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been surprised, even alarmed, to find
the principles Of sociali5in advocated In
80 thoroug.g ping o fashion OF church
congress. For some years, 1t is known,
there has been a growing socialistio rnrtJ
In the Church. 1t would seem that 1t Ia
somewhat stronger and more widespread
than was generally supposed.
Still, 1t In safe to say that the vast bulk
OF the Anglican clergy and laity have been
quite untouched by socialistic theories.
TIE Pan-Angican, congress over, the
Lambeth conference Of Archbishops and
Bishops follows. 1t will have some hard
matters to consider, especially the claims
OF Canterbury to a quasi jurisdiction over
the whole Anglican community.
At the last Lambeth conference the
American Bishops strongly objected to
any tribunal that could in any way subject
the Church to the jurisdiction, direct or
indirect, OF the Privy Council. In the new
Anglican Church In Japan an efhally strong
feeling exists, and 1t was stated at one of
the Pan-Anglican meetings that when
Japan is ripe for Metropolitan he must
be Japanese.
W.. B. Harris. who has been much in
Morocco as correspondent Of the Times,
describes in that paper the evidences Of
civilization accumulated in Fee by Abdul
Aziz, for the destruction Of which Mulai
Hafd, the victorious pretender, has been
blamed
There are" he says. many broken and
hopelessly rusty motor cars-there are no
roads in Morocco; stable Of SCORES Of
damaged bicycles. a studio packed from
floor to ceiling with warped cameras and
decaying Photographic materials, state
coach, moth eaten within, which the damp
and rain Of three years have almost turned
to pulp; four post beds Of expensive looking
glass, q passenger lift, never installed Of
course; vast kitchen ranges which burn coal,
which is unproourable in Morocco; dam
aged steam launch or two, an enormous
collection of biograph films, many Of sub
jects which the London County Councils
would never permit in London; cases of
imaginary and fantastic uniforms invented
and evolved by expensive tailors. stores
full Of broken mechanical toys, gilded
bird cages, telescope ladders such as are
used for cleaning the Eoofs of railway
bldhOun, al luCOiuplcJ0 q DT7nt
ing press. the weight of which has sunk
it deep into an open air tennis court, where
it was first put and abandoned and still
remains; miles OF wall papers, ladies' under
clothing and false hair. fire balloons. pianos,
harmoniums and street organs. stuffed birds
and a thousand other miscellaneous atroci-
ties, one and all corrupted by moth and
rust, eaten by rats and covered with mildew
and cobwebs.
"When one considers the hundreds of
thousands Of pounds OF what should have
been public funds expended by Abdul Aziz
on these evidences Of civilization'-largely
at time when people were dying OF famine
in the streets outside the palace; when one
consider, how this accumulation of foreign
extravagances shocked and scandalized the
Puritanical mind of the thrifty Moor, one
can only congratulate Mllai Hafid on this
evidence of his intention to turn his mind
to serious affairs and gain the respect Of
his subjects by cleansing the palace of the
expensive, insanitary and useless trash COL
lected by his> predecessor.
The patient work Of the excavator and
the scholarly Toll of the decipherer of rec
ords on stone and papyrus are slowly but
surely revealing the secrets OF ancient
Egypt. Had any one suggested to our grand
fathers that their grandchildren might one-
day look upon the actual features of Nlosess
Pharaoh he would surely have been greeted
with pity II not derision.
But twenty-seven years ago Brugsch
Bey startled the world by the discovery
Of the bodies OF the Pharaohs at Thebes.
And in the Cairo museum to-day one may
look upon the shrivelled and distorted
figure OF the veritable Rameses and Of
Menephthah. his son, the Pharaoh Of the
Biblical story of the crossing Of the Red
Sea by the children OF Israel.
This same Prof. Brugsch has now dis
covered and deciphered the hieroglyphic
record Of the seven years Of famine mem
toned in the latter chapters Of the Book of
Genesis. Traces Of granaries have been
found and records of the widespread build
ing of granaries about the time mentioned
in Genesis have been discovered and de-
ciphered, but no actual confirmation of the
Bible story has hitherto been available.
Brugsoh has now deciphered Inscriptions
which tell how for seven successive years
the Nile did not overflow; how in conse-
quence vegetation wthered and failed,
the land was devoid OF crops, and pesti-
lence devastated the country. And the date
OF this record is 100 B. c., the date given
In Genesis.
I'VE know" says Prof. Brugsch, that
the date Of the seven years fruitlessness
mentioned in Genesis was 100 B. c., and
thus what has been looked upon as a fancy