THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Evening Star, Issue 13090, 24 October 1908, Page 10

THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.

A BISHOP ON RACE SUICIDE. Tbe Bishop of Manchester, in the course of a recent address to men Blackpool, spoke at length on the decisions of the recent Lambeth Conference. About one thing 'remarked His lordship) all tho bishops were firmly agreed, and. that was the necessity of elevating the standard of the British race. In this connection lie urged the dangers of loose divorces and marriage separations. Whilst it was most evident that the British everywhere were committing race suicide, the births going down at a terrible rate, there was no doubt as to the homble practices indulged in. Ho thanked God that he was a member of a large family, in the bringing up of which his father had to struggle. Heathen mothers who sacrificed their children, to Moloch were kinder than tho mothers who brought up their daughters to shame, and purposely left children with deformed bodies. Let them keep the home pure. It was not % subject for jest. Never mind whether we came from monkeys, the question was whether we are reverting to monkeys. MR SANKEY’S LAST DAYS. The * Christian, Advocate ’ gives a glimpse of MrSankey in his closing days. For a long time he had been unable to leave his house. The writer noticed on his last visit that the great singer was much emaciated. “He did' not think h© would live two weeks. His sightless eyes were expressionless. Wo knew him well, had often conversed with him when he was in full vigor. The recollection seemed to cause him a thrill. He invoked tire blessing of God upon us and thanked us, and after a little further conversation w© propounded to him this question; ‘Mr Sankey, do tb© Spirit ol God and the power and truth of religion seem to you as dear and strong aS when the tens of thousands were hanging upon every word that -came from your lips and congratulating you upon your popularity and success?’ He hesitated a moment, and said: ‘lt is more powerful. Then there were many distractions. God and I are together now most of the time.’ “When we rose to go the writer said to him: 1 Yon cannot do what you did for us on former occasions.’ ‘ Oh, yes,’ he said, ‘ T will sing for you.’ And pxono upon his back he gathered all his breath and strength, and, though the voice was weak and the portent of death was in the unearthly pallor of his countenance, a sense of tho real power which had made him what he was before the thousands was felt by us both. It was a triumphal song which he had composed on Ids bed, and which, like almost all his songs, had a short chorus at the end of each stanza. - ’ A SERMON BY MARIE CORELLI. In Marie Corelli’s new novel, ‘Holy Orders,’ ' she attacks “ blasphemy ” on the stage in the_ sermon preached by “ Richard Everton ” in St. Paul’s Cathedral. She puts into the mouth of the preacher these words:— “If you saw the Mother of Christ represented as a semi-nude dancer on a ‘variety’ stage would you resent it? Would you be shocked and outraged? I suppose you would. But would you show yr.ur indignation publicly by leaving the music hall where such an exhibition was tolerated, and never entering it again? Almost 1 doubt it! Some of you would watch the dance to a close —others would say it waS' ‘ tho reverent poetry of motion!’ I doubt if one of you would have the courage to ri-e up and say: ‘ln the name of the Christian religion, on wliich the nation profess to base its law and morality, I protest against this hideous blasphemy.’ You might, perhaps, hold that it was a matter for tho censure of the Church. Well! Our archbishops and bishops would ‘consider’ the position before pronouncing thO' urgently-needed condemnation. And their consideration would probably end. as usual in inaction. They have remained dumb and inert in these latter days, when crowds have gathered to see a scene of Gosjiel history turned into an indecent ‘variety’ show. King, Queen, Premier, and Court have all tolerated the representation of tho daughter of Herodias’s dance with the head of John the Baptist—he who was the herald and forerunner of Christ—forgetful, apparently, that the episode thus vulgarised is from positive Holy Writ, and is not the diseased emanation of the brain of an unspeakable criminal. Greater honor could scarcely have been paid to a world’s noblest thinker, a world’s greatest benefactor, a world’s highest teacher than the representatives and defenders of England and England’s Christian faith have shown to a public exponent of shameless indecency and blasphemy. Such an act on the part of those who should he leaders of principle and supporters of honor marks our ‘ Christian ’ epoch with a brand of disgrace.” The above is one of those straight, downright utterances characteristic of Miss Corelli which gives her such power over her public. THE NEW TURKEY AND THE NEW JERUSALEM. • A correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says : I have just received from an Armenian friend in Jerusalem a letter from which the following is an extract; “The people here are delirious with Equality, and Fraternity.’ Speeches are made daily in public places and in the streets, which are nightly Crowded and illuminated. All religious distinctions have more or less disappeared, and the Jews have, by invitation, visited both the Mosque and' the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Hitherto there has been no disturbance—in fact, good order has been maintained everywhere.” For many hundreds of years the Jews have been allowed to wail' at the foot of the great retaining wall of the Haram, or Noble Sanctuary, on which tho Temple once stood and the Mosques of Omar and El Aksa now stand, repeating their lament:— For tho palace that is destroyed, For the walls that are overthrown, For onr majesty that has departed, etc. But thev hare always been rigidly excluded from the mosques and from the great enclosure which surrounds them. In like manner they have been excluded from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the enclosure in front of It. In fact, the life of a Jew was not considered safe in either place. If the Christian sects can only exhibit the same charity towards one another which Mahomedan, Jew, and Christian are now exhibiting as between these great religions, the time may soon come when it will not be necessary for Government soldiers to keep them'from quarrelling within the Church itself. CHURCH OF THE FUTURE. Dr Broughton, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle at Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.), who recently visited London, is of opinion that the Church of the future must meet every department of human need. \\ e arc now in extending our church to meet this aim. New buildings are be in" erected at a cost of over £70,000. The total cost per annum of the upkeep of our institution is £15,000. A\e have a Christian hospital—not, it must be understood, for Christian patiente exclusively—but those it understand tliat it is run on Cnnstian principles. In connection with the hospital is a nurds’ training college, Christian, nurses only. In addition, ■we have a home for working girls attached to the church, accommodating 100 residents. Wo have also , provided a church hostel for the benefit of people who are staying in the town for short periods. Of English religious life generally Dr Broughton had a very high opinion. “What English churches require,” he said, “is,more ‘applied Christianity.’ Hitherto English ministers have confined themselves to the exposition rather than to the application of the truth l —that is to say, it has lacked ‘ hitching-up.’ ”

CBr Mkoiica.] Being desirous to encourage and stimulate the poultry industry, we have arranged with a member of the local Poultry Club to edit this column, and will be glad to receive and publish any items of news or notes which will be of servico to readers. Contributions and questions for answerin'* should be addressed to “Minorca,” Poultry Editor. ‘ Star ’ Office, and received not later than Tuesday of each week. “ Minorca ” will only answer communications through this column.

Last week I wrote in reference to the Government poultry farms paying, and during the week I went to Milton to have a look at what work was. being done. The ground consists of 24 acres. The manager (Mr Carr) is certainly the right man in th,e right- place, and’he is ably assisted by three junior hands. At present there are 2,000 birds on the farm, including 1,400 chicks. Ten incubators and three brooders houses are used in hatching and rearing the latter. The poultry pens cover lo acres, and -the. ground under cultivation consists of 5 acres. .On the latter gieen food for winter use is grown,, and sufficient potatoes are grown and sold to pay the cost of the planting and buying seed tor the green food. In this way the green food for. the farm costs nothing, ihe breeding pens are ail well arranged, and each has a good shelter-house. Trapnesting is carried on in nearly every pen. Alter looking at all the pens," I think mv fancy was the Minorca pen, (N0.16). . This contained a line cockerel of Douglas strain and six hens specially selected bv Mr Drown. To a fancier the birds, taking them all round, are rather disappointing, but, as Mr Carr pointed ;out, they tried show-bred birds, and found, them wanting a.-, layers, so had, to get rid of them and go for utility strains. . Since mv last visit several open-air houses have’ been added to the farm, and anyone going in for breeding on a large scale should-cer-tainly see these. A house to hold. 200 birds costs only £l4. The nests, are made from kerosene cases, and these are covered with, a slanting cover on a hinge, which, when nights are cold, can, be turned back against the wire netting, and helps to the birds, from cold winds. One side of the open-air fowlhouse is only boarded up about oft, and above this is the wire netting, and, as I said before, this can be covered by the sloping cover of the nest boxes. The roosts are about a foot from the ground, and are hinged in one piece to the back, wall, so that during the dav they can be drawn up to the ceilmg out of the way. I asked Mr Carr his opinion as to the best breed. His fancies in the light breeds are White Leghorns, Mmorcas, and Campines, and in the heaw breeds Black Orpingtons, Silver-pencilled Wyamlottes, and White Orpingtons. He prefers self-colored birds, and does not fancy laced or spangled birds. Mr Carr thinks for around Milton the best time to set heavy breeds is August and September, and for light breeds September and October, but chicks, to do well, should not be out later than the 9th of November The method of choosing the breeding birds on the farm is as follows The pullets are Hogan tested. 'Pwcnt-y of the best are put in a pen. and these are trapnested for a year. Then the sis best of these are put into the breeding pen for tho next year. Tn this way onlv the best buds are bred from, and 25 per cent, of improvement in egg-production is looked tor each year, or the i/rds have to go. A arious experiments are being tried by Mr Carr. Dry feeding is one of great inteiest to breeders. For this method a tnnigh is used, which contains a dry food ration. Mr Carr will give the reci’pie for this to anyone who would like it, or it will he found ’n the Government book.) Sufficient food is placed in the trough to the birds about- two week?. r lhcv can help themselves at any time they like.’ Drv wheat is fed in addition just before roosting time. Mr Can- says that the birds are doing splendidly on this method of 1 ceding, and that ud to date tho egg results are good. The advantages claimed are tho great saving in time, less' feed required, and the birds can be left for se\oral days if the owner finds it necessary to be away. The birds I noticed looked particularly well and very tight in feather, and deaths under this system of feeding aie very rare. Mr Gsrr is expenmenlizig with several- crosses. The birds are set on their own eggs, and chicks \vill be kept in their own pens; when the chicks are fourteen weeks old they will be killed and sent to market." The weight, price procured, cost of rearing, and amount of food required for the different crosses will be given, and should be of value to anyone going in for birds for table. (To be continued next week.) It is now time all eggs were set if the best results are to be obtained. Minorcas and Leghorns can still be set, but no time should be lost. Skene and Fleming are advertising some good White Leghorn for sale. At this time of the year, when dry weather is to be expected, ‘it is necessary to place a fair amount of earth under the hen, and if the weather is very dry it is better to wet it with warm water when the hen is on the nest. Each year as the breeding season comes round we hear the same cry, “Eggs very unfertile,” and in nearly every case the weather is blamed. Now, it is quite true that fowls will not produce eggs as strongly fertilised during very wet and windy weather as they will do when conditions are more congenial. But there 'are other causes for this disappointment. One other is in the feeedin". Either they get

.too much over-heating and over-stimnlat-' ing food, and perhaps'become to fat, or the food is not calculated to produce vigor and health. Later in the season there will he abundance of green food and animal life, in the shnps of insects, grubs, etc., of all sorts, and if we want our fowls to produce eggs out of their natural season—that is to say, during the first three months of the year—we must supply the ■ food and conditions lacking . m Nature., Extra meat rations are ncces.nnd especially a constant supply of l table food. Again, too many hens hot be run with one male,.thus early, in the season—five or six .will be ample for a vigorous cockerel; an old bird should have one or two less. But I think °. ne of the _most frequent causes of-infer-tile eggs amongst amateurs is the fact that the birds are mated during the whole of the year." Thus, during raoulting-timo and the early part of the winter, they get run down and exhausted, and when eggs are required in the early months of the year for batching, they are either infertile or contain such weak germs that they fail to hatch. The remedy in these cases is obvious. Separate the sexes as soon as hatching is completed, mate a month before requiring eggs for sitting, and provide food and housing conditions such as supplied by Nature from, say, March onwards. Recently we received from Dr C. G. Russman, of Louisville, Kv., the following prescription for scaly leg. The doctor tells us that he had had this trouble with a few of his birds, and tried the kerosene and lard treatment without benefit. Knowing the disease to be caused by a parasitic mite, he tried the following prescription : Ung. Sulphuris Comp. (N.F.) (Hebra’s Itch Ointment). The formula of this ointment is : Precipitated Calcium Carbonate, 10 parts. Sublimed Sulphur, 15 parts, Oil of Cade. 15 parts, Soft Soap, 30 parts, Lard, 30 parts. Any reliable druggist can supply it. Dr Russman tells us that the results from the use of this ointment in the treatment on. sCaly were beyond his expectations. The ointment may be applied freely, rubbing it well into the affected parts dally, or every other day for three or four applications. The legs should then be washed in warm water. If any scales remain, ointment may be applied once or twice more, if necessary, to remove them. —Exchange. A PROFITABLE BY-PRODUCT. One of the by-products of poultry that is receiving but a limied amount of attention io feathers. Few people realise that feathers, when properly cured, are a source of considerable profit. They bring as much as a dollar and a-quarter a pound. The tail feathers of a male bird will frequently eell for Idol 50 cents. These feathers arc used by milliners in decorating hats and by manufacturers of feather hous for ladies. As much as 20 cents an ounce hae been paid for choice featlicre. Right here is where the Minorca fowl scores one hundred, for where in all poultrvdom can be found plumage so attractive?' The beautiful green sbeon on the black fc-ather requires no coloring to produce the desired result. Many times the feathers will bring double the price obtained for the fowl in the ordinary way. When the plumage is properly cured and sold to the proper parties, the meat of tho bird furnishes a email pait of the revenue from a flock of fowls.— Exchange. BEDDING. Not only do young chickens require bedding material of gome kind under foot until the age of perching, but-some breeders prefer to roost heavy Asiatics in this way even when full grown Bedding for young chickens is best about jin deep, when it will be renewed'daily. This is much better than using it deeper and only raking the droppings out, Which is a fruitful cause of loss in artificial rearing. On, the floor of a coop,'under a hen, there'is nothing better than dry earth or 'clean and dry coal ashes. The earth will 'also answer well in an artificial rearer, or may be mixed with a little sand. Peat-frioss litter is often recommended, but under a rearer is very apt to produce inflamed ever,. When the rearer is discarded and the chickens have nothing over ' them, it answers very well. Chaff and coarse pine sawdust are also unsafe under a rearer for the same reasons, but may be used at a later state. As greater size is attained, the birds should be bedded on clean, broken straw. If this is slightly disinfected by eucatpytuß oil it need not be renewed every day if shaken well with a fork evety night and tossed aside for th'e droppings underneath to be taken up, which must, however, be always attended to. So treated,‘straw will last three dr four daVs very wolf.' Some breeders who bed their heavy fowls permanently put the stftiw on a barred‘raised floor or shelf, or a plain shelf answers very “well Straw bedding on such a shelf is very dry and warm.