The Sub-Dean's remarks upon "Home Effects of the Reformation" at the C.E.M.8. meeting last Tuesday started ap interesting discussion upon the Book of Common which is the result of the ion and translation of numerous books in use before the Reformation. It has been agreed to continue the discussion at next Tuesday's meeting, having special reference to the changes introducpearance of Churches result of the Re-
Yeo, when I reflect how careless and incredibly ignorant we all are in regard to our body marvel in that we have such health as we always meeting people who are in a continual state of paralytic astonishment that vice and drunkenness abound. It shows how little they know of life and the power of the passions. The wonder to me is the other way about. That men live on the whole so happily; that the overplus of happiness over sadness is 80 immense; that nations remain at peace so long as they do: which God has made that such multitudes of men honest, pure, self-sacrificing is marvel! This ought also to cast light on the claim of Jesus Christ to be the Redeeemer of the world.
That is the one thing sorely needed. Critics who can point out sins and imperfections in man, and can write eloquent articles sbout them are numerous, but they cannot redeem the world from its sorrows and Jesus can. He bears of the world. Intricate as the tangle of sin is, Jesus Christ can unravel it. Complicated as the moral state of the world is naturally, sin, has made "confusion worse \confounded." Only He can save it, because He brings the soul into subjection to God and into unity with The death at the age of 94 of the Rey. R. ©. Kirkpatrick, founder and first vicar of St. Augustine's, Kilburn, recalls the circumstances in which his church and parish and the good works associated with them came into being. In 1867 a body of Churchpeople, driven from their parish church by a new incumbent who put down the daily services and weekly Communions to which they had been accustomed, secured the assignment of a new district with Mr. Kirkpatrick as their leader. From the humblest of beginnings there at last arose the work which was the domi ence in Northwest London.
The following incident, quoted from the American paper "The Living Church," is well worth re-
"At the cross roads of Cost Capelle behind the lines in Belgiam a dozen nerstarved children were walking in single file; they were returning from school in some cellar, and had been delayed by the usual evening shelling of the Germans. A hundred yards behind the children stood a Belgian officer absorbed in identifying the roar of the distant guns. The whistling whoosh of howitzer projectile fell perilously near.
"There is the evening gun," said Marie Jose, the eldest girl in charge of the party. "I am afraid! The German
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