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CHURCH FAMILY TALK. Prince of Wales in New York FOB a few days the King is the guest of the Earl of Iveagh at Elvedeii Hall.. The Prince of Wales has arrived in New York, where he received a splendid re- ception. He has been presented with the freedom of New York. After his official reception the Prince drove to the tomb of President Grant, on which he placed a wreath. I notice that Prince Albert is to take up the freedom of the Mercers' Company on December 17. H.'R.H. is entitled to this by patrimony. He is already a citizen and a Draper. The Ring and" Woodbine Willie." His MAJESTY is always keenly inter- ested in the active, daring and uncon- ventional type of parson. It is, there- fore, not surprising that the King rhoul(I have invited the Rev. G, A. Studdert-Kennedy-bet;ter known as u Woodbine Willie "to preach at Buckingham Palace Chapel last Sunday. Mr. Studdert-Kennedy won public fame during the war by his Rough Rhymes of a Padre," but in the trenches he cap- tured the hearts of the men by his gal- lant conduct and in cheering and com- forting the troops in the hour of danger. He got his nickname Woodbine Willy through distributing cigarettes to the men. His speech at the Church Congress meeting for men will never be forgotten by those who heard it. Mr. Asquith Reads Lessons. WHEN Mr. and Mrs. Asquith were, staying- recently at South Mimms, Herts, they attended service at the Parish Church and the ex Premier read both lessons. This is by no means the first time that Mr. Asquith has acted as lector, but he does not "officiate" as frequently as his old chief W. E. G." used to at Hawarden. The Bishop of Truro. IN reference to my paragraph last week concerning the welcome to the Bishop of Truro, a correspondent sends me the following — Why did the people of Cornwall give the new Bishop of Truro such a warm welcome P Why—because he gave them such a warm 'an. Dean Page Roberts' Retirement. FKIHNDS and admirers of Dr. Page j Roberts, who recently resigned the Deanery of Salisbury, will be interested to hear that he has gone to reside at Highlands, Shanklih, Isle. of Wight. Prior to leaving Salisbury the Dean was presented with an address and a set of photographs of the cathedral by the Bishop and cathedral clergy as an ex- pression of our personal affection and deep regret at your departure." "We cannot fully enumerate your public, ser- vices to the cathedral, the city, and the diocese," said the signatories; but the wisdom and impartiality with which you have presided over us, the gain to the Church of God from your unwearied use of your power to speak to the hearts of men, your unfailing hospitality, and j personal kindness to every one of us— these things we cannot forbear to men- tion." The farewell sermon which the Dean preached in the cathedral Has been published by Bennett Brothers, Salis- bury. New Master of the Temple. His MAJESTY THE KING has approved the appointment of the Rev. William Henry Draper, Rector of Adel, Leeds, as Master of the Temple in succession to Canon E. W. Barnes. He will take up his duties at the end of January. The new Master is very little known in Lon- don, but in the North, and especially in Yorkshire, Mr. Draper has a reputation as anoutstallding preacher. Some of his sermons have been published in the C.F.N. It is a fact worthy of note that "although he was an honours man of iKeble College, Oxford, he has remained Rector of Adel-a village near Leeds for twenty-one years. Previously he was successively Vicar of Alfreton, 'Derbyshire, and the Abbey Church, 'Shrewsbury., Mr. Draper is not only a forceful preacher, but a well-known lec- turer on literary subjects at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. During the warlhe took the place of Dr. Gordon as tproftewr of Literature at the Leeds [University. He is also a keen anti- quary;, and has been particularly, proud of his beautiful old church at Adel, parhich is a perfect example of Norman architecture. The new Master had the misfortune to lose three of his sons in the war. No Mean Poet f Mr. Draper is a religious poet of no j. mean attainment. His best-known hymn, entitled "In Remembrance of Past I Worshippers," was first sung at the Abbey Church, Shrewsbury, of which Mr. Draper was then the Vicar, at the close of the Church Congress of 1896, a notable sermon being preached by Dr. Gore, then Canon of Westminster. Many were struck with the beauty of the hymn and with its suitability to an ancient church, hallowed by memories of generations of worshippers, truly "These stones that have echoed their praises are holy, And dear is the ground where their feet have once trod; Yet here they confessed they were strangers and pilgrims, And still they were seeking the City of God." Tender Associations. His hymn (746 in the Second Supple- ment to A. and M.) has tender associa- tions. An aged woman in Exeter tells her Rector how that beautiful hymn Y comforts her in remembering the son who was killed in 1917. Mr. Draper's other hymns include one for Holy Week, "Lord, through this Holy Week of out salvation," and another for mission ser- vices, Holy Father, we have wronged Thee." Accident to Canon Argles. I AM sorry to learn that Canon Argles slipped down while taking part in matins last Sunday morning at York Minster and broke his leg. It seems he was descending the steps from his stall in order to reach the altar at the other end of the choir, at the close of the ser- mon, when he slipped and fell. He broke his leg above the knee. Assist- ance was quickly rendered, and it is good news to know that the Canon is in a satisfactory condition. "A Most Impressive Example." IN this month's York Diocesan Gazette the Archbishop of York, writing of Canon Argles, who lyis resigned St. Clement's, York, says I do not think there is any priest in the diocese who has worked continuously in one parish for so long a time [forty-eight years]. It has been a wonderful record of unceasing care of church and people, a most im- pressive example to us all of devoted pas- toral service. Happily, residing under the shadow of the Minster which he loves, he will be still among us, and able, by assisting the Dean as Rural Dean of York and in many other ways, to con- tinue his service to the Church in this diocese." A Taxi-Driver's Sift. RECENTLY the Bishop of Chelmsford was driven by a taxi-driver who was anxious to help his Lordship with a bag that he was carrying into the house. As he was walking by the Bishop's side, the driver said, "Excuse me, my lord, but I've been wanting to see you. I've heard about your Crusade Fund, and I wanted to give you this." Whereupon lie handed the Bishop an envelope .and parted. When the Bishop opened the envelope he found five new Treasury pound notes inside! Motor-Clar for the Bishop of Oxford- IN these days Bishops really require motor-cars to carry out their many dio- cesan duties efficiently and promptly the days of leisurely visitations on horseback are past. It is therefore very thought- ful of the Diocese of Oxford to provide its new Bishop, Dr. Burge, with a car. Amongst those in the diocese who sub- scribed towards the cost of the present were the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Jersey, Viscount Hambledon, Lord Parmoor, and Mr. J. H. Benyon, the Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire. If I re- member correctly, something of--the same kind was done for Dr. Burge when he was Bishop of Southwark. President of the Royal Society. THE Master of Trinity College, Cam- bridge—known to all scientists as J. J."—has been elected President of the Royal Society. N. name stands higher in contemporary science than that of J. J. Thompson, whose researches in physics have world renown. As a mathematician and physicist he is facile princeps. It is said at Cambridge that before the war he had half finished a new treatise, and after tHe war he completely forgot how his mind was working. He has scrapped his book and is now at work on a new subject! The story will appear incredible to those unacquainted with his I resourceful mind. More Rudyard Kipling. I A NEW volume of Mr. Rudyard Kip- ling's poems is about to be added' to Messrs. Macmillnn's Bombay Edition, of the works, under the title of The Years Behceen and The Muse amoiuj the Motors. It will form the twenty-fifth volume of the series, and the edition is limited to 1,050 copies. The motor poems are in the form of parodies of some of the great writers from Chaucer to Tennyson. Anti-Mormon Novelist. W INIFBE.D GRAHAM (Mrs. Theodore Cory), the well known novelist, is on her way to the Anti-Mormon Congress at Pittsburg. She is an authority on the subject, which is the theme of one or two of her novels. It is interesting to recall that she wrote her first story when she was seventeen. It was entitled A Heroine in Bib and Tucker, and first appeared serially. New E.C.U. Secretary. AT the invitation of the Council of the English Church Union the Rev. Arnold Pinchard, Vicar of St. Jude's, Birming- ham, has consented to succeed Mr. H. W. Hill as secretary of the Union. Mr. Pinchard is noted for his many- sided activities. While fully in sym- pathy with the E.C.U., he has been chairman of the Church Socialist League in Birmingham, and was one of the founders of the Pilgrim Players. He is a vigorous preacher, a forceful platform I speaker, and has done a notable work among the factory workers in his parish. Mayor of Croydon's Precedent. WHAT is supposed to be a precedent in civic churchgoing was created last Sun- day by the Mayor and Mayoress of Croydon, Mr. and Mrs. Heath Clark, and members of the Corporation. In the morning Croydon Parish Church was at- tended, in the afternoon the North End Brotherhood was honoured, and West Croydon Congregational Church was attended in the evening. It is I worthy of note that there were over one thousand men present at the Brother- hood meeting. The Mayor, it should be said, is President of the local Federation of Brotherhoods. New: Master of the Rolls. THOUGH the Press has given pretty full accounts of the career of Lord Stern- dale, on the occasion of his appointment to the high office of Master of the Rolls, neither the secular nor even the religious Press has recorded one interesting fact in his career, viz., that this distinguished judge has followed in the footsteps of such eminent Lord Chancellors of the last fifty years as Earl Cairns, Lord Hatherley, and the late Earl of Selborne, who were all workers—one of them, viz., Lord Hatherley, down, we believe, to the very end of his life--in Church Sunday- schools. Lord Sterndale, who is a I Liverpudlian by birth, and was educated at Liverpool College, served for some years as warden of St. Luke's Church, Liverpool, the fine church at the top of Bold-street, which was for twenty-five years the scene of the labours of the late Ven. Thos. J. Madden, Archdeacon of I Liverpool. It is an interesting coincidence that f of the three greatest legal functionaries, two-viz., Lord Sterndale and Lord Birkenhead-are Liverpudlians, though Sir F. E. Smith was educated first at Southport and afterwards at Birkenhead SclTool. The title of Lord Mersey is held 1- by Mr. J. C. Bigham, a Liverpudlian of much legal distinction; while the Earl- dom of Liverpool was revived twenty-five years ago in favour of Mr. C. J. S. Fol- jambe, a Notts landowner. Remarkable Work Recognised. FoR nearly two years the Rev. J. J. R. Armitage (the Bishop of Coventry's Cathedral Industrial Messenger) has been carrying on a unique and remark- able work in the city of Coventry. He has conducted services in the open air, in the works' canteens, and every Sun- day afternoon conducted and addressed a service, for adults, in the largest theatre in Coventry, where he has pre- sented the Church's message and inter- pretation of modern problems In addi- tion, he has given Bible lectures twice each week in the cathedral, a feature of which has been adult catechising "— those desirous of asking questions have had the opportunity of doing so. At the conclusion of the address by Mr. Armitag.e at the Empire Theatre last Sunday afternoon, before an audience of 2,000, a surprise presentation was uiade to him of forty-five tl Treasury notes enclosed in a beautiful case. 7 A Surprise Gift. Canon Chappel (Sub Dean of the Coventry Cathedral), in making the pre- sentation, paid a tribute to the good work Mr. Armitage is doing not only in the theatre, but in the local works and in the cathedral. Dr. Brazil and Mr. Dixon also spoke testifying to the good work done by Mr. Armitage. The re- cipient, who was taken by surprise, said; There are times when one is at a loss to know what to say, and this is such a I time. Thank you." "Hang Theology" Rogers. MONDAY will be the centenary of the birth on November 24, 1819, of William Rogers, Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishops- gate, and Prebendary of St. Paul's, the breezy and unconventional parson who gained the surname of Hang Theology Rogers from a speech at an education meeting in which he blurted out, Hang theology, hang economy; let's get to work." Mew Port Elizabeth Archdeacon. PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, has a new Archdeacon in the Rev. Canon F. W. Flack. Archdeacon Flack has been Rector of Uitenage, in the Diocese of Grahamstown, since 1911, and since 1915 Canon of Grahamstown Cathe- dral. He was ordained in 1883, after graduating from Catherine College, Cambridge, B.A. (2nd Sen. Opt.). In 1887 he took his M.A. From 1883 until 1889 he was curate of New Shildon, Dar- lington. He then went to South Africa, and from the latter year until 1900 was Rector of St. Paul, Port Alfred. For the next eleven years he was Rector of St. Paul, Port Elizabeth, during which time he was for nine years Rural Dean of Port Elizabeth. Our French Allies. MESSRS. MACMILLAN AND CO. will publish this month a new book on French Ways and their Meaning, by Edith Wharton. The little volume should prove helpful to many English readers who have a desire to become better ac- quainted. with the ideas and character- istics of the French people. From long residence in the country, and from her sympathetic study of the people, Mrs. Wharton has acquired a thorough know- ledge of the French point of view, and her chapters on the special qualities of taste, reverence, continuity, and intel- lectual honesty, are instructive and in- tereting in a high degree. A Cheery Canon. CANON PETER GREEN has been giving some cheery and by no, means unneces- sa.ry advice, advice -which comes like a fresh breeze from the moors. Speaking a.t the prize distribution at Cowerby Bridge Secondary School, he referred to the ingredients necessary for the pud- ding of happiness." They were, he said: (1) Don't be afraid; (2) don't grouse; (3) love work; (4) do things for others. No" one, he told his hearers, could be a real success in life who was not happy. This is an excellent recipe, and it reminds me of the slogan which was constantly 011 the lips of an old-time Cockney who used always to say, What's it matter so long as you're 'appy?" A Well-Merited Appointment. MR. EDGAR STANLEY ROPER, B.A., Mus.B. (Cantab.), F.R.C.O., is to be the organist, choirmaster and composer at his Majesty's Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, in succession to the late Dr. Charles Harford Lloyd. The King makes this appointment, which dates from -October 17. The new organist was edu- cated at Westminster Abbey School, the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated Mus.Bac. in 1903. During the last six- teen years his appointments have in- cluded those of assistant organist at the Chapel Royal,. St. James's, organist at the Danish Royal Chapel, Marlborough House, Professor at Trinity College of Music, conductor at the Bermondsey Settlement, and assistant organist at Westminster Abbey. Mr. Roper studied music under Sir Frederick Bridge, Dr. Walter Alcock and Dr. E. W. Naylor. It was 'Oliver Twist. ADDRESSING a meeting on behalf of his Crusade Fund, the Bishop of Chelms- ford narrated an incident thait happened, at a big meeting at which he was the speaker, and at which there were present a large number of devout old ladies. Would you like to know the book that first sent me to work in London? asked the Bishop. Immediately the dear ladies pulled out their notebooks and pencils in the hopes of hearing the title of & stirring tract which they might send to their more worldly young relatives. There was an attitude of tense expect- ancy. "Well, it was Oliver Twist. The pencils were dropped and the note- books put away in disgust. A Joyous Event. A VERY pleasant and joyous event had been celebrated at Newington, a village near Folkestone. La.st Sunday the Rector of the parish, the Rev. Leighton Buck well, and Mrs. Mary Frances Buck- well, celebrated their golden wedding. They have had thirteen children, all of whom are alive, and twenty grandchil- dren. Nine of the thirteen children were present at the morning service, the preacher being a son, the Rev. Leighton Selwyn Buck well, Vicar of Silverdale, Newcastle, Staffs, and another son played the organ. The Rector and hia wife attended the service, taking their places with the ordinary congregation. The service concluded with the Wedding March. As a token of their regard for their Rector and his wife the parish- ioners presented them with a purse of notes and an illuminated address. Mr. Leighton Buck well has been Rector of Newington since 1880. He graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, and Waf ordained at Canterbury in 1868. A Faithful Frenchman. SPEAKING at the meeting of the Colonial and Continental Church Society on Friday evening the Rev. A. S. V. Blunt, British Chaplain in Paris, told the story of a faithful Frenchman who won't see sixty again." He lost his only boy in the war, and -lie said to him- self, I can't do much, I am too old, but I want to do something," and he planned out that he-would give his whole time, every minute he could spare, to visiting the sick inJiospital and to accompanying to their last resting-place those soldiers in whose cortege there should be no friend at all. Every time Mr. Blunt conducted a funeral, and he took nearly 100 in that one cemetery, there he came with his little palm branch, walking the two miles from the hospital. He was not a member of our Church, but 4ie followed the service and he placed his little palm on the grave and went away. When Mr. Blunt saw him on All Saints' Day he asked him how many funerals he had followed, and he said 700. It is all I could do," he said. I did it out of gratitude to my fellow-countrymen, and 1 did it out of gratitude to your men." Noteworthy- Wills. By the will of Mr. Franklin Dixon, of Marquita, Maindee, Newport, Mon., retired chemist, about t 1,000 is left upon trust for the benefit of any accredited fund for the augmentation of the. sti- pends of the. clergy of the Church of England in the poor .country parishes in Wales and Monmouthshire "in relief of the distress caused among such clergy by the operation, of the Welsh Church Act." The Rev. Thomas Hackett. Massey, Rector of Faringdon, near Alton, since 1857, who died in the early part of last April, bequeathed to George Robert Gilbert his dog, called Ross," on his giving a written promise that it shall be lovingly cared for. His other animals lie desired to be put out of life under the supervision of a qualified veterinary surgeon and their bodies buried in the meadow behind Miss Parker's house. He also left £ 10 to the Alton and Farn- ham S.P.C.A., £ 200 each to the Cats' Home, Battersea, the Dogs' Home. Bat- terset, and the Anti-vivisection Society, and the advowson and right of presenta- tion to the church of""All Saints, Far- ingdon, to the Guild of All Souls, Henrietta-street, Strand. WATCHMAN.

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