There was a very large congregation at Holy Trinity Cathedra] on Sunday when, in conjunction with a shortened form of Morning Prayer, the Memorial Service for Lord Roberts was held.
Great satisfaction is felt at the appointment of the Rev. Reni MacInnes, missionary at Cairo, Secretary of the Egypt Mission, and Honorary Canon of St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, to be Bishop in Jerusalem in succession to Bishop Blyth, whose resignation, announced some time ago, has now become an accomplished fact. The appointment rests with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and it will give great pleasure to all interested in the missionary work of the diocese to know that his Grace, after consulting with the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London, has chosen for the new Bishop one who 80 pre-eminently. qualified by training, experience, and sympathy to fill the important position.
There has been considerable discussion in England as to the propriety of clergy bearing arms in the present war. The Archbishop of Canterbury has made it plain that, especially at this time, the business of those in holy orders, excepting as many as can be spared from their parishes to supplement the number of Army Chaplains, lies among their people. The Bishop of Birmingham strongly bears out this principle.
"The soldier," he says, "does not ike the idea of the parson killing." and he quotes the expressiv> words of "a fine fellow just back from the The Service was studiously simple in form, and it was as perfectly rendered as it was deeply impressive, Preaching from the text For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep," (Acts XIIT, 36) Dean Walker said that Jewish historious treated the history of their race in the reverse manner to that used by other historians. Social history, commerce and foreign politics, which are to us of primary importance, were subordinate in the Jewish historians' view to the importance of showing how Israel had or had not fulfilled its destiny as the chosen of God. As with the race, so with individuals. The heroes of the race were regarded by the Jewish historians as men with a mission from God.
Even the enemies of the Jews, Pharaoh or the Assyrians for instance, were looked upon as having been raised up by God for a definite purpose. Surely, continued the preacher, other nations have had their heroes equally endowed with and fulfilling their mission, even though we do not nowadays speak of it in this way. Jewish life, it must be remembered, was the same in externals as that of other nation, Only, the Jews saw what lay within, as s0 beautifully expressed by the apostle in his summary of David's life.
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