C Ik Gospel on the Continent

No. ii2. J u l y , 1913.

S t a t u e o f A d m i r a l C o l i g n y i n P a r i s . 2 The Gospel on the Continent, CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.

T h e S o c ie t y ’s A n n iv e r s a r y . A n n iv e r s a r y S e r m o n . T h e A n n u a l M e e t in g . M e e t in g s a t C l if t o n a n d P e n g e . N o t e s .

FOREIGN Air> SOCIETY, Founded in 1840 for helping the Refarmed Churches to extend the Knowledge of .the Gospel on the Continent of .

President: The Right Rea . The Lord Bishop of Durham. Vice-Presidents The Lord Bishops of Liverpool and Newcastle, Lord Kinnaird, The Right Hon. Lord Hrassey, The Archdeacon of T h e R e v . S i r E m i l i u s L a u r i e , B a r t .. R e v . P r e b e n d a r y W e b b -P e p l o f ., R e v . Prebendary Fox, Rev. W . H. G riffith Thomas, D.D., F. A. Bevan, Esq. COMMITTEE. Chairman : Rev. EwarT H arter, M A., Coombe Ridge, Kingston-on-Thames. R ev. H. F. B a r f f , Sf. Chad’s Vicarage, Derby. R e v . R . A. D o b s o n , M.A., St. Michaels Vicarage Southfields. S.W. R e v . H. F. G a s t e r , M A., 39. Alderney Street, Warwick Square, S.W. S i r W. GODSELL, 4, Tring Avenue, Ealing Common C a p t . t h e H o n . C . H o b a r t H a m p d e n , 15, The Avenue, Kew Gardens. S. W. Kei

T reasu rer : F. A. B e v a n , E sq, 54, Lombard Street, E.C. Secreta ry: Rev. H. J. R. Maks ton, M.A , 35, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, London, to whom all communications are to be addressed, and who will receive contri­ butions for the work of God described in these pages. Bankers: Messrs. Barclay and Co., Ltd., 54, Lombard Street, E.C.

THE F0f}EICfl \ ID SOCIETY ASSISTS WITH C^NTS THE 1.—Société Évangélique de Genève.—A missionary society working principally in the south-western provinces of . *2.— Société Evangélique i>e France, which works chiefly in Paris and the centre of France. 3.—Société Centrale Protestante d'Evangélisation, with its some 137 mission stations scattered all over France. 4 —Société Chrétienne Protestante du Nord. —A branch of the above. b.—Société Evangélique Belge, which for sixty years has faithfully worked in Belgium. € .— Les Églises, Libres, who are chiefly engaged in the South of France.

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Cl)e Gospel on the Continent

The Quarterly ‘¡Revte'iv o f the Foreign cAid Society.

No. i i 2. J u l y , 19 13.

THE SOCIETY’S ANNIVERSARY. timid Church in Jerusalem, naturally disinclined to receive one who had f j "*HE Society’s Anniversary Ser- the reputation of a violent and in­ vice was held on St. Barnabas sulting persecutor. Day, June nth, and was very successful. This was a new depar­ By the kindness of the editor, the ture, and one which I trust will be sermon preached on the occasion followed in future years if God has been printed in The Record for permits. Friday, June 20th, under the title, “ L ’Entente Cordiale,” and has been By the kind invitation of the Vicar, issued in book form, at the price of the Rev. F. K. Aglionby, D.D., the one penny per copy. I need not say service was held in Christ Church, more about it here. The offertory Westminster, at 8 p.m. There was amounted to £ 1 12s. lid . a good congregation, as weekday evening congregations go in the The Society’s best thanks are West End of London in the middle respectfully offered once more to Dr. of June. x\glionby for his kindness in welcom­ I must make grateful mention here ing us to his church. It is good to of the devoted help given to the be thus connected with a parish full of Christian zeal and activity, and Anniversary by my former verger, Mr. Beenham, who took notice we trust that reflex blessing may papers to about fifteen churches in redound to the Vicar and his church the week previous ; and would also workers for their hospitality to those thank the clergy of those churches who labour for the spiritual good of for displaying our posters and giving France. notice of the Anniversary. ♦------The Prayers were read by Dr. Aglionby, and the Lessons by the THE ANNUAL MEETING. Rev. Ewart Barter, the Chairman of the Society’s Committee. E had an unusually strong platform on the 12th of June. The sermon was founded on the V All the speeches were good, passage from the Book of the Acts and owing to a simple arrangement of the Apostles which tells how suggested by the Secretary before­ Barnabas introduced Saul to the hand, and kindly observed by the 4 The Gospel on the Continent, speakers, there was no needless absence from the Rev.' E. Barter* iteration. Chairman of Committee ; Sir W. Godsell, who was prevented through Parliamentary duties kept Dr. ill-hex 1th from attending ; and the Montague Barlow from being at the Rev. Worthington Alkin. meeting as he had hoped. We were sorry to miss his bright and cordial Lord Clifden then rose and ad­ advocac}^ but there was no actual dressed the meeting. After outlining necessity for another speaker, and we briefly the nature and sphere of the hold Dr. Barlow in reserve for future work of the Foreign Aid Society, he help, and are confident that he will drew attention to the special need of ■consider himself the Society’s debtor. pecuniar}^ help among the Reformed Churches of the Continent, because The attendance was not large, but of the extreme poorness of the Pro­ much thinner audiences have often testant communities in France, Bel­ been seen at religious annual meet­ gium and Switzerland. He pointed ings. It was specially pleasant to out the excellent work which these have with us Mrs. Theodore Howard churches were doing in combating and Mrs. Farell, both Secretaries to the superstition and infidelity that is Local Branches of the Foreign Aid so rife on the Continent, and alluded Society. to the suggestion that came up The chair was taken by Viscount lately in the French Chamber of Clifden, who was supported by the Deputies, that teachers in schools Dean of Canterbury, the Rev. W- P. should be warned not to inculcate Parker, the Rev. Dukes, the Rev. the fear of God into their pupils, as Pole, M. le Pasteur Bouden7, and being an indication of the general the Secretary. level of religious life of France to­ day. Finally. Lord Clifden said The proceedings were opened with there was undoubtedly a call at the prayer by the Secretary, after which present day for wider knowledge of the Rev. Pole read a short report such a Society as the Foreign Aid of the work of the Society during Society. the past year. This report was merely a very brief summary of the The Dean of Canterbury was the Society’s work and income, and will next speaker. In a most stirring form the basis of the full report to and sympathetic speech, he dwelt be issued later. We are ver\7 sorry upon the great debt owed by the to have to note, however, that ihe Church of to the Reformed financial position of the Society Continental Churches. The English compels it to reduce its annual Reformation, said the Dean, was .grants to the French speaking socie­ mainly due to the Reformation move­ ties, and we much hope that through ments in Germany and France. The the continued kindness of our friends influence of Martin Luther over the the grants next year may reach their first great English Reformers was accustomed total. marked and lasting. The compilers of our Book of Common Prayer, and After the reading of the report, the Tyndale in his translation of the Secretary read letters of regret for Bible, all worked under an impulse The Gospel on the Continent. 5 from the German Reformation. In that it is not lawful for a Protestant the time of Queen Elizabeth, Cal­ to receive the Communion in a vin’s doctrines and preaching exer­ Roman ; at the cised wide power in Scotland, even same time giving his formal -sanction more than in England, under the and approval for the receiving of the force and eloquence of John Knox. Sacrament with the orthodox French The obligations and debt of the and German Reformed Churches. English Church to the Reformed In his will also, Bishop Cozens says Churches on the Continent were, for “ That he desires to die in charity at least 200 years after the Reforma­ with all the true Christian Churches tion, upheld and owned by English in the world, which is to be specially Churchmen of all schools. To this understood to be, with the best day there remains a visible link in Protestant Churches on the Conti­ the chain that bound the Reforma­ nent.” tion in England to the Reformation “ The position of the Reformed abroad. In the crypt of Canterbury Churches in French speaking Cathedral a service is held each countries now,” said the Dean in Sunday by a French Protestant conclusion, “ is one of opportunity. pastor for the descendants of those Men like Monod and Border do Huguenots who took refuge in much to weaken the spiritual life of a England during the persecutions nation, yet the Roman Catholic that followed on the Revocation of Church at present is driving the the Edict of Nantes. The use of people away alike from Roman the Cathedral crypt for their wor­ Catholicism and from Christianity. ship was granted them then, and the Infidelity and unbelief are spreading, service survives to this day ; so that and it is for the Protestant Churches here in Canterbury, which from its to check their growth and bring the nearness to the coast towns of the people back to the true faith as it is English Channel was a convenient in . The Foreign Aid Society •centre for the escaped refugees, and seeks to assist them in the task. It where many French Protestant mer­ helps those who help themselves, chants still settle, there exists an and is particularly worthy of support association between the Mother because it helps to maintain the Church of English Christianity and specifically Evangelical and Protest- the remnants of French Protes­ tant Churches of the Reformation.” tantism. The Dean referred to the double The Rev. W. P. Parker, British testimony given by Bishop Cozens, Chaplain at Calais, followed in a .of Durham, to the fraternity existing vigorous and interesting speech full between the Church of England and of matter, and delivered with much the Reformed Churches abroad. vivacity. He dwelt on the preva­ Bishop Cozens was a distinct High lence of indifference and unbelief in Churchman, yet in a letter to some the French people, and illustrated of his fellow countrymen who were his statement with some references staying in Paris, and who wrote to to his experience of things as a him asking his advice concerning Chaplain. He spoke with enthusiasm their religious observances, he wrote of the high qualities which he had 6 The Gospel on the Continent,

noted in the French Pastors as­ The meeting concluded with the sembled recently at a Synod in Benediction, pronounced by the Rev. " Boulogne, to which he had been Dr. Aglionby. A collection was invited ; declaring that they were taken at the door, amounting in all men of zeal, intelligence, capacity to between £9 and £ 10 . and Christian devotion, and had impressed him greatly as thoroughly ♦------equipped for the task of evangelising France. MEETING AT CLIFTON. N April 29th, by the kind invita­ He asked the meeting to send a tion of Canon and Mrs. Capel, message of cordial salutation to a 0 a meeting for the Society was similar gathering to be held in Calais held in the drawing room of their on June 23rd, a request which was house. The Vicar of Clifton took answered with warm applause. The the chair. message was afterwards put into due Mr. Decandole, in opening the form by the Secretary, and was duly meeting, referred to the many mani­ delivered by Mr. Parker. festations of the work of the Holy Ghost now discernible in the world. None had been more remarkable than The Rev. E. J. Dukes was the last that appeal from the new Govern­ speaker. He pleaded earnestly for ment in for prayer on the part federation between the various of the Christian Church ; this should agencies working for the spread of encourage us all to strive in the spiritual religion on the Continent. fellowship of prayer and labour for He briefly described one such work, the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord. “ La Mission Gallicaine,” the repre­ sentative of which was in the hall, They were met together that after­ and asked whether there was an noon to hear of the progress of the Anglican clergyman or layman who Kingdom of Christ in a part of the world close to their own shores in would become the Secretary of that the beautiful land of France, and of movement in England. the operations of the Foreign Aid Society in that and the neighbouring He emphatically declared that of lands ; and he welcomed in Mr. all the agencies at work in the Marston an old friend, and one who common field of evangelising the was not quite a stranger to Clifton. Continent, the Foreign Aid Society Mr. Marston then delivered an seemed to him that one which wras address, entitled “ Watchman ! What best calculated to become the centre of the night ? ” He dealt at length round which the rest might rally for with the state of religion on the conti­ co-operation and counsel. These nent of Europe, and pointed out some words were specially weighty, coming grounds for hoping that there were signs of a revived concern in spiritual as they did from one who described things, and a reaction against the himself as belonging to an old evil philosophy of the 18th century, Huguenot family and as a minister through the influence of Bergson. of a Christian communion differing This, if not Christian, was at least in some important respects from the akin to those great truths on which English Church. Christian faith and life repose. The Gospel on the Continent 7 The meeting was excellent in num­ Our hearty thanks are due to Mr. and bers and in temper; the best thanks Mrs. Abbot foi their kindly welcome o f the Society were offered to the to the work in a parish already full of kind host and hostess, who, after the many good works. meeting, entertained the guests to tea. Offerings were received to the ♦------funds of the Society amounting to ^ 2 ios. NOTES. 4------O u r sincere thanks are tendered to the editor of The Record for giving publication to the annual sermon THE MEETING AT PENGE. preached by the Secretary on behalf of the Society in Christ Church, EW ground for the Society was Westminster, on the evening of St. broken on Ascension Day, Barnabas Day. The sermon has been May ist, w’hen at the kind invi­ reprinted from The Record in small tation of the Rev. Walter Abbot, book form, and copies may be ordered Vicar of Christ Church, Penge, a of the Secretary, price one penny meeting was held in the pleasant each. upper room of the Parochial Hall. # & Tea was first provided by the kind­ ness of some friends in the parish. We regret to record the death of Miss Austin, for many years the Hon. The Vicar opened the meeting with Secretary of the Bath Branch of the prayer and some interesting observa­ Society. She had for long been in tions on the work of the Foreign Aid weak health, but remained warmly •Society. He criticised the name of interested in our work to the last. the Society, which he said conveyed Miss Sanders has kindly consented to him no definite idea at all. He to act as her successor for the present, had read the booklet written by Mr. and we trust that she may see her Barter, and from it he saw how way to kindly continue in the office great the need of the work in France for a long time. She has already was, and howr the Society was doing been a helper to the Foreign Aid its best to meet the grave needs of Society in more wTays than one, and religion in the land that we all knew has not a few gifts that make her a so well, and to which we all owed so very valuable all)r. much. # # Mr. Marston then delivered the same address as that which he gave Father Bernard Vaughan is at Clifton two days before. always diverting, even where he is not impressive. He has the happy At the close of the address, the faculty for seizing on the immediately Rev. D. L,atham, Vicar of St. Pauls, attractive points. He is humorous Beckenham, spoke in warm terms of and colloquial on matters grave and the Society. He asked the Secretaiy profound. It is therefore interesting some interesting questions as to the to us to read these sprightly observa­ past history of religion in France, tions which he made recently at which led to some lively and inter­ Liverpool on religion in France. esting conversation which greatly He will assuredly be glad to learn pleased the audience. Several books that his observations are corroborated were gladly taken by those present, from a quarter which he would look and thus seed was sown in new soil. at with a lenient suspicion. M. 8 The Gospel on the Continent.

Victor Broux, the Secretary of the actually guiding them. Priests and Evangelical Society of Geneva, quite people were drawing closer together. lately wrote to me and reported that No matter to what church or chapel his colporteurs tell him of a sense of he went, he found it full, if not the need for religion reviving in the thronged; not as in past years with hearts of the French peasants, among women and children only, but with whom their Bible work is carried on. young clerks, university students, and When two such divergent witnesses professional men, together with a as -Father Bernard Vaughan and M. brave show of officers and men of the Broux agree, there is good hope that rank and file. The greatest blessing the facts sustain the deponents. that had happened to France during the past hundred years was the [Extracted fpom ‘J The Times."'] Separation Bill. By it the Church, which had for a century been chained F a t h e r V a u g h a n on R e u g io n like a slave to the wheels of the State in F r a n c e . chariot, had been set free. Father Bernard Vaughan addressed He wished that the Christian young 5000 young men in St. George’s Hall, men of England would learn a lesson Liverpool, yesterday afternoon. The from the Catholic youth in France to­ Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liver­ day. When he turned his eyes from pool was in the chair. Paris to London, he felt mortified, Father Vaughan said that he had hurt, and humiliated. How7 pathetic lately been to Marseilles, Lyons, and it jvas to read Lord Roberts’ appeal Paris, and had been stu pin g the on the one hand and the Marconi state of religion in those great scandals on the other, and to feel that centres of French life. In Paris he it would all fizzle out, for nobody spent his time between its churches cared and nothing much mattered but and its schools, its clubs and its to get rich quick, as they were told slums. Ten years had elapsed be­ in the play. It looked as if some tween his last two visits. On the people wanted to put up the Empire previous one he felt pessimistic. To­ to auction, to be knocked down to day he was optimistic about religious the highest bidder. Patriotism was revival in France. The tide was on languishing, because religion was the turn, nay, actually coming in. dead. God alone could resuscitate it. The clerg3T were no longer tethered During the past ten years, while the to the sacristy. On the contrary, population of Liverpool had increased they were in the swim of great social 45,000, its church-going people had and economic movements, if not decreased by 20,000.

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