ference assembles meetings at the Church House; and then (I believe for the first' time) two-minute silences were observed at all the micatings. Since that occasion the practice has been general, at least in the Church of England and her sister Churches all over the worl In 1910 Canon Cyril Hepher, now of Winchester, went as one of a mission of help to New Zealand. He found that Mr.. Allen Gardin Vicar of Havelock North, New Zea: wi, was holding, with the bishop's silent meetings of a ful character in hia church, at which the local Friends with many other non-Anglicans attended, in carnalite unity of spirit. Impressed by: the remarkable way in which the use of silence hat solved so mitny religious difficulties, Canon Hepher began the practice fon his return to St, John's, News castle-on-Tyne, ami he and 1 arranged some public conferences at St, Mary's, Primrose Hill (of which' Twas then vieat), in which, besides ourselves, Mr, and Mra Allen Gardiner, "Lady Portsmouth and Miss Hodickin (representing the Friends) took part, Meetings for silence thereupon were establish many places, and ary now held under Anglican aupieos alt over the world, especially in India amd notably" at Ku the leper settlement in Japan, Th 19 consi avery Inv followed this "by Primrose Hill, while Twas the title he Fruits of Silence, Part of thy moral Mind As the war we ton the striking observance porate silenes was increasingly—weloame. The ide had been snrending for twenty, the first publication of The Sanctuary," hal become a common practice at Church mvet ings, and had been enriched and er diffused by the cirenta on "The Kellowshi of Silence." votinigs mance, and of confidence and hope. mist have been widespread the war drow towards itt closes find the stop from the obxervaries in church Ca more publFe act wae small one. The idea had becom seen eral mind in many pire, Tt would be were now carried ints: wetings ax well, 1 iGelf a short break of would resolve many acrimonious debate, For in two minutes of silence the still small voice becomes audible—
"Morning Post to the "Hasterm the Peking Bureau of Pub-ie Safety has decided to re-name streets which have an "imperial istic" touch and which do not coincide with present thoughts. It will be recalled that, only recently, the same Bureau ordered the changing of the yellow (imperial) colour of, Peking to blue.
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