DR. FAIRBAIRN AND MANSFIELD HOUSE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 9

DR. FAIRBAIRN AND MANSFIELD HOUSE.

Mr Percy Alden, M.1 , ., writing in ttw "Mansfield House Magazine," atates *at in a verv real sense .Mansfield House Settlement (of which Mr. Aldeni was first warden) owed its origin to Dr. Fairbairn On several occasions some of the early iLsfieUl College students had discussed in the Common Room the possibility ot linkin" up the College with sonic practiciT wSrk in a poor district of London. Dr Fairbairn showed a warm interest in tho project, and. took stops to ascertain where tho efforts of tta students eo3d l» best «t i!isl!d - As a ? , n " u «' hato 32p ho advised that some of the Mansfi»ld men should go and help tho H-cv. I. wSna, then the Congregational minister at Canning Town. 1 remcnibei"" l"-s Mr. Alden, "Dr. Fairbairn's frit conversation with me on tho subject, when ho urged m» to spend a few wH:s in tho district with o. view to aseorhhSng its suitability for settlement purMs"" 'You will no doubt,' ho said, •Teain far more than you ar* able to ti elf Tho close contact; w h tho vrork- & men of that district will bo m good fo? vou as it is good for them. Mr. Alden adds Hint though "perhaps Reason am' myself gave him at times moments, of uneasiness and doubt," Dr. I'airbairn never wavered in his trust and confidence.

Tho railroad department of tho American Y.M.C.A. has now assumed groat magnitude, and somo of tho railway companies, although they have made retrenchment, have ehowu no dosiro to retrench on their subsidy to this work. One of the companies issued a piec« of printed matter entitled "Safeguarding tho Public," and it was descriptive of the work of tho Y.M.C.A. in tho interests of , its staff. , „ Under tho heading "Canadian Notes, Dr. Griffith Thomas writes to the "Record" of MaTch 22;—"Tlie progress of tho movement to mnke Canada tho nsost thorough Sunday-keeping uafion of the earth is set forth in (he annual report of tho Canadian Lord's Day Alliance just issued. It is gratifying to note that Canada holds a high place among Hio peop!es of tho world in her practical recognition of tho Lord's Day. Indeed, someone has said that we have tho best Sabbath of any nation. Through our representatives "on the Fisheries Commission last year wo were instrumental in Titising Hip question of (he recognition of tlio Lord's Day to the level of international Tlie Sunday closine of post ofBres in Vrpitem Canada has found an echo in the United States, and requests for liters tnro ntul copies' of the Lord's D«t Act of Cnnndn libvo eonin from Scotltad, Kon Zcalsndi »nd Mesic.uadlaiid," ,