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September 8, 1909. made some semi-facetious sibility of air-ships, quot that the Lord has given th has reserved the heavens as a whole, was helpful am In the afternoon we att dral. That was my first This is one of the ancient one of the noted ones. C Roman Catholics, as wer drals of England, but sine it has belonged to the C went through the regular day afternoon, but the d< the service in a way thai and in a way that I did i mummer)' to me. There ing. The music was ve never knew that boys co the vested choir sanor thr ?ro ? cathedral there are at leas Churches in Chester. I affecting the lives of th ought. I am afraid also be said of churches of all I asked the clerk at the woman, how many Estat in Chester. She replied: I don't know that the peop them. You know they churches and public hou saloons are everywhere in in Presbyterian Scotland. In the evening I attende They have about one hi and a good preacher. /uir PAn * *** auu vaiti land it is strange when > Presbyterianism has mad< not a hundred thousand < byterian Qiurch in the v are more even in Ireland, that I was in a Presbyte the same simple dignity find in the Presbyterian < singing was fine. The i Anderson. He has a Scotch gown, as all Presbyteriar and he preached a good script and used it well. : i : ?: ? i ? _ u _ ~ _ 1 % 11 c* liiijudici uaa ci j^uuu difficult to grip and hold script. However, I am difference between audien America. Here they ex them. In America they e them and keep them awak My letter would not be ?nce to my visit to the h ment of Matthew Henry miintatAr Turflntv-fiwo . ? ?v..v; ...v of his ministry were spenl daincd in London and car That was in 1687. He THE PRESBYTERIj remarks about the imposing the verse which says e eartli to man, but that He for Himself. The service, d 1 felt the better for it. ~~A~A - - - -i- - * ? t cnucu service at me v,atneservice in a real cathedral, cathedrals of England and >f course it was built by the e practically all the cathe:e the days of Henry VIII. hurch of England. They Episcopal service on Sun?an and the canon intoned : I had never heard before not like. It was so much ...oo ' v? a.3 no diLciii|H at preacnr)* sweet and beautiful. I uld sing as those boys of it afternoon. Besides the t a dozen other Established am afraid they are not e Chester people as they that the same things can denominations in America, hotel, a very intelligent dished Churches there are "More than a dozen and ?le are any the better off for say Chester is a place of ises (saloons)." But the this kingdom. They are :d the Presbyterian Church, jndred and fifty members When we remember that hisms were made in Eng,ve see how little headway t in England. There are rommunicants of the Prcs/hole of England. There I very soon discovered rian Church. There was about the service that we Church in America. The ninister is Rev. Frank W. i accent and wears a Scotch 1 ministers do over there, sermon. He used manuI rather like a manuscript literary style. But it is an audience with a manuconvinced that there is a ces here and audiences in pect the minister to feed xpect the minister to feed A 4.A/N C, IUU. complete without a referome and grave and monu, the great preacher and of the twenty-seven years t in Chester. He was orne immediately to Chester, continued in Chester until \N OF THE SOUTH. 1712, when he went to the I don.. He died June 22, any one who will read caref and labors will be that he v He died before he had reach f rpmpmKpr fr? 1** ******* ****** A ui - lu navt 1 tdU HIS the one thing that struck n the tremendous energy of the nation of his commentaries of how he must have workee ister ought to own his corr were written two hundred yi part, I have never seen a cor suggestive or more devotions I went to his grave in 1 not yet been able to under? buried in the Church of Engl ordained by the Presbyterian byterian faith, though he di question as to whether he sli pal or Presbyterian ordinatio he chose the latter. In 1860 the people of Che monument to his memory i spicuous places in the city, in is still pointed out to the but comfortable looking bui days it has been very much ings which come right up a I have recently heard an Matthew Henry's mother. E Honr.. cU^ V*: ' txvuij anc wds ivxiss v^ainern objected to the marriage, sayi was a good man and gave good minister, they did no1 from. "Very true," replied know where he is going, a with him." She went. I wish I could tell of o Eaton Hall, the vast and Duke of Westminster, and 1 of William E. Gladstone. Hawarden was especially ii Church in which Mr. Gladst We were shown the seat ii We saw also the beautiful r< and Mrs. Gladstone, which a of the Church, and then th< his memory on which are v from his public utterances, struck me most: "All I wi all I hope, is based upon the 1 one central hope of our poor My next letter will probabl August 12, 1909. How can we say, "Thine are not loyal to the King? I is the power" if we are powei "Thine is the glory" if our 1 less? If our prayers are to 1 must be something more th them. 4. 5 iackney Church in Lon1714. The verdict of ully the story of his life vorked himself to death. led his fifty-second year, life some years ago, and le most about him was i man. A casual examialone will give an idea 1. I believe every minimentaries, even if they ears ago. For my own nmentary thaf was more il. 'rinity Church. I have itand why he should be land. He was certain'y s and preached the Presd consider seriously the iouia receive the tpisccn. As a matter of fact, ster erected a handsome 11 one of the most conThe house that he lived visitor. It is a modest lding. In these latter shut in by other build.gainst it. interesting story about '.efore she married Plii1ir? ne Matthews. Her father ng that while Mr. Henry fair promise of being a t know where he came Miss Catherine, "but 1 nd I should like to g^ ur trip on Monday to beautiful estate of the to Hawarden, the home The old Church at nteresting. It is the one always worshipped, i which he always sat. ecumbent statues of Mr. A1. - - -1 ic uvcr un me west siae ;re is a mural tablet to irritten sentiments taken Here is the one that rite and all I think, and Divinity of our Lord, the wayward race." ly be from Scotland. Walter L. Lingle. is the kingdom" if we low can we say, "Thine less? How can we say, ives are dull and lustrehave any meaning there an a form of words in