The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-04
ST. .1IARY-AT-HTLL.
An Int esting London Church-Work
 of the Church Army-The Rev. Will son Garlic and His TrOmbone-Queer but Impressive Services --tIr. Carliie's

but Impressive Services s--EIr. Carliie', l sermon.
 | To the Editor of the Journal and Courier: London, Aug. 2S.-One of my most startling experiences as a searcher af- ter what is new and advanced in church work was that upon which l | stumbled one Sunday evening when took a ticket on the Underground railway for a station called the .Monu- ment, To say, however, that "stum- bled' upon this experience may mis- lead. What I had heard had fully pre- pared me for something novel; the ac-
 cidental feature was in the fact that
 my expectations of novelty and sensa- tionalism were so far exceeded. Never
 before had I seen such "carryings on'
 in any regular church on either conti- nent, and the Strangest circumstance Of all was that such a service should have occurred in one of the time- honored temples of the Church of England
 But the reader shall judge for himsedf, and that he may not too hastily con- demn, let him remember that our visit
 is to church which in ordinary condi-
 tions would be as lonesome as desert-
 ed attic, and that we are on the track
 of a minister who either in spite of his
 sensationalism or because of it has
 done almost as much to bless the mass
 es by means of his Church Army as
 General Booth has done through his
 larger and older Salvation Army
 Monument station on the London
 Underground gets its name from that
 towering weather beaten memorial
 which on Fish Hill, leading out of
 Eastcheap, and not far from London
 Bridge, overlooks a district of this
 great metropolis whose narrow streets
 are devoted on week days to whole
 sale marketing. On Sundays this dis
 trict wears forsaken aspect. One
 misses in it the tides of traffic which
 for six days have glutted it's lanes and
 alleys. One also misses some of it's
 distinctive odors, and. of course, there
 has been a clearing out over the Sab-
 bath of the better clements in it's very
 mixed population. But the laborers
 are still there, so are their families.
 So, too, are there many loungers about,
 and there still remain, in streets not
 very far away, numbers of people be-
 longing to what is known as the small tradesman class. To be sure of not go- ing wrong I ask the station gatekeep- CT, in giving up my ticket, which is the most direct way to the church known as St. Mary-at- whose rector is Rev. Wilson Garlic. It is in Love Lane, I am told, an uninviting alley which few blocks away turns out of the main thoroughfare of Eastcheap. But you don't need any directions, the bands around added my informant. So 1t was, and the tune it happened to be playing just then-"Pull for the shore, sailor, pull for the shore"-didr't seem inappropriate to one who was In doubt as to the wayhe should take.
 This band made far better than the ordinary Salvation Army music, and wholly different from those one usually sees was the procession it led. The young women who were parading were in the ordinary attire of the street, but the men were arrayed in white sur plces, topped off with mortar board hats Ones first thought was that 1t was a procession of the clergy, With just enough girls in it to remind one that woman is the clergyman's chief in the good work he does. | But first thoughts are often wrong. 1 Even the members of the band were arrayed in white robes. Some clergy 1 men it Is true-so I've heard-would not | to blow their own horn now and | again in quiet way, but they would l hardly band themselves together to do | 1t on the public streets. Still, to speak | seriously, it would be quite proper these | lays if ministers should more frequent | y blow the trumpet of the gospel on | he streets. In London both ministers md laymen do this more than in any other city In the world. So the writer's
 thoughts ran as he first came in sight ,f that procession on Eastcheap. But ancy was soon brought to book by act. The banners told me that what I 1eheld was squad of the Church Army and that it's white-robed and mort ar boarded components were not
 lergymen, of that was assured by the and cockney tones in which hese earnest men, some in front and ome at the rear shouted out their in- -itations to us to go at once to the ser ice MT. Garlic was about to conduct n the church of St. Mary -at-H!ll.
 In the vestibule of the church had ny first view of the Inspiring geuius of his great movement. Here was the nan who twenty years ago. stimulated " the example of William Booth, and .ith the conviction that the Church of Ingland ought not to leave the sub 1erged Tenth to be cared for by organ- cations that were outside her own fold, tarted a society within that fold which as so developed since that, in addi- ion to the evangelstic work 1t does in he army, in prisons in infrmaries, nd in it's rescue homes for women, it as now in constant service throughout he country districts of England sixty even Diocesan Mission vans, each van named by two or more trained york rs, and in London and the large pro- ] incial cities is maintaining seventy < -hich there pass annually more than { even thousand outcasts, of whom it is [ lid that forty-two per cent of them , otain situations and fresh start in f ee.
 Knowing these things about him it as natural I should think I knew MT. arlile himself, but I was mistaken in ! lis. My preconceptions had made :. i'm venerable with a face whose chief f would be kindliness, and f ith the manner of a man who had q 1ne so much that by this time he ould be settling down to take things ,