The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-07-20 00:00:00

BISHOPS IN LONDON PULPITS.

On Sunday last forty-five bishops Preached in metro-
politan churches, being an excess of five over the num-
ber which preached the previous Sunday. of this large
number there were only five bony) bishops, viz., the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the
Bishop of Brechin, the Bishop of Aberdeen, and Bishop
Claughton, Chaplain General of the Forces. Of the other
right rev, preachers two wete from Canada, three from
Africa, three from Australia, three from India, two from
the West Indies, one from China, two from New
Zealand, and the remainder chiefly from the United
States of America. In aid of the Society for the Pro-
pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 55 sermons
were preached in London on Sunday, and of these
foreign and colonial bishops contributed 42, some of
them preaching twice, the remainder having been
delivered by the Bishop of Brechin, the Bishop of
Aberdeen, Bishop Claughton, the Archdeacon of Cal-
cutta, and clergymen attached to colonial dioceses.
With one exception—that of the Bishop of Colombo—
bishops from the United States occupied on Sundays
the pulpits at the various services in St. Paul's, West-
minster Abbey, and the Chapel Royal, Savoy.

Up wards of 60,000 persons were present at a temper-
ance fête held on Tuesday at the Crystal Palace. The gather-
ing was organized by the committee of the Band ot Hope
Union, and the proceedings included a cricket match, a
balloon race, concerts by two choirs of 6,000 each, and two
or three temperance meetings, In which Admiral Sir "William
King Halt, Canon Wilberforce,Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., and
Mr. A. Sullivan, M. P. took part. No intuit:Ming ltzwrs
wow poli Ow cluas tuclat

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HOSPITAL SUNDAY IN LONDON.

Up to Saturday (13th) the fund now being raised at the
Mansion-house in aid of this institution, under the auspices
of the Lord Mayor, amounted to nearly £21,000, or quite as
much as was collected last year in the same interval. The
managing committee hope that the sum eventually raised
will reach over £25,000, the amount collected last year.

The annual collection in aid of the Hospital Sunday
Fund was made on Sunday in the Roman Catholic
churches and chapels in the dioceses of Westminster
and Southwark, Previous arrangements had pre-
vented its being made on the day appointed for the
general collection. Cardinal Manning preached
at the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington, from the text
"God is charity; he that abideth in charity
abideth in God and God in him." John 1, 5-16
He began by saying if he were governed only
by human motives he would feel ashamed in
appealing to them to-day. Four times on five
successive Sundays they had been appealed to on
behalf of various works of charity. Having dwelt at
some length on the motive, the measure, the order-
and law of charity, the Cardinal observed that once a
year Hospital Sunday, by a very wise and good rule,
brought to mind all the miseries, sickness, suffering,
pains, and agonies of those who were afflicted in body
in this vast wilderness of men. There were at least
three-and-a-half millions of people in London, and
we were told upon the most certain evidence that
the annual mortality was about 70,000. He did
not suppose that one case of sickness in ten was
mortal, and therefore there must be in London some
700,000 cases of sickness in the year. It might be
said that there was abundance of hospitals, but all
the hospitals in London put together would not
receive more than 35,000 in-patients in the year—
scarcely half of those who died and hardly an appreci-
able proportion of the sick. Every year the deficiency
in the revenues of existing hospitals reached £40,000.
The charity of physicians, surgeons, and those who
devoted themselves to the care of the sick, stimulating
others, raised a very large amount annually, and yet
all their efforts fell short by some £40,000 of what was
needed for the maintenance of the hospitals. Let them
think of whole families who depended on the labour of
the father who, in the perilous toil of daily life, might
fall from a scaffold, or of the mother who might be
struck down by sickness, and for whom the hospitals
afforded the only relief. And then let them turn to
the enormous wealth, the frightful wealth and luxury,
the signs of which would meet them as they
went away from that church, and yet how many rich
men clothed in purple and fine linen never gave even
two mites that make one farthing to alleviate the
miseries of the poor. Let us, therefore, exercise a
little self-denial, and out of the little we possessed do
something for those whom God loved perhaps more
than he loved us. The amount collected was £32.
The Right Rev. Monsignor Capel, D.D., preached
at the High Mass in St. George's Cathedral, South-
wark, and made an eloquent appeal on behalf of the
Metropolitan Hospital Fund. The collection amounted
to £l9 18s. 9d.