WESLEYAN HOME MISSION SECRETARY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 9

WESLEYAN HOME MISSION SECRETARY.

. ■ —" *},: . - J Hi: HliV P. L ISK.MAX. Mr, Arthur I*. Gmbb supplies tlio •' ! ■ Yotiivg 4Mfiii.'' wifh •• ot the Hon F. JUi WiKwiraiv. 15iAn':.tlie' ; now Wes|e\ in Home Mission ki'ciot.u \ < 'I'lV.is sooivtai vsliTj) is regarded as-tile ■ most important anil,.;i.nfliitijtia 1 ,d;ep,ar mental post the Kniilisli Woslev.iu Methodist CMireh 'has to £ive. Mr. ': Wiseman is, says Mr. Grubb, "the light . imd colour and iart)|litcj' of tlio early Metliodist, combined with the ac'slhetio ■ austerity of modern Anglicanism. ■' Ho lasts like a strict Catholic or an Early !■ Methodist ; his lioil/s of ijlei'p arc- isliyrt:eiiofi that,ho may find lull place for prayer; he is ii conservative .Methodist, clinging stubbornly to (hp elass-moelir.!? as the basis of Ids Church.'' : M"r. Wisiv man is a note! musician, as was his ■ father before hint—the iter. Luke 11. Wisciuaji, ji.A,, Avl.i.o <vns ;nlsti : , '.a.:.grent p readier, ar. »bb> author, mid one of.tlio most personalities in niuiv te'i.Mx(li^cqnlt t:'ii v V Alciliocjisni.. This Mr. Wiseiii.ft.n- was president of tlio Wi;s(< vim Coiifei'iiiiee'ln 1871? j forty years aflenvaids hfs. son 'ivas dlf-etorl io tlio same posiUo.n, For many veart tins l.ictt secretary ■ lias lield it .loadi'ilg position .as preacher lit Uiriiiiiigliain,' ' Mr. \\ is»man. liirnuncliMu is proud, ol von. !1 said the Lord Mayor at tlio opening of The Central Hall, and during tlnv ten vears tliat have passed since then ilinuingltaro lifts i;ro\vn prouder still of liei pitted citi/en Mr \\ woman's predecessor in the Home Mission secretary- . ship was the late Dr. lfenry ,T. Pop'o, olio nf. tho mblest .statesmen that Motlioi tlisui has produced.