On Sunday morning the Annual Harvest Thanksgiving service was held at Holy Trinity Cathedral. The chancel, pulpit, and font were tastefully decorated with flowers, vegetables, and corn. An exceptionally large congregation attended, and the choir did complete justice to the service, which was fully choral. The rendering, of Stanford's To Deum and Goss's béautifal anthem, "'The Wilderness" was os-pecially praiseworthy, and the solo parts of the latter were excellently sung. The Dean preached, taking as his subject the work of the Missions toSeamon at this port, He outlined the objects of the Mission and its needs, and urged the congregation to take steps to procure another chaplain and if possible launch for the work. The last subject the preacher dealt with was the aim of the Mission to help those who were in distress. He referred to the number of men in this prominent members of the Jewish community here. The lecturer, who was introduced by Sir Pelham Warren, came on the stage in riding breeches and leggings, andthe lecture was marked by one or two other: eccentricities. Mr. Bainbridge first ro-counted the failure of hie efforts to obtain proper light for his magie-lantern. He then proceeded to quote".a mass of ethnological and anthropological authorities on such themes as the descent of man; the divisions of the human race; the original colour; ity of customs and habits among the uncivilized peoples of the world. *These quotations proved somewhat tedious. While the lantern screen was being lowered: the lecturer told a couple of fanny and then at last the subject lecture "The Black Jews of Guinea" was entered upon. The Jewish tribe, which Mr. Bainbridge claims to have discovered, live on the island of Kiwi at the mouth of the Fly river, Their customs, surroundings, and beliefs wore fully, dealt with as picture followed picture on the screen, and it must be admitted that the Kiwi islanders whose portraits wore shown were the Jewish physiognomy h type. In profile
was plain, and their custome, which may be mentioned the blessing of the first-fruits, and the absence of pork from their bills of fare, seemed to hi strong confirmation of their Jewish a stry. The last pictures shown wore of 6 Chinese Jews at Kaiféngfu, the most unique of which was a group of Jewish women. The lecturer stated that ho was the bearer of a petition from the 8 Kaiféngfu Jows to Jews of other nations asking them to help to ro-erect thei Daring the time the slides g shown someone in the lence kept giving the signal to change the pictures, and Mr. Bainbridge really surpassed himself in the epithets ho hurled at the head of this individual. One would almost have thought the 10 was pre-arranged from the fluency with which the delinquent was anathomatised.
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