L.M.S. HONOURS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 July 1911, Page 10

L.M.S. HONOURS.

TWO ELECTIONS. E«v. E. P. Powell, 31.A., of Sutton, was on Juno 13 elected to the chairmanship of the board of the London Missionary Society on the first ballot. 11 r. Powell has been deputy chairman during tho last year, and since the chairman (Mr. 1?. H. Hawkins) joined tho secretarial staff of the society, the full duties of chairman have devolved upon Mr. Poivell. His election to the honourable post of chairman followed almost ns a natural sequence by way of recognition of his services. The chairmanship of the London Missionary Society board is a far more onerous office than even the chairmanship of the Congregational Union, since the Missionary Society chairman is an es-olfieio member of all committees and sub-committees, and every department of the society's operation?.—at Homo and abroad—comes within his purview. Sir Charles Tarring was elected deputy chair.lllßll for the coming year, after three ballots, in the final of which he had Dr. Campbell Morgan as his alternative. Sir diaries, who has a- distinguished career behind him in the Consular service and as a colonial judge, is an elder of Or. tlnrtoii s Church at Ilampstend. He has just served the London Missionary Soeiety by visiting South Africa on a deputation turn , of a very delicate and exacting nature, ami his first duty nfter his election as deputy chairman was to make a statement as to some of the decisions at which he and his brother-depiitationists had arrived as to certain complicated issues in the South African field.

Even busy Manchester men are amazed at Dean AVclldon s incessant round of engagements, literary, educational, philanthropic, religious and civic. Scarcely a day passes without his utterances bein» reported or letters appearing over his signature. Ee is a member of the Playgoers' Club, and in season is often to bo seen at the Italic concerts, and at the opposite end of the scalp figuring at shoeblack and costermongers' prize competition's. As a speaker, the Dean is fresh, frank and gennl. The kindly relations he maintains with all classes have earned for him, especially in religious quarters, the title of ".Dean of all denominations."

Mr. A. A. Mitchell, president of the Liverpool Sunday Union, has signified his intention of placing .£IOOO at tlio disposal of the committee as a thanlcofferiiiK for great privileges eninyed during fifty years' association with' Sunday School work. Mr. Mitchell suggests that all or part nf the money might lie spent in encouraging better accommodation and equipment of schools in poor districts.

Dr. Wilbort. W. White, who lias been president since 1000 of the Bible Teachers' Training School in Xew York, is to visit China, Korea, ami Japan during the summer. The principal object of iiis tour is to promote the establishment of a similar institution in China.