THE CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 9

THE CHAPMAN-ALEXANDER MISSION.

ANOTHER VISIT, INCLUDma ■ \ : : NEWZEALANDi. !: : .'.. ■"/ ! '.'lt will be delightful news !to all thft Protestant Churches.in ) Australia (saya the "Southern Cross")"'that thb'Evanc ; gelisation Committee of -the . ; JPresby«o: teriari Church of the United States, has , consented to the request that Dr.'.Chap-!!-man, Mr. Alexander, and party should': conduct'another mission.in these lands. '■-■ Dr. Chapman writes to the Melbourneexecutive/ asking it, in consultation;, '■ 'with the executive of the other {States, to fix the date of the proposed" mission, the date not to be earlier than , two years hence. It is accordingly ; prop6se6Y.' that the date shall be March, 1912.'' Tho new mission/is planned on a larger scale than tho last mission, since ; iti.': will take in the whole of Australia and I New. Zealand; and it will be on. : those,, new methods which Dr. Chapman , otrtlined in an interview just before the, departure, of. the missioners from -Australia. -The mission, in a word, will ha: carried' on in closest association with .the Churches. As one : feature,.. Dr. Chapman stipulates that none , of '.• the ordinary church' meetings shall be bus-' pended in the locality whore.the missioni meetings are being held. Dr. Chapman's! services will be planned so as not to compete with the ordinary services o£ the churches, but to quicken and vivify/ .them. ,It will be a mission inside the shurches, not outside them, and, it is hoped,'will flood all the channels: of ordinary, church life with streams of: new,energy.; As the mission is*to.last' .at least twelve months,, thii.will mak«. •it possible to take in, within the plar'•■ of operations, the whole, area of" .tbi.,Commonwealth and the : Dominion. Chapman, in.his letter,-says that.their, hope is to:"set going a world-wide re? ■rival,"-and the new mission in, Australia will be the starting point of that great .'movement. A mission conceived on such a scale, carried on by". sncK methods, and under such leadership, ought'certainly to , give a new starting point to thcspiritual life of.both.&ns-<-tralia and New Zealand." ■ ■

CHURCH OF ENGLAND. > ! ■ . "- : *■ ■ - " ( -. A YEAE'S VOLUNTARY; OFFERINEa.Tho annual summary of the: vohmtary offerings of the Mother Church .'of' -\ England for;the year ending Easter, ' IQO9, has been suppliedjby the SJ.CK.j v •. -. Full details in regard to theso figure*" ..;■• will.be found in .the:jl9jLo issue of thei'' " ' "Official Year-Book of: the Church- :«rV--England." ■■■"'■ ' ': ,! '; ;.■..•■..;-■■ ; Home work ... ..... 760,906 17 8 Foreign work ......... ..1,110,729 10 8 '- : ' 'Educational work;; .'..' 84,141 10 v* :' ;: . The. clergy (educational ::• '• ■'■■■'■ :;,, ' aud charitable as- '■'■'■''■ ■"■''■'■■'■.. ..-.• .sistance) .■ ;.-..-:'.:302 J 527.19i-i i ;.a»- ;; Philanthropic work ..:"..■■668,423:13"' For theparochial-clergyt; £52;346 UiilOi i-.i 'For elementary education J 481,446 For. : general parochial r , .."'. .v.i'. purposes ...:„..:.,.;.. 3;799,766iV13.::,81.0 : iTotal ;...: r .,...^i...;.£5,06Q,289-.5 ; :"^ : i;;;;■■ The above total has: been exceededJ ' only three times during the past twelve years. ' \ .:' .'■■'■' : '...-. .'." - -~•' ; All, grants from the. EcclesiasJacaK Commissioners, Queen Anne's i\ or anything of. the"natur'e' of Govern* ' ment aid; have been carefully^excluded- I ''