JOTTINGS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14836, 29 November 1913, Page 16

JOTTINGS.

At Brightliugsea annual ploughing matches, the Rev. A. Strother, a ttesloyan minuter, won first honours in the amateur class among seven competitors. Dr. Campbell Morgan is again being, pressed to visit Australia. A very general and cordial inter-aenommational invitation has beon signed by Australian Congregationalisms, Baptuts, JWthodiste, Presbyterians: Church of Christ, and many Episcopalians urging him to arrange a visit to the Commonwealth. Mr H C Carter, of the- Australian Evangelisation. Society, has promoted the- invitation, which reached Dr. Morgan in the shnpp of a bound volume of letters last month. Addressing the London Methodist Council on Monday, on "The Methodist Outlook in London," the R«v, C. Ensor Walters, who has been appointed one of the secretaries of the Lonoon Mission Extension Fund, expressed the view that a crying need of the time was an. intelligent doctrine of the observance of the Lord's Day. Among the depressing features of London life ■was the presence of the alien in largo numbers in the inner areas, and the neglect of the Churches to bring theGospel to him in any large manner. He believed that the timo was at hand for some definite and carefully planned foreign mission propaganda for the evangelisation of the foreign and Jewish populations of tho city. But the drawback of the itinerant system must be removed if Methodism was to do her work in London. In the suburbs there were many encouraging Eigns, and in many cases the condition of the churches would bear comparison with tho strongest provincial Methodism. Mr Walters declared that the day for building very large and expensive central halls was past, for such centres could jiever be eelf-sispporting.