THE CHURCH IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 5

THE CHURCH IN CANADA.

4 BISHOP OF LONDON INTERESTED. By Telegraph-Press. Association-Copyright London, March 17. Dr. Ingram, Bishop of London, states that he had practically decidcd to offer himself as a missionary for service in Canada, as an example to the Church, and that it was only after three months' prayer that he resolved that his work in London had a prior claim on him. In an appeal issued in January, (lie Archbishops of Canterbury Mid York said:—"Nearly a year ago, on February 29, 1910, we made an appeal to the Church and people of England unusual ill its form and urgency..' Western Canada, the region, that is, which lies east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the older Canadian .provinces, is being peopled with a rapidity which has no parallel in history. Ere long the new nation will be able to make provision for all its needs. Meanwhile,, neither the immigrants nor the resources of Canada itself can cope with the overwhelming- task of providing for (he spiritual well-being of so great a people. As the Archbishop of Rupcrfsinnd wrote:—'lt is to supplement the efforts of the Canadian Church, and to fill Up what is lacking in its power to help at this crisis in the history of the Canadian West, that I desire to see the Church in the Motherland make a supreme endeavour just now.' That endeavour we are making: for, as we said in our former letter, the future history of the world will largely depend upon what this multitude enmes to be in character, in faith, and in life." ■

Some it was stated, had been subscribed, and .10 clergy and a much l"nre number of laymen hod offered the"'selves for active service in response to the previous call.