P8111171. M6112100151. LISADER. December N, 1917.

Death of Alderman E. C. Rawlings, J.P. Can Britain Carry the Cross? By Arthur T. Guttery..

The Name of Jesus. By Rev. Ernest Lucas.

The

PrimitiveMethodist Leader

No. 11569. Old Berle. Na 654. New Serum

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LONDON: THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1917. PRICE 10.

CLAPTON MISSION Christmas Appeal

!ROM THIS YEAR'S DEPORT, WE HAVE GIVEN OUT :—

520 - Grocery and Bread Tickets to Poor Families. 725 Poor Persons a Christmas Dinner. 650 Poor Children a Tea, fts. at Christmas

90 Cri pie Children a Tea, Arc., at Christmas. 925 Articles of Warm Clothing. 200 Cwts. of Coal to 01 Age Pensioners and others.

90 Poor Women a Day in the Country. A Party of Pcor and Ailing Women a Week at the

If orae 'of Rest, &o.,

During Christmas Week WE PURPOSE 2111.741.11,10

A CHRISTMAS DINNER GIFTS. OF COAL,

PARCELS OF CLOTHING, &o.

To several hundreds of the Poorest Families In Lower Clanton and

Hackney Wick.

TEA and ENTERTAINMENT to large party of Poor Women.

TEA and ENTERTAINMENT to BOO Poor Children

onduning too Cripple Children).

FUNDS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED Deflations. Gifts of Clothing, Boots, Toys, Sweets, gm, will he gratefully received and acknowledged by the

Byperiatendent-

' Rev. J. R. ELLWOOD, 65, Elderfield Road,

Clapton, London, E. 5.

THINK OF

CANNING TOWN THIS XMAS,

AND THINK IN GENEROUS TERMS.

THERE ARE FOUR CANNING TOWNS—

Ill CANNING TOWN OP THIRTY YEARS AGO, with the Thames Imo Worts and Shipheilding trod, and with strong prosper... Primitit e Methodist Churoli.

III SHELL CANNINO TOWN, known to meat pen, la especially those who t.evel through on 'hue or cur, and consisting of a number of good worbmgetats streets, from whbh our loyal me alters coma and he, the flag kin for de.us.

(31 BEAT, CANNING TOWN TO-DAY found behind the ahell, practically d werted by s, times, and where a R13.9 of British heathen is to be found, awl ace ea of drink shops within five minute. of Mary Street Church.

14) THE CANNING TOWN JESUS SEES with many thonstands of precious .odds drifting downstream, )„Nand by indifference to religion—men, women, b ■ye cud girt, lost .0 their souls—Ile . ., Ile suffered, He suffers. L3 it nothing to you, all ye that pasaby

• WE PLEAD FOR THE REAL CANNING TOWN

AND THE CANNING TOWN JESUS SEES.

We Make a Bold Appeal became oar Deeds loos sot ark. Osmanli reckless sets.

megtootel obligation& 0000100 Tows in ire day of our, malty bunt Ennerty worth £7,000, and mimed hemoS en.000. We eve Bold lo Appeal became our bards.' were increased as • Consequence or the GREAT EMIT END EXELOBION.

We are Bold, too, because we are ehnding agetint the .crehelneng tort.

We are Soli also becoose WE ABE NOT SEEKING RABE FOB 0111113BLYES.We se great tasks Isidore os, tat

oar lnx;otenne co.its car effor:e.

WE DARE NOT STRIKE OUR FLAG IN FACE OF THE FOE.

We ask for £717 to ehilt the millstone ream oneneck. Half le now con- ditionAlly promised. Beni • oft or a promise, or both,

for the Debt Extinction Pend.

SEND POUNDS. SHILLINGS OR PENCE.

DO IT BEFORE XMAS. All gifts thankfully received by the ennerieLsodeut. Cheques and Poeta Orders should he creased, Treasury

Nola. sent registered. 0000101 receipt sent for all items over Expect it.

Addrem- Rev. J. BASTOW WILSON,

433, Barking Road, LONDON, E.13.

THE NAME OF JESUS.

By Rev. ERNEST LUCAS.

"Christtnas Day," says Alexander Smi I I, in Dreamihorp," holds Lime together. Isaiah, stand:II; en Lhe peaks of prophecy, looked aeross ruined empires and the desolation of many centuries, end saw on We horizon the new star rise, and was glad." It may have been some prince who was to arise from David's house in the near future that Isaiah clothed with those naes of majestic import, Wonderful Counsellor, Divi

mne Ilero, Father for ever, Prince of. Peace, 601E14

ruler whose heroic virtues ',Pooh) make him a glutions contraaCto all that the worthless Ahar had been, and • who would save Israel front the degradation into which that corrupt monarch had plunged it. Da the vision tarried. 'the piety of Hetekiali and the reforming zeal of Josiah failed to avert the inevitable doom. The return from exile kindled hopes that were nevr realised_ The Maccabean revival lit op Jewis

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history with a brief spasm of splendour_ The» the shadows deepened until the chosen race by prostrate at the feet of the World conqueror. A vassal king of the hated Edumite race. sat on the throne of David, and the sceptre had departed from Judah. " When the fulness of time came, God sent forth Ili* SO, born of a W0111011." As ItIrsini says, '' He came, the soul the most full of love, the most sacredly virtuous, the most deeply inspired by God and the future, that men have yet seen on earth—Jesus. He bent over the corpse of the dead world, and whispered a word of faith. . And the dead aro., a ROW life cir- culated through tht clay, which philosophy had tried in

in to reanimate. From that corpse arose the

Christian world, the world of liberty and equality. . All He had asked of mankind wherewith to

save them was a ere. wItereon to die. . . upon that cross did His victory hegira, and still does it endure."

" Wherefore also God highly exalted Him,, and gone unto Hint the name winch is above every name . . . far above all rule,- and authority. and power. and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but in that which is to come.• ' Jesus is Ring of the ages. Ile is littler of all worlds. No thought of 'Gm is adequate that simply assigns to Hint a unique and preeminent place among the illus-trious men whose, deeds adorn the history of mankind_ He is infinitely more than an i,comparable iteligions genius. That His influence is unparalleled in its scope and depth is freely admitted by many who reject His claim to more than human greatness. Goethe, greatest of the moderns in the realm of culture. said "Whatever may be the progress of culture, whatever the expansion of scientific knowledge, whatever heights of development man's spirit may attain, the moral majesty of Christianity, as it shines in the Gospels, will never be surpa.ed." And Napoleon, greatest of the moderns in thnvorld of action, said " I seek vainly in history for anyone whom I ran cont. pare to Jesus Christ or for anything worthy to be placed beside the Gospel. Neither history imr human life, neither the course of time, nor the'llfe of nature shows me anything to which I can compare Him or by which I can explain Him." tint no re,•ng. nition of His human greatness is sufficient. The Christian heart, that knows Him . Saviour. finds its utterance in the words of that ancient ereed. trans. formed into u. psalm of joyous adoration. " Thou art the King of Glory, 0 Christ: Thou are the Everlest-.

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ing Son of the Father." Anything Ices Lban this is an inadequate explanation of the facts. The final pbilo. sophy of history must be Chriato-centric. Neither is it enough to give Him the supreme rank among the greet founders of religion. To those who have studie.d the Koran and the life of Mohammed, a comparison between Mohammed and Jesus seems little abort of profanity. And notwithatanding all the gentle virluee of the Buddha, Buddhism remains a hopeless abandonment of the tasse of life. Its apotheosis of deapair ie the negation of reason. We are shut up to Peter's dilemma. To Christ, alone can we come, for He only has the words of eternal life. The heart of man in orphaned without God, and it is through Christ we have access •to the Father., Hp is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

"Neither is there any other nazie under heaven that is given among men wherein we most he saved." That is a true saying of Schiller's, " The history of the ,orld is the judgment of the world." To-day there can be no mistaking the verdict. If there ie no hope in Christ we may well despair of humanity. On this mills watered with blood and tears, "dark with griefs and graves," there may be-Shme who deny the fall of man, but they cannot deny his misery and degradation. To those who believe in the inherent and hottlidless potentialities of pPagress in human nature the events of these terrible years may well have given grace cause for queationing. There seam ground for suspicion whether evolution may not be downward as well as upward. It would seem that men's progress is not, by mine immutable law, onward ; it may be "backward, downwards foe, into the abysm. We have seen the moat highly civilised nations unchaining the demonic forces of ambition, greed and hate, and hurling their milsaes on each other with fratricidal fury. We have witnessed the bank-ruptcy of etatcemanship, the degradation of art, the perversion of science to inhuman ends. We have leen that education alone is uo panacea for the World's ilki In an ago of culture the darkest deeds of ignorant savages ha sae been outdone. We have witnessed, io some measure, the failure of the Churches. But we have not witnessed the failure of Christianity, for it has hardly been tried. lite Church that has called

. Christ " Lord," yet failed in sole and utter loyalty to Him, and the world that bee given Him a place in the Valhalla of Peat men, but rejected His teaching aa that, of an impractical dreamer, net "look on Him whom they have pissced, and mourn." If humanity is to be found again " in ite right mind," the demons that have lacerated it expelled, it will he ' sitting at the feet of Jesus." Meanwhile the work

of missions has proceeded, and in every land countless souls have found, through faith in Him, peace in sorrow, courage in danger, power for righteousness, strength in life, and victory in death.

"His Name shall endure for ever.. We do not need to ask now the desponding question of the Bap-

" Art Thou He that should come, or do we look for another?" Finality in our apprehension of Christ is impossible, for in Him are bid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge. "A continually deeper apprehension of the revelation of God in Christ," says Seeberg, " is not only our right, but our duty." But he odds, "Whatever the religions of humanity promise, whatever they contain of life ' and truth becomes reality in Christianity and in it atone. It is the final end absolute religion." The Lamb in the midst of the throne, the Lighted Glory of the heavenly temple, will be no other then the Christ of Bethlehem and Calvary. We need not marvel if empires perish and systems wane, and venerable insti-tutions that have sheltered many generations fell to ruin. It is His own word. " Heaven and earth shall pass away." But His Word will never pass away. He abides " the same, yesterday, to-day, and forever."

" Blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The Cross leads generations on."

Therefore will not we fear. It is ours to explore the treasures of our faith, to seek a keener consciousness of ite priceless worth, to abandon our attempts at a divided allegiance, to give Hint all our heart and all our Life, to realise His adequacy for the need of every individual, and every race end everyage, and to proclaim Him joyously ss the all.sufficien t,F.riend, and Helper, and Saviour of men. Let us cry with saintly Rutherford, "Up up with Christ, and down, down with all created glory before Hiss. Oh that I could heighten Dim, and heighten His name, and heighten His throne:,

A bazaar held et Hornsey Rice Mission, Holloway, rev, ',tic realised the sum of nearly £50. The net amount evadable for circuit deficiency, trust amount and debt

.1;•,., ion will be £46 3s. Ed. All the friends have worked tos, her with a will ands the guidance and inspiration el oss esteemed minister and hiswile. Since the banter, through the nation. of Acv. G. 0. Normandale, it friend,

desires to remain anonymous, has offered PAO if another P.50 ia available for redaction of debt by Deem-bar 31st of Oda yeas •

Woman's World. I know more than a few persons who are actually dread-

gig the advent of Christmas. The gladness and sweet

good will of the old Limos—when we talked of inter-ational brotherhood and sisterhood, and the friendliness

of " the Powers" to each other, of war as being impossible in these days of enlightenment, of the safeguards of mutual anderstanding between the dames, the power and prestige of the Clench—these have gone, and, in-stead, we are 'chastened in thought, suffering in heart, and, to some extent, apologetic for even the rather timid elalms.we make on behelf of the Church. Loved ones are an and in danger, acery day.adde to out sexless.. Then Christmas and en bring. the boys home to as, the house was 'hardly big enough to hold all the boiateou

'Ce'' glad tI'ardhar was hreevident,, n the table, sb%

pantry, new ornaments, new drenee, new toys, jewel., furniture, smiles, exuberance; now grim economy, sobriety, a deeper, richer love? I think so.

But where do the children come in? Surely now, it at

anany time in the year. Om loom and diesseas have

the boys and girls. Three years and e hell of sorrow and anthill hate toned down even the glorious cerdinal colours of childhood, and it is oar manifest duty to "keep smiling" during the Christmas season, even al we have to do a lot of make-believe. • Shall we jet them '• hang their stocking" this year? Oh I I hope so, aid let to Ill them up to the top with what goodies we can get Frait, choeolates or home:made toffy, puzzles sur-prises, gloves or slipper.. Everything put into the stock. mg comes out transformed, the child's iceigisstion has been at work, and he resolutely believes in fairies'. The bright (and necessary) slippers after being in the stock-ing are Cinderella's, and will dance the wearer into joy-lard. A rosy apple alter lodging a night in the mega docking becomes a love-apple indeed, capable of all sorts of witcheries. Imagination must not have Lob light a string this year. If we •• Olympians " cannot. make joy for ohs little ones, at least we will not kill joy for them: "Daddy" and "Uncle" in France, or Egypt, or on the high seas, will love to think that his hinnies are having a good time al home. We women must "carry on" even at home. Excepting.. perhaps, in the choice of Christmas fare, the children's Chrietnias should lack as little as possible of the old-time joyousness„ and if they are also taught to think of others they wiU have a good time attar all.

After rouging our good spirits for the children's Indies we shall be surprised to see that even we ourselves are brighter. Laughter is a most excellent tonic; and the parson who can create it in lull fiords of tentless merri-ment, if only for a time, is one of the benefactors of the day. There is something sane and healthy about genuine laughter causing certain renovation of the body; so if you know a good dory with real mirth in it, save it up for Christmas. Make the very most of a comical situation, extract the tun from limitation and diaappoinfinent, and we shall all be the happier and the richer. Really, too, we have much to be thankful los many blessing. to count Win is abroad, but there ie no revolution at home. Sufferingis common, but empathy is richer than ever. Problems am acute, but many win heads are try. ins to solve them. Our loved ones have gone, but the Loving and Eternal Father has them in His keeping, they are certainly not lost, they are living gloriously, and "Are they not all ministering spirits?" Is it passible to imagine they are not, still Interested in tie and in all our affairs?

Then even Christmas Day has only twenty-lour hours in it. The twilight hoar comes early and bright eyes begin to droop, then come. the demand for a story, and you tell the old stories yea have told them year by year,

'v rl*'w t 9 r:E47AIaTla aTUec yla? word 13 n dear little Bethlehem Baby, and tender,. loving words in blessing, and the darlings go to rest blessed and glad, another happy day added to their childhood's inheritance. Afterwards ti you with, is the time to weep, but you will not, I 'think. Ydo have bcen pourine eweetness into the home circle, and, without realising it, you have re-ceived en abundant portion youraelt, and are comforted. "Blessed are they that mourn, for they Mall be com-forted." Good-night and good.bye, to another Christmas, Day. "The Peace of God keep your hearts and Minds."

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May I wiah mymany friends of this column all the joy psiasible at Mis time, and s " Very Happy Christ-masl" Sorrow ha come to many of us, and ices un-speakable, but-in the light-of our Faith we; cannot be overthrown. We gill trust in God, still love oar fellow. creatures, and we still believe that "good shall come, at last, to all." We still may give of our loving nrvioe to movements and to people, and still rejoice in all the blessinp have—leve, friends, delight in beautiful

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more kindly, flame censorious and msse humble they will be counted as gaine, and if withal through them we know God better, then shall we he indeed rich, with the wealth that never tarnialma

Slay I venture to make an appeal on behalf of our Primitive 3lethedist Comforts' Fund/ Rev. 3. E. Gilbert writes the t he wants all mete of good things, knitted com. forte, socksgloves, ate., eigarettes, chocolates, or any other goodies Incr our own withers. Money in cheques, P.O. rude., or elamlniPtefembly the former, will be essreinaly

home, and re be well need to the beat advantage. in the capable hen, of Mr. Gilbert sod his staff. E. J. D.

METROPOLITAN FREE CHURCH FEDERATION.

-The New President's Inaugural.

The Metropolitan Free Chunk Federation, which embraces upwards of 1,000 Free Churches in and aeutldd London, held its annual meetings at Holborn Hall cm Monday afternoon and evening of last week. The Enna-Live met in the aftssloon and trammeled. considerable routine Imainesa. Tea folloced, end Shen the welling amnion commenced. The preliminarice were conducted by, thercering Prandent, Rae. J. Stephens Booas-M.A. The report wee presented by the Secretary (Rey. W. Thossath, which showed-that mush work hod been accomplished during the year, and that the Federation had exerted con-siderable influence in the again, of the Metropolis; while the Balances had greetly improved. Resolutions on varier; urgent public questions were suivitted, spoken to by Sir Robert Perks, Res W. E. Flower, MA., Mr. Arthur Black, of the Shaftesbury Society, and other gentlemen; and carried. A special resolution was adopted urging the Gpvernment not to node premium bonds. The retiring President, Rev. T. Stephens Rouse, M.A., in vacating the' chair, referred to the joy with which he had serried through his presidential duties during the year. He said he had the grated possible pleasure in inducting Bev., Joseph Johnson as the new Preaident, of whom he was enured no one of their minister. in the Free Churches of Ismdon wee more worthy Of thepoeition, , 'Rev. Joseph Johnson, on rising, wea enthasiassically

greeted, and in reply mitably selmowledged the great.' honour conferred on him. Hie only regret wee that he' waa daily very busily engaged at the Book Boom and could not give much tame to the duties of the office beyond week evenings and Sundays but he would do his utmost to fill hie high position with credit to intent' ,ced aria-' faction to She Federation. The Pasidesit then gave an address on "The Ohellenge of the Warm the Chicane:, Alter retegei.r.t.:z tcblems created by thesouth

and .0.1Ehe wintry was being sacrificed, Hr.

John on "The war

meek a dissinct challenge to all of end the

Church rioter enjoyed finer opportunities to

Chfletliffe wirvice than nom What it demand. is the conscription of evssy individual member of the Church for Christ—k: scripted not by physical lore but by the compelling power , of love. . . Every hoar brave men 91 our were, making the era It sacrifice /or Mtn/y.1d country.';, Dealing with the he and hesitating spirit maniInt in zerry Marches, he urged that they Mould be done with t natation and hesitation. "Be ready to take risk*. Who ever conducted a hennas' without taking risks? One of Use sad intense of these days was that if the membership a church was Rot increasing, or the congre-gations were declining, the disposstion invariably Was fo explain the lack of p by relerence to the war. It was true that the one had created an awkward situation for maw churches but he believed it to be equally true that the war had created immense opportunities, and that less, rueful, and helpful miniatries were never on pregnant with possibilitice of

can es now."

He then asked the meeting to consider: First, the challenge of the war to the Individual member of Me Churthe Referring to a notable article in a ion and 0!

The Contemperary Review on "Reconstruction and the Individual," by Arthur Ponsonty, MP.,' he quoted the 'following Isom the concluding paragraph :-.•• As each man clamors for this or that form of reeonstruction,eannp denunds coordination and systematisation in the Oen% o/ the nation and of industry, let him Wks a glance into the inner charabers of his own heart and mind, and take note as Wwhether them is not a need there, Ice, for recon-striation and renewal, which, if carried out, will fit him to take part in the larger work with river and miffed. win s% he himself, perhaps, little thinks he 'possesses." He felt there was tremendous force in those word.. What distressed him in raciness to many churches was that they were so formal, lifeless, and ine&ctive. The man in dna

tnt,.."°:rdloy°,h2,7,t1to!..olagrd, "d02:Zinaly'h,,1h: fact that many chinches have lost that passion and quality of eoul without width they lose their grip of men. • The only way by whisst this con he remedied is by the cssri and-cenced or the individual. That, ..111 mean ean a broader vision of life and its value, a truer concep-

tion of men's yearninp and and and- more whole-

hearted•consessation to God and the great work of easing men and women. He Wog% there was much lime and thoughtgiven to theceddling of saints, and much too little Moe cad encegy to the sang of sinners Onnessionel retreats, Keswick end Swanwick gatheringe might go on until the Judgment Day, but unkce they resulted in a quithened individual and spiritual life and an energised and more determined effort to *in men to Christ they were of no value.

Secondly, there was the clullenge to' the Churchea. These were days of unprecedented sorrow for families and communities The munatry of human sympathy never wart in greater demand and never had s better oppoginity of doing good than now. And then what about the outsiag world, whose kith in God and His Word, and whose rever-ence for divine and skied things is all but shattered le pieces by the logic events of these modern days? WS emnot and mast not allow them to drift into unbelief and indifferences The Churches must make these people, lief necesassSly wicked, bat pssplexed and baffled, to feel the potency and power of one Othrishan faith, and to redisp the strength end blessedness of the eternal verities of Coda Kingdom. Bev. Henry Smith, of the United AtethWt* Church, was appointed president-alma

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER:. DECEMBER 20, 1917

DEATH OF ALDERMAN E. RAWLINGS.

A Great Denominational Loss. •

The news of the death of Alderman E. C. Rawlins, J.r., will come as a great shock to multitudes of our people. He was known throughout the whole denomi. naLion as one of its most, trusted leaders, and was as highly esteemed ea know. The son of the late Rev. Edmund Rawlings, tvh., served our Church for many yearsas one of its most devoted ministers, he was reared amid all the intimaciee of our denomination, and early became one of the most influential laymen the Church hos ever been privileged to possess. For many years he served the Church In the honorary capacity of Connexional eelicitor, his attention to all legal questions affecting the numerous depertmenta of our complex organisation involving mach time and labour, ell 01 which was gladly given to the church of which he was such &conspicuous official. Hie intintaeg with all the details of our Church lite and work was meet intimate, and his interest in all the Church's activities both deep and abiding. His attachment to the Church never wavered ; hit devotion of heart and mind was complete, In a way that could only be attained by-a taker law, in numerous ways he perme-ated and influenced the official lilt of the Church for a full generation. He knew the interior problems of the Church as only a few could know fleet, for he lived in the confidence of all our Church leaders. All positions open to a layman in circuit life he had and honoured, never acconnting any men. d too small, but gave to it the greatness of his heart and hoe generosity of his circumstances. The severest lest can be applied to him

that of service in his own local church—and M Otis he COMPS

out triumphant. The church at Dalling-road,

Hammersmith, simply adored him. Distinguished and successful in his profession as a solicitor, and widely known and htitionred in the City, in his church at home he was the most brothely, the most buoyant spirit of all those who wrought for the church's weal. His con-cern for his church consumed him.

For fully two years hie health was a source of anxiety to hit family and to a host of his intimate friends.

The lees of Mrs. Rawlings three years ago, whose devo-

wit n and care to her husband knew no limits, left him th a sense of loss Irmo which he mver recovered.

They were genial spirits, ardently 'attached to each other, and their love for one another was only equalled by their love for their family and church. Together they were foremost in all our church dock locally, end els. throughout London. During the whole of these Owee years he had the joy of the presence in his home of Mrs. Ilawyer and his gifted sonurelaw and one of his

'partners, Mr. H. H. Bowyer, and more recently the prreence of Mrs. T. B. Steward, whose husband, the Rev. T. B. Hewerd, is serving . an Army chaplain in France. No tether was ever more hived by daughters and sons-in-law, and no ons could have received more devoted and selilms cam. 'flay by day they watched their Imed one. anticiisating all his needs, and strove, with much-appreciated success, to fill up the vacancy that had been caused in their lather's heart throuMi the decense of their mother. The home life, from the beginning to the close, was filled with the richeet aroma of hearts that loved each other intensely. For same months the gradual invasion of disease was visible, and latterly he could only attempt to go out when taken in a bath.thair. The end came on rapidly, and en Sunday last, jolt alter midnight, our deer friend - " passed on," at the age of sixty.three, honoured and loved wherever known.

For this journal the loss is the greatmt it has had to experience. From theinception of floe Louder he instead as the chairman of the company of businesamen .d ministers who lounded it, and hoe interest in the growth of the Leader was paternal. He presided over its business meeting., but that W. the smallest service he rendered. Every detail effecting the journal con-cerned him. His gifts were at its disposal, and the pages of the Leader ham contained many contributions frem his pen, some signed, many unsigned. His joy wag unbounded when some years ago the Leader became assured as a financial enterprise. He piloted the ven-ture in the early days, and much of its later success is directly attriluilable to him. And between him and those responsible for the conducting of the journal both in its literary and business departments there haw been from the beginning the cloiest and happiest relation-ship. The Tender has lost one of its earlieet and one of its truest and best Irienda

DECIV1fuak 21) J 7 THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 770

GENERAL COMMITTEE NOTES.

Rev. Joseph Johnson presided last Friday. Letters of sympathy were direeted to be sent to Rev. G. Truster on the death 01 his wile, Councillor W. Robson and his wile, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the loss at the war of their .011. Ernest W. Robson (a etude. from Hartley College), end Rev. John and Mrs. Turner, of Penzance, on the lose of their only son by the war. It was intimated that ninny of the families of our Church, and an increasing number of them, were sustaining heavy leases through the war, end it was decided to more all of them Of the committee's deep sympathy in their great and tragic bereavements. Nore was taken of the d.th of tern. Ambrose Bound, el Chipping Norton, at the ads:toned age of ninety years. mil

vote of sympathy was passed scith the boron ed It was further resolved. to express the sympathy of the committee with the widow and !amity of Mr. W. Ilownt. oI Gateshead. who PM one of the nest highly esteemed laymen in ho North Newbury Circuit re-applied for per-=lesion to sell a cottage and land at Thatcham. and, altar furtherconsiderati., it was resolved to request the ereretary to visit the place and report. The question of the sale of Collyhuralstreet Chapel, Manchester, was again ender consideration, and was referred to the cub-Committee. Applications to go to France to assist in Y.M.C.A. huts were received from Revs. J. Lindsay and John Brewis. Owing to the difficulty of providing minis- terial supplies- both applications were declined. The fluffier consideration of thasale of Bennington Chapel in the Boston Circuit was resumed, And; on the strength of the report of the secretary who has recently visited the place, the application was declined, and the circuit is urged to renewed effort to try and save the place to the Connection.

The resignation of Rev. Herbert Lancaster, of Innate!' Circuit, who is engaged ire munition work was received and accepted. A proposal for the appropriation of 2503 legacy ter the chapels in the Market Rosen Circuit in the reduction of York.. trust debts within the area of the circuit, was agreed! to The pledge of Rev. John I. Wilkinson, Horwich Circuit, was approved. Conditional

n do wee given to Leeds First Circuit to employ Mr. E. Pritchard as a lay agent. A letter was received from the Hull District Committee asking for some effort to ho made to secure the release of our churches from the die. ability of the Entertainments Act. It was derided that the congratulations of the committee should be sent to Corporal Fred Gramm, of Barlhorti Church, Staverey Cir-cuit, who has been awarded the V.C. The qeestion of the Marriage Reform Bill woe introduced by Rev. G. Bennett, and was referred to Eh. subcommittee, with a view to repreeentations being mode to the Government.. The question of the liberltim of a free press being restricted by the Government was also raised by Rev. J. Dodd Jackson. and referred to the eub-committee for consideration and report. The Secretary reported that 42,400 had been pro. mmed reward the £3,700 required to claim a similar amount promised by Sir William Hartley toward e special fund of £7,500 to assist circuits during the ensuing three years to increase ministers' salaries up to 4150. The subcommittee was appointed the committee for adminie-tering the hind, the General Committee Secretary to be

‘h;'"1177.trZ. and the re'naZdaFtra■gittlere'':e"Xted grants to twenty-three cases, and made grants to seven new caeca A hearty vote of thanks wee accorded to Mr. T. Singlehurst. of Northampton, for a stiecial gift of NO to assist in in sing the Christmas gilts to each of the annuitants on Site fnnd by' Sr., making the gift Its instead of £1. Sir Arthr Tepp having written intima-ting his Mobility to mee

ut the committee on this date, as

arranged, it was decided to relieve him on a rehire date, or announcement to be mode previous b, Isis 00,00.

A History of Our Missions. Stn,—I not'. in your recent issue that Mr. W. Potter

11,,r,ostzeo,s,riit eon; itohearricit or,f the !fisosiwonatroy ,iyoir:tive to

our missions, and genn'chalre'ncges to Lonl:e appointment made. I leave the technical point for Mr. Potter to settle with the Missionary Comnottee, but if I may be allowed to express an opinton on the Executive'. recommendation, I think it the beet appointment that mn be made. Se hilt Mr. Potter is in error in stating that to write the history "personal observetion is indis-pensable." Few histories have been written based on that maxim. Your rerreepondent is undoubtedly conversant with 'those fareinating histories of the English people written by Macaulay and Green. Them are classics of our language, yet neither of these historians can be said Ise have hid personal ob.rvation or experience of the limn and placee of which they. wrote. Does a missionary, make the best historian of missions? Probably, no fietiou can encel in charm the autobiographical records of our miesienarim. But a general history of our tuitions must cover the *hole field of our missionary enterprise. Thia requires other qualifications. line o missionary sufficient power of self.dereehment from hie own limited sphere to write of the whole? Is there not a r.1 danger that • miesionary by excees of mcdeety may tail to appraise big own service at its true worth? On the other hand, may he not unconsciously fail to do juelice to his predecessor. or successors in the same field? Should a missionary I,. nut EX.".1°u7,1.,"theihreloYarinr2 missions will require (1) a and knowledge ol facts, movements, personalities, and local colouring, (2) the gift of interpreting all these in their relations, Cd) love of missions, (4) the sense of historical perspective, and (6) 11,0 paver of charming literary expression.. It cannot he gainsaid that mu present ntissionam. secretary is well qualified in each of them respects The Missionary Com-mittee will do well to accept the nomination ol oam.otim. --Yours, ate., W. G. Lam:mama.

Radstock.

London Church Council.

In mite of the difficultiee of travelling, many assembled al, St. George's Hall, Old Rent-road, on Friday evening last. The occa.ion was the mound gathering of the Loudon Church Council. This look the form of a recep-tion be the now President of the Council, Mr. Smart, and Mien Smart, and a most enjoyable function it wee. No word

vin be too geed praim toe? high for the

splendid be which followed the reception. All

the artistm were lavouritea, and the energetic secretary, who was responsible, is to be congratulated on hie unfail-ing choice. Mr. and Mrs. Hope Harare delighted everyone with their performance on their array of glasses. Misses M. and C. Maylott, daughters of the late Rev. D. T. Maylott, too, had a warm welcome. Mr. and Mrs, Haney

Croudh were in truly excellent form. The pimiist was kept busy most of the evening, and in a modest manner contributed very mnsiderably to the evening's success. The atmosphere of the room lent en additional charm to the whole proceedings. Them was a feeling of homelinms and friendship in the smiling good cheer and affectionate warmth of everybody, including the President. Such gatherings surely are needed in thews dark and strenno. days. Th.ke were ',eased to the retiring president (Ilea. J. T. Parr), to Mr. Smart, thennistes, rethetrueresslor the nee of the room, and to the ladies of SG George's Ilia' for their excellent mtering. This reeolution was spoken to by. Mr. Charles Pinhom and seconded by Mr. Jam. Skinner, J.P. 31r. Darling, the circeit steward, replied on behalf of the trustees and the ladim, and hoped it would not be the last time they would have the pl.sure of wel-coming the Council.

AN APPEAL for CHRISTMAS GIFTS for

172 ACED LOCAL PREACHERS ON THE PERMANENT LIST.

Who will help to provide

A GIFT TO EAOH OF THESE AGED WORKERS, _

whose eases, owing to the increased pike of food, are more needy than ever?

Donations will he gratefully received and duly acknowledged by the Treasurer—

J. SKINNER, J.P., so, a.. in Null, c...de. Road, 4rondon, N.

780 THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. DECEMBER 20, 1917

MR. WILLIAM BOWRAN.

By Rev. J. G. Bowran.

Seven weeks ago I was at Gateshead-on-Tyne, my native place, for services in the Durham-road Circuit. My lather was present et both eervices on the Sunday, and also on the Monday evening. I can see him now sitting in the centre of the chapel, lull of interest in Lhe proceedings, and happy in the society of to many friend.. A month

, inter he was stricken with Hines, and three weeks later, on December 7th, he Tractility passed to the life above.

We laid him to rest. on Theeday lad. in the presence of • large and representative gathering of relatives and friends. The service was held in the Prince Consort-road Church, and was conducted by Rev. Sohn Jobling, the superintendent of the second circuit. The other Gates-head ministers (Rem. S. Palmer, W. Dawson and•J. Fitt. retrial also look pert, and the address was given by Rev. Henry Pratt, of Conseil, who in earlier yearn bad laboured in Gateehead first when the station was one, and subsequently as the superintendent of both the first and second stations. Item. W. Gelley, R. Clemilson, II. Yooll, W. Younger, J. S. Nightingale, J. G. Smithy. W Barton and G. T. Scott were also present. Observing that, he had known William Bowran for thirty years, Mr. Pratt epoke of the lose his passing meant both to hie home, his family, the Church and-to the town. With wonderful insight and fine sympathy Mr. Pratt referred to the out-standing features of my lather's character.

Born at Willinelon•on.Tyne on April 291h, 1843, my

Mr. Wm. Bowram

father came to Gateshead when nineteen ymrs of age and entered the employment el the North-Eastern Railway Cunpany. He served the company for forty-six yeare, retiring some ten yours ago. He connection with Primi-tive Methodism dates back tothe erection of the church in Prince Consort-road, and even before. In 1869 the new mission was started Worcmter-street by a band of men Drum the Old Nelson-street Church. At that time we were living in the adjoining street, and, through the influence of the late Mn. Robert Bet, a brother engine-driver, my father was induced to send his children to the new Sun-day-sehool in the mutairs flat. Four years later, when the church was built in Prinee Consort-road, Mr. Bell induced my father to attend the first service on the Sunday morning. "That servicecaptured him for the Church, and horn that day onward he never left it. In his gratitude he often used to my that he believed that the Prince Cousert.road Church was built for him and hie family. Ile never held any official paition in the church, but hie rethimee on the religious and evangelistic aide was very potent. Ile creeled an atmosphere he was romnetic ; he male people welcome; he hailed the preacher. As Mr. Pratt declared, he was a great encourager. Hie influence was felt first of all in his family. He look them all to the House of God. He had eight sone, all of whom are members of the Church and actively engaged in its welt., Mr. George Bowran is the founder and leader of the Poor Children's Mission in Newcastle-on. Tyne. With fine in. sight my lather developed the musical Bide of hie family. He bought aharmonium and some violins, and especially on Sunday evening. !ippy hours were spent in the singing of hymns. Die home was fantods for its banality. Minkters and others were ever 'welcome. It hen been quite a common thing for years for twenty people to it down hen tee on Sender afternoon. Mr mmher loyally and lovingly eupported Iiint in these hmpitable and social ways. His influence in the Church was very marked. He wee never absent unless illness prevented him. He reamed on everybody. and strangers were never, allowed to leave without aword of welcome. He we happiest when finding mats for people in the aisles. would give up his hymn-book to anyone, and more than once has

taken hymn.booke Iron other members of hie family to give to strangers who were standing without one. There can be no surprise that he greatly influenced his fellow. workmen. During his active years he was known all over the North-Eastern Railway system, and wherever he was known he was eeteemed and admired. In Gateshead itself he never ceased to induce the railwaymen to come to his cha

aspel, en that for many years Prince Commit-road Chapel

w known as the Railwaymen's Chapel." Onteide Primitive afethodiet circles he also had ,very _potent and blessed influence. People used to wry, " Whet happy men William Bowran la!" and they ail knew the • net of hie happinms. People loved to greet him on the Mats, and he wan ever ready in case of ...knees and need to cell with words of comfort, and a message of basing. He had litinteoef r7dulifirenlyrrt7orclefT,rm gotpdoritno.nvilei,eaytte,,hgeodi b..: aide win hie .cone,i ,and , 1,:at

most of all in their love of the Church and their delight in its service and prosperity.

Mr. Pratt was right in speaking of the marvellous bleeding of the gifts in my lather. and mother. Though frail and week ill body, her mind is ever alert and her spirit receptive of the higher graces. The union between my mother and tether wan perfect. They wore one in their dreams Inc themselves and their family. We think God for suoll a lather, and thank Aim too for each mother. Oure indeed is a wealthy heritage, sinm our. is the heritage of men then fear God'. name. We were sad when we laid him to rest, and yet there wee a note of triumph and exultation. It is magnificent for sons to have fathers in whom religion was radimt and dominant, and who made the spiritual life-the life of happiness and peace. We ems m lather's two favourite hymns—. Jess, lover of my soul," and Take the Name of Jesus with you." There was one other favourite bonbon sthrted in the praver.meeling :—

" We sing of the Realms of the Blest, That country so bright and no lair, And oft are its gles contest, But what must it be to be there!"

Now ho is there, and we are perfectly sure that he will be at ,Home.. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people, and my father was one of 'them.

The President at Middlesbrough. The first of two District Conferences arranged in the

intend of our To People's laitutions wen recently held in Oakes-street. Church, Middlesbrough. In addition to speakers belonging to the District, m were delighted to have the President of Conference. Rev. F. W. Atkin pre-sided in the afternoon. There wee a good attendame. The President spoke on "Child Discipleship." We felt we were lacing questions of supreme C011C•r11 for the Church and the nation. Rev. P. S. Carden opened a con-..... lion on the address, and wee followed by Rev. J. Rigby, Mr. Dennis (Eaglemlifle), and the District School Secretary. A tea-table conference followed, at which Rev. T. Rozbyinfroduced s helpful disc .:site on "The Endeavour: Some Perils to Gmrd Against," He was followed by the President, Rev. G. B. Richardson, Mars. Dennis and J. Herrera.. Christian Endeavourers were urged to make more of the Sunday night prayermeeting. There was a noel need ton the revival of Christian testi-mony. The Church in all her various activities ought to be the concern of every real Endeavourer. The evening meeting was well attended. Rev. F. W. Atkin agMn pre-sided. The first meeker wen Rev. G. B. Richardson. In a finely conceived speech he brought vividly before us the harm wrought by drink upon the child life of the nation. Never before bed the child roamed each a place of im-portance in the eyes of the Church and the State. For the sake of the children and the future of the Kingdom of God we mud put forth every effort to create a righteous and sober England. It was a great, speech, and through it all the speaker had hie audience with him. The President had a most hearty reception. He spoke on "The Greatest Work in the World." School workers were cheered as he referred to the splendid alimony home to Sunday.erhool work by the men of the new Army. Sinister fares in the nation's life are before us to-day. Drunkenness, greed, gambling, impurity, the harm wrought by the neurotic novel. We are out againet them all. Societymust be en constructed. In the pence.. we poet apply feerlmsly and persisten tly the principles of Jesus Christ to every depart-

ent. of national lila The milted, sorest method of doing this is to evangelise the young. With this appeal the Conference came to sn end. We came down from lolly heights to the daily lank with a deepened sense of our resonrces and a keener desires to do the work that hen at hand.

Debt Reduction at Frome. Four years ago the Acute Cases Fund Committee pro-

mised 4.60 if en additional 0000 was reined locally, and thus f2S0 paid off • debt of SAW. The war has hit the church hard, taking thirty wage-earner out of • mm. operatively small working-clam congregation. For twenty.

ne months nothing wee dene, and it was leered that we should be ahle to claim little or nothing of the promreed EEO, and Lhe outlook generally seemed dark. However, the church rallied, and in September, 1915, decided to rides £100 in December following. This wee successful in raising Z125 10.. i • December, 1916, produced 4167 10s. December, 1917, ben produced £1741,., a total (including grant) of £467 fte. Thia enabled un to pay off £300 to • - besides making good a considerable normal deficit in,current account for last three)ears, and provision for are during 1918. The effort on Thursday last—gold end silver tree and sale of work—was a splendid euccees. ?dr. John Hamblin, of Cranmoor, opened the sale. Great credit in due to the whole of the church and school for the splendid way in which they have striven and sacri. ficed. They are determined to continue their efforts at once, and before very long to entirely liquidate the debt,

Livingstone Hall Mission EDINBURGH.

GREAT DEBT REDUCTION

EFFORT. Amount

aimed at £7 000 0 0 A:sr:Ltd:sea 6, 434 2 0 Amount sell

raisee - 1565,18 0

Christmas is coming.

We stand to be mightily cheered by receiving Christmas Gifts.

Cheques, Treasury Notes and Postal Orders are the kind of Christmas Cards we are looking for.

You can help us a long way on our difficult journey during the Festive Season.

We invite-

C.B. Chilstmas Contributions.

Christmas Dinner Table Collec-tions.

Christmas Service Retiring Collections.

Make us busy in acknowledging Christmas Gifts.

please remember the claims of our Social Fund and send Gifts of Money, Food, and Clothing.

The poor crowd round our very doors in this best recruited city in the Empire. .

Send to— .

Rev. DAVID BRADBURY, Livingstone Rail.

South Clerk Street, EDINBURGli

the District Meeting. A resolution woe adopted the House of

Commons in disfranchieing conscientious objectors. It me. chided to hold the full sessions of the Synod next year.

Sunderland and Newe aaaaa .

The committees met in Newcastle. There was an an-usually large attendance, in antimpaLon of the conference on "The Christian Clutch and Reconstruction Altar the War." Owing tolhe amount of business, it was postponed until March. Alderman J. Thubron presided. Permission wee given to Newcastle Second °Inuit to purchase house for the mcond minister eta cost of £660. The balance-sheet for the newly parchased house in the Hes-Jun, Circuit was received, showing a total coal of £021. Permiasion was given to the Monkton trustees, in- the Jarrow Cireuit, to erect an organ at a coat of £120, and to the Comsat, truelees to erect, an organ at a cost of

E200 of Which lave been given by Mr. S. Brodie. Amble Circuit is seekingrelief from an approved list minister in coneequence of dzpress:con. To meet current defioits,circuits in the District ate asked to contribute £'76, end the Amble Circuit 025. An attempt to re-unite with the parent circuit is to be made. The District Jubilee Loan Fund will pay interest on MO for the new Bleckhall Church, which is a promising venture in the new coalfield of East Durham. ,,Only £200 in to be spent on an erection at the present Wow. Rev. C. Armstrong introduced a resolution on beatl of the conscientious objectors against • their disfranchisement. A well- sushsined debate followed, and the resolution was carried by a lair majority. The Blyth Circuit, where the nert District meting will be held. asked that the delegation might be considerably reduced and the sessions shortened. Thu was agreed to. Application loom Of r. J. Nelsen, Sunderland Second Circuit, for deed-poll membership wait forwarded to conference.

London Second. The committees met on December 14th at Holborn Hell,

Tote. A. E. 'Lowe presided. The first business wee a reso-lution of sympathy with Rev. G. Truster upon the death of his wife. It wee reported that in connection with the Scholars' Examination, the beet average result had been

.c.rot; reed hhepfirtrrt'ottrIehe (cGliral .nwhlyi' rhf7 rt;Iftord, J.P. The brethren were pleased to tenarn that

them is need for enlargement of F.glington-road Chapel, 1Vcolwich, and readily gave its sanction. Knight's Hill Church, Forest. Dill Circuit, proposes to obtain a new organ and permission was given. Peckham Chapel wee found to be in a grate difflcully, and alter long discussion the matter was referred to a sub-committee to consider and report. An inquiry is to be made into the cases of needy circuits id the district, and the grants made from Lhe Sustentation Fund.

"Ellwood of Claptoo." Though eomewhat lees known, it may be, then the ruis.1

noon centres which find their bomb at Whilechattel and St. George's Dell, the mission at Clop takes its man! alongside the bravest and beat in the cliaracNr of its socieland religi work, and in the untiring devotion of pie stafl of worker s

ous . The superintendent's long residence

and hie well.known and highlv.esteemed work have won for him the best of namm—" Ellwood of Clnpton." Thu mission is one of the most vigorous in London. which is equal to eaying " anywhere." Go when you will, there you find the genial and ever busy superintendent hard at work. He buries hie life in his service to the people, and

laririon7elithhehrger i!otrpetri".i'lr'ird■Ivi% force. Everyone who comes into contact with the work • confesses admiration of it, and an equal admiration for the devoted leader who inspires the workers and the work. And each year his semi. is prolonged the work becomes more permenent and the interest wider and deeper.

Mr. Ellwood, free just iesued the thirty-third report ot the mission. We wink all our readers could see it and read it. There I. a tale told of uncommon value. The ennui agencies make up a Iring liar, and show how the mission is fulfilling the true function of helping those who are in need. Over five hundred grocery tickets have been given to needy people during the year. Widows with little children dependent upon them, peopl

ae broken down

lin the middle of life, aged people, men nd women, no onger able to work, and many cases of severe and painful affiktion have been helped from time to time Cent-off clothing has been provided for many during the cold weeks of winter. In the summer little children who otherwise might not nee the green fields or the "briny" have bad a day'e outing ; women too poor Lo get a day in the country unless kind hearts from other churches made it possible have been cheered by Lhe sight of the hedgerows and the wild flowere. And now the nipping cold Iles come ogan. the nipping cold and unprecedented prices of all Nod, stuffs, of coals and of neceesary warm clothes.- A greater burden than ever before experienced has therefore come Mr. Ellwood and the mission staff. For the present menu, which means at once, klr. Ellwood needs money for his work. Where money cannot be sent, or where el ,14

with money other gifts are possible. he urgently require. a supply of warm Clothes of all kinds for people of all ag.s toys Nr children, Chris.

se cards, provisions of all

.-

indeed, hinds for the tees Ile must provide at thie f se...-

indeed, anything and everything that can be turned to good account in ministering to the needn of his great and needy (wily.

Rev. J. W. regular, of Appleby, has been elected pr. sident and Mr. J. Parkin secretary for the Appleby and District Free Church Council.

NEWS FROM THE DISTRICTS.

Notllnaham. • The Committees met on the 12th int. at Derby. Chair.

man, Mr. E. Piper. Attention was given to the annual miasionary report, and it wee'dmiderated that the financial report in detail of each circuit should be substituted for much of the matter now pablished therein. Blue Bell Hill debt reduction scheme was strongly recommended for increaced financial help. The trustee. of Kedleston-street Church, Derby, were thanked for their handsome con-tribution of £75. The application of Conuteethorpe (Leicester Second) trustees •to be an additional 150 eq. yards of land was sanctioned. Attention was called to

.the National Day of Prayer. It was resolved to requeet theOevernment to use every means to secure the end for which the day is appointed. All works and public-houses should be closed, and the nation given full opportunity for interisession. Teetimony was given to theumntly charac-ter of the late Ices. R. Smith, and the high character, mimificence and public service of the late Councillor J. D.

BrettglItcm, of Wigston Magna. Sympathy was expressed with Mr. Gilbert Tucker, of Loughborough, in his illnem. The Sheriff of Nottingham, Councillor Offiler, received congratulations. William V. Sibson (Church Greeley) was approved as ministerial candidate. It wee reluctantly detrmined to relieve Nuneatob Circuit from the obligation to entertain the Synod, and, subject to the approval of the General Committee, to hold it in Nottingham on April

• 27th. A strong protest woo made against premium bonda. The munificence of Sir W. P. Hartley evoked gratitude, and the General Committee sr. requested to give imme-diate consideration for providing help for elation enable to fulfil the conditions of his offer to mine their minister's salary.

HvtL The Committees met at Jarralt-street, under the presir

deny of Rev. G. P. Maynard. In the Missionary Core. mitten Dr. Dalton reported a substantial increase in the revenue of the General Teed, end Rev. J. W. Stamm!l made the name announcement for the African Fund. Arrangements were made in the School Committee for Rev. G. Hunt to vieit Selby and Hull Fourth. In connec-tion with the President et Conferences, to be held et Goole and Driffield, Ilev. J. T. Parr and 9. Palmer will be the deputation. The Endeavour Rally tp be held at Williameonutreet on January 10th. The he District Com-mittee expressed sympathy with Rev. J. Pickett in tie eerious illness. Three cendidalm for the ministry—Mr. H. Jolt... of Bridlington, Mr. R. W. Johnson, of Dril. field, and Mr. H. G. Kelley. of DWI—were approved. The application of "Portobellcr” to be modes branch of Hull 811% Circuit was approved, also the application of Hull Second for relief from a third minister woe lonvarded to

DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES r7 0 CO CO

CHILDREN NEED FOOD THIS CHRISTMASTIDE. Please help them in these times of high food prices.

Privets R °bins°.

brloglog hi.

Motherless Bairns .

to

Dr. Bernerdes

Homes.

The Homes are oaring or Tommie.' -Bairn..

6.1.431 Children admitted mimeo. 'War broke want.

WILL YOU SEND A 10!. CHRISTMAS GIFT ? Give yountelf the Joy of feeling that for at keel a fortnight you are eapporling one Groben Child.

Honorary DiZr1Z11/17 TrIPN: Dif'.13.72VP r131/70■12tOgrialnilitraa; I0,',5c7PAA,S=1.111,:qiNDON, E.

10.324 Bernardo Boys are helping to defend our homes.

DECEMBER 20, 1917

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 781

782 DECEMBER 20, 1017 THE PRIMITIVE mE-frioDisT LEADER. the desertion of a lifetime, the unfaithlulness of the best fl dy dot best I po th to I bly

sued for forgivenem. In his misery 'he heard the you, man saying: " Blessed be Illy Name, T12011 Lastsaid, Rebon tulle Me, and I will retorn unto Thee 1 I will heel

thy backslidin., and love thee freely.' He has relented, Lord ; he's p:nnylint. and Thou's haled hie backehdin. I dow believe. Amen, amen."

"The Lord's done it, Mistor Arkle." Distantly Tom turned from preying lo make an assured

announcement To the seeking man it was the declaration of it.pt;:phet, ian.d in spa' leapedoppask.::ealormrie.r.

to' th.e promise. light and liberty were his, mid lto joy of the Lord filled heart and brain.

That was a royal "binding " day. (To be continued.)

DAVID NAIRN, Pitman and Barrister. By W. M. PATTERSON.

-Aorfio, of "Men . On Floe," &G,

Whit Our Readers Say.: Superannuated Ministers Income.

Sua—Permit no to express thank. to Bev. T. Jack-son for his-recent thoughthil letter in the Leader, also for the generous offerhe made. It was quite refreshing to

rannuated brethren to know that there ms some- o'ne t

supehat thought about us. While we rejoice et what is bbeing done for our brethren in active work, we begin to

think our case is left very much in the background. It in true we have brad our day, and to some of as it Ilse been long and toileome, and yet a Peasant day. We lime given nearly fifty yeare of our best strength and utility for the benefit of our circuits and the Church, and to know we are not altogether forgotten ie pleasant to ea Under the present condition Of things a little additional help would lighten our burdens. When it is remembered that we have to live now on considerably lees then half She incom e we had when in active work, and with the cost of many thioge above double the cost, it will be seen that our allowance require. some addition and revision. A short time ago a very creditable effort was made for the urgent cases, and the sum of £2,000 was raised ; bas

sereat. part of us received no benefit. We do not desire

ything to bo conferred upon us, though we were in • pauperised condition, bat we do claim the sympathy and liana the Connexion for what wo have done sod kr ou

resent needa—Yours, etc., 00a or me Fa...rename.

•

The men mar it all, and h; lip quivered. h replied, sadly ; "that-is what I am, my lad—Tin • beak

"Aa'.sorry for the—nalelly Bony," and he looked it " Aa had nee idea ye had laver rend Moot yon *owl."

"Hod I cared o it wield have been better—la better—tor me to-

mre day." He spoke to his eimple under-

ling as if he had been confessing to a priest It was altogether etrange potation for the pain

Tlaiu mean. it wad Lot been better for yen heavenly women." Torn could not eee how much better it could have been for his mrthly position, for he had a fine job and a mod bowie to live " Thou'e loot the sweet bops iv glory in thee weal."

"Inc' lost my sold ikelf ! " The centres:on meant more titan Tom knew or could grasp.

Then thou's ripe for the pennytint form." That ma the sure and certain solutioneof the sours difficulties in the mind of the untutoredn n "Jesus cans' le erne and to save that which wee lost, boons, and He'll save thou where thou's eittin'."

The manager shook his heed. "Meister, It's in the Bonk!" woe the eaniest rejoinder. " What's M the Book?" "'The blood in Deere Christ, God's Son, cleanseth from

sal sin,' " Tom answeed with decision. "And it ill don in the Book that ' he thatputted] his

hand to the pl.gh, and looketh back, is not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven.'"

"Wy, now ye, can carry soon raffle me, oil ; as Wee the Lord saves sinner., for He sated me and Davie Nairn, and Davie actawally believe. that Barn Eisen was saved when he died i and eltor the three in lam, anybody."

"I heard all about your conversion, Torn, and then the conversion

of Nairn; and I

haveeion, been-watching the two

of you, though you did not know it, Somehow I was drown to you too, for, you moat know, there wee not another couple to the pit your equele, whether am putters or

Y ad tit' k y eo fo I could best me at'the lace with hands, or shovel: or pick. Then I got converted when I rob about your age, and my mind awoke as well as my soul. I pace myself to reading and atudy, and Mao !rem ono poeition to another in the mine. Then I began to neglect the means. Worldly

..ambition swallowed me rip, and I sought the company of men who could holy me In that direction. I married a

n who was not in eociery, and my family— Well," homy sighed, "I'll my no more about that. My heart is empty, Tom, and nothing 7 horn can it! "

The lad's whole nature was stirred by the last sentence It was spoken i tome that had en eerie wail in them.

months," he continued, "I have.craved to lime a um d uith you and Nairn, just to get nearer to you, and to fe,I 0 .t. youth and warmth. I have told you more than I intended. If you cultivate your gifts, now can stop you from having a good place amongst the men in the county ; bat, lad, above everything else, make your life useful, which is of greater val. than anything you may man ill the rid. Aleke religion the top Mine. Do you hear me: the top thing? Take that from one who Los found out the hollowness of all else, end (mind it .1 to his cost. And, mind you, not sr cued must porn your lips of what. has Liken place between us to-day."

'.doll nivvor mint (mention) it," gulped Torn, whose cheeksorere now wet, "But, my canny moister, thou beet come back again to Jams- Thou mint nivvor miss thee providential way. Thou iesent fit for heaven, thou knees, until th'u's washed in the blood iv yor crucified God ; and thou'. far over god for hell, ewer kind-hearted for And Scree and his crew, ower—.."

"That'll do, Tnrn," cried Mr. Ankle, rising from his seat, " Good day, my men."

Lev Ttoeogril a 0," • n sowl Bayou, and way divvent come filth. the t troerege:rlannsLoarld.:3 re'etteelly.a.Tturn"ated'ethe

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job." The master was intent. Whet a ipectsele no, that! The

young ,orhmnn wee the mentor, after hearing an ,elro-

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ni"aPn•riiv7■O had juet bound himself to be his servant for another year.

"Thee rem," urged Tom. breaking the silence, "the lord Jesus wants the ; and He'a sent you and me thegithor to the bindle', and led thou le tall ma what than has telt, for the express porpose iv 'tenni' the to be bond An Him, Distant the one that! It's the Lord's rester plan. It's no? Hie awn ntion', and neebody knees owe abort it, lie the Loot's bides' day ; and thou's german le sign it. Hallelujah!"

"Cm away, boy," was the weary, reply, and the man with the tortured cool milk into the chair. "Cod help me, and hare mercy upon ma," he groaned.

Tom instantly dropped on his knees at the aide of hie master's chalr, and began to pray for his "canny moister," and Mr. Arkle's head dropped into his hands. Almost oblivious of businees distinctione and of where they went, these two were engaged in the mighty occupation of im-portuning the Most High. With • confidence which knew no impedimenta the servant pleaded for hie employm's reetoration to the God from whom he had elanyed and loo pardon ; with.a diffidence which hod heaped upon it

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PART I. CHAPTER XII.

"Where's fle.enl" By following op one of the results of that remarkable.

tamp mectieg long digreseion he

been 0118110. III tho two preceding chapels the incident has been pursued to

'• ompetion, for two of the three actors therein may not appear again in this story. An opportunity has, however, been given to show te further apprecnaion of the character and capability of "the doctor... sister." Now, we must hark back to the lime immediately eticceeding that event-ful der.

According to the advice gine, by his loetermother, David Nairn did not bind hie to the colliery for mother year. Troth to tell, he had disappeared hefore the binding day arrived, and the breaking up of theeircle aL 1Vyermouth in which we have been interested was at its beginning. For some years-after the night of the loud.

/n lame Tom Holmes and and did not meet main Their nem meeting was not at Wyermouth. It am at a time when the village had obtained s repute widely different from that we have knowrr. The young men corresponded at wide intervele, but their companionship days were over.

" Where is Nairn?" asked the manager, when Tom hod presented himeell at the "binding."

" That'. the carry thing ea want to Ina," Tom replied, and he looked the wonder he erpreased.

"Ilea he disappeared?" he ban hooivvor ; lornitor an' ad;'

" How long has he been away?" • "W'y, now, is tear aa bin reckin, it's neer hand ten

days more aa maw Lim. My last see!. on him wis at nor loveleast"

" Did he not turn up all last week at the pit?" Nivvor an 'ear.'

"How is it that I was not told?" "Hue ism to Irma that, Moister. Ankle ?" "No, you are net likely to know. Cove t fy

It's a etrange thing that you should not know anything about Nairn's movements."

"Ay, it's a maser! II's s clean sweep," esidTom, in a wondering tone, while he followed Mr. Ankle into his private apartment

And who have you had for a metre nt the pit?" "And o "And how doe. heget en? . .. Take a mat" "oh, he'll mat' oot—in a big mem," replied Tom, in

humorous vein. The manager laughed.

I see—I see," he rejoined. "Well, there are few Noires, and I've lost • good min.'.

"Thou nivvor said a trower thing in thee life. And aa're lest a greened chum. Bob art wm towld as wad loss

Who told you that?" "Joe Bugloss mid Davie madden!. handle the pick and

Anil king, and Nanny Howlett mid something like '1." "What did they want "Well, lbw home, hen s mInterry aboot

faithor and ma thou, and when Joe maw the change that come ower m4 churn, be said he belonged tie toe class nor itme."

Really, there is more in Ohio than I had any idea of." "Ay, it'. eel queeer. When

Dan I reemeh'd, it

vi• •

faro up whether m wad Mop beer anuther 'emr." "The chapel would keep you, I suppose." "Thoo's hit it, As'll try and mannish it the pit vain

Deo Cutler, but it warm try

eery." "I'll see what can be done; for I wouldn't like to have

That'll de to be nnen on son." "Mick to the chapel, lad ; that's th beet I can id to

rm." A new note .veas in the master's voice which did not we car

* "r y, etick tin hor," he responded, with imphasie. "Hot, as ye're raid.is much, what. shoot [Hemel' end the chappill"

It was a hold stroke for the yeah to make; but it was made with such emneet mmplictly that the ol&isl mold not lake offence, eating Chat if was by hie Tnitistive that this conversa tion had drifted into a personal groove. Far Isom resenting Lhe question, Mn, Ankle was affected by it

in mother direction, and deeply affected, too. As may be mrmised, his emottons were touched before Tom had pulled kit bow at a venture.

"Would to nod I bad never left it!" said the older man, in low and intone. tones. which revealed much.

The spontaneous utterance thrilled Tom and filled him with wonder. "As ninon throat ye had been a cbeppil man, maietor," the lad said in an apologetic roma "Maybe aa shoddenf hen laid what as did."

" I do not blame you, TOM." The lace of the manager betrayed the strength of hie feellogs, which bed been orotund by the touch of a youth, who had suddenly called up other drys in hie career. "The chapel woe se much to me at one tome as it is to you now ; but I left it" There was a volume of sadness In the hut four words of this confession which produced a Lightness round the young listeoer". heart,

" Then thou's a backslider?" Tom's throat wee dry, and his voice was hitshed, and be looted at hie master with an infinite pity in hie eyes.

DECEMBER 20. 191.7

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 783

Ciapton Mission Christmas Appeal. Sm.-As I write we are in the very thick of our pre. parations for helping the long list of par talk in Lower Marton and Hackney Wick, who are looking to us for a hot of help and doer at the Christmas smen. Very trecently we have rmt on a numb. .t

ap .o. hard. „working wonon,- who aro aim°at Ihrir nil,' end to keep their homes together. 1 hoot know tory I ill le indeed shad inure of are 00 sear'lpintse, Whot thew do know, hoverer, is that foodstuffs are double what then were. and- they are finding D seible out of their

dander eernings to gels uflicien t fod for thmiselves and Their growing and honer,- These women have to Ines anxiety all through the year. I am hoping there. fore lo.D454 Do strain a blt and .ve them hour worry abouttheir dinner and a warm fire at Christmas. In addititn. we have a eonsiderable number of old people who, unless we help them with a portal of groceries and a „hit of coal, will ha. to mend s meet ch.rlen !Mire season Moreover, knowing as we do that there ere. several hundreds of icor children in the mem streets Boding our three minion entree who are confidently anticipating their annual kW cod antertainnient, and knowing intimately the squalid Conditions in Svhich Chess childne ene- daily Bring, we cannot for one ruomeot think of disappointing them. and then there are at beet one hundred cripple children -that moat have their plesaent boning. For Rome time this boo been eagerly talked about, and tumoral workers low volunteered their virrices. Nov Mr. Editor, all this means money-ycb more than three yean ago, more even than a year ago. Your reader., however. love noer failed in the past, and are hopeful that this year the response will bs as goner.. aa ever. Our funds are rery.low mdeed ; we Mall honied and grateful therefore if a law loudly folk trill at ea early date wend along their gigs A few prompt response. will hearten all our workers. Dunations, clothing, boob, toy., de., will he gratefully re,ived and acknowledged by Boo. J. K. ELLWOOD. 65, liderfie3d.road, Clanton, E. 5.

The Churches•and Peace. • Sre,-Door again the call, deer and mmpelling, comes to tit, Church°. to talk, pray and .11. for the advent of peace The noble and bold Iptter of lord Lansdowne, which appeared recently in the "Daily Telegraph," demand.ng a statement of Allied war aims, ism eveet ol 5rst.rate political importance end of deep hopefulness It is ale. a powerful appeal to all who love God and inumnity, mod who believe in the possibility of mother method of coding this dandelion war than that of • fight to the finials Advocates of the "Jenock-out blow" aze,..1. ready dentoonmeg the letter as. " D113. I hot few one men of deep human feeling will en,pis:kl.ol it, much lees dismile as • " trap," as some promos appeals were dismissed. On the contrary, they will neon.ns in it the Comet attempt of oft who believes in the eightsome.... of hie emetry's .nse to hasten the coming of poem, became to I. mnvinced that the prolongation of the war will spell rain to the eivilised orld, a ram theta wins daleamandrip aiming at eon. ciliation rather don melenn ra. avert.. Thom who agree with his Iordakip's elleclarabone are well urged by Mr. Arther Menden.. to band themseins together anti esert benevolent prams=

en

of M hope of creation • ...dia. of which Ine Government might be willing to avail themselves. Some of 00 believe that, God is here giving Hie Cliorch mother dome to be in the range rd off those who seek the healing and recon-ciliation of the natio., to be the plenipotentiaries of peae aa the nipmentatine of the Prince d Pesos. home. lute steps should be Laken to foots the judgment of the Ohnrchea through committees and council., and • con, Terence of all the Chotchee eammoned to urge upon the Government the need for taking ell each meamres. will beet emu* • wanly, bating end righlosas peace. This conlerence ehmld be followed an inte tional me- liorate. of representative Christ.. of both the tolligerent and neutral countrie s '. favour of which our Conference ire e already promised its eupport, end which lord P87. toner, Principel.Garvie, Dean lope, Dr. Scott Lidgett, Dr. libtlin Carpenter and oils. moo. men are seeking r ota babore all, lat the Churches give themselve: to eaSnest, continuous prayer for lime entha Ose nods in the Art. of Lhe Apostles that alter the mien of Peter...Dyer was node without ceasing of the Church Into God for him." We amt continue to pray for bald edifiers, seamen end airmen. For the mining, the wounded, for friends and mem ies alike, but al. the Church, sae whole, most pray,

e• ohs his mow Pet prayed. for the tweedy coming of peace, and for the hearts ol 'men and nation. to be turned to God, who, through Chrigt. noSociles the world ergo Himself and men.evermben unto each other. All things are masible to Dane Me pray earnestly. obedi-ently, believing], When Hi. neople truly call upon ins peace whole...11y, ard ...ring them fisTelted'ael Mien be Ha hstowsil. Col will pi. to the It. • peace. "band not on military deform, baton Ube red will of the Input reuses .putt, tha ...it of 'Ch.M. Shag not we woe Him to the Mgt ll Ulp es, me and ell-home, etc., Jones MALAWI% 101, Lindumterran, Rotherham.

The Air-Raid Disaster on the Yorkshire Coast.

ei.-Some of your nod.. bate went Chrielmas We ere mofidmtly twisting morn David and Jonathan, her soldiers in oar on., -before going to France have roaled nil 17s. oat of their want ellowance. The som from File CF..' lard week was • gift quite apart hem Me wile of gees We lure another mod list of Sonde, schools this week. Mo. FL F. Smith (Preston) hoe col-

laded £7 1.. filo and Mr.. Myatt (Hull) El 6e. We tender the wanneet thanks of the homeless congregation and Sunday...el to the lollowing friends and Mrs. It. Wood (Waterhouse, Durham), 10s. • Mr.and Mrs. B. VT" Shang' Via. 1C7'1. lrlfiteT.aKrad I tit, Durham). 1.. • Sties A. hIackley (Ellerker),(50*. • Mr. cod

(Kirkby Stephan), ff.. id.; Mn. use.), 2.. 6d. Flog LW; Me. It.• Wood (Waterhouse. f2 ; Owsion Ferry Sundepechml, per Mr. E. 7Z■'IorrIcolleeted Miss...E. Clark and E. Taylor), £1 (collected by irofr',".rits„ el;) P;1 '1MEroloin1SuCnocti7- irehool. per au, c. cr.k SuudeY-whod. Ilex Mo. 7. Vokerman if,. 6d.; immingbarn Sunday-school, per Mr. D. Dodson, 10s. 6d. ; Rowell& Sun school. per Mr. R. Arun Ws. ; Cam Moor Sunday. schml, per Mr. J. Welch, gs. fol.:. Weal S.M.-wheel rornsil'alyolcZ177.r '131.r.1 .1!.11.e9:eith7iotrab'rioPrZdeV.S, • R. H. Arse. 13, Weskolt.street, Hull.

44.000 Shillings Debt Extinction Fund. Alexandra Parade Church. Sra,-In response to our women worker.. appeal to the December Qaarterly Mailings, we bore herewith to thenkfully acknowledge the Ipllowing sums t-High %_Sycombe (Mr. J. Holland, circuit. 1.1 .6.,:irard), LE ;.6heldoo

(Mr. 7'. A. Mart indale, oirceit • 1. ; loch (Ree...f. T. D. Fidel.), 5a B burn Second (Rev. N. Brown), Ers.; Motion (Mr. 13. Haney (canon steward), 10a. ; Wisbech (Rev. W. H. loween), 17.. thi. Pitrington (Rev. W. Moore) El ; Seshomos (Rev. J. Clark), 10s.; Cockermouth (Rev A. J. Bull). 7s.; Stoked. (Rev. ay. Modem). 15s. ; Oswestry (1144. W. Thapenen), 7.. 03.1 Edinburgh (Rev. D. Bradbury), fn. ; Mmeheeter Fourth (Rev. W. Cooper), 16.. •, Breetworth (Rev. E. Parson.), 10s. •, Birmingham Fifth (Rev. J. Peer.), 10e. 6d. ; Doe. wen (Rev. J. Hodges), 101, fed. Also peremal gilt. thank-fully vi.ived from Mr. J. Ashford, El ; Re .08. I. George. 10s. ; Mr. C. II, Wetkinson, J.P., per Rev. R. W. KeighloT 100 • Mrs. Weatherhead, 2e. 6d. ; "A Glasgow , , . We have ale, received a ntImber of pro.ser from Qnarterly Meeting, who understand our circular to mean, and this rightly 00, 111,1 contrib.... are the hy solicited through them from any fund or friend in the circuit FLOM these we extort hear further. Still,

'the a ' more to follow.. send all gilts to 101. Onslow.drive. Dennistoun, Glsegow.-1'11 etc., J. J. Ffieltr.o.

• Two Noted Rooks. Sta,-I wish to call the attention of your readers to two books from which I have received great. benefit. They

are-entitled, " After This Manner Pray Ye," and "Sell-Training in Prayer." They are ' deed very pod°w manuals of devotion, and they hero the advanbge of beteg written from the atandpoint of leder and iv the ,speoch of our times. The writer ie the Rev. A. H. '3feNeile, D.D., CF., Fellow of Sidney Sus.. College, Cambridge. The first-named is in its second edition, and the second in its 11th (making 16,000 copies). That book on prayer should moor, 16,000 readers in • little over twelve menu,. very cheering fart. They• are published et Is. 6d. each, by W. Heifer and Sons, Cambridge. We need an effectual antidote to the warspirit, to which is traceable so many of the evil happenings of our times. We else need a revival of religion Which will leave deep and laging effect.. We shall net get such • revival by imitating the sensational method. to which se many evangelists resort. But ee shall get it we "seek first the Kingdom of Cad." May I leave with your .readers, as a munsel specially needed to.dav, the seventeenth verse el Ise. The work of rigliteouenees shall he peace; and the effect of rightconenoa quietoem and assurance forever."-Youre, 311MB P. LANONL.

"The Soul of a Bishop." By H. 0. Wells. (The Hones ofthosell. 6s. net) In his latest worts Mr. Welk Ile. debated his Boo ends.' To throe who hod looked for a droop and noble exponent. of Ike author's religion the Bishop of Princhester ie 4 most disappointing character. A smith - neurasthenic, dreg-lathing erclesisetio via trendy no ft medium to oteive a new and dear vision of Cod es he kr portrayed in." Cod the Invisible King." Mr. Wells is continually making graven image., and then hurling Item in the dust, and he has never more completely broken his idol Bon when he placed it in the trembling hands of the Bishop. Where do Rib three vision. bad him? Out of Die Church-much to his advantage we should my-to the verge of greater ritual Iron which he happily escapes, and finally to retirement, for them mud he no Idea of soy pulpits of any !sustained ministry." . . . " I most eyrie d Sall about Cal as I can say. DM Bishop. Thal is dm exact occupation wo should • export Mr. Wells to choose for hint We cannot help feeling • great deal of sympathy with the Bishop'. daughter when she inquiries aively, " Are Wt ODE Christ 10001 " There is much onderlying humour the story. Sunderbund.is • very entertaining creation, hot wo feel the !strong. attachment for the Bistnp's damhter Eleanor, who throagh .11 the he-clouded days given her father mob good the ridiculous

There is only step between the sublime and the ridiculous and Mr. Well. taker it when ho deemed. from„" God the Invisible King" "The Soul of • Bishop."-N. T.

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lore into" scraps of paper," and Europe cursed by ruthlees warlords. We could have held aloe! and grown rich in mr refusal We wens nor deal to the call of cluralry, because of the traditibm of oar past and the blood in our Terns We pledged one bodice to nee our souls, and, in spite of the tragic cost, we echo the strong words of Mr. Asquith when he eye he does not mgret the decision. We need the fiery breath of mei rrr ion in this dull hour. We look loom leaders to keep alive Ike holy gems. Let them-e. fierier on by sunny pictures, nor emerge us with biller rebukes. Let them give es the lull and Melees loath. Whatever it is warm eland it, it it in ell aglow with eacri. Said motive. No national pride or fury of indignation or lust 9r revenge will keep us strong for the ordml of the coming months ; we need the energies that ire sacramental in the pasaion of the Cram General Smuts is wise and true when he reminds ne that victory will be won in the arem of the nation's soul.

Britain will not lay down the Cross bemuse of Nines of 1 el Th t e f th Eng tab. peak. ins world are inexhaustible It lent staff that is want-ing, but soul. IL in not lack al nitelligenm that will fad as We may of have the hard efficiency of the German, the bollianoe of the French, the deep and - beetle of the American ; but we here ▪ immeme fend of dogged elmordness. Britain bas never yet lailed to Mee world-ptoblems, and will not begin today. hie mint more then strategy that we need. Carnal-Noel unity is not biting us. There will always be

They of opinion, they are the birthright of free men. They need not be exaggersted, and when we remember the shale that has been put upon en, the revolutions into which we have been done, our mug is the mend of the world. Unbelief is more to be feared than Mame- It is In this vital realm that the Church one serve the Stale, raid through it the Kingdom of God, The Ikea of our passion aninot kindled by Ind for dominim, or rage for vengeance, they ere the gilt of the Altar, which shall-become the centre of reaniciliraion when beldam arid truth are made saN mom men. The men mood taloa are they who would weaken the morale of the lotion by appealing toil. went. nos, fear, or dread of the moths °rad. They do not dame mean it, but they would mood° the seal of the nation Britain will be nerved to carry the Cron by the valour of me one the patient love of our daughters, and the peerless &Wally. of our kinsmen acme the sem We respond to the burning words of oar Premier, who is en evengelist as well es a statesman when he .aye:—" To redeem Britain, to Mem Europe, to redeem the world mud be the nettled pewee of every men and woman who plass eln shove ease This is the fateful hoar of man-kind, If we an worthy of the destiny with which it is charged, enfold generation. of men will thank God for the strength He gave us to enders to the end."

"WHO IS OFFENDED AND I BURN NOT?"

By Prof. A. S. Peake, M.A., D.D.

iChmtnorra Ammar.] Fen, I imagine, will have the hardihood to deny that

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the Maranon of Parhmera, toe solemn pledges of mponsible Minato., harem been Niglio& Principles oak wen to British administration of jumbos brae Men pet in greeds.. We are familiar with the infliction of two =atoms on the mama criminal ler two crime., thaw eenwooee as be endured mncurrendy. It in a new in-vention which imps Several notanom Inc the same Bence, to be wed one alter the other.

Whet, then, mid to Modem? Some' would ham en do oothing Among theat . there are them to whom in is a wane of nal sidle/action to think that these men re being made Lo Mier. To the mdevolowe which Lids pleasure in glorains over the suffering. of the objects of de hate I hem nothing to say; its moral degradation ie ten deep to be reached by my words of mina Nor, indeed, to any who, alter the irk I have put lorded, condemn the whole elm as shirker. and shimmers ; Were seem to be no limit to etupidity aid greedy credulity. Bet more consideration in due to the plas that in • titanic ...Mb like oar own, whore lames 01 life end death are in dm balance, when right and wrong •re locked in motel stromle, when the Man be Will nneertain and civilisa- tion trembled on e line to mhation elbd dentructioa, we must decline to tern bids to right any minor wrongs. We have known ffinglend stirred Men ne to end by ...merest miscarriage of justice in the eme of en ie&etdenl. We watched with etrmge sympathy and painful intensity Wage deemed the IMO. oes The mr has brought other evances in its train, but I do not her these- voices crying, Stop snivelling about your mievanord sod let us id on with the war." It is clearly mind, at Ire by the more thoughtful, that grimmem feeder In the politic mind, disturb confidence in

our

adminntraton, waken allegience to the enmity and it. mass To deny their Menem, lo hush there up, to

traduce the victims end momre their champion., is • into

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we no exceptions. too great • cm.

spumy of silence. Thainjactice is creating resentment in many, an uneasy consmenee in more. 1de not doubt that the moderation objector is very unpopular and a victim of moth odium. Bat the verdictel history on

any of

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unpopular came bids me look with con6deem to the future for the vindkatim of our plm. And already the clouds are breaking. Idemortal alter memorinl being sent in to the.Government, signed .by illustrious mooned nuns Two memorials bee *Male been mooned to the Prime Minister end the War Cabinet, and

I bare before me • lid of thole who have limed one or bathed them It include. the names ol intend Peers and Privy °anteaters, of fdemberd of Parliament end editors of great newspaper., of prominent manalectarers and labour leaders, of monomals, of Ascholars sod literary men, of theoloraam and metathetical leaders both in the Church of Hai/land and in the Free Churches It :Modes some who hold diatinguiehed pssitions in the Army. Not a law stemma of greet eminence and ea-

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lard J. W. adorn. Fro. Churahrnen. Mee frequentlrem pre

impetience with the conservatism of the Bishop!, aned and opine disdain of their limidity. The names of air Bishops, three of great dietinctlon, we to be found in the list; bot men more await/cent the lad that fifteen Mellon have Maned the memorial presented by members of the Church el England.

I ran thankful that not a few Free Church leaders have stood by those principle. to which they are committal by the history of their Communion and the record of their_ own ewes, They have taken to heart thewerning, " Hold last that chid, thou Met, that no man take thy -Crain.. It istecerdiogly futile to lecture ue for diverting attention from the mod ict. Oar friends may an well make up their • minds to it that we do not mean to be silent when this elating wrong calls for remedy. And if they desire the unity of the nation, they would Ile better advised to get this grimaom oat of the way. A. it is the wedge of d'u- • 4 being driven into the nation by the *Mind. refusal even to recognise, to say nothing el righting, en intolerable wrong. FoEury mn part, I desire unity with all my heart and • • y triumph for the right ; bat moltiladm of as are g discouraged,and not • Inc am alienated atd angered The lath of judice is the road to mity.; let those.ol one Wench who Mee indooree with the mllwrities bid there lthe it. II the Government desires to lead • united people to victory, let it remain the muses whit& foment. dinord. If it stands. the champion against the domination ef Potent let it beware lest, in securing oar radioed Menace. we lorleit our soul. Even from •.prodendal euedpoint it would pay us. So long as the wrong remains unrighted, no long the as herilin null hare the tenable on their hands. let them settle it that them may be one see of the numinous cause. of die-affeethin. And if it be urged that the country ie like en athlete running a great race. end tlist we ought not to worry it over such trite as justice, I would reply that. quite apart from the fact that • just God rules the universe. the runnerle to be commeoded who attend. to nth • trifle e. tying kis Mee or removing • hard pea from hiesshoes.

What, then, °add to be done? Obviously the pledgee of the Goveruneut should came to be treated aa scraps Of mper, and • people that honoured its engagement. to Belgium should honour its own promises. which no greatly eared the moles of the Military Service Acts. Ohoomly. Weed men, however objectionable, should get their legal rights, and cease to be treated more mverely than amnesia And I pot it to those who dislike and demise the objectors that if they _count it • more trifle that they should eager, and are glad that for them the my should be madeemedthgly hard. it le not • light thing. dud Britain should be false to her word or callously refuse to notify a intent wrong. Yet I em not sanguine that the Governmmt will retrace in doe ter m at once to grant alrolute eaemption to those who deed on-the game

Mlooting ea the lour hundred who hare received it, even they ham proved by thew readiness to meter on.

prisonmeat to the work centre that their objection Is rooted in principle.- Bob, short of the, the Government might .till refuse any longer to affront the notiment of mare of the best moral elements in the community. A commission might be appointed, as I suggested at an earlier doge long ego, en our own Conlerence requested in Jona. /P16, end m vas powerfully urged in the-my notable dente in the Home of Lords on November 14th. 1817. When ye Ammer that among those who pleaded Inc our moss on that occasion wee. the 3farquis of Lans-downe, lord Pernmer, Lard Bryce Lord Beck-mann, the Arobbithop of Cmterbuty end the Bishop of Oxford, it will be dear by what weighty mtherity thin OM was supported, sod that from both aide of the House. It ought to be plain mough that this Ur no mere mismaign of laddista and idealists. It he enleted the support of some of the most mperaocal dateemen in the meetly: some of them not hitherto compicume lee their lovo of liberty, and ell of them. I believe, convioced that we dad our dray when we declared war.

And if it is urged that we need not tronble about con. Mention objector., sines they are bliti.er off in prison Wee they wood be in the trenches,. amen ie trot difficult I do not think any words ea do justireto the moaning hereion and sicribee which ear soldier. and niters lave displayed Their service is too great for adulation ; we 4611 trednure the splendour ol I. their Maoism in mr hearts, nor mercease to he grateful that they have amend privation. and incredible hardship, wounds, captivity and &eh that they might protect their homes end their contrary. Ired. I do not hesitate to pay that, had I to Worse between the lot of the soldier and that of those for whom I am pleading, I should select the former. For then I ebould be ewimming eith the abeam. sustained not only by inward CenriCtien, but by universal enplanes. Ilse mime that I was in • great and mighty mommot, striking my hardest for freedom end for right, would uplift MO. But, choosing the other, though with the approval of my conscience, I ehoold be palling

fin

• ming torrent of peeler opinion, branded as a coward,

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con with oath

choice. I should reply that he does not and me,

bbe lobe him to what Mr.. Both... gays, who has Lime eons in the trencher and see ,n prison .1 answer, m the mother of

none io France, who are daily risking their

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THURSDAY, 'DEOEMBER 20, len.

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- CAN BRITAIN CARRY THE CROSS?

By Arthur T. Guttery. We mud heed the call Mnational den and inquire

Inrlessly whether we Mill be able and Offing to endure the dram and sacrifice involved in the greatest demands that veneerer made upon a great peopN. We should view °Moly the long nose reed we lime to towel end the arrlulableary we have to climb: it will meorn search-

, rag of heartland stern rebuke of our toted ease and inlet); -bet in the dimipline we ehall Meng& and ennoble- matt The wade of Cromwell rum IM ear ears "It is not they who begin well,

We they who end well, who win

tbe victories that eiders.' We hem come to the mod critical moments of a dread conflict Detino the neat

months w. ehell endure Llie load-lets& andmalignant immure Irons without and the mat subtle tatiptations Iran within. The burden reds upon Britain as never before. We addend the one loaned lhelones of freedom we remain in it to rally and champico, to organise end lead the powers that neck righteous emancipation. Of Bra ga rmt ramie. enlisted for freedom, one is demoralised, another is' for the boar defeated, end Inshore to prevent malortune mons the bills becoming disaster upon the plains. A third ism done magnificently ; French velour has raided new chapters to the story of chivalry, bet it eiders from content strain. The new Army from across the nes is not ready. Fee the neat six months it reale with Britain 'to hold the pm, to check end defeat the

at furl.. military peril that fur threatened the race. This is additionel to our dependme labour. upon the nen, from chink we dare not llinth though era sone are meneeed with novel and hidden infamies. Beyond all. this, our natton carries • terrine teeponsibility ill the Council of Pram when ire any shell corm. We need to be

and from the folly of fury on the ea. hand and the weakness of leer on the other. It meld be a crime to prolong this war an hour longer than solemn duty requires. It would be es great • crime to abandon oar tragic task • momenL before peace carries with it We warty of right and the vindimlice of morel outdone?, Our salesmen need Morey that they may be eared from either yearineas or Methane. TM world Mom are in their bandit Before spring has bloseemed into summer they ill have creelded the path elan which humanly shall tread for 'meridiem to coma

The problem in aggravated by the set !hat we have reached a erten so mote that meagre..., is impossible. Negotiation would be stile before • common meeting. ground in dimmed. More than mer, the battle m between !madam audio., right and might, homer and betrayal, light and darkma. -Any compromise would. be bet an mantra.. tram; it would row the wad of Wm wars, give aeration to intolereble crime., mapt novel infamies ne established ardour.; md eonfon lbe impotence of the bum. conscience teemed... ant praddithe vilest wrongs. It would renew the teeth of the.0erman Teeple in their der; node, make en profitable to radians without. • minden., leave Europe the prey of threelenieg banks, and it mild win for en the contempt of the New World

end thesman.of futon generations. -Then facia ham driven the mated modern minden_ into war with the .ten rbsolve never to falter taldatiWY, complete and righteoes, than make peer Mare- NW task is awl of beyond words, and is mokaged beyond mortal rode ranee It in hideous in the guttering of those we lore, bet it s• Cense we dare not lay down till we have carried it to the throne of freedom, justice, and a ado peen.• We long for peace, we pray for It with hearts tint meat blood, bat it

0. be" • dem peace," one for which viewed not bloah when Name generagoos red the story of our Oddity and

We damned Helen In Lint soft voices that call on to • of endears They tempt aa home ol merinos; in moo

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• ahaeld be forted some day to honest mit of on. mina We thoold have to contuse to our Arm, when iur manes had Worn thin, that we bed wearied before our work was dole; we had Mind from We bottle became our foes were Me mighty for oar-streorah. and that me had led down the Chou Mamas we could ea enders its supreme pang

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."{"cebenehjt truo vive°our idealiCto shah oar seeln the mewls ol the enselfith purpose 'that drove Os Into war. For the time we mild ham aveidedthie national emigre. had we Men willing to ne little nation. Missed, Meatier

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DECEMBER 20, 1;07 THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 787

Services and Preachers. . •

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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 23rd.

London and Suburbs. BERMONDSEY. ST. GEORGE'S HALL, OLD KENT

ROAD, S.E. 11, Rev, H. J. Taylor. In, Spanker, Mr. C. G. Amman; OM, 8m. 'rem Sykee

BRUNSWICK HALL, 210, WhIteshapal Heade IL II and O. Rev. Thomas Jackson.

CALEDONIAN ROAD, N. Dome of Marken Road). II sad 0, Her, J. G. Boman.

CANNING TOWN, Z. Oder, Mama Mating Road/. 11 and 5, Rev. Bestow Wilson.

FOREST GATE, E., Uptoo Lana 11 and 0, Rev. W. Eutaw,

FULHAM, Wandsworth Bridge Bred. 11, kIr. Kendall; 0.30. Roy. A. Heaven.

HAMMERSd.MITH, Mlles . Reed. 11 and 7, Roe J.

Hollan

HADRINGAY, Mariam Road. II, Rev. R J. T. Bartell ; 5.30. Cunt Servile.

SURREY CHAPEL, Central Miesion, Blachlrlam Road, S.E. It eel 5. Rev. C. E. Bosh

UPPER TOOTING, Lynwood Reed OW.. 11 cod 6.80, Bev. John W. Chappell. PRIM,. welcomed.

WEST J

NORWOOD 'Knight. HILL IL Mr. A. C. Lock- wood A. 6, Mr. J. Guest velem&

WOOLWICH, Itobet Mean (mu Plemetesd Station). 11 end 11. Sewieen

Provincial. BIRMINGHAM, Bristol Hall, Breeol Street. 10.40 and

0.30, Rev. J. H. fleet. BIRMINGHAM, Yardley Road 11 and 6.30, Rev. A.

Dawson BLACKPOOL; Chase) Street diming the Central Pima,

10.46 and 090, Rev. Deed Oaldey. Thersday, 7.30. Centaal Road. 10.45 sad 11.110, Rev. J. Swaim Egerton Reed (North Sham). me„ HOT. J. Priem;

680. Hr. F. Paola. Devotional Hoer, Tuesday, 7.60. BRADFORD, Control Hall. 10.30end 030,8ee Samnowloy. BRIGHTON, London lewd. U. &v. W. A. Hammond;

0.45, Rev. F. M. Kelley. Veiroppulcomed. BUXTON. London Road Choral, Bundab December 23rd

1942.-10.110 and 130, Preacher, Dr. Charles IL Sheldon, Kansan, 17.8.A. (Author of "In Hie Steps. or Whet Would Jesna Doll' &a)

CULLERCOATS. 1.45 end 093, Mr. W. Clayton. FLEETWOOD. Monet Road (ImIng Promenade). 10.15,

Mr. J. Haled! 630, Rev. Jams Burton. GLASGOW FIRST, Alexandra Puede Chinch. and

0.00, Hee. J. J. Harrison

HARRROevG. AT E

Dmp

Puede Church. 11 awl 0.30,

LEEDS THIRD, Rehoboth Central Meek= Park Lem, 10.30 and 0.30, Rev. J. Marcos Brown VIM.. esteemed.

LEEDS NINTH, Emerald Read 10.00, Mr. J. D. Gas-thane; 0.00, Mr. G. Auto..

flanthilla Avenue. 10.46.0.,0' SAO, Rev. M. T. Pickering.

LIVERPOOL FIRST, Priem'. Avenue Chnrch. 10.46 and 0.30. Rev. A. T. GleUely.

MANCHESTER, Harm Green Church, Blookley. 10.30 sada Rev. Thee Part, NA. Felton welcomed.

MATLOCK, dank Reed Chnech. 10.M and 6.M, Rev. John Bradbury. Morley, 7.00, Devotional Hour.

mgmE,cegehE W. Twice,, l'edderStree D.B,

o.0.30, Mr. T. B. Staples ;

5.30, Dr. J. elo.

Parliament Street. 10.30 and GAO, Rev. IL inlet& NEWCASTLE. ON. TYNE, Central Lass& 10.30

and 630, Roy. W. Younger. NOTTINGHAM FIRST, Masao, Nand 10.30

and GAO, Rev. A. Nelda. BCARBOROUGH, SL Bandana Street MS EuMarought.

Ian. Bev. G. P. Fawcett; 0.50, Rev. G. T. FawinAL

souviipoirrJ.

SECOBarkb

ND, Much Street 10.30 mad 5.30, Bev. T. y.

ST. ANNES.014.THE.SIZA. Mad wide.* A. J. Groot:ell, F.LB.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Made. Head 11 and 0.30. IHIT. J. Dodd Juarez.

The President's Engagements. Btondoldge, December Mad and Sad Bournemouth,

December 27ch.

Connexional Evangelists' Engagements. MISS PERRETT. Maltby, near Reitherhara

Evangelists' Engagement.. MR. TOM HOLLAND, and Eddy, Booby. December

10Ine 1.09Ith. . -

MIL and PAILS BARRACLOUGE, Gang De...mks lah to MA

SISTER ELLEN A !wads la Meekly., Grsasliagtori, ell tgliipten, Yorka

LONDON Peturerms Hueneme Consort. —Primitive Methodiale removing to London will be directed toMir wan. (Remit Mformatton sent promptly to Bev. W. B. Bird, St. Andrew's House, Bt. Aodrew's.reed, Eneold, London. The lull London addreas mu. be given, which will be at once fomented to the n.reat minister of oar Church.

' Ernirtnanam Pannem Ransoms, Comare—PrimitIm Maabodide removing to Birminghampill be directed to Sur near. L Church if notifierdion is 2004 to the Secrete,. Me. T. A. &ether, 128, Wood Ead.read, Erdingam, Birminghan. Full Birmingham address should be .fated to enable correet direction to he given. Sailors and soldiery visited by rept*

Manararrat Penn-rm. alernenier Ceoninc.—Prirsitive Slethodtsts removing to Manchester will be directed to ones neamet Chinch if notification is sent to either el Re secre-tarial of the Council, Rev. B. L. Herod 119, Camp.streets Broughton, Manchester, or Mr. W. T. Hall, 11, 6407000H. Bala 3fancheater.

SPACIAL. NOTICE.

Birth.. Marriages, Deaths.

Notices ol Dlr.., Marriages, Deaths, Co., most remit the Office, 78, Farelpgdoe Streee, London, E.C., by Hest poet, Tuesdag,morning.

Prepaid Terms 80 words and under, Rs. Gd.1 each additional 10 words or lems,

Memoirs, Report. of Marriages, Co., MUST be accompanied by a prepaid advertisement.

DEATILS. BOUND.—On Deeefiiher 12th, at lh, Weat. End, Chipping

Norton, Rev. Ambrose Bound, in hie ninetieth year. Peace-fully fell uleep alter a short illnede.

IALLI190.-0111ed in Adios.; October, 1917, Sere. Thos. Hindaon Mellish, of the Sth Royal Sone, only beloved eon of Wink= and Sarah Mellish, 1.3, Benconefield.etreet, Carlisle.

kletts.—Decernber 3rd, euddenly, Mond Annie, thint daughter of Mr. T. J. Mille, Circuit Steward of Swindon 11. (Regent...), 11, De.ines.road, Swindon.

Nertea.—On November 2nd, 1917, John, the behoved hus-band of EliaeloWit Naylor, who Sc. ectidenmlly killed while following hisemployment at Shelton Collie,. Interred at Shelton Churchyard, Wednesday, November 7th. Until the day break."

11.AWITIXO9.—On December 1RA. 1917, et 6, Gunnerabury. avenue, Ealing Common, W., Edmund Charles Rawlings, aged eiaty-thme yeare.

Sroisa.ln France, between 10th and 23rd of September, killed in amion or died from wound. Vincent Elsworth, the beloved hueband of Beryl Stone, of biotic...I. IL Gila, aged thirty.ais yew. "Faithful nous death."

WALTOM.—On November 24th, et 26, Luruley.street, Sunder. land, Ann Walton, dearly beloved mother of Rev. J. W. Holler. Interred at Bishopwiermouth (Sunderland) Ceme-tery, on Wednesday, November 60th.

IN 3IRN 1011.LkM. Fsenernirr.—In lovin

ang memory' of Edna, dearly loved

dengliter of Thom. and Ali. Fairhurst, who "arrived home '• December 19th, 1912, aged eleven and a half pen.

Savo will Wei. forget us in life's • higher service,' and rewaian wait& us just beyond earth's tsars!'

Parannowsw—In loving memory of our dear mother, Anne Paternoster. of Woburn Sands, who entered the' homeland December 23rd 1916 "For ever sale, for ever hi...ed."— Annie and Nellie.

wet Home oar De umber 28th, 1910; nlro our on August With, 1913." For orer with the Lore."

Sairn.—In loving memory of Andrew Harrel-Lb Smith, of Leeds (Harehillsevenue. P.M. Church), who died suddeely December 20th, 1913. Emr remembered by his widow and family.

STURM/09.—ln affectionate embrance of Rev. Samuel Stubbing., who entered the hom

remeland December 214, 1918

Until the d bred..." Ever remembered by his affectionate wile and childr

, en.—.1. Stubbing..

Worrek—In loving memory of Fred Worton, the beloved eon' of Councillor end 31m Worten, LP., of Lye, who died December 19th, 1914. "Until the day break"

THANKS RETURNED. E ad Mrs. Shepherd and family desire to thank their

many friends for their kind masa,ee of ayMpatly during their recent ead bereavement

Ministerial Changes and ,Engagements.

Chang. is 1918. Bev. E. Daum from Birmingham Fourth. Itev. J. Wilson from Portsmouth, at end of probation. Rev. A. Clerk from Banbury, alter four years. Rev. T..Watkin from Haverhill. • „Rev. G. C. Normandale INO. Holloway, after Dees yearn. BHT. I. Cousiu from Hegel&

Changes in 1919. Rev. H. Smith from Abeelillary. Bev. T. Newell Ellis from Batley. after Innen year.. Rev. M. Amer from Seedbeds Rev. J. T. Taylor from Manchester Ninth, alter six more. Rea. H. Markham Cook from Bishop Ancidand. Rev. Alex. McDonald from Blackbwn Third, after low

seen. Rev. R. Bollon.from Keighley Second, rater four yea..

Rev. John Bennett from Leeds Filth, after three years Rev. COT. Davie, from Meryport, after low year.

PERSONAL.

On

Christmas Day

PLEASE TAKE A DINNER TABLE COLLECTION FOR"

Our

Fatherless Children.

Envelope. am be obtained from year Illnleter, or hem Rev. IL J. T. 11101IMA, 48. Duckett Road, Karrlegay,

NEXT SUNDAY (DEC. 23rd) IS. ORPHANAGE SUNDAY.

The funeral service of the We Aldermen E. C. Rawling;, J.P., will be held in Dalling-road Church, Hantineemi ilk • to-morrow, Friday afternoon December 21st, at 2.30.

Rer. T. Jackson gratefully ecknowledges the receipt of the following :—Ellesmere, £1 ; "A Reader of the Lrookr," Se. fal.; several parcels of clothinovith no name.

The gratifying information has come to us from Sir W. P. Hartley that in response to his recent appeal on behalf of the fund to inerenso the salaries el mlnisters the sum of £3,000 has already been promised. It will be recalled that Sir William proposes that the special had should reach £7,500, towards which amount he contributes one half—£3,760.' A. other promises amounting to 03,000 hare now been received, there yet remains only £760 to be contributed, and there is emery reason to hope that the replies yet to come in will produce this amount So for the .responses have come from about eighty persons; con. siderlbly more than one hundred ethers have yet to reply. The success thus far is o signally great achievement, and we may now hope, m all must ardently desire, to see the whole emu aimed at forthcoming. There is cheering widence tlmt the laymen really mean that the moley shall be raised. The challenge of Sir Wiliam is most hearten- ing. Hie leadership will bring about the desired end, to the unspeakable relief and gratitude of multitudes of hearts.

Dr. 3, H. Jewett, of New York, has a warm place in his heart for the minieters of our Church, as the following letter to Rev. A. T. Cutlery Reline, Dear Mr. Gallery,—I have been profoundly moved by the state-ments which Save appeared in tho 'British Weekly' and the 'Christian World' about the pitiful needs of some of my brethren in the ministry. I have felt I should like to do wmething for them. The American people are being besieged by appeals from all parts of the world, and 1 have been a little reluctant to mention English needs. But 1 have named the water. to friends both inside our Church and out, and I am now enclosing a cheque for %NO dollare. I am sending a similar sum b 3Ir. \Veils, of the Congregational Union, and a similar sum to 310. Shakespeare, to be used for our Baptist brethren.. Will

in OtliCTellYmi■ITter?!107.117;eY

thutt,Pyl:TLI

I should lose Lo think that tney received the little help. on Chr,istmae Dey."

To this extremely kind and thoughtful teller Mr. Glittery qujelly replied with the bellowing note December , 15th, 1917.-31y dear Dr. Jowett,—With a lull heart I thank you for your generous gift of two thousand five , hundred dollars for my ministerial brethren in the villages and small town.. I no sending your cheque to our Commie.' Secretary, Rev. SI. P. Davison, who will see to its distribution. You will be glad to limey that we have made eonm progress in reining ministerial salaries, and have received generous assistance from our mutual friend, Sir W. P. Hartley. The need is simply tragic in these dread days. our gift will mean much to odly men and women, and let

Y me assure you that among

g all your

admirers none are mom ardent than Primitive Methodists. We anticipate with joy your return to ' the old country..— With affectionate regards, yours sincerely, ARTHUR T. Gr.-rum"

The contents of Dr. Jewett's. note will be n berm to many homes this Christmastide, and maiiy hearts will silently send their thanks and greetings to the renowned preacher across the Atlantic. Sir. Davison's task in its distrilne Lion will he one that will fill hits with joy as he townind. mites the gift lrom America to hie brethren.

The funds at St. George's Hall have been badly hit by the present notional conditions. The war hos cut off one source

of income worth £130 a veer, depleted another in

the Working Men's Institute, and on the other hand lifted expenses at the Ohildren's Home, the Women's Settle. went and in other we,. by E280 a year. Ground rents are over £170 a year ; rhnts do not now pay interest on the trust debt, and it M next to a miracle that the mission

A successful harmer hes been held at Dragon-parade Church, Harrogate, kindly lent for the occasion, in connec. I,on with the mission at Grove Perk View. For many months the members and blends of the minion have been working strenuously. The homer was opened by theMeyor of Harrogate, Councillor F. G. Johnson, who wan accom-panied by the Mayoress, and supported by Alderman J. Shepherd and Councillor Marlow. Chairman, Rev. J. Day Thompson. On the. Thursday Alderman J. Balm. forth took the chair, end the opening ceremony was Peer. formed by the Grove Perk Mission and Sterbeck Rehears. The following.donatione were received ,The Mayor, 513; " A Friend," SS Mr. J. 11, Ogden, £2 2s. ; Aldermen J. Balmforth, £1 le.; Mr. W. B. Maroon, £1; Mr. George Holland, £1; "A Friend," £1 Mr. Oddy (Guiseloy), 10s, The total proceeds realised £80, an advance of about £15 on leek year.

A SERIOUS QUESTION FOR WOMEN!

Why is it that hundreds of thousands of girl. end young women complain of faintness, palpitation, headache w beck, breathless...a nervous symptoms, leogier, dem. Mon and constant sicknesel The answer is that they lack rich, red, healthy blood, and are suffering from that complaint so common to girh and women, "AN.E311A." All thie can be changed by taking a menu of NicholPs Mahatine Blood Pitts ; they enrich the blood by increasing the red corponcles so vital to ilepurity, and quickly restore lute. emokly, week, end languiehing girls toed strong, healthy, more. women, end bring the bright blusib of health to pallid cheeks. Shia has hem proven in thou. sends of case.. Boxes le 3d., 3s., 5.., of all chemists, etc., or poet. free from I. W. Nichol!. Pharr. Chendst (Dept. II), gff, High. etre., Belfast. Fres eample unt ea receipt of three penny stem. for pokage and pacidni. . _

788

THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. . DECEMBER 20. 1917

hes so ler escaped financial embarrassment. If Mr. Taylor had not brae able to secure new income this world not be eo. Ile declined the presidency of the Christian Endeavour Union of Greet Britain and Ireland for this Ye.. that he might put ell hi strength into the South-East London Mission. But with thin he explains that he is moat anxious in lace of the increased cost of the work. Now is the time for all who can to send sv gift towards the great things being planned for the poor and the crippled children..

The recent aeries of articl. by Dr. Peake which have appeared in the Leader, and which conclude to-day. will, we understand, shortly appear in book term. Sir William Hartley has ve ry generously extended the Lime limit of en offer made to the churches of the Oldham Circuits. He kindly offered to give ten Per cent on all amole raised for debt reduction or purchase of ground rents during fr period which expires in May next. Under special .circumstances, however, he has promised to Noy such percentage on money thus raised up to hfey, 1910. The circuits have expressed their most hearty thank. to Sir William. Rev. J. B. Hardy. of Cambridge, has auccmaluily peered his final examination, and received the B.A. degree at, the Senate House, Cambridge, on 19th Met. The secretary of the Women's Miseionary Federation

(Mn.. If. Leidy) desires to intimate that through en in-advertence the name of Mrs. J. Longden, of Manchester, wee omitted from the list of membere of the W.M.F. Executive Committee. Mn,. Longden we duly elected et the meeting held et Leeds on September 26th. A resolution of protest at the recent Government rage. lation requiring all pamphlets relating to war and peace to be aubinitted before pohtioetion was recently passed by the Fellowship of Freedom and Peace formed some time since in our Church. The withdrawal of the regulation ie called for. The Fellowship hoe oleo protested againet the dielrenchisement of conscientie. objectore es inherently unjust and inconsistent with the Military Service Act, which provided ear exemption. Rev. Welter Stott, ol Wishaw, having been elected chairman of the Parish Council. becomes in virtue of hie office • Justice of the Peace for the County of Lanarkshire. M. Stott has been twenty-two years on the Council. Thie is probably the first instance of an active Methodiet. minoster becoming a J. P. Lime Wilfred Hubbell, of Bnrslem, has been awarded the Military Cress. He was wounded during the acfion which gained him this coveted distinction, but is recover. • ing. Hie brother, Lieut W. Harold Hubbell, has also been wounded, but has resumed duty. Rev. W. .1. Wand, of Cleelhorpes, writee.:—"Refer-en. is frequently made to the large contribution our churches have made to the armies on the Western and 'Eastern prone. The following is a testimony to the quality of our brave teen o the influence they are wielding in billet and trench. / t comes to me direct from en Anglican chaplain in Flanders My dear Sir,—. Gunner Grant, of D Battery, R.F.A., 123rd Brigade, has He

me to tell you that he is getting on very nicely. He has had his let leg amputated, aod has also a small wound in hie right leg end right hand. I saw him lo--day, and found him wonderlully cheerful and bright. He expecte at any moment to be evacuated to Berne hospital in Ene-land. Ile is a splendid led end the Army will be gr.* the poorer by the lose of such a fine Christian character es he is. However. there is this consolation that if we are the losers of such a splendid lad there are others who will be the gainere under the noble influence that mob a character as his ever exerts wherever iL goes.—Yours sin- cerely, Basil Chattier,' C.F. (Church o f England).' Thenk God a thousand times that our brave fella. beep the ensign of Christian witness lying so bravely and effectively."

OUR ROLL ON HONOUR

pecoaa Lieutenant Alan Webster Shams; Second lieutenant Alan Webster Shams the only ear-viving. eon of Mr. and Mrs. S. Sheen, el Leeds, was killed in .41011 ClHeerlen Word on November talk. He joined the Army at Christmas, 1915, end had been in France neerle.ya He..w. within a few week. of hie

lorrgrributne .tohieni Airtye, He won the confidence end esteem of hhheother officer. and admiration of hie men. He d:d meek valiant work,. Frying

often in the thick of the fighting,- endured any trying experiences,. and reoffered thmugh trench fever. He was a loyal Primitive Methodist and a drooled Christian. From childhood ho was connected with Qe.r1 Hill Church and Sundayeabool.until recently, whim, .tetr- He the

'714:°-17.17baerrelesi eye promise of a distinguished emend sympathy is shown to Mr: and Mm. Shane end family, for thus is the second deep eludow that fallen Upon them during the war. Their elder me, Lieut John' Webs ter Shaun, fine offi.r, a brilliant etudent, and tootle soul, having mode

they, supreme sacrifice July 1.,.1916 in the enhance on the Somme Lime Alan Webster -Rhaom wee shot after the bottle. of Heerlen Wood by a sniper while car.-tog e woundecofficer back to safety.

Emmet W. Dobson.. With deep regret we have to record the death of Ernest Weatherstone Robson, eon of Councillor and Mn.Robson, of Nowcestle.ov.Tvne, which took place in France, November 2.41,11. • He enlinted in the R.A..M.O. in October,

1015, with twenty-three other students of Hartley College, two of whom, Percy Shaw and Walter Burkitt, were Ms inseparable compamo.na during the whole of their train. tegiszi active ter; im,ahod rivisirce avoriddede.thy, LI:trhare shall fivenly-five, on a great Ices to all ids loved ones and to our Chard, and ministry. Hie parent]] ii.tured him in °en atmosphere of love and Christi. goodnees They loved him wisely, and glee all their thought to his eddem non and training for the greet work of his tile. in his Larit lays hbeediecoidneel...tor wtoarieridinile.r 01 our Church and

care. at Newcastle Gramm. School, subsequently re-moving to Rydal hfount School, Colwyn Bay, where he won golden opinions. Following this he attended Arm-sarong College. Newcastle, for two years, and passel, with honours, the London. Matriculation examination and elm the Intermediate Arts mune. He then went into residence et our Hartley College, and alscrentered as n student al the Victoria Univenely, Manchester. He was in his third year Cl Henley when he went forth to the great eamiftce. He was greatly beloved by ell the young people and members of our Ringsley-terrace Church. Many letter, have come niece hie death which reveal how highly he owes admired and loved. His college friend, Percy Shaw who wee wounded at the same time, writes that Ernie; with hie usual thonglitfulne. and. unselfish-

told his attendants to loth slier Shaw. Shaw says: "He woe the truest, noblest men I have ever known. Sly Idle will be nobler bemuse of my conlaet with him." Principd H. J. Pickett has Paid a film tribute to him in beautard letter of sympathy to his parents, as well as in a recent contribution to the Lemke The last time he was at home he assisted in the sacramental service with a beautiful fitness of manner. We little thought then that before long his own life would be peered out as a sacrifice. Be died on the threehold of a great career. Shall we say God's

a waste? No, "There shell never be one lost good." God's yam seem dark, but, soon or late, they touch the shining hills of day. And it is only for " xlittle while." Then we Mall me our friend again, face to him , Gordon Chadwick, Corporal Walter Handley ' D.C.M., and Fred Healey. Atherton Church, Belton Second, his suffered much lately through the war. October will be a month of red memories, three of nor young fellows having laid down

their relies Gordon Ohadwidi •Ghe youegmt me of our choirmaster, Mr J. A. Chadwick,- and 'brother of Rev. J..P. Chadwick) w. a bright, happy, boyish, yoking fellow of twenty-two, a member of the chom, .er ready. to ssist, end .en excellent worker. He wmkilled instantly by a shell. Cpl. Walter Ij.dley, D.C.M., had J■011 honours thiough his•bravery and courage. It was a pleasure to nee him, on Imre, when the D.C.kf. was pre-sented to him. There warned-to be a bright future before hiM, an he- was ender training to be xlieetenant, line he wee suddmly Cut off; leming.laie widowed mother and her homily to mare hie lose. Fred Healey was a scholar in the Sondayachool, and bad endeared himeelf to many, end life was'opening not very promising wey;.leet the column is broken and his life's work came kr en ...opt dose. A very impre.ire me..Mal:service for'. the three heroic men wan held on Sunday, November 10th, in Alms, street Chapel, Atherton, conducted by Rev. F. W. Corporal Winiam Wick.

Corporal W. Wick, who wee killed in action on Nevem-. her 20th, was school superintendent for some seam at Thornley Church, a lifelong temperance advocate, and officiel of the Rechabiter Order. He spent some ymrs in India and rue active service in the South A Iric. War. Oe the outbreak of the present war he risked his all bemuse of the " ought" that urged him to go. His straight, forward dealing and comage was characteristic in all activities. Hie work in home..mioe, church and the Arno, has been recognised, and from these sources come appre-ciated words of his sterling worth His dear wile, chil- dren and matter will miss him greatly, .Cl.n speech and morals, his hilluence has been a real easel to• his nor-rounding.. Hie palming is a great blow.

IN MEMORIAM.

Mrs. Mary P. Leach. • Darlington Circuit and Greonbank Church have sue lained a great loss by the death of Mary P. Leech, wile of Alderman C. H. Leach, J.P., which occurred on Novem-ber 30th. She came of a family whose connection with our church in Darlington dales back to Rs earliest days.

Her father; Mr. Francis Hedop, was for many yean superintendent of .Greenbasik Sundimechool. A beautiful window in the church, erected by Alderman Leach, per-petuates, his -memory. Her mother is, happily, still with us, honoured and leveed by all. Hee own .cennectlon with the church Waa life-leng. She was a ready and generous helper in all Lim rhurch's activity. She gave many years of happy serrim to the Sundey.school end Band of Hops She was actively engaged in the work of the Women's( Miesdonary Auxiliary, bolding eerie.. offices, and was a member of the District Orphanage Committee. Her hmeilliiess wee 1 and extremely painful, but eke bore it with wonderful fortitude and patience. All that was humanly possible, wee done for her, but neither DR-Jul nursing, medical ettenlion, nor loving care could avail to defeat the 'fell disease which gradually sapped her strength Without complaint or wavering she laced the end with perfect laith and confidence end joyfully greeted the Lord's o.easenger when be. came to conduct her triumphant soul' nto the imnielliate presence of .ber Master. Thefuneral. rani w held in Greenbank, and the large gathering teat ifted tin deep respect to which ehe wee held, met. widespread :arrow at hee_pansing. The'ldayor and Mayoress, with the Town Council, repro-sentefivee of the Board of Guardians, social end relige. org.isations of the town, the Vicar of Darlington, and many of our own minister, and-members paid this Ind tribets of respect. The service. imemesive in its situ plicity, was conducted by .Ray. W, Berton. Rev. W. Howarth. RA., read the Scriptures, and Rev. J. Reavley gem e chaste and beatotilul address. The committal wee read by .Rer. J. Moseley. Bev. T. A. Thompson, B.Sc., offered Ihe closing prayer.

• Mee. Sophia Glover. The St. Dees (Hunts) Church has just lost one of its oldest members .by the passing of Sophia Clover at the ripened age of eighty-seven. S.he bad bane e member for some fifty years, and wee generally held in well-deserved respect. Her uprightnme loyalty and wholeheartednms made he Han ouLetandinecharacter. In a very real sena, she lived-for Christ and the Church. "She was not blessed with means, but wondrously dowered with resolution end grit, which she brought, into service ea tribute lo her Lord. Thus she coned the ceum in many ways dinned. the years. She wee not afraid of the menial task, Ailing it with a fragrant and fruitful devotion. To it she gave herself. Hor generosity wee unfitting.. Her, plena is now empty with an emptiness which is felt, The literal and the In Memoriam services testified by the larOeneasof the numbers attending to the 1.e and esteem on which she Was held.

' Mr. W. Staples. William Stapp ee /reseed into the inimediate presence of his Muter on Sunday morning, November 25th. He bed been ailing for some time, and to those who saw the symp-toms led been diequiding yet when the end came, se it did, M a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, his dear ones

and friends felt the shock He had for the bedt part of a generation been a member of the Primitive Methodist Church, and for some time an official. For the last twenty year. he his been connected with our church .t Church-greet, Southport He loved his church and wee deeply int...led in all that pertained to it. The claseneeting and the preyer.meeting were means el grace not to he mimed by use when it was ...iambi.. His character wee marked by aturdiness, outspokennese, resolureuese, and a genuine eyuipathy with all good and rigida°. causes. His peening oe a groat blow to hie widow, with whew he lied the MY of liringdo happy wedleek for about forty years. May God gracimely au stain and.cdnifort her in her sorrow and loneliness!

Mr. Juba H. Yates.

Rhodes Church and Middleton Circnit have eeperieneed si great Imo the death of Mr. H. Yates, church WM- tarry and circuit' steward. Our brother wee a member at Rhodes for Mtreevens earn His wandfalher sue one of the' foundere•of this urch, and his father an officiaL He was of quiet demeanour, methodioal and painstaking in his office., and eaceedingly loyal end devoted te the church. For faithful Sunday.school work he was awarded &elem. of honour by the Lancashire and Cheshire S.S. Union, as well as by our own 1:131011. Up to the time of hie pawing he ably filled the office of eircuit steward. Be peened peacefully away on December. let in hie seeenty.fifth year. On Deceleber 6th an impreseive service

Walter by, Bev. J. T. in the Rhodes Clench, alter which his retard., borne by three. sons and three sonain-law, were hid to rest in hfiddleiop Cemetery amid may tokens of for and al tem.

/%4 IL, / FOR NO THING

IHECHISWICK CHORALIST, ."4nANNIVERSARY MUSIC

,57,A1 +,04172, 6 Irrercz fjfkNCLLS & 6 210/UV LEEDS

DECEMBER 20. 1017 THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. 789

By Henry J. Pickett. •

I.—no lesson Terms aptly worms the wonder and grace of the story we have followed this . gethter. The 'beige may be gad to be the, bet what • theme it is!—gracious record of deliveran., return, reinstatement and opportunity, following, on leraers 'ado, • dinged record of wandering, rebellion, ingratitude and, }offering. Yet Redeeming Love thos, aa it always does. Behind the move ment of empires end etatecraft, through all the coming and going of proud desple,,making possible the advent of a more lolertht Cron, with his permissions of freedom, we aro able, n thin distance, to clearly read.the signs of God's working, sod mark the wisdom and lore which, while not forcing the human will, encored. in showing that the Dicing ;riff is test. not God is in history, even during the history of these terrible years of war, is our one source of comfort. How the wrath of the men who knee brought this horror upon the work/ will be entrained and over ruled we may not as jest now, hot that it will be no wagered ie an soreas to-morrow'. sun. Even now, in the emancipation of Maria; an see die gleam which betokens the coming day. • • •

IL—Each lesson of the quarter has offered its proof and supplied some fresh illustration of the theme of our review,

• vie., "Gone ACME.. Lent". We may group them under the following division. Leeson% I, 2, InInat A New Oroothoorrir tor. this wilful, suffering, exiled, but now chastened people. The black path woe buried. The advent of Cgras, and the opening of the door of return, meant that they could leave in Babylon, with so man) of their sacred dead, great deal which had maned their old file. They could drop for ever their proud, rebellions spirit IL had brought them only sorrow and ruin. To the old homeland,they 'could now crane forgiven, reatored in the Divith favour, to Mart a new life of undivided devotion and happy servioe. Fittingly enough, the quarter's lemons open with happy songs. let tur never forget to bring into our psalms of deliverance and praise, our debits for new days, fresh changes, the prirdege of redeeming our yesterdays from borrennen. Each new Any should be the onortunity for doing better than in the day which preceded it. Closely. associated with this, as vs further reason for Lbanksgivine and hope, and an addi-tional illustration 01 Redeeming Love, hi the gilt of Was LI:commute, as set forth in Lessees 3,,e1, 6, 7 and a Leaden, truly tragthions and grdly, gra among God's choicest Edits to that he world. Eon and Nehemiah rank among the greatest ; ZenithaRrl too, in lone degree, and many of those who served under this noble trio. Far a and Nehemiah had nothing to complain of io their exile. They *ere pettily gifted, highly placed, living in Rrefort. and with positions secure lot lifer To undertake the tasks we have e'died meant enthmthatectifioe, the facing of terrible hardship, with the risk of losing life itself. Yet how nobly they eesponded to the challenge of need, and bow wisely they acted! They illustrate the rare blend of high spirituality and fine athematic/sip. Trustful in God. yet tactful with men. - Humbly reliant on Divine resource; yet persistently daring and attractively courageods. They prayed as ghoagh everything depended upon God. They worked as though ethers or failure rested with them. They were the men for the hour, and we can only octant it doe to God'. Ireiog wedeln that, the time when nothing could have been Ole wiLhoul the cement of royal derpola, men so high in court Ilk yet such friend,/ with the Court

Heaven, should be the elect kaders Isrod's new life. Wouldthat Europe had such devout and capable Chriatith statesmen now! Yet each member of the class may, by the gran of God, become leaders in their own smaller• circles Nothing attracts like goodness. Nothing no easily makes a apace for itself ae a pereonelity charged with the wiosomenera of Jeans.

11L—Grantod that new opportunities are wisely nod tree leadetsPip, even-that of Jowls, loyally followed, it is certain that the RESTOH611 Duncan illustrated in Lessons 10 and 11 will become our daily experience. "The joy of the Lord- will he our strength" (Neb. tilt 10). The establishment of God's low as our win, the observance of Diving thrship as our eager choice, will open to see every

• door of real enjoyntent, end secure to ye the milarging knowledge which removes all restrain. God meant on for hthpiness. Hie thought for no is the w'dent freedom.

Eye hath not norm; nor ear heard, neither hall it entered in. the heart of man, the things which there and now) God bah prepared for them that love Hint" We do religion a greet wrong if we associate it with reariction. denial, gloom, Mara and death. The more of love for God and devotion to that love, the leas do Any of these apply to as. Dot the happineen and the freedom come alone in and through loyally Po Jesus. Thatouthly is the lemon of

- our Ms months' study. Fade, bondage, sorrow, even the sorrow wbich workah death, are for those Who persist in followith their own way..

1V.—Fittingly enough, these historic proofs and illus. 'rations el Redeeming Lore end their final and abiding exhibition in The Gorr or GEMS in the babe of Bethlehem's mother, a. deacribed in Leman 12. Juet no the march of the Wiat Mn ended when they worshipped there, return-ing then content to reeame the old life In the 'oy of that vinon jnst as all God'e guiding of Tared, through wandering, exile and return, finds its fulfilment in the yonder of Bethlehem, so we are truly horn again, we start our rear life, When we have knelt before Jesus and Offered Him our heart's beet love. Ple ie God's last gift to us, to the world! "Having Moen use Him Son, will Ffe not, with Him, freely give on all things?"

Guild

Of THE CHRISTMAS SECRET.

December Is the month of long nights and short days. Yet one dayla for most hove and girls the brightest and brat Any of all the year. Big folks may not like Damn-Mir, with Its eight bourn of daylight and sixteen of &tri-ne., but hors and girls love it bmause it in the month when Chronmas comes. For thin reason alone, to them December is almost u pleasant no May. From the ant Any all the days are reckoned. If you have time to and time before the Great Day gets here, your minds will be full of thoughts about it. At our house, when I wee a heir we used to have the happiest Limes on Christmas Day, and for days before we were talking about it and planning for r..For me those day. before were very special for something else. The ahorlest day watt my birthday, on I mimed to get a whole week of rejoicing.

What ie the were' of the Chnetmos joys Why is it that most people think of Christmas and happiness together? Whence comes all thin gladness? IL is because people open their hearts to the spirit of Jena.

Nearly everybody plane to give joy thenebody else. That Ives one

iv the notable thing. about Jerre. Wha

joy He brought to the world! Even the angels sang for gladness at the-birth of this baby. When Ile became a man His life radiated joy wherever He went. He was the happiest-man in all the world shoo He livid in it,

and one chief reason of His given was that Ile wee making joy for othen. He went about doing good, a He scattered sunshine all along the way. When try to do as Jesus did, then happiness comes into fe everywhere.'

Think of Jean to-day! I hope that on Sunday ro will ang the hymn beginning, "Once in toyed Dam,' 0 ray," and in imagreation you will go to Bethlehem and see Baby Roos, wlmso first home was a cattle rhea, and Hie first cradle o manger. No boy or girl who reeds this had so poor a home or no strange a cradle. .

" He lhme down to earth from Heaven, Who is God and Lord of all ;

And Hie shelter eon a stable, And Hie cradle was a ;

With the poor, end mean, end lowly, Lived on earth our Saviour holy."

lie was born of poor parents, end He was poor all the day. of HM 18e. You can hardly be poorer than Jesus was. A. a boy He would have few toys, few pleasures. No eplendid gifts would come His way. The gold Which the ivies men brought would all be spent on that long and hurried journey to Egypt. The carpenter's hum. Nazareth would have but one big roam in rtwith perhaps a theca under the roof, like a small attic! To get up there to deep the boys would climb a ladder, and Bleep on a -hard bed. Some poor boys become rich, but Jesus remained poor, and we have learned from Riot that there are many- things more important than' money. He ea, poor, yet Ile made many nth in things that money can never buy. What a wonderful life He lived ! What joy He had! What joy He gave away! .IL is the imitation of Jesus that brings the Christmas blessing.

The year many homes will hare a. shadow upon them Father is away. Brother' is away. But the fathers eh, are at home, and the mothers, will here said to on, another "We mist do what we mu to make a happj Christ.. 'for the children. It will not lee no easy ea it was before thd war. You may not receive so many gift. Oranges and note are mane and dear. Some of ue will here to go viththt plometh and d plum-podchng. But If the kind heat is there, and the good wish all of re may have the Christmaa joy in our heart. Lou every boy •nd girl do something to make somebody else happy. There are heaps of things to be done. Big boy. can do lots to help father or mother. Chopping aides, running errands, tektite tare el little brother., cleating bate, and scores al other thing... Girls can be very reefed if only they have whet Lhe Bible cells "a willing mind." And surely some 01 you can make a present to somebody! Your gift may not be costly, but it may give a sweet ju to someone—big or little. Where we try to make ahem happy we are doing what deem did and what. He wants ns to do.

Now let Big Brother wish you all a Happy Christmas!

Riddles for Cheietmaa Night 1. What is the beet thing to take beddre yam sing

"Three blind mice" b—Yone breath. 2. Lpng legs, crukof thighs, RUM heed, and no eyes.

What pait.ol lenge. .

3. When is a ship not a ship?—When it in a building.

4. When ie a horse very much heavier than lieut .,— When it is lead (led). • '

6 Why ie a blow on the head like a farmer. heti-Benue it ie felt

6. What word of five letters ie there from which you can subtract two and leave Len Z.—Of ten.

7. Riddle-me, riddleme, r'addle-me-roe, perhaps you can tall what this riddle may be As deep es n house, as round as e cop, And all the kings horse. cannot draw it up.—A

In writing about the Guild of Rind Hearts mark yore letters " Gudd," and eddrms le Rev. Annren Jran, 218, Chippingheuee-rdad, Sheffield.

CHRISTMAS. WHAT MESSAGE HAS COME TO ME?

!adenoma. Topic for Wee` beginning Den.

Rho i. 6-14.

The Bret anistmas epake a merman, which rings over the world to-day. We still feel its spell. Through the yeths there has been not only a conscious but an UnCINI-acious homage wid to the Christ of Bethlehem for on every letter, invoice, newspaper there is a dote which witnesses to Niro. How humble in character were all the useciatione of our Lord's Nativity ( How wondrous the remittal From the lowly rilable have come forces which have changed all life. His manger sae deetined to become mightier and more ingnential than the thrones of crowned monarch. Moral and spirituel revcdutionehave had bomb because of His birth. Christ'. Advent was the

exults beginning ol a new order. Men have wondered that such

should have come from the Bob.. The eoplanation is, the Babe,. DiVille, tberolorewe eing, "Thou not the King of Glory, 0 Christ, Thou art the Everlasting Son of the Father."

What is the meesage of Christmm to snei IL lone me (1) o love. "God so loved the world that He gars Hie only begotten Son." Men have been slow to recognise the Fatherhood of licd. They have seen other aides of the Deity. The Incarnation reneals the Father, and proves that He want. w .all for alike, and friends, and son. It proves that He is on the side of man in all hie endeavours to rise Behind all the power and majesty of the Godhead, _in the Incarnation we see the Father's bands oolanetched to no. (2) The Christmas montage speaks of a Saviour. The men who lint heard the message were affrighted. Someone has said "Man alone has greet fears ; they ere an evidence of his ermine... That ie omen Bat there is another side. We are oft fearful became of one conscience. "Conscience makes cowards 01 as all." To he sued from e guilty conscience we need to be saved from net ea. The Ohriatmas menage assures um that He is a Saviour. His perfect love casts out lean 0) It ie a of pros and good will. What happy results would follow rf the moulage was fully heeded Ile into Hugh Price Hughes wrote: "If the Christian

mega heeame the policy of ecolegiastice, what would be he molt? The reunion of Chrialandom. If it were

adopted by Capital, what would be the result? The Co. operation of Labour. And (t it were embodied io the Foreign Moe, what would be the result? Internotiothl

This menage the revealed in a Life. "The Word Wee lieeb." The reception of hot wed was various. We read in verse 10

(bet many knew Him not. There

was no warm acknowledgment, no loving recognition. Jut as a mother looks into the face of her child end is roads

but red because freer Ha noad and was code not was no 0.1 response. Verse 11 It yet • herder saying, "His own received Him not." It is almost in-conceivable that the door win closed to Him by His own. There was another dam mentioned in vies 12, who believed and received Niel ; there He re.ived into His family. Now are we treating the Living Word? Do we fail to answer His look? Do we close the door upon Him? Do we lovingly receive the Gift? " Thanks be vote God for His. unspeakable Gift" May we show our thee]. by witoeseng for Him even as John did.

Wntlan T. HULL,

Britain's Greatest Need. An illustrated booklet under the above title has been

issued by Dr. Barnsrdee Homer, dealing with a subject of vital imwrtance to the welfare of the nation. Britain's manhood is being drained in fighting to presene all that we hold dear. 11 is our duty to those who have no bravely given their live. that their supreme sacrifice should not he in min. Who an to take their places butth. children? There the thoosands of children of our brave soldier. and milers who are left as • sacred legacy to tn. These children have lost the necessary parental control. Let no not fail in our dirty towards them. For fifty yeern Dr. Barnanlo's Homes

dirty been doing the soh which has,

been no oaged opon re during this serious war lime. During those fifty years Dr. Barnardo's Homes have Laken charge of 84,000 aildren, and who can say whet would hare become of those 84,000 11 the Homes bad not given, them a fair chance al becoming awful, industrious anal God-learidg citizens? 10,264 Bernardo boys are serving' in defence of their country. 01 lour Anzacs mentioned rel lethatcheo for bravery at Gallipoli three were Bernardo hey.. Two 01 there have eince geared the Military Medal. Thirteen in all have won the M.M. diedanother has gained the D.S.M. Since not broke out Dr. Barnardo"I Hem. here admitted no fewer then 5,033 boys thd 'rho and they want to take charge of thousand. more. TIT have the opportunities and the machinery If you will help help them with the necessary financial means. Gifts of all kinds—mthey, food, clotting, blasiketa, e te.—will be welcomed by the honorary director, Mr. William Baker,' M.A., LLB., at headquarter. 18 o26, Stepney Caunewey, Landon, HI.

The annual bazaar hem just been held at Filey. The' Iodine had toiled very hard. Instead of weekly teas • sixpenny fond was opened add did well. Sir Lake Whit. I ILE'S, opened, 'Mr. H. Foster, prmiding. On that second day the opening wax by dotty children trained by, Mr. Omit rata, Mm. F. A. Willey, of Humeanby,

r ig the remain When the enputstondant announc.edr\ • het LIFO had been raised, e record ffff a two dyad bearer,

wLre greatly cheered • .

FOURTH QUARTERLY REVIEW. God's Redeeming Love.

Ir.ternatIonal Leeson for Sanaa', Dee. 50. 1917: Psalms ethiii., cosi, ELT., Poole, cess.reit

Kind

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PIANOS, ORGANS,

HARMONIUMS, NEW AND SECOND-HAND.

'Hell ORGAN, new, 9 sets of reeds, 17 stops, 2 knee pedals, low top, for Home, Church or School ...

Pipe top, 21/- extra. Karn ORGAN, new, x2 sets of reeds,

21 ,stops, 2 knee pedals, beautiful • high mirror top... ... 44 Cuineas

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PIANOS, for Cottage or Mansion, from £115 Os. Od. ORGANS, for Cottage or Mansion, from " 8 Guineas

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112 THE PRIMITIVE _ METHODIST

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SOUTH-EAST LONDON MISSION Superintendent: Rev. H. J. TAYLOR.

CENTRES OF ACTIVITY,

elEAROSARTERII, St. ClogLel Mgt Old Kent Road, SI. WALIIINITH BRANCH, III, Lug Street, LI. nil INTERS. ISITTLEMINT AM SAPIENS BOND, el, Old Kent Reed, &F. TOE CRIPPLES. BALL ARO INUIT TI. (Adjoining St. neerge's woutuveaura SOCIAL INSTITUT! (floor BOON Cripples. Hell en. IntIntits.) IIISS1011 CLUB ROOKS, ate. DO, Old Kent Pond, CL CRIPPLar ANN NM (MILDREIS SEASIDE ROSE, eel, London Road, destollffon.See.

To the Readers of

"THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER." My Dea' r Friends,

Christmas and the New Year make heavy demands on the South-East London Mission. With food and clothing of war prices, I am deeply concerned. The poorest, are feeling it the most. Wilt can a woman with four children do on her own earnings ? She -gets 15/- a week. I am thinking of Mrs. C.

What can a woman do with 24/- a week and a husband and five children? I am thinking of Mrs. F.

What can the hundreds of old-aged Pensioners do with 7/6 a week, and 2/6 of this to pay for a box called a room ?

What of the Cripples ? We have hundreds of them. We try to help to the full limit of our resources—

we can do no more, but this we will do. Christmas means heavy work for all the Sisters

and Staff; but for the sake of the needy, we are ready.

WE HELPED OVER .2,000 LAST CHRISTMASTIME.

Anxious to keep the work of your great Mission going during Christmas and this Winter among the

Poorest Children' and Adults of London, I enclose a donation of X ; : , to be devoted to the following object:

Christmas Dinners & Waifs' Festival

General Social Fund ...

Women's Settlement ...

Upkeep of Mission Premises

Holiday Home Fund ,Z,;f11:::.:^° tSeelling 'Crippled and Pow CILOdscn to the Semitic.

Address Clic,. and Pa led Orders also ild be ea' a CO"

re the Rev. IL J. TAYLOR, South-East London Mission, Mews and Headquarters:

St. George's Ball, Old Rent Road, LONDON, S.E. 1.

Rev. J. TOLEFREE PARR (TOE PRESIDENT)

- earnestly appeals for contributions to the

XMAS FUND of

Surrey Chapel Central Mission, BLACKFRIARS ROAD, LONDON, S.E. 1,

toNnable him to give a

CHRISTMAS TEA and HAPPY EVENING to 800 Poor Children and 100 Poor Mothers,

and

CHRISTMAS DINNERS to 100 Needy Families, Aged Couples, and Lonely Old Widows,

one of wham are benelithm by the higher wages of wartime, but almost all of whom are feeling acutely the edvanced price of food.

These Treats will not infringe the Food Controller's regulations, but they will cheer end brighten lives which sorely need brightening.

DONATIONS, however small, sent to the PRESIDENT, at the above address, will tee gratefully acknowledged.

SISTER JENNIE, our capable and devoted Sister of the People MB Blackfriars Road, S.E. I), will also be glad to mein Paroels of Cast-Off Clothing and other Material Gifts for the Poor of Blaokfriars.

LEADER. DECEMBER 20, 1917

Foster Clarks TA. Creaming Ouriard

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THE PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. DECIhNIBER 20, 1917

Save Food= IT has long been an accepted

fact, proved by indepen-dent scientific investigation,

, that Bovril has a body-building power equal to from to to 20 times the amount taken. This is now confirmed in a 'very striking way in the 'following report from the " Medical Times' :—

• "The addition of a small teaspoonful of Bovril to the diet as a peptogenie before meals leads to more thorough digestion and assimilation and thus saves food.

"The diet may than be Out down from I to I and the body

still.be adequately nourished:

Extract from the review by the Medical Timm- of ,he invemigarione

en Food Economy conducffid by Dr. J. Campbell, while Food, Expert to the

.Metropolitan Campaign for Prod Economy.

Help to save the Nation's food and Hill keep yourself well fed' by taking e cup of. Bovril as soup at meals, or by using a little Bovril in your cooking.

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Quirterly Meetings. Aldershot..

Held at Rotunda. Rev. H. St. Hull pre-sidml. Increase of eighteen members. A profitable hour was meat on Evangelism,' ably introluoccl by Iteu....F. N. Oreeno ell. Rev. II. et. !full booing accepted u call to Penzance Circuit in dply, 1918, Ale. C. Yeomans referred to hie four years' en thusiastic and aucomslul ministry, Revs. C. H. Spivey and F. N. Cromwell invited. Station finance. good.

Birmingham Fifth.

WillisRev. J. Pearce presided. Mr. J. C. l welcomed as the new steward. Rev.

D. Cooke unanimously invited as superin-tendent. Rev. J. Pearce's rotary was raised to £150 and Rev. J. Anderton's to 4130, to include gyant from Hartley Relief

'Fund. Membership increase, twenty-me Lear quarter. A further sum of £160 paid off Sparkhill debt, All the churches realising prosperity.

Blackburn Second. Held at Richton. Mr. Joshua. ilairison

Thresh aaeacant. Balance in 3~ead. MerliniSs: lees salary raised 410 per year. Increase of members reported. Circuit debt of £20 of five years' standing nearly cleared off. Elev. Alex. DIcDonald intimated his inten. Non to leave in 1910. Bradford Six,.

Held at Rehoboth on the 615.. It was unanimously decided to give oar minister a war bonus for the past year and incrense the salary for the !attire. Braintree.

Expenditure was met by the income for the first time far many years. War bonuses were given to the ministers, sodMr. Shintield has promised half. Rev. W. S. Hinchliffe asked toreconsider his decision to leave, but declined. Itev. J. P. Chadwick promised to consider invitation

further term. This meeting waa fob lowed bi a social, at which. Rev. W. S.

p t d by he y one pee'roop with a Christmas preset i:th formkof wan inkstand .and writing'cabinet! as d token of their esteem. Chatham:

The quarter hes proved 'one of the most inspiring in the history of the church. Thirty Sacra- memental .rvices entered into communion with the Church. The finances hare.con. oidmably improved. The steward reported an income of 252 7s. 4d. On Sunday even-ings the accrotom of the Ladies' Aid, Miss Morley, lies initiated a social hour for soldiers and sailor.. which is being greatly appreciated. At Wouldham 'the renoos ton scheme het been carried out and half the costs mised. At Chatham the Ladies' Aid have secured 430 towards the reduction of an adverse church balance of 4100. It catunanimously • decided to ref . the minister's salary £10 a year, wahine it 4110. Rao. J. T. Ridley unanimously in-vited to superintend the circuit until 1921. A quickening is being experienced both at Chatham and Wouldham. We are looking for further ingatherings of coals. Charley. •

Held at Chorley. Reports presented by Rev. J. Wright were iadimtive of the cir.

'c'i■■PaZit'urter eibeecoLlein'igianre',Ylbeer. s.:M ` ised berg over 470, an increase of EU Be Excellent service was rendered by Rave J. Sorkin and J. landeay. During

F3'itirt 114d. 3 ria.:inizdalf, keeping with a promise made previously, 2,50has been raised to assist our church at Central Hall, 'Wigan. A generous sum was raised to elitist LIverstone Church, Dalton and Willow Circuit. Prior to the war both ministers' eateries we substantially in-creased, hat in view of the increased coat of living a war bonus row voted to both miniaters, viz., £2 10s. per umber each. Them eeting rongratulated elr. Thomas Derbyshire on h is 3 ubile 1 y pre b Cleethorpee,

Held at Beaconlhorpe. Arrongementa made/ for Day of Prayer, Red Cross, and

fdeer worthy objects. The presentation rom Alm officials of ourcircuit to Sir

Thoffias and lady Robinson, K.B.E., J.P. CC., of a suitably framed illuminated address conveying their hearty congratula-tions upon the honour deservedly conferred upon them by His Majesty wee made by an old friend, the circuit steward, Mr. T. W.

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Rev. A. J. Bull presided. A resolution of sympathy was pawed with Mr. G. Anro strong lour eeteeneed circuit steward and

Mrs. Armstrong, %Olive youngest son has been killed in aclioit in France ; also wnh Mr. H. Drokbeck and family (Keswick), Mr. Crockett (Belie Vue) in their affliction ; end Gunner R. T. Metcalf (Kesqick), wounded in France. Thalinencial report very satis-factory, andmembership increased by seven. .44 Ma 3d. raised for missions in

Sell-denfid " week.. Dmrham Schml con-annulated on winning four district prizes, and Cochormouth one prim. Rev. A. J. Bull, whose eatery has recently been raised, was umminumly invited for a fifth year, sod cordially accepted.

Darlington. • , Held at Greenhank, Rev. W. Barton pre.

eliding. Reports of members and finances very encouraging. Suitable resolutions of

Lempathy lore passed to Alderman C. H. ach area other bereaved families. Con-

gratulatims accordedto Hatightonroad Society on. the splendid'access of their hamar, by which over 4134 was realised. Five pounds out of the balance in hand was voted to the ministers. The circuit pward, Mr. W. itmlop, was re-elecrod. Darwen. •

Held at Redearthemd. Debts have been reduced and membership increased. The ebb. of the Connmional Orphanage and other funds received sympathetic con-sideration and help premised. 'Congratu- lations

we given to Mr. Frank Kay on a

re ining his H.Sc. degree, and Mr. J. 1. erriehaw on his appointment in the

London University -Library A go ments made for a Circuit School Cenven-lion. and a series el mission services to be conducted by Rev. J. Hodges.

Derby Fourth. Rev. 0. E. Brown presided. Spiritual

condition of circuit and finances excellent. War bonus granted to minis., Firmmeeting. Hopeful outlook.

Durham. Held at Lymington .sterrace. Sister

Miriam was el-M.11111.11ml to Hull, and wishes were expressed for her success. Letters of sympathy were sent to all who have lost relatives in the war. Notice was given to increase the minister's salary or grant a bonus next. quarter. The rim emery round was 412 10s. 6d. above last year. Paslor Font reported success in his work of Iledley Hill Society.

Foahill Bank and Accrington. Held Fochill Bank, Hew. E. R. Dovro

chairman. The_sirmin steward, Mr. IV. Cho rock, stimulated by tho generosity of a local friend and the kind offer of Sir W.P. Bartley.. submitted a scheme for increasing the ministere' salaries by 15 per quarter for the next three years, which woe roani. momly Adopted Sympathetic rmolutions were passed with rho relatives of those who have been 'called to melte the supreme secrifide.

Glossop Financially the circuit is in e good posi-

tion. The circuit ateward, M . 0. P t , RR, ro-elected. The war ben. of the minister woe increased, and the leiter from the General Secretary re increase of eatery

CJunanimously accepted. Rev. William

C Bunter was unanimously invited to re-main a filth year, July, 1910, to 1920, and aeapted.

Hinckley. Met at Harwell. Encoeraging reports by

Rev. A. Surtem. of missionary services at Three village churchee. Each had been well served by Rev. J. T. Pooh. Increase of 45 15e. Id. on last year's results. Also report of circuit effort to raise fonds for furnishing new manse on the completion. of the elation's pledge -in 1910. Its decided decided to give further assiolance Mil Bell Hill Chapel (Nottingham Fifth). Harwell Church warmly commended 14 spirited attempt to liquidate their debt.

.All the circuit affairs reported to be in a satist.tory condition. The is on lo-

be f tb t , also a balance in hand. Flee E. W. Pape was unanimously invited until the Confer ence of 1021, making up a term of live years It was decided, mil the aid of the perceotage from the special fund for the incrmse of ministers' ealariea, to add 420 In the pre-war etipend of 2.130. The meet-ing was followed by an enthusiaatic public meeLing, held to celebrate the extinction of the debt on the Bute Hill Church property, at which Rev. J. Haggett, a minister of former year, gave a most helpful address. As the result of a sale of work held in the afternoon, collections add subscriptions, a good stem was made with a for rem. rations and eel...lona. Hall Sixth.

Numeri.1 arid financial progress re.

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I0! THE •PRIMITIVE METHODIST LEADER. DECEMBER, 20, 1017

ported. Letter from C.C. Secretary cor. dully received, and minister.' eel.. in. creased £20. Re. A. H. Auly remains another year. Rev. F. S. Button will be succeeded by Rev. G donning. The appli-cation of the Portobello Church to be con-stituted • branch unanimously pp nerd. Rev. A. Bird will superintend the branch until his removal to Bristol Third, when be will be succeeded by Ron. T. A. Thomp. eon, B.S. . Thormrambald Chapel his been niopened freed debt. Toward. the rebuilding fond dHaden Chapel and school sAmq has been raised. Gilts and bow. amounting to over £1,600 have bent received for 'cle.ing the debt of Portobello Church. Sister Miriam has bear engaged aa ender for Willierneen-street Mr. E Robson, J.P., and Mr. Jas. Swate will contribute £10 a year each towards her salary. Meson. Jan Moore and P. Clapham, J.P., warmly thanked for their services as circuit atewards and re-elected.

somlwood. Rev. F. L Cull preaided. The steward's

accounts were very satisfactory. Mr. Cull's invitation until 1020 was confirmed. Mr. A. W. Mayo (minister's waists.) accepted a numb.. invitation until the same year. In the evening an llent .ncert wee given in aid of the soldier.' fund. Mr. T. Law, of Todmorden, presided. Tee pounds w. raised, f

or with other stuns,

making £14 for this church. About £60 has been raised and forwarded to our boys of the school. in the circuit during the list lee week. Leeds Fifth.

Held at Eleven Lane Ends. Rev. J. Bennett presided. Membership earne ae last garter. The finances chimed a slight balance in hand. Rev. John Bennett is luving the circuit in 1919, at end of.three years' minietry. It was decided to increase the minister's salary £20 a year, to take effect et the next Quarterly Meeting.

Lend. Tenth. Rev. W. Sun]. Spencer reported pro-

goes. in all departments. The meeting unanimously decided to increue the mini.. tent war bonus 10 per cent., thus bringing the salary up to £140. The generous re aponse of the circuit enabled the stewards also to pay off the whole of the debt in. coned in refurnishing and decorating the manse at Bothwell. _

Leek. Batelle° of £10 in the circuit fund, and

good iirospecte for the future. The mem. bershp has been maintained in spite of considerable losses. A resolution record-ing the death 'of Mr. Bertram Hunt, one ol our esteemed local preacher., was passed. It was considered inexpedient to raise the eatery et the present time, but generous cash bon. wen unanimously voted to the minister. (Brikasal.

Rev. J. W. Chappell presided. A con. venation on the work of God revealed healthy spirit in the churches. The steward reported a balance in hand. A record wee made of the successes gained by the Toot-mr Scheel in Lhe recent Scholi...(,firat die.

tn. prise, Lower Middle i

on) and

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SISTER OF THE PEOPLE.

NORTHAMPTON SECOND CIRCUIT

Desire the wirvices of a Capable sIgter with • wide experienee. An excellent opportunity for one fully devoted to her work. Would he in every wsy well eupporied by the Church. Hemuneentioa £25 per Quarter. Apply wish references, giving fulls. particular. to

G. MARDI"

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Teachers' (ninth Conneaional prize) Exam. inations, Iltanka were given to Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Chappell for their hard work and One leadership

it the recent debt-reducing

efforts. The award of the Military Medal to Plo. W. H. Berns, son ol our Tooting choirmaster, Wu noted, and letter el appreeiation sent. London (Stoke NeWington):

Held at Northwold-road. Superinten-dent W. H..Jenkine congratulated upon his oompletien of forty years' distinguished

gage- went Beebe for 1910' con- firmed, when Rev, W. Leech. removes to Leicester Fine. Inrespon. to the General Committees letter it was decided to in. crease the minister'. salary by £10 pee year. Sympathy espread with Mem-, A. Ward, in hie illness, and with J. Din whose can hen been wounded in Fleece.

-Superintendent W. H. Jenkins woe pre-sented with' a bean tilul table writing cabinet in recognition of his valuable ser-vices as secretary of the Renovation Scheme at Northwold Circuit stewards (Mee.. C. R. Mayn.d and H. J. Wikoa) reelected.

'Lawton. Held at Bamlurlong. Membership same

as last quarter. Circuit fund hem a balance n hand. The miseionary mend was

record success. The dhputation, Rev. S. G. Delafield, served splendidly. The minister is holding a seri. of Maki senile e, which ere greatly appreciated. Hr. J. Birth ap-pointed etre. mewed. Manchester Ninth.

Held at Wellingtonetreet. Small in-crease ol member,. Finance. eatisfactory.

1.11.poritoonle mb.sionartdroin,nd showed a grat

11A., now in this ...Z. w'oouhnnde•CrkaaY. recommended tmanimo.ly for the mincie try. Rev. J. T. Taylor received an invita-tion to remain a seventh year—till 1920— but hae announced his intention toremove in 1919 at the close of his sixth yea,. The circuit voted a second war bonus (0) to the niiMster. Marypert.

Held at Crosby Villa, Rev. C. Darin in the chair. hlembership well maintained. Financces highly eatislactory. Rev. • G. Davi.' stipend further increased,' end another £10 to be paid off the circuit manse. tIr.. Davies premed to reconeidor kis decision to Icons. et the end of hie fourth year, but declined. Mr. T. Greenhow re-elected circuit steward. Morley. •

Held at Birke.. The report of the past quarter's work wee most deering. A number of special efforts have b.n crowned with remarkable success. The Birks and Ebenezer Societies have had bazaar efforts, which realised £120 and 2310 respectively. The special conventions held at Ebeneser and Birks have had merited spiritual influ-ence. The re-election of our circuit steward (Councillor J. Stockdale, J.P.) as Mayor of Morley for a second term, making the fifth year in ...cession that the Mayor and Corporation here worshipped at our Ebenezer Church,duly noted. The letter from the General Committee on ministers' ladies was received, and it was decided to vote an increase of 020 per cur. Norwich Second.

Encouraging reperte were received•frns most of our eometies. Finance ahowed. oonsidereble improvement, Best C. Marlin and C. a Sheldrake unanimously invited for a second and fourth year re-spectively. The. death of two meet pro. mieing young men was reporled—Mr. Watson, died of wounds nceived. Fran.. and Mr. F. S. Willimett pasattd away alter a painful illness. °smeary.

Increase of member. reported. Rev. W. Chapman stated missionary roung very successful, with increased incomd. Mee eatery increased by £20 p..num. Mr. Harlow heartily congratulated on else lion ea Mayor.' Mr. Parry and W. H. Plummer, ex-Mayors, with ethers, paid tribute to the fitness of Mr. Barlow Inc the high poaition. A neceealul Endeavour Society his been formed at Maiden Church. Beading.

Held at London...eel, Rey. J. A. Alder-son presiding. The income was within 03 01 the outgo, although ulsriee have been increased. The meeting rejoiced in the con-tinued prosperity, and congratulated the churches on the high tone inerrileated, speciel mention being made of London. etree, Church Reported five increase I. quarter. A trust was formed for Whitley Weed Side, the gift of an Anglican gentle-man. A fund was inaugurated for build-ing a new church at Burchfield.

Southport !q.t. Meeting held at Manbede. Finances

eatislulory. Rev. D. S. Lees accepted in-vitation to remain in circuit. Decided to add another war bonus of £6 per quarter to minister's salary. Mr. John ltimmer re elected circuit steward, end Councillor Houldsworth secretary. Spennymoor.

Meeting held at Ferryhill. Membership 855, a slight increme on the quarter. Balance of £14 after meeting the q.rter'e expellee.. Rev. Thomas Bane. intimated that he would be leaving for Ashington June, 1919. The snood minieter, Rev. G. H. Green, was ea wooly appointed hie niece... Both ministera will in 1919 here reeved the circuit -five yeare each, Minister's salaris increased by 2.5 each per. quarter. Staveley.

Meld . at Clowns Finances. very sat.- factory, leaving.. balan. in hand. letters have seen sent to Mr. Z. Martin, J.P., Mr. Wm. Hodgson,. Mr. J. ddatty, and Mrs. Kaye It Mae unanimoudy decided to-

e

ispond In the challenge hi' Sir W. P.

Ffartley., generous offer - to raise the eadery to £150, taking effect

from September. A very enthusiaatie public meeting wee held in the evening, presided over by Mr. H. Cal.. and ad-deemed by Messrs. G. H. Kerry, E. Cattier, F. .Wickens, J. Manthall, T. Betty, end Rev. S. Bates. Stokesley.

Rev. W. Skelson presided. A slight in crease in member. Miesionary money a record. Over EC sent. to the eoldiers' fund. The minister's elipend in reseed 42 per

J.

end otrs, Bainbridge m iced tea. A Rec

o- t.: , £2 I,.. was taken

for the Livingstone Hall and Glasgow debt reduction schemes. Tadcaster.

An increase of nine member., red three local preachers on the Approved List. Financial income highest on r.ord,and after paying all claims and advancing the minieter's. sal., £23 per year there re-mained a very substantial balance in hand. Thanks were accorded the Ladies' Sewing Society, who by the bazaar held in Tad. caster raised over £100. Breton Spa Church, Irlikh hoe been almost cloned for years, is now showing aigns of prosperity. The missionary round rulised mere then double the amount of two yea. ago. Tipton.

Thirty nama have been removed from the roll end fifteen admitted into week. Sone young men were given note. to take appointments. Adrantap' wu taken of . the land. that being raNed to pay 25 per cent. of the increase in ministers' eaten.. III was decided tin increase shotdd be £20 per arcnum. A silver tree waa stripped by Mrs. Church, ol Sedgley and the Bower isle, superintended by Ain Anovmmith. realised £3417,. 3d.. which will enable 833 to be paid off the Manse debt. West Bromwich Firet.

Rev. W. E Webley preaided. Roper. very encouraging, and chewed • healthy erudition throughout the circuit. The letter from the G.eralCommitteen

salaries and Sir W. P. Hartley's generous offer was read. It wee unani-meanly resolved to raise the minister's salary to £150 per year.

Women's Missionary Federation.

The monthly meeting was held at-Bristol Hell, Mr. W. Arundel presiding. Miss Lily Wathe rendered two solos. accom-panied by Me.. Bidden Jones Mrs. B; Pollard. late W.M.C. mietionary to Chine, gave • very interesting addreeti, The taa wes kindly given by Mr. W. Arundel. Collection realised 23 17s. 3d. - After Lea there waa a. sale el useful and fancy article. Proceed. £4. Rer. J. g. Hind returned thank. Bristol.

The monthly m.ting was held at the residence of Mr. Sutcliffe. Mn. Lee pre sided. supported by Rev. A. Sutcliffe. who read the Scriptures. The missionary letter teas read by Mrs. Taverner, Mrs. J. M. Beale rendered two beautiful aolos. and a eery interesting address wm given by Mrs: Monks. Tea was served, and a .1l.tion taken for the funds. McGrew.. The monthly "At Home" was held en December 11th. The deputation wart Itov. A. Humphrey Richardson, with Rev. IV J Ward as .11sague. The report showed in-

creases both in number of members and the amount. raised for missions. The Mayoress of . Grimsby (Mrs. F. Mose) pre-sided. supported by Me.. T. C. Mon (ea-Mayoras), Mr. H. Croft Baker (Presi-dent), and thevice-preeidents, Lady Robin-son, Mrs. William Grant, Mr. W. J. Ward and Mrs. W. Feb.c Rev. A. H. Ekhard-son epake more particularly en .Mission• ary Work Amongst Aire. Women...Mr. Hubert. HavenhilPs two song. _were very much appreciated. Tea, given by Mem-ber. wee served et the close. Derby. ' •

The monthly meeting wee held at Cam-pion-street Mew A. Morgan presided and Mr. J: S. Slater Id the devotions, The speaker 'wee Rev. F, McLellan. An ca. tweeting missionary letter wee read by the secretary, and solo. were contributed by Mill Dori. Ilorobili accompanist., Misses Kathleen Horobin and Mary McLellan. A.collection we. taken and capital tea followed. Durham. Mee. Fletcher presided at the first Meet

ing of the newly hatted a.iliery at Jubilee Church. A very interesting ad-drme we given by Mrs. C. Bone on 'My , Work in China." Bee. H. Fletcher also pe.. Mies D. Pattison was the soloist. .

Mr. and Mrs. J. Ohses kindly gave !bete. 22 3e. was readies. Grimsby Seqpnd.

The ladies' anailiary took adiantage of the visit, of Rev: C. Finlay to the circuit and held an "At Horne" et Ebenezer. Sim H. Colt-Baker presided, Rae. A. R. Welsham offered prayer and Rev. J. E. Storey r.d the Scripture. Mime Giadye Bellamy deliened the audience with hersolos. 111:se May Watkinsoa acted as ac. ...net, and Mita Annie Welkin on read the misdonary letter. Rev. C. Fin-lay told in eft/active style the story of Maria Showers' Ids and work. Reknit-runts were provided by gra. C. K. Wat-kinson.. The collection am led to £3 be. The auxiliary has raised £10 during the year.

Halifax First. The monthly meeting wae held at Ebenezer

Church. Mrs. Yearsley 'presided ands

read the Scripture lemon. Mrs. Rovefell (United Methodist) gave an interesting ad-dress on minden work in China. The missionary letter was read by Mn,'. Harri• son. Tea wu generously provided by Mrs Pamon and Mrs. Tom

. Smith. A good

collection wea taken for minion funds.

The monthly meeting was held at St. George's-road, under the preeidency of Mrs. Drabbs. A fine address was given by Rev. C. Finlay (returned missionary). Mn: T. Lightfoot rendered leo excellent ads. Accenipaniet, Mrs: Stevens. The ladies presided tea. Financial mule, 25 12.. ld. Man--ch •

The annual meeting _was held at Mose. lane •Church. Mr.. Hynatton presided. Rev. T. [(y ad. opened with prayer. Mr. Jones Davi. gave a meet interesting and helpful addreee. We are grateful to

besunti fuTgeTot„ Epic et ad the two mistionary letter.. The tee, rovided by the ladies el the chinch, realised £2 4e. fide After...de the badness' in.ting for the election of °Spire dor the coming year took place. Oldham.

The auxiliary has held two very aunt.- fel meetings. The first was at Middleton-rued, when a helpful address was given by Men tionfleld. The soloist was filmy-Soho. field. Mt. Edwards read the missionary letter.. The se.md meeting was UAW., oh. an inspiring ache. was given by Ms. Jones Davies. The missionary letter was read ci

ted Mr. Atteraell. Mr. G. Ether-

ington reci. Mrs. Jackson unaided at e both meetings. Financial result very pod. Sheffield.

A drawing-room meeting wail held st, Lanpetleoad Church on Thing., at, which M. Harold Smith presided, and an inspiring address. was delivered by Sister Lois (el the United Methodist Church). Sol. were rendered by Mira Pinder, with Me. Mav Hulse, L.A. All, ng acorm-panel, 'Cater Rachel (WomPand View Munk) and Mre. Haycock else took pert, £617e. 9d.- was realised. W.:ternaries..

Auxiliary meeting held at Quebec. A helpful address was given by Pastor G: W. II. 'Ford. The monthly letter wee .treed by hire. -Hewitt Being tthede, an a

al

meeting, offier were appoin

very encouraging repot re.ived dram the treasurer. The ettendaue we good.

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