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YORK DIOCESE'S NEEDS. COMMISSION'S REPORT. THE draft of the Report of the Com- mission of Inquiry into the needs of the Diocese has now been practically settled," writes the Archbishop of York in this month's York Diocesan Gazette. It will be submitted to a special meet- ing of the Diocesan Board of Finance on | December 4. It gives, for the first time, a full estimate of the requirements of the Church in the diocese as regards build- ings, living agents, and' above all, the incomes of the clergy.

SPIRITUALISM & EVIDENCE INTERCOURSE WITH THE DEAD. BISHOP WELLDON preached at Durham Cathedral on Sunday, and said that per- haps the most remarkable amongst the spiritual consequences of the war was the desire of so many pious souls for communion with the dead. It was so natural and so powerful a human in- stinct a.s to be almost irresistible in a time of universal bereavement. Was there, therefore, a possibility of intercourse between the living and the dead? They knew that the dead were still living. They knew that they had entered into a large and better life, but could th'ey tell us anything about that life, even so much as could assure us by personal message that they were still alive? Spiritualism was in itself not irreligious or unchristian. The enemy of religion and Christianity was not Spiritualism. It was materialism. If to live after death was but a dream, then indeed was religion a folly; but if the spirit'of man survived the experi- ence which was called death, if it did not die, but entered upon a new life, then at least it was possible, Many Difficulties, There were many difficulties and many improbabilities attached to the alleged spiritualistic phenomena. There qvas the suspicion and even there had been the discovery of fraud in some of them. There was a condition of darkness which hot unnaturally created distrust. It was not easy, at least for him, to believe that if somebody who had been very dear to them were able and willing to make a communication to him from the spiritual world he would need to call in the agency of a medium. Whether or not there were appearances after death must rest wholly upon evidence, and he held that the evidence was so consider- able, so independent, and so difficult of explanation, even if it .were assumed to be untrustworthy, that the candid jnind would yield at least a provisional assent bo the theory that such communications as between the living and the dead were not unworthy of belief among individual Christians and the Christian Church. When he came to what was called spiritualistic phenomena., he did not be- ieve he was able to take the same favourable view. If he was to believe in ;he reality of such communications there nust be evidence stronger and better than had been afforded by Spiritualists heretofore.,

THE CHANGING OUTLOOK SLUMS AND EPIDEMICS. PREACHING at Ashton-under-Lyne last Sunday in the parish church," the Bishop of Manchester referred to the develop- ment of municipal work and the new character it was commencing to assume. The duties of the councils in the past had been chiefly remedial. A great change was coming over the scene, he said. Many things they used to attri- bute to the mysterious providence of God" were, they had discovered, due to their own ignorance, blunders and stu- pidity. They had discovered that small- pox, diphtheria, and phthisis need not decimate their slums, and they had, in fact, found that there need be no slums at all. They had discovered that preven- tioh was better than cure. Their views on political economy were changing, but even if they had a new political economy and wealth were distributed equally and kept so, there would remain spiritual starvation, and this would wreck the new social order. There was no founda- tion for the brotherhood of man except the fatherhood of God. The alliance be- tween spiritual and temporal forces must be closer and not looser than heretofore. Dr. Knox spoke thus when preaching on the occasion of the official attendance of the Mayor and Corporation.

PRAYER FOR IRELAND. THE World's Evangelical Alliance have arranged three great public gatherings on Tuesday, December 2, at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m., on behalf of Christians in Ireland, anxious and dis- tressed on account of the Home Rule pro- posals which the Government will shortly formulate. This is a matter which con- cerns English as well as Irish Christians, and we trust readers in the country, as well as in towns, will personally support and stimulate interest in these timely gatherings. They will be of an entirely spiritual character. A deputation will Come from Ireland, and will include the Archbishop of Armagh, the Very Rev. Dr. Henry Montgomery, and others. The morning and afternoon gatherings will be held in the Queen's Hall, Langham-place, and the evening meeting in the Great Hall of the Church House, Great Smith- street, Westminster. Admission will be free. Reserved seat tickets can be ob- tained from Mr. Henry Martyn Gooch, General Secretary, World's Evangelical Alliance, 19, Russell-square, W.C. 1.

THE REV. C. J. CHESSHIRE, having through ill-health relinquished the cenior curacy of Great Malvern, which he has held for four years, the Vicar, the Rev. A. Linzee Giles, has presented him, on behalf of the parishioners, with a cheque for X140.

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