David called out : "0 King Saul, why do you seek to kill me? I will not fight against you.'?

Then again Saul was so ashamed he made his army march. home without fighting David, because he had twice refrained from killing him.

Not long after Saul was killed in a battle with the Philistines. Some day I will tell you what happened t9 David when he became king.

EXPRESSION DRAWING :

THE "At Home" at Ashton-under-Lyne (Stamford Street), reported last week, was a very good _affair in-deed, due largely to the excellent arrangements made by Dr. Spencer, the local secretary for the fund, in conjunction with the Rev. J. W. Walls and \neighbour-ing ministers.

Good meetings are reported as held at Congdon, Shop, South Petherwin and Bridgtown, all in the Laun-ceston (Tower. Street) Circuit. Mr. Baulkwill greatly interested the people by his speeches, and good pro-mises were made.

Mr. Baulkwill had also a busy time in the Week St. Mary Circuit on Sunday and Monday, preaching thrice and attending a public meeting. Tresparrett, Eden, and Canworthy Water, as well as Week St. Mary, came into the arrangement.

Where meetings have been held, the personal one-by-one canvass of the churches should be completed. We

hear of sever'hl Circuits which have nearly reached the generous sums they set themselves to raise.

A circular "On Certain Points of Equity" has been prepared by the Rev. George Parker, \ which bears out , one' of its own statements that "it could not be reason-ably expected that three Churches, coming together as ours have done, would be more nearly equal financially than ours will be by the time fixed for the fusion of the funds." Referring specially to the Superannuation Funds, Mr. Parker says that by placing together the Annuity Fund and the Auxiliary Fund of each section, each Section is reduced to the same level "All are de-ficient, and each section is equally deficient."

DAVID HEATH.

YELYERTON (ROCK).

A school tea was arranged for Thursd'ay last, Novem-ber 26th., About 100 persons partook of the hospitality of the teachers and friends. After tea the superintendent. of the Sunday School, Mr. J. Crapper-Bovey, presided over the prize distribution. Miss F. Samuels presented the prizes to the children. Mr. W. W. Hooper, senior church steward and secretary of the Trust, then pre-sented the trustees -with a painting of the new church to be hung in the 'pastor's vestry. The picture is the work of Mr. Hooper's niece, Miss Irene Williams. The Rev. W. H. Luxton acknowledged the beautiful gift. At the close of this pleasing little ceremony a meeting was held in the interests of the Thanksgiving Fund. There was a crowded attendance. Mr. J. T. Hatherley, trustee treasurer, was in the chair, and addresses were given by the . Revs. J. Dale (St. Austell) and S. G. Jenkins (Plymouth). It was a fine meeting, the finan-cial result will be .reported later with the series of meet-ings held during the week.

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CHAPTER T. THE JUDGE AND THE PRISONER.

" AH, you are there, Master Baxter. Well, I will see to it that you are there for a purpose. Oh, you shall have justice. For that reason the most Christian of kings hath appointed me to dispense it." '

A great crowd had gathered at the Guildhall, London, soon after King James II. had some to the throne, and the eyes of the people were turned alternately towards a benevolent-looking divine who stood in the prisoner's -dock, and the judge who sat on the bench. Nearly every spectator showed signs of excitement, on many faces strong anger was expressed, yet no man dared to proclaim his anger abroad. All were cowed by the judge, who with an angry scowl on his face, and a gleam of savage joy in his eyes, scanned the ,faces of both prisoner and counsel.

The prisoner was RiChard Baxter, an old Puritan clergyman, who had been a, chaplain of the Parlia-mentary forces during the Civil War, but was every-where beloved for his piety, his good learning, and his gracious deeds. The judge was Jeffreys, who had been promoted by Charles II., and was now the trusted servant of the new king.

"Oh, you shall have justice," went on Jeffreys, exultantly. "I will see to that ; oh, yes, I will see to that. You wanted time to prepare your case, did. you, Master Baxter? Time to bring lying witnesses, and time to: bolster up their lies by pious cant? But no, not a-minute. Oates or Baxter, which is the worse? If, you, Master Baxter, stood on one side of a pillory and Oates on the other, the two greatest rogues in the kingdom would stand together."

Baxter only replied with a sigh, but the spectators muttered angrily.

" Silence ! " cried Jeffreys, looking intently at a man whose voice had been heard in protestation. "Think you I will be frightened by the snarls of curs? Oh, yes, I am marking you I see you, you hypocritical knave, and some day I will have you before me, and then I will see what your snarls are worth. Who is here for the defence of this villain, Richard Baxter?"

At this two barristers ;spolul, whereupon Jeffreys went on : "Pollexfen, and Master Wallop, eh? Well, you have glib tongues, but you will not alter me. Now, what have you to say?"

Master Pollexfen began to speak, but he had not uttered six words before Jeffreys broke forth angrily :

"Pollexfen, I know you well.• I will set a mark on you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a Schismatical knave, a hypocritical villain. He hates the Liturgy, he would have nothing but long-winded cant without a book. This is how he wants to worship God. Just listen."

On this Jeffreys sat back in his chair, turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began singing through his nose in most lugubrious tones : "Lord, we are Thy people, Thy peculiar people, Thy dear people.

"That is how these Presbyterians would have us pray, and think you his Majesty will have it? Besides, the fellow is a traitor, a 'villain."

" But, my lord," said Pollexfen, "his late Majesty offered Master Baxter a bishopric, so he could not be--"

" Silence ! " cried Jeffreys. "If his Majesty offered hiM a bishopric, why did not the old blockhead take it? Nay, is this not a sign of his evil heart ! For he hath an evil heart. Ah, you Baxter, you plotting villain, you hypocritical knave, you lying blackguard. Oh, you shall have justice ; I will see to that ! "

Upon this the other advocate, Master Wallop, tried to speak ; but again Jeffreys interrupted. • "No, I will not let you go on," he cried. "You are

in all the dirty cases, Mr. Wallop. Gentlemen of the long robe ought to be ashamed to assist such factious knaves. If you do not know your duty, I will teach you."

At this Mr. Wallop tried to expostulate. •" What ! " cried Jeffreys, "you dare to answer me ! Am I not appointed by his Gracious Majesty to see that knaves get their due ? You would bully me, would you ? I'll let you know ! I'll have you all packed into gaol sooner or later, you fly-blown carrion."

On this the old divine arose, and began to speak. "My lord," he said, "I have been much blamed by

Dissenters for speaking respectfully of bishops." "Ho, ho ! " cried Jeffreys. "Baxter for bishops, that

is a merry conceit indeed. I know 'what you mean by bishops. Factious, snivelling Presbyterians."

"My lord," said Baxter, "if you will allow me to speak, I will prove--"

"Prove! prove ! ay, I doubt not," bellowed the judge. "Thou wouldst prove that the devil was an angel of light, and that King James was a false knave like thee. Richard, Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison"- the court. Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou has written enough books' to load a cart, and every book as full of sedition as an 'egg is full of meat. But, by the grace of God, I will •look after thee. I see a great many of your brotherhood waiting to know

FACTS FOR MEN.

what will befall their mighty Don. Ay, and at your side is the pious, learned Dr. Bates. But, by the grace of God Almighty, I'll crush you alt. Speak? No, you shall not speak. You shall have the justice of a Chris-tian judge—not a Presbyterian hypocrite—who bath been appointed by a Christian king."

At this Richard Baxter lapsed into silence, but one of the advocates tried to show that a wrong interpreta-tion had been put upon Baxter's words.

"You shall not turn this court into a conventicle," cried Jeffreys ; "have I not read his book, called The Paraphrase of The New Testament,' and have I not said that it is full of sedition? Is not that , enough? Am I to be taught my duty and the law by men who do not know a great A ' from the track of a goose? I say the fellow is a knave -and hath written seditious books, and that is enough."

At this some who were in the hall fell to weeping; but this aroused Jeffreys more than ever.

"Silence, you bleating calves ! " he cried. "If I hear another sound I will e'en have you whipped at a cart-tail."

" My lord," said Pollexfen, "I crave your leave to bring witnesses, who will speak as to Master Baxter's character."

"Oh, let them come, let them come," cried the judge ; "they cannot deceive me. I can smell Presby-terianism in their clothes.,. But I am a just judge, so I will hear them."

On this many witnesses, including several clergy-men of the Established Church, sought to witness as to . Richard Baxter's character, but' Jellreys drowned their voices by angry shouts.

"What is the use of your saying that he is a pious, Godfearing man?" he cried. "Hath he not refused the Bishopric of Hereford, offered him by that saintly king, Charles II.? Why did he refuse it? Because he was a traitor. Was he not a chaplain to the rebel army? Did he not refuse to take the oath of Uniformity? Is he not a Dissenter, a snivelling Presbyterian? I tell you he shall suffer."

At this Richard Baxter rose to his feet again. "My lord," he said, "do you think any jury will

convict a man • on such a trial as this?" "Don't trouble yourself about that, Mr. Baxter," said

'Jeffreys. " I will see to it that you are convicted and that judgement shall be passed. I and my three brethren here will give you what. you deserve."

The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, even as the judge had said, and as they uttered the word, Jeffreys gave a derisive laugh.

"Guilty ! " he cried, "of course, he's guilty. You've acted like honest Christian gentlemen. Had yot dared to bring in another verdict it should have been vl7orse for you. Now, then, for the sentence, and to show how fair I want to be, my three brethren and I will retire and consider the matter.",

During the whole of the proceedings a youth had stood among the spectators, never uttering a sound, but who had missed never a word nor a look. Now and then his eyes flashed fire, and again his hand, crept to his sword-hilt, as though he could barely control his feelings, but, as I have said, he continued through-out the trial without uttering a sound. s,

He appeared to be between nineteen and twenty years of age. He might have been more than that, for although a moustache had only just begun to dawn on his upper lip, his form was tall and muscular, giving evidence of more matured strength than was to, be expected of a youth in his: teens. • He was richly attired in the fashion of the time, and appeared to be a man of good family. His sword-hilt was bejewelled, and his velvet cloak bore evidence of wealth. His skin was somewhat dark, his eves and hair were jet black, and there was, in spite of his youth, a bold, determined look on his face.

Some who were near him noted the tremble of his lips and, the flash of his eyes during the trial, and wondered who the gay court gallant might be, whO appeared to sympathize so deeply with • the old divine who had suffered so shamefully.

While the judges were discussing the verdict, there was much conversation in the court, for the departure of Jeffreys seemed to be hailed by the people, even as pure air and sunlight might .be hailed by those who had dwelt in a dungeon. One of the men, who had been watching the youth, therefore, tried to obtain speech with him,

"There seems to be no justice in England now, young master?" he said. "Is it not so?"

The young man looked towards hiS questioner„ but vouchsafed no reply.

"I tell you the Lord will have His vengeance one of these days. Sorrow may endure' for the night, -but joy cometh in the morning."

The youth shrugged his shoulders, French fashion. "The Lord ! " he said ; "what doth the Lord .care?

That devil is allowed to do his work, and the • Lord taketh no heed ! "

"Ay, speak not so. Another Oliver Cromwell may arise, even as Josiah arose of olden time."

"Hush ! " said a voice near. "There are spies ,every-where. Speak not of Oliver in so loud voice."

"Ay, but the Lord is not dead." "If we trusted in ourselves a little more, it may be

we should please God the better," said the youth. "Say not so. Say not so. But perchance you have

suffered also,. young man. Perchance the . Lord has caused you to be like Daniel of olden time, and - you have. dared to hold to your faith in Gad even in the court of a Babylonith king."

The youth looked at him angrily, and then turned away his head. The other made several other attempts to enter into conversation with _him, but he, seemed vexed with himself for 'having said so much.

Meanwhile Jeffreys consulted with his brother judges as to the fate of Richard Baxter.

fellow must be tied to a cart's-tail, and whipped through "I will tell you what must be done," he cried. "The'

London streets.' This bath befallen Oates, and this prating Presbyterian is as bad as he." meddling, "N a y

"Nay," cried the others, "even the King would not consent 'to that."

"King ! I'll answer for the King ! " cried Jeffreys. "The King knows me, and trusts me. That is why I am what I am. Nothing would please his Majesty better than that this seditious rascal should be made an example of. I tell you King James would rejoice to hear him crying for mercy."

"It would mean a riot," the others urged. "Riot! I would love to see it. It would rejoice me

to mete out justice to the rioters. By our holy religion, I would make every man in England shudder at the thought of riot."

"But I tell you this cannot be A fine now--" "A fine ! No, God helping, me, there 'shall 'be no

.fine. If -there is, it shall be an impossible one. Yes, a fine of a thousand marks, which if he cannot pay without delay, he be whipped and sent to prison for' five years."

But this the others; in spite of Jeffreys's persistence, wouldnot agree to. Moreover, one of his brethren, although his inferior in rank as Justice, was neverthe- - less one of whom Jeffreys was afraid, and as \a con- ' sequence yielded to his desires.

A deadly silence: prevailed in the court, 'as the judges again resumed their seats. • For some minutes Jeffreys did not speak. Instead, he gazed round the court, 'his cruel, ,evil-looking eyes making many to shudder as it rested on them. Evidently he desired to make the people dread his power.

"Silence! " said Jeffreys, at length; as though he would add terror ,to his words, for, indeed, there was, no need to command silence, seeing that every one waited breathlessly for the verdict.

"Richard Baxter," said Jeffreys, "it has been proved here to-day; in spite of lying witnesses and bullying advocates, that thou art a double-dyed knave, and that thou dost deserve hanging and quartering. I dare not descant: on thy naughtiness ; if I did, even I might lose patience, and use harsh language, and this no man in his senses Can accuse me of doing. Still, this is proved, and for the sake of justice I must e'en repeat it. Thou hast written seditious books, Richard ; thou hast ,tried to stir up people to rebellion. Thou hast spoken disrespectfully of kings and holy churches ; thou"

,hast proclaimed false doctrines, and thus thou art a public danger. Nay, thou art a plague, an incest, even as thou art a false knave, a lying villain, and a snivel-ling, hypocritical Presbyterian. I will therefore fine thee five hundred marks, or to lie a year and a half in King's Bench Prison in default of payment. Now, then, get down on thy false knees, and thank -us • for our mercy.' What, thou' canst not pay such' -a large sum? Serve thee right. Officer,' pack him off to gaol, and free the court of his foul presence! "

Upon this the old man looked around upon the faces of the angry "spectators, and seemed about to speak.

"No, not a word ; pack him off, I say." Two officers came forward to lead him away to prison,

but they were evidently moved with pity towards him, for they offered him no violence, but rather showed him kindness. •

Just as he was leaving' the court, he turned towards Jeffreys, and said :--

"My lord, there was once a Chief Justice who would 'have treated .me diffei-ently."

This' was a reference to Sir Matthew Hale, who during Charles's ,reign had endeavoured to give justice to Dissenters.

"Then he could ,have betrayed his country," cried Jeffreys, "ay,, betrayed, his 'king, and his country, I tell thee ",; but by, this time Richard Baxter had left the court, although he could still hear every 'word the judge said. "There's not ,an honest. man in England but looks on thee as a knave."

"It's a lie! " . The voice rang out clear and strong throughout the"

room, and, a second later all eyes were turned towards the youth' of whom ,we have. spoken.

"What ! " roared Jeffreys. "It is a' lie ! " repeated the youth, in the'same clear,

steady voice. "There is not an honest man in England but looks upon him as a Christian 'and a man 'of God."

The youth stood perfectly calm and fearless, looking straight into the eyes of Jeffreys. His lips were com-pressed and his- hands were ,clasped tightly; but he showed no other sign of perturbation. Jeffreys, how-ever, seemed for the moment too angry to speak. His eyes gleamed' with a greater rage than ever, his face worked with passion, and he showed' his large yellow teeth, just as a savage lion •shows his fangs when he is about to spring. ,

"A.h! " .cried Jeffreys, presently, "what have we here?' Silence in- the Court ! Ah, I see; we have another traitor, and not only a traitor, but a brawler, who has treated his Majesty's court and his Majesty's judges, with _contempt. One who dares to take exception to my words." r . "tau told a lie," said the youth, "you have been doing, , this throughout the whole of this mockery of a trial. I have spoken only the truth."

By this time a breathless • silence prevailed ; every neck was strained so that a better, view might be gained

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of the youth who dared to beard the man who was a terror to the community. That the public sympathized with him there could be no doubt. He had done only that which nine out of every ten would have done had they the courage.

"We will see to that," cried Jeffreys, "and we will see, too, whether brawling and bullying can go on without punishment. Oh, yes, we will see. What is your name? "

At this the youth, whose face had been very pate, flushed, but he did not speak.

"Tell me, thou varlet, tell me quick, or I will have thee cat-o'-nine-tailed here in the court."

"That seems quite possible," said the youth. "Give any beggar a horse and he'll ride it to the devil, and I take it that thou art no exception."

At this Jeffreys's face became purple with passion. Many thought he was meditating leaving his seat and attacking the youth in person ; but he only cried hoarsely, "Thy name, varlet, thy name ! "

At this the youth became again silent, but his eyes did not quail, neither did he show sign of fear.

"Take him I " cried Jeffreys. "Drag him into the streets, tie him to a cart-tail. Strip him, whip him soundly, and afterwards take -him to the pillory and command that the offal of London Town be thrown at him. After that clap him into the most stinking hole in Fleet Prison."

There was a moment's hesitation on the part of the officers ; but presently, fearing the anger of Jeffreys, two of them stepped forward to obey. But before they reached the youth one of the other judges motioned them to stop. After this there was a whispered con-sultation among them.

"I tell thee, Jeffreys, it will not do," said one. "This youth doth not belong to the Dangerfield or Oates class. He is a youth of good family and good breeding. Any one can see that."

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. THE " Newcastle Daily Chronicle " of November 28th contained a leading article headed "Union and Fellowship" from which we take the following quota-tions :—

"The President of the United Methodist Church, Dr. W. J. Townsend, made some wise and apposite remarks of considerable practical value in introducing the sub-ject for discussion at the Autumnal Convention of the Newcastle District yesterday morning. . . . . Dr. Townsend possesses qualifications which give authorita-tive force to the observations that he addressed to the District Convention yesterday. And one of his most pertinent remarks on a subject which concerned the aspects of Church life was that whilst they had accom-plished union,' that in itself was not the last step in the movement which had led tip to it. The next step, he said, was amalgamation '—a mixing or fusion in which they would get to know each other more thoroughly. That led him on to the question of fellowship,' the dis-tinguishing feature of the Early Church, and the con-dition precedent to effective effort in any body which, under the aegis of the Cross, attempts to widen its in-fluence for good on the social, moral, and religious con-dition of the people. Dr. Townsend, however, deplores the lack of success which characterizes the work of the ministry, efficient though he acknowledges that ministry to be. That is a sorrowful confession that has been made in more than one representative denominational assembly in recent years. The times are out of joint. The pew and the pulpit are becoming divorced from each other. But is it not possible that too much import-ance is placed upon preaching and too little upon wor-ship and fellowship? Dr. Townsend appears to have put his finger upon the weak spot in church life when he said that Methodism could not live without fellowship, and that it depended for its very life upon the revival of fellowship and the maintenance of it."

The same issue of the "Newcastle Daily Chronicle" gave nearly a column to its report of the President's Convention.

POPLAR. A New THE church at Bath Street recently Hopefulness. gathered to celebrate the renovation of

the school premises. The work has been carried out enthusiastically by the members of the con-gregation themselves. For over a month, with awakened interest, the friends have been giving their time and labour to painting, distempering, papering, glazing, cleaning, etc. And the one-time gloomy hall, class-rooms, kitchen, lobbies have undergone a wonderful transformation. A good company listened to an ad-dress (illustrated by dissolving views) by Mrs. Bolitho

At this Jeffreys again protested, but was presently checked by one of the other judges, whom he seemed to fear.

"You must tell me your name," said this judge to the youth ; " and tell us why you have behaved in this unseemly manner."

"My name is not unknown to you, Lord Huntingdon," said the youth. "The Trelawneys of Cornwall have held a place not inferior to your own in the history of the country. My name is Benedict Trelawney."

"Related to my Lord Bishop of Bristol?" " Yes." "But why did you insult the Court? " " I did what no honest man who bath courage could

help doing," said the youth, boldly. " He insulted and outraged the feeling of a godly old man, and I could not help but speak."

At this Jeffreys was about to speak again when some one passed him a letter emblazoned with the royal arms.

' I must e'en leave the court," he said. " His Majesty desires my presence. As for this varlet "—he looked at his brother judges, and then at young Benedict Trelawney, who stood looking at him steadily with a smile on his face—" well, I have not time to deal with him now. Let him be sent to prison till I have the leisure to consider his wickedness."

With that he left the court, but my Lord of Hunt-ingdon called an officer to him and whispered some instructions in his ear.

Without a word Benedict Trelawney walked away between two officers, while Judge Jeffreys was carried rapidly towards Whitehall. As to the advocates and the spectators, they talked eagerly concerning the young stranger. Some praised his courage, while others shook their heads concerning the fate that awaited him.

(To be continued.)

on "My Visit to Lovely Lucerne." Various vocal items were rendered by members of the choir. The Rev. H. Bolitho then eulogized the workers who had so beauti-fied the school, and said that it had been reasonably estimated that if the work had been put out to contract it would have cost £50. He spoke of the hope that had been kindled as to future success, and referred to the fact that within a short space of time it was expected that they would be spending a considerable sum in renovating the chapel. Mr. A. Wood, on be-half of the workers responded. Light refreshments were served, and with feelings of jubilation the meeting closed with the Doxology. It should be mentioned that special efforts are being made to reach the people out-side the Church. Limelight services follow the usual Sunday evening preaching services, and open-air lan-tern services draw large numbers of interested onlookers.

ROCHDALE. Honouring A RECEPTION was held in the schoolroom Sir James of Castlemere Church, Rochdale, on Satur- Duckworth, day, to congratulate Sir James and Lady M.P. Duckworth upon the honour which had

been conferred upon them by the King. There was an exceptionally large gathering. The Rev. W. H. Cory Harris, the superintendent minister, who presided, spoke of the esteem in which Sir James and Lady Duckworth were held in the town and Circuit. Sir James had done a great work for Free Methodism, and one of his most notable acts was the raising of £20,000 for the endowment of the Training College at Manchester. In addition, he built a wing to the Col-lege, at a cost to himself of over £3,000. He wished them long life to enjoy the honour conferred upon them. Congratulatory addresses were also delivered by Mr. Stephen Butterworth, Mr. W. J. Petrie, Alderman W. Cunliffe, and the Rev. J. Swann Withington. A num-. ber of congratulatory addresses were given by the officials of the Circuit, and in reply Sir James gave some most interesting incidents of his life, particularly in connection with his church life.

SHEFFIELD. Successful A VERY successful fortnight's mission has Mission. just been concluded at Cundy Street, con-

ducted by Sister Monica, of our Dea-coness Institute. God has abundantly blessed her work amongst us ; 142 came out for Christ, the Church has been quickened, many of our members have been roused, and it has been splendid to witness a band of fifty or sixty going out into the immediate neighbourhood in-viting people to the house of God.

SUNDERLAND. Very ON Tuesday, November 24th, a grand Successful bazaar was opened in the Dock Street Bazaar. Schools, which had been decorated for the

occasion by Messrs. Carnegie, of New- castle. The ceremony was performed by Mrs. James Stuart, wife of the senior Member for the borough, Mr. J. G. Addison, J.P., in the unavoidable absence of Mr. R. A. Bartram, J.P., presiding. The Rev. J. H. Burkitt explained that the amount required to cover the cost of various alterations and improvements, and the renovation of the premises was £860, and this would clear the whole of the valuable trust property of debt. Towards this sum Messrs. T. R. Blumer, J. G. Addison, and Charles E. Thompson had promised £100 each. Mrs. Stuart, in declaring the bazaar open, delivered a delightful address on "Methodist Hymnology," and re-ferred to Mr. Burkitt's work in the Lowestoft Circuit, and to his extended ministry in Sunderland. Alderman J. G. Kirtley, J.P., proposed a vote of thanks to Mrs. Stuart, which was seconded by Mr. J. Blumer, and supported by Mr. Charles E. Thompson, J.P., and by His Worship the Mayor (Coun. A. F. Young). The latter announced that the day before Mrs. Stuart had handed him a second donation of £500 from her husband for the distress fund. On the second day the bazaar was opened by Mr. W. Thackeray, the chairman being Mr. John Grace, one of the leading members of the Thornhill Church and Circuit. Both gentlemen gave highly-interesting reminiscent speeches. Mr. R. W. Herbert and Mr. Thomas Armstrong moved and seconded the vote of thanks. On the third day the bazaar was opened by forty children, who had been trained by Miss Marshall, assisted by Miss A. M. Bar-low. It was a charming ceremony, and was witnessed by an audience that crowded the schoolroom. Mr. Mag-nus Mail (Presbyterian) presided, and Mrs. J. Blumer received the children's purses. The latter contained £10, which amount Mrs. Blurrier doubled. Mr. Kelso Storey moved, and Mr. J. G. Addison seconded, the vote of thanks, and at the invitation of the latter the children were subsequently entertained to tea. The evening entertainments were of a high-class and exceedingly popular character ; and Miss Graeme Blumer and her friends are to be warmly congratulated on their efforts. The bazaar opened again on Friday evening, and the total araount raised (including donations of from Mrs. J. L. Thompson, £10 from Mr. Thomas Arm- strong, and from Mr. J. Brace) is £720. Other amounts have to come in, and it is expected that not less than £700 will be handed over to the trustees—a magnificent result, considering the terrible commercial depression that exists in the town..

SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST.

SIR,—I read with the greatest possible interest Mr. Varley's letter in a former issue, and I am in perfect accord with him. I have long had a strong conviction that there has never been a fair and honest division of profits between capital and labour. . . . Everyone must see that there are deep wrongs in the present con-stitution of society. The application of intelligence to social questions has not kept abreast with the application of intelligence to individual and material ends. Natural science is ever advancing, but political science moves only slowly. We have made but small progress in the equitable distribution- of wealth. A professed teacher of success has said that the saving word for society is that each one should mind his own business ; but this is the gospel of selfishness. The hope for the free and full development of humanity is the gospel of Brother-hood, the Gospel of Christ. Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each. The "Quarterly Review " staffed some years since that the value of real property in this country has increased twelve hundred per cent since the year 1600 (it must be much more now), and also that the amount of gold and silver in the Kingdom has increased at nearly the same ratio. This country has been progressing for two hun-dred years, especially so during the last century, by the energy and industry of the labouring population pro-ducing as the result of their labours unparalleled wealth, and a few have become enormously rich, whilst those who have produced the wealth have not grown richer in any corresponding degree. I know human selfishness and degradation has produced a large amount of the misery and wretchedness that exist, but have not the churches of our land largely neglected those great social questions that make for righteousness and uplifting of the masses of the people to a truer and nobler manhood? . .

Yours, etc., WM. BOYDEN.

The President at Newcastle.

News of Our Churches. (Continued from page 4.)

Missionary Services. GARNDIFFAITH.—Very successful services have been

held in aid of the China Mission. The friends had been anticipating a visit from the Rev. S. Pollard, but owing to his breakdown he was unable to attend. The Rev. A. H. Sharman was cordially welcomed in his stead. The afternoon service was well attended, when the Rev. A. H. Sharman preached. Tea was afterwards provided when over 200 sat down. A large congregation in the evening listened to a very able address from the deputation on his work in Wenchow, and his description of the Chinese and their customs. Collec-tions were good, and it is hoped financial results will exceed last year.

MITCHAM.—In harmony with the expressed wish of the Missionary Committee of the London District, mis-sionary meetings have been held throughout this Cir-cuit. These meetings have been addressed by Revs. J. Ibbotson, E. Sheppard, F. H. J. Thornton, W. S. Green, and Isaac Elsom (Circuit minister). The attendance on the whole has been encouraging, and it is believed that interest in our Missions has been deepened.

SHEFFIELD (Hanover). — The missionary anniversary services were preached by Rev. Dr. Swallow and Mr. Frank D. Jones, the missionary-designate for China. On the Tuesday evening the missionary tea-meeting was held, followed by the public meeting, presided over by Mr. Alfred Fenton. The report, which was presented by the secretary (Rev. E. D. Green), showed that the Hanover Church itself had raised in the year, not less than an average of 12s. per member, against 3s. 3d. for the whole Denomination. Rev. J. Baxter, Principal H. S. Redfern, M.Sc., and Dr. Swallow gave addresses. The collections were ten per cent above those of last year.

Anniversary Services. LONDON (Waterloo Road).—The fourteenth anniver-

sary of the Christian Endeavour Society was held last week. About 130 adults and " juniors " sat down to tea, after which the annual meeting was held with Rev. D. J. Rounsefell in the chair. One of the speakers was Rev. John M'Neill (Christ Church), who, in draw-ing his hearer's attention to the criticisms levelled at the Endeavour movement, besought them to accept these where justifiable in order to secure better work. He also made a strong plea for love and attachment to the Old Gospel, and for a close fellowship with Jesus Christ. Rev. A. James, D.Lit., M.A., also gave an inspiring address. On Sunday Rev. D. J. Rousefell preached in the morning, and Rev. W. Burton in the evening. The Senior Society numbers seventy mem-bers with nine committees ; the Junior Society having three committees and thirty-three members.

BRISTOL (Bishopston).—Trust anniversary sermons were preached by Revs. B. J. Gibbon (Baptist) and Charles Pye. In the afternoon an address was given by Rev. E. I.. Dalby (Wesleyan). There were excellent congregations at all the services, and the collections were a little in advance of the previous year. On Wednesday a tea was provided by the unmarried folk, followed by an entertainment, over which Mr. Stanley Routley pre-sided. A previous effort had been made, a few weeks earlier, by the married people, in aid of the Trust anniversary. There was a healthy rivalry between the two parties, which resulted in a victory for the un-married. The total result of these efforts, with a few subscriptions secured by the pastor, amounted to nearly £40.

CHESLYN HAY.—Temperance Sunday was observed on the 22nd. Rev. Sidney Jones preached most appro- priately. On Monday a service of song was given by the children and choir of the Band of Hope. The pictures on the screen helped to drive home the truth in the story by Dr. Kirton, "Buy your own Cherries."

BRIDGTOWN.—At the C.E. Society's anniversary Rev. S. F. Waterhouse, of Darlaston, was the preacher. It was a good day.

SHEFFIELD (Oxford Street). — At the thirty-second Trust anniversary sermons were preached by Rev. H. G. Allchurch, who also conducted in the afternoon a song service, entitled " Hymn and History " ; chairman, Mr. C. H. Mackinder. On Monday, the annual meeting and social was held, presided over by Mr. James Wil-kinson. The report was given by Rev. H. G. All-church, which was of a hopeful character, and stated that the proceeds by subscriptions and the collections would amount to about £40. Revs. J. Baxter and E. D. Green gave short addresses, while a male voice choir rendered selections.

General News. MEVAGISSEY.—Rev. Alfred Barratt (resident minister)

preached on Sunday last to excellent congregations. Special singing was given by the choir ; conductor, Mr. D. 0. Pearce ; organist, Miss Varcoe. On Monday evening a P.M.E. meeting was held, when a large congregation gathered for social intercourse ; this is a new departure in connection with this church, and the outlok is most hopeful.

BIDEFORD.—Temperance Sunday was duly observed when large congregations were present at both ser-vices. Rev. J. C. Honey preached in the morning, and in the evening Rev. J. B. Stedeford condemned the

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attitude of the House of Lords towards the Licensing Bill. Some time ago Rev. J. B. Stedeford commenced a series of Bible lectures, which have created a widely-spread interest. Besides dealing with age, authorship, authenticity, history, inspiration, the canon, and various problems, Mr. Stedeford never fails to bring out the underlying spiritual and evangelical truths. The lec-tures are appreciated by local preachers, Sunday School officers and a large number of young people who have attended.

TORQUAY (Ellacombe).—On Temperance Sunday fifty boys and girls and one teacher signed the pledge. No special means were used, only each teacher getting his own class to sign.

KINGSWOOD (Claremont).—Rev. E. Oliver Dinsley is giving a course of addresses on "The Pilgrim's Pro-gress on Sunday evenings. There are crowded con-gregations, and great interest is being manifested in the services. At the last sacramental service the hand of welcome was given to ten new members.

LIVERPOOL (St. Domingo).—The C.E. Society has had its annual series of "At Homes," Gratifying suc-cess has again attended them. On the first day the host and hostess were Rev. E. and Mrs. Cato ; on the

; second day, Mr. and Mrs. Macdonald and on the third day, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wright. Musical items were admirably rendered each evening, and were enjoyed by large gatherings of friends. The financial results so far promise to exceed last year's.—(Stanley Road). A service of song, entitled "Uncle Tom," was rendered by the choir in the Mission Hall, Rev. Edward Cato in the chair. The connective readings were given by Mr. Almond, and there was a crowded attendance.

HULL (Boulevard).—A very interesting tree-planting ceremony took place on the ground adjoining our church, when Mrs. F. Baker, Mrs. H. Percival, Miss Effie Rider and Master. William Ewart Gladstone Gibbs planted four silver birch trees. The trees were provided by Mr. W. Lightfoot, and a brass plate was attached, with the planter's name. Rev. S. 0. Rider conducted the ceremony, and Rev. J. P. Treloar read the lessons. The subscriptions amounted to £6 1s.

Socials, " At Homes," etc. MIRFIELD (Trinity).—The young ladies have provided

two excellent drawing-room entertainments. On the first day Mr. and Mrs. E. Gill acted as host and hostess. There was a first-class programme. On the second day the numerous guests were received by Mr. and Mrs. G. Topham. An excellent entertainment was given by the Hopton Congregational Choir. The attendance each evening was unusually large ; and the effort was very successful. Proceeds for church funds.

WIGAN (King Street).—Rev. G. D. and Mrs. Thomp-son invited the members of the church and congrega-ition to a party, in honour of Mrs. Thompson's birthday. About 300 persons accepted, and a most enjoyable evening was spent. The Assembly Hall was tastefully decorated for the occasion, and an excellent programme of musical items was rendered. Refresh-ments were served during the evening. As the guests were received on entering the hall by the host and hostess each of them offered a birthday gift in an enve-lope, containing a coin of the realm for each year of their age. The total received was over £21, and this will be handed over, without deduction, for mortgage interest .and church debt.

Presentation. LONG EATON (Mount Tabor).—Nearly 100 members

of the Women's Meeting were present last week, when birthday wishes of a practical kind were presented to the treasurer, Mrs. Bowell. In place of the weekly reading Mrs. Hedley Wallis read with deep feeling a birthday poem, which had been sent to Mrs. Bowell by one of the members, and afterwards Mrs. Wragg pre-sented Mrs. Bowell with a handsome silk umbrella, with gold-mounted handle, on which were inscribed her initials, and a pair of gloves. Mrs. Wragg mentioned that if Mrs. Bowell could have seen the heartiness and joy with which the women, without being personally asked, volunteered their subscriptions, she would have been deeply touched, as she herself had been, with the love they bore their treasurer. Mrs. Bowell, wholly taken by surprise, warmly thanked the friends for their thoughtful kindness.

Bazaars. PLYMOUTH (Embankment Road).—The anniversary

bazaar was held on Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. W. Tamblyn, C.C. (Callington), presided, and Mr. E. Chandler Cook performed the opening ceremony. On Thursday about sixty children, under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Pollard, opened the sale. Proceeds, over D 00.

SOUTH SHIELDS (Jarrow).—A bazaar was recently held in the Mechanics' Institute in aid of the Trust funds of the church. At the opening ceremony, the Mayor (Mr. M. C. James) presided, supported by the Ex-Mayor, Rev. W. Holroyde (pastor) and several local ministers. The bazaar was declared open by Sir Christopher Fur-ness, M.P. Proceeds, £120.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE (Dudley).—A three days' bazaar has been held in the Co-operative Hall; the opening ceremonies being performed by Mrs. R. P. Morton, Mrs. H. E. Weddell and Miss L. Woodhouse. Proceeds, £84 10s. 6d.

DEWSBURY (Salem). —This church holds a bazaar annually to keep the current accounts straight, and to reduce the debt. This year the effort was opened on the first day by Sir Charles Skelton, and Mr. W. Wil-kinson, a highly-esteemed and generous member of the Mirfield Church, presided. The opener on the second day was an old scholar, Mr. J. Jubb. Mr. J. T. Will-

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man presided. On the third day Miss Marie Howgate opened, and several children took part. The sum of £20 was given at this third day's opening ceremony. The result was highly satisfactory, £260 being raised.

MANNERS AT PUBLIC MEETINGS.

To the Editor of THE UNITED METHODIST. SIR,—There was a time when full latitude was allowed

to free speech, when there were no rude interruptions. Men, holding the most antagonistic views, listened to each other with respectful and pensive attention. It was understood by all that the stated object, in the convening of the meeting, and the selected speakers, should receive courteous attention. When a boy I heard Daniel O'Connell address an enthusiastic meeting, with his fervid and masculine eloquence ; and while he advanced views the full opposite of those held by the greater part of his hearers, everyone listened with respectful manners. It was at Hull. While, now and then, an interpolation came in the way of objection, there was an unbroken continuity in his remarks.

Why depart at any time from this course? Usually, questions may be asked at a prescribed time ; surely this ought to satisfy everyone. But manners have altered. Persons go to meetings with the intention to disturb the proceedings. And ladies do this 1 It is a serious departure from well-understood and mutually-accepted order. The previously arranged rough proceedings are - in every sense most objectionable ; and those who in-dulge in them may properly be described by the name of one of our counties—MIDDLESEX.

We must not give up free speech : it creates a healthy atmosphere ; it invigorates liberty ; and will enable us to transfer to our children an inheritance more precious than earthly possessions.

Believe me to be, faithfully yours, J. SWANN WITHINGTON.

Tregenna, Rochdale.

3n Memoriam.

MR. W. WILLIAMS, SWANSEA. ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, Swansea, has just lost an old

member by the translation of Mr. William Williams. Our brother was born at Bideford on March 3rd, 1827, and passed away at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Mackenzie, on Sunday evening, November 8th. His mortal remains were interred in Danygraig Cemetery, in the present of several members of the mourning family, the Revs. S. Louis Warne and J. T. P. Oliver officiating. On the following Sunday evening the resi-dent minister preached a memorial sermon to a large congregation. In the course of his remarks Mr. Oliver said their deceased friend was connected with the late Bible Christian Church nearly all his life. He was a member of the first choir in Silver Street Church, Bide-ford, in the days when the singing was led by a, band. In the same church he was converted a great number of years ago. He was intimately acquainted with many of the early preachers of the Connexion, and was a first cousin to the Rev. Thomas Piper, to the wife of the Rev. William Rowe, of Australia, and to Mr. Samuel Heywood, of Forest Hill, London. Mr. Williams was a non-smoker, one of the first Juvenile Rechabites in the country, and a life-long abstainer. Until quite recently, though eighty years of age, he was a regular attendant at the means of grace. His end was peace. At the close of the service, Mr. H. Daniel played the " Dead March " in " Saul."

_HEREDITARY KIDNEY COMPLAINT.

MRS. L. R. SKEEN, 138 Blyth Road, Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, E., says : "Two years ago I began to suffer from acute pains in the back, making me so help-leis that I had to be almost lifted in and out of bed. I used to come over awfully dizzy, and was afraid to go up and down stairs, for a darkness would often come before my eyes. I was bent double with the fearful pain in my back, and after stooping it was a terrible task to get up again. Many a time I wished I were dead, I was suffering so much.

"I went into hospital, where I was operated upon for kidney disease. I was told mine was an old-standing case, and that the disease was hereditary. I got no benefit from the operation, and heard that the doctors could do no more for me.

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A year later Mrs. Skeen said : "I am still keeping wonderfully well—there isn't the least sign of my old kidney troubles. In fact, I feel better to-day than ever I did in my life,"

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Church News in Brief.

LONDON.

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HERNE BAY.-"Hebron" Home of Rest for Ladies, Business

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Appointments .W,Nnted

EVANGELIST WILLIAMS, the popular Welsh Evangelist, drawing crowded congregations,

has a few open dates for Missions. Successful soul winner. Highly recommended. Free or easy con-ditions.-Applications to Hugh Meredith, Bangor House, New Cardiff Road, Bargoed, via Cardiff.

LAY PASTOR, experienced, acceptable Preacher, highest references and testimonials, seeks

charge of Church or Churches.-Full particulars on application to S. L., "United Methodist " Office, 12 Farringdon Avenue, London, E.C.

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