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MR JOHN MORLEY'S VISIT TO…
MR JOHN MORLEY'S VISIT TO NORTH WALES. The Right Hon. J. Mor1ey. who was sccompa by Mr Oborne Morgan, M P., Mr St,rt ft?ndet, M P Mr T. 1. Ellil M.P.. U, NV- M P, (Rhondnu), Mr A. J. W'lhamsN,):-W:r Humphreys °*en (obalrmH.n of the LibEral Federation) 'and others, arrived at Newtow» (Montomeryahire) on Mon J f"r the porpo8 of ?dd,?i?.i g sf''e of meetms i? con. purpose ofad r S NI\tlonal Connci, Not. 'ToThU thewet weather a huge crowd awaited rhe arriva o' 'he train, and when Mr Morley appeared he was greeted with cheering A process- ion was formed, and headed by a brass band marched to an hotel in the town. where a tempor- ary platform was erected. Here the chair was taken by Mr Humphreys OlveD, Mr Morley, after thanking those present for his recention, said no Liberals had been more staunch th? tbos. of WI?ll-, I\1thouh he confessed that in 188? when the eloion took pl?", many Liberals had serious misgivinss as to how Wales might gn. In the first place, it was thought that there was a feelinp not entirely of friendliness between the Welsh and the Irish in matterof competition for work and they knew, in the second place, that attempts had been made, not very oreditable to those who made them, to stir up the baleful fires of religious antipathy. Those apprehensions proved to be groundless. Wales returned an almost solid vote for Mr Glad3tone and his policy (cheers). After ooming through an ordeal of that kind trium- phantly, they need not fear anything that was likely to happen to the Liberalism of Wales. He had no fear for the people of England he had no fear for the people of Fivtland and when the time came for the opinion of the country to be tested at the polls, they would see assuredly that the oonutry had been stannoh throughout. After a few remarks from Mr Osborne Morgan and Mr Abraham the meptin" separated. In the evening a pntlic meeting was held in the Viotoria Hall, admission being by ticket. There was a crowded attendance,and Mr Stnart Rendel, M.P., presided. Mr MORLEY on rising was loudly cheered. He said he had at one time thought that there was a chance of the Irish question being solved without the expe- dient of a separate but cirsnmstances had altered this view, and he contended that every honest man was entitled to make such a change of opinion (cheers). He wished to ask them what advance had been made in the Irish question since the election of two years and a half ago. At that time the friends of Mr Gla,1atone were bellot,enand it was prophesied that if there were another election they would be utterly wrerkN1,p\nd that all that was required to quiet Ireland was a period of firm and resolute government. How had these prophecies been fiilfilled ? Lord Harfington, in his recent speech at Inverness, had laid down three propositions which would answer that question. He said first that the Irish party was now supported by a great and powerful partv in England numbering not muoh less than halnhevotingpower of Ireat Britain. Th4 G!a o..tonian Liberals were no longer the rump of a broken party (cheers and langhter). In the second place Lord Hartington, said a state of things existed in Ireland in some parts not far removed from civil war and rebellion. So that 11 firm and resolute gnvernmeot" had not accomplished its work Thirdly, his lordship said that sn lon as the temper of the Irish people re- mained what it was, and the policy of a ereat partv in thisconntryremained what it was, then an at ternative policy on the part of the Utiionios-a constructive pnlioy-wa" almrst an impossibility. Take these three propositions as they would, be contended that in them they bad the most com- plete confession of failure, of impotence, of helpleRg!1eS, of hopelessness that was ever made by a party leader (oheersl. The policy of the Unionists had broneht the country to a dead- lock, for there was going to be no reversal rn the part of Liberals. It was no nse Unionists Lloiiii abollt the country with a eatechiBm in one hancl and a birch-rod in the, other (cheers and laughter), The result of the policy whioh had been pursued during the past two years was that the Unionist Party was doomed (cheers). The Unionists, referring to the Home Role agitation in Wales, said that by ad- vocating the Home Role policy in Ireland the Liberals had called np a monster which they were very anxious to keep in order. but that the monster would end by making them his slaves. But it was not they who had roused the Welsh question. Those wbo said they did foraot the extension of the franchise and the ballot. Did people suppose tha1: when the franchise was extended the new voters were going to make no new demands? ThaI, exten- sion meant that they had had enough of driving 0.,1) sooial discontent beneath the Bnrface (oheers). One of the great questions in whioh Wales was interested was that of intermediate education. Mr Mundella brought in several bills in different years to secure this. A Tory Government promised support, but re- fused to erant a committee, so that seven years after the report W' made the question was exactly where it was before. Could they wonder, then. tha> there was growing up a Welsh ques- tinn' (Cries of No,") Thau there was the lanl The Riohmond Commission, appointed in 1879 to inquire into the land qnes tion. undoubtedly dealt with Wales in a manner that had proved unsatisfactory and insufficient. The Welsn member..howr} that the "English sys- tern oould not be .lwc0.sflllly applied in Wales in the face of difhrences of languaae, creed, and p"litior. ThNo. waR. therefore, a strong and irresistible ca«» for inquiry, but the Tory Govern- ment, being a povernment of landlords, left the Welsh farmer, than whom there was no harder worker, to strn«-.de with enormons difficulties Could they wonder that snon slack and slngni^b apathy was makin? ft Welsh question. It was that apatbv ar>d indifference that made the Irish qnestion. Then thev had seen another remarkable phenomenon in Wales—namely, the passive resistance to th, law in the form of the ar)ti-tithn agitation. The Government had brought in a hill to end the qnestion, but that hill reminded him of the work of the clllaR in London known nil "j <rry builders." The work was not intended to last, and the relations between landlord and tenant, a'readv strolined. wonld prohablv be aggravated. Then with regard to the Churoh-that was another question which wonld have tn be faced. He had no inclination to treat the Church qnestion except as a purely political question (ehsors) Tt was to Liber..18" question of political j"Atine, It wis A question of the highest national expediency, build- ing np peace, contentment, and concord in A par. tion of her Majesty's dominions. He knew Kwvors said that there was cnmn!et. legislative, ecclesiastical, histo-ical and constitutional identity between the fonr dioceses in Wales and the Church in Rngland hut behind the dust of this question lay the hard fact that the Ohnroh pron«rty wont, to the service and advancement of n small minnritv of the population. Oomingto the question of local govern- ment., what they had to fin waR to see that in Wales, as in Scotland and in Ireland, manhinnry was pro- vided for os.rr'. Vlv out sr, far q wns consistent with j'1qtiOA io the intcreof f tbe 1"l>1rn l i who1. th wiit]" and tho interests or the population. ITc n«<. vr had expected identity of machinery where the aifftl1HitTR 10 he met with wp,"u no' identical. The condition of Ireland demanded that «:1 the enerey of all her sons should be employed in lifting op and regenerating their miserable land (cheers). The history "f Wales WM different, and what English Liberals ileired to dr) was to listen to the demands, to do what tnev oonld to meet them, hut not to be drawn into a trap to commit themselves to acoept identioal machinery where the case* were not idontical fcheers). TTe honed that in Wales they would leave OJIJ stone unturned t" make the new County Cnunrils M national and as po verful po.ble, He renrratt'd that they had not be*n J'tnlJi!itn greater pv-vera, hnt there wM ft mention which emnowerei! eombmaM'on Amon'/ entities, h* fartvaH to the f»rorvlh and extsnfUMi of a <i^^ir« in Wales for Ro-a- !mrr1 rA. nreRentitive ant-hority for the general I\mini"r". tive purposes of the Priho!paHty (oneMA) The first qnestion was the Irish qtjv»tion. Nothing could b* dnne nntil that WaR diapnjprt of. hot when it ont of the way th.v conld deil with othpra (hpar. hear), Meanwhile other qnestionn were ripf»in«?. They were being pressed into the minds of the people. Thev were making their way into the minds of members of Parliament who English onnstitnenoie., and into the minds nf the Knclish constituencies theniS^Wog fhe^r. hear). With 10. bfifttv, with j'"i'!men arid with foyaTtr to one another, they might be qnite ffnre that when the next general elation cam* the Libprat Partv wonld take a great step forward in secuMng n Parliament which shonM represent their principles, and which would once m'1"O govern tv, ('P1+' with justice, with wisdom. »nd with power (lond cheers). A resolution was then carried, heartily welcoming Mr Morley to Wales. Mr John MorTey on Tnesday briefly addrease I the annual meeting of the Welsh National Oonnc l at Newtown, Montgomervphire, over which Mr Stuart Rendel presided. He said that for aome time to come they mngt be contend to 1<0 on per- snadinK and argnitie until the Irish question wae not merely deoided on party lines, but until it was decided by the conviction in the minds of English, Sootch, and Welsh voters that justice and political expediency reqnired the settlement of the qaegtion upon a broad and durable basis. Ha congratulated himself on having, dariag that occasion of hi8 first viait to Walee, oome into contact with what he tmderplood FnH the moat representative gatheriijg of Welsh Liherals that could p"A,¡itJr be got together. Mr Osborne Morgan was also one of the speakers. He thought it would be time enongh when thev got the Church dipestablinhrtd, inter- mediate edanstion,ands. Land Bill, to settle what sort of Homo Rule they wanted for Wales.
MR SWETENHAM QC., M.P., AND1…
MR SWETENHAM QC., M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. Mr K. Swoteiiham, the member for the Carnar- von Boroughs, on Friday addressed a numerously attended mooting of the eleotorB at the Pwllheli Town Hall. Mr O. Llo) d Jones Evans (Broem Hall) prMided. and amongst those present were: Mr Joces Runl. Miss ?wetenham.Ur.T H?tr Hughes, Dr Jones Morris <P<t"??°'?' 0. Joues, J. 0. Jones (secretary of the Couse Clab), Cted?yn Owen (sohoitor). etc. After a few remarks by th. CHAIRS and Dr. IONS Moama, Mr S??H?. who was entbasiasticany ?'? del.v.red au i-t.resti? address, in the course?! Which he Mid he wa..iDoerely ?M'°??  anty to his atteriy 'eS«ale89 of tbe p-li;i" o! auv individual, for wheLever b(? h&d an ?Ppor?n:<y ? doing .good tnrn to any one, or to tn?erti.e di?erent apphoatious that were made to faim from all quarters, he had never stopped to in- quire h,?t the po'itios of his correspondents bear, tw) lie hould continue to do 80, whilst e øhnuld always support aacb measures as he flionght were intended for the benefit of the oountry and Wales in particular, as they commended them- selves to his judgment, regardless of party. Raving referred to the question of Welsh intermediate education, Mr 8welenham dwelt at length with the proposals of the Government respecting tithes, and Conohided a very able address by recapitulating the Statements reoently made by MrBalfourdealiup with the fak* allegations concerning the treatment of politioal prisoners in Ireland. In the oonrse of the speech ssveral questions were put to Mr Swetouham, Who satigfaetorily answered eaoh of them. On the motion of Dr. HUNTKR HUGHES, seconded by Mr OLBSWTK OWEN, a hearty vote of thanks was tMorded to Mr Swetenham, after which the pro- ceedings terminated with the passing of a similar vote to tIn ohairman for presiding. At the Conway Town Hall on Saturday night a large uorober of eleotors-Conservatives and Libers-attended in response to an invitatioto bear an address from Mr Swetenham. The Hon, Hoyd Mo?yn presided, and there werc? also pre- .ent Dr. R A Richard. Dr. Jones, Mr E. .B.ro?oke (pbo), Miu Brooke, Rev T. K Whs (?.) h?ar. R. Byrnc Griffith (..hotter), n. E??, J mm fsaoretarv of the Conservative AssoCIatIOn), 0. 8, Sm.Uwood.G H. Lee, J. E, Lewia (bt?y JSuitdio?). B. J. Jones, Hatner (Gymn) R.  1. Wayde, Humphrey Lewis, P. J. Webster (a I' aitor ) M. R,bert,, &c. (eptrLJ='g&i8flY opened the proceed- 'U' '"? ct?.' T?n? was oordiaUy received on rising to ?d?. ?d?n.e. De.h? with Mr Men- delta's In!armediato Ed.c.tion Bill, the hon gentleman said there was a great deal in it of which Ke approved. Neverth.te?. be approved all the ?oreoffh. Hon. Mr Kenyoa's B?..?-n.ncb as his Mam* was on the back of it. He feared that these bills, being those of private members, had little, if any, chanoe of being passed, because they required that the Government should find the money. The Government naturally preferred passing a Bill of their own which should direct the expenditure of the money they were to find, flowtver, the leader of the House of Commons had promised Mr Kenyon and himself that as soon as time permitted the Government would bring for- <mrd an Intermediate Education Bill for Wales. W'th ref(?renoo to the Tithes Bill, it was necessary that the "Ieoton should understand what was the present law before they heard in what respect it teas going to be altered. Up to 1836 it might be said that the tenants paid the tithes, inasmuch as the tithe was levied upon the land in the shape of the parson's sheaf." This caused a great outcry, and the system was regarded as a great grievance, leading ultimately to the passing of the Tithe Com- mutation Act-an Act which was adopted in the interests of the farmers. By that Act-and as it Now stoe)d-the tithe WIIoi to be entirely borne by the landlord. The Act of Parliament, however, did not say that it was nDlawfnl for the landlord '0 ask the tenant to pay the tithe for him. The landlords generally allowed their tenants money to do eo by reducing their rent*, which otherwise would naturally be higher. It was this system that bad oaused the tenants to imagine that the amount ef the tithes pstid by them carao direot ont of their Owr pockets, forgetting that it was out of tbe i.-ndiords' money that the amount was really paid. The Tithes Bill now before the Home of Co:lions proposed to remedy the present system by euaoting that the landlord should not be Ullowcd to contract himself out of the Tithes Com mutation Act. and that in all cases in which farmers were compelled to pay the tithes in addition to the rout the amount thuspa'd should b" deduoted out of the reut (applause). The effect of the pasciug of such a measure would be that in future firms wjuld be let tithe free. He had ben asked whether it was right that a person who bought the freehold of a property snoulrt be obliged to pay thereon in support of a form of religion of which ha did not approve ? His reply was that When a man purchased a freehold estate he pur- chased it subject to the pavmont of tithe, which taad not been made a charge by any law upon the land, but by a voluntary gift in the olden time to the different monasteries or churches for the sup- port of religiou, and that therefore it was a first Charge upon the land. In this oase the purchaser paid leas purchase money for the freehold in con- sideration of the tithe he would have to pay. It was, therefore, dishonest for a person having so thought land at a lees cost to turn tound u eoon al he bad bought it and say that he refused to pay the tithe. He boped that a scheme of redemption enabling persons to free their land of tithe wonld soou be introduced.'and that those persons owning freebolds fend consoienticaily objectini,, to the payment of tithes towards the support of what they oon8iaered to be an alien Chorch should be allowed to partioi- te iu the benefits of euoh eoheme of redemption (bear, heat). IDoaliug with the Aooess to Rivers and Mountains Bill, introduced by Mr T. E. Ellis, he laid that he opposed the measure beoau<.e he thought that the tenant farmers of Wales were en- titled to speoial protection in oonaequence of the bad times through which they had recently passed. 111 his opinion such a bill as that propoted by his lion, friend would have trodden under foot tho Welsh farmers, inasmuch as it would allow ex. Onreiomsts from the great towns to approach the rivers and mountains, and in doing so they would aeoesBarily walk along the meadows, treading the grass, injuring sheep walks, and damaging fenoes, whilst sheep-breeding would be materially inter fered with during the lambing season. A bill of this kind would not injure the landlords in any material particular, but it would greatly injure the ten&Dt farmers of Wales (he*r, be?r). He (the ,p.kr) had been .eked what was hi -p,.io. regpMtin the formA- tiou of a Mational Wolsh Party in the Housa of Coinmong. To this he replied that the first question to b9 considered was -what were to be the objects ot the proposed Walsh National I'arty, and of what it was to be oomposed ? If the objects were to grant, t* Wales equal laws in every resoect with thosH of England-to promote Welsh trade and Welsh com flaeroe ptri paw* with England, to give Wales equal educational rights and f-oilitie. I so as to raise her in the scale of Ptio.then he should be proud to loin uch a party, provided its members were com- posed of men who would pledge themselves to pnt Aside par y and private interests, as well as sel!- g!orincat)oa. Meking only their oonntry's good (ap plause). Dealing with the Irish question, the hon. ntleman p oea d e d to s? y that there won)d have r;I:ie::d Irlanl t:ie:e:dwn: and summer had it not been for the aotion of Mr Dillon and his friends. Mr Swetenham answered several questions put to him by ortRin eleotors. Mr BaOOKII (Pabo) proposed a vote of thanks to the hon. member, whioh was seoonded by Mr HtrMTBRBT Luwis, and agreed to. A vote of thanks to the chairman was also Accorded and the proceedings terminated.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
THE VOLUNTEERS. The present season of the year is one Thich, in many Volunteer co-ps, is isays th" "a.ning I'nst) signalled by a renewsl of activity amd military life In the latter months of the suramar a large number of our citiinn Soldiers are either away from home or are inclined to find other employment for their leisure than the indul- gonco ef their mavtiil in'\Î'\ct; but with the retU1 n of C- long dark evenings enmes the fitti.g time for ""lIm- ing touch with regimental comr,d-R. 8n,1 recommencing the annual course 't drill. Thanks to the important Steps re»ardin £ lirijadw organisation which were ini- tiated aTiout si* weeb ago it is exceedingly probable Oist th" ordinary activity of the drill season will, for the year 1598 18S9, be largely intensified. A feature of the new drill season will be the f-,t thet for the first time for gome yeari a certain portion of Volunteer Artillery will be in possession of field guns. Field fcatteriss are no novelty in the volu iteer force, but those of them which formerly existed were doae away With oil tho double griund of the expense to the corps with o,? tbo double of th '?'ZxS iffl,ult, f fi.di,,g of hording the guns, and theallejod diiffculty of finding men w\n were competent driverø. The voluuteers Ifeamaelvea tisvo always protested against the action 0ti the part of the authorities which allowed them to be armed only with guns of position, and the formation Of these new field baferiee is a welcome concession, whilst it wnl, in case of need, make up in some degree for our miserable lack of aridbry, in the regular army. then are auoh obvious difficulties in the way that it frill be Interestlag to watch how the axperiiMBt works.
'MR O'BRIEN, M.P., AT FESTINIOG.…
'MR O'BRIEN, M.P., AT FESTINIOG. I Mr WILLIAM O'BRIEN, ,\1.1' attended a meeting of the Liberals of Memnethshire, which was hali on Tuesday afternoon in the Assembly Rooms at Iilaeuau Festiniog. In acknowledging addresses from the various associations, the hon. member for North-east Cork said that there was not a corner of Ireland where the name of Wales would not be cheered to the echo, and where there would not be found that one of the moat fervent wishes of the Irish heart was that God might bless the Welsh people and prosper their cause (obeers). It must always be remembered that the enemies of Ireland were the enemies of Wales, that the champions of Ireland were the ohampions of Wales, and that the Irish victory would b the Welsh victory (cheers). It was because the Tories and the renegade Liberals .(hisses) -knew that they were concentrating all their power and malice in crushing the Irish people and Mr Gladstone. He assured them that, before the world was much older, the whole fabric of tyranny and falsehood and privilege, airainat which they were fighting, would fall before the onslaught of that gleat party and that great chief, at whose trumpet-blast many a fortress of ascendancy an oorruptlon had fallen already (lond cheers). In the evening auothor crowded and enthusiastic meeting wa. held, at ?hioh Mr O'BMM said L hat. while indifferent to the misery which his pohey of imprisonment ? produoing, the Chief bee tary for Ireland, in his roent p!och at Gi;;egw, ohose his battle ground in the of Mr Mand^e- ville. U?? that battle-ground he would endeavor to r:'eet him. ?though he was ..faid that the task of tracking hiu through all his orafty and nn. sLipulous misstatements mwht be elsome. ?ere ? a good deal in Mr MMdeviUe's fate which was not so comical as Mr Balfour supposed. Mr Balfcur suggested a downright and unmitigated falsehood when he insinuated that Mr Mandeville got bailiffs and policemen maimed and scalded with hot pokers and the rest of it. There was only oneword in the English language tooharaoterisethat statement. There was not a scintilla of truth in it (cheers). Mr Mandeville's only crime was that be delivered a public speech of lass than ten minutes in duration. That was not followed by any violence, riot, or in- jury, but was followed by the saving of thousands of poor peasant homes from a fate and a crime which no Minister would now date to stand up in the House of Commons and defend (oheera). After reciting the alleged indignities and hardships in. flicted upon Mr Maudeville while in prison, and having traversed the Chief Secretary's reoent re- ferences to the subjaot, Mr O'Brien went on to say that at Glasgow Mr Balfour had repeated the cowardly and mendaoious insinuation, whioh he did not make opsnly or attempt to prove, viz., that Mr Mandeville was guilty of drunkenness. He (Mr O'Brien) held that that insinuation would justify one of John Mandeville's brothers in thrashing Mr Balfour within an inch of his life- only that he took oaie generally to keep sixty miles of eea and a corps d'armee between him and the country lie governed and insulted (obeers). lie (Mr O'Brien) apologised for troubling them with these :details, but John Mandeville had been his friend and oomrade, as true-hearted as ever a man had in difficult hours. He died by his side, aud he waB not sure that he did not die to save him (Mr O'Brien), bat, at all events, it was abso- lutely neoessary, once for all, to unravel the tissue of cruel and orafty misrepresentations which had been placed bsfore the British people on the sub- ject, and he trusted that he had, to some extent, shown them that there was something which was not comioal, something which was not a fit subject for levity and insnlt in a transaction involving the lives of seven human beings, and bringing misery aud beieavemeat to more homes than one (llJnd cheers). With all these hideous stains upon his lips, Mr Balfour turned up at the Church Congress lisping the language of the angels, and he was dis- covered, like another amiable potentate who was celebrated in Shakespeare, between two bishops, discoursing divinity (loud cheers and laughter).
ITHE LATE MR. L, H. THOMAS,…
THE LATE MR. L, H. THOMAS, OF CAE'RFFYNNON, TALSARNAU. The lamented death of Mr Thorms having been announced in last week's papers, it remains for as now '0 offer some brief remarks 0:1 his life and its lessons. A native of the pretty looality of Llanfair, near Harlech, Mr Thomas early adopted a seafaring life. After a prosperous career at sea, and having acquired considerable landed property in his native parish, he purchased the farm of Cae'rffynnon, and built on the site of the old farm house a beautiful mansiou, his home for the last 33 years. He was already known as a man of sound sense, industry, integrity, and unremitting attention to the well- being of those under him on board ship, Let us glauoe at the manner of man he proved to be as a landsman. Mr Thomas began to study and to prao- tise farming with great intent, and at once com- menced improving tbe home farm at Cae'rffynnon -mostly marshland. He drained and worked it thoroughly, every yard 01 ground basing made pro- ductive, As a practical farmer he excelled, per- haps, more in tillage and crop raising than in the rearing of stock. Having thus set an example himself, he next bethought him of some means by which he could arouse and enoourage young farmers around him to set about improving their methods. lIe convened a meeting of young furmera i,J his neighbourhood, laid his views III his cwn wiuning and earnest way before them, and the result was the formation of n Farmer's Club, to meet at stated time- for discus- sion and mutual instruction in agrionltural matters. But there was at hand for Mr Thomas's unsur- passed energy nd zeal a wider field of usefulness in this respect. In 1868, on the establishment of the Merionethshire Agricultural Society, he was elected chairman of the Harlech district, a post be continued to fill nearly twenty years. Entering heirtily iuto all departments of the work and aims of tho sooiety, so congenial to him, he contributed materially to its great and growing success. On another important phuse of Mr Thomas's useful- ness to his fellow-countrymen, viz, his long aDd strong support to edootion, we Bhallllot now dwell, as it was recently specially acknowledged in the handsome pre3tiut»tiou puoliciy made to him aud Mrs Thomas. Another institution whioh owes much, very maoh, to Mr Thomas's labours in con- nection with it is the Harlech Annual Musical Festival, whioh has outlasted by many years any similar one either in North or South Wales. He was a firm supporter of. and partaker in, every movement tending to elevate and refine the masses, particularly temperance mO.Al11ellt, literary meet- ings, the Bible Society, together witb the missionary work of the various denominations near him. He was not oonteut with beiug a mere subscriber to a good cause, or simply to accept honour as its presi- dent or patron and leave to others the tr )nble. No, he delighted rather ill working with others and put- ting his own shoulder to the wheel. Few were the disappointments Mr Thomas ever gave. He could be relied on. Ou a board or committee, as a rule, he would be among the first to arrive and tho last to leave; and if snoh meetings occasionally (owing to his devotedness) became lengthy, they were often enlivened by his humour and kindliness. He was a m>\ítrat6, but in this oapacity he did not seem disposed to take much jart. He was alsoaCim misgiouer of L tii(I Tax and of the old Turnpike Trust. In politios Mr Thomas was a Con- servative, and in religion a Churchman. Into his act- of private charity and kindness, aud the way his noble efforts were seconded and inspired by Mra Thomas, now with the other mem- bers of his family left to mourn, weeannot attempt to enter. After a lingering illness, borne with an exemplary Christian patieuce, this good man passed to his rest on Saturday, September 29.11, at the age of seventy-six. His mortal remains, the following Friday, were lovingly borne by his tenants and others, followad by his relatives and a prooesiion of friends and nighburllllolld tho sohool childrer., to be deposited in the family vault at Llauflhaugel-y-traethau. The service in church was very touohing, and was wholly in Welsh, tbe officiating olergymen being the Revs. R. Jones (late reotor), J. Evans (present rpotor), D. Morgan (Pall, rhyn), and J. Hughes (curate). Some of his favourite Welsh hymn were snng oil the road, in church, and at tlte grave. Tt o coffin was of polished o" k, wi-h Holid brass mouutings, and a breastplate on which was insoribed the words Lewis Holland Thomas, born Feo, 18, 1812 died September 28. 18a8." Wreaths and crosses were .1at by the following and others -Mr and Mrs Theodore g, Williams, Salterlev Grange, Aber- eden Mrs John MoLean, Bodhyfryd Mrs Morgan and Miss Williams. Penrhvri Vicarage Miss Anne HuleM. Welshpool Dr. and Mrs Roberts, Talnr- vor Mr L. T. Jenkins, Liverpod; Mr Hughes, Mrs Griffiths and Mrp Barnett (deceased's nieoes), Liverpool Rev R. Jones and Nlrs It. Jores, Llan- dvfrvdog Mrs Joues Ty Cerrig Mrs W. J. Kerr, Glaawilliam Dr. and Mri Griffiths, Portmadoo Misses Richards, Llanfair IR". etc.
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THE WELSH CIIURCH. I The debate at the Chirch Congress ou the Church in Wliles-J\1r Pennant's method of calling it the Church of England and Wales hardly meets the difficulty of exactlj expressing what one means- was somewhat disappointing Moat of the papers, notably those of the Dean of St. Asaph and Canon Howell, were admirable; but, on a burning ques- tion, that only twenty minutes should be left for onen discussion was ridiculous. Mr Williams, the registrar of the Birkenhead County Court, *vho read so good a paper on the "Incre"se of the Eriscopate aR affecting Wales at the Binrjor Diocesan Conference, made a telling speech, *as far as that is possible in five minutes; but there was no time for English Churchmen to express their cordial sympathy with their Welsh brethren, and their determination to stand by her in what is really their struggle as well as her own. The gravity of the crisis is not, alas perceived. Mr J. G. Talbot and Mr Stanley Loighton Silt on a comparatively empty platform, and those zealous champions of the Church's right in the House of Commons, who so often have to do battle for her with men of their own party who are utterly ignorant of Church questions, must have heen in despnirat the comparative emptiness of the Free Trade Hall, whioh formed so marked a con- trast to the crowds which filled it in the afternoon and evening. Missions to seamen, and the best ways of improving the parochial system, are no doubt very excellent subjects for debate, but to allow them to take precedence of the position of the Welsh Church is to act like a man who, when the enemy was on the point of breaking into a beleaguered town, should refuse to join his fallow-citizens in its defence until he had watered his lfowers, or finished some interesting scientific experiment in which he was engaged. Is the Welsh Church in danger? Is it a fact that even civil pence is endangered in the Principality by tithe riots ? Is the Irish objection to paying rent penetrating to Wales? Do the the Liberal Party openly declare that, if they return to power, dise9tab!ihment in Wales will be one of the first measures of plunder they will propose? These are questions which Churchmen put away from themselves as disagreeable ones, and giving way to the faithless idea that disestab- lishment is bound to come; they, with that fatal apathy which has lost churchmen so much that they might have retained for the good of their fellows, are content to let things slede. As Mr David Williams well pointed out, the batief that di^ sestab- lishment is bound to 3ome paralyse Church work and encourages Nonconformists. Yet the ancient Church of Wales is once "gain recovering the nffec* tion of the people which she nossessed not only in the historic past but for a hundred vears after the Reformation. She lost it by a mistaken policy on the part of England, which led to absentee bishops and a negligent clorgv. She is now reoping as she was made to sow. Her child- ren, however, are rallying around her, Nonconform. ists are returning to her allegiance, the numbers confirmed are increasing, the communicants are far more in proportion to the worshippers in her churches than in Enylaud, and she needs but a few more years to repel in fact, as she can now in theory, the accusation that she is an alien charch. Already Nonconformists are boycotting Church- men, and the order has gone forth that no Dissenter is to attend the harvest fastival services, as popular in Wales as in England, Nonconformists see what English Churchmen hi! to realise, viz., that if only the Churchmen of Wales Me supported by their brethren in England, the Liberation Society will bo foiled. The Government have introduced a Tithes Bill, which is an eminently fair one, and offers the best possible solution of a pressing difficulty. Lord Salisbury is most anxious that it should pglss but many Conservative members, representing borough 3onstituencies, are iudifferent on the matter. The Bill will meet with a rancorous opposition in the House of Commons. Iq it likely that Ministers will be very anxiois to porsevere with it if Church- men show :10 enthusiasm on the matter? The ,hurch Defence Institution is prepared to take the matter up in earnest. Petitions should he pr(?eented in large nnmberE to the House of Com- mons next month; meetings should be held in? England expressing sympathy with the Welsh Church; and the leading Welob clergy should be asked to occupy English pulpits in order to explain the history, position, and claims of the Welsh Church. Time presses. It is not yet too late, by earnest action, political and reliiou8, by increased spiritual life, by earnest preaching in the vernacular iu Wales, and by a large-hearted support of the Church's temporal rights outside the Principality, o win 11 hRottle not only for Wales bnt for Ingland; and thus to enable the use of both hands to build up the walla of the spiritual Zion instead of'one having to be employed in warding off fois. The communi- cated article in Friday's TITHM, as to the necessity of appointing Welshmen to Welsh Sees, represents the feelings of all who understand tha position of affairs, ani Lord Salisbury, when called on to fill the See of St, Asaph, will no doubt do his best to find a dulv qualified W^lsh priest. The Church Defenco Institution needs funds, sympathy, and earnest support, iu a battle replete with stupendous issues to the future 0' the Cbnrch of this land.— From The Church Review*
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CANON P.YLE AND THE VICAR OF BRYMBO. W 9 have been requested to publish the follow- ing correspondence — Dear sir,-You are reported to have said in your eermon at Corwen on Wednesday last, "firstefally Ile reoord the tervioe to the canae of Christ rendered them by those wh:, filled the eap, when the Church was wautitig in her duty." 1 take it for granted that yon refer here to the work of Dissenters. Dissent i. Rch;.m, and nchinm i=> sin, Ruh i. the raodt plain teaching of the Bible. With every res- pect, I beg to express my deep regret that clergy- man of our Church, and a trainer of others for tbe ministry, shinl i have cone ont of his way, on this important oocaaion to s'y that he was grateful for th" introduction into, and the Spread in Walea of tho sin of Kohism. No gnrd can possibly come out of evil; and if such a thing was possible, and had actually taken plaos, we must, as teachers of God's Word, hold it ont as triits all the same, no matter what it may appnir to ue in itself or in in truth. We have nothing to do with settlins its character that has been settled for ua by the inspiration of Grid's Spirit—it is sin.—Trn?tiug yoo are wrongly reported, bslievs me, yours truly, Hcuu ROBERTS. P.S.—In the interest o! the Churoh and the oollesjf, I should like to have your reply printed in the diily papers. Cambridge, September 19th, 1838. Dear Hir, I b<); to cknowle,1!1e the favour of your O1O'e u'.d criticism. It was forwarded to me from Lampeter, where I no longer reside. The reo port which you enclose appears to be substantially oorreot, though, as my NIS. has not yet been re- turned to me, I have no means of comparing it with what I wrote Your criticism, however, is b»aed npon a mis. apprehension. I should be sorry to think that words intended to express thankfulaesa for zeal and c"nr..ge of S oncDnfMmidlJ could be construed to mean a eulogy npon their act of separatiou. The two thines are quite different; and their difference is illustrated by the example of oar Lord and of the rjhrmtian Church, 118 well as by common reasoning. Onr Lord, in reference to a case sufficiently analogous, iiaid. "Forbid him not; lor there is no man which sliall do a miithty work in My Name, and be abloqniokly to speak evil of me. For he that is not against ns is for us." The Church has ever «ladly recounised the eren "nel L'ood service done bv such man aB Tatiau, Oripn, Tertullian, and Theodore of Mopsnestia, in spite of their having been oondemned for their views by eccIA.¡.stm,,1 counoils. The missionary work of the Neatoriaus is weloomed, and not de. nouncfd, by the Church, although the Nestoriaim had been condemned not merely as schismatic but ao heretical, Tbe, Cluirch has ever graternlly ao. knowledged its indebtedness to the services ren- dered cvrtti by heathen philosophers in the general wirfare against -in and ignorance. She does n jt 'disown the conscientious labour aud glowing enthu- si*«m fcr Christ shown by separatists, however muoh she condemns the act o separation. A very oursory investigation into the history of Ureat Britain in the 18th century, such a8 that recorded in 'HrLeohy'svotnmee.e'vM?s ?hnnd?nt Rronnd for gratitode that the Nonconformists so very gener- ally threw their powerful and entbtiii?ltic i.flqlll?, into the scale of Christian purity and righteousness. .tMvr?te, those ol?o are grateful cannot be beamed for avowing their gratitude. Cotnmon- "1JM surelv says too that if I may praise a man for his sound Churchmanship without saying anything as to his charity, I onght to be able to praise Non conformist zeal and holinega without eulogising sohism. Nor did I go out of my WAY, as yon suggest, to utter these two or three sentences, At a time when, in Waleø, many Churchmen are ttmpted to øee in Xonconformists only political opponents, it is not unseasonable to remind them of the services ren- dered by Nonconformist brethren towards the evangelisation of neglected di-itiicts. For their act of schism Hod sball judge the., not 1. It is not for me to bring an accusation against those whose holiness and walk with God put my own life to shame. God shall judge them. He alone knows the temptations they endured, the provocations they received, the lack of privilege, opportunity, and instruction in which they were reared. How much of that Nonconformity has not re- sulted from the unsympathetio and even hostile attitade of the Church towards the untutored zeal of comparatively uneducated meu The repulse of emotions far more than the diversity of theological views has occasioned the Nonconformity to which I allude. Let him that is without the taint of controversial bitterness first throw the stone at them. So long as I see them banded against the Rame spiritual foes, so long must I regard them itS sheep of the one flock, though not of the same fold. So long as they hear the Shepherd's voice, so long will I always bo glad to testify to the mighty work. which they have done in the name of Christ. I confess that I do Dot think that many of my hearers at Corwen will have put that construction upon my words which has commended itself to you. If, however, you think it desirable, you are at liberty to priit in extenso this letter along with your own letter to me, which I enclose for the pnr- pose. The two together will explain one another. I must decline to enter into controversy, but am sincerely obliged for the faithful candoiir of your remarks.—Very faithfully yours, HEBBERT E. RnE, P.S.-I am no longer principal at Lampeter. Brymbo Vicarage, Wrexham, 20th September, 1888. Dear Sir,—Your explanation in brief is that my criticism was" based unon a misapprehension," in- asmuch as you expressed, you tell me, your thank- fulness, not for the work done by Nonconformists, but for tho zeal and courage displayed by them in their work. Granted bnt is your Mae improved by this change of front ? How is it yon are thank- ful for their zeal and courage in a work that you say YOll would be sorry to enloh;e 0 If you can- not eulosise their act of separation, how conld you eulogise their zeal and courage in working away at making this separation bigger and wider? If their act of separation was not desirable, I shall think the less zeal and courage put into it the hattsr; thus I cannot justify you in praising even their zeal and courage. But my criticism was not based npon a misapprehension of the meaning of your words, for in the report {which you inform me is correct) it is not their ZSIl and courage that are praised, hut their" service to the cause of Christand it wtq for praising this that I ventured to express to you my deep regret, iuasmuch as their service was founded npon sin. Taught as we are in God's Word that schism is sin, it must be our plain duty,especially as God's ministers, not to express our thankfulness for the introduction and spread of this siu, but to do all in our power to put it down like every other sin, and I know from experience that unguarded and untenable utterances such as yon were pleased to make at Cor- wen add greatly to the difficulties of onr duty, Your only exouse for saying those words is because "many Churchmen are tempted to see in Nonconformists ouly political opponents." Sir, they are opponents not so much of our politics as of God's will. Whether thev differ from us in politics or not is of very little consequence, bnt it is of the greatest consequence whether their work ia in accordance with God's will or not. We desire to live on friendly terms with them, but ranch aswe respeot some of them, none the less do we feel it our dutv to try and show that schism is sin. It is certainly blameable to praise what is wrong. Be the provocation to sohism ever M great, and the result of it ever so good in your eyes, pro. vocation and good works can no more alter the character given to it inGod's Word than make black white. Inasmuch as I had passed no judgment upon Nonconformists, your reference to judging them is not to the point. We do not judge them nor do we presame to judge their tchism. Judgment belongs to God, and schism He has judged (not shall), and we have His judgment down in His Word. And my great surprise is that you should not accept His judgment and trust it, rather than lean upon yonr own feeling and judgment; Forbid them not." Yon know far better than 1 do that we must not pick out a single verse like this that seems to favour our view, and set it against what is "generally set forth" in the Bible If the ceneral teaching of God's Word is against schism, as most oertainly it is. then this verse cannot be in its favour. Before yon can say that this is an analogous oase to that of Dissenters, you must prove (among other things) that he withdrew him- self from Christ's Church, and on his own antho. rity preached the Gospel and administered the sacraments, that he e«t»b!ished a Bect of his own, and opposed Christ's Chnrob. If God's Word was not on my side in this matter I cono not presume to oritici.? the utterance. of a man of your great learning; but I venture to say that myself plus this truth,must prove stronger than even Canon Ryle minim this truth,- Yonrs, Ac., HUOH ROBERTS. P.S.-I am sending this correspondence by this post to such papers as are the most likely to be seen by those who beard vonr sermons, trusting it will help in some little degree to make public speakers more guarded on the Dissent question.
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THE VICAR OF RUABON ON THE MANAGE- MENT OF THE CHURCH ESTATES. The Rev. E. Wood Edwards, vicar of Rnabon, write. :While the anti-tithe movement must be condemned on all the grounds of justice and re- ligion, it may possibly be an open question whether the time has not come, especially in the history of the Welsh Church, for a new departure in the management of the Church estates. It was stated in some of our Chnrch papers last month that Lord Salisbury, in his famous Newport speech, spscified the abolition of the Ecclesiastioal Commission as a leading point in his programme, that it has the management of property having an aggregate annual income of two or three millions, and that during the past 20 years the general average working expenses have been more than 26 percent. If this is so, and if Lord Salisbury's abolition scheme was carried out so that these Church estates could be managed 00 the sarna principles as fony landlord would manage his own private ostit", t'lis in itself wonld yield a fund of some hundreds of thousands that eonld ba utilized for direot Church work And surely it would be to the inlerpst aud to the safety of the Onarch at large if by thi means the Churoh in Wales could still he maintained as what it was in the past-the proud bulwark of the gret citadel of the Church of the, notion. If a ce"t:1 Wolili Churoh fund from thiq and ot her sonrct s of income were established, and if it could be adoiiointered for the encouragement of home mission work generally, not excluding what may be termel the well.diapos9'! ortho- dox element of Norconformitv—those I mean, as was the case with the founders of Welsh Methodism, and as is still the ca^e with their true representatives, who hold the great ductrineR of the Clinrch as set forth in the Creeds, and woo would wish to be recignised as teachers within the com. mnnion of the Church—some such scheme based on the principles at equity and gradually leading to re- union, would go far probably towards oorreoting the evilt that have resulted, and are still likely tn re81/lt, from enforcing too striotly the somewhat defective act:oli of the exi»tin« tithe laws. The prac-ical working of the scheme suggested would he some- thing of this kind. In any hamlet two miles or more from the parish church, where a chapel has been built, the people would seem entitled to a grant from suoh a fund. If the ministers aud the trustees were willing to work in union with the Church, as Church extension volunteers, the ehapel Rhould be eligible to an annual grant, on the eduoatioa department princip., ,ol, xoR,din>! the amonot locally raised. Or if, as wonld probably often be the c,se, the minister were willing to work with the Church, but not with the trLiriteeB or, if neither the minister nor the trnsteeswere willing,then in either case the people would still be entitled to have a chapel of ease built for the district, to be served bv the minister or some other lay deacon as the case may boo. continuing to follow his eoc;,hr call- ing, or in some 0 ises, if fitted for the work going on after duo probation to s-trva in tbe ministry of the Church, under the incumbjnt of tbe parish, and bv the sanction of the lmhop, There can bi little doubt that it is in this direction that the true remedy for t'le tithe grievance is to be found whereas, if the e i-tin., tithe law is to be enforced to the strict letter of the law, the abolition of tithe in ita application to the support of the Established Church will probably be the result. But snrelv the objeot in view ought to be not to encourage schism in any form, directly or indireotly, bot as far a* it may be practicable to make the National Chnroh co-extensive witn the nation.
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Slit J. H. PTJLESTON, M.P., ON TNE WELSH CHURCH. VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS. In a latter to tho TiniPS S.r fT. H. Puleston, M.P., says it oannot now be denied that it is essential to its oontinned progress that a bishop of a Welsh diocese should be bath tboroorhly conversant with the ver- nacular and in touch with the best aspirations of the Welsh people, whether this be called provincial vanity or a "concefsion to a narrow and vulgar provincialism," or not. If the Welsh diOCdslln of to day has r/ot these qualifications, he will certainly not possess the "distinctive episcopal requirements of a just judgment of men and things. The ability to speak and preach in Welsh by one. how. ever learned, will not, per se, as will readily be admitted, met our requirements; but "vernacular volubility," however much it may be sneered at, is an element which makes for that impressive pulpit eloquence peculiarly attractive to tho Welsh people. The real and first requisites in a Welsh bishop, who, if the Church is to hold its own aud commend itself more and more to the people, must be a man of genuine Wel-h sympathies, without which he will not have the necessary influence foroori in the Church and among all classes, by whom the true spirit of our nationality aud of Christian brotherhood is cherished. The prelates who niw so ably preside over our Welsh dioceses are, I aro sure, at onson this subject, and the hope will be general that the health of the much-beloved Bishop of St. Asaph will soon enable him again to return to the work of the diocese for which he has done so much, and that the necessity for a new appoint- ment in either of oar dioceses may long be deferred. While on this subject of the Welsh Church, I may be allowed to add that one of the evils from which we suffer in Wales 19 that arising from the present system of presentations, and more particularly of Crown presentlltions I re- ferred to thia ft little while since at a meeting of the Church Defence Association, and urged that all the efforts of onr bishops and of all others having the best interests of the Church at heart would fail to bring about a healthier condition of things eo long as this system remained unchanged. It has been suggested that presentations should h1 mida for ten years, and not for life bnt with power of re-appointment. If, however, this is not practicable, it should he at least possible to give a yoice in all ap- pointments to Wtdsh livings to the bishops, who know their clergy and the requirements of each puish, with some power of removal vested in them or in some council or other body, when the incumbent of the living hao for any cause, Sunday after Sunday, an empty church, and does not enjoy the regard of his parishioners in a manner essential to the-xercise of those influences which contribute to th.ir spiritual an,1 temporal welfare. There are nowhere more self-denying or excellent men than there are in the Church in Wales, and the earnest efforts of all Church-people should be directed to such reforms a8 will do awav with anomalies yet to be found in some parts of the Principality.
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nu__ .-1 Churches and Churchmen. The Churoh Congress for 1889 is to be held at Cardiff. The living of Appleton-le-Street with Amotherby, Yorkshire, worth £500 a year, has been conferred upon the Rev T. C. Ward. The Archbishop of Canterbury on Monday re- opened the church of St. Alphege at Canterbury, which has recently undergone complete restoration. The Rev David Thomas Gladstone, vicar of Rye, Sussex, died suddenly at his residence on Tuesday, aged sixty-five. Tho deceased gentleman wis a first cousin of the ex-Premier. THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL PUNISH MENT. At the Church Congress at Manchester on Friday Archdeacon Farrar said the view of future life which not long ago was common was that the vast majority of mankind, Christian as well as heathen, dying in nnrepentant sin, passed after this life into a lake of fire and brimstone, where, in punishment for the misdoings of their brief earthly day., they were toitured in inconceivable agony in material thmes to eternity. In living memory this was the orthodox view, and any one who repudiated it, or who even swerved materially from it, was as a heretic and an unbeliever. These views be repudiated with all the force of his conviction. To him they seemed to be disbouonr- able to the view which God has given us of himself, to be subversive of the full message of Salvation, t > be fundamentally opposed to their nnsophiqtiOal'Ñ ideas of justice as well as mercy, and abhorrent tr? the natural reason and conscience of mankind. A rnmonr had been circulated that since be delivered the Westminster sermons he had chanaed hin mini], tie had not changed bit mind in a single particular but he rejoiced to see abundant evidence; on every si,1e, tb,.t thousands uf honest and sincere and holy Christians had changed their minds on this tremendous subject. At first, day by day and hour by hour, the sermons exposed him to immense obloquy. Now the old doctrine, in all its naked horror and with all its false accretions, was prcti- cally dead, and or exhibited a galvaiiie semblance of life. It had been softened down in every possible direction. The reply to his sermons by Dr. l'usr,y he considered point by point, and found, with deepest thankfulness, that, on every question that- seemed to be vital, Dr. Posey was absolutely at one with him. He argued. and Dr. Pusey admitted, that it WflS no part of Catholic faith to believe that (in the first place) the torments of hell were physical or (secondly) that the vast majority of mankind were doomed to them or (thirdly) that we most assume them to be the lot of all who rlie and make no sign; or (fourthly) that every form of retribution beyond the grave was necessarily endless. They both argued in favour of two propositions— first, that Gorl might reach many souls whose case to us seemed hopeless; and secondly, that there might be permanent punish- ment in Hades, in tbe intermediate state bevond the grave. Archdeacon Farrar proceeded to state the authorities supporting his VieWA. and in conclu- sion he expreesedTii-i own hope that the destiny Qf this world would not end in final dualism. To him one text, "Garl is love," wa. sufficient to disprove these popular accretions t,) the doctrine of endless torment which, and which .10ne, he had repudiated Me relied on God's justi -e as much as on His mercy. In the Litany of the Church the pr iyer whioh apne.iled In him. and moved him in t, WAS the prayer that Cod might have mercv upon all men. He did not think that to be either a h.)JjeJe:4ii 0T impossible petition, dr a petition incon- sistent with Gwj's justice, qr bevocd th powoo qf tht, W an' fnld triivijplia ovi-v justice (loud applanie).—The TJ?v. Waller also read a paper, in which he exn'essed the belief that the state of the Bon! at h"ti.t11 of the death of the body decided the fa'" of the ."111. as th charac- ter of the nl was formed dnrin > the life of the body, -The Itev, W. T Hobson (Douglas) opening the dis- cl1R,ion which followed the re-idina of the papers, expressed disbelief it) the doctrine of enil-ss tor- ment, and belief in the theory that tSiose who are and condemned perish f-ve"lastingly. -The Rev T, R. Graham (Bristol) heid that it was in ac- cordance with Scripture and reason that there should b" an intermediate state, a place of waitinff Ivtwsen death and the timA of jidgment. -Tbe It iv H. n. Wilkinson avowed himseir a'universalist and said he defended his belief on textual gronnd, on .enti'nl!'It,1 grounds and on reasonable or Christian philosophic gronn'iS.-1'he Rev ,T. R. 0 West drfendeoi the old doct-ine."— !>ev Dr Ran- dall (Handsworth) said ho mwht echo the words of 01,1, and say, "We have hellro stranre thiols to-day (cries of "Yes"). He entered his solemn protest against the unauthorised and soul-destroving heresies tba* had been propagated that day (applause). Like the last soesker, he held the old faith, and he was proud to believe that the great mass of our countrymen and eoantrywomen, and the children who would yet be born. would hold that, f,tith as taught in the words 01 the Divine Master, instead of listening to the crude theories of modern assurance. He bolieved that the men who ha,1 put forward those new rioctrines had not contemplated the r«sult of them. The result would be to maie people put off the day of repentance, and to ewconrage them in following the devices and de"s of their own heart (" No, no"). People wonai trust to the nn. certain future, in the hope that things might conae all ri >ht at the last.—The Rev, D ivid Row» (Den ton) entreated his brother <JoI.ervrnn to sintfy the question. With averv desire to hold it tight, he had, after long stru!!111eR, been compelled to give ap the old doctrine. Although endless torment made a fine back gronud for those who wished to give a striking sermon. -(" Oh *)— ho did not believe in it. He rejoiced in the comforting asmrance, the blessed hope, that God wonld, in the aaes to come, show forth the abnndance of His mercy in Christ Jesus. At the same time he helieved, as most ot I them believed, that every sin committed in the body would surely bring its punishment, either ill tbis world or in the next.—The proceedings iftre oloeed with prayer.
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-=-=- News in Brief. I Tiitea thousand meu employed on the street rail. ways at Chicago have atrtick work. The Empress of Japan is a dilligent student of German nllsoillO, French, and Italian, Rir Anthony Musgrove, Governor of Queens land dieci on Tuesday. The Parnell Indemnity Fund amotrats to iC6740, including subsoripti ins from the Oatbojic clergy of Madras. The falling off in the issue of linn and game licences for the present season so far is very reo markable. Sir Charles and Lady Dilke left London on Satur- day for India, where they will spen(1 the greater part of the winter. The Cambridge Public Free Library now c m- prises 34,840 volumes. Last year the isgueofbooka numbered 102 929 volumes. Georse Cotton was the ostler at the Askew Arms, Uxbri jge-road. Hammersmith. He on Fiidiy pro. ceeded to a !oft there and hlJn himse!f. Some bi?rhlv successful trials have been made in New South Wales of M. Pasteur's method for pre- venting anthrax among sheep and cattl' Mr E. H. Lohmann.the famous Surrey cricketer, is exceedingly temperate in his habits, and practi- cally abstains from drinking anv kind of alcohol. The Emperor Francis Joseph has appointed Prince Henry of Prnssis to the honorary rank of commander in the Austrian uavy. At Greenock, on Saturday, the Peninsular and Oriental new steel steamer" Peninsular." of 5500 tons, and 410 feet lonfi, was successfully launched. At Oldbnry, on StttardRy,fifteen thousand nailers in the Staffordshire and Worcestershire districts received an advance of ten per cent. Mr Moses Cule was conducting an auctioneer's sale last week at Pontypridd. He suddenly fell down dead. A famine is threatened in Indis. owing to the long absence of ra in. In the fight between General Galbraith's column and the natives of the Black Mountain two hundred of the enemy were killed. The projected German Emin Pasha Relief Expedition ie, it is said, to be abandoned for the present. The Dundee Theatre Royal, which wag seventy- eiht years old, has baen destroyed by fire. The damage is assessed 4t £4000. Dnring a quarrel in Park-lane, Liverpool, on Saturday, a coloured seamau named Kemp drew a razor and wounded two men. 0'ie vetv seriously. It is proposed by a committee of the Chester Corporati in to erect public baths in that city at a cost of £8200. The strike of the Kirkcaldy boiler-makers has termiuated, the masters granting the meu an ad- vance of a half-pennv per hour. The Empress Frederick has this week taken up her residence at her own palace, Unter den Linden, for the winter. The remains of the late Sir Henry Keating w?re interred in Kensal Green Cemetery on 'Saturday afternoon. | The dailv Met of fishting Yellow Jack at Jackson- ville is £6000. There are 20,000 poor people to feed. During last yesr licences were issued to 15100 London hackney drivers, 5321 stage drivers, and 7086 conductrrs. The ballet has been banished from Germany It has been abolished in the Teutonic theatres, opera- houtes and muiic-halls. Prince and Princess Christian and family, who hive been some weeks on the Continent, will re- turn to Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, the end of this month, At Portsmouth, on Saturday, the Duke of Cam- bridge presented new colours to the 2nd Border Regiment: There was a great gathering, and the ceremony presented an imposing spectacle. The smack" Rath" arrived in Yarmouth Har- bour on Friday, having I-st three of her crew-the owner's son and two other hands. They wepe washed overboard during a gale and drowned. Mr Bathurst, the Shor, ditch Revising Barrister; has rnled that the Metropolitan police ca"not vote for the County Council. Mr Wallace, the Hackney Barrister, holds the opposite opinion. The vacancy in the town clerkship of S Uford has been filled by the appointing of Mr 8. Brown, town- clerk of Rotherham. The salary is £1000 per annum. A party of twelve blind men started upon a cycling trip on Monday from the Norwood Normal College to Derby. The machines were guided by sighted men. > Fire broke out on Monday among huts occupied by navvies employed upon the new railway at Aberdour, Firth of Forth, with the result that three men were burnt to death. "I've mnrdered my landlady at Take-street, Mill- wall I This was a drunken man's confession to the Woolwich Police on Friday. It was unfounded,bat it resulted in bis being detained in custody. At Leeds on Tneslay fifty-five miners employed at the Waterloo Main Colliery were each ordered to pay 15s damages and costs for leaving their work without notice. A boy named Tuohy was looking down a hoist I !\t s:u(It f::tokïr:h 8 the lift oame down and took off his scalp, inflicting dangerous iniarieg, The Maharajah of Cashmere has proposed to maintain in a state of efficiency far Imperial d fenos 25 000 men, to be instructed at Sialkot with our garrison there. At Paisley, John Wriiht.appre,itiee engineer,wag caught in a turning mchin at Messrs Donald, and Wilson's works, and his death was caused instantaneoa=ly,his head being crusHed. Colonel A. C. Crookshank. commanding the fourth column of General expedition, has been severely wounded while making a recon- noissance. A shocking accident occurred on Monday at Parkgate Ironworks, Rotherham, resnltintf in the death of one man and the serious mjurytof five others. Blood poisoning, following the scratch of a cat, caused the death of a woman in Pulton County, Penn. She received the scratch about twrf weeks ago, and it was so slight as not to draw blood. A larg.-> tenement house in Ou lIherIT.rl-trec.t, Dublin, collapsed on Monday, burying a Woman and two children. One of tbe Tatter was rescued unhurt, but the woman and tll" other child were killed. At a meeting of Aberdeen magistrates, on Mon- day, it was resolved, on the motion of Lord Provost Henderson, to ask Mr Go-chen to accept the freedom of the burgh on his visit at the close of the present month. In a Convocation holden on Tuesday letters were read from the Chancellor of the University, the Marquis of Salisbury, nominating the Rev Dr. Bellamy, President of St. John's College, as Vice. Cbanoellor f ir the third year of office. Speaking at Spalding, Mr Cha"'e Sharpe, who twics contested a Divisinn of Lincolnshire as a Liberal, described the Local Government Act as one of the greatest measures ever passed by Parlia- ment. While at work on a sciffold at 11, Gloucester- terrsce.nvde Pl\rk,c!eanin the windows, Frederick Consdate was the other m<:h6 precipitated to the gronud. He was conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, hat expired on the wav. At Cardiff, oil Saturday, a Board of Trade inquiry in( o the strandin!! of tho steamer "Earl of Dumfries" off the coast of Morocco on the 1st July resulted in tbe suspension of Captain Arthur's certificate foL. three months. Two ltT'S were lost yesterday by tbe collapse of a, tellement honse which was occupied by twelve families, in Cumberland-street, Dublin. Several of' the inmates noticed one of the walls giving way, and they immediately 11-4, Others who slept on the premises were away at their ordinary employment. Mr Jas. Sellars, the architect of the Gloizow Exhibition Buildings, died of blood-poisoning at his residence, Montgomerie Quadrant, Kelvinside, nl, on Tuesday, at the It<e of forty-five, He was the designer of many of the chief boildingsioi Glasgow. A despatch from Hambnrg annonD<1eA that n definite steps have b"«u taken by th&Gnvernme for the prosecution of ProfessorOeffeken, The state- mefit that the anthorities had fotwiit- a* the pe- fessor's residence a written permission from the late Kiweror Frederick for the publication of hie Majesty's diary i C()!1tr.\dictd. A remarkable inorease has tak-n plaoe io the amount of work m progress aV the ehipK»ifdin^f yards in the United Kingdom The namber of vessels in conrsp. or construction iq reoorttlld as 400, against, 249 111. ths corresponding quarter of iftat year, b grOEll\ tonnages being 698.995 and 394 340 respectively. Of b" the aifvance has been rapid, and it con..in,1e e".
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