had hventy sound teeth' ing terribly? Was itanv U)ld tliai a living child


j.<s of a husband and that lor deatlt? Then there ) said that time healed It at the end of the pres-


■ le would Iw the momin^ '(.HU the present night that and long? It was per. he moniong would come -■


but it was in the


y needed so much heln '■‘her Jteople wdio came fo


iil'ie with phrases and probably learned by


"7 ' ’“ "I'!,


Jesus Christ a,ever came Hiked them because thev


I'nderstand


io them with the gaspe'l wept with them. TpLc


1> what they felt and He lu in hilt gave them His


1 sMuiiathy meant more issing sonow or regret; it ito the sorrows of others I. apix-aled lothem to ask gi\'e tliem tnie sympatliy onU'r into the sorrows of mil them. Jesus Chri.st '.w. whatever it might be.


.nnxithv ivas a gospel of heir sin and the sins of


g sorrow fmt sorrow came sorrow that brought about


1 .


which was intended to sin. Soiniow was not all- TIui sorrow of mimy


made an e.\anipleof GodV ■ d others to Jesus Christ, mp.iihy wa.s also a gospel Tiiev had not to give wav e and nurse their sorrow e morbid. In their sor- alU'd them to rise up and ail would enable tliem in, 1 forgot their sorrow. It of rosurrention and Christ w.is .1 gospel of comfort


■ n-'d. Ho hnj>ed the mes- ing would Iks of help to • ap|iealod lo them to let ■ liomal with the. shower of


1


KlNflSCOTE GREENLAND! p y AN Occasional Contributor]. u,.,- Kingseote GK'eiiiihuid! Rev.


v- riV-o'e Gieemilaml 1! Re-v. Kingscote s- oi iiid' ' '


1 Imve not gone mad;


^"■ ''eirs are ringing with a. name., Dur- ■ , tiie past few weeks I 'have been ;;^,,lly bombarded-^by Kingscote G r^ . Did I pick up the locall


.wunix-r— Kingscote Greenland 1 Did


I trnel along the streets— Kingscotc Uiuland! Did I walk into the country-


lCiii''scotc Greeiiil.aiids 'i>elted me from the i jside. Your regular rea,deirs ktww how ]


ddom it is 1 emerge from obscurity. It


nkes sc.metbiiig or somtibody out of the orcliiiarv ,to drag me imto pr.init. Tltere is in imcommon element here, said I, aaid 1 j-ill VO and analyse it. Kiiigscote Greeii- hnd° Yhe name is uncomman to begin ivitli. Would the m.an be as much an aberration as his name'? If he wasn’t- iveil 1 could come aw.ay again a.nd nurse my disapl’‘'"'lt*'cn't while I said nothing.


I


went. --I'll roatls seemed to lead to the Weslvvan Chapel or to Kingseate Greeniland


’’s Many Woes.


1 Rich Red Blood that Dr- Williams' Pink Pills


d ills that so often weigh ii,;i -amg tiie pre'cious gift


.ire oivariy indicated by


ig. t'r.iwfcrd Street, Leeds. ;'ii-'r of four lioiniy children, lie Sua-ing iliem was at one li;. prou.ieied sufferings,


■ n \v witii evidonf gratitude V. iv eur-.d ly Ur. \ViJh'.i.ms’


■'cfl and h.iil a faanily," s,aid ; was a siniggle some days 1-ir iiiv h--.id and back i-'t a.nd I fall (.lownright ill


;o 1 ate scarcely two moiuiifuls of food a d.iy, tor meals oaiiseil llatufeiuce and bilious sick­ ness. Sinking sen- .s,ii'.oiis used to


i.'ie-jp ui er me and I felt as though f w.is going to die. I u.is really too ill to ick .ifter the cliil-


dieii and at limes could not see a yard Ivfore me. ‘ .kill my boneis


.niiud, and my jc:m.s were so full cf p.iln that I had diliiciilty in laend- ing my limbs. I was lu'eaking up an 1 lia ordered me took medicine for


. grew .1111111101 and c.mie .slvaltered and


Ml. cm- ihcnght that f "'as olid. 1 wasted lo a- -skdles s sii- n.g.li enough, to raise


aficiincon a mdghb<mr"lm l.cad.^ , ,,


• ir aibhs lugged me to k)'' W iliiani-s' I’ iiiik j ’ i.lls. ‘ Li-s- . ■ I-f a woimiiii who has had


. ,md knows how to cure . so I w nt for a supply ot


_wliich? T may lie disappointed, I thoii"-ht. but I shall not be alone. ^ I waited. Presently I turned from watching the iieop'e file lin’ and saw tth.at a man had niiietlv stolen into ,the pulpit. Yes— ^he was somebody out of the ordinary'. I avtm sure of it. His nose confirmed it. His eyes hamniered this impressio-n into me. They wandered round the place in an imorlhodox fashion, a.nd as he looked up iii'.o the ga.Wery the white of these salf-same t'vos remnuk'd me of the white I once _s.aw ill ihe eves cf a nigger a.t a prayer meeting. One has a h.abit of rern’emberiiiig them .after­ wards. He opened a hymn book— ^at the opixisitc end of the pulpit from where the liihle rested 'reverently. Thou h’e took a smell of the flowers which someone had thoiightfullv provided on either side of him. Ncx7he h.-id a. drink from a glass of water wliich s-eemed somewha,t hurt tha.t it had been disturlied so early—'liefore the voice had gcBie, even before it had arri.ved. It was a grating voice when it began to make itself heard. Instead of jiquid toijes we had metaillic sounds. The oi]X'ning liviiin followed and in the middle of it Kingseofo Greenland tidied_ up the pulpit jiist as a careful housewife, tidies the kitchon, but the oportion wa.s a shorter oim. .Another smell at the flnowers.


tihe physician go back to simplicity, the doc­ tor go back from your .artificial life. I say tvhen you are going back go back home. You can find a good substitute for most


things, for preiachors, tor clothing, for republicanism— you can have a monarchy just as good and more free— ^but if you lose the home life you cannot get someithing in .its place, dihe institutional church


won’t do. I bdlieve witli all mv heart in the cosy


he went and did not care for the work he need 'not do it. They were not paid for it and that was fortunate, because a p-oid oha.plain was not allowed to give any in- forma,tkm outside. When, he went in the prison the whole terrible landscape^ of 'human weakness and depravity, physical, ,mental and moral, laid not onK a hand upon one’s sym,pait!hy but upon, one s mtelli- gence. Ydien. he ,drove home at night oyer the frpstv moors he foimd ihimseilf asking


funiiii.shcd vo-slry for the girls, the school- ' himself some great questions to xvhich thOTe iroom for the Ixws, but I never deceive my- ; was no ansWur. such ;is “ What is enme ; self that the best upliolstored room can take ■ “ Where does crime differ from many uraer the nlacc of mother’s sitting room or j acts fiftv rimes worse, that .are not calltecl lirtchen.


' c r im e ; a.nd “ Iw what right does one man Tf vour business men look upon childmin | punisla ano.the.r’’ ? Were they not a t,


as .musa.nces and your mothers .are more rougluly speaking, fairly equal. ^ What was fond of pleasure then,the church w,ill never punishment? What ought punishineirt a - be able to make up tliiei awful arrears ot ways to be? Was not punishmaat thaMi- moral, physical 'a.nd sinrituail regenera.ticm. ■ only pimisliment ^ essentially mimor.a . Someone has been saying this xveek that Ought not all punishment to be remean^.^


the home is the he.art of 'the empire. Yery j Why did a ma,n who forged a will or e - ■ ooci; then the empire is suffering from! Vx'zded moiuey get. seven years, Wlwte - we.ak action of the heart! England has'] man who ill-trea.ted a.nd starved his wife ana


"ot the heart disease-without a shadow of ' chiUlren. get a month? The 1 that was that they lived m England n ta e


letters


There is a verv distressing element in the -the only sacred things \\we ])ropeirty ^ [ get from children.


For eyerv ^ money.


roforeiice J get to the boys and girls , mothers 1 get fifty to tliedr teacher. Is the teacher crowding you and me out ? Is the


iteachcr getring into your children s hea,rts more than you are? 1 can make my chil­ dren love nic more than any -teacher ever born I know the reason w,hy. _ Are you not jealous of the love of your cMldrm? I am not pleading for anyt.hiiig like a


mischief enough, but 'there is such a thing a.s sweet puritanism, wholesome and sweet disiripliue. We want to reunstate the


iwrents in comparison’ w’ith the ovemihalm- most ghostily and awful districts in the iipr duties of the parents to the diiklren,. British' Isles, full of e,ver\ithi,ng that When people complain about children weird and diearv. There was supera - the answer i.s, “ children are children.” We Da-rtnioor a.iid tihere


power of influence in tlie home. IJiutil a child is 15 I am not sure that the child owes a \-ery serious duty to the


sav that bet'ause we aire supix>sod to put awa\' childish 'things. AVe don't. The only dlFeronce .is'that cliildron play with


toy's that don’t do them ;i,ny harm, while older jxrople J'llay with toys-that do. ^ 1 would rather’ die with a. rag doll in my


hands than a ha-mlful of brew'eiw' shares. In 'the bast few years we have cared more


.Anothdr


look round. Did the congregation impress him? Was it the mimber of young meai? He must have hedii interested In them 1»- c.iu.se he is the Editor of “ Young Man and a novelist into the barg.a'in. Or was i,t the children imported into the choir? P'arha.ps the latter, for some day they will be young men and women. -At any ra.te he addressed himself to them afterwards. Whether they will still lie interested in Sunday School .anniversaries whbii' they are young men and women depeinds a great deal on such ad-


-dresses. TJieire w.os no nonsense about tlvis one. I't w.os full and running over with practica.r suggestions—suggestions that can be carried out, not sage sa.yangs that nobody ex’or dneams of ende.avourin'g to put into effect because of the im;x>ssibility of it all. Parenthetically he told them tliere were meat who can talk but can, not write, itiTd men who can write but can not talk. He might have added that there a,re men Who can do both, like himself, lund men who can do neiither, like the wielder^ of thiis particular pen. He askeid questions and received .answers and his good humour wa,s so infectious that the children laughed out­ right, especially when he told tlieni, inci­ dental to getting-up time, that some larks got lip as early as four in the momihig which


is “ no lark at all.” Before 'tilie sermon, came on my mind was


ca,rried h.ack to the last writer-preacher I had heard— ‘the Itditor of Great Ihoughts, Dr. Downes.


I found myself trying to


compare them, Kinigscote Giteien'land a.n-d he, and failing in the .attempt because com­ parison is impossible Where 'there is no resemblance. Thev belong to diffoneht schools. While Dr. Downes is soairingmto the sublimest heights of eloquence Kimgs- cole Greenilaml is flinging epigrams at you ill a quiet way. While you .are carried along by the .aerial flights of Dr. Downes vnti find yourself on fhe tip-tie of e.xpect- aiicv with Kingscote Greeniland, waiting fw the ne.xt shaft of wit, satire. J>r some .jihiin hut concise criticisrui. He discarded .a text


■ and substituted for it a series of stigges- lion-s. He told th'e congregation plaonily ihat he mea.nt to go further back than the Sunday school, 'rightinto the Iwme life and in doing so he gave tlileim plenty of home


trutlis. Heire are a few : — The Sunday school is not a substitute for


the home; it is supplemenitary .to it.


We sing; The Stately homes of England, How bea.utiful they sta-ud;


I take very little i.ntetest in these homes '■ f the aristocraits; give mejKe little whole-


■- some, :sa.nita,ry, rural 'Qhnistlan homes of Englaral. Moody the* evengeli.st said: “ Vou in I'lngland' are more iui iicetl of


homes than churches.” t am not a scare monger; I would iiut


every scare monger into prison But T would remind you that we are_ in


the midst of many, many movemenats ivhich when thev come 'to full bloom will under- miiie the place, jxnweir and a'lithority of our


RiVglirii home.


We are witnessing, not the diseStabliM- meiiit of the English Oluvrch, but the d'ls-


. . ..j.-


ca-tabliahmeiiTl. of the English home. I believe the authority of fathers .and mothers Was ii'evcr at a lower ebb than it is ito-day.


It never coun'fed for less. The true line of progress lies not in gontg forward but in going back for.someithing we


•have left behind. Fifty per ceait of our ills can be cured by this means. We a.re forgetting to be apt. I am sure


about horthaiUure in England than about child laiUiire. If somuone had asked me a vOa,r or -two ago lor a book 011 the study of'ehildren 1 could ir»l. have given them one, hilt if they had asked -me for one on. the ’orchiid I could have given them^ fifti,'. A man I k-now does well to visit his


nurserv once in ithree manrlis and IT xvar- mnt he does not know the ages of hi-s chil­ dren or Whether they do wdl or ill at school. But he is well known on 'Change anil he could tdll you to -tlh'e smallest fr.ac- tion the state of the money nia.rket. Another ma.n explained to nie in hiis


drawing room all the initricades of cer,- tain flowers in a plant ]X>t, finally pointing out that, 'there was no room -for expa-nsion- ami that he would ha.ve to re-po-t them. His four ch,ildran slept in the same Ijed- room. It w'as the children that wanted


re-ixxtting! Am-bodv could be good away from home.


Peppie wde all right at tholr business; it w.asat home that they mis-«vnductc.d them­


selves. 'I'h-is was Kingscole Giteeni-huid. as r«-


\-ea,le(l in his sermon, a'liil as we 'left the chaixd a friend of mine saild, “ I could


have listened to him all day.’' There wa.s the usual heart;- singing for


which 'th'e Mtesiloyans a.re well known, Mr. J. H-anson conducting as heforetimes.


CONVICT LIFE.


LECTL'KE BY K.1XGSC0 TE


THE REV. AV. GREENLAND.


They could ask those quesboti-s


until theiir head ached and they would Imct no answer. From that day 'ho had t.akeai a gre.iit inteirest in prison life and miQ tried to compare, the Eiuglisli system wiui other systems. He had also tried to do a little towards helping'those who came out of pri.son,.


......- — ---- • , , r i speak ot -Da.iitimoar other .tlnan the penal retuni to the old puritanilsm xvhicli wrought wrapped m one


Dartmoor. Theire were many Darrinows Dairtmoor was one of flie


nm.at IxAuitiful, ma.jestic, exhailarating and tenr'iifv.ing districts in the Whole _ ot the U'liitied Kingdom.


In, summer it was a


blaze vellow glory a.nd thev could wai> dt-r for miles and never strike, a human


hahiitarioin. In winter it was one of the ___ was Dartmoor the health resort. Being isAtiit to Dartmoor_ did


not la.lwavs me.an that they 'haid commr a crime, but in many cases it meant tliey


were itiroubled wtilth a,st'hma , , r , about sevdnitcen, hundred leet


prisqu was ------- ------ above sea level and it was bmlt .about, _


hundred ye.ars ago lo accommcidate the priisainers -taken in th'e war wi.tllj ixa.poleon. -I-t w-a^s afterwaiids olosejd tor, a. time but was re-opened in 1830 as a government factoTV for the ex-tiraction ot napth.a. out of peat. It .was now a Goveitnmeint factory for the extraction of normall manhood out of coov vict human niature and both had been un- succe-ssfiil. Dartmoor was again closed un­ til 1851 when it was re-o-pened tor wti.at it was at 'the present time, the largest m the three long term penal settlements, ratere were at present, roitgh'ily six'aknig, aliout sixteen hundred men im Dartmoor. 7.''*-'''''- were no women in the prison or asesmaated with the prison in any ca.pacity. He n.is •not a suffra'gotitc but-n.ollhing condennvtid tne pri.son as a roformatoty in hns eyes more Kan t o fact. 'Hieie were tiwu«...ids ^ men who would nei-er lx- refornuxl 111 this


world w'.t'hout the in-nuence ci women. No man went to Dar,lm<:icr for less dun fn-e rears and no ma,n, practi.ca.lly sire.aking,


went there for more than 20 years U.wl "ervltivde fi.'r life did nnt mean_w.luit it s.ial. .•itude' was a technical soniienii ......irs and if the; _ ■ arks thev would


I’c'iial .sarv;i:ii..'v. ...- - -


all their gi'^vd comluct im oiVlv get fifteen years, or have


uhich meant twenty years .and if the; „.'t ^ <


, 1 • ’•


di.scnunt off their sentencet. (Laughter) 1 fiowoveir, a. jn.lge sent


link* frii- ibe romajnder of ibis life, t . :± , tw k k t s a i d . H e h a d t o e ^ j ;


his sen-ice who were in for • I


n,.ivd serviture, continued thespeas


‘‘ Nex-er too late to mond” he would ask Hhern to believe that the days ^>f


^


cl-iiikiiT' chains, slan’afioii rations, br,uta wi'i-rders'and filthy insanit'a,ti.on. ' ftr-.llv sneaking, gone and g(«x


; AA"ha.tei\-er the


crowded 10 its utmirst capacity on Monday , reform they were „i,™ ..


T iv Clilhoipe AAtoslevan Oluipel was , privation ..» ■ c .,.v ,c . 1 .1 . ,, ,


DairtnKxir’■ was gi-x-en by the Rev. AAx Kingserte Grc'cnlaml, cl' Lnndon. ^ Mr. Jo.s. Blackbiiim, of Crostoii, who presided, said he xx-'a.s delighted to see such a. lui-ge aud’ence and was sure, that many mustliave sacniliced a gixsa,t dea.l to be present. Mr. Groe:n'la.n:d, xvho wa.s accorded a


fiAiintx' reception', said he was^ going to in'.erpte.t their preseince that night as he would always like his own actions to be initarpreted,— in the Ixst poss'.lJle seaiise. He thought It showed they lia.d a grexat belief in and. love for the Sunday school. Proceediii'g he said he had sex-cirai difficul­ ties lo conteaid xvi.tli 'iiliait niglxt. Firs-t of all, to be perfectly lioiiiest, he xvas afraid


he was t a l l in g 'x x x » « m t e ^ qiiui'L of the En'glsh c ^ • were they werenot on the f


AAhen a ma'n p-teadwl lor ixn'O iilwavs in da.ngeir ot going


' -that they should be giveia^mnne cocoa, more


clothes and more cubic feet« air. did not plead that .the ccinvi.cts should


vj ^


pamixireid and ,petted hut tor Lwe elementary.


lemiiit to cure .i


a-nk'le hv putting a mustard -plaster I w (’Lau'dxteir). On ma-ny occasions


‘r“^ S S » 3 iS S f^ r :i mustard 'Olaatoccasions


---- : .system for not -roCarmiBig the


ihe had wriMen so many staries of Dartmoor ail'd prison for niaigazine's, etc., that somcc timexs he xvas -not sure xxhothier the'slO'We.s 1 a


made ih'ein up. (IvauglhSer). He could promi.se them that, night, hoxvex'or, no fiction but onlv facts, an<l he xvould I'Cy to i;cm- x'ince .them tivait facts xvere more i,iicredible


.than, fiction. Mr. GreeixUand ithenx pro^ ceaded lo relate the I,rouble 'he htid had with the Home Office xx'i.th reference to -the lecture, and s.aid he haxl been told to mind hi.s “ P’s and Q’s.” There xv-as another difficulty and onei xxUxic'h he could ixrt get over. He failed to neccneile the original pri,nci|ples they taught aixmt the oriiginal moral make ot evem' man .and coiwict hum'a,n 'iiiature as he found it. He -entirely failed to bring in,to aii-ytihin-glike recoaiciliatio-n; or lhainmoniw tha-t (xriginnil idetc xx-i-tli the dxvarfed, vitiated, sUinted, imnin.tine and immoral huma.n naliire tha.t he found in pri.son.. Daiiitmoor pri.soin, or r.athfer the 'lititle toxvn,, of I’riiicctoixx'n,, fell xvitliiii. thle arexi of a. ixxrtain, circuit i.ii'_ xxhich he had laboured. Anx- miiUister in the ciirciiiiit


we are forgetting to be simple, to be em could prea.di, In the prison


thusiastic. The economist say.? go hack to the land,


com*


Vheim. ;i di'sciplibiary owq aiih


- j


vict, but he said no such thing, ^ e bhmie^ the sxo^em, not for failing to r e fo rm ^


■ i!'ts but for fai'luig to try to reto T'hesvs,temat.r tmoor was put^ y


,,1


I'-xere xvas not the rnnvicts.


At '’nuxrning, twelve o'clock


't.ii«i.r breakfast, 1.


the man took their ntaiid at the. ^ cells and the w.irders took them thai


,<s llmier and tea. I'or mid tea they got.a. small loaf of^Mc^vn


bread and a littfe tin of cocoa. said that every man xv.ho thought he was not gtliiug his rights could hax'e -the w.i'i'gned and the cocoa mdasur^. at 'rts « ' docir a-nd some incxn-iHad theiir -food


up the utter inccmpetence of P'] 'f 1” r ' t* l i


They be


'I'hey could -pos s m P ^ ’ „ iIvit


ducted it. If the men, xvere allowed to | talk there would be collusion, planning and m'jri.ny af.d the result would be that tihe tour lumdred warders would never keep the nien 111 an; thing like order. He was qui,te .a ware there were many regulations in, con- nectioai with tlie prison th.at sounded gener­ ous and humane, but if they were worked out they assumed an- altered complexion. Theire was a regal atioiu which said^ that if a, warder was a,lta.cked by a convict and a.uother convict went to his aid hie would receive a reduction in his seji-tence. AVihon a new man went into prison, those who were .seeking an opjxirtuiiity -to get their sen­ tence reduced, “ egged ” him on, to attack


'll wa,rder, saying thev would .all rusli to his a.ssistanco. What actually ha.pirwied was, that when' the man struck the warder they at r.nc'i fell upon their fellow convict and afterwards sent in a claim for a reduction of sentence for the assistance they had ren­ dered. If they drove to the prison oar a Sunday maroing they would meet a large


It would lx> very pleasant to


‘iiumbeir of men, in, blue jackets with red collars. Those men were within a year of libertv. They would also notice that several of the men were growing a beard. That me.a.nt that they .were, within three nrontlrs of being released. The Goveni- ment allowed a man to grow a beard wiicir lie had only three montihs to seiwe so that he woulid h.ave a chance of obtaining em­ ployment. A tickeit-Df-leave man, liow- evor, could not get work in England. He iTOirld g'lve a thousand ixmnds to anyone in that audience wiho succeeded in obteiiii- i'lig a permaiienit situation for a. ticket-of- leaa'e man, a,t tirade union wages'. Some time a,go Mr. Svlvester Horne scar-t a. man to him who ha,d bVen, in Da.rlmoor six years. Tlio man was a jonriinlist and ha.d a wife and two diildreni. The man was willing -to do anv kimd of work and he (the spmker)


they sank into a nervous and bodily death. He was prepared to say that any man who had endiiirod fifteen or sixteen years penal servitude was, as a rule, never again capable of taking complete cliarge of 'his life. Wduu was the effect of the system on the men wlio endured it? In every co'iivict system there were two classes which they would call A and B. Roughly speaking the A class w.a.s 25 per ceii't and the B class 75 per celnt. If they would remlember tiae features of these two classes t'hey would ha.ve the key ot the situation in their own. possession. They must not nm away witli the idea that the Go\-eniimeint recognised those classes. Thie A class consisted ,of cleiigymeoi, la,w\-ors grex'ors, architect.s, dra-ix-'rs, and artisa.ns of even- k’uul who liad broken, the law ol England, but they had one great feature iiii common, they were none of them crimimal boaai. They wore ordi.iiaxy men who iin the stress of temptation had broken the l.a.w. The A class m.a.n was the tragedy of Dart­ moor because it ruined him. What alx>iit the B class men? This there any person present that niglit who waiated to tell him that all men were Ixmlii wi.th the same moral


'Start in li.fq? He did m':V; beliex-e it for one moment. Every pri,soiner in Dartmoor that ni|gli,t was more in n.ee'd of a doctor tlian a m agist ra.te. He ha.d no patience with I'hcti.r English magistrates who got their J.P.’s, .not because of their knowledge of the law, but becaii.se of -the service they had rendered to their political party, .and yet i.t was Into the han-ds of those men. thait .they committed their criminals. The men- in Daritmaar ^wanted someliody to humaaiise


asked several of li-i.s friends a.nd emplcyors I Balliingtoii Booth of the Salva.tion Army.


of labour to find him ,\\-ork but he could not find a.nvhcdy who would' oni-ploy him. Finally h e . wrote a letter to the “ Daily Nows ” asking for some moiiex- for the man and live rea,dors sent j£lo\ The man- was sent to Canada and he was now reporting in the g.a,llery of the House of Commons. C.a.nada h.ad given h-im what they in E.ng-


them. Y'lho was the greatest prison chap. Iain in the world at the present rime? There wen.; mainv wlvo had d.oiie a great de.ail among tih-a- men, but there was one person who ha.d doiae more fw th." convicts of the xvorld t.ha.11 a,iiv othcir and 'tha,t was Mrs.


(A] i,phiii.se). The Rev. W. R. Catlyon said Mr. Gteen-


Inind had i.nformed him that ho desdre'd no vote of 'tha.nks. .He wa.s sure Mr. Green, land would ue\-er forget h-is \’i.sit to Clitlv e,roe and he was also sure ithat the congre- gati.on would never forgdt It. He thought thie gathtiring that night would assure Mr.


land would not give him-a'second chance, j Greenliind that his visit had Ireear highly Thev were .alwa.vs .talking a,bout giving a ! appreci.atod. (A.pplause).


man a second chance but the;’ never gave it. He Avas speaking to a bank ma.nagcr


the other xx’eek and he said they had three himdrqd branches in, the country and if a man made a. false on,try or mi.stake. of an; kind thev never forga.x’e him.. Some time ago a. x-ery gentlcma.nly look­


ing man- xx'ent -to'him a.nd said he. had been . in Durham gaol and lae a.sked him to lin.'l | him some xx’ork tn do. Tihle man sai.d ha , had worked in the Council o.fiice for a. cc'-- j tain town ami it was ith-roiigJi 'taking moixy | that, he was sent lo gaol. Ffe had l.xeen ill iirismi three vears a-nd bnoxving hcixv in- he (M:f. Greeniland) was in. th.a.t


Mr. Greeii'hinii then announced that the


total cnllectinns (inc'Iuding Sunid.ay’s offer- torie.sA, in a.id of the Sunday school, amounted to £90. (.Applause).


SAEDEN. SHORT' TIME.— In consequence of the


slackness of trade, Cobcleii and ATetoria Mills were slojipecl on Saturday and Mon


day. FOLICING.— As a result of the .Parish


xxhein he h,a,d spoken on- ithat subject ® said he had Mamed the E'nghsh convict


kind of thing he thought he xvoiild ark h.ini to do something for h-ini. Fie told the man that he had done wrong in coming to faindon I>ecau.se it xvas x-ery ha.rd to find wiirk for a ticket-O'f-lea.x'e man. I he man said he ha.d seix'oral Icitters with lum and Innuled them to him. One xvas from 'the Clerk to the Boanl, another from the Clerk io the Magistrates and there xvas also one fro',11 a AA''esley;in ministler. He.never read such ;iina/,ing letters in ailll his life. Tliey raid the mail' xx’as xvarth.y of trust ^but the; did not repose it in him ; they salt him lo someone eilse. He daitel not and could not defend a'lix' laxx'less a-cit that a tickeit-of- leax'e man might'do, but he ofteiii xx'ondored xvha.t some of th-em xvould do in. tii'eir place. Suppose thev ivad been' in prisoiij for six, sex-en, or tcr!i yrtirs and there xvas nothing for them Lo do when they came out, xx'oiild they sta-rve'? Everybody beliex-ed in gi-x’ing the men soincfhin'g to do but nobody xx'ould find them xvqrk. Pract-ic.a'Ily 'the iron, hiixv xvas “ once doivn-, alxvays doxxai.” AAlhat xx'as :thte effect of penail ^awitude ai- the mem. xx’ho administered 'it ? He promised !Mr. .-Akers Douglas xvhen he xx'as Home Secro- ta-rv that he xvould newer say again in pub­ lic' 'tha.t Dartmoor warders xvfere the most driMiiken men loo ever kiiax'. (Laughter). If anv of the convicts tried to escajie, the warders nearest to him xx'ould at once covei him with their muskeits. They were obliged to di-a.llengc him three times and if he did not stop then, they riiot at him. Thelaxx, howex'er. said th'ev must .not kill him, they ha,d onlv to ” whig ” Ihiin. Tf by ardde,nt tib'ev did' kill him, xvelll, he xvas only a con- viri and 'they had a,lxv.a;-s the excuse .of the amateur pholograpihcr for a blnrr— .’‘ Atou see he mox'ted.’' (I.aug'hter). Sex’era.l of tlie wa.rders xx-ere his persumil Criemds and he was nO't maligning all of thorn. He held that aiiiv svE.tem th'at demciiiallsed the mem xvho carried it out wa.s a xyrong sySteim, just as Kti .Ivdlcl as au economic theory 11ha,t any article that could .not be nianufa.ctiir<.id W'iiih the iinevitaWe deimaralisa.lion of tliose who manufactured it, ought iicit to be manu­ factured at all. Any kiiawledge of the D.artmoor wa.rdar would shoxv tha.t the s;s- tem he assisted in carrx'lng out demorailised. him. A warder w-.is given- thirty men, who were al».sohile-ly diffeiWnit from etR’li ot.her. i One might lie a young office l>oy ol 11 line- ,


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Connell’s (•oiiiplaiiils iiiacle to the Chief Conslahlo of the County, an additional oifioer lias been clraftccl from Padiham by P.C. James Berry becoming stationed at Thorn Street. (hATMIOldC SCHOOL.—-Oil Saturday


K) iiieinhers of the. Cuild assembled at 4-‘ir> a.m., and xxerc conveyed in a wagonette to Bliiekburii Station, xvliere they entrained for Preseot, and xx’erc me by the Rev. Fr. Bcauelerk, and enter­ tained and shoxvn round the distriet TTiey arrived home early on Sunday morn ing,' after a most enjoyable day. The juveniles of St. lAlary, niimhering 2.'i, met at tlie .school about 1-30 in rather unfavourable xveather, for the North Round ill xvagonettes by xvay of AATiallcy,


retuiniiig by Paclihaiii. GARDEN PART’Y.— To augment the


funds of the foitheomiiig ba-/.aar in con­ nection with the AA'cslcyan chapel, a garden party xvas held in the beautiful grounds adjoining the sacred edifice on Satui'clay. At the opening cci-emony, xvhich took place in front of the chapel, the Rev. Harvey Field, superintendent minister of the cirouit, jn'csidcd, and Miss Hindlc, xvith an appropriate speech c.\- pi’csscd in graceful tcrnis, opened the ])roeccdings. In eonsequenee of the un­ favourable weather, the tea, xvhieh should have been served in the grounds, took place in the school, and the games, etc. whieli should have taken i>lacc in the evening in a meadow lent by Mr. R. Hindlc, J.P., xx-crc abandoned. Instead, an entertainment took place in the school xx'lien x'oeal iteiii.s were eapabl;' rcndcicd by Miss A. RadelifTc, Mrs. Tuiinielifl'e, and Mc.ssrs. AAh Burton and H. Gibson. Mr. MiKon Holgale aeeompanicd, and clociitioiuu-y eontributions xvere given by Miss Clara Jackson. The event xvas very xvell patronised.


AVHICH IS T’HE b e s t EXERCISE'/ Dr. J. Papst Blake, a pliysician xvho lias


made exercise and sports a life-long study, puts xvalking at the head of the list of a 1 ' exercises. Golf, ho says, is the host all-


competitive game for all ages and fjexcs • roxving by no, nicaiis deserves


teen xvhoihaxl l;iken .;£.So, li'll’V mitencl-in" lO vemitatioii it has xvon of dividing pay it back, and luiother might ® t,itlc of “ most dangerous of sport ” devil, soaked m dr ink and-iidltinitiss, xxiithout |


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and mPt„sured ex’ery d-ay. They Inclined to a.sk xv-hy they dhd l-hali. The; ■ did it to reliex-e the monotony and xxwnnes of the life they lix’-ed and to cr^te DOMhirt, in lhe.nat,ur,eot a .diversion. Those' p re ]* lhaf night had not the ta,intest idea xx hat penal se.rx-iitude xx’as like with its et,emn:


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silence. The Roya.l Commission ’s'lt over and ox’or again' mi that questiioii Km in n<tst immea.siired terms condemni^ tne sDlli-tu.de of their preset system.. .There ro'iuhations that allowed' c^am first


pastoral oversight of tJxe N^C^fcxrmirt ; 77.35^,^- for the system as they noxv conr conxiicts xx'ho 'desiTed his mmi'^tr,a/tions. If


E?!.,srSh D ~ '»<l 1»«l « * s ' ?'»»“& but silence xx-as


Da-rtimoor for tlxe first time h'c saxv tlie mc^t p.athieitic cangnegsition he hhd eyer seen. He had never ackkes,sad a. orimi-nal coii- aregatioiT Before— so far a.s he knexv. - (Daughter). Before Ite men xvere se.rit to Dartmoor tli'ev x\-oiie kept in . Pentonviiile prison, Lbfidon', for' nine months. Penal samiitude dfestrpy.ed the free will of. men and


ni" <l«ng» m all


xxHho had anything to say for the system he sport is, of .course, the ih'dped.to <;a,ny out. AViaen lie wen't to —


evci-y thing- else to a' desire to xvin. He states that housework is, for both men and xvomcn, the cleaning and dusting, sxvceping, bcclihaking, and oven cooking, the saxving and splitting xvood, cate of a furnace and oarpcntei’ing, the best of all indoor activities.. Laxx-n tennis he permits to-xx’omen. Bicycling , he hopes xvill . keep


He its popularity j : : » : s i - j s football; and the Marathon running, ANNUAL OUTINGS. Th.e membeirs of the. choir a,t the United


AIotho,dist Church', Moor La-iie, .numbonng 24, had their aimual outing on, Saturday, the place visited being Souitiapoct. 'Hie it.iirty, who left Cllitheroe by the 1-25 p.mi. train, alighted at Chiurchtoxvai, and spent a short time in the Botanical Gardens. Uu the way from Churchtowai to Southport, FleskeUi Bark xvas x-isited. 'The time at id'isposail in Southport xvas si>ent m various days and the party, who xvere favoured xyitli spiciidid weather, had a pleasant outing. Home was reached Shortly after elevetii o'clock, .the return journey being commenced


about nine. Uiufavounible xx'cialher initeiiered cou-


siderablv with the enjoyment of the. mem­ bers ol'lhe choir at the I’ .arislx ^Church xx'hen thev had their amnual trip on Saturday to Langxvalhbv, for Benrith. Oiv arrival at Lang.waitiih’y the party, numl>ering over 60, x\'*eire met By char-a-ibancs and drix en to


Benrilh, xvhere liinoheon xviis proxided at the Agricultural Hotel. They afterxxairds xvent bv chaT-,;i.-b.aincs to BoOley Bridge'and .theiiT sailed doxvn Lake, Ullswater to 1 atteri* . dale; where they stayed a,bout three hours. Rain d'escaided in torrents at tho^ latter, place and .the party xvere unable to visit the vairious phi.ces of interest In the district. Oil returning to Btnirlth they sat doixxn' to a substaintial repast at the Agricultural Hotel The par,tv commesTced thb journey home by tJxe nine’ o'clex-k train from Langwaithiby, Clitheroe. being reached about half-|papt


eleven. Chester xvas the place xi,sited by the am-


plovees of the Ollfhero'e Co-oixCTative Soci-eitv xxiho ,had th'eir annual exclusion on, Mraihiy. 'Hie party numbered 25 and the journey was x'ia Lix-erpool, ^ a start being nx’a.de i>x' tihe 7‘^5 a.111. train.. The party then went aicrc.ss to Birken'head and eintrainiid tor Cihteter. xxihiich was re-ac-hetl at ahon-L elex-tm o'clock. Diraier xviis served at the Bull and Stirrup Flotel, and a sail on Ihe Dae to Eaton. Hall xvas after- w;iimls indulged In.. On returning to Ches­ ter the various p,laces of interest in the ancient citv xveire visiiad and cn crossin,g ox'er to Li.x-erpool the ]na,iity se,])a.rated. and folloxx-ed their own. im'liiia.'tions until train -tiiiiie. During the reitiini' journey a vote of thanks was [zasseil to the committee and nv.xmbers of the Society for the gr.ant the;- liad iiKid-e towa,rds the cost of the outing.


NEAA^ YORK’S QUICK LUNCHES) I xvatched the ci'oxvd in ouc of these


woudertul rcstaui-ants for a full hour ono afternoon. In that brief time hundreds— aye, thousands— must have been fed, if the xvord can be employed, ill this con ■ nection. The visitor rushes in as if a : horde of creditors were after hiiii,lie orders xvhatever he xx’ants, and hey; presto! it is before him sooner than you can say “ Jack.” If you xvaiit to say “ Ja»k Robinson” you xvill ho too late, for by .


.that time the lunch xx-ill have disappeared and the cater also. The entiro operation . can he summed up as folloxvs : A plunge ; into tho restaurant, a clatter of crpckcryf ,, several .eouvulsive jerks from the plate . j to moutlUon .the part of the diner, a scurry for the door, and all’s over !— . J Harry Lauder in “ Tit-Bits.” . ., , '


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P. S. A. Mr. Joseph Brogdeai occupied the chair


-at the xveekly meeifmg on Sunday. -Moor Lane Chaipd'choir had charge of the sang- ing and under tlxe Ileadorsh-ip of Mr. J. AA'? H.a,;hurst gave an excellent programme. The eht’ ir reiixdered the anthem Sing a son" of p,raise,' the solo a.nd chorus He wiirtake care of vou,’' and Miss E Houlker tastefuliv sang the solo ''The Beautiful Ciitv of 'Rest..' Mr. Gw. D.avics, of Bob Ion, the spca.keo', told the secretar;’ tli.at he know no P.S.A. where men, lihowed a greater intorest in the xvords of the speaker than CllitlK.'roe. In the course of hi.s a.dd«7is Mr. Davies said: I’rolhors of the I’ .S.A. movement, it gives me. i»lcasure to pay you aivolher visit and find you still active, rhom.as Carlyle said the iCligion of a man


lies at the foundation of h-'.s life. ^ The qi'.....Mion is what do we mean by religion. Some nie.i's idea is they can do wha.t the; like if tliev can o-nJy offer a. sop to God. If we would know xvh;i.i re;il religion is we shall go to the text hcK.'k. 'I'he great text liook is the Bible, :iiiid tlieTe is no mistake ;tbout the ethical value of tJie Bible. TTie prophet Lsaiah tells us to be the right kind of men avc must do jii.slly, love mercyj aud walk humbly. Ha.ve you ever thouglit xxihat it woitl’d be in our land if xve wer.e to do justly. 1 am not siiewkiii" politically but is not the great troulrle that mai hold iiossessions and are not jrreip.ared to act in justice to their felloxv men. AAto must also love mercy. Some men never learn to lox'e mercy. The man xv-ha is not pr^ iiflired to he merciful cannot be etuiacail. The speaker here quoted from Sha.kespeare s “ Merchant of A^'enice,” xvhete he says, ■ ^Merev blesses him that gives and h».m that takes.” Jesus said “ Blessed are the merciful.” In justice and mercy vou h.ave 'txx’o great e'lemetits in. thfe foundation of all ■ sochiil .Teforni,. There must also bo. humilit-y in a strong ethical character. How man;_ xv.rriii."s .hax-e Iteeax committed by avain.ee. Youfxave all read of .Alo.xander the Great. Is there anv grefatness in lusting for the dcs- trurtion of your fellow meai ? Ihc more nu rex’eirence God the more you xvtll rexer- em-e what God has created. There are crimes ..which w.oiilld never take place had m-in re.verelnco in their hearte. If tli© outcome of vour meeting here is that yrai ire better faitlhers, husliands, brothers, woi'kme.n, then vou can stand all ixerse,cu­


rie'll. If xve hax-e the tlxiiigsl have named drall have 'the Christlike (-.h'aixirter and


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