alluring to their practice, as of giving any other representation. Wisely directed, therefore, it may become helpful in the formation of virtuous character, and act in harmony with the teaching and principles of true religion.

ject. Allusion was made by previous lent fifty years ago, this discussion, to speakers to the "Dramatic Reform use a simile of the Bishop of Manchester, Society," the Secretary of which is a "is like the sensation of a breezy day well-known member of the New Church, by the seaside." Scenic representation and which the Bishop has patronized. cannot be in itself either immoral or He repeated in his address the general injurious. It is only when misapplied sentiments given by Mr. Maitland, and made to pander to the lower princiwhose speech he strongly commended. ples of human nature that it is to be During the progress of the Church condemned. The great effort of the Mission in Manchester the Bishop Church should not be the suppression of addressed all the persons connected with the theatre, which is impossible, but its the theatres from the stage of the purification and moral elevation, which Theatre Royal. Alluding to this ser- is possible. It is quite as capable of vice he said: "That opportunity was representing the moral virtues, and not of my own seeking, but one of the secretaries of the Manchester Mission said, 'We think that there is a body of people who ought not to be left out of the Mission, and those are the people engaged at our theatres. Will you come and address them?' Well, I have the courage sometimes of my own opinion, but more frequently I have the courage of my impulses; and when my impulses told me that the thing was a right thing to do, and that if I could bring in any form the message of the Gospel to these people, who perhaps do not always hear, or do not always have it presented to them in an attractive form, it was my duty as the Bishop of the diocese to go. And I must say I was never more amply rewarded. I have on the walls of my drawing-room a work of art of considerable merit that was sent to me by the principal scenepainter of one of the theatres—a watercolour drawing of Manchester Cathedral -as a mark of gratitude to me for the sympathy extended towards him. As I was leaving the stage of the Theatre Royal, the stage manager came to me and clasped me by the hand, and said, Bishop, I thank you for what you have said. You have spoken to me kindly; and if more of you clergy would speak to us poor players kindly, and think of us a little more than you do, perhaps we should be better than we are. A clergyman working in a poor parish wrote to me a few days later to say I had given some little grain of comfort to a première danseuse at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, and that it had helped her to struggle through her duty. He told me of the whole life of this woman, that she was supporting an aged mother and a crippled sister out of her earnings."

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WORKING MEN'S MEETING.-A feature of the Congress is an evening meeting of working men. Efforts are made to secure the attendance of the class for which the meeting is appointed. Tickets to working men are distributed by the local clergy and the heads of manufacturing establishments. Three thousand persons are said to have crowded the Music Hall, and hundreds were unable to gain admission. It is interesting to note the speeches made to the working men of a busy manufacturing town like Sheffield. There was no speaking to the working men as beings of an inferior order; no patronizing of them, or assumed superiority of the speakers. At the same time there was much plain speaking. The Archbishop, who was in the chair, dwelt forcibly on the selfishness of workmen, as manifested in their treatment of the wages question. The Bishop of Carlisle introduced with equal directness the neglect of duty and the extent of scamped work. The tone of his address was in keeping with the New Church doctrine of life, though he failed to point out the close connection between Christian doctrine and the upright discharge of worldly duty. The following was appropriate to the audience: "A correspondent of the Times stated that in his town there were a great many orders from the colonies for edge tools, but they were accompanied by the condition that they should be of American make. He felt a cold chill when he saw that notice, because

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it indicated that the Americans were ornamental case. Mr. Broadfield in a making honest goods at a time when lengthened address dwelt upon the relain England dishonest goods were being tion of the Church in America to the manufactured. Why should they have Church in this country. He enumerso written thus unless the work had ated the names of several of the Ameribeen scamped by the Englishman? can brethren who, from the visit of Mr. There was a meaning in bringing this Zina Hyde to the present time, have subject forward, and he would say if visited England, and dwelt on the adthose who were before him wished to vantages the Church had derived from keep up their reputation they must not their visits. We had been particularly scamp their work. He hoped they interested in Mr. Giles from the knowwould do the best they could, and keep ledge we had of him by his writings up the reputation of Sheffield. He was before he appeared among us. not saying to them what did not apply address prepared by the Committee he equally to himself, because bishops put for adoption by the members of the could scamp their work like working Society, so that it should become the men. Indeed it was easier for the expression of their feelings towards Mr. bishop to do so than for the working Giles. The address was then passed man. The higher they went the easier by the meeting amid strong expressions could they escape their responsibilities. of warm and general sympathy. Take the man on the treadmill, he Mr. Giles in a very feeling speech excould not scamp his work. They pressed his gratitude for the cordial and might depend upon it that in a lower hearty reception he had received. If kind of work, as in a higher, the man his books had expressed any truth that who gives a good day's work, knowing had interested and helped any human that he has a Master in heaven-the man who threw his whole heart and will into the making of a razor, or into the management of a diocese, that was the man who was worthy to be called a man, for he did not 'scamp' his work, and he would stand before God erect in the great day of judgment.'

REV. CHAUNCEY GILES. - This esteemed minister of the American Church, and president of the Convention, was entertained by the Society at Peter Street, Manchester, on Tuesday evening, October 8th, previous to his departure to his home in America. In addition to the members of the Society at Manchester, we observed members of many of the Lancashire Societies who were present to express their esteem for Mr. Giles, and to bid him an affectionate farewell. At seven the chair was taken by Rev. Mr. Wilkins, the pastor of the Society, who introduced the proceeding in an address, in which he briefly sketched the many excellent uses Mr. Giles had performed for the Church. These uses were not confined to his own country, but extended to the Church in England, where his books were extensively circulated and carefully studied. He concluded by calling on Mr. Broadfield, who, on behalf of the Society, presented Mr. Giles with an address neatly written and mounted, and folded in an

being, it was because he had received that truth which was common to them all, and had passed it on; and the recognition of it by others showed that they were brethren. This it was which had made them feel so perfectly at home with one another. It had been said that a man's confidence in a truth increased immensely when he found that another man had accepted the same truth. So when they found Societies springing up which acknowledged the same doctrines, and had the same purpose, they were all strengthened by it, and indeed were actually inserted into the Societies. He himself belonged to the Peter Street Society, not in any formal way, but he felt that his spirit and purpose were the same as theirs. What he had seen and heard had quickened and developed his spiritual life. The more Societies they came into harmonious connection with, both here and in the spiritual world, the greater would be their strength. All their strength came from others. When he returned home he would want to do more than he did before, and they would help him to do it. This was one of the very great advantages which flowed from their connection with one another. He wished he were able to state fully and clearly how deeply he felt their expression of kindness and good feeling for him personally, and as

required from the minister to be ordained suspected that some even doubted were given with calm and sober thought- whether he had ever been ordained fulness, and the whole service was felt before. Now, he wished to tell them to be impressive, instructive, and edify- that he had been regularly ordained ing. At the close of the ordination into the Old Church, and that at Castleservice the ordaining minister, the Rev. ford, in Yorkshire. Why, then, did he R. Storry, ascended the pulpit, and wish to be ordained again? It had never delivered a discourse from Jeremiah iii. occurred to him to seek ordination for 15, "I will give you pastors after Mine the sake of any pecuniary benefit, but own heart, who shall feed you with he would ask why, if there was any knowledge and understanding. In benefit, spiritual or material, in New the course of the discourse the preacher Church ordination, he should not have remarked that true religion was emi- it? And without specifically answering nently intellectual. It was, he said, the question asked him, he would put adapted to the entire nature of man, them in the way of answering it for and given to purify the will through themselves. There was an action of the enlightenment of the understand- mind upon mind in the natural world; ing. The means of this enlightenment was there not also a spiritual action of is "knowledge and understanding." mind upon mind-an action of mind Knowledge has relation to external from the spiritual world into the nafacts, understanding to the interior tural? This general principle being discernment of the causes of these facts. Knowledge is from the Lord by things without the works of creation, the written Word of God, the instructions of the pulpit, etc.; understanding is from the Lord by the light shining from Him as "the Sun of righteousness upon the inner nature of man. The highest and most important knowledge and understanding is knowledge respecting the Lord, whom to know is life eternal, and respecting the things of His kingdom. It is the special province of the pastor to feed the flock committed by the Chief Shepherd to his charge with this knowledge, and to lead them to its clear and wise understanding. The interior reception, however, of the truth taught, and the perception of its beauty, is according to spiritual culture. They see clearly who love purely. "The wicked shall not understand, but the wise shall understand;" and, therefore, "a good understanding have all they that do His commandments."

The Committee had wisely appointed the ordination service in connection with the annual meeting of the Society, and at the close, therefore, tea was provided in the schoolroom, and followed by a public meeting, which was numerously attended, in the church. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Mr. Child, who, in the course of an able and interesting address, said that he desired to refer to a personal matter. He had been several times asked the question, Why do you wish to be ordained again? Indeed, he

granted, was it not eminently likely that the spiritual action of mind upon mind would take effect more particularly and fully in and by the fulfilment of one of the Lord's special ordinances connected with such blessings, namely, the laying on of hands? A healthful means of influence for the discharge of a special function might well lie in such an ordinance. The gist of the answer, which it was impossible to present in its details on such an occasion, was in reality contained in that position.

The Chairman's address was followed by the usual reports of the officers of the Society. The Treasurer reported an income of the Society during the year of £383. The expenditure had not quite exhausted the income. Subscriptions were necessary to enable the Committee to provide for the efficient working of the Society. Some subscribed liberally, and large subscriptions were not required from those who can only afford small ones. These special subscriptions had. amounted to a weekly average of £1, 6s. The Secretary, Mr. Young, stated that this was the forty-eighth anniversary. He had been present at all of them except one, when he was absent from illness. The present was, in his judgment, the healthiest period the Society had seen. The Society had increased in numbers, is united in itself, and joins heartily in the labours of its minister. The friends are liberal, and feel it to be a privilege to support the Church.

The Rev. R. Storry commenced his