A CALL TO EAST LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 9

A CALL TO EAST LONDON.

THE REV. C. ENSOR WALTERS. Great interest ha« ken aroused (says the "Westminster Gazette") by the announcement that tho Rev. C. Elisor Walters who is in charge of Crookes Wesley Haii Sheffield, has received an invitation from the Wcsleynn East London Mission to become its superintendent. Jlr. Walters, if ho accepts, will have the oversight of the most romantic and interesting as" well as the. "lost difficult sphere of relHous activi' in London. He is no st°en"cr to (I-j metropolis, for ho succpoiKl the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes in the superinteudentship cf tho famous West London Mission, a position he occupied until I*lo7, when he was transferred to Sheffield. The Wesleyan East London Minion will always be associated with the lati Rev. Peter Thompson. When ho went there in 18SG tho condition of things was appalling, but ho set to work, with the result that in a few years ho had transformed (ho notorious Paddy's Gojso pul.lichonse into a beacon light of spiritual and social helpfulness. Tho next year an evea more infamous tavern and music-hall was secured in the case of the Old Mahogany Bar, in Welleb«e Square, Whitechapel.' Both were low centres of vice, known throughout tho world, for wjinon in the Port of Loii.lon mainly congregated there when on shore. To-day both have flourishing missions attached to them. The line new Central Hall in the Commercial Road is one of tho largest in

flic kingdom, and tho Into Rev. Peter Thompson reg.'.rded it as the crowning stone of Ill's Tontr suporinteudenlship of Hid East London Mission. Mr. Elisor Wallers, who is onlv forty years of ago, will cany with him (o (ho East 15ml a wide ami ripe cxperienco of effort amongst the poor and needy. Ho took (l prominent part ill public affairs in London. He was a member of the St. Pancras Vestry, a local manager of the Loudon School Board, a member of the St. Paneras Borough Council, chairman of the Public Health Committee, and much interested in (ho housing of the working classes. Ho is, in short, t.ho ideal mnn for East London, whoso Wesleyan Mission is one of the most important in the country, workins is it Joes in Stopn»y, Whitcvhapol, and St. Georgo's, with their teeming population.