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MARCH 1 1925.

Cb~ montbly R~cord Of

Soutb Plac~ €tbical Soci~tp, South Place, Moorgate, E.C.2

"blect of tbe SocIety • .. The Object of the Society is the cultivation of a rational religious sentiment, the study of ethical principles, and the promotion of human welfare, in harmony with advancing knowledge. "

MBMBBRSHIV. Any perlOll in .ympathy with the Object of tbe Society i. cordially inviW to become

a member. Tbe amount of subsoription is optional. with a minimum of ~. Gd. pe ' quarter, or 101. per a.nnolll1 . Any person interested in toe SocietY'8 work, bot not wisbin.g to becomfl a member, may join 6.8 nn ASS OCIATB, the minimuID lIubscription being 5s. per annum. Further particular. may be obtained in the Library bef"re and .. fter the Sunday se"ioe, or on applioatiQn to tILe Hon. Regietrnr, Miss R. HALLs. Bontl, Place Inltitutf>, Finlbury, E.O.2.

SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES. The following DISCOURSES will be delivered on Sunday mornings,

Service beginning at ELEVEN O'CLOCK. February 22. - Rlght Hon. J. M. ROBERTSON.-The Ethics of Revolution.

Anthems {L If I .toop into a dark ... 2. Dl)th n ot wisdom

Hymn.. {No. 100. What is i t that tbe crowd requite. No. 45. A II are arohitects of fate.

l'48,rch I. - C. DELISLE BURNS, M.A" D.L!t.-PsychOl(lgy and Morals. 1. OrgILn Solo: Variations on I\. Theme by Handel .. . 2. Hymn No. L Be true to every mm<>8t thought. 3. Rending. 4. Ooncerto in D In inor for Two Violins ... ..

I. Vivaoe. il. Largl), m" non tsnto ill. ,\U<>gro. Violinists: ) [ iss .1 "SBrF. BOW\.,.ElI and Miss GWYNNF.T1l TR01'TF.R Pianoforte,: Miss TfIlCl.MA BRYAN.

5. Notiors and Oollection. 6. Discourae.

!48,rch 8-C. DELISLE BURNS, M.A .• D.Llt.-Falllng in Love. Anthem. {1. Thore is a sweeter flower ...

2. In native worth

{No. 112. There is in nery human heart. No. 105 . . \. wc wax older on this oo.rth.

D e Lac!! Rakin (1

Bach

LtBlif.' Haydn

Hymn.

l'4arch 15. C. DELISLE BURNS, M.A., D. L!t.-ConvertG to Rat!onal Religion. Antbem. {1. 1'ho Wanderer ... ............ . Schubort

2. A storm sped over sell. and land ( No. ~7) ... ... Reetl/Qv,'" il { No. 133. Lie open, soul I oruund thee p""-' •.

ymDa No. or. 0 earth! thy pust i. orowned ,tnd cou,;ecl'ated. l'48,rch 22.-Right Hon. J. M. ROBERTSON.-Persecution: Religious &; Anti-Religious·

Anthem. {L The flrst spring day ... M ark,.."z;,· 2. Ble.sw ore they... ... ~farfnrrp"

Hymn. {No. 101. Th" millions suffer still IUld grieve. No. 113. I aing the hymn of the conquered.

l'48,rch 29. - JOHN' RUSSELL, M. A. -Back to Emerson: His Suggestions for Education.

~ L Con'e to me 0 ye ol'ildren ... J nderto"

Anthemo 2. (a) The voioes ..... ... \1'0/111 · ((' (/1) The little fountain flow. If,·ndl'l •• ,,11I1

HYIImI {No. 166. ];;ntrnn eed in swed 'Iumlx'r No. V4. 0 pu r e' rdonTIt'rs I not in vain .

. .A Hymn Praclice~ to which all peraon. de.iroua of improuinll the hymn sinlfinl1 aTe .nf)lted~ ia held in the organ gallery at the cia,. of each Service.

. . Organ .. t: B . SlIlTn WKn"TER, 5S. I.or"ine Road, N.7. . ~ V'S.tor8 are invited /.0 oblai,. information rrfJordinu tile SODict., in the L.braT!! ""

tlnday mo,'nings. . ell: A Oollection is made at each ServiD_ to enable tl.o'" pres6nt to contribute t.n 11,'

pe':Res. of tllO SociI5t1l" . a (J1Jcl,Sfs dCRlrmg 10 atlend t).r Servire. are informed tltaf the Oo",-nutfrc ""''' mad Trallgemenls for hOtLBiny tT.eir machine. in the basement.

12 ~he Rttild l n~ is to he lel 'or Meetln~s, elc. Application ntay he ntade to the Caretnker • ,.~ttlh I'lnce, E. C.~, or tn Mr. N, I.ldstone, 96, Rlackstock 'toad, Flnsbury Park . N.4.

e Chopel Is licensed 'or Marrln~es, SecrArratt~<mettts catt he made for lhe conduct of FUller.' Serl'lces on application to the . etary.

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Lending Library. The Lending Library i.s open free to Member. of the Sooiety on Sunday Irornings

before and aftor the Services. Associatcs and Non·Members cf the Society may under certain oonditions bc granted the u·se of the Library upon payment of a subscription of 2B. 6d. per annum. '1'he Ontalogut", including sl!wrn.l supplem.ents, is on sa.le, price 6d. A written Oatulogue, containing up·to·date additions, is available for the reference of borrowers. Subscriptions town.rds the purchas.e a.nd rl."poir ... 1 books are inviloo.

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WALLIS MANs.onn, "Tlle OuUook." Kingsend .\ venue . Ruislip. Middlese. Ho.. Librarians F. JAME8, S02, Oalston Lane, Hackney, E.8.

MISS V. A. ALEXANDBR, 165, Ashmore Rand, Paddington, W .9. Tr.asur..... ... MRS. ST •• ENS, 147a, Clapton Oommon, E.5.

Wambles. Saturday, March 7.-Dulwich Picture Gallery, COllnUCled h:v Mr. F. M. OVERY

Meot I\t Gallery 3 p.m. Train London Bridge (L. B. & S. C. Hy.l 2."4 p.m Book to North Dulwich St,ation.

Saturday, March 21. Hayes to Orpingtoll and Chislehllrat. Conducte~ by lir, F. M. OVERY. Trdn Cannon ;:,treet, 2.20 p.m. Take cbea.I ' return to a.yes, 1(7. Tea at Orpington.

Bon. SeC8. : Mi •• I~. ~ IMONS } ~O. Granvilla Hood , Mlos F. J. ' IMON9 N.4,

Esperanto eircle and elass. Tbe Oircl~ will ",eet every Sunday in March at S.30 p.m. OonveM&tionn.l practioo,

~ inging, and disoussion in Esperanto. Light refreshments. 1'00 01 ...... for beginnors will meet every Wednesday in March Iltt 7.15 p.m.

League of Nations Union Branch. New Members n.re Wtllll Od for t ho Branch. All illtf'.I" t:'s terI111 this I1ctivity. whether members

of Suut,b Place Ethical Society or not, will I e welcome. Part iClIlArS pI Memt1erahip call he had 0' the Hon. Secretary, HELEN M. FAIREAI.L, 8, Scarborougb Hoad, N.4.

3lJth Easter eo."perative Holiday at Ryd", Isle.of·Wight. From Thursday, April 9, to l'uesday. April 14. Members and friends desiring to

join thp party should send nam ... to Mr. and Mrs. OLE:M<NTB, 8. Finchley Wa.y, N.S, without delay. They will be included in order af a.pplicatian as far a.s accommodati<ln oan be obtained.

Names Will not 00 received after Sunday. March 29. A meeting (including tea) will be held at South Place In8ltitute at 4,45 p .m . on Sunday, March 22, at which MT"ng<>menbB will be made, and a deposit of 12s. 6<1. will be reoeiv~d from each merrber of the ptLrty by the Trca8urer, Mr. F. A. HAWKINS. 13, 'rburlow Park Road, Dulwich, S.E.21. Houae parties will be lI'ad" up as heretofore, and the occupants of each house .... ill ddermine o.nd defroy their own cxponses . It is estimnted that the t c tal c()St of the holiday, inoluding return fore to Ryde Esplanade, will not ""cecd £2 15s .

Head Quart.ers, c/o Mrs. Bilker, I , Marine Terrace, Oastle Street, Hyde, Lsle of Wight.

Soiree". The mont.hly Soiree will be he ld nt South 1'11\00 on Thnrnday, March 12, at 6.30 p .m. ,

when Mr. }i\ Hf..,rbcrt Mansford will give 0. lan tern lecture on "The Englishman's Home." Hon Secrcul1'Y, lfLORENCE M. HAWKINS, 13, TIllU'low Park Road, S.E.21.

elub Room. 28. R",d Lion Square, W.e. The Olub R<lom will be open for th<- uS<' of Members "nd A&<>ciateB on Mondays,

Wednosdays and Fridays in March, from 6 p.m. Oll Mon<1nya t her(, will 00 .a. disC11.ssion of the p~'V.iou.s &nndnys di·scoursc at

6.30 p.m. On Fridays, March 6, IS, and 20, the rO<lm ,vill b e open for gMn"", oonverso.tion, etc. M . Watoon will conduct the Play-r<>O.din~ Oircle as follow .. : Wednesday, March 4.-" Will Sbakespe.n.re,' Olemenoe Dane.

11.-" Magic," G. K. Ohesterton. , 18.-" Trojan WOIr"n," Euripides (translated by Gilbert Munay).

Friday, ,,27.-" The Wbitchen.d.cd Boy," Lennox Robinson. On Wt:'dncosday, M&-oh 25, the "oooDd Club Dance will be held, from 7 to 11 p.m.

Tickets, Ss. each {including Refreshments), may IX' obtaineod in tho Librn.ry at South Plaoo, or from the

Hon. Socrctary, Mrs. ANNIE SUTCLlFFE, 1, Marlborongb Pia"", N.W.B.

eonw v Meo mnrial Lectures. The Leoture tor 1925 will be given at South Place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 26,

by SIR ARTuun KRITR, F.RS. , eta. His 8'ubject will be "The Religion of a Darwinist." Rcsprved Reats can be obtained at La. each from Mr. Can. and will be on 8ale in the Library.

The OOn ..... ,. Mamorial Lootnr"", which n.re deliverod annnally in MLrch, were inaugurated la 1908, ... a Memorial to Or Moncure O. Oon ... ay. The Oemmittee is not yet in po ..... ion of the n.oes ... r), o&.pital for tbe permanent endowmont of the Lectur ... hip, a.nd ID the meantime it makeo an ea.meot appen.l to a.ll read"rs at the MONTBLY lliIcoRn eitber for !ubecriptions or donation., to enaure the continuonce of the lectures. Tb ...... ehonld be oellt to the Hon. TlIeMnrer, Mr •. CoCKBUBN. Peradeniy .. , 18, Northnmpton Rood, Oroyd,pn.

Fifteen l<>oture8 ba"" been given, and copies of thGOO c.a.n be purohased at the book stAll.

H S • etari •• { ERnST OARB, .. Lyndall," Jl8.endon Road, Bnnderstead, Snrrey on. • r Mr •. O. FLP.TCBm 8lnTB. 3n, Stat.ion WilY, Letchworth.

Tbeatre "arty. Tuesday, Maroh 10, "St. JOIID," The Regent Theatre, King'" Cross. Meet O1Itside

gLllery door at · ~.45 p.m. F. 4. Sn(OK8.

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SUDday Popular eODcerl8 (ehamber lftuale). Tho THIRTY-NIN'l'R SEASON will be continued .very Sunday until .!.pril 5.

noo .... open at 6.1Ql oommencing at 6.30 p.m. _\dmiasion Free, witb Oolleotion. February 2"2.-l'LEBISOITE PROGRA.MME.-TnE KUTC'HE,. TRIN!. QUARTET: MC6.r~.

Hamllel Kutebl'r, GoorS'. Whita.ker, Jam ... Loekyer, John Bnrbirolli . Piano'orte: Mr. WoyU PowelL. 1'0cal<8~: Dr. Tom Goodly. At tli .. Pia .. o: Miss Dorothy Snund.er ... Beethoven's String Qua.rtet in B flat, 01'. IS, No. 6, o.n:l Son .. ta Appassionata. for Pianoforte; Scbumann's Pianoforte Quintet.

Maroh l.~5()th OONOERT.-TBB SI98BIUUN QUARTET: Messrs. WiUiam Primro"", Oharl .... Ooverman, H. Y. Templeman, Dnvid Siasannlln. Vocalist : Mr. Gilbert Baill'Y. At the Piallo: Mr. Reginald Paul. Srreto.na'. Quartet in E miner (A us meinem Loben) V&ug\ul.n Willi!UllB' Song Oyole, .. The Boull(> ot I~ifc"; HlIydn'" QUlnt.et in 0, al'. in, No. 3 (th' .. Emperor ").

Maroh S.-Strinll QuaTtot: Bori .. Pooker, Doro<thy Ohorton, Gertnld Hopkin., Edith OburtOD. PianOforte: Gardon Bryau. VocalUt: Mnrcio. van Dr.'sser. Eth"l Smyth'. 'trinlf Qunrtct in E minor ; Pi.o.no Solos; Frank Bridge'. Piano Quintot.

Moreh IS.-TuE WOOD MITn STRING QUARTET: George Stratton, Jt>SSie Stewar!. _\.lioe Orl18';", John Franci •. Pi(l,noforte: Gardon Dryan. Vocalist: Anne Thur.fleld Dvorak's String Quartet in E, Op. 0; Piano Solo; StriDg Quortet. by Bnydn nnel Kii.ssmayer. -

Marah 22.-TIDl LONDON SINGERS: Mi •• GIDdy" Moger, Mi.s Muri.1 Hughes (in pllUl. of Mis. Mabel Oorrnn), Mr. Pnrry Jones , Mr. Rohert OhigIl"U. Piano,ortes: Mi"" Ethel Bartlett and Mr. Rae Robert80n. Schumnnn'. Spanisc""" Lied<'rspiel (or Four Voi""" :md Pinno; Moza.rt's Sonata. in D for Two Pian"",; W"lthew'. Three Voc",l Qun-rt<,ts; Ernest Walker'" Five ong. from "England's - Holicon" for FO'Ilr Voiooo Rnd Pinno: :>Iormnn O'Nem'. Variations on an Irish Theme for Two Pian08; Brllhms' First Set of Licbesli""'er WaIt"", tor Piano Duet and Four Voice •.. _.

Maroh 29.-OROHESTRAL OONOERT by THE OUTIJ PLACR OMBP.STRA. Conductor and SOlO Piano,orte: Mr. Riehnrd H. Wnlthew. Solo Violin: Miss Emily Kp.dy. Vocalist: Mi ... Dorothca Webb. Mendclssohn'. Itnlian Symphony, New Work by W!\lth~\V for Pinnoforte and Orcbestra; Mnx Brllch's Conoerto in G minor for Violin and Orohestra.

OOmmitt..... Meeting on Sunday, Maroh 1, at 6 p.m. Tran.ferable Resanoed Seat 'rickets, Ss. each, for Half-Season from Jllnuory 4 t"

April 6. Programme Bubocription, Ss. extra.. Applioation should be mndR to the Ho~ . TI'Ca.snrer ot the Concerts, },'. A. HAWKtNS. 13, Thurlow Park Rond. Dulwich. S. E.21 aoeompaniro by remitta.noo and ste.mpOO. nddressed env~lope.

For Advcrtisemento 800 <.: DRily Telegraph" and "Dnily Hera.lit.. " .. ery Ratnro"v and .. New "Lt>nder" .......,klv

.. Toe Dovf'lopment of Oh owber Music," Three Lectures by RXCRARD H. 'Vu.Tn[W Price Is. net. Post free la. lid. .

Hon. Trr a •. : FRAm: A. BAWIIl'S, IS, Thurlow Pnrk Rond, Duh.ieh, S E.21 HOn. Sec.: ALFRED .T. CL.MENT8, S. Finrhley WRY. '.9 HOIl Aut. 96 ••. f Mrs. D. I. OtEM1<NTS, 8, Finchley WilY· NS.

. .. W. S. MUDMOR2, 64, Lownd ... Square, KnightFbridge, S.W.I.

South Place 4!)rche.'ra. Conductor: RICHARD H. WALTHEW.

Praotioes on Friday" from 1 to 9 p.m. Th" ,,"cond orchestrnl conoert will ta"''' plaoo on Sunday evening, 1I[n.reh 29. Further pnrticulars from the

Hon. SecTrtal"f/. F. W. OANNTNG, 63, King. Bnll Rood, Bl'<lkenhnm.

Tho GENRllAL OOM'!lTTEF. will meet on Thuredny, Mareh 5. O<>rrespondence dealing _ith mattrr. for considcrotion should be for .. "rdE'd to F. M. OVEUT. Bon. Sec., 96, C&torham Road, T.Alwi.hnm, S.F..IS, at the ~f\rlie.t po.sible moment. A 11 matters relating to finRnce should be oddr •• sed to the Trra8urer.

Seoretar;". of .ub-committee. nre request.d to not .. that any mntter which they wish to insert in the IIfONTTILT R.eCOUD shonld br in the hOlld. of Mr F. W. RRAD not lot..,r th"n 15th of the montb. All Jiternry rrntt"r .hould be forwa.rded to the Editor. Mr. O. J. PQT.tA.lI.D, &8 early in tht month tU poalible.

EDITORIAL. Ct.UB ROOM, 28, RED LT ON SQUARE, W.C.-In addition to the usual

activities of the Club--the Discussions, the Play-readings, and the Con­versational gatherings-three events deserve special mention.

The first of these was a Club Whist Drive on Wednesday, January 21, organised by Miss Gibson. This was a very merry gathering, and was \\reIl attended. Miss Gibson kindly suppli~d some useful prizes, and cau;;ed mUch amusement by the little surprise packets which she distributed dunng t~e e'·ening. Everyone agreed that the experiment must be repeated, and Slncere thanks were expressed to the organiser for her capable management.

The second event took the place of the usual Monday's discussion. On Monday, January 26, Mr. C. J. Pollard read a paper on "The Trilogy" T)f lbsen-"Doll' , House," "Ghosts," and "An Enemy of the People." T n this he showed hi s gre.'ll knowledge of Ibsen, and brought into pro

minence the part which the latter played in exposing the social evils of his time. The Paper was much appreciated, and the discussion which followed was very 3rrimated.

The first Club Dance was held on Friday, February 13. It waR thoroughly enjoyed, and seeme::l like a big family party. Old and young Lhrew themselves with zest into the Dance, and there were no " wallflowers." T he young people were, perhaps, bewildered by the "antiquated " dances, such as Lancers, Veleta, and Waltz Cotillonj while the older ones tried to conceal the fact that they were not quite au fait with Fox Trots and One Steps! But mistakes cause all the more fun!

In spite of bad weather and the prevalence of influenza there were fi f.ty-five present, and all expressed their willingness to support the second dance, which will be held on Wednesday, March 25. A. S.

® ® ® CONWAY MEMORIAL LECIURE.-The Conway Memorial Lecture for 1925,

which has been arranged for the evening of Thursday, March 26, will be given by Sir Arthur Keith, F.R.S., M.D., LL.D., his subject being" Th, Religion of a Darwinist." ir Arthur Keith, who is curator of the Museum and Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, is an anthropologist of European reputation and a writer of many works on human morphology, comparative anatomy, and early types of mankind. He is also in great request as a lecturer, having the happy quality of "wearing his learning lightly." Such a tbeme as be has cbosen, in such hands, cannot fail to attract attention and keen interest.

JANE CHAPMAN BRACE. Mrs. C. R. Brace, a very old member and friend of South Place.

pa~sed away on January 10. Mr. Brace tells us she was first taken to the Sunday Services at South Place in 1869 or 1870 by her father, and that her imagination was immediately fired by the eloquence of Moncure Con ­way, to whom she ever afte'rwards looked up as her spiritual teacher and master, and his teachings coloured all her life. She often wrote to him for advice, and h e wrote beautiful letters in l'eply. Mr. Brace adds, "My own family connection with South Place dates back to the time before the Chapel was built when the Services were held in Parliament Court. My grandmother and her children attended, and when Fox came and the Misses Flower were in their prime, my four aunt s were very intimate with them and helped in the choir and music." Mrs. C. Fletcher Smith writes tbat Mrs, Brace, after ooming under the influence of Conway's teaching, worked later very energetically in many directions for South Place. Among Mrs. Brase's favourite quotations glven in her In Mem01;inm card is one which can well be repeated,

"There is no religion higher than truth."

FOOT-NOTES TO THE HISTORY OF SOUTH PLACE: 11.

(Continued from February issue.) The latest biographer of Crabbe follows the poet's son in deeming

it necessa ry to apologise for much of his :areer as a parish priest. He urge" however, that he was ::lot below the Anglican clerical standard of the age, and that he did but partake of the frailty of tbe times. Even so, it WOLJld be possible to frame a tolerably severe indictment. He was a pluralist and a non-resident; he was absent from two of bis joint livings for thirteen years, and only returned to cne of them, Muston, on' the admc nition of Bishop Tomlin. He was so reluctant to letUIn to his duty that four years were occupied in the process of getting him back to his parish. When he arrived, he found that Methodism had obtained a strong po~itiun there, and that a former gardener had begun to preach the doctrines of Huntingtvn. He left Muston for Trowbridge nearly nine years later, and the church bells were rung to welcome his successor before Crabhe had left the parsonage. The anti-dissenting bias of The Borough is easily understood.

MaJttbew Arnold was wont to assert tbat at tbe close of tbe Eliza­bethan age the great English middle class entered the prison of Puritanism, and bad the key turned on its spirit there for two hundred years. An historical pendant to this judgment is that when the governing sentiment of this country ejected the Puritan ministers from their livings on St. Bartholomew's 'Day, 1662, nearly all religious life perished in the Churcn of England for that period ~ wbatever sl~gbt vitality was manifested from time t<.. time was stimulated from outslde; the Establishment was sub stantially no more than a department of ecclesiastical police. Whoever would see what it looked like to a peasant of genius during the latter half of the eighteenth century will find i pictured in the autobiographical writings of Huntington. We can see tbe kind of spiritual nutriment wbicb the Dean of St. Patrick's furnished to a Dublin congregation a little earlier, and also wbat the Rev. Laurence Sterne bupplied in Huntington's boy­bood . Crabbe's biographer saw a sermon which was preached first by him at Great Glembam in 1801, afterwards at Little Glembam, Sweffling; Muston, and Allington; at Trowbridge -n 1820 and again there in 1830 .. He adds that" tbe preacher probably held his discourses quite as profitable at one stage in the ChUlch's devel<ipmen:t as at another." What distinguisbed men of letters thougbt suitable is an~ndication of what undistinguished men thougbt good enough. It is not surprising to read that at twenty-six years of age, Huntington did not know in what part of the wcrld Jesus Christ was born. "In the Church of England we hear nothing about "Christ in their pulpits till they conclude, and then they generally lug hilI! in as a fag-end to their little better than beathen morality ." In his distress of mind he wished to oonsult the clergyman, and being unable to find him at home, went to the clerk, who took him to a public-house to be treated with rum . The liquor made the clerk unsteady, but loosened his tongue, aud he gave the ad\"ice not to go to his master or any otber parson, but, pointing to the stars, said "go there." The next Sunday he waited after service to partake of Holy Communion, and was permitted to go " when the quality had all done," and kneel at the lower end of the table. When we read some of the delectable poetry which Swift wrote in the intervals of preaching, and remember that the writing of Trz"stram Sha1ldy alternated with the composition of sermons, we are prepared for Hunting­ton's story of tbe clergyman all. Sunbury, who was funning about tbe fields , all the week witb a gun in bis hand, and on a Sunday, when reading the lesson from n. Samuel, wbich ccntained a reference to the shutting up of King David's concubines, was" so agitated by his lascivious thougbts that he tittered and laughed, and bad much ado to refrain from laughing aloud."

He underwent astonisbing pbysical privations. He was the ~entb in a family of eleven children, and says that they seldom knew wbat it was to have a "bellyful of victuals" above once a week, on Sunday; and that it often happened that debt rendered ~bis impossible. "I often wisbed secretly that I had been a brute, for then I could have filled my belly in the fields." He records 1hat, under pressure of hunger, he once attacked a boy calIying a loaf across the fields to some French prisoners at Sissing­burst Castle, and wrested part of it from him. He learnt to read and write a little, but was never taugbt arithmetic, and went to work at six or seven years of age. Compelled to leave home later, and to tramp the country in search of work, be says that once be had nothing to eat for three days and nights. After bis marriage, be was frequently out of work and when he began to preach, he lost it sometimes because he would not work on Sundays; he and his wife occasionally had to get through a week on balf-a-crown, with children also to be fed. The law of settlement" would presumably have. preveruted his obtaining poor relief; be never seems to have begged, though now and tben he borrowed. None of these mat.teTs are cited by him in the way of complaint; thev are part of his tesllmony to the goodness of God to him. Like Dante, he went down into hell, and when he emerged into .the sunlight again he had been delivered from all fear.

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fee or reward. He was clad in a fustian frock, an old pair of leather breeches, yarn stockings, and cloulted shoes. He underwent much persecu ­tion from the mob, which, not conten.t with personal violence, damaged the meeting house and its contents. Attempts to obtain legal redress were fruit­less, the magistrates declined to convict, and the Church lent its aid, th bells of the parish church being rung in <triumph. But it was impossible to put Huntington down. When he removed to Woking he began to preach at various places, speaking sometimes seven times in five days and travers­ing nearly 120 miles, chiefly on foot. Coming to London he soon became famous, and his admirers loaded him with money and gifts. A Tory in politics, he was the greatest of democrats in spirit, and gave away as fast as he received. Abstemious himself, he delighted in seeing others enjoy themselves, and at Christmas time once had a party of a hundred persons. The legendary picture of Puritan joylessness bore no relation to him, though he frowned on what he deemed to be idle pleasures. He felt it incumbent upon him to repress his natural gift of humour, but could not always do so; the initials S. S. after his name, meaning Sinner Saved, are a humorous parody of the academic M.A. and D.D. of his orthodox brethren.

After the death of his first: wife he married Lady Sanderson, the daughter of one Lord Mayor of London and the widow of another. H e died at Tunbridge Wells in 1813, and his body was taken to Lewes for interment; the funeral procession was a mile long, and the hearse was drawn by six horses. In accordance with his instructions no word was spoken over his grave, and no funeral sermon was preached. The inscrip­tion on his 10mb, which can still be seen, was composed by himself­"Here lies the Coalheaver. Beloved of his God, but abhorred of men_ The Omniscient Judge at the Grand Assi7.e shall ratify and confirm this to the ronfusion of many thousands. For England and its Metropolis shall know that there bath been a prophet among them." In pursuance of his prophetical rf>le he had predicted the complete destruction of Napoleon's expedition to Egyp.t, and the collapse of the Papacy about 1870. The first prophecy is one of those which ougbJt to have been fulfilled. Nelson nearly captured Napoleon, and would probably have done so if he had been properly equipped by the Admiralty. It is, further, almost certain that Napoleon's career woul.d have ended if the French people had known on Iris return to France what had taken place in Egypt; he anticipated modern jonrnalism in ilie conviction that people believe what they are told, and the truth was not known to his countrymen until long afterwards. The en.try of the Italian troops into Rome in September, 1870, sealed the fate of the Pope's temporal power, and Algernon Charles Swinburne regarded the proceedings of the Ecumenical Council as a manifestation of piri-h'a1 imbecility. But it is a far cry from Huntington's theological

doctrine 0 the dithyrambic bumanism of tbe Hymn at Man: By thy name that in hell-fire was writte;1, and burned at the point of the

sword, Thou art smitten, thou God, tbou are smitten, thy death is upon tbee, 0

Lord, And the love-song of earth as thou diest resounds through the wind of her

wings-Glory to man in the highest! for man is the master of things.

A. S. TOMS.

SUNDAY POPULAR CONCERTS. On January 18 the Wood Smith String Quartet played works by Mozart

and Dvorak, and very ably they interpreted them, as ably as tbey did Mr. B. Hollander's Quartet and Septet when a concert dedicated entirely to t'hat composer's works was given on February 8. Besides these two instru­mental pieces, a pianoforte sonata, violin solos and songs, all by Mr. Hollander, were included in the prograr.nme. Miss Ivy Parkin was the pianist, and Miss Winifred Fisher, the smger.

On January 25 Mr. vValthew played a pianoforte solo, Mendelssohn's Prelude and Fugue in E minor, and piano quartets with Mr. Charles Wood­house and his colleagues .

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The first Sunday in February sextets Ior strings formed the main portion of the progra=e. Miss Grimson, who led, was in exceptionally good form, and as may be imagined with so experienced a body of player>' as Messrs. Woodhouse, Jeremy, Pat:t.erson Parker, Miss Mary Stewart, and Mr. R. Grimson, the ensemble was all that could be desired.

Mr. Howard Fry's selection of Schubert songs, and a group by British composers proved equally and absorbingly interesting on the evening of February 15. Each song was sung with unfailing artistry. The Spencer Dyke Quartet-with Mr. James Lockyer, second viola, and Mr. Edward Robinson, second violoncello-successfully mastered the exceptional technical difficulties of the Sch6nberg Sextet, "Verklarte Nacht," which has n01 been played in tbis hall fOT over ten years. It is a work tbat requires many hearings to be thoroughly appreciated. The clarity of Mozart's Quartet in D, wbich was played subsequently, contrasted greatly wi1:b the I intricacies of the Sch6nberg. Miss Margaret H;arvey-Samuel played a fine but lesser-known Beethoven piano sonata.

ETHICAL MOVEMENT ENQUIRY CONFERENCE.

(Organised oy the Ethical Uni/m.)

.-mL'A:ARY OF UGGESTIONS MADE AT THE FIRST MEETING ON JANUARY 15, 1925,

DRAWN UP AND CIRCULATED BY THE CHAIRMAN FOR USE AT THE SECOND

MEETING ON THE 22ND INST_

Mr. HOWELL SMITH-1. An inquiry int) the unsolved problems of democracy. such ;,.s

marriage, sex relations, philosophy of ethics.

}.oIr. R. D. STOCKER- I 1. The multitude do not respond because they do not understand the

problems. I

2. Should seek to develop the imagina.tion and teach the obligation t o I

be intelligent.

Prof. MACKENZIE-1. Our individual members work bard in social matters: our organisa­

tions do not. 2. ~he Moral Education League having died, we might again take up

11s work. S. We might .start group study of philosophical ideas, ethical rather than

metaph YSlcal. 4. The Centre should organise such fundamental discussions as would

gain the co-operation of distinguished men.

Prof. MUIRHEAD--1. Unfair to us to compare our success with that of the AmericaXl

Societies: there the flash point of ideas is lower. 2. Goodness, truth, beauty, etc., should be affirmed to be as real as

material things. 3. Our work shou.ld t;Jot be merely. criticism, but a positive challenge. 4. Our moral obligations to our hme are not fulfilled by preaching a

conventional morality. 5. Restore the old Londo? ~thi~l S~iety 'practice of having frequent

addresses from men distIngUlshed 10 philosophy, etc., etc. 6 . Our aim not to supplant the churches, but to bring their moral

oonsciousne;;s to a higher level. C.O.P .E.C. shows that this is going on.

(To be concluded next month.)

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