JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 876, 23 July 1910, Page 9

JOTTINGS.

TJiero was.a danger, said the Archbishop of York at Cambridge recently, lest they should believe that wherever hardships existed there must be some moral wrong. The consequence, .would be a lessening of personal effort. One of the highest ideals of Christianity .was that of marriage. As a member of the Royal Commission on Marriage Laws lie could not forecast its conclusions, but, lie asked, Was it-right, for the sake of relieving hard cases, which could only be exceptional, to abandon the principle upon which the strong, healthy family life of the country had been built up? Christian citizens should be prepared for th& momentous challenge that might be made to the- Christian conscience of the country. Dr. Robert Stuart M'Arthur has been celebrating the fortieth anniversary of his connection with Calvary Baptist Church, New York, whoso pastorate he undertook in 1870 as a young man of twenty-eight, just graduating from the Rochester Theological Seminary. During this period lie has admitted about 5000 persons to church fellowship. In addition to his ministerial labours, Dr. Sl'Arthur, has contributed largely to religious literature, and has been a prominent figure in the j.ublic life of New York. The Rev. Dr. ,'Jowett presided ' on Juno. 9 at the sitting of the convention for the deepening of spiritual life, held at Richmond' Hill Congregational Church, under the auspices of the National Council -of Evangelical Free Churches. When in recoiisecration, lie said, the Church had realised its sense of moral and spiritual values and saw things in.their riglit proportions, there would be things which hitherto, perhaps, had loomed very big indeed which would appear comparatively little, and some things which hitherto had appeared - almost ■ commonplace would tower up-to.a gigantic hoight. In the evening tho subject of woman's work in the. Free Churches was introduced by Mrs. W. S. Caine, and an interesting discussion followed. The Rev. Dr. Jo.vett afterwards preached the Convention sermon to a huge congregation. Professor John E. M'Fadyon, of Kliox College, Toronto, has been elected tho successor of Dr.. George Adam Smith, in the Chair .of OKI Testament Language, .Literature and Theology at Glasgow College. There were four other nominations—Mr. James Crichton, D.D.. North Kelvinside Church, Glasgow;' Mr. John Adams, 8.D., Inverteilor; Dr. Adam C. Welch, Claremont Church, Glasgow; and Mr. W. M. Christie, Aleppo, Syria. The election of Professor M'Fadyen was eventually made unanimous, Dr. Welch being the second favourite. A cablegram was subsequently received' from Professor M'Fadyen, saying that, he humbly ac.cepted' the appointment. There is little doubt that the choice of the English Vesleyan .Conference for the president in 1911 will fall upon Rev. Henry Haigh (says the "Christian "World"). Mr. Haigh was second in the voting to Rev. John Hornabrcok at last .'year's -conference," gainulg eleven more votes than Dr. George Find-lay. The other "nmners-up" \veK Rev. Dinedalo T. Young and Rev. S. F. Collier. In addition to tho ordinary duties of the office, the president in 1911 ivill have to take an important part in the (Ecumenical Conference, which moots, in Toronto in the October of that year;'so that oven if Dr. Findlay wore willing to be nominated again, his physical 'powers would debar him from taking olfico next year.. Mr. Haigh is a man of exceptional intellectual powers, and as an old Indian missionary of iwoiifcy-scvon years' standing, his presidential yoar woiikl probably !»' marked by the prominence given to foreign missions.