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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 11

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Bishop Moorhouse has, forwarded to the Archbishop of Melbourne a further sum of ■.■£1000; to bo used in increasing tho endowment of the Moorhouso Lectureship/ In presenting this amount,' the Bishop expresses the hope that the Melbourno. diocesan authorities may be able, at some future date, to arrange for the delivery of' lectures on various subjects of interest by some, of the foremost theologians and .preachers in England.. Tile: endowment fund of the Moorhouse, Lectureship now amounts to £3000." There will .be, no lecture.', Jn 1911; the':iic"xt. course will be delivered in 1912 by'.the Archbishop o"f Melbourne.

Dr. J. H. Jowott, as president of the Free Church Counoil, Rev. W. Perkins, as president of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, and Sir William P. Hartley,' as president . of' the Primitive Methodist Conference, were at tho last moment 'Summoned to tho Royal funeral; at Windsor. Thoy were, selected (says the."Christian World") to represent Nonconformity, which had apparently been overlooked until the. eleventh hour. The. chairmen of the Congregational and Baptist Unions received no summonses, but this ..was probably due to.'inadvertence.' 'The inclusion'. of a delegation of Freo Churchmen in the select company inside. St. George's Chapel may safely bo .taken as an augury that King George V, no. less than his august father,' is a friend of religious liberty, and recognises the value of the Free Churches in national life.

Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, M.A., is definitely dcoliiiing-.td allow himself to. be nominated to succeed the late Rev. Thomas Law as secretary of the Free Church Council. A committee has been appointed to consider the question of the secretariat.

Sir W. P. Hartley has'made a conditional offer of £1500 a year for five years; for the development of Primitive Methodism in London.

. The'visit of three hundred English Socialist workmen to Lillo' has been attended by features not usually associated with those demonstrations • (says the • "Spectator," Loiidon, of May ,21). Not only were Christian devices , displayed on the banners of the English section —e.g., "Wo represent . 500,000 Socialist working people who worship Jesus" —but Mr. Keir-Hardie and-Mr.-William Ward, who accompanied the deputation, delivered speeches maintaining that tho English Socialist societies based their views on .the teaching of Jesus.' Mr. Kcir Hardie, while admitting that many philosophers and men of science had abandoned Christianity, declared that there was going to ho a beneficent change in this regard. Militarism was anti-Christian, but Socialism meant tho liractical . application ot the Sermoii' oil the Mount,' which had ' never yet been carried into : practice. Although the Christian banners excited some, secular protests, Mr. Keir Hardie's speech is stated to . have been greeted "with the same frantic applauso as that with which the denunciation of religion is usually, received in this sanctuary of Socialism."—i.e., the hall known as L'Union. Either, then', the applause is conventional and means nothing, or a - wnvo of anti-secularism is spreading .amongst the French working classes. ■ Wc may noto that "Justice" (May .21), explicitly denies that •Mr. Ward, or Mr. Keir Hardie had any right to state that the Socialist organisations in England are essentially Christian bodies.

Sleeping sickness has been known in West Africa for 100 years, and is said ,to be always fatal. . • • The United Kingdom has 2,1,205 miles of railways, representing 'a paid-up capital ol' .£1,310,533,000. Savings o£ between .£200,000,000 and ,£300,000,000 are yearly added to the British national capital. For a .unique strip of four 1553 Id. hliie postage stamps of Tasmania .£l4 was realised at a Chancery Lane sale.