OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 55, 20 February 1902, Page 3

OBITUARY.

PER PJUKU ASgf'OUTIOB. Lomdoh, February 18. The deaths ar« announced of the Rev. Newman Hall and Mr Patchett Martin, the author. i

[The Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B., was born at Maidstone, May ?2nd, 1816; He was educated at Totteridge* and at Highbury College, and graduated B.A. at the London University. In 1855 he took the degree of LL.B 1( and won the law scholarship. He was appointed minister of the Albion Congregational Church, Hull, in 1842, remaining tier* till 1854, when he succeeded the Rev. James Sherman as minister of Surrey Chapel, known as Rowland Hill's Chapel, in the Wbitefriars-road, L >nlon. One of the chief features of his work in London was the inauguration of a weekly lecture or concert in the chapel as a counter-attraction for working men to the public-house. This idea, then novel, has since been widely carried out by all denominations. In IBSC he opposed the popular ory against what was called " Papal Aggression," being directly in antagonism to most of his brother ministers. He defended his course on the ground, sot of favouring Popery, but of consistent Protestantism, and fidelity to the principle of religious liberty and equality. He was ever an advocate of pfa<e, and of the intercommunion of all Evangelical Churches. When the civil war in the United States broke out he advocated the Northern cause in the interests of Union and Freedom. He afterwards made two extensive tours in the States for the purpose ef allaying the bitter feeling toward Great Britain, and of promoting international good-will. " Lincoln Tower" was luilt in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln, out of funds raised in America by Dr. Hall's efforts, and stands near " Christ Church," the total cost being 163,000. Br. Hall has written numerous treatises, one of which, entitled " Corns' to Jesus," reached a circulation of nearly three millions, in upwards of twenty languages. He has written also "It is I," "Follow Jesus," "Antidote to Fear," j"Bhort Memoir of Rev. Rowland Hill," "Homeward Bound," "The land of the Forum and the Vatican, or Thought* and Sketches during an Bister Pilgrimage to Rome" (1851), devotional perms "Pilgrim song* in Cloud and Sunshine" (1871), "Mountain Musings," a tractate on " Prayer; its Reasonableness and Efficacy" (1875), and several small works on teetotalism, of which he had been an earnest advekte during forty years. He also rsmpiled from Scripture a volume of devotion entitled "Prayer and Praise in Bible World," and edited an autobiography of his father, entitled " Conflict and Victory." A late work was " Qetbssmane, or Leaves of Healing from the Garden of Grief."

Beceived 19. 10.45 p.m. London, February 19. Fidd-Marsbal Sir Neville Chamberlain is deid, aged 82. [Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain, G. 0.8., G. 0.5.1., entered the Indian Army in 1836, and served in the Indian Mutiny, in Afghanistan, and had command of the Punjab frontier forces from 1854 to 1864. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army from 1876 to 1881. He had been wounded more frequently than any other officer of his years and standing in the senrice.]