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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 550, 3 July 1909, Page 11

Dr.' OampbelljilorganiS; to preach tie sermon, arid Sot. .-'F.'.'B. Meyer to take aprominent.part in.-,the Woild's'Sunday-School Coilyentionj'to bo held at Washington May 19-24 next year. -A' great adult Bible-class , .'parade is'itb be'one of .the features of, the convention, the programme of which ~ t has: already been tentatively publißhed-^-exactly. a ' year ahead.',' ■■'■ '.-.,■'. ■'.' ",..'•. ■ :•; ■.'"• i'\''■■■'■''/•■:■: .'Canadawill celebrate, next yW the bicen/ tenary'of'the first Church of England service, which- was.held- at Annapolis,'-Nova'.Scotia. No"• less.'.thaii forty, English, Scotch, and 'TJnjted States.bishops'have already accepted the invitation.to, be present. The , Archbishop of York land the Bishop.of London also, hope that it will.be.possible for them''to attend: The -celebration: will commence on 'Sunday, August,,lo, 1910;. followed by the Church dongre'ss:, '.-, : V; - :,V '■• ■,' '•.:'■",:'■.) '.'.vV'.. ,'■ • An;interesting ,v change in' the, Sydney, Syna- ! gogiie services f is-the return. to the former custom of reading the Haftorah in English; On' 'Rabbi Cohen arriving, requosta: were addressed to' him' soliciting; the maintenance of thevHebrew reading; and' in response to such : representation it , , has sinco'lbeon main-: tained.: Becently '(says the }''Heibrew : Standard'J) J it" has become clear' that fhb English reading is , ' preferred by an pveryehelrning; majority, .'among , those ytko attend. the servicee; .■.-' . --■;. '"*.*■;■'■' "■'.• [■ ".,' "'.': v '..'■"(O^-'■ Canon Hensley f Henson has been the guest in. Boston, of the Tiventieth Century Club,, which' entertained him; at- a :dinrierj; where he;said that Nonconformist communities:are to-day the equal, of .Church communities' from the, intellectual.'and' moral: point ,df, views. He has '.apparently : deeply , impressed 'his American audiences, and one Boston journal says that the breadth and balance of, his Hews, make it a delight 'to listen to hini. He preached iJo >one of the largest congregations that has ever assembled Appleton Chapel of- Harvard University. : .(.:'. Dr. Cameron Lees, of. St. GUes's Cathedral; Edinburgh, preached Wβ farewell sermon last month. Ilie service • was attended by the Town Council of Edinburgh in their official capacity.'! Dr.! Lees's ministry at 1 . St. Giles has been of national renown; and it is; interesting ,to Wite that ho revived the' daily servico in the cathedral after a'lapse of 234 years:' A warm friendship existed between tho kte Queen Victoriaand Dr. Lees. ■ Hβ was one of her Majesty's chaplains in Scotland, and received a similar appointment from , the King. . He was a frequent visitor at Balmoral during the late'- Queen's reign; 'Two years ago ho celebrated his •ministerial 'jubilee. Dr. Lees, who was called to St. (Jiles in-; 1877, w.as bom" in London. On his sMe he belongs to the Camorona of; Loohiel.