Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-31

N
 morning after having been absent
 since May 24th, when ne left for Lon
 don to attend the Pan Anglican confer ence. Rev. Simonson was seen at the
 rectory last evening by a Dispatch re Ipresentative, and in response to a re- quest for a statement of the trip and
 the events, said:
 q left here on the morning of May
 24th going direct to eastern Canada,
 where I visited my father for a short
 time going from there to New York,
 sailing thense on the Campania on the 9th of June, and after a pleasant voy- | age arrived in London on the 18th of
 June. The opening of the conference was begun on the 18th of June in l Westminster Abbey. by preparatory sermon delivered by Canon Henson of
 England, followed on the morning of | the 16th by an Intercessional service : led by prominent diyines. The immen- sity of the work undertaken and the
 number of delegates attending made < it imperative that the work be section
 alized, so that the delegations could be accommodated, and to that end diff
 ferent parts of the work were going i forward at the same time in the huge ! halls designated as meeting places in
 the official calendar, the work being
 gone over in review at evening gath erings in the Albert Memorial hall built by Queen Victoria in memory of Prince Albert This is an immense edifice seating thirteen thousand people, though on several evenings more than
 sixteen thousand people attended the services.
 The number of delegates attending the conference was about fourteen thousand. and they came from every
 quarter of the globe. The session prop CT of the conference lasted from the 16th of June until June 23d. The work of the conference was divided primarily into seven sections, from
 which ramified the many branches nee
 essary to cover the field undertaken.
 Briefly stated they were as follows: SectionA, the church of Human so- ciety: Section B, Christian Duty and other intellectual forces: Section c,
 the Church Ministry; Section D. the
 church Ministry in Foreign Lands; Sec ton E, the Church influence in Chris tendon. Section F, Anglican commun-
 ion; Section G, the Duty of the Church to the Young. These subjects were carried out in their many branch es in the meetings throughout the city, and the eminence and ability of the men in charge of the different sections of the work, cannot but have the eff
 feet of shedding great light on these
 questions and giving the church as
 while a greater and better under
 standing of religion a world wide in fIuence.
 Among the most prominent men that attended the conference were the Arch
 bishop of Canterbury, the Biskop of
 London, and from America, Bishop
 Lawrence of Massachusetts and Bish- Op Talbot of western Pennsylyania. Prominent men of the laiety who ad- dressed the conference, were the Right
 Honorable A. J. Balfour, ex-leader of the Tory party in England MT. Mas terman, member of the house of com
 mons, Sir Godfrey Lagdon and IIord
 Hugh Cecil, member of the house of
 Lords.
 Concerning the social side of the conference, Mir. Simonson said: "On June 18th Lord and Lady Strathcona gave a reception for the members of the conference at their home at Kneb- worth, which is about thirty-five miles from London, and is the old Bulwer LyttOn home. Some idea of the un- dertaking may be grasped when it is stated that the reception cost them more than $50,000. Special trains were run from London for the accommoda- tion of the members. leaving at inter- yals of five minutes, each train con- sisting of twelve coaches. At Kneb- worth proper, was three miles from the railroad station, the problem of transporting practically the entire at- tendance of the conference was con fronted, but was successfully met, the reception lasting for two and one half hours.
 On Thursday June 25th, their males ties, the king and Queen. and the prince and princess of Wales. received the conference at Marlborough House in London. The prince and princess of Wales received the guests at four D. m. mingling with them freely and giv- ing them good hearty American hand shakes, something rarely met with among royalty. Shortly after 4 o'clock the king and queen arrived, and while they did not mingle So freely with those bttending, they remained for some time, a shaking hands with re- presentatives of the American church yho entered the Archbishop of Can terbury and the Bishop of London on their recent visit to this country, in all about thirty. They passed slowly to and fro:smong the crowd that thronged the lawn of the grounds wnere the re- ception was held, smiling and bowfng. The reception lasted from D. m. un- til 2.
 Among the numerous receptions that were rendered the visiting delegates was one given by Lady Brassey, also another by the Earl and Countess of Ellsmere. The Marchoness and Mar quis of Salisbury, the widow and son of the late Lord Salisbury. also enter tained the delegates. The Aricaibish- | op of Canterbury, assisted by Mrs. | Randall Davidson, his wife. held a re ception for the conference delegates. after the afternoon session on June |