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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10592, 22 October 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

whieh< will be a representation of Christ as the Good Shepherd, At the base will be engraved the armorial bearings 'of the-five Archbishops and. the arms of the see of Canterbury. Defending the Lord's Day.—Lift up a calm, undaunted testimony, against all profanations of the Lord's Day. Use all your influence, Whether as a stateman, a magistrate, a master, a father, or a friend, both publicly and privately, to defend-'the entire Lord's Day. Never see the Sabbath broken without reproving the breaker. Even worldly men, with all their pride and contempt for us, cannot endure to be convicted of Sabbath-breaking. Always remember, God' and the Bible are on your side. Manchester Wesleyan Mission.—-Rev.' Samuel F. Collier , recently • completed twenty-five years -as superintendent of the Manchester Central Mission. It was in September, 1885, that he began his work at old Oldham-st. Chapel, pro-

bably never anticipating what an immense organisation would spring up. In "a quarter of a century the membership lias grown from forty to four thousand, with sixteen religious and social centres, property worth £300,000, and congregations averaging 15,000 a Sunday. The new Albert Hall, to be opened on September 15, one of'the. finest halls. in Uio country,' has cost £50,000. . The Baptist Missionary Society does not see. its way to undertake a new mission to South America. The two pioneering expeditions, the cost of which was met by the late Mr Philip Cadby, of Hammersmith, have not resulted in sufficiently encouraging reports. Ilev. Robert Glennie and Rev. R. D. Darby, explored the Amazon .Valley, and Mr' Glennie was accompanied by Mr G. S. Blake, B.Sc, to Southern Brazil, Matto Grasso;;and Bolivia. The object of both journeys "was-to discover the Aboriginal Indians, as .yet untouched—-in adequate numbers to justify the establishment of stations.

The new "Minutes of Conference" for 1910 contains the latest authenticated statistics of world-wide Methodism. The I total number of Methodist Church memT hers and probationers in the world is 5.555,052, with 54,205 ministers, 106,160 lay preachers, 100,428 churches and mis-sion-halls, 85,406 Sunday schools, 7,402,475 scholars, and 838,144 officers and teachers. Of the members, seven and a-half millions are to bo found on the North American continent. AVesleyaii Methodists alone account for 813,442 members; Canada has 334,637 Methodists; Australasia, 150,890; and Japan 4291. The Continent of Europe lias. 73,256 Methodist members, divided between the Wesleyan and the Methodist Episcopal Churches. The seating accommodation : in the ■ Wesleyan. churches and halls of' Great Britain is 2,303,316.

Gambling Among Women.—ln consequence of the rapid progress of betting among women, the National AntCGambling League is imrposing to form a ladies', committee to deal exclusively with this new danger. The Bulletin, the quarterly record of the League, shows how strenuously the work is being carried on. One" of the writers says:—"The surprise at the Sandown Park races this year was the -first appearance in the members' enclosure of a lady bookmaker . She soenied' greatly to enjoy her experience, and did a flourishing trade. 'Woman ' surged round her to make their bets." A- barrister" gives his opinion of the increase of betting.' He says:* "Visiting a racecourse after an interval of many, years, the most notable change seemed to be the way in which ladies madebets with bookmakers, an almost unknown occurrence in my young-days. It appears now that women are begin- i ning to act as bookmaker."—AmericanChristian.

The Upper Canada Tract Society has added to its numerous agencies a new Institute for sailors at Port Arthur, Ontario. A room has been rented on the water front .for the last few months a and here an increasingly useful work has been proceding. Attention is now being devoted to the acquiring of a permanent home for the work, and towards the cost of such a building more than twelve hundred dollars have al-

ready been promised. The missionary in charge is Mr G. L. Collins, late 01 London.