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MAY 15, 1S96. THE CHURCH WEEKLY. 363 It is veterans well to' know the opinions of such as Mr. Bemrose upon the legislative aspect of the temperance question at this moment. His opinions are weighty, as the representative of a body of public opinion which had a great influence upon the last General Election, when the hon.

rrentleman defeated Sir William Harcourt, the champion of Local Veto or Prohibition, at Derby. There are directions in which he hoped legislation I is completed in the new find. The world may same period, probably between 500 and 600 A.D., and that the size of the columns and pages is identical. The evidence, however, now goes much further. The Patmos and the other piges are missing, and the first of the Patmos pages begins with the latter half of a word with which one of the newly found MS- pages end, while the last of the AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Pathos pages with half of a word which JiSIS London. Local Government Board have called upon the St. Olave's Board of Guardians to make a full report as to their reasons for suspending Miss Marian 1 sped that for six was suspended on the ground of niiht move at an early date. For instance, said therefore now be congratulated on the recovery of was- sus penaea on xne una i VL nn, nf fi.ocf nninf rst general incapacity, disobedience, and want of co- Mr. Bemrose, there could not be two opinions as to prohibiting the supply of intoxicants tochildren.

"The abstainer, the moderate man, aye, the drunkard himself ought to be in favour of such a IJill." Then there was the vexed question of Sunday closing, for which, either in a partial or entire degree, the time he thinks is ripe. He does not expect total closing There must be certain hours set apart wherein the working man can one of the finest, probably from the point of view of caligraphy, the finest specimen of the Gospel ever written. In all Gibbon's fascinating history there is no more graphic scene than that which tells of the visit of the Persian Embassy to the Roman Emperor Carus. The Persians, magnificently arrayed, could hardly believe their eyes when told obtain his ordinary refreshments, and a Bill of that a soldier, seated on the grass, a coarse woollen this kind should commend itself to whose who garment of purple the only sign of his dignity, believe in the sanctity of the Sabbath day as well and eating his supper, composed'of a piece of stale as to those who desire to lessen the working hours of the labouring classes. Such a Bill would be a Rome and the master of the world.

Nor was his practical measure, and would meet a very common discourse out of keeping with such simple sur- operation with the Visiting Committee. As to the want of co-operation with the Visiting Committee, Miss Evans makes the following observations It has not appeared to me advisable or conducive to efficiency or discipline that individual members of the Visiting Committee should take tea in a nurse's duty room and keep her from her patients; or that members of the Committee should be smoking in the nurse's sitting-room at midnight: or that young nurses and probationers should go to smoking-concerts (even though Guardians and officers of the infirmary were present) bacon and a few hard peas, was the Emperor of and unU1 midni ht 0 that nurses should have a general pass to remain out until 1 1 i demand at the present moment." Marshall Memorial roundings. Taking off a cap which he' wore to conceal his baldness, Carus told, the Ambassadors that unless their master acknowledged the Institute at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, the superiority of Pome, he would speedily render Bishop of Lincoln, after formally accepting the Persia as naked of trees as his own head was of building, said: hair. It is possible the country of the late Shah, Me understood that the main object of the beautiful with its ancient cities, might have been as utterly erased from the earth as was Carthage, had not a flash of lightning struck the Emperor dead. The Romans looked upon this as a sign from Heaven gift was to provide a place for the innocent relaxation of young men.

This was what they wanted as much as anything the present day. It was a day of strain, and must be so. Competition was not merely between linn and firm in the same city, nor between cities in the same country, but it was a race on which all civilised nations had entered. That must require strain, and demanded that our young men should pull themselves together and do their best for their country's honour if they were to hold up the flag of England. They saw how the strain was beginning to tell.

Why did he observe in the busiest places in Lincoln they had been taking up the stones and putting down wood pavements? To save noise, to prevent any additional friction and strain upon the over-wrought nerve power of the people. This same explanation applied to the London cab with its india-rubber wheels. He referred to the use of bicycles as those marvellous instruments that sometimes look to me like a plague of flies, those wonderful, whizzing, whirling things that pass you up and down." Why is it you see pneumatic tyres To save the jar. The day demanded that they Should husband their nerve power as much as possible, for upon the nerve power depended so much of a man's efficiency in work. They had therefore to recognise the need of relaxation, not merely as though it was an idle time, or pastime, but as a necessity to those who were working the hardest.

This Institute was to be a place for innocent relaxation. His heart felt for young men toiling hard all the day, and when in the evening they got an hour fpr relaxation, it must be a great temptation to Ko anywhere. They knew what that too often meant. That institution exactly met the case. Men wanted an opportunity for relaxation and to be safeguarded from all those temptations which crowded upon the man when he went into a public-house or drinking hall.

He was sure the games in that institute would be freed from that miserable epidemic, that worst kind of social disease, the curse of betting and gambling. They would also have pure literature. He hoped that such gifts as that institute, were typical of what would be increasing in the country. In olden times people gave of their wealth to the Church, that wealth being the land. They taxed their land with the tithe for their fellow men and the glory of God.

That state of things was passing away. To-day man had laid hold of the hidden forces of the earth. The same principle which provided the gift of the tithe in early days still held good. It was a matter of great" thankfulness and hope when he saw this instance of the dedication of the new form of wealth to God's honour. that the Tigris was the limit of their Empire, while the Persians were overjoyed at the retreat of the victorious enemy.

lhe Daily News Constantinople correspondent I find that my account of the finding of the new M.S. of the Gospel near Cecsarea has attracted considerable attention, and especially in Continental newspapers, I may add the following MQ SaS com letin the information given MS. has been compared with the leaves which exist at Patmos, and which are admitted to belong to the same superb copy of the Gospels as those found in the British Museum, in the Vatican, and in Vienna, and are known as Codex N. The comparison leaves no doubt on the minds of the experts who have made it that the newly louncl MS. is the gospel from which, probably many centuries ago, these leaves have been taken.

An examination made by a Russian expert here, iw At LON of Robert College, shows that the colour of the dark red the same, that the letters, silver throughout except sacred names, which are in gold, are of the 11,30 p.m. We learn from the Toynbet(Record that the White- chapel Art Exhibition has this year been even more successful than in previous years. No fewer than 63,208 persons visited the exhibition during the nineteen days it was open. This is the sixteenth time that East Londoners have justified the labonr and cost of organising these exhibitions by their keen appreciation of the beauty thus brought to their doors. It is every year proved that the working people of East London are not so untutored that they do not feel the influence of art.

There was the usual vote for the best pictures, but the Committee do not think that the vote is the earn that the Sultan of lurkey is much accuratetestoflhe preference of the EastLondoners disquieted by the assassination of the Persian sovereign, nor is this much to be wondered at, since for many years Sultan Abdul Hamid II. has been in continual dread of a violent death, owing to the discontented elements amongst his own subjects. It is only the religious sentiment, the belief in the Sultan as the. head of the Mohammedan faith, that has saved him from the criminal attempts of his It is no secret in Turkey that the party of the young Turks and the chiefs of the Babist movement which has proved fatal to the Shall, are in favour of an attempt on the life of the Sultan should an opportunity offer itself, the general opinion 1 being that it is only the extraordinary precautions adopted by the Sultan, and the wonderful fidelity of his Albanian and Nubian guards, which have helped hitherto to preserve his life from the hands of the assassin. Knowing the fatalist doctrines embraced by followers of the prophet, we confess to a little surprise at the nervous fear displayed by the Sultan.

that it was intended to be. The Committee value far more the quiet expressions of liking for some beautiful landscape or noble subject-picture which one could not fail to overhear whenever from room to room among the people." As OTHERS SEE US An American paper is generally supposed that the Church of England is the biggest thing of a religious sort in England. And yet the fact was brought out at the Free Church Congress held in Nottingham that "Dissent" in three of its connections alone, namely, the Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist denominations, provides accommodation for seven millions of people, a much larger provision than the total accommodation afforded by the Anglican church. The three denominations just referred to provide in their Sunday schools for 3,100,000 children, while the Anglican church provides but for 2,700,000. THE SECOND READING OF THE EDUCATION The Royal Naval Reserve Officers have lately Much parliamentary talking took place when Sir held their sixth annual meeting at the St.

George's John Gorst, the Vice-President of the Education Club, Hanover-square. The chief guest was Mr. Department, moved for the second reading of Goschen who, in his speech, referred to the fact the important Bill for which he had made himself that one hundred officers had just been taken from responsible. The speech of the Vice-President the ranks of the Royal Naval Reserve to serve in was of a mild and conciliatory nature, and it set the executive branch of the force consist- forth clearly the salient and contentious features ing of 24000 well-tried men on whom the nation of his measure. Sir John Gorst pointed out that could rely when their services were needed.

These there were four great problems to be solved as men consisted partly of sailors employed in to put our system of public education, primary and distant sea-going ships, and partly of those secondary, on a satisfactory basis. The first employed in coasting vessels and fishing-smacks; requisite was to devise some means by which the and would help to man the Royal Navy in case of education generally given in Voluntary schools emergency. Speaking the same evening at a Primrose and the poorer Board schools could be, raised to the same standard as that given in the best Board League meeting, Mr. Goschen told his hearers Schools. The next need was to replace the that the present Pailiament was the most good- School Board system in rural districts by a less humoured one in which he had ever sat.

Party cumbrous and expensive one. The third problem was to do away with the conflicting and overlapping authorities that were at present endeavour- passion seemed to be very subdued if not completely hushed; and the one desire was to decide on the best measures to pass for the good ing to deal with advanced and technical education, of the nation, without making vast and reckless Finally, a process of decentralisation had to be constitutional changes. carried out so that the Education Department might attend to the exercising of control over The spread of public interest in the lifeboat matters of broad principle, and not have to deal movement is very gratifying. As Lord Rose- with the mass of detail involved in teaching each bery very truly says, if the crews who man the boats find the heroism, the country ought to find school separately. These were the four great principles of the Bill, and all the rest would be the money.

Last year the sum of £16,800 was matter of detail, the most contentious part of it raised throughout the country, and handed over to the Lifeboat Institution, and there is every prospect of an increased sum being raised on future occasions. There is every need for a substantial increase, as the expenditure of the Institution last year exceeded the income by some being concerned with the special aid to be given to Voluntary and poor Board schools. Sir John Gorst did not defend the special grant of 4s. per scholar as being sufficient to carry out fully the "levelling up" process, but it was a beginning, and the attempt would be carried further if it.