wccial conditions in that country were not calculated to encourage sweating. The last selected speaker was the Rev. Dr. W. E. Chadwick, Vicar of St. Giles, Northampton, who insisted on the fact that the buyer was often as silty as the seller, and declared there must be a smarter awakening of the public conscience. More publicity needed, and the Christian Social Union had done " magnificent work in letting After " brisk and ani~-at-—the Archdeacon of urged thatthe question be faced a little more sternly than the audience seemed to bare regarded it, remembering the blood that underlay it and that stained the conscience of us all, two ladies addressed the great meeting with considerable effect from contrasted points of view. Miss Troaghton, Domestic Subjects Lecturer, pleaded the claims of domestic service and the cult of dirty hands" for women, while Miss Gertrade M. Tuckwell defended them fromthe criticisms passed on them. The latter begged for earnest personal study of the Anti-Sweating Bill.
At the afternoon meeting the Coad-presided. Mra. discussion with an interesting contribation on existing hou il may to remedy them, i Tight and air as essentials to home making, and on opportunities for the occupation of mind and the development of taste as things contributory. Alderman W. Thompson, ititroduced as (Chairman of the National Housing Reform Council, and as one of the greatest, authorities on the subject, suma in effect and with effect. His written contribution to the preliminary Pan-Anglican Paper," which demonstrated, its wealth of star ud striking illustrations, ghe magoitade of the housing problem before us, spite of the fact that of all the older industrial countries Great Britain had the best record in the matter. Mr. John W. Wood, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Missions of America, having described housing evils and reforms in New York, Dr. Arthur Shadwell introduced " new note into the discussion—one of critical enquiry into the accuracy of the facts and the legitimacy of the deductions of the enthusiasts for heroic housing reform. He declared that the agitation on the subject was too excited, and relied too exclusively on a mechanical theory of life. At the conclusion of the general discussion which followed, the chairman in closing the meeting, noted as standing out from the discussions of the day the good reason for hope, the need for a more adequate realization of personal responsibility, and the call to that individual Christian effort which must be at the back of all the work that might be accomplished by Government, or societies, or individ The subject of Christian Trath and other Intellectual Forces" was discussed at both the morning and evening meetings in Kensington Town Hall on Jane 17. In the morning the general subject of consideration was " Christian Herald and S. C. & C. Gazette.
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Philosophy Miss Reed, (U.S. A.), spoke particularly on Higher Thought, Christian Science." She said that she had personally examined innumerable cures by Christian Science and had found many genuine ones, but she had never discovered a case in which, with an ordinary good working knowledge of psychology, they could not satisfactorily explain the physical changes which bad taken place. The Rev. Dr.S. McComb declared that Christian Science stood condemned in America because it was E. F. Neve, C. M. missionary in Kashmir. Dr. Mary Scbarlieb, in dealing with the medical missions as a way of reaching the women, stated it was her personal experience that there was no difficulty in getting access to Any native lady's heart and exciting her sympathy in missions. The Bishop of Uganda, who opened the discussion, urged that medical work should be brought into the closest possible relation with the life of the (hare! ile the Bishop of Lahore. who followed, stated he was certain that if the womanhood there regarded as unphilosophical and also because it had broken with historical Christianity. The Bishop of Bloemfontein gave it as his opinion that receptivity and concentration of the mind upon some suggestion were characteristics of that life in which the healing processes of the body went on under Christian, Science. The of Christain England realized the amount of suffering and misery due to the unskilfal treatment by the native doctors, on the one hand, and the inability to call in qualified male aid on the other, they would rise up in their strength and do everything in their Oldroyd held that the New Testament was centuries before modern science in the matter of physical cure and he advocated more ce-operation between the clergy and medical men. Mr. J. M. Hickson endeavoured to bring out the positive trath of spiritual healing in the Christian Charch. Bishop Mylne maintained that Charch's answer to Christian Science was to be given, first, on the practical side by ap assertion of her own powers and, next, on the doctrinal side by accounting for those powers. The Archdeacon of Ely said he felt that hor successful the cures effected by new therapeutic methods might be, uch curing was, he considered, fraught with serious dangers and the Charch ized should refrain from encouraging it.io any way. The Dean of Denve thankful for the existence of Christian Science.
At the evening meeting Professor Shawley, dealing with " Agoosticism, its Meaning and Claims," emphasized the fact that agnosticism was, to a certain extent, a contradictory term that it failed to establish the division between the knowable and the unkoowable, for in the very act of drawing a line between them the existence of beyond was asserted. Canon Alexander pointed out some popular yus about agnosticism and Bishop milton Haynes argoed that, although their knowledge of God was not exhaustive or adequate, it was as real as anything they could know, because it was the pre-supposition of all that they did know. Canon Kennedy opposed the idea that everything which did not come within the range of sense-perception should be disbelieved. A paper on "Pantheism and Christian Thought" was read by Dr. A. Caldecott, and after a short discussion the meeting was brought to a close.
On Tuesday morning, June 17, the consideration of The Church's Mission in Non-Christian Lands" was resumed in Caxton Hall under the presidency of the Bishop of Zanzibar. Dr. H. White (0. M. 8. Yezd, Persia) presented the first paper on " Pioneer Medical Work." Medical missions as the country on an adequate scale.
The Bishop of Durham presided over the afternoon meeting in Caxton Hall, when the subject of the edification of converts was discussed. The Bishop of Travancore, the first speaker, dealt with "The Charch Life of the Individual." He emphasized the point that the subject was one of pastoral work, the shepherding of souls already admitted into Christ's kingdom. Bishop Olawole, whose theme The Church Life of the Community, ye sketch of the various parochial, district and diocesan organizations which existed in Western Equatorial Africa for the carrying on of Charch life, After the Rev. R. Allen, Miss Bu and the Bishop of Melanesia had said a few words the meeting terminated.
'A large gathering assembled in the Hoare Memorial Hall on Thursday morning, June 18, under the presidency of the Archbishop of the West Indies. The subject down for consideration was "The Charch's Duty to her Exiles" in India and other lands—officials, planters, navvies, and workmen across ye seas, and soldiers far from home.
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quirements of the case were two—they needed more men and men of the right sort, The Bishop of Colombo narrated experiences among British planters and urged the duty of the Church towards them. Mr. W. Parsons, for many years Secretary yo the Chamber of Commerce in Calcutta, appealed for due provision for the spiritual care of the industrial army of Englishmen who were going to India in connexion with the railways and other industries in increasingly large numbers. The Bishop of Keewatin, who could not understand an Englishman being regarded as an exile while he remained in any portion of the British dominion, dealt with the necessity of more effort among the navvies, Inmbermen and miners in his diocese. Col. J. E. Broadbent, c.x., pleaded for true and sustained interest in the soldiers of India on the part of the Church. Bishop Taylor Smith, Chaplain-General to the Forces, asked Pan-Anglicans to keep part of a settled tnission was the i, el poeta,
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