CANON NEWBOLT AT ST. PAUL'S.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1557, 28 September 1912, Page 9

CANON NEWBOLT AT ST. PAUL'S.

A WESLEYAN MINISTER'S TRIBUTE.

Under tho title, "A Day Among the Anglicans," the Rev. Hinsdale T. Young, a well-known Wesleyaii minister, writes:— It 'was a golden season that wo had in St. Paul's Cathedral in tho afternoon. All shadows vanished as wo lingered'under that splendid dome.' Many years have lapsed since last I spent' a Sunday hour in tho vast cathedral. More than once, in days long past, I have stood for well nigh two hours (albeit I was present an hour More service-time) on a Sunday afternoon, in St. Paul's, to hear the silvertongued Canon Liddon.- Now I camo to hear his successor. It is somo_ twenty years since last I heard Canon Nowbolt. but I had never forgotten his sermon. I came, therefore, with considerable anticipation. And my best expectations wero realised. . ,

Let mo say at onco that he delivered a magnificent sermon. If my epithet is warm, it is "by no means, unweighed. Canon Newbolt is an elderly man now, and illness lias recently had him in its grip. But I was glad to see. him fo vigorous. His manuscript was-before him, and ho turned its successive pages; but he was independent of it in this regard, that lie uttered himself with utmost freedom: his voice rang out like a trumpet, and maintained its music to the end of a fortv minutes' sermon. My distinct imuressioii' is that Canon Newbolt has not had justice as a preacher. Last Sunday afternoon's discourse was great in several elements: there was solid theology— and definite, too, and in the best sense, evangelical also; there was deep spiritual feeling; there was delicious charm of expression; classical allusions and historical allusions lent a pleasant flavour; and a siibtlo humour was- now and again apparent. And all was urged homo with a directness and a practicality which aro indispensable to a spiritually helpful pulnit. Tho sermon moved The "rushing mighty wind" sent its onergios upoiv tlilistening heart. I was glad to see a vast congregation on an Aueust Sunday afternoon. It was :i sight that stirred our pulses. _ Tho prayers were uttered most impressively. A young clergyman read tho lessons with an' enunciation and an emphasis which made the Word of. God a living messago io tho host of worshippers. God St. Paul's, and its able and varied ministry in tho centre of groat needy London!