THE CITY TEMPLE PULPIT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1195, 2 August 1911, Page 6

THE CITY TEMPLE PULPIT.

_*- THE LORD MAYOR AS PREACHER, Rev. Harold E. Brierlcy, of Highbury Quadrant, preached at the mid-day service at tho City Temple on Thursday, June 15, the Rev. R. J. Campbell being away at Heckmondwike.'' Tlie congregation almost filled the area and ..was very largely composed of men. Before the sermon Mr. Brierloy said: "Will you allow me a prefatory word of personal reference?'l think it is timo someone said that a largo number of us believe that Mr. Campbell is too good a man and too great a man and, in those hard times, too indispensable a man to bo allowed to stand outside organised Congregationalism. (Hear, hear.) I do not think it is good for him, and I am perfectly certain it is not good for us. I believe I. speak for a large number, perhaps an overwhelming majority of the men and women, lay nd ministerial, of our churches who mav have no theological sympathy with Mr. Campbell, when I say that the time is overdue when the attitude and official policv of ostracism of Mr. Campbell should come to an end at once and for good." (Hear, hear.) .

At the evening service on Sunday, June 18, the Lord Mayor (Sir T. Vozov Strong) ascended the pulpit where, he said, he was very Rind to stand because the pulpit itself was the Rift of Hie Corporation of London to the City Temple. Tie made a.n earnest and closelv-rea-on»d apneal for liberal support to the hospital* Mr. Campbell afterward Rave a short but ex-nuisitelv-wordod «ddre=s oi\ dc Coronation. TTo thought Hint amid nil the sentiments of loyalty that found exuberant expression just now, the best some" that ordinary pconle could render wouH ba to remember that Kiinr Gooreo was a man and needed prayerful sympathy, for sorrow and care entered into a palace as often as into a cottage.