RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 9

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S NEW YEAR'S LETTER. THE VISIT TO IUTATiTni. The Bishop of London has published in tlie "London Diocesan Magazine" u letter to the diocese, in which he snys:— "Dear People-All hough notices have appeared in ilie press, I have never-yet formally announced to the diocese that 1 shall lw absent Irom it from January I until Monday in Holy AVeek. It must not he supposed that 1 lightly undertake tlie'se long journeys, but it seemed right In undertake the' consecration of Khartum Cathedral at Ilie urgent re<i»esi of Bishop Blyth, JtMinp Gwynne, and the Sirdar. 1 am thankful to say that we. have received the .MOOD for which I appealed, and take this opportunity to thank ihe jrreal numbers in the diocese who rcr-poiuL-d. II is a sincern satisfaction to take out this token of the interest which the Church at Home feels in the extension uf (.iod's Kingdom in distant parts of tin; earth. Khartum, then, will be the first object of my journey. 1 shall g<i straight there via the Ked Sea and Port Soudan. Since the death of the late Bishop of Salisbury 1 have succeeded him as Chairmnu ol the. Jerusalem and the East Mission, which has its ramifications throughout Palestine and also in Cairo. "This, then, seamed the God-given opportunity to pick up the threads of this important work. 1 .shall therefore journey irom Khartum down the Nile tu Cairo, and thence to Jerusalem, where 1 shall stay ten days with Bishop Blyth and occupy my skill as one of the Episcopal Canons in the Cathedral church of St. George in Jerusalem. I shall m .jcr journey Mowly up Palestine, visiting the mission-stations on the way. until I reach Leyroiit, whence I shall return via Alexandria and Miirsfillss to London. 1 need ).-ot say that it will bo a great happiness to me, apart from tho work I hope to do lo visit tlu- scenes of oui Lcid'x life on fartli, ami 1 want you to pray that this Lent spent in Egypt and Palestine umbo a time, of spiritual refreshment to me. J greatly loner to be a true "Fathor in Uod" to yon all, and .1. hope very much that this comparative rest, and the new light, which my journey oiisht to throw upon (no liible, may send me back more I,'iKed to pleach ami lo teach. It so happens thai J. have just covered in seven Lenten Missions the whole diocese, and before 1 begin again it is perhaps a good thing, both for myself and the diocese, thai [ should have this Unt as a i ;im | ol miss,:,,, to myself, and where more fittingly than where the feet of our Lord actually trod upon this earth r"