At a large mesting at Kensington Town Hall, under the presidency of the Bishop of Calcutta, the subject discased was" Christianity and Morality as criticized in the West." The Bishop of Ossory, in introducing the subject, showed that all that ancient Greece could teach them about the relation of man to the State, all that Japan was teaching about the power of s pure, patriotic devotion, all that Confucius taught s to the importance of bene-valence, loyalty, reverence, and faithfalneas, found their fulfilment in that supreme ides of a kingdom of lov which the purpose of God for salvation of the iodividnal was to be generation of human society and the Rashdall (Oxford) compared Christianity with legalistic religions. The Rev. H. H. Kelly for of the Society of the Sacred Kilburn) described morality ied in ita development. But Christianity was always the same.
Dr. A. R. Whately (Guildford) emphasized the truth that they roust yield to the absolute claim of Jesus Christ pon their wills, His absolute call to self-surrender no reser It they preached that, it would in the long run promote morality, instead of throwing it back. The Rev. F. G. Giren Wilson beld that the method of our Lord's teaching was not to deal with particular questions of morality, but to disclose fundamental principles. The Bishop of Southwark said they must remember, in regard to the question under consideration, not only that they had our Lord's Beatitade on the meek rit, but all the splendid impulse to virility of life that came from courage and fearlessness, which were as true features of the Cross as its patience and submission, The Rev. H. Marston, specially referred to criticisms, such as those of Tolstoi, levelled against the ethics of Christianity, and spoke of them as starting with a monstrous prion disadvantage. The Bishop of Rhode Island ssid he thought the Church was responsible for the fact: that the world looked askance at the ideal which Christianity had
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