SERVICE CONDUCTED BY FISHERMEN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 9

SERVICE CONDUCTED BY FISHERMEN.

On 'August- 14;. the Primitive' Metho-,' dist 1 Church at \ Filey' held its annual ■ services,'• conducted by .fishermen. • A 1 more hearty . arid unconventional service than/that m'tlie evening. \corild, not;'be .imagined.. A dozen fishermen filled the pulpit, ; aid condiicted.;;the; . whole.:' ser-. .vice.-,;;." Their . 'tanned "'faces,-', their bin© jerseys anil mufflers, their*, sturdy frames . and strong voices, >;were'\ illstriking contrast to the/usual occupants of. the . pulpit . The.; graces. of' 'diction ' and logical statement were more than' made up for by their natural and manly utterances. ■ '. : ■ EVOLUTION AND ETHICS. Oneof • the gems 'of tho Free Christian World's Congress held at ]!erlin in. August" ; ; _was', an address . given, without . manuscript by: Professor Titius, of Got: tijigen..; a;.rather thick voice Titiiis '• soon and held the rapt attention of-'the delegates and members as he discussed. "The' Rights and-'Limits' of Evolution ia.' Ethics." Maintaining 'tho "rights" to the full,. lie; emphasized ; the'.-"limits'-' 'in a manner that elicited the' warmest, enthusiasm. ;• The: traditional conception of man's; creation and history , must yield; to the-.far more fertile conception of evolution;' but; no theory. that : sought to base-morals upon tho non-moral was valid. Evolutionism. is only terinblo if, united, witlr intuitional assertion of "aii ethical a

priori/' and with an idealist world-con-ception. "Ivmay get-on,"-said Titius, "without, solving tho problem of tho wor)d]. ; but I cannot ;rifford to surrender my soul's consciousness, alike of siri-and; of grace." Here was the keynote of' an utterance that at tho closo was'rewarded with rounds of applause.

AN ARCHBISHOP'S JUBILEE. AUTOGRAPH' LETTER FROM THE .POPE, : His Grace the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin in. August last, re-1 ceived an autograph letter from/ His J Holinpss the Pope; congratulating^him I on his silver jubilee iu the Episcopacy.) His; Grace also received, thousands of congratulatory messages, from all 'part's; of. Ireland,' convoying the felicitations of clergy and liity 'in recognition' of' • the auspicious occasion. The messages'' received included several fronr'/ foreign' countries.■ In'obedience to' tlio request of his ■ there' :wore no special celebrations arranged'for the occasion." In - the; niorning. his Grace celebrated Mass at ■ ..the ,Redempterist ■ Convent, St.Alphonsus Road,it being.; tho'feast day of the patron' 'saint of tho community. ■ Tho Pope's letter is as folio v. s "Venerable. Brother.—Health and;/ Apostolic Benedictions—Tho ' approaching Jiappy. day on which .you complete tho twenty-fifth', year - o'f / your Episcopate .;jvill be.: an, occasion 'of . wide-. spread joy to . your fellow-countrymen. Notwithstanding., yourhumility, you cannot succeed in restraining the warm expression; of'i those desires 'for, -your welfare which your work''has so deservedly called forth. It is fitting that,on: this" ~ o ccasida,/n6l^;Vonly,l ' .',.the' diocese' which "you' so .'well, and wisely; govern,, and.'i.whicH:;you;.have7:,provided with ' such J splendid v facilities' both for rch'gicas/'wbM^th-^education/ of /the.;yoi£ng£ bu't ;..tßat';-31l . Ireland-. also': . should wiSi'to 'testify to tho • ostecm and alfcetißn'in'which'you are.held/ - It. through, your exertioiiß, under . tho proYiden6e''6f.vG.6d,^ jequiiialjly 'dealt'.] with by fcK'o Statc/'.and. 'thafc' at length;; a long-deferred; hope- of your - people' has^been/reMisM.^^ of; :ia / university jSjn'hereF CathoEps without* any-V-dangerit 1 com ;educati<m;;%The/'G^^ too, will bo desirous to join in expressing their gratitude ■ to: yen';since it was' mayily_ through your influence that tho Catholic members of Parliament formed for :the defeiieff ef\our religious interests a united''force •. the . signal - advantage's of which "are/now; abundantly manifest., JTour own; great -merits/■ together? /with/ tho esteem in which we hold .'you, /will hot suffer- our voico to' be absent from the general; chorus .of ' congratulation. Accept; then,' this letter in testimony ;6f,-; the/paternal; solicitude' upon;]; which we pray ..that .God-may bestow upon, you .Zeyo^rivbur^a^^ Apostolic 'Benedictip'n..;•; Given' at'.. St/; Peter's, Rome, : July 28, 1910,- tho seventh' year ' of., our. Pontificate;— "Pius PP. X."

Y.M.C.A. ; A\ colossal,..campaign ;of evangelistic .effprt. among America';" vvili. .. bo conducted-' by, -the 'Americiri.4;lnterhatioifflJ : Y.M.C.A.'s , from 'September, 1911, 'to May,. 1912. Ninety cities are 'to bo ■visited by>'jifeei/t&ms'bf /four specialists' cach, 4 .tho -contres being used.to. arouse adjacent cities and towns. The 'movement, aims. to vitalise, thei : Christia.n : religipii '. in. tho-lives, of the men and boys of .North America, and .its culminating day will be used .to .inaugurate a five years' -programme by' renewed ~em;- ; phasis;-. ' men;ahd.' boys rfeigiied: Vto / iafee I''a^'/per-, maiifent. contribution; to, the best. life ,of North America, social, civic, commercial, political, and- physical. . Mr. J: J; -Virgo,' ; geiieral 'secretary. Sydnoy /SiM.C; A;^' inyited.itci: jbin" one , of -/the' lf teams;>//'-■;■

CHURCH UNION IN SOUTH AFRICA. ;v A; correspondent, . writing t-o tho "British .'Weekly/.' 'front/Pretoria, .states:— "It .Vis amatter ; forregret / tiat' the •question of. Church ]3nion. in. : South '.^ici-vhaji^ porarily . at'least.'. ;. Although ,tlip neg'o-. •■tiations bpetied\inder : the: brightest-pro-, spectsor ultimate success, it was early seen:-that the difficulties in the way.'of. ■arrivifag-ata;cbmriioii\fe^ .very great, and these : now-: hayeVprpyedinsuperable; The.- Dutch 'Reformed arid-Anglican; Churches'never, entered the/Conference,;^ Church withdrew on; the grounds that • their very existence,is inseparably bound ;,u^ ; in;;the.;MpthwiChurch ; ill/Great ;Bri-j; tam. • Thus the Baptists and Presbytbrians only, were left to t-he consideration of the question.' At tho ;• meeting of the.Bresbytery of the Transvaal,-held at r Johannesburg-on. July .13 last,; the Presbytery; by-a large majority, resolved .to .transmit' an overture -to' the Gene- ; ralj/JAsMmbly. recommending, that,- in ■■yiewipt'ithbji' ;Draf adopt-, ed at Kimberley being obscure,- or un-, acceptable 'andjimpbssible in ..-vital parti-; ' culars, tho Assembly determine that ne-. gotiations be.suspended meantime."' .

JOTTINGS, • John Haime, one -. of.Wesley's early preachers, and.;at one .time , a trooper 'of ; the (Queen's.Dragoons,".was born ;; at I; Shaftesbury •in '1710."' :lV.'b6mmemoratb: .the bicentenary: of tliis- event the Dev. J;> Alfred Sharp, the Connesional: Temperance secretary, and himself a native of the itowiifi lectured!.on tho -'soldier.-; preacher, lnltho ■ Charles Garrott Memo-' rial' Church -at Shaftesbury.- The chairman, Mr. Arthur Haime, of Cardifff, was a collateral descendant of John Haime. The; Rev. J. A. Sharp gavo a :vivid profeontment/ofHaimo's.;life; phis -early wickedness i and his adventures'-irr the campaign, where he took part in. the battle of Foittenoyj and. finally hist return. to Sli'aft'sbiiry,; where he . introduced Methodism,. bev came one of-Wesley's preachers;. was: - imprisonod in: Dorchester- Gaol, and subsequently/accompanied.- Wesley ion his : journoys to- Ireland and elsewhere..,: ■ The Rev. W. Potter.returns to New ■ZeaianidHhis\fw«k::after;';a;;lurlbugh : r.iri this' •.country (says the . "Christian World'' of August 18). Ho has served •;many-of-the. has conducts ed negotiations "to.-.'secure direct 'repre-sentation-.for,-the" New/. Zealand': Confer-, enco on tlie General Missionary Coinnut tee. -Mr. ■ E. A. Foulkes is considering an invitation to tho New Zealand ministry. ":;//'; ■.{' V. ;oVi. /€;/ : , /• A report just issued shows that there, are-19)578:: We'sleyarirlocal,preachers-in England. Seven -hundred - and- /sixty-; eight'received during ftlie :year/ 79 ..were. v ijepted for - the ministry of the British Conference, and; 91; by other conferences. Of those who availed themselves of the special provision : for Bible 'and Homiletee Study, 166 .'were.'locail, preachers on':; tria)> -104 fully > acisrediteajlocal preachers were'preparing for furthcr-ox-aminatiori/ and 122 were; candidates/for. the'full-niinistvy. .

The: corisecrat-ion of six bishops at St. Paul, Minn., by Archbishop Ireland, has /recalled <; the fact that;.the.-first-Bishop :of -St. Paul was eonsccraied only sixty years, ago, and had' 1 , but! ninb priests andsix; .thousand: Roman Catholics then in/.his jurisdiction; / Archbishop Ireland who officiated as.consecrator of the new-■bishops, and Bishop O'Gorman, .who preached the sermons, were: the /first" two i seminarians acccpted for the' diocese ot" St Paul by ite first bishop. > ;