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CHRISTMAS WITHOUT FRIEND or GIFT. DEAR FRIENDS,— To be without friends, to feel no one cares and nothing matters, is bad enough, hard enough to bear in ordinary times, but at Christmas time it is manifold harder. There is hardly a life but that can look back on the old Christmas fireside, however mean it was on the old Christmas festivities, however meagre they were; on the old Christmas gatherings, however humble they were but how the years, as they have rolled onward, have added age, and stripped of friends. For these aged and lonely ones, without friend or cheer at Christmas time, I now plead. Will you, kind reader, befriend some lonely, aged, and per- .haps sick, one ? Will you send a gift so that we may be able to take E as your personal Christmas gift to a less fortunate brother or sister, without perhaps a friend in the world, and. say, A kind friend has thought of you and sent you this gift so that you may feel you are not forgotten-and also to remind you the Infant- Saviour was born for you, does love you, does care for you ? I can see (as one has often done) for the gift tears of gratitude silencing the effort to speak words of thanks. This power of kind-doing, touching the heart, gives the oppor- tunity to tell to that one the old, old story of Jesus and His love," as nothing else will. You will have many claims this Xmas outside those of your own family, but cannot you spare just one gift with which to buy a little food or coal for the many sad and aged in our midst ? Think of your Xmas and theirs; of your joy and their lonely poverty. My constant burden is, What can we do for them ? How can we help them ? Will you, kind reader, send at this Xmas time to those whose lives are dreary, whose homes are sordid, and whose hearts are just aching with loneliness, a gift to help and cheer them and to remind them of the Infant Saviour ? Many of the very poorest in this large and poverty- filled parish are lonely, hopeless and helpless beyond words can describe. At Christmastime will you lessen these and light a little ray of hope and happiness in their lives by a loving gift ? Your servant in Christ, E. C. PITT-JOWNSON. Donations (which will be grate- fully acknowledged) may be sent to the EDITOR, Church Family News- paper, 17, Tavistock-street, W.C. 2 or direct to me at All Saints' Church, King's Cross, London, N. 1. THE Needy and Lonely WiLL YOU HELP THEM AT XMASTIME ? Special Christmas Appeal, THE POOR CLERGY RELIEF CORPORATION- Patrons: The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, The ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. President:—The BISHOP OF LONDON. The only Society of the kind which gives immediate assistance to the Clergy, their Widows and Orphan Daughters, in all parts of the Empire. At each Fortnightly Meeting of the Committee ioryfe hundreds of pounds are distributed (besides valuable gifts of Clothing), and a large fund is required to meet the ever-increasing appeals for help. A retired Clergyman, who is interested in the work of the Society, is prepared to GIVE the SUM of £50 towards the funds if E450 can be raised before Christmas to supply the pressing wants of the Clergy during the winter. It is earnestly hoped that this amount may be raised. Any contributions to this tund should be marked D. J. S. and sent to MANDEVILLS B. PHILLIPS, Secretary, 38, Tavistock Place, Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I. QUEEN VICTORIA CLERGY FUND. (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1897.) OBJECT.—To impress upon all the members of the Church of England the clearly defined Christian duty of contributing towards the support of the Clergy. CONTRIBUTIONS received by the Central Fund are distributed by the Council amongst the affiliated dioceses in proportion to their needs. Remittances for the Central Fund should be sent to the Secretary, SYDNEY w.. FLAMANK, Esq. (Secretary to the Church House), Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W. 1. Cheques to be crossed London Joint Stock Bank, Westminster Branch." BD#^V FRIENDLY yLCHuY SOCIETY. SIGKNESSAND ACCIDENT. Secretary— Rev. R. R. Powell, Church "House, Westminster, S.W* ^lminiinaiiiiainiiHiiiHiMimiiniiiiiiiiiniBHHiiiiiiniiHiiiiiiBiiiBiiiiliiHiiniiWiiiiniiiHiiiiiHiiiiMiiBiiiMHiiininMiiiiMiiiniHiBnmiMHniiiiiiig I HOUSES DEMOLISHED I | HOMES IN CAVES | = Latest report from Devastated Armenia tell ot the terrible privation from COLD || jj AND HUNGER under which poor destitute = women and children are existing AT THIS m j) PRESENT TIME. Christmas will indeed = J be a sad Festival for them. Our Orphanages m are full and every possible aid is being pro- m vided to relieve their distress.- But Funds = are all too small in face of the Great Need. §| ) WE PLEAD FOR YOUR SYMPATHY t AND CHRISTMAS GIFTS J j= A Letter from Aintab says: jg I was just out to start on a visit to some needy village §§ M when your letter arrived. The villages I visited were in H a sad state of need. In one eighty out of a hundred |I g houses completely demolished, 215 people out of the 700 §§ §§ that left the village when exiled have returned. For the f§j M lot these twenty houses, every one of them, needing much |§ repair. Near the next village there are many caves, so H they have made their homes in them. but oh the need H and sickness. I took some simple things, quinine, eye m lotion, &c., &c., -but did not have nearly enough as a result, M = since my return, several orphans have been brought to us." |§ t PLEASE SEND YOUR GIFT TO-DAY. ) FRIENDS of ARMENIA = ;¡¡: §§j Office and Embroidery Depot: || | 47, YICTORIA STIEET, WESTMINSTER, LOMDON, S.W. § Hours, 10-5 Saturdays, io-i. Tel. Vic. 1193. = 1 President LADY. FREDERICK CAVENDISH. 1 Chairman and Hon. Traasuror E. W. BROOKS, Esq. g Han Sec.: Mrs. Mary Hickson. Office See.: Miss M. Rusaali ê = D o-astions will be thankfully received, and should be sent to the Hon. 5 H Treasurer, E. WRIGHT BROOKS, Esq., Friends of Armenia," 47, Victoria = = Street, S.W. Cheques and Postal Orders should be crossed L.C.W. || = and Parr's Bank," and Treasury Notes registered. Please mention m the Church Family Newspaper. ê III III III IIIIIIHlUHI II I 1111 11111 IlIlIJ iii I 1111111111111111111111111 ¡¡¡¡¡¡\111m ¡m 11 ¡¡H1 111 II \HnU!: 1111. HI IJ HI iH1lHm1 III! an\: nm 1In', 11\1' 1\11' \HI'. n\l,¡I '(In '111 inn'JIII I AnEPiscoal The Missionary who converted Darwin to a belief in Foreign Missions has now been a Bishop for Fifty Years. YOU ARE ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE BO "Bishop Stirling Fund" for the erection of a S.A.M.S. Homo and Institute for training South .1 American Indians to become Evangelist. Gifts can le ssnfc to the SOUTH AMERICAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 20, John St., Theobald's Row, London, W.C.I. | LL I Colonial and Continental I Church Societg. H Humbly, earnestly, and faithfully, the Society is dis- p H charging the plain duty of alleviating the spiritual = H destitution and promoting the spiritual welfare of our EE eH countrymen scattered over the great portIon of the earth's n| H surface in the Colonies, or, settled on the Continent of H Europe, by propagating the power of the Gospel of Christ, m H and seeking by wielding this two-edged sword of the H Spirit to bring souls to His obedience and thus to hasten m H the day when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge |p = of the Lord. as the waters cover the :sea. H The Society urgently requires 968,000 to meet most pressing f|| H needs. Will you respond now ? §=§ Secretary: The Rev. J. D. MULLINS, 1= H 9, Serjeants'-inn, Fleet-street, London, E.C. 4. Ul!lImlllllHlmlll 11111111 II 1IIIilllllllll 1111111111 lllllIlllllllli 1IIIUlII III II III !/III !1fI1I1H1I1I1II11I11!1!! /1111111'11111111111/111/111/1111111 /lllIli WOMAN'S -'MISSION TO WOMEtt The Missionaries visit the Streets, Hospitals, Infirmaries, Police Courts, &c. 500 Prisoners on Remand were helped during the past year. Bankers: BARCLAYS BANK, 95, Victoria St., S.W. 1. Office: Victoria House, 117, Victoria St., S.W. 1. Secretary ARTHUR* J. S. MADDISON. RELIGION AND BODILY HEALTH. THE GUILD OF HEALTH exists for tha study of the relation between the religious jife ana heath of body and mind. All members of the Christian Churches are eligible for membership. Chairman Rev. HAROLD ANSON. Hon. Sec.; MlssPHIBBS, 8,Sumner-terrace, Onslow Square. S.W. 7. A Service of prayer. with an address is held every Weduesdav at 6 p.m. in St Ma.rtin'in.th.Fi(}\d': Readers- who respond to any of the Advertisements in this journal would greatly oblige by mentioning the "Church Family Newspaper" as the source of their information.
IMPORTANCE OF MISSIONARY WORK.…
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IMPORTANCE OF MISSIONARY WORK. —— BY THE REV. G HIBBERT-WARE. Formerly Missionary at Delhi. THERE is not one of our mis- sionary societies that is not ait this moment confronted by a very serious situation. The after-war problems are proving in their way no less difficult of solution than the war problems themselves. The re- markable generosity of the sup- porters of missions, which raised the incomes of nearly all the societies in the year that the war ended to a record figure, has not yet met the needs of the succeeding period. The cost of living is still rising; the expense of every sort of equipment is greater than ever. Added to this is the huge loss sus- tained in the changing of pounds sterling into the silver currency of India and China, which in the case of our -two largest societies will amount collectively in the coming year to more than one hundred thousand pounds. There is, in fact, a very great strain at ithe pre- sent time on all who are trying to do their duty in the cause of foreign missions. Nevertheless, this is not a time, on the ground of special difficulties or of other claims, to slacken efforts. The effect of the war has not been, as some feared it would be, to put back missions. It has not been thought by the non- Christian peoples of the world that, because Christian nations were at war, therefore Christianity had failed. They have /not thought that the mere fact of fighting was a ground for condemning the Chris- tian peoples, for they have seen with some wonder that it was pos- sible to fight for a principle other than self-interest. And the atroci- ties that have been done have not been put down by non-Christians to the account of the Christian re- ligion, but rather to the absence of obedience to the teaching of Christ. Indeed, in various countries there is even a more thoughtful considera- tion of the claims of Christianity than there was, because Chris- tianity has got itself considered from new points of view. In some Mohammedan countries, for in- stance, where people have hitherto been in the habit of crudely regard- ing, after the Mohammedan way, material success as ,the seal of God's approval of a course of conduct, the breakdown of the one great Moham- medan Power has caused much heart-searching, and, it is re- ported, greater attention to Chris- tianity with its spiritual claims. Many Japanese, belonging as they do to a martial people, before the war were antagonistic to Chri-stian teaching, because they thought it inevitably led to a certain softness of character; they know now from the unsurpassed endurance of Christian soldiers that it does not. i The problem of the evangelisa- tion of the world is indeed more urgent than it ever was. We might take it even on its lower side and consider the danger to the world's well-being resulting from the presence in the world, and necessarily, in some degree, within the family of nations, of enormous populations remaining non-Chris- tianised. We have learned now, the danger of a non-Christian; civilisation; we have seen non« Christian theories of statement, combined with a high degree oi material civilisation, plunge the whole world into disaster.- The great populations of Asia and Africa have learned, as we havej ourselves, that the forces of science can be used for destructive pur- poses. If they choose to use them so, the numbers are on their side; education is at present on ours, but that situation may be greatly changed in a few years. The; peoples are putting themselves to school. China has, within this last year, found a new script which will make it as easy for the Chinese bOYI to learn to read and write his owrn language as it is for the English boy. In a few years we may see,, J China, with its hundreds of mil- lions, come into the front rank of educated nations. Will its ideals be Christian or non-Christian ? We oughit, for the sake of the world's peace (to take no higher ground), to desire the evangelisation of the populations of Asia and Africa. But the urgency of the problem of evangelisation is proved, for we who are Christians, on higher grounds than this. We are already convinced that evangelisation is a duty, because of our Master's com- mand; but we want, perhaps, to know, why it is more urgent now than it ever was. It is because the non-Christian peoples of the world are being stirred as they never have been stirred before. They are reaching out after a higher life. They desire education, but not education only; they are more or less dimly aware th ait they crave foe moral and spiritual force. The I widespread movements in many. regions of the world are towards Christianity, and are a witness that multitudes instinctively realise that only in Christianity will they find Vhait they need. The- sale oi Scriptures in China this last yeal has surpassed all previous records. In Africa, both on the east and on the west side, the mass movements are spreading beyond all the power of the missionaries to guide; new, places are being opened up by mem* bers of existing congregations, wha go out on their own responsibility, sometimes nIt great sacrifice, often ill-trained, teaching when it were fitter they should be taught. In India the mass movements are get- ting an even firmer hold of the out- castes. The war reduced the num- ber of missionaries, but the converts' were more than ever. And congre- gations, as well as individuals, show, the reality of their religion by what' they are willing to endure for it. Never before was there such a? conjunction of circumstances call- ing for adyance. To withdraw now; from important fields of wroik, and! imagine that they could be taken up at the same point later on undex easier conditions, would be a vain hope, nay, more, it would be a disaster. There is but one thing to be done. The Church at home must face an unparalleled situation with unprecedented self-sacrifice iii work and in gifts.
BISHOP- WAIZMAW S CHAPLAINS.
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BISHOP- WAIZMAW S CHAPLAINS. AMONG the examining chaplains ap- pointed by the new Bishop of Trura, ari* to be found some young men who ar already well known for their scholarly; attainments. Mr. Beck, Vicar of St., Ann's, Birkenhead, was for a time Vice- Principal at St. Aidan's Theological College under Dr. Warman. mrl Boughton, Vicar of Calverlev, Leeds, was formerly Principal of Ripon Clergy Col- lege, and Mr. Harris is the new Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. i.