The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-22

i CT will be to get rid of the turf alto
 gether. Yes he added, we must ge
 rid of the turf altogether and at this
 an audible smile passed over the con | gregation, And no wonder, for in Eng | land you might as well talk of abolish.
 ing matrimony or even human nature The preacher, however, was persistent
 and the smile of incredulty which had
 greeted his drastic proposal evidently
 reminded him of something, for he al | once exclaimed, with half smile on his | own face, but with concentrated earn
 estness in voice and gesture, Yes,
 know, but I say again, we must get rid 1 of the turf, notwithstanding the king,
 and it was apropos of this last allusion | that applause again broke out
 Here was palpable reminder that King Edward. in the support he gives
 to racing and betting, as we'll as in | some other of his kingly acts-as. for instance his late visit to Bass brewe- ry to start new mash called the
 Kings ale--is doing things which many
 of his subjects deeply lament. It is at
 points like these that the king, popular
 though he Is in a general way, is still
 putting his royal head against what is
 known over here as the "Non-conform-
 ist conscience.' which means the con-
 science Of the chapel people in contra
 distinction from that ofpeo pie who be-
 long to the Established church In all
 his great measures of reform this Non
 conformst conscience was Mir. Glad
 stone's great reliance. He was not q
 Non -conformist himself; he was a High
 churChman. Yet the -conformist
 took to him and he to them, and he and
 the Non conformists, when they pulled together, were an immense power in England for social and moral righteous ness.
 But that which had been Gladstones strength became the bane and over throw of Lord Rosebery who was the next leader of the Liberal party, and of this fact one is especially reminded at this time, both by Rosebery's recent emereence out of retirement and by the inquiry that is going forward into the evils of betting. About the time that Rosebery succeeded Gladstone a horse of Rosebery's succeeded in winning the Derby. This, in one way, was great stroke of luck for his hardship, for 1t put the crown upon His ambition and in the estimation of typical Englishmen made him as really national hero as Wellington or Nelson ever were But Lord Rosebery had his party to reckon with and that was largely composed of Non -conformists, who, though they are lax in some things in comparison with of the same class, have nev- ar thought a Derby winner worthy of | or the racecourse as good as a | prayer meeting. To say the least. it | seemed tritle incongruous that the re- | igious descendants of the Puritans | should have as their political leader one who was a vaunted cavalier, addicted | 0 the sports of the turf and the upshot vas that Lord Rosebery's reputed fol- overs didn't follow him and make his position so uncomfortable that he very oon sought peace in resignation.
 Dr. Parker, pr. Clifford and Hugh Price Hughes were all laundering and tightening from their pulpits against he leader whose horse had captured he Derby, and one only wonders in ooking back to those days and at the anne time seeing what is going on at resent, what magnanimous stuff Rose ery must be made of that he can so oon have forgiven these clerical in- uisitors. But he certainly must have one so, for it is only a few Sundays ince he went tohear Dr. Parker preach nd afterwards, in the vestry of City 'emple, had a friendly Confab with i'm. Before that, too, he had gone to t. James hall to one of the great lission services held under the direc- on of Hugh Price Hughes. MT. ( [ughes himself was not in charge: he as been in retirement through illness | 'r nearly year. But what an act of in Lord Rosebery to even | isit the meeting-house of this sturdy erical critic. especially as MT. Hughes eWspaper, the Methodist Times" is ill as hot upon his lordship's trail as
 ever was. Such things as these, how uch they rebound to Lord Rosebery's edit, Traits of this kind make him om big in popular esteem and, in con ection with his other qualities. un- mark him out as man who. te Chamberlain and Balfour is sure
 have a great future.
 the House of Lords com- ! ittee still sits twice a week to inquire to the evils of betting, and the infor- ation it is squeezing out will at least