LONDON METHODIST MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 11

LONDON METHODIST MISSION.

The Hall was: crowded.on'a'recent night , for the anniversary of tho London Methodist Mission; i • Mr. J. Tudor Walters, M.P., presided, and said that he was more and more impressed: with the necessity of tho work. ; When Parliament had gono as far as it could in the matter- of social amelioration of the people's lives there would still bo tho personal prob-. lem to face, and the only; true solution of. ■the/ personal equation was ' the Cross .of Christ. : ' .- • '.' The Rov. W, D; Walters, the general secretary, said .the-work'of the London Mission, was prosperous in' all its branches,'.of which there" woro now ;eight, with 40 buildings, 25 ministers, '25 lay. agents, and 12,000 members. . ■: Canon Henley Henson followed- with a striking speech, in which lie dealt with the 1 factor of, industrialism and the. aggregation of the population in large cities. He pointed out that' tho Apostolic Epistles were addressed to an urban people, and therefore was singularly appropriate to modern conditions. The Christian Church was doing woll to address herself to a campaign in the crowded centres. In that mission they were re-stating the fundamental duties of repentance and faith, and bringing to an anxious, envious and sceptical society, tho power, of tho Gospel. . . 1 Sir John Eirk showed that London suffered from' a lack .of sympathetic imagina- 1 tion, which prevented the citizens from real- 1 ising the sufferings of the mass of the peo- J pie j and tho' Rev.' J. E. Rattenbury dealt . with the progress of the West London Mis- .' sion, stating, that since it had been founded ' tho Rev. Mark Guy Poarso had given over 1 £10,000 to its ; funds, an average of £500 ayear. Addresses were also given by the Revs. , C. Elisor Walters and Peter Thompson, both i strongly supporting the; Licensing Bill.' ' .