Bishop Molony and Mre, Molony sailed for England last week in the Glenlogan in company with Dr. Babington of the Church Mi Society. We are glad to learn that the Bishop has made ea good a recovery recently and that a second operation will not be required, but the doctors think it wiser for him to give up work fora time and spend the summer at home. He hopes to return with Mra. Molony in the autumn.
News has lately been received from Bishop Price who has been serving as Chaplain in the Dard-arielles and is now returning to England by hospital ship, his three months of service at the front he has confirmed 654 persons, of whom 66 were on men-of-war.
It is evident that his sympathy and help have been much valued by the Chaplains. He has continued in excellent health, Dean Walker is expected back in Shanghai about February 21.
In a letter to the Church of England Men's Society, the Archbishop of York speaks of the. proposed National Mission as still only a possibility," but the Bishop of London, who is at the head of the movement, says in his letter tha "something in the nature of National Mission" has now been decided upon, and all the Bishops of England and Wales will be oon-sidering this month how best it shall be carried out. Lent, he adds, should be specially devoted to preparing the Church for so great an effort, and the Bishop hints that we must not be afraid of the word "Revival." In the meantime, as ie naturally the case when a great movement of this kind is proposed in general terms, many suggestions of what it should be and should not be are being put forth The Northern Primate says that the Mission, if it is held, will not be at all like parochial mission. "Tt will be the Church itself going forth from corporate prayer and preparation to give a corporate witness before the nation to the need of repentance and to Christ's claim to the Lordship of all life, national and personal. Therefore, it is not only special preachers, but the Church itself in all its members, who will be the missioners."
The appointment of Canon Pearce, Treasurer of Westminster Abbey, to be Assistant Chaplain General (temporary and honorary) for duty at the War Office will do something to relieve the great pressure which the war has placed on the Chaplains' Department—a pressure which will be much increased Cly the calling up recruits raised
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