RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 9

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

, 0 . CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. AUDIENCE OF 10,000. For the ivth year in succession, Sir John Kennaw.iy presided over the great annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society. A. cordial grouting was given lo the l!ev. Cyril liardsloy, a new honorary secretary of the society, when ho spoke on the report. Counting the dclicils of previous years, the liabilities for the year amounted to .tltll.l'Jl, and the receipts (0 1 < J33.),077. The heavy adverse balance made the duty of tho Finance Committee a very dilheuit one. Few fresh recruits can be accepted, and some of the missionaries on furlough must be temporarily withdrawn.-so that tho .total expenditure for the next year should not exceed .SW.IWO.

Sir .lohn Kennaway said tho expansion of their glorious work had exceeded the support which the society had received, but reduction must now be faced. Some worldly people might say: "Wo have had enough of this missionary craze," but taken in the right spirit this policy would, he believed, lead to advance.

Rear-Admiral C. YV. WinmiiglonIngram flighted tho meeting with a breezy address on "Tho Vision of Need.' Ifis first interest in missions was awakened bv the change wrought by Wesleyan missionaries in an island formerly occupied by savages. No clubs, were available for a war-dance, except as curios. _ A captain of a Chineso battleship, returning his call, declined wine. "I touch no alcohol since I became a Christian," Kiid this captain. He told tho Admiral that he turned to Christianity because, in going to the Japanese war, he distrusted his old religion. Tle> Archbishop of York and a company of Bishops and public men faced a remarkable audience of ten thousand supporters of the Church Missionary Society at the evening meeting. An inspiring sight alw.ivs, the vast hall looked magnificent when the audience rose and sang "Hail It. Hit Lord's Anointed." There were six speakers, and wisely pride of olace was given to the missionaries, tho Archbishop reserving his speech as a climax. , _ , T , , \ficr a brief statement, by Dr. Herbert Link"slor, "The Message of Edinburgh was made the theme of two remarkable -ddre«es from Archdeacon E. Melville Jonos~aiul the I?ev. 10. W. T. Grocnshiold. T!u- former spoke of his eighteen years work in West Equatorial Atrica. On the Ni"cr there were three mission stations wh"n the sneaker first arrived; now there

'.vers seventy. , , Mr. Grc.-nshield has lately been flccori'ocl fcr briverv bv Hie Oueen oP Hotla-irt. He'recalls Dr.' Wilfrid Clrenfell by his thrilling stories of work among the Lski-

"I wont vou lo hear the call of .this .n-eat grim land." began Mr. Grccns'iicM. The lon- dark Arctic night with fifty decrees below zero, was sketched fnilv bv the vouug mi-nonary, with death ■Mid'starvation Sarins: the nc.oiile in the fac* The Arehbisliin of York chose a? tbe'subieet of his e.ddress "The Etwaticn of Idea's." Dr. Ta'is's strong voice rang tlirou'di the sreat hall w-'b telling e.iect ■>* ke'"cilled for liielmr ideals m religious ,ifr. ciHMinn work, said the Arc*-hi-hor.. suffered by lowered ideals, and tic cure for the present slackening of ln.M----"V ;„ fm-oir-n prions was lo be found in a growth of faith and prayer.