WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 13411, 1 May 1909, Page 13

WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

, NTB^ S AND NOTES FOR PULPIT AND PEW,

T TBE CHPBCHASD THE MEN. • r-onu OF ENGLAND'S MENS • sllS Slo>-TOlE ECOLOXIKS * <nß * 0W °** COP.RKSrONDENT.) J . LONDON, March l'.i. I/Wrnt. House in Bethnal Green "®??n its time many remarkable lU „ "head-" The list i-ns included , th, X.-v. James Adderi present Bishop «f London, !*• V£«T and the Key. H. S. CW° n After<*ven and a half i work, Mr Woolicombe m _ M is streuu" isos.tKin, and has ' kTffii!ti«fth.cirt • '"ffumll Men's Society to travel for 4 C !i D£ % though the Empire, in three ) c _f'f m „ v strengthen and ad°*A«ch« r oI the\\K.M.S. aland help in found- : < 0C L 0 t D s e ven month* will bo spent ' to ( l K d the arrangements ior ' iB . AaB being made by the Arch- : - who has lately '' in order to fulfil the on- * "** SfVr Wooflcombe will have to ■ PSTCttJ OrnZon May 14th. The Inkers upon the WooUcoml>t . Ch ri a a l o touch representatives Jioeeso of Australasia and B-fegre them the ideal and me- * iT „f the Men's Society. 4 poioS that at the beginn.ng ,f DW the tour shall be extended to ■ t« Zealand, and are m y „Cr*r,th a view to Mr A\ oollcombe CS one of Ihe forerunners of the i £5 of Help which .s to v.3.t the Sw India and South Atnea are 1 IS the Programme, but the f„r----i ! h „ $L are not yet sufficenllv forDtdttod to allow of any default... state- . "u'ito conrse of a short interview With the Rev. H. S. Wollcombe, a retae,iv«-». " ■p t .„ < , fc " l^nrncd ■ SS ten years ago. when Archbishop sSfpte»« Archbishop of Canterbury md Bishop Wmniiiffton-lngram was ip,of P St fP noy. There w«* to tn#& societies working.on difforoiit ,w. these were amalgamated under - ffititte of the Church of England Men's Society, with its extraordinarily simp** rule of prayer and service. E«& man wiho belongs has to be a man of prayer and be ready to undertake - wmo work for tho Church. The word "work" is reasonably comprehensive, Kid means either singing m the choir. '■■' painting the church railings parochial work, or rendering some other assist- • «nee of pratical value. "Men tie Bisliops came Home for the - Umbeth Conference they were very meatly interested in hearing about tho C 15.515.. which has bad a phenomenal growth in thi3 country. The Bishops expressed a desire that there ehonlti be some sort of linking up of - the whole movement all over the Empire, bo as to lead men, to think of the ' Anglican Church as one body, and of tfee men forming it as one hrothetihood. , Branches of ihe C.E.M.S. already / in the colonies, and the idea i 9 I \Jiat these shall keep in touch with the parent body at Home, hut be indepenl dent in their work and hare thoir own [• names. There is already ah English ' Church Men's Society in Africa, while , Australia and New Zealand could also bare their own Church Men's Societies. The work of ihe Church- is to build up th» nation in the dominions over the was, and the C.E.M.S. helps Churchmen to feel that there is a great work to do in order to permeate- the nation -'■'■■ ■■trnt-th© spirit of tlie Church, not in any narrow sense-, but in its wider idea of national life.

nnd ought always to have done better. !!' tlie watchman neglected to blow the trumpet and warn the people their bk-r.d would bn required at his hand, mid that was what searched and •.oorched nnd burned and blistered as one looked back upon the 10112 year's '•; the ministry. For one with this sreret burden of bk-cd upon hi- coiiscin cc ihere was nothing left but Christ. Li the midi't of our .shame and confusion we thought of what He had done and of tlie liiincis that might vet be done. Ho ended in words like Bunyan's: "Many more of the dealings of Cod witli mc I might relate, but out of the spoils Avon in battle I hare dedicated these this morning to maintain tie Houh- of God."