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ENABLING BILL SECOND READING. MESSAGES TO I READERS. We have received the following im- portant messages to C.F.N, readers con- sequent upon the Second Heading of the Enabling Bill. THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. Viscount Wolmer, M.P THE division on the second reading of the Enabling Bill in the House of Com- mons is a great encouragement to all those who have the future of the Church at heart. We must continue to work and to pray that the remaining stages of the Bill be as successfully accom- plished. There is now D.V. an excellent prospect of the Bill becoming law by Christmas. No doubt certain amend- ments will be inserted during the Com- mittee stage to reassure those who are nervous as to points -of detail, but Churchmen need have no fear that the promoters of the Bill will allow its use- fulness to be impaired. There are plenty of points on which we can make conces- sions to our Nonconformist friends, whom we are most anxious to meet in every way possible, without injuring the essential features of the Bill. Once through, Churchmen must remember y that the task of Church reform has only just begun. 1920 must see the Church Assembly hard at work to remove the abuses that hinder the ministrations of the Church. A great prospect and a great opportunity lies before us. We must seize it. WOLMEK. THE WAY OPEN. Canon William Temple. President of the Life and Liberty Movement. THE House of Commons has, in a re- markably full house, given a virtually unanimous vote in favour of the Enabling Bill. We may now hope that it will pass into law this Session with- out first suffering mutilation. It is im- portant that Church people should realise what this implies. It means that the way is open for reforming the vari- ous abuses in the system of the Church's organisation, which both hamper its efficiency and blunt the edge of its moral witness. But it also means that we have all got to take our part in seeing that the opportunity is taken. And in taking this chance we shall do for the Church something far more im- portant than the accomplishment of some reforms. We shall, in the very act of co-operation for this purpose, realise more fully what is meant by membership in the Body of Christ, and so help the Church more completely to correspond to the purpose of its Founder. We must use the Parochial Church Councils that will be set up, and see that they are centres of spiritual fellow- ship. We must return the right repre- sentatives to Diocesan Conferences and the Church Assembly. Everything now depends on the average Church member if he really takes his part. Liberty ii-ill prove to be the means of life. W. TRIPLE. NOT THROUGH YET. Rev. F. A. Ircmofiger, Chairman of the Life and Liberty Movement. I am very glad to send a message to the readers of the O.F.N. on the En- abling Bill. There are. I "think, only two things to be said at this juncture: that we have the greatest cause for thankfulness, and that we must be care- ful to remember that the Bill is not through yet. Of the thankfulness I need say but little; it is in every heart—for the I magnificent and overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, for the work of many by which public opinion was corrected and Church opinion instructed, for the high level which the speakers— with hardly one exception—reached and maintained" during the debate in the Lower House, and, above all, for the prayers of thousands who have known and used their power. The work was done by prayer" are the words which occur in more than one letter which has reached the Life and Liberty office since Friday. We thank God and take courage. But, I repeat, the Bill is not yet on the Statute Book. The Committee stage will be critical. It is not difficult to see, from the division list, that many who voted for the Bill did so in the hope that it would be amended in Com- mittee. I am glad that, at the moment of writing, I know no more than the readers of the C.F.N. about the exact, nature of the amendments: which will be pressed in Committee. In only behoves each one of us who have done work for the Bill in the past, by instruction or discussion or prayer, to relax no effort during the coming weeks in continuing what we have begun. There are possible dangers ahead in the nature and extent of the amend- ments, and we must be prepared to meet them. This, at least, o;»be said: It is good to know that there is a prob- ability of the Government taking charge of the Bill when it comes back to the House of Commons, which will improve the chances of its receiving the King's signature before the House rises. There is one more word to add. The greatest delusion is to imagine that, if the Bill is on the Statute Book by Christmas the work is over. Let us be under no false impression here the work will only have begun. The machinery for the election of the Councils has to be set up, and this cannot be done in a moment. The Councils themselves, when set up, may either be centres of vigour and fellowship, touching the life of the nation at many points, and making their influence widely felt; or they may be merely dry bones, with no spirit in them —highly organised, but spiritually and morally ineffective. The position-if and when the Bill is passed—cannot be better summed up than in the words of a writer in a well- known weekly paper last Sunday The Pflssing of the Enabling Bill will throw a great responsibility on the Church of England As she responds to it, so shall she be judged." F. A. IREMONOEK. Enabling Bill Division. The following are the names of mem- bers who voted in the minority against the Bill: Benn, Captain. W. (Leith); Craig, Colonel Sir James (Down. Mid); Greig, Colonel James W. (Renfrew, W.); Hinds, John (Carmar- then) Hogge, J. M. (Edinburgh, E.); Holmes, J. Stanley (Derbyshire, N.E.); Johnstone, J. (Renfrew, E.); Lyle-Samuel, A. (Eye, E. Suf- folk); Maclean, Rt. Hon. Sir D. (Midlothian); Macquisten, F. A. (Spring-burn); Sturrock, J. Leng- (Montrose); Swan, J. E. C. (Barnard Castle); Warner, Sir T. Courtehay T. (Lich- field); Watsrson, A. E. (Kette-ring): Wedg- wood, Colonel Josiah C. (Newcastle-under- Lyme); Young, William (Perth and Kinross). Tellers for the "Noes," Mr. Broad (Clay Cross) -and Major Barnes (Newcastle, E,). The following members paired — FOR. AGAINST. C. Fc White J. M. Hogge. M. G. Townley. A. MacCullum. W. Cope. Sir W. Seager. G. Terrell. Col. John Ward. Col. H. L. Brackenbur G. R. Thorne. Sir H. Rogers. Major W. Murray. Lieut. Harold Smith; 8. Robinson. Sir J. Agg- Gardner. S. Arnold. Lorrd H. Cavendish- Sir J. McCallum. Bentinck. A. Neal. Havdyn Jones. G. Stewart. Rt. Hon. J. A. M. Co. Penry Williams. Macdonald. Major C. F. Entwistle Trevelyan Thomson. Dr. Murray. Dr. Murray.

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ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS. LECTURE AT CHURCH HOUSE. NEXT Tuesday at 3 p.m. the Rev. W. A. Wigram, D.D., will lecture at the Mary Sumner House, Church House, on The Assyrian Christians in the Great War/' Dr. Wigram gave this lecture at the meet- ing of the Central Committee for Women's Church Work in October, and so much interest was evinced that he v-t;: asked to give it again at the Mary Sumner House. Dr. Wigram has for many years been a member of the Archbishops' Assyrian Mission. During the war he was a prisoner of the Turkish Government. The lecture will be under the auspices of the Mothers' Union. There will also be a lecture at the same place on December 5 at 3 p.m. on "The Care of the Unmarried Mother and Her Child." Representatives from both the Archbishops' Advisory Board for Spiritual 'and Moral Work and the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child will also be present: and take part in the discussion.

MISSIONARIES ON FURLOUGH. SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCES. Two interesting and successful Confer- ences of missionaries on furlough have recently been held under the auspices of the Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Brit ain and Ireland. On October 9 72 missionaries from China, and on Octo- ber 16 40 missionaries from Africa, met at the Church Missionary House under the chairmanship of Mr. J. H. Oldham. Lunch was provided at the London Mis- sionary Society's offices near by. The meeting for missionaries from India arranged for October 2 was postponed 011 account of the railway strike, but is being summoned for December 4, from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Already some hundred mis- sionaries have enrolled themselves, and we understand that a few tickets are still available. Applications for these should be made to the Secretary, Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland, at 117, Victoria-street, S.W. 1. Attendance is limited to missionaries on furlough from India, and the discussion will centre round, the effect of the con- stitutional reforms upon missionary work and the relations of Churcn and Mission.

CHRISTIANITY AND LABOUR UNREST. 't, HALF-HOUR talks on Chi inanity and Labour' Unrest" are to be given in the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafal- gar-square, on Friday evenings, at 6.30 p.m. To-day Lord Parmoor will deal with The Servant of the New World." The speakers arranged for the subsequent Fridays are: Major Harry Barnes, M.P., Are, Strikes Fair Play?. Mr. George Lansbu,ry, II Strikes and Christianity Mr. Frank Hodge, H lIs there a way out? Mr. Ben Spoor, M.P., The Need of Fel- lowship, the inner meaning of Strikes H; The Rev. Canon W. Temple, D.Litt., Christus Consummator."