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IMPORTANT EFFORT. THE important Congress to be held in j- Sheffield next week, in connection with the Church, Missionary Society, is the .first of its kind, and has an interesting history. In January of last year a meet- ing of C.M.S. supporters was held at Leeds Church Institute to discuss the in- adequate support which the North of England was giving to the society. As a result of the meeting, commissions of inquiry were appointed for each diocese of the York Province, and in clue.course these made their reports to a Provincial Commission, presided over by Dr. Guy Warman, then Vicar of Bradford and now Bishop of Truro. Three recommen- dations were made: 1. The appointment of a secretary for the whole of the Province. The Rev. J. M. Cunningham took up this posi- tion about three months ago. 2. The appointment of a Committee for the-Province. 3. The holding of a Congress in some northern city each year. An invitation from the Sheffield Asso- cia tion-one of the strongest in the north —was received last July, offering to be- come the centre for the first Congress, and Liverpool has already volunteered for the next. The proceedings at Sheffield begin on Monday evening next with a reception of the delegates by the Lord Mayor at the Town Hall. For the three following days there is a full programme. There will be Holy Communion at the cathe- dral each morning at 8 o'clock, and a prayer meeting at 10.15. At the open- ing session, on Tuesday morning a wel- come to the Congress will be extended by the Lord Mayor and by the Free Church Council, and the Bishop of Sheffield (who presides at all the meetings) will re- spond. The subjects for discussion fol- low a well-planned sequence: The World Position." The Call of the World Position, (a) to the Church; (b) to our Stewardship of Money." The Call to Womanhood." The Appeal of a Suffering World to our Sympathy." The Call to Workers of the World." The Call of the World Position, (a) to Children; (b) to Youth; (c) to Young Men and Women." "Our Answer to the Call." There will be special meetings for Uni- versity student for nurses and for teachers, besides a most important busi- ness meeting to form the Committee for the Northern Province.

Strong Platform. The Archbishop of York will speak at a great public meeting at the Victoria Hall (on Wednesday evening. The other meetings will be in the Montgomery Hall. T'he Bishop of Durham and Bishop Linton (the. now Bishop in Persia) will each ad-dress the Congress twice.. Every one of the speakers has some special interest attaching to his name. Mr. Adamson is the leader of the Labour Party in the House of Commons. The Rev. C. E. Tyndale Bisco-e is head- master of Srinagar High School on the N.W. frontier of India. Miss Sorabji is an Indian native, and Mrs. Starr is the widow o.f Dr. Vernon Starr, who was murdered by Mohammedans on the N.W. frontier in the spring of last .year. Another widow is Mrs. Douglas Thornton, whose husband died at Cairo. The Rev. W. Hume Campbell is Prin- cipal of St. Chrysostom's College, Black- heath. The Rev. C. C. B. Bardsley is, of course, from the C.M.S. Head- quarters, as also are the Rev. W. E. S. Holland and the Rev. C. E. Cutler. From South Africa comes the Rev. A. Daintree, Vicar of Mowbray, a suburban parish of Cape Town. Dr. Gordon Thompson will address medical students and nurses, and Mrs. Carus Wilson will speak on "The Call to Young Men and Women." The Sheffield Diocese will be represented, not only by the Bishop in the chair, but also by both the Arch- deacons amongst the speakers, and by Mr. Batey, who will preside over the teachers' meeting. The Congress will be brought to a close by a cathedral service, at which Bishop Linton and also the new Vicar of Brad- ford (Rev. W. Stanton Jones) will preach. The Rev. H. F. Greenwood is hospitality secretary Canon Cole is pro- paganda secretary; and there is a vigor- ous committee at work to ensure a memorable gathering.

NORTHAMPTON C E.M.S. WE have just had an opportunity of seeing a copy of the Northampton Fede- ration United Syllabus for 1919-20. This Federation of the C.E.M.S. is evidently getting earnestly to work. In the various branch programmes which the syllabus contains there is evidence of activity that is good to see. We notice that Canon J. R. Hussey, Vicar of St. Matthew's,. Northampton, is President of the Federa- tion. There is indeed much for the C.E.M.S. to do in the life of the Church, specially in view 'of the possibilities of the Enabling Bill, and we feel sure that Northampton will play its part in what- ever it is called upon to do. We wonder whether Northampton has a U Visiting" Committee, as part of its machinery? Such a Committee is found helpful by some Federations we are acquainted with.

BISHOPS' INCOMES. NOT "WHAT THEY SEEM. ADDRESSING the Lichfield Diocesan Conference at Wolverhampton yesterday (Thursday), the Bishop of Lichfield (Dr. Kempthorne) said a man who declared j' that he was net interested in the League of Nations because it was not a Church question" was typical of an -attitude which was both futile and mischievous. There were" still people who regarded the Church as a mutual' edification society of persons who "promoted the worship of God in their own interest," and who imagined that religion was a system of j private spiritual insurance. If the Church was to be the soul of the nation, if it was to give an inspiration for self- sacrificing service and show the country the motive power for translating ideals into action, it must set an unmistakable example in the way in which it ex- pressed its own life and set about its own work. The most pressing problem in the Lichfield Diocese was the poverty of the clergy. The clergy were now almost the worst paid section of the community. The average income of the beneficed clergy in that diocese was £ 294, of the unbeneficed clergy not more than L200. That was poor enough pay before the war; now it simply meant hunger and cold and distracting anxiety. In the face of such facts it was intolerable cant when comfortable people commended holy poverty." To-day Bishops and _y clergy ought to set an example of sim- plicity in living; but it was a scand al to the whole Church if a parson's children were cold and underfed. Amongst re- forms needed the Bishop suggested the combination of many small country parishes 5 and a redistribution of the Church's existing resources. m Ft,4al °Pule»ce Bisheps. The fatal opulence of Bishops was one of the commonest butts f or the scorner. It was commonly supposed that the Bishop maintained a luxurious magnifi- cenoe in his lordly palace, that he habitu- ally travelled for his pleasure in a well- appointed motor-car or, took unnecessary journeys first-class on the railway. The diocese was aware of the fa;cts-that the Bishop was very seldom in the palace, that he tried to live simply and to use the palace as a centre of hospitality, that he usually travelled third-class and only used the motor, to enable him to do his work.! The. nominal income was zC4,200 when rates and taxes were paid it was £ 2,600. Payment of diocesan staff, office expense, travelling, postages, &c., accounted for £800; subscriptions, &c.j mainly diocesan, required another R600. Thus £ 1,200 were left to keep up the Dalaoo. which cost at lp,+. Pl Ann a v

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