South Wales Daily News

THE CHRISTIAN RELATION- SHIP. MEETING AT THE PARK HALL. The congress re-assembled at 10 o'clock in the Park Hall, Cardiff, on Friday morning, under the presidency of the Bishop of Llandalf. The attendance was very large. The Rev R. M. BEXSON, Cowley House, Oxford, who wore cassock and girdle, deli vered an impassioned address, in which he observed their ideas of God only could te gathered naturally from what they knew themselves to be. They could not have God's truth altered so that they might understand it. They must be raised to the fellowship of the Spirit, if they would understand the things of God. And they must, he proceeded, acknowledge their relationship to the Church as a living pillar and ground of the living truth. Rev Canon BULSTRODE read a paper upon The Christian in bis relation to God?" He said the relation of the soul to God was, firstly, that which they enjoy as His creatures. Secondly, that nearer one of senship which was formed through Christ. They nccopted the leader- ship of the priests of science, while they told of the things their eyes had seen ,and their bands bad handled, while they ex- pounded the results of their investigation, and revealed the secrets they bad wrung from nature. They sat at their feet as learners wbile they described the growth of the world's structure through counties ages, the new ever evolved frem the old, and new forms of life developing, fitted to each new chauged condition. They could accept them as their teachers when they tild them that those new forms of life did not xault from new creative acts, but that they were dr.wn from the old by the action of environments upoi forces latent within. But when, having led then so far, they would repress the faith their owneacbinK bad produced, when they told them they new nothing of God, that for them there was o hereafter, that all their aspirations for sometkng better were only given them to mock and beiol them, and that their brightest faith and ope -would be quencbed in the dust f death and silenced in the solitude of the tomb, then they turned from thoo who would repress to those who led, from the riest of science with his agnosticism, to the pests of Jesus, who spoke of life and immortalit brought to light through the Gospel. It had alws been the sin of science that it bad tried to rep4s the instinct of faith. It was not the reverent that had to be destroyed, but an ^iguorance Wich bad to be corrected. In answer- ing them, the uestion whether greater knowledge of God and a iloser relationship was attainable, they said "res'' to the No" of science. Natural religic, he asserted, was not satisfied even with a revtgnt agnosticism it can and did lead legitimatelyfurther. Archdeacon iNaRis quoted Bishop Butler's words in relatlono this ubject, and pointed out tbat by their bit ia revelation they had that assurance of that close nearness of God through the humanity of Christ, conveyed to them in their appointed avenues of access and means of grace. The conscientiousness of which Father Benson aud Butler spoko of the nearness of Go I depended entirely on free intercourse in those means of grace. Canon MCCOEMICK, D.D., followed. Whatever meaning they might attach to election, it was fre- quently referred to in the Bible, and especially ill the Epistles. To be the elect of God was to be in a splendid relationship with God and further ou, be said in their relationship with God they must have no secrets. The Rev W. H. HCTCHINGS said the Christian's relation to the Church as the organ of truth was threefold; first it was concerned with the orai teaching of the Christian creed Sbcoudly, with the written revelation of the New Testament; and thirdly, with the interpretation of the same. The individual Christian was not left to himself to formulate his own faith either before or since the New Testament was written. The Church, which was the pillar and ground of truth," was 'still the spiritual teacher of the world. As the Church was the organisatiou of truth, so by means of Sacraments she was the channel of grace to mankind. They called the Sacraments a means of grace, and rightly, for they conveyed to those who duly received toem the new nature of Christ and the gift of His spirit. He commented upon the social characteristics of man, made in the image of a God wliu bad boeu styled a social God, and observed tbat brotherhood in the realms or grace was a reality. Rev M. E. WEr.Bt read a paper on "The Relation of the Christian to the World." This relationship, he thought, was that of the servant of Christ in the world. He spoke not of the incarnate Christ, but of the Christ as earth knew Hun, the Christ who inter- mingled in human life—who never flittered them, and never used them for Himself. He also asked what was tba Christian's relation to society, and submitted it was the power of subordinating. They were not living in the 14th century, with expectation of the Judgment Day, with music set to Dies Irce, with men and women pointing at Dante, and saying, "There is the man who has seen hell." They weie now living at high worldly pressure, the unseeu reality was shunted to the sidings that the main line might be clear for their wordiiness. He treated upon another world phase—civilisation—especially the claim to be all-sufficing for the future progress of man. Civilisation could not insure man's God- ward progress. It could not safeguard purity. They were told Christianity was a spent force, and as Professor Tyndall had said, what mau wanted was the lifting force of a new idea. They replied that Christianity was the one divine force for uplifting men above sin and death and doom. Rev H. C. G. MOULE read a paper upon The Christian's relations to the woild-wbo is the Christiau, and what is the World?" He was one of those who deplored the tendency to call in light amusements to forward the work of the Ljrd Jesus Christ who gave himself for their sins. He gravely doubted whether the real outcome of the process could be for His glory and the good of men. Rev C. J. RIDCEWAY was the next reader of a paper. Separation from tho world could not, he considered, be the Christian's duty for many cogent reasons, which be particularised. The world was not as God made it, but they must not for that reason run away from it. They should strive to replace God in His own-place in his owu world. The conference shortly afterwards adjourned.

LINGUISTIC CONDITION OF WALES. CONFERENCE AT THE COLONIAL HALL. SPEECHES BY DEAN OWEN AND CANON BEVAN. At the Colonial Hall during the afternoon a discussion took place on The Linguistic Con- dition of Wales: Its Bearing on Church Work and Education, and the Difficulties arising from it." Mr J. T. D. Llewelyn occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. Among those present were Dean Vaughan. Archdeacon Griffiths, Canon Bevan, Canon Williams (Llanelly), Prebhndary Walters, and Mr Jonas Watson. DEAN OWEN. The Dean of Sr. ASAPH, who was well re- .ceived, in the courso of an interesting paper, said that at the beginning of last year the Bishop of St. Asaph estimated that out of a population of 1,570,000 in Wales and Monmouthshire, 600,000, at the lowest computation, or over 33 per cent., worshipped in English, leaving 62 per cent. to be worshippers in Welsh, Those who were most competent to form an opinion agreed that English was spreading rapidly in Wales, but that aide by side with this growing knowledge of English, Welsh continued to hold its own. It bad been predicted by a distinguished Nonconformist scholar that within 20 years English would be spoken generally throughout Wales. But tha disappearance of the Welsh language belonged to a future altogether too visionary to call for practi- cal consideration. (Cheers.) Education was at present a matter of pressing interes: iu Wales, and they had to decide, among other things, what place had to be assigned to the Welsh language in their system of education. He rejoiced that the Government had recognised in the new code proposed this year the force of the arguments for definitely utilising Welsh for the acquirement of English by Welsh-speaking children, and he was satisfied that the provisions of the new code, in the hands of tho intelligent body of elementary teachers in Wales, would more than compensate for any apparent loss of time by the increased intelligence and interest in lessons pfeduced by them iu Welsh-speaking children. He was also glad that Welsh was specified as one of the subjects of the curriculum of intermediate schools of Wales in the new Act which comes into operation next November. It was no use disguising the fact that Welsh boys and girls stood at a distinct educational disadvantage through having to learn English. (Hear, bear.) But that was all the more reason why this disadvantage should, as far as possible, be diminished by an intelligent use of wbat compensating philological advantage a Welshman possessed through him familiarity with two sets of idioms, for learning other languages, especially modern languages, where the rich phonetic resources of Welsh were of great help. So long as Welsh survived, let it-for the sake of its great philological worth and interesting history -retain its dignity as a language, and not be degraded and mutilated into a miserable patois. (Cheers.) Thanks to a few Welshmen of European reputation, the students of the University Colleges would have for the future in tneir bands, not only a first-rate text book of Welsh philology, but also a scientific and com- plete Welsh dictionary, and an accurate reprint of mediaeval Welsh classics. He trusted they would also, before long, have a reprint of Welsh historical records and a worthy text-book of Welsh history to guide thair studies. There need be no fear that the inclusion of Welsh in elemen- tary, intermediate, and higher education in Wales would make Welshmen clannish and narrow. If he was correct in thinking that for Welsh-speaking Welshmen its inclusion was educationally justified, it was bound to have the contrary effect, and to make Welsh patriotism broad, practical, and constructive. In examining the bearing of the linguistic condi- tion of Wales upon Church work, and the difficul- ties arising from it, he remarked that though there were special linguistic circumstances con- nected with Church work in Wales, still he felt strongly that in calling them difficulties Welsh Churchmen ought not to be understood to be making lamentation over thsm, and stilllesiI to be dismayed by them. They simply formed an element of the work which they had to perform, and their clear duty was to accept them cheerfully as part of their work, and to study with courage, and with what wisdom they might, how they were to make the best of them. Their prac- tical duty was to bring home the truths of the Church to all the inhabitants of Wales by every channel open to them both in Welsh and English, just as the people in each case preferred. They had to be strictly impartial and scrupulously fair in regard to both languages, doing their utmost for tha church by means of both alike, leaning, if they must lean at all, towards the weaker side, which is Welsh. They ought not to make the church an instrument either to curtail or to prolong the existence of Welsh by a single day. (Hear, hear.) To teach Welshmen English was an excellent thing, but to 'teach them religion was still more excellent. (Cheers.) School, and not Church, was the right place to teach English. On the other hand, let them watch with the closest care the flow of the English tide into their parishes and promptly adjust Church services to each change of linguistic condition as it came. And if he was reminded that the endowments of tho Church in Wales—which some people etrangely considered to be of an over- whelming extent—were really too small to admit of their hoping to cope with the rapidly growing demand for more churches and more clergy to meet the growth of bilingualism, be would reply that their small endowments were never meant to deaden, but to stimulate the exertions of each generation in Church work. (Cheers,) The splendid liberality shown in recent years by Welsh Church- men showed that they were not in danger just now of idly reposing upon the generosity of their forefathers. (Hear, hear.) But if we find two sets of churches, for the double set,, of services required, too expensive, let us ue mission-rooms, and if we caunot maintain a suffi. cieut staff of clergy, why should we not organise lay help? Resourcefulness would discover many resources for doing full justice to Church work in both languages, and their hearts be thoroughly resolved on tbis justice being done. But whatever they did, let them avoid bilingual services which were au irritating patch-Work, and really good for neither Welsh nor English. (Hear, hear.) He would add an emphatic caution against the blunder of fancying that anything would do for Welsh-speaking worshippers. The fact that they were, as a rule, in humble circumstances made conscientious and thorough consideration for them all the more imperative a duty on that account. No people appreciated more highly painstaking sermons and brotherly visits or were more helped in devotion by reverent and bright services, good hearty singing, and im. presive well-kept free and open churches than the Welsh-speaking inhabitants of Wales. They must never forget that the surest way to a Welsh- man's heart is through his sympathetic imagina- tion. It was certainly a disadvantage for the Church in Wales to be debarred, by their lin- guistic condition, from drawinl, freely uponEoglisb energy, English common sense, and English scholarship for her supply of clergy. But Welshmen had several other gifts be- sides fluency of speech, they were some- thing better than empty vessel, and so long ns they attended properly to) the training of Weisli clergy, there was no reason why the Church in Wales shouid be ashamed of her Welsh worker*. (Hear, hear.) The policy of treating Welshmen like Sepoys, meek enough to obey and useful in their place, but not made of stuff fit to lead and to rule, had had its day and ceased to be. Tho cry of Wales for the Welsh in the Church would be a mean, selfish, and suicidal insinuation of protection into sacred things and a form of simony. But to call for Welsh workers and leaders so long and so far only as they were required in order that Church work might be efficiently done in Wales was an altogether different matter. The prevalence of Welsh required Welsh Church literature, including periodicals,to be provided for their Welsh-reading people. They could net hope tofulfil their mission of bringing Church truths home to the Welsh people if they neglected to make full use of the powerful agency of the press. They must not stoop to imitate the tactics of a certain class of their opponents, who had done much, not only to prejudice their readers against the Church, but to vulgarize them by a tcne frequently lacking in love of fair-play, sense of honour, caru for accu- racy, and regard for the two sides of every ques- tion. They had to cope, he was sorry to say, with a certain amount of prejudice and even of bitterness against the Church in Wales, and the right and wisest way of coping with this feeling was to clearly state facts without exaggeration and without bitterness, and to let the facts speak for themselves. He was tharoughly convinced that nine-tenths of the prejudice in Wales would disappear if they once secured fair hearing for a popular Welsh exposition of Church principles. (Cheers.) Wales had been in the past—behind the barrier of the Welsh language—free from the intellectual storms which had swept over England, but the full tide of English speech and literature which now rapidly set towards Wales, broke that barrier down for ever. He did not believe that there was a man living in Wales far-sighted enough to have the remotest concep- tion of what the result of the general knowledge of English in Wales, within the next 20 years, would turn out to be. They were, at any rate, on the eve of a profound intellectual and religious revolution in the principality, aud it was quite possible that the present denominational landmarks, which already had lost the greater part of their former distinctness and reality, might be swept away altogether, and either be followed by a general movement towards religious solidarity, or else be replaced by new landmarks called into existence by the appearance above the horizon of new burning controversies about modern religious doctrines which would powerfully affect an impulsive people like the Welsh, There were signs already of a momentous change of tone in Welsh religious circles. The most striking feature of Welsh religion in the past used to be a glowing fervour of Christian experience, with a practical outcome in morality, but with the emotional side pro- minent. This fervour was, speakmg generally, a thing of the past now in Wales, and its place had not yet been filled by the downright, prac- tical form in which religion appealed to the conscience of Englishmen. The wisest leaders of Nonconformists considered this change of religious attitude more important by far than the question of tithe. The loss of the old-fashioned warm-heartedness of Welsh religion must be a matter of regret, the time of transition was a period of watchfulness, and the future result a grave question of practical study. Their duty as Churchmen was clear. They ought to prepare Welsh-speakiug Churchmen for the shock of the new literature by sound grounding in the fun- damental verities of religion committed to the care of the Church to show all Welshmen that Church doctrines helped instead of hindered, as some supposed, personal communion with Christ, It was possible that, apart altogether from change in thought, the growth of bilingualism may of itself most seriously alter the numerical re- lations of Churchmen and Nonconformists in Wales. This possibility might suggest a tempta- tion for earnest Churchmen to wish to see Welsh lose ground, and to seek to accelerate the fulfil- ment of their wish. Such a policy, he was con- vinced, would be both unwise and wrong. The duration of a language was determined by broad natural causes, and not by either the wishes or the policy of individuals or classes. Churchmen in Wales to-day were Welshmen, and it was clearly their duty to be loyal Welshmen, true to all that was sound in the aspirations and interests of Wales. Welsh patriotism need not involve reaction against England if it was properly in- formed and led, and there was certainly nothing in the real interests of the Church in Wales antagonistic to the real interests of Wales. If they continued true to Wales as well as to their Chureb, they might hope co show Nonconformists that the Church, by being the Church of England, had not ceased to be the Church of Wales—the Church of Caradog and Bran, of Saints Dewi, Deiniol, Dyfrig aud Teilo, Asapb and Centigern, of Giraldus, Bishop Morgan, Griffith Jones, Daniel Rowlands, and Dean Edwards, the ancieut and Scriptural and yet young Church of the Cymry—a Church that would yet, he hoped, see in a future, not far, all our feuds forgotten and all Welshmen united, heart to heart and hand to hand, in loving work for Christ. Welsh Churchmen must keep the hearth of the old Church of Wales warm with the tire of Christ's love, and the doors of their hearts wide open, to welcome her straying childreu home. (Loud cheers.) CANON BEVAN. The Rev Canon BEVAN, of Hay, followed. Ten years ago, he said, Mr Ravenstem estimated that out of the population of Wales and Monmouth- shire as it stood in 1871, 29^,110 could speak Welsh, and 640,420 both English and Welsh, leaving 478,053 as the number of those who could speak English onjy. From these liguras it may be gathered that 934,530 could speak Welsh, and 1,118,473 more or less English. He said more or less because no one could suppose that with- in the bilingual area the two languages stood on the same footing. There were two elements of inequality (1) The greater hold that the Welshman had of his native than of the acquired language and (2), the greater hold that the native language had of his feelings and imagina- tion. Therefore, as regarded Church work, he should lay no stress on the fact that there were 640.420 bilinguists for in this respect they should be ranked by the aide of the Welsh monoglots as persons who ought to addressed in the language that came home most readily to their ears, and struck a vibratory chord on their heartstrings. (Cheers.) In educa- tion, however, the question was different, for they would have to include in their purview the material interests of the people. Wales was, as a matter of fact, largely bilingual at the present time, and was becoming more and more so every year, so that before long it would be difficut to find a Welsh monoglot. Wales should, therefore, be treated as bilingual, not as tbough bi- lingualism was a transitional condition, to ter- minate in the ultimate ascendancy of the English language. (Loud cheers.) As regarded the distribution of English-speaking elements in the population, aoout one-half of the English mono- Riots were grouped together in districts which they occupied in force, to the almost com- plete exclusion of the Welsh tongue. In the districts of the border counties, South Pembrokeshire, and Gower, Church work and education proceeded very much as they did in similarly situated parts of EüKland-they were, at all events, unaffected by the linguistic condi- tion of tbe country. Whether, however, it was to the advantage of the Welsh Church as a whole that there should be a division between Welsh Wales and English Wales was open to question, for it tended to diminish the volume of what might be regarded as distinctively Welsh churchmanship, and to raise occasional difficulties as to the laoguags that should be used in parishes that Jay on the border hne between the two divisions, and to impair, though not in any marked degree, the solidarity of the clergy. The other moiety of the English-speaking element was distributed over the remainder of Wales amongst the Welsh-speaking population, and to its presence was due what was commonly called the bilin- gual difficulty," and which the clergy expe- rienced in providing services in the two languages within the same parish church. These English speakers were for the most part church adherents, who naturally wished to have ministrations in the language which was familiar to themselves, and so long as this could be done without injury to the spiritual interest of the bulk of the inhabitants, the wish ought to be gratified but it struck him that the clergy were somewhat too ready to adopt this course-im- pelled no doubt by a conscientous desire to dis- charge their duty to all their parishioners—yet, perhaps, not in all cases unmoved by a desire to practice themselves in English speaking. In the interests of the clergy and of the people alike, he suggested that no change should bo made in the linguistic usage of any parish church without the formal sanction of the bishop, who, coming forward in a judicial capacity, might prevent the introduction cf bilingualism by suggesting an alternative course. Taking things as they now were, he felt that there was an excess of bi- lingualism, and that it ought in the interests of Church order to be brought under control. (Hear, hear.) Where bilingualism involved the necessity of dividing the service between the two longuages, the clergyman should be provided with an authorized order of services, instead of constructing an order of his own. He could not refrain from remarking that whatever be the excess of bilingualism in Wales, there might with advantage be more of it in England-(hear, hear)—and he hoped the excellent example set iu London at All Saints, Margaret-street, might find many imitators. (Loud cheers.) Having dealt with the effect produced by the general suffusion of English as a written and printed language, he said that the literary use of the Welsh had very much extended during the last half-century, but though increased facilities for studying the language were offered, there still remained an indispositIOn on the part of students to avail themselves of the opportunity. The problem to be solved was how to combine a thoroughly Welsh diction with general literary culture. A two or even three years' coarse at a college was insufficient certainly for both, perhaps for either purpose, but improved intermediate education at the one end, and an extra year's study at the other end spent in special preparation for the Welsh ministry, might do much to supply the deficiency.The difbculcieg imposed on the Ctiurch by the linguistic condition of the country originated in circumstances over which the Church had.no control. (Hear, hear.) It was uot only tha "bilingual difficulty," commonly so-called, but that larger bilingualism which arose out of the contact of two languages, each strong In its own special line of strength, each valued in its own department, and each holding an important place in the life of the nation. Nonconformity had been as yet exempt from the difficulty, and to this was largely due its success in Wales. It ought to be thankful for the immunity, and to le willing to acknowledge that the Church had been heavily baudioapped in her endeavours to accom- plish her mission to the people of Wales. (Hear, hear.) No such consideration was shown by the political opponents of the Church. Their most better and plausible attacks Were at the bottom founded on the language. He would cite as samples the following :—That there was a culpable remissness in not producing at an earlier period a Welsh version of the Bible, the difficulties of the task being prudently ignored'5 by those who made the accusation that the country was "flooded with English clergymen brought in by English bishops for the express purpose of Anglicizing the country, the fact being th:tt the cases of an Euglisii-boru clergyman baffiig imported into a Welsh-speaking parish wer"e- leumparitively rare —(cheers)—that the Church was the church of the English-speaking upper classes, and not of the Welsh-speaking middle and lower classes, though sheoffered her ministrations in both languages and did her best to satisfy the warits of both sections— (cheers)—that she was an alien church because she was united with the Church in England in a single polity called the Church of England that she was an anti-natioual cflhrcil-tbough four- fifths of her clergy were Welshmen to the bnck- boue, born on the soil, speaking its language, and steeped in its traditions. (Loud cheers.) These, and similar accusations which' appealed strongly to the passions of the iil-informed, were all based on the language. A closer research into the history of the Church, the country, and the language would reduce those charges to their true dimensions. Far be it from him to say that the Church had been faultless in her treatment of the Welsh language but they might at all events fairly claim that the truth be told-the whole truth-not only of her shortcomings, but also of her varied and peculiar difficulties. (Loud and prolonged applause.) ARCHDEACON GRIFFITHS. Archdeacon GRIFFITHS remarked that paradoxi- cal as it might appear, the strength the Church in Wales bad in the possession of two languages con- tributed to her weakness. Two languages within her gates contended for the mastery, and the contention had been long, with various issues. The new brought with it testimonials of the highest character, recommendations from the highest source of influence and power, and bade the old depart. The old sullenly refused, and silently maintained its ancient rights, and as- serted its superiority, not in ordinary matters of every-day lite, but in matters which extended to the solemn future. What was the Church to do ? In the first place, she must not shut her eyes to her past experiences—her past mistakes. Before she committed herself to any rash policy, let her carefully consider what language was, what the position it held in the mysterious machinery of an intelligent, soul-pos- sessing being. The vocabulary of one language, supposing it to be copious, definite, and pro- nounceable, was as good as the vocabulary of any other language. But the work of the Church, whether educational or ministerial, must go far deeper than that ordinary conversational power. The Welsh language was thought by many to be a mere uncultivated tongue, not worthy, in fact. to be called a language. That was not true. (Hear, hear.) Of late centuries it had fallen behind in the development ot scientific and busi- ness terms the position of isolation and comparative poverty of Wales would in a great measure account for that, and the prevalence of English among the classes and the low and neglected condition of the masses would help to explain it. He should like to convince his Saxon friends that ths essential structure of their dear old language was elaborate, cultivated, and subtle. (Applause.) It was the cousciol1 work of a long s^ri js of poetical writers from the sixth century downwards, aud especially designed by them to touch the feelings and the hearts of the people by whom it was spoken. (Hear, hear.) It was doubtless with the best intentions, and with the hope of conferring on the Welsh people temporal advantages, that many of the clergy Uisused and discouraged the use ot the Welsh language in their schools and their ministrations; Out, granting those premises, it wa3 doubtful if the course taken was a justifiable one. (Hear, hear.) The Welsh Sunday schools established by Griffith Jones, of Llanddowror, had been the saviour of their country, and were still, second only to the pulpit, the most powerful institutions for religious enlightenment and Scriptural teaching that they had amongst them. (Hear, hear.) Secular education had always been a high mission of the Church, but surely not the highest. Whatever might be aimed at in the school or in the pulpit, the preacher's first mission was to reach the heart. A potent instrument was ready to the Welsh clergyman's hand—one of the most potent to be found in any land. Was it for the educationist, was it for the pieacher, to turn aside and refuse to use it ? Of lata years we had awoke to the fact that its traditional system of school training had failed in its proteased object of planting a knowledge of English in every village. If the lueffable tem- poral blessings of a knowledge of that world- wide tongue were to be conferred, as they heartily desired they should, on their Welsh chiidren, the Welsh scholastic system must retrace its steps and commence again the rational oeuise, which should never have been abandoned, of cherishing first the faculty of speech, and in the form in which it was most readily at hand. (Hear, bear.) Oue by one the leading authorities of Wales bad acceded to the modern views, and a scÎlemt:1 of education essentially similar to that laid down by the Welsh Utilisation Society was now permis- sible in any school in Wales. The experiments made in that direction had giveu hope of groat success. A marked impruveineut, both in general intelligence aud knowledge of English, had been obtained—(bear, hear)-alld if the bright promise was fulfilled, and the new system was found to produce the good educational results that were expected of it, then a large amount of their pre- sent difficulty would be removad from the path of the Church in Wales, tor it would be no longer necessary tor the Welsh child, brought up among Welsh surroundings, to learn as his tirst scholastic duty to abjure and contemn the language of his home, of his parents, and of bis religion, to run the risk—no light one to the impressional and dis- criminate mind of childhood—of transferring the lessons of contempt from the language itself to those sacred things with which he had always been used to associate it. (Cheers.) MR T. MORGAN OWEN. Mr T, MORGAN ÜWJèN, H.M.I., said that be knew the English language was gradually de- luging Wales, and he knew of no single institu- tion in Wales in which tbe Welsh language was systematically and judiciously taught. It was, therefore, high time that it should have a duly recognised position in our schools and colleges and, unless it secured this position, it would, sooner or later, become an impure dialect. (Hear, bear.) He haj taken pains to ascertain the linguistic condition of Wales, and be found that Welsh was mostly spoken in the counties of Anglesea, Carnarvon, Merioneth, and Cardigan, that it was difficult to determine the balance of language in Denbighshire and Carmarthenshire, that Radnorshire was almost altogether English, and that the ti ve remaining counties were more English than Welsh. He found that the population of Wales was a littim over 1,360,000, and he bad reason to conclude that some 800,000 of this number were able to speak Welsh well or indifferently, and that the rest spoke English. These figures did not exactly coincide with those given in the report of the Welsh Education Commission, where it was stated that some 800,000 of their Noncon- formist friends attended Welsh chapels, and only 36,000 attended English chapels. He supposed it was somewhat refreshing to meet with just a spica of romance in a Blue Book in order to savour its dryness. He had stated that English was spread- ing over our land if, however, only 56,000 Nonconformists attended English chapels, then he ought to carry off the prize for romancing, and not the author of those figures. But it must not be forgotten that in addition to these 36,000, a great number of the 800,000 already referred to preferred English to Welsh. And what was the experience of people acquainted with Wales upon this point ? It was this; they knew tbat Welsh chapels were being deserted, and that English chapels were being built either to take their places or to supplement them. So much for the 36,000. (Hear, hear.) Ten years ago an able paper was read by the Dean of Bangor at the Church Congress which was held at Swansea and in that paper be stated that the number of churches and mission-rooms then in Wales, in which the services were conducted in English, Weish, or in both lan- ,3, guages, were respectively, 448, 30b, 402,being a total of 1,156. At present there were—churches in which services are conducted in English, 536; in Welsh, 317 bilmgual, 485 (and 134 churches and mission rooms, the language of whose services was not distinguished, must be added to the list); and this gave a grand total of 1,472, and an increase of 316 sacred edifices erected in Wales during the above-mentioned ten years. These figures were impreesively eloquent concerning the zeal and the work of the Church in Wales, and they also tended to show that the English language was gradually superseding the Welsh language, for, putting aside the 134 non-distinguished churches, there had been an increase within the past 10 years of 171 English and bilingual churches, while the Welsh churches had been increased by the figure 11. Thus it would be seen that Churchmen and Noncon- formists alike were fully alive to the exigencies consequent upon the gradual hold which the English language was taking upon the Welsh tongue. (Hear, hear.) HenoWcameto the second part of their subject, the beaiibg of the linguistic condition of Wales on Church work. And in his opinion this part of the subject resolved itself into the question, "What practical training for their high and sacred calling do" the clergy undergo whilst at college?" Well, he trad made searching inquiries into the matter, and the answers to his question, except in one instancb, were expressed by a letter of the alphabet wliicp is usually Written round, and the exception was1 St. David's College, Lampeter but even there the'tbeological training was by no means what itshobld be. And in this particular mainly consisted tbe linguistic difficulty of the Church in Wales. liAs an ex-divinity student, and as one who had sat at the feet of an archbishop, a bishop, and a óean, bis experience recommended the following course for students seeking admission as clergyman into the Church of England :—(1) Systematic, reading of the Bible and Church Service, with example reading on the part of professors; (2) the preparation and delivery of sermons, having due regard to idiomatic variations, and also earnestness of delivery (3) lectures and discussions on pastoral subjects, in which each student should be obliged to take a part (4) opportunities to conduct services in mission rooms (5) students who excel ill these particulars should receive prizes, aDd should be specially mentioned to their bishops when they seek ordination and (6) at ordination examinations reading and preaching should leceive special recognition. (Applause.) REV. J. W. WYNNE JONES. The Rev J. W. WYNNE JONES, vicar of Carnar- von, and the Rev DAVID EFAN'S. Aberge!e, briefly addressed the meeting, the latter asserting that disestablishment was coming. He hoped he was wrong, but if they were allowed to be devoured by wolves, it would not be long before they attacked the English Church. DEAN VAUGHAN. The Dean of LIANDAFF, who was vociferously cheered, claimed two of the qualifications for a Welshman which bad been laid down by a pre- vious speaker—Welsh descent and Welsh resi- dence, to which was appended an interest- and a very deep, a very loving, and a very heartfelt interest-in the well-being of his neigh- bours. (Applause.) In that intelligent and kindly meeting it was quite needless to apologise for the presence of an Englishman, if he were nothing but an Englishman, in the midst of Wales. He did not know where Wales would be without Englishmen, and he did not know where England would be without Welshmen. (Laughter and applause.) One reason why he dreaded so much the horrible cry of ",Wales for the Welsh was because he was afraid it might be responded to by "England for the Euglish," and no men would dislike that so much as the Welshman. (Cheers.) There was a sense in which there was a grand tusion of the Welshman and the English- man. In the sight of God who made them they were one. 10 a thousand senses they were one in fact and in deed. (Hear, bear.) It had some- times been said that the Welsh ear was terribly offended by the acquired Welsh which sometimes they had to hear from the pulpit. (Laughter.) He believed that even the immaculate Welsh of Bishop Thirlwall had been attacked by some purists, who said that it was unintelligible to a Welshman. They must, however, remember that an Englishman, too, had ears, and that lie was sometimes a little irritated by the acquired English of Welshmen. (Laughter.) They must live acd let live. The great thing was to place themselves where they were suit- able to the particular congregation or particulnr neighbourhood in which they were located. There were places for which an Englishman would be utterly unsuitable in Wales. Dean Vaughan went on to dwell on the extreme importance in this linguistic difficulty of a young Welshman, who intended to become a minister, being thoroughly familiar with fie English language. (Hear, hear.) Let him not be ashamed to seek his degree in an English university. The time would come when there would be a University of Wales. (Hear, hear.) The foundation stone had been laid in the University Colleges, but he was not in a hurry. He did not want to see a University in Wales until the colleger were ripe to make it a respectable university—(applause)—one which would hold its own with the uni versities of England. The time was coming when Wales would have its own schools under the generous action of this new Intermediate Education Act, which would not be ashamed to rank with the schools of Brecon and Llandovery, and with the best schools of England. Let the Welshman by all means become, as early as possible, intimate with England and its tongue. His other point was one of more deli- cacy and more difficulty, and, therefore, one to which he was more inadequate. It was to ask them whether there was not some sense in which they might rejoice in the hold that Nonconfor- mists, through the medium of the Welsh language, had upon the religious sentiment of the people. If there was one point out of ten of which Church- men and Nonconformists differed, there were nine out of ten in which they were in agreement. (Hear, hear.) It pained him more than he could say to read the statistics of Churchmen, who would tell them that such and such a place, teeming with its thousands, was destitute of the very elements of religious worship and instruction because its Church churches would only hold so and so, a very small fraction of the population, leaving altogether out of sight, even in a parentheses, that there was a gospel of Christ being preached in these places; that there was one law and one Saviour and one principle, even where there was not a priest, or the same formulas or articles. (Applause.) He meant to say that they should not leave out of sight that such places as these were not absolutely in heathen darkness, thanks to Nonconformity, to which the Church owed in no small part its present magnificent revival. (Applause.) Compromise was the last thing which was in his heart between the Church and dissent. Compromise, God forbid Compre- hension they were too late tor. ic might have done three generations ago. It was too late now -lbear, hear)-and it grieved him that Church- men wasted their time to re-unite legally with the Nonconformist bodies. The law of England and Wales would step in to prevent it. He did not know how a doctrine which bad once been legally formed, how even a single chapel and trust deed, how there were to come over to the Church of Wales or of England. He did not believe the law would permit it to be dcue. How much better it was to seek for confederation (Cbeers.) Had they not a common foe? There was no denying it, that the Nonconformists were fighting the same foe under the banners of the same Saviour. Was it not true that they worked, they and the Nonconformists, on parallel lines which would never meet until they met in Heaven? But meanwhile they were attacking a common enemy by similar means. And now a word to the wise. There was an impediment. He wished not to disturb this audience by saying what it was. (Loud and continued applause.) Other addresses were delivered by Archdeacon Thomas, the Rev Charles Phillips, and Preben- dary Walters. The meeting closed with prayer.

THE CHURCH AND HOME MISSIONS. SPEECH BY SIR J. KENNAWAY, M.P. The subject set down for consideration at the afternoon conference in the Park-hall was Missions-the Reciprocal Relationships between the Church at Home aqd its Foreign and Colonial Missions." Mr Aylward officiated as organist. The Bishop of Liandaff again presided. Sir JOHN KENNAWAY, Bart., M.P. in his paper, pointed out that although this century had earned for itself the title of a century of missions, the work done was relatively very small. The annual income of Englishmen was estimated at £ 1.200,000,000, and their savings at £ 300,000,000. Nevertheless, the contribu- tions by all Protestant Churches throughout the world did not exceed £ 2,000,000. It was clear there was much to be done. (Hear, bear. He coincided with the suggestion that there should be appointed a missionary cacon who, free from parochial care, could devote him- self to the cause throughout the diocese. His demand was a large one, but it did not need bun to show that what the Church cava would be returned to her a hundred-fold, He referred to the work of missionary martyrs, and aske;1 who would not be tired by the example of Bishop Smythies trying with his life really in peril to make the degraded races of Central Africa to realise ideas of God and love. Shame on them if the call for volunteers to fill up gaps were not speedily filled up. Adverting to ecclesiastical accomplishments in the colo- nies, be reminded them that it was to the example of the Church in New Zealand they owed their diocesan conferences, in which there was given for the first time to the laity a recognised share of the Church government. He concluded by asking their prayers on behalf of more than 80 soldiers of the Cross, to whom a farewell was then being said at St James's-hall on behalf of the missionary society who were sending them out-(applause)-and on behalf of the Jews in Persia, who, according to telegrams be had received, were being subject to great affronts-women were being outraged, houses plundered, and people starving. The Bishop of BALLARAT read, a paper on the organic relations between the Church of England at home and ber mora-or-less developed branches in the British colonies. He dealt with the subject minutely, and declared that colonial missions in the colonies had no legal connection with the Church of England as by law established. His opinion was that no legal or constitutional link between the colonies and the Church at borne could be established to any satisfactory purpose by local colonial status. Everything must depend upon voluntary effort, and the true wisdom of the Colonial Church was to rivet more closely rather than relax voluntary ties between them. (Ap- plause.) The Ven. Archdeacon FAKLEK said at the present time the Church was confronted in ber work, both at home and abroad, with an ever- widening field of operations, and the mission work of the Church was becoming more and more an intellectual contest. What was the duty which the Church, -in her corporate -capacity, owed to the work which her children were doing in far-off lands and in their colonies ? The Deism of the last century bad 'vanished as a dream, and during the last 50 years they bad seen in the Anglican Church ft transition from individualism in religion, to a belief in a divine society, a brotherhood in which men became members of an organic whole by sharing in a common super- natural life, namely, the Holy Catholic Church. It was necessary for the Church to see that her missionaries possessed other qualifications than mere zeal for the conversion of souis-excellent and necessary qualification though it was-but they should be of equal social status and cf a similar education with the home clergy. He suggested a set of rules for the adoption of his brethren of tbe, clergy who felt the obligation of the Lord's command, and would like to arouse an interest in foreign missions in their parishes. He believed it would be provocative of good works if every English diocese or archdeaconry, in its corporate capacity, would take charge of soma special mission field or newly-formed colonial diccese (just as a wealthy parish assisted a poorer parish), making itself responsible for a certain number of clergy and layworkers, also providing part of the funds required for the erection of mission chapels. Bishop BARRY gave a long and eloquent address upon the subject. After dealing with the relationship of the churches at home and abroad, said now that their Church, by its world-wide extension, had become largely evangelical, was it wonderful that the system which grew and was perfected in days gone by to the view of the more limited and pastoral condition of the Church failed to adequately meet their varying ) and increased needs? It was his own conviction I that colonial experience should impress upon Churchmen at home the enormous advantage of that national relation which they called Establish- ment, not of course essential to the Church's being an authority, but as in the highest degree conducive to her usefulness. The Bishop of MELANESIA asked why did not their homes supply more missionaries ? Why— he did not-say it-but why was it said as a re- proof to the clergy that they supplied the officers of the army but not the clergy of the churches? People were looking out for professions now-a-days. The missionary profession in all except its pty was not such a bad one. (Laughter.) What did they want? There were some men who loved danger, and he quoted au incident to show how great good couid be done by individuals in distant lands at great personal risk, Lastly, he advised them not to bo afraid of their creed. That was the message which a missionary brought back. Rev C. M. JACKSON, missionary, dwelt upon tha great ignorance whicti he found every- where displayed in this country in re- gard to India, which was not a colony, but part of the British Empire. He said the I felation between tbeir Church and India was so faint as to be almost non-existent. They needed more missionaries to go out and teach the people. Rev Mr KINGSSOUY read, for the Hon. Mrs Petrie, a paper on the ''Church and Laprosy." Addresses were also delivered by Capt. ToutBY and Canon SMITH, Swansea (who said it was absurd to say tho missionary work hindered the causa at home), and the proceedings then closed.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TEM- PERANCE SOCIETY, MEETING AT CATHAYS. THE CONGRESS AND THE TEM. PERANCE QUESTION, What was described in the handbills as a "great meeting" in connection with the Church of England Temperance Society, to be addressed by distinguished congress visitors-the Rev Pre- bendiary Grier, M.A., the Rev G. Howard Wright, M.A. (London), and the Rev T. Dixon Spain, M.A. (Bath)—was held on Friday evening in the National Schools, Cathays.—Tbe Vicar (the Rev G. W. Hanford) expressed his thanks to the speakers who attended, and observed tbat, having to attend at the Park-hall, be would leave in his place a very efEcieut chairman in the person of the Rev Howard Wright. Mr STKPHKN BOCRNE, as representing the parent society, said he had attended a temperance session in the Park-hall in connection with the Church Congress, The impression he formed was that the temperance cause was making greater progress in Wales than in other parts of the country-in London, for instance, where the work sometimes flagged, and where persons were often saying they had had too much of it. He then dilated at length on the advantages of tem- perance. At least one-tenth of all the thought, the energy, the labour, and the brain work, one- tenth of the whole of the power we have in this country, either in agricultural, manufacturing, scientific, or artistic pursuits, is absorbed in the production of intoxicating liquors. It was demonstrable that if drink ceased alto- gether to be consumed, there need not be a single empty belly, a single naked back, or a single unshod foot throughout the length and breadth cf the land. Rev Prebendary GRIER, in the course of a humorous address, said there were no persons from whom they suffered more than from renegade teetotalers. The battlefield on which they waged the war against druukenness was strewn with the corpses of total abstainers. A gentleman had made the gratuitous assertion the other even- ing at the Park-ball that the intemperate lan- guage of temperance advocates was a disgrace. He held that the so-called moderate drinkers were far more abusive in their epithets. For instance, two man were travelling in a railway carriage through the midlands. Arrived at Rugeley, oue remarked to the other, "This is Rugeley, isn't it, where the Rev Greer lives?" "Ye," was the reply. "The infamous idiot," was the rejoinder. The unwillingness with which a great body of what are known as the respectable classes in this country approached this burning question was illustrated at the Church Congress. Last night there was a discussion oa a very important cuestion. It was how to promote the temporal well-being of the working classes, and those who spoke on the subject discoursed of thrift, of recreation, and of sweating, tnt-would they believe it?—no speaker said one single word about the drink as the cause of the misery and the degradation of the people. They talked of sweating, but not a word was said about the sweating that took place in public- houses, or of the people who had to work in these public-houses all day and nearly all night, and even on the Lord's Day, when labour was sus- pended. Nor was any allusbn made to the great number in ttiesa public-houses obliged to sell so much beer and liquor or receive the order from the brewer-" Ge thee gone He sent up bis card at the Park-hall, and was promised a certain time of speaking, but just at the last moment be found that lie had been actually crushed out by a number of people who had sent up their cards much later than himself. Though he had come all the way frcm the Midland counties at Considerable expense and inconvenience to himself, it was with extreme difficulty that be got himself called upon to speak, so tbat the discussion nearly closed without any reference to the one great cause of the sorrow and sufferings of the peopie of this country. The Rev Mr WRIGHT and others followed. The schoolroom was full, and the applause frequent and enthusiastic.

CONVERSAZIONE AT THE PARK-HALL. RECEPTION BY THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF AND MRS LEWIS. In the evening the members of the Congress and a large number of friends from the neighbour- hood were invited to a conversazione at the Park hall, where the Bishop of Liandaff and Mrs Lewis did the honours of the evening, cour- teously receiving each guest as announced. The rffair was a complete success. Over 1,500 invitations were issued, and it would appear that either everyone had accepted or else some were made to serve the requirements of a family, for the spacious hall was packed both in the balcony and on the ground floor. Among other gentlemen present were Mr Alfred Thomas, M.P., Colonel Hill, C.B., M.P., Sir John Kenna- way, M.P., Aldermen Lewis, Taylor, Jacobs, Yoratb, and Carey, Councillors Proger, Brain, lJavid Richards, Peter Price, Shackell, Jotham, Sir Morgan Morgan, T. Morel, and W. J. Trounce, Messrs J. L. Wbeatley (town clerk), Mackenzie (chief constable), J. D. Williams (deputy town clerk), O. H. Jones, J. Moore, Dyffryn (Neath), C. Waldron, Dr Vachell, Dr Horder, Dr Tatham Thompson, T. H. Stephens, A. Sargeauut, Dr Sheen, Colonel Rollins, J. M, Jeuuings, G. F. Webb, J.Hulmer, Westyr Evans, John Christie, Blaketnore, D. W. Jones, T. H. Ensor, Dr E nsor, W. James, F. de C. Hamil- ton, F. Boyer, Evan Evans. Franklen Evans, Griffith Phillips, William Phillips (Pontypool), Colonel Woods, C. M. Berkeley, E. J. Coleman, E. P. Lee, S. S. Howard, Arthur Lewis, Henry Lewis, Jeffreys, C. T. Whitmell, W. H. Lewis, J. J. P. Burt, Henry Lewis, Jonas Watson, Dr Morgan Williams, John Moore, Dr de Vere Hunt, and Dr Hughes. Mr Draper's excellent band, and Mr T. E. Aylward on the grand organ, discoursed an excellent repertoire of music, but owing to the buzz of conversation little of this could be heard. Mr McKirdy on the harp also contributed some favourite Welsh airs. Refreshments were served in the Lesser Park-hall, and it was as much, as Mr S. P, Hunt of the Park Hotel, coutd do, assisted as he was by a large staff, to successfully keep pace with the demands made upon bis resources. The crush was indeed at times almost appalling. About 10 p.m., when matters were becoming a little toned down, a number of gentlemen ascended the platform, and Archdeacon Emery, permanent secretary of the Congress, took the hair. Lord Nelson, in moving a vote of thanks to the Bishop and Mrs Lewis for their kindness a nd hospi- tality. and to the Bishop himself for the manner in which ha had presided over the meetings of the;cong-ress, took occasion to remark that the congress had that year been of the most successful nature. He bad never seen any President throw himself heart and soul more thoroughly into the work than the Bishop of Liandaff, nor one who was at the same time more conciliatory and more firin.-The vote was carried with enthusiasm, and the Bisbnp, in replying, said that be accepted the invitation to the presi- dency with much hesitation, as be feated his ineffi- ciency forthe post. ("No. ")-The Rev DrPattersoo, of the American Church, proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the speakers and readers, which was accorded and responded to by Sir John Kenn- away, M.P., and the Dean of Manchester.— Cauuon McCormick proposed tbat the thanks of congress be given to all who had extended their hospitality to members, and mentioned that over one thousand guests had been entertained by Churchmen and Nonconformists without distinction.-Col. Hill, M.P., responded.—The Bishop of Ballarat, in moving a cordial vote of thanks to the secretaries and other officers, incidentally stated that be bad come 14,000 miles to attend con- gress, as the representative of almost the youngest see ot the Anglican Church, to visit the oldest see of the communion.—Tha Rev C. J. Thompson, M.A., vicar of St. John's, acknowledged the vote, and made special reference I to the valuable services reniered by Messrs Berkley and March.— The proceedings terminated with an invitation by Archdeacon Emery to all present to attend the next congress at Hull.

GIRLS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY. SALE OF WORK. At tbeSt'John's School, Crockberbtown, this afternoon, a ,sa!e of tbe work done by invalid members of the Girls' Friendly Society was held. The stalls were literally groaning beneath the weight of the many beautiful and artistic productions of the pcor girls, mostly chronic invalids, who are taught and encouraged by the society, without regard to their religious denomination, to occupy themselves in this way. In all, the society have about 30 invalid workers scattered about the country, and the the productions of their hands are disposed of for them once a year at such a sale as that held yes- terday, Charitably disposed people desirous of helping on a really good cause might do worse thao keep this movement in view. Coatributioui will bp gratefully received by Mrs Hogan, Uaa tilio Vicarage, Abergavenny, or by Mrs Roberto, Belmont, Caerieon.. Mon.

ECCLESIASTICAL ART EXHIBITION. Messrs A. O. Hetrming and Co., of 47, Margaret-street, London, did not exhibit so large a number of sketches and designs as on former occasions, but a vast number of full-sized and beautiful cartoons, including several very valuable commissions. The window at the end of the hall over the gallery was also ntted with their glass, the greater part being taken up by a fine window, one of twelve, for the Church of the Saviour, Philadelphia, embracing a large subject of tha Crucifixion, our Lord, robed as standing on tha cross, and surrounded y various saints; while above are two standing guren, being part of the whole series which illustrate. the genealogy of Lord from Jesse, the whole being set in elaborate classical ornamentatton. The colouring throughout is partIcularly rich, though subdued to suit the intense light of the climate.

THE PRIMATE'S SERMON. In an article on the Cburch Congress, the Morning Post saYB :-The Primals sermon at St. JohaV, replete with rich historical refer- ence, and emphatic in its wige and prudent counsels, was a masterpiece of fatherly counsel, In point of historical and literary merit it most be bracketted with the learned and charming die- course delivered in the Temple Church a year or two ago by the same eloquent lips on the fire hundredth anniversary of that venerable struc- ture. Such sermons, leaving the beaten track and penetrating far back into the remote resuisaii qf certified history, call out the wonder and admira. tion of those who know bow to value the too much unread records of the laying of those foundation- stones on which the glorious superstructures. of later ages rest and they kindle emulatIOn, energy, and self-devotion in those who hear them, and long to light their own torch at the fires of that ancient piety whose work and sacrifice have made the r6li^°aSit TfTa in modern thought the powerful tbmi? Welsh Dissenter would do well « candid and teachaDla spirit, tbe Arcb1bis lop a historical survey. Let bun con'r1(1 Z historical evidence if be can, but if he • might ba well in him to think whether,1 any alienation, it is not be tbat is the ali i a new comer, who refuses to conform to tne u. faith >nd doctrine which flourishedI in^tbe pr pality a thousand yeais before the 6r ■ was born. Want of historical • basis of nearly all the vigour and vi1 CD;iv which the Church is assailed and, is not infrequently tha basi? 00 .-aainu« Church is s ometimes defended by °^]t ar2U. and under-read champions, whose fa «Thatever mentation does more barm than will popularise, on exact and denio ch grounds, a knowledge of the true tr> mon. history will do an unspeakable servic kind.

WHAT HAS THE CHURCH CONGRESS DO-NE f A VOICE FROM THE CROWD. REFORMS WANTEDIN THE CHURCH, TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-Duri ng the past few days the streets of the great modern town of Cardiff have been thronged with many representatives of tbe Established Church of England, one of tbe mc» powerful and remarkable religious bodies 0 'se world. At stated hours vast crowds have assembled in tbe principal public building 0 able and thoughtful addresses from man^f>° ta o most renowned ecclesiastics in t»rea^ _an_ In the course of my life I have atten e gatherings of all sorts and conditi°n* 0 convened for the discussion of topic a* f«r apar as the poles. Claiming the possession of a fsif amount of common sense, combined wit hio perception of tbe principles of logic. I ,nTarl* f propound to myself the question, "What o j is sought to be achieved ?' and having own satisfaction answered the given my silent adhesion to, or condemn^ ion the project, irraspective of creed or par 7- the present occasion, however, I have been faced with a special difficulty. The object, generally stated, of tbe Church Congress is condition of the English Church, afl" more useful for tbe good work sbe is d0lBfr' M r the inevitable corollary in this c° 11 ■* kaac mestus the necessary adjunct—" Are end?" being taken to achieve uni(. Speaking as one from tha cr0 'the notjce in the millions that seldom intrude°n of ministers of religion, I give an n^68 negative to this demand. It is nob °^D' ^fti. haps, that the opinions of a man fr°lD 0 nQ tude, a passer-by, whose life and work »re account to any save the few iu bio 0flra8t cer. circle, are expressed on su'jh a top'C""11" tainly you will not hear them on tbe p of a Church Congress. Therefore I Prfl' place them briefly before you in tbe ^t least perhaps they may lead to some attent'on being devoted in the direction wbicb 1 W1 Glancing through tho agenda of tba I am struck witb tho almost total eaj sideration for what I conceive t° ba. of tbe question of the age—What is tbe rel'S10*' jj htI_ future to be? In one solitary instanceday touched upon. In the Park-hall, on >ve a great scientist, a few eminent clerics, an litterateur gave their opinions on ^'te"aIJjty the day, and its attitude towards Du, (a) In connection with modera pb''0'^ thought (b) with reference to you, amoug the working classes-" g alleved io "alleged scepticism." Tha word xigteDce," its latter-day sense signifies po»s'bj9 8 or perhaps "not proven." Its 6 .,eranCj I tion was "existing" or ''Pr0?ed' tion to thi- inclined to believe that in its aPP1,c" f(jrm particular subject tbe tho correct one. Indeed, the con scepticism is even too dignify WOuI<l to apply to the position, forf t about aoc, imply that the working classes tbouK tb80rie% were inclined to reject certain tbeolog An|J whereas they are simply indifferent criticism here let me digress for a moment, to a j on a minor point, in order to exP .Qto divide all classes, princes and P?a'ft Religious- two sections, the religious and tbe broadeg(J these definitions being accepted »D 0f tija sense. No one. least of all 1010 sectj0n Gospel, can deny that the ««*> community. form a very large portion of divi8ioD> I Confining my attention to tbe reclaim ask, "What is the Church dOIcient magoi- them ? Surely, the task is of dwar £ tude, and the stake at issue lart?e 6 apostolic into insignificance disputes c0°Cefr England, and succession, orders in the Chnrcb o 1889. incidents of establishment in 0f Eog- Surely, the great leaders of tbe ;c tjjaQ land could find this a more coD^°angelist and polemical disputes betweeo jaca Ritualist. Allow me for a us0,nenppear to be problem, aud state what *VVb-ghops andl its salient features, leaving ittor ,j t0 suggest deans and men of light and lf* r yg9tarday the remedy. In your London tha(. B appeared an interesting paragrapbnse to a distin- great English statesman, in res^°l}6 Would rather guished American, bad said tha ia whicb b» have lived duriug the baif ce° period had himself taken a part than progress of the world's history, because o cauge 0 £ that bad been effected 10 with ttH| freedom within tbat period. m^y cloods of advent of steam and electricity dispelled, ignorance and superstition have hera. The history of the world" eriod8; tbose tore after divided into two great pe" faas jn tfaa and after 1S30, Civilized bum intervening years emaucipat€. me pr0gressivo methods and old beliefs, bas deyejoped latent in thought and feeling, bas Ith knowledge, energies, and has advanced »«> of any and social power beyond tfao ^idst all this up- intellect of earlier times. A oQ the site9 of heaval, this building of railway driving ancient British encampiflea cities of of locomotives through Church dont the Incas. what bas 1 f tij8 divine to keep pace with the Peop 'roit the men and omnipotence be pleased top materigj Cjndi. women of to-day to live on«> wfay sbouId tions denied to preceding *e^gu re;y the memberi the spiritual life lag behind many of tb# QUt, of Congress must perceive tD cijUrch of ward forms and ceremonie venerableness and which they boast for i» t0mperatUre of the grandeur are unsuitable to w con8Umed in toiling millions whose activi When an the keen struggle for e*« not American visits nlaod Liverpool before left the ocean liner a vel in the antiquity he goes to Chester, thereto at the curious of tbe quaint houses, and » He admireSt rows and^overbangmg re8jdences of th. but does not emulate. An wifch eleyator> stout old burghers would ill- narrow stwt> and first-lfoor flati, nor WO" gitrest-cars and cab- meet the requirements ot s gospel of Christ to ranks. What is there i bein placed truth being placed prevent its splendour and such form that before the peop a they will accep it. O hIts the rel¡glOr' n b..S beeD Hebræ =izd. when he says that reliK'01 and Romanized, and Anghc^ed and now it must be Americanized. I venture, therefore, ,n all humility to ask that when Congress meets next year in Hull, it will give its earnest thought to tha oropositioa—M Jh* Cbwch tb. ¡;¡ropOIU lOU-.