JULY, 1917.

Soutb Plac~ €tbical SOci~tYt South Place, Moorgate Street, E. C.

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may join U llJl As.ooia~ . Pa.rticulo.r. may be obtained from the Hon. Regiatro.r BB abo ••

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Service beginning at ELEVEN O' CLOCK.

June 24. EDWHi FAGG. - The Reality 01 Beauty. A tl { 1. How HWl't·t th4 • 'tllc1lllight .

..D lema :2. \ psalm vI' Hf,

{ .'\0. ~3. 1)('W6 thnt nourish fnil'f'st fiow("rs

liymn. Nil. 1:13. Lie oiX'n. 60ull ,round the<' prt'S8.

July 1. JOSEPH McCABE. The Spirit of the United States

A.nth.m..

Hymn.

1. u) Oar, it he tnll 11,) n. nohh' (:\0. In·l) ..

:!. ~ 'o\\" nri5f'th tht· nn of lilwrty '0. 11 \n (Jif'ring to th4' ~hl·Ifl ... · hf IHl\\t'l'

;\11. Hi. 0 hc·lp tlit' 1)1"'ph t to hI' hold.

July 8. JOSEPH McCABE. - American Problems.

Anthems ( ]. The fll tn 1'1.' hidl'S t :!, Y·'t will I not n t

Hytnn. J \0.40 .. \ri t', my (11111 1101' (h'Prlm 1hl hlll1n, I \n, 15 .. \ It I'rf n r·c·hit .. i't of hit'

July 10. R. DlMSDALE STOCKER. H. G. Wells as Godmaker.

{I 1.0, th· winbl'r i. IlnS8{'cl

:\ ntlJeml 2 0 hnllo" ·d I11t'11\llril'g ...

Hytnn. { '\u. 81. \Y" Il1n~' not think thnt, nll of 1':00(1. ~ 'f). lfJ:t 0 Truth I () I· rC't'tl'lll! how ~ . till

July 22. JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A. Thoreau, the Cranl[. A ntbeDl.a ~ 1. 0 rur thE." wing.., of a dllVl:

\ :!. Thou 0 ot firth

Hymns { Xo. !M, 0 IHII't' rcformil' rs ~ nnt in vain, '\n. ,15 .• 111 Hre :m·hitl'ct ... or fnw

July 29.-No Service.

:l.1'~' 111I)'n,

T,('jl.l;I' A 1I11f),1l1?

(ll'vtr!t. JJarlflltll'

.llfJlrrl'

T,.Ulnsd', , .... 'lhlllllll/lll

Smart .lI"1Il1d1flluhll

.1/'lIIld!lxull1l S,JO",.

Visil0 1'S are ilzv iled 10 obtaill i,lformalio/l regardillg lite So rit:f)' ill fht' ! ibra!'), 011 Slmday mon,illgs.

A COl/utiOll is made of each Sel'via, 10 ~lIabte thou prrsel!I 10 (olllriblllp to the et pellses of the Society.

Oucl 'lJt~ d ,'strm{J III attcnd tit,. Se'fI'let'S ar~' lulorlll{,(/ "lilt !II,' ('tw/""lI r /' 11111 / III Ill) .'

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The Chapel 11 licensed for Marriages. Arrangements ca.n be made for the conduct of Funeral SerV'loos on qlpliCa~olJ

to the Secntar}'.

Su Dday School.

Tbe OhUdl'6n meet .. t l~, SOllth Placc, arljoining the OHAP1IlL, eTOry Sund .. y Morning, .. t 11, .. nd tbeir l""son i. given during the dilOOur... Member. 2.nd fri~nd. wishing their ohildren to .. ttend Ichool "re rcqu""ted to oommunio .. te with tha Seere-t&ry.

The Ohildren'. Library. in the c1 .... ·room OTer the V.etry, le open •• ary Bnnd .. y Morn ing before .. nd "fter th •• e"ioe. Hon. Librarian, Mi •• GRACE GowrNG.

Visitors bringing ohildren to the Bund", Morning Servioe ...... oordia.1ly inTited to .. l1ow thom to attend the Ohildr.n'a leHon.

July I. - Excursion to Stoke. Conilnclo,1 hy )lr. & ~Ir". LtD.-TO". Me~t at, Ch~lJel allO.11l n.m" Pn.tlrtin~toJ1 nt 11 n..m. for 11. 2n. m. train to Gerrnrd'B Cross.

JUly S. - Miss F. A. Law. July 15.- Mr. J. HaUam. July 22. - Mr. F. J. Gould. July 29.-No Meeting.

Lending Library.

Tha I"'ndlllg Library i. open free to ltomber. of the Society and Soo.oon Tioket Bold .... on Sundt.y morninga before and oJt.r tile Servioes. A •• oc",t.,s and Non·Mamhe .. of th.

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Ramble.

Ju ly 8 (Sunday Afternoon). - Fmchley and Totteridge, Conducted hy Mu. CLE;\lhYfS. Meet outsirle Brent Gardcn Village, NeLller :::Hl'ot.,'t, Church End, Finehle~~, n.t

;J.30p.m.

Sunday ~o"ular eoncerts (ehamber Music).

TUB TlllRTY·SIlCOND SEASON will hegill 011 Sunday. Octoher 7, lIlI •. wholl tbe 7~9th Concert. will take place. Furt,her l)llrLiculars will he issuerl ill Septomhor, with Uoport o[ tile Thirty·Firbt Season.

Mr. RleUAIlD H. WALTRIIW'S Three Lootur&o on "The Development of Chamber Mll..8ic " may be had, price 6d. net oomplete.

/loll. Trcn •. · FIUNK.\. HAWKINS, 13, Thurlow Park Rond, Dulwich, S.E.21.

/lon. 8fT .\ 1.1 mm .1. ('U:MENTH, 8, It~illchk'y \\ tlJ, Brl'nt Gnrdcll Y Hlage, Oh1lrch End, ~'inehlcy, N.S. .

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)Iro. CL&MBNTS, B, Fiuchl~y Way, Bro:at O"rden ,mage, Church End, Bon. A"t. See,. Fincble:v, N.3.

A.. A~Dl·:ru;oK, 11, Pulgravc Hoad, Slamford Brook. W.

---------'l'hl (,i.!oriLH.\L CO'Dll'nL1~ will Ill\.' t un 'rhl1rsdn)". tlul~ 1:i. Corn'bllondrnc{' tksling wlfh

lunttrrs for ('uubidf'rntwn h011ld be fOT\vnrd<'(l to )lr. ,V. '1'. HAlLVEY nt the rurlif'st pObsibh, 1I1IlJllC'nt .. \11 mutkl's I'('i:tting to finnnC(' tlhll111d 1)(' ad<ln'ssed to tlw 'J'rcn.suTt'r.

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OFFICES TO LET.

Well .lighted and cODvenit'nt Offices to Let nn first floor at 12, .. outll Pln.Of'. MndprAtp r .... ta.1. Very suih.ble for n. 80ci.ty nef'<lm nre,,",onnl us. of large hall (!\d)ncent) lor ••• tingl. Two or three minut .. Irom tram, 'bUB, tra.in, and tub •. -Apply: !I . LtDSTONB, South l'ltlc Institute, uth Plnec, E.O.2.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

1IiI'ClHT.INT :\ o'l'lo:.-Tn ,·ie\\, of the annual stocktaking, it IS par· licularly requested of borrowers that all books should be returned tf) the Library not later than Sunday, July ~2nd, when the Chapel will be open for the last service before the recess.

The Library Committee desire the special jlttention of l11el11ber~ ancl friends to this request, a IHhl,colllpliance will cause inconvenience. fInn. Librarians: ~lary Rawlings, 4,J6, \I are Street, IIackney, I':. S: "'all i, ~lallsford, Cherry Tree Court, Aldersgat:, E.C, I.

'/UL1.IN l;uLLD.-The heartfelt sympathy of South Place friends will go uut to Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Goulcl, whose only son was killed in action near the village of :lIonchy.le·Preux, France, on lVlay 31, at the age of 35. Mr. J ulian Gould was an artist of mllch prumise. [le was educated at \\ yggeston Grammar School and the l'IJunicipal .\rt School at Leicester. J le joined the luth :lliddlesex Regiment as a \'ulunteer in illay, lytS, and wellt tu France in 1 overnber uf that year.

Sub-Committees.

i'HE Sub- ommittees for the ensumg year will cunsist of the following members:

BuiLding.-Messrs. Errington, Lidstone, F. H. Mansford, W. Mansford, F. M. 0\ cry, and Snelling.

C ollcert.-:'1isses Arnold, Becham, and Gowing; Mr. Cun­l1ingham.

Library-Miss G. Gowing, F. Law, M. Rawlings* and Wellington, Mrs. Kccling and Mrs. Slevens; Messrs. H. B. (~l1wing, H. T. IIcrnc, \Vallis Mansford,: and W. C. Wade.

Music.-Mr. and Mrs. ']cmcl1ls, Mrs. Goodall, Mr. n. Cowing, and Mr. C. J. Pollard.

P ItbLicl7liolls.-Mr. and 1\11'5. G oocla 11, ;'11SS IT alls, Miss lIenman, :Vlrs Holyoake l\Iarsh, ::\1r. Sncllil1g, Mrs. SlcYcns, and ::Ur. and Mrs. Un thank

Soi7l?i?-Mrs. Fenton, Mr. H. B. Gowing, Miss Gowing, Mr. E. Hill, Mrs. Lidstone, Mr. and Mrs. Overy, Mrs. E. Pol­lard, Miss Raftery, Mrs. Sl. Aubyn, and Mrs. Symonds.

Sunday School.-Miss Gowing, Miss F. Law, Mrs. Lister, Mrs. Lidstone, Mrs. Holyoake Marsh, Miss St. Aubyn, Mrs. Unthank, and Mrs. Wade

"Hon Librarians.

'* Mr. Wells's .. God:' A LECTLRE DELlVEKIW AT SUUTH PLACE CIlAPEL ON JUNE 3, 1917, BY DR.

j OHN OAKES)JlTH.

l"Wl-ESSOK WILLL\~I jA)IES, whom Mr. Wells claims as his friend and Illaster, says that you must ask about any religiou. phenomenon: (I) 110w did it get itself here t and (2) What does it mean now it is here? james says that neither 01 the judgments can be deduced from the other; but even he, wilb all his sneering at rationalistic methods, does not deny that the answer to the first question may cast a good deal of light on the second. It certainly is a rationalistic method; and an effective one, as witness its use by Mr. Grant Allen in his" Evolution of the Idea of God," where God as a reality disappears in proportion as you know more about the growth uf his ldea. Mr. "-ells himself, with a tuuch of chiding acrimony that is almost anger, has to admit that "every new religious development is haunted by the precedents of the religlOn it replaces"; and if we can see clearly the relationship uf "the new rchgion" to the old one, or more than one, that it wants to displace, if we ascertain how it gut itself here 1 dun't think we shall have tu spend much time in finding out what it Illeans now it is here.

iOW, to an audience like the present, it is not necessary to say a great deal about the history of the old religion or religions which form the spiritual atmosphere in which the i ew Heligion has come to birth. You know that it is an amusing paradox in lbe hIstory of all religion that, emanating as it does from the bosom of eternal and absolute truth, it shows a very profane habit of accommodating its message to the intellectual and even moral requiremems of successive stages of civilisation. It borrows secular philosophies to interpret and defend its doctrines. The Roman Church boasts, with truth, of its pliability in this respect. 1.len have been put to death as Platonists when the 'burch favoured Aristotle; they were put tu death, witb equal impartiality, as Aristotelians when lbe Church preferred Plato. In morals, tbe Churcb defended Slavery when public opinion tolerateti it, and lagged bebind public opinion in repudiating it. Even when the Churches officially maintain their formal dogmas unaltered their devotees are constantly allowed to explain away or even reject doctrines originally essential to salvation. Tbe longer a religion lasts the more of these essential beliefs it sbeds; as tbe older a snake gets the more 'kins it sloughs. It acquires other beliefs: equally essential-for a time; and the religion remain tbe same only as a schoolboy's pocket-knife, which first replaces broken handle, and then replaces broken blade, but till re­mains the same knife in tbe simple affections of the scboolboy.

).uw, those who are contemporaries in youth and middle-age with Mr. Wdls bave seen a marked transformation of this kind effecting itself in the dogma and practices of the Christian 'hurcbes in Britain particularly in that narrow Calvinistic Puritanism which was still prevalent in the seventies and early eighties. ~lr. Wells summarises some of ;rs character­istics from his own personal experience. "I thought of God," be says, "as a fantastic monster, perpetually spying, perpetually listening, per­petually waiting to condemn and to strike me dead, His flames as ready as a grill-room fire." This one glimpse is enough; you easily conceive the religious surroundings of the child who is now Mr. Wells. But he was luckier than most of us . "vVben," says be, "when I was still only a child of thirtee.l, by the grace of the true God within me, I flung this lie oul

"God the Invisible King." By H. G. Wells. 6s. net. Cassell.

5 of my mlnd." I cannot rea.d tbese words without a dl~hnct ~cn'e of gnevance that for four more dreadful years [ was still frightened by the grill-room fire; still had constant vi:;ions of a flaming hand obtruding through the clouds of a stormy sky apparently preparing to drop a copy of the Bible-Jacobean translation-upon a world which, for the most part, understood no English. These visions were experiences quite as real as any to which Mr. Wells appeals as the guarantees of the -ew Religion. And for four more dreadful years I had to go on reading every Sunday .. Foxe's Book of Martyrs," and go t9 chapel and Sunday-school four times every Sabbath to have the old horrors still more ferociously stamped into my young heart. It still seems a little unfair; for, after all, what has one child of thirteen done more ur less than another child of 13 to deserve the grace of Mr. Wclls' .. true God," op to have four more years penal servitude at Lhe hands of the old false one? Suppose no God, either true or false, had anything to do with it at all. After all is said and done I got rid of the J30gey at last-the word IS J\1r. Wells'-and feel myself now possessed of so much rationalistic charity-the years, perhaps, that bring the philosophic mind-that J cannot emulate, or cyen envy, Mr. ,,vel1s' awful passion of hysterical fury when he recalls what he desctlbes as "this indecent as­sault" committed on his childhood. In my rationalistic ignorance I regard the whole business as a common passing phase of religious evolution, and L feel no rancour against either my parents or teachers or against God Hogey lliluselL Mr. Wells, however, still cherishes his grudge; is still so angry with the Bogey that one suspects him to be just a little afraid of him still; still, in fact, believes and trembles, as my little girls do when I read to them about the Wolf in Red Riding Hood.

Seriously, I think Mr. Wells has overlooked the operation of that CiVilising, humanising, eVOlutionary process which has eradicated this monstrous bugbear from the teaching of the Church herself. " Metchni­koff," says Mr. Wells, .. attacks religion as he understood it when first he fell out with it 50 years or more ago." The remark is a curious example of self-blindness. It would be impertinent in a mere rationalist to assume Lhe character of Fidei defe1lsor,. but J' critatis del C1lS0Y is a different matter. And 1 think we do bare justice when we recognise that the secular humani­tarian ideals of the day have, as is their custom, affected the teaching of the Churches, who constantly speak of the God of Love, but very little of Hell-fire. Is it not a mere historical fact, within the personal memories of many of you here, that in the eighties the whole atmosphere of the Churches began to be permeated with that refreshing breeze of freedom and grace which issued from the teachings of Darwin and Huxley and Spencer and Carlyle and Emerson? If I may again quote a touch of personal history why was it that I, who was taught that God abhorred all novels, and was punished by a thrashing which I remember to-day for reading Scott's ··Talisman" in 1880, how came it that before the end of the decade we all of us at home almost quarrelIed for the possession of the single copy of Haggard's wonderful romanoe of "She"? ,Yhy was it that although as young children we were regularly refused things, not hecause they were not good for us, not because they were not necessary for us, hut purely and simply because the natural man in us wa1ltcd them-and it was good for him to be mortified-why was it, as that wonderful decade advanc('d, wc were sometimes allowed to go for a country walk if we preferred it to Sunday-schoOl or chapel? It was not because discipline was relaxed for the youth as compared with the child; we boys were thrashed with re­ligious solemnity, and as a pious duty, well on into our eighteenth year. But it was because secular public opinion was gradualIy relaxing the dogmas of the old Puritan faith, and Darwin and IIuxley had taught the members of al1 the Churches that what was natural and pleasant was not therefore wrong. These things-which T know are typical examples of the discipline which Mr. "Tells and his contemporaries had to undergo when <:hildren, and which you will, therefore, pardon me for dwelling on -c0!1vlnce me tha~ the Churches prove their human origin by being sus­ceptIhle to human Influences, and that the Churches to-day are very different from the Churches of fifty years ago. I meet many Christian fathers and mothers to-day; I know many of their children; and T know that the children are entirely free from such dread and horror as visited Mr. Wells

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and my elfin our childhood. I thought 1 had noticed that the children of the present day had recovered much of that natural freedom and gaiety, that almost Pagan delight in life, which it had been the historical mission of I'uritanism to destroy. \Yby, c1llldren to-day are not even afraid of their earthly father, lu judge by the attitude of slightly amused tolera­tion they assume towards him anu his quaint ways. .\t any rate they are meeting death with gaiety enough; they have drawn Izis sting; and they are not afraid of God. ~lr. Wells' anger 00 their behalf is mere sound and fury, signifying nothing, except that 1I1r. Wells is a good hater. In the same spirit he drags the raYings of a harmless lunatic from their lair in some obscure magazine of an obscure sect and fathers his outpourings on the leaders of the modern (·hurches. To be unjust to the old religion is no fitting preparation for making a new one.

But if it be really true that Mr . Wells-by thl: grace of the true God within him-has flung out the particular lie of the God Bogey, there are other lies springing from the same source-and lies proved as such by the same tests-that he still clings to and embodies in the );ew Religion. Th<:re was all the conventional semi-philosophical. wholly metaphysical apparatus for defining God; and ail the emotional apparatus for getting into touch with Him; the Cathechism and its incul· cation of tbe personality, and logical definition of the attributes, of God, and the scheme of sudden conversion by grac~ with all its artificial inspira­tion of a god-intoxicated hysteria. Frankly, the only recollection of m,\' childish days which I really resent is the memory of the periodical herd ­illgs together of young people to ha'\'e th"ir susceptible fancies played upon by some rhapsodizing revivalist t1ntil their conscience-stricken sense of sin, and their artificially-created need to e cape from it, drove them to the penitent form, where they were still further worked upon until they realised, or thought they realised, or pretended out of sheer weariness that they realised, a sense of personal connection with Jesus as the Saviour from sin-and so were allowed to escape. This was quite a frequent episode with me; and I still think of it as the most brutal ising and de­grading experience of my early days. It loosened the very fibres of self­control, and instilled emotion, and not knowledge and regular habits of elisciplinec1 \irtue, as the ,ssential principles of the moral life. 1[r. \Vell, no doubt aho had these experiences; and interestingly enough, as WI'

shall shortly see, he makes this sUllden revelation of a personal aYiour a cardinal dogma of his X~w Religion.

Hut these juvenile religious experiences were not Mr. Wells' only pre­paration for the construrtion of the )lew Religion. Those ot you who passed through these childish disciplines of the se\'el1ti~s, and your emanci patioll from them in the eighties, will remember that it was a common experience that when you reache,l your later teens you built for yoursel r some temporary half-way house betweell the dogmatisms. of your early faith and the later mort' fully rationalised posit ion you attained. Perhaps Jt was " In '.Iemoriam "or <, Ecce Ilomo," or ('arlyle, or "men.on, or the "\"ie de Jesus" that illspired you; but you still lung a little pathetically and poetically to the forms of the olel faith, interpreting then1\'aguely in terms of c.osmic emotion, or human brotherhoocl, or transcendental philosophy. T do not know what :-'Ir. \Vells was doing when you and t were building up our temporary half-way houses; but at any rate he has reached the age of fifty, to con lruct just the same sort of specimen of trClositional architect­un' ClS we were buS\' about then, but finally ch-serted a qllarter of a centll1'\' agone; a half-way- house furnished with lumbl'f from old religions an,1 faded philosophies, with ancient tapestries from Jerusalem antI r;rN'ce and Rome and Alexandria, anr1 the latest patchwork quilt from tlll' Citv Ten1!,1". The habitation built for the very newest of the deities i,;, as you shnll no\\' see, a veritable old curiosity shop, a repertoriUITI of anci, nt \'estm<:nts pllr· loined from many an antiquatl·r! utbernncle which the deit\' himscl f at last left to crumble into ruins and relics.

It is true that he will have little to do with what he calls Cosmogony: .. the ultimate of existence," he savs "is a veiled ll'ing of which we know nothing." .\11 he will say of it is that out of it comes another lE'sser being whom he calls th~ "maker of the world," "the will to be." Tt is also, ht, says, called the Life Force, and th(' Struggle for Existence. Per-

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haps, he adds, it is the Demiurgus of the Gnostics; or, maybe, the Dark God of the Manichees; or the Evil Spirit of the Sun.worshippers. Mr. \Vells allows you to take your choice. "It makes us live as the beasts live, glad, angry, sorry, revengeful, hopeful, weary, disgusted, forgetful, lmit· ful, happy, excited, bored, in pain, mood after mood, but always fearing death, with no certainty and no coherence within us, until we find God, who comes to us neither out of the stars nor out of the pride of life, but as a still small voice within." Such is the second Being of the new osmo· gony; and as you have just heard, Mr. "Vells hastens to get him out of the way to introduce the third, who makes his bow; in one of the old familiar forms as the still small voice within. And here you come upon a whole wardrobe of the ancient vestments. Mr. Wells must have his Trinitv, although he damns Athanasius for his by calling him a "little red.hain;d busy wirepuller"; and he must have his' theoJ.ogy, his catalogue of Divine

.attributes; he must define and put his God in intellectual shackles, although protesting with fiery indignation against the shackles imposed upon him by other people.

(To be cOlleluded ill the .4.Ut:llst ~IoNTIIl.r LIST.)

In Memory of Frederick Westbury. IT is witb a feeling of sadness that T hav to announce, on behalf of thl' Ceneral Committee, the death of our dear friend and fellow·member, ~tr. Frederick Westbury, who passed away in tbe middle or tbe week preceding "'hitsuntide. Mr 'Veslbury was one of tbe e\·er.lessening group of old members of the Society who for a considerable period at· tended tbis chapel under the ministry of Dr. :\loncure Con way ; from that time up to the day of his death South Place was bis spiritual home and centre of religious interest. For many year~ he and :\1:rs. 'Yestbury werl' among our most regular attenders, occupying seats close to the vestry door. It has only been failing health and distance to travel which has made his attendance of late less frequent on Sunday mornings.

All who knew him personally were at once impressed by two traits of character-his great kindness of beart and his cheerful geniality-and these were coupJcri with marked modesty anti shyness of disposition. Ilis kindness was often manifested in personal relations as well as in mOl'" publ ic ways. His generosity to South l'lace has been large heart!'cl and rontinuous, no cause or activity neAding support or encouragement bping passed by. It is right, 1 think, to recall that after the death of ~rrs. \'Vestbury he gave to the Society the sum of £100 in her memory. To onr Lending Library he contributed many volumes, and the larger part of the' 'hildren's Library was provided by him. One of the large bookcas in

the Library was also a gift from him. hortly before his death he re· quested his son, Mr. Claude \ 'Vestbury, to pay to the Society on his decease a further sum of £IOO to be applied as the Committee may determine. These, and innumerable similar acts, were always done with the utmost modesty. Many of them would have been done anonymously had 1 not insisted that it was right that members should know to whom they were in· debted. Notwithstanding his shyness and modesty be liked to attend our social meetings, and in the days when many rambles to places of intere<;t were organised there were no more active supporters of them than Mr. ancl Mrs. Westbury.

My main purpose, however, is to express our sense of sorrow in the loss we have sustained, and sorrow and sympathy in the loss which his family mnst feel so much morf' deeply. A JOY sbared is increasE'cl therE'b\· . A grief shared is sometimes a lessened one. May it be so now.

''Ve rejoice in the memory of one more completed life, lived swe!'tly and well, ordered, not by any supernatural sanctions or commands, but b,· feelings of human right, sympathy and love. \Y. R\wII--':r.s.

Till' third ill.<ta/III(,II/ of iI{,', f'ollard's " Voft:.\· 011 iI!odNII nroll7a" if IlIIavoidablv held ovu ulltil I/('X/ mOtlt".

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Editor of Monthly Li,t .. H. 1' . lir.nNE. 45. Hognrth UlliJdtng9, Westminster, S.W.I.

Librartans {Miss MAny R.,wLINGB. 406. Mare Street, Hackney, E.B.

. WALtI" ,1.'N'II'Onn, Oher ry 'I'ree Court, 53. Aldersgate St., E.O.I.

Tr.alt"e" alld TI"l.,slrcp { .T. R. CUlT"n. Old Hnll, \\""lIins-ton, Surrey. of 11 .. RvbllildlllU FUlld E. OUNNlNG"A", 52, Bow Lane, Oheap,ide, E.C.4.

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Music Publ1catlOns Soiree

Sunday School

Organist

New Member:

Members of General eommilte ...

111sB G,UOI GOWIKG Ill... Rosl H A LLB 'Ius. LTl)HTONb MIte. HOLTOAU MAR'lI 11. ,I. Ovcur C .• T. POU\llD

"'B' MARt n.AWLINGS lino. F. A. R,CUAUDS .lb •. O. FUTCD£JI 'M ITn le. ~N2LI.ING Mu". S>rEVlN8 lIRS. H. \I" UI<TUAJO<

Secretaries of Sub·eommlttees.

F. JI ". " III·n'r M.\N"'OJl1J. Wnlclell, lOngsoll,l , Rlliall[1.

AURlD J . OL.lIINTB, B, FinobJry Way, Brellt Ga.rd en Villoge. Ohurch End Finehley, N.3.

FnlNX .. \ . HAWKI N9, 13, ThurJow Park Rand, Dulwich, 9 .1> .2J

E. SNBLLING, B. Amberley Road. Leyton.

1I i90S Gn"CE C;ownw, 302, DAlston Lane, Bn.ckn<'y, J~.8.

{ Mi.9 F .. A. LAW. 5D. ~"n~pel,ier nand. P('okhnm, S.E. lfi Mrs. S1 .\ OUIN 18, hll1J~rCJr 8 Gate, S.'V.7.

H . ll1TH 'VEIJ~Tt;R, 53, J,·ornine Ruad. Holloway, N.7.

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New Associates: \lj'O .\. I·: . . \nNOIO. '" J\jJ:hhlll"~ 11 ill. :.. \Il'b. S'II UND\J.l.·nl:NN •. TT, 1:;' IInnt~',illt ('Hurt, Stnmford nrook, ,,~. O. )11". \\ \Y\llWI('!, .IA 11~"', Tllt' I.ullrl'\-., \\ I'lIinglioTollgil.

Deaths: JI.I i .. Pm P lSON.

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DI7\RY FeR JVLY.

JULY

Servile ... J I a.m. Sunday School Excursion to SlokL',

meel Chap!;!1 10 .10 a.III., Pad-din glon ... ... 11 a.III.

S General Committee l11et:'~ ... () ".m. H Service and Sunday School 11 «.m.

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s '~ambk: Finchley and To((eridge. Nelher Sired, Church End, Finchky ... 3.30 p.m.

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