JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 9

JOTTINGS.

The "Founder of -Children's Day,'* l the' Rev. Robert Culley, has just died.' at Clapham, England,: in- his 65th year.;. He will .bo chieily remembered ; bj« Methodists for his great and 'long services . to ■.' the Sunday schools of theConnexion. Eor eighteen years •he wassecretary of the Wesleyan Sunday, .School Onion, and to him chiefly, belongs .the' credit of. establishing iinnly, as. a; Methodist-institution .the tion of ' this Sunday : in. October.• as"Children's Day." He maintained, the*, custom, instituted by his predecessor 1 (the Rev. C. H. Kelly), of writing and publishing in pamphlet form an open letter' to the young people of Methodism in view of that- day, and over 100,000 of theso were, circulated an-" nually. His popularity' as a preacher > at Sunday school anniversaries was remarkable, and during his eighteen! years' connection with the Connexional : Sunday School Union ho must have preached in almost every large church' \ in' Wesleyan Methodism. ; In one year: alone he travelled over 19,000 miles in tho provinces and 2500 in.London. ;-..- ~.. "I am a thoroughgoing Endeavourer, out-and-out and in-and-in," Dr.-Clifford-■ said'in his presidential address at the anniversary of tho Westbourne Park ChapolC. E. Societies. If he had to make comparisons, he would say that

ho rejoiced in the Christian Endeavour more than in any department of church work. -It was free' from tyranny of convention 'and tradition, and by encouraging .'initiative on the part ofyoung people it developed some delight--fully-original forms'of service. To illustrate this, Dr. Clifford read and commented on some of the quaint committees ,of 'Indian Endeavourors. To Gee young -people giving themselves to - the service of tho Church was ono c{ the brightest auguries for the future.. People sometimes referred to him as an old man)-and ho had to confess that there wt' too much truth in it,, but it wits deligntful to he alive, aud his wished ho.could live for another half-oentury to watch the growth and developmentof young .people's movements. T!ie>r't of "faking" moving pictureshas surely reached,its most absurd do-, velopmeiit -in a show, now travelling) through America, which represents the, crossing of the Bed Sea by tho chiklror; of Israel. The pictures (says an exwere actually taken on-the shore of Long Island, where there wasi ft .sand-bar which.was out of water at! low tide and. under water at high tide. I The ■ photographer, .by taking picture? i at differeut ;poriods and getting n mun* '■ bor of "supers? to walk across tho bar. when it was .left dry, succeeded in ob-; taining effects closely resembling the story as described in the Bible. /