JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 9

JOTTINGS.

The Primitive) (Methodist Church throughout New _ Zealand- has (says the Aucldand "Star") just'concluded what -is known-' amongst them L as,'the May effort for backblock jmssioir w'orkvv Tho yqiing people in the schools ■ take 1 Hip tliis work 'with a good .'deal'of .enthusiasm, Mr. Goldife giving cither a gold -medal or: a guinea to , tho young per- ' sou collecting the largest slim. So far as advices have como: to, hand, a young lady in-Chrjstchurcli/,Stands forward as tho likelywinner, , her subscription Jiqt; showing . ail amount of £7 12s.- next: highest being £G. l Ts, , altered -as further iiitelligelieo comes; to , hand, which must bo within the next day or two, as the effort is; closed with the expiration of the .month'of;■ May. • '

.The reports of .the English Primitive Metkdist mission,vans show tliat this form of evangelistic ngency was tmtsi moro successful and in greater'demand than at the present time. Good'literature is sold,' and feohlo village churches are strengthened and inspired. IW. Evan Jones,'and tho llcv. Thomis Law will-' represent ; the 'English National Freo Church Council at the celebrations at, Gijneyit in July in honour of tho four hundredth anniversary'of tho birth,of ' ; John Calvin.

Tho strength,'numerically, of. Irish Methodists maintains,..-as shown by recent returns, a\steady:iijereaso.; TJio membership now .stands at -,29,246, as against 28,883;. a year ago.' Tho greatest;increase takes placo on. tho Belfast Districtj where, 294. additional mombers aro returned, and the greatest decrease—s3-fon the Dublin District. Tho Church at largo ■hits lost 480 mombow through emigration, and 408 , by death, Those losses, together' with ,that from "scv« eranco of connection;" have reduccd the 2033 new members Jto a riot increase of 362. Tho mission thermometer was rising in th« Anglican Churoh,. said tho Archbishop >oi York, at tho'2oßth anniversary meeting of tho Soe'etv for the' Propagation of thf Gospel, held in tho Albert iliill on Friday. But it Bhould rise higher. He himself had been making a'tour of ; the splendid old churches in his-own-province,- and ho could not help thinking that they needed some* thing to vitali'so their ;view of life,' a sight' of the problems of' Pelting or the prairies oI Canada. ; ; - ■ Professor Edward'Anwyl, M.A., of Aber ystwyth University College, . who >is thi chairman of the Welsh Central Board, hu. been appoiuted to three other important offices—viz.,. ,to bo .the.! chairman of,-tho Theological Board of the • University of Wales, to .bo visitor, on' hclinlf of the ward ,to tho Welfeh Theological' Colleges, and tc'lxj Royal Commissioner • for 1 Ancient Woh.li Monuments. .Professor Ariwyl is a Congregational lay preacher,'and. is a 'deacon, of the Welsh Congregational Church at Abcrystvryth,