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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 6

/ The, complaint in f&e: Old Country, that the ■ Churches '■ are now : lacking': in .passion: and becoming; anaemic is being: voiced in many-' pulpits.' - Among.-the .-last to take' up tie cry is the Eev. J: Morgan' Gibbon, who, speaking! at Islington,; said r—"Tho very' worst sigii;l .see in the chiuohes'fasI go up and down, the country is not'that' the' congregations' have; dwindled, or the revenues - fallen;, tut -that' passion : so' largely gone out of men. -The.spirit.and' the fire have cooled.We hear a sort-of invalid tali—the kind of thing'you'hear in invalidish ; lodging-houses at the - seaside. People will not 1 go to church, because it 'is so.icold, 60 dark, so wet - Nobody expects anybody to make any sacrifices. Religion: has become very reason-! able, very tolerant, very broad, and it has the world's benediction. The world never said - nicer things about- the: Church than it does to-day. Men call us broad-minded and progressive/., Because we let our wives go ,to chutcn, and go ourselves to the golf -links? Because we;sometimes go ,to church in . the .morning. and ;play tennis in ths afternoon?" Because on Sundays we read ' yeUow r backed' jnovels?.' The world says: "Thare is not so-much difference between ; -us'.. now;.''' Oh, my friends, let us'turn away from this worthless benediction-.of men , and' seek , the benediction of/the: Master, and at; His feet learn'- a wiser, braver, stronger, manlier Christianity.Let. us cease, to, be hypodiondriacs.

: Mr. -, Thomas Ashford, a rural messenger ■ who covers a daily round.-of 20 miles in the Whitwiok district of Leicestershire, is. the-only .postman in; the British Isles who has tho right to wear the Victoria Cross.

'• The Clerk of the. House of - Commons .getsgets JS2OOt! a year. ' , , '

An official Blue Book says that the Atlantio stream flows through the FaroeShetland Channel 1 at-from twelve to sixteen miles a day, while underneath' it. .there is a counter-current of- cold 'water; In Russia it is the 'oustqm, . in : order, to prevent • excessively ■ cold ; feet,; ? to; sprinkle the'bottom, of the,boot- or; shoe .with grouiid j allspioS"' .