WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12478, 14 April 1906, Page 13

WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

AN UNIQUE GOSPEL SERVICE. A few milffi oiit of Glasgow is a large manufacturing establishment, employing aixnit four thousand men.. From s _x to ten train loads of men go out daily irom Glasgow, returning in the <jreniftg. For ton or twelve years religious services have boon maintained on th<*« trains. Cars have teen constructed especially for the holding of them. These cars are hauled without charge, " 'nd tihoee who desire to attend the serfoes take thorn. The ran takes twenty jnimrtes, and into that time singing, praying, and preaching are packed, and {be relation of experiences. The train meetings are conducted by the working men themselves, ami not by outside or professional ova ngelists.—Exohange. "CONVERSION BY ORDER." "Th*> following letter from the Bishop of London appeared in tihe oolumns of "The TinW recently:—"The letter with the above heading wihicih you published on Saturday is only the spark which ""t 8 fi fo to a resolution which has been nmoutderinig in my mend for some Jays. However urgently private remonstrances may have been made on the matter which has moved ;r»ur correspondent to write, tliey are not known to the public, and your correspondent is therefore ju.sti.ficd in assuming—however mistakenly—that no protest haa been made at all. I therefore think it right to state publdcly that sudh pn-o-t«rts have been made by those who felt that it was their responsible duty to do /so. Thoy havo been made not at all against an alliance with a friendly and honouraMe nation, nor against any genuineand convinced acceptance of tho tenets of tho Roman Catholic Church, but what seemed to be tho possibility of a 'conversion by order' (ii I may use this phrase) firm one faith to another. I have no knowledge whether such 'converaion. by order' is really contemplated, and we may bo quite certain that no tnidi order will oame from this side of the Channel; tut it seems to mo that, if feuoh 'oonvension by order' were really carried out, and if it were generally supposed that no sort of responsible protest had been made, the public conscience would be considerably mystified - and even lowered in its ideas of r&ht ittd wrong."

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