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REMARKABLE WELSH CHURCH SERVICE. NONCONFORMIST IN CASSOCK AND SURPLICE. WHAT may prove to be an epoch-making service was held in the Parish Church of Llanfaelog, Anglesey, on October 30, to dedicate a,new organ, and a tablet in L memory of thirty young men from the y parish who made the supreme sacrifice during the war. The dedication service was impressively rendered by the Rev. Canon Warren Trevor, M.A., the venerable Rector of the parish. Addresses were given hy the Rev. J. Wynne Jones, M.A., of Llantrisant (sometime Vicar of Carnarvon), :and Mr. S. J. Evans, M.A., Headmaster of the Llangefni County School. The Rev. Thomas Charles Williams, M.A., the Ex- Moderator of the Welsh Calvinistic Metho- dists of North Wales, robed in cassock and surplice, then ascended the pulpit and delivered a most powerful bilingual sermon, based on St. Matt, xxiii. 19. During his sermon the reverend gentleman paid a warm tribute to the old Church of the Kymry, and admitted that he considered it a great, privilege to be allowed to preach from one of its sacred pulpits. He prayed and hoped that that memorial service at Llanfaelog Church would open a new and bright epoch in the history of religion in Wales.

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WORLD HISTORY, —4-— LORD BRYCE'S LECTURE. THE Royal Society's room in Burling- ton House was crowded by a most dis- tinguiehed company that assembled to hear the inaugural Raleigh Lecture by the most erudite of modern historians. Lord Bryce is to many a Ulysses who has seen many men and cities, and has managed to get behind the minds of com- munities and individuals. The American Ambassador said that his word in the States is law," and both Sir F. G. Ken- yon, president of'the British Academy, and Mr. Herbert Fisher, an old pupil, spoke of him as a seer who has done great things, and a worker who never touches any subject without making it gold. Lord Haldane listened -eagerly to every word of an address which lasted for more than an hour and a quarter, and no one felt the time hang heavy, although the thought of the lecturer was compact and the sweep of his argument all-embracing. Lord Bryce said that in the twentieth century we' recognise that the human family has one home, the world, land that what affects any community reacts at least on nine-tenths of humanity. World history may mean the annals of man- kind displayed in their correlation with one another, or it may imply a philo- sophic outlook displaying the various ten- dencies that universally work in men at all times and places. The father of his- tory, Herodotus, was a world historian who was not only a writer but a great traveller who had a marvellous literary gift. He saw what has often be-sn for- gotten, that geography and history are inseparable, and so he was not only the parent of history, but .was also the father of geography. To-day we may either write the biography of mankind or pre- sent the psychology of soul. Freeman saw how the phenomena- of men's ten- dencies interacted; the most learned Englishmen of our days set to work to write the History of Liberty. We now know that liberty may not be the deepest spring of action, and as we look out on the world we observe movements that, like prairie fires, are best observed from a distance. Economic changes have worked strange alterations in world life, but when we look deeper we perceive how human life is really one, and that there is a crystallisation of common fluids that cannot fail to be noticed. Fusion of., Peoples. He' reviewed the history of prehistoric man, whose passing over into civilised 'communities has never been fully ex- plained. We find in history grounds to show us that there has been a change from the many to the few in nations and languages. 'The armies of Xerxes were composed of fifty-five nations; to-day in those districts there are only seven. The languages they spoke were at least fifty, and to-day only twelve or fifteen of them are extant. He showed -how the Celtic, Slavonian and Teutonic groups have be- come fewer. There are three main lines by which the fusion of peoples proceeds- Conquest, Commerce,. and Religion. Of these the greatest was undoubtedly re- ligion. He surveyed the way in which Buddhism spread and its degradation; he outlined the manner of 'the triumph of Christianity, and showed how in Africa Mahommedanism has becoriie a very great power. Mankind, luxuriating in com- fort, believed that the world was growing sb good that we had greatly improved until the war proved that man was the same as he had ever been. If he were asked who were the men that had done most to bring mankind together he would Isay Alexander and Julius Csesar, Buddha, St. Paul and Mahomet, Colum- bus and the still greater Magellaes, 1 Watt and PasietiT, Fresh- Problems. The war presents us with fresh prob- lems. Nineteen-twentieths of the race was involved in it, and the neutrals in some ca-ses suffered more than the com- batants. Prophecy as regards develop- ment is rash, but the conditions brought about by the war will probably result in the reduction of languages to ten in number, of which English will-be the most widely spoken. We run the danger of monotony, but as long as man has the wings. of imagination he may be trusted to employ them. No one can lay down the lines on which nations will develop, and there is no one line that must be followed by all. But what of our moral advance. Has the virtue of our race shone more brightly in recent years ? The complacent dogmatism of pre-war, days has passed", and it is for us to-day to take steps that will put an end as far as human action and planning can to the danger of the recurrence of the tragedy under whose shadow we live and from which follow oonsequences we can- not calculate. We must bring men, to- gether to see their mutual interests lie in the co-operation of all to avoid the calamity of war, ..and the League of Nations affords us the opportunity of so doing. It may be a poor instrument, but it is the best we have, and by following the ideals it enshrines we shall reach a better and brighter future its fax as armed oonflict is concerned.

PULPIT INTERCHANGE. —♦ IMPORTANT LETTERS. IT will be recalled that a few weeks ago we published a letter from the Arch- bishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of Gloucester in regard to the question of interchange of pulpits. The Archbishop intimated that he thought it would be wise to postpone definite action until the question had been discussed at the Lambeth Conference next year. Not un- naturally, many people regretted the delay this involved. The following correspondence has since passed between the Bishop of Nor- wich and nine other Bishops and the Archbishop of Canterbury — The Palace, Norwich. 16th Oct., 1919. YOUR GRACES,—I am writing on behalf of the Bishops of Durham, St. Albans, Manchester, Carlisle, Ripon, Sodor and Man, Bristol, Hereford, and Worcester, to let you know that with all dutiful re- gard we have been not a little distressed by the correspondence which has recently passed between the 'Archbishop of Can- terbury and the Bishop of Gloucester, and by the expressed intention of propos- ing that any step in the matter of our relations to Nonconformists should be postponed till the question has been dis- cussed by the approaching Lambeth Conference. Finding ourselves in accord with the reasons which the Archbishop of Canter- bury states why the question is not one in which the Lambeth Conference can properly prescribe the action that should be taken in our respective dioceses, we venture to submit that the situation created by the letter of the seven Non- conformist Divines with reference to the plan proposed by the Bishop of, Norwich seems to us so full of promise that we feel bound to press upon Your Graces the importance of now welcoming any opportunity of closer co-operation that may arise' from it.—Believe me to be, with all respect, yours very truly, (Signed) B. N ORWIC. Orderly and Harmonious Solution." Lambeth Palace, S.E. 1. 30th October, 1919. MY DEAR BISHOP OF NORWICH,—I can assure you and the other Bishops on whose behalf you write that I have given the closest and most fcareful considera- tion to your weighty letter of October 16th. As I explained in my published letter of August 30th to the Bishop of Glouces- ter I have, after consultation with the Archbishop of York, endeavoured to pre- scribe and follow the course which seems to me to be best calculated to lead to the orderly and harmonious solution of a difficult question which is exercising many minds. With the knowledge before us that next summer the Bishops assembled at Lambeth from all parts of the world are to discuss the whole question of the rela- tion of our Church to non-Episopal Churches, I could not but yield to the anxious desire of many of the foremost members of our Convocation that our provincial debates and possible provin- cial action upon a particular master of administration should follow upon, rather than precede, those wider discus- sions. The personal friendship which I enjoy with several of the eminent Non- conformist Divines who signed on August 29th the published letter to which you direct attention enables me to feel assured that they will under- stand and appreciate that decision, and will in no way suppose that there is on the part of myself or those who are co- operating with me any thought of post- poning indefinitely the settlement of the practical question at issue. Anyone who oares to refer to the debate which took place in our Convocation on July 10, when the whole matter was 'before the Bishops, will find that what I then said at considerable length is altogether in- consistent with such intention (see Chronicle of Convocation, July, 1919, pages 548-553). It was in that debate that you explained the action which you had yourself felt it to be right to take, on the exceptional occasion of a Baptist Centenary Commemoration. And lest there should be any doubt on the matter, I again emphasized "in my introductory sermon to the great Church Congress at Leicester a fortnight ago the obligation which I regard as resting 'upon us that the question should not be shelved or set aside. Most cordially do I appreciate the fraternal Christian spirit which finds expression in the pub- lished letter of the seven representative Free Churchmen. I distinctly believe that it will be helpful to the wise furtherance of the larger unity which we all have at heart that we should follow the order of procedure which we have now recom- inended.-I am, yours very truly, (Signed) RANDALL CANTUAR.

FALLEN MALYERNIANS MEMORIAL SERVICE. A MEMORIAL SERVICE has been held at Malvern College Chapel for Old Mal- vernians who fell in the war. About 2,000 Malvernians took p,art in the war. The number who gave their lives was 435. The address was given by the Rev. Canon S. li. James, of Worcester Cathe- dral, former headmaster of the: College. There was a large attendance of parents and relatives of Old Malvernians from all parts of the country. It is, proposed to erect a permanent war memorial at the college. A suf- ficient sum Of money has, through the generosity of friends of the college, been j obtained to provide education for the sons of the fallen. i,

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