A FINE BEQUEST,

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11500, 5 February 1903, Page 5

A FINE BEQUEST,

Mr Alexander Grimond, head of a Dundee jute firm, nas bequeathed £120,000 to charities and religious imitations. THE NEW WESLEYAN HEADQUARTERS. Seven thousand Wesleyams met at the Westminster Aquarium to celebrate the acquisition of their new headquarters. Air R W. Perks, M.P. for Loubh Division, Lincolnshire, presided, and expressed a hope that all sections of Methodwte would bo federated early in the century. The purchase of the Royal Aquarium, London, for Methodist purposes, wae to be completed on Saturday, January 31st, and on Monday evening a great public meeting wan to be held to commemorate the purchase of this famous place of amusement. Mr R. JV. Perks, who wae to preside, was the originator of the Million Guineas Fund of the English Weeleyan 'Methodist Church, and to his foresight, skill, and persistence the Connexion is largely indebted for the euocess of the movement. He has received an urgent invitation from the Executive Committee of the Twentieth Century Fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York, to visit that city as the representative of British Methodism, and to speak at the great Thanksgiving Meeting to be held in New York, <m February 26th, to celebrate the completion of the American Fund. The President of the United States, Mr Rooeevelt, has also consented to be present, and to give an address. The amount of the American Fund is four million sterling. W« have often woiidered, save the "Outlook," why this most militant of Methoaiste laymen, and who for some years h*s been the leader of the Nonconformist party in the House of Commons, has remained plain "Mr." The "Britteh Monthly" tela us that nine years ago he refused the honour of knighthood.