Tf anyone had ventured to prophesy twenty years ago that the day sould come when an actor would be invited to rive an address at a Diocesan Conferences he would have been widely ridiculed; one can even picture the comic papers making: sport of the idea, and yet it has come to pas, as, on the invitation of Dr. By Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, one of the most liberal Churchmen, Sir Squire B: croft last night spoke for something hour to the members of the Leeds Di cosan Conference, and was warmly thanked by his audience when he sat dow: Like clergymen of olden times, he to have divided his subject under heads. First he harked back to the pasi. and told of his cartiest recoliccticns of and his reflections thereon. Of ted bigot " who preached eternal damnation and drew such vivid pictures of tortures to come, as to make him shiver for days after; of the distinguished highly-cultured' minister who has boldly pronounced from the pulpit that could he ciate such horrors with the conception of a merciful God, no further word of prayer should ever pss his lips; and Uhird-Is, of the nan of great learnt: who clearly revealed that his shaken faith was barely hidden behind a thin transparent cil of orthodoxy, and who apparently almost looked upon his sacred mission as wasted time. How well one knows all three "types," though the first is now, happily. practically extinct.
The Meeting of Chuveh 2nd The second part of the address with the delivery of sermons, and here some splendid advice was giv gard to voice management. A little an dote was related as to a question asked of
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