JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 9

JOTTINGS.

'In connection with the World' s'iEss'' sionary. Conference, which' takes placet' in Edinburgh in June, two meetings were held in.: Glasgow on'<Fcbruary7. In the afternoon ■ there was a meeting of business men in the Merchants' House, when an address was delivered by Mr. Robert E. • Speers, New York, secretary to tho Foreign Missions' Board of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, and Duff Missionary i Lecturer.' ■'"■ The evening meeting : was! held in St. Andrew's Hall, which was. completely filled. Principal Sir Donald' MabAlister presided. ■ >' ". In.his Lenten Pastoral, read in tho Westminster . Diocese; Archbishop Bourne says the training in the'home/ whereof parents alone can be the true instruments,' is the germ of real Chris-' tian lifo in tho future. The churches in Boston have beenj. greatly interested.in the unveiling:.of'the" statute of Phillips Brooks.' . Tho.. "Boston Congrogationalist" says:-— "Tho throng has gathered about it ever since its unveiling is a tribute'both to tho preacher.and. the artist. Mr;, St." Gaudens seized for his work upon tha central idea of the message which evory-f great, preacher brings from his Masterr tci the congregation. The outstretched l , right ami appeals to the., hearers, Uhe left hand rests 'upon the reading-desk and the open Bible. '■' Behind' is tha ■■■ figure of Christ, the face clear under a ': hood, and; the hand resting upon .thepreacher's shoulder. And behind all,, rising to the height of the. containing niche- of rosy white marble, is, an .un-j ornamented cross. The. figure. of the) preacher,, in long, close-buttoned frockl coat and black Geneva gown, is ar-<; resting. On the. pedestal is a brief in-i scription stating that the statue isf erected, by 'his fellow-citizens.' ' The>i statue stands under the shelter .of Trin-j ity Church, ,on ono of the city's most) crowded thoroughfares.", ' '. ", ; - Members of Edinburgh Diocesanj; Council, at an informal meeting on Feb-\ riiary 11, considered, t-lie question'of ai successor to.the late Bishop Dowden,, It is understood that the general 'ophw ion seemed to bo in favour of translaV ing the Primus, the Rev. Dr. Bishop of Brechin, to Edinburgh. The) name of Bishop Ellis, Aberdeen, who. .was. for, many years incumbent of St.';, Paul's ; Church, Edinburgh, was; also(mentioned with approval. "When Greek meets Greek" w<yknow( what happens, and the lively conse-r quone'e is being illustrated in Lancashire) ■just, now, remarks the. "Christiany World;" Dr. Knox, the Bishop of Manchester, is a determined man, but: tho Lancashire folk of his diocese can, be very determined too. Wo referred' some little time ago to the extreme dissatisfaction of tho congregation of Em* manuel Church, Preston,,' because tha; very popular curate, Rev. W. J. Hull, had been passed over,, and tho vacant living had .been offered .to a stranger. A sort of boycott of the church haa sinco taken place, and open-air protest meetings are being held on Sundays.' Last Sunday a letter was read from tho Bishop, in'which ho said that under no circumstances would he appoint Mi. Hull to tho living, and that tho "dis-> ■ turbanoas" at Emmanuel would be-most unfavourable to tho "prospects" of Mr, ■■;■ Hull elsewhere in tho dioceso. It 'was., decided, the Bishop's 'letter notwithstanding, to continue tho .protest meefc« : .