The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-12
By PAUL LAMBETH

] ing man. The light brown hair is scarce ly dimmed to gray, the forehead is high and broad, the cheeks somewhat thin and l faded, the pale complexion scarcely tanned by Atlantic sun and breezes. He presents, indeed. the type of an Ameri can ascetic, belonging to some arduoul profession. He might be an inventor, | politician, a yellow press editor a maya conmander. but we put aside all such l thronging suggestions, and greet him al a physician, the ''picker-up of learning crumbs,' new Karshish. who has come l in his wanderings to London.
 l Although he has "come. been heard and | conquered" Dr. Broughton is not going | to hurry stolid London. He intends to amble quietly along during the first three | or four months, sound the depths of this metropolitan community, study local con- ditions and then uncork his bottled vigor, giving London his full force and strength. 1 He will go to Switzerland for a brief rest | and to ruminate when he has felt the | pulse of the people who come to the big | church, now the most popular place of worship in the Modern Babylon" And after that? London will know that sec ond Paul has come to Tarsus
 The abolition of the Liturgy was the initial act of the new reign at Christ
 
 blackboard lesson which causes some to weep, others to groan, but more to come to the church and to listen with delight. Dr. Broughton defends his ways in these words: Applied Christianity There is nothing that concerns man on his march from the cradle to the grave that should not concern the church of Christ. If the church cannot, or will not. discharge tho task, because 1t is too big. then 1 say in all candor she should retire from the field and let some one else take her place"
 A new Karshsh has surely come to our sleepy town and the wind is rising be- hind him.
 The eccentric and famous Rowland Hill was one time pastor of Christ Church, though not at its present location. John building in which pr. Broughton is now preaching, and of it's many towers one was erected by the American friends of Newman Hall who was it's pastor for many years. The new pastor reminded us that conditions had wholly changed in Lambeth since Christ Church-a stately Nonconformist cathedral-was first erect ed The dignified residential houses have given way to factories and tenements. There is a shifting population instead of well-to-do residents. It is no easy task for any man to maintain a fourishing congregation amidst such conditions. On the other hand, there is the great advan- tage that from all parts of London people can reach the church easily
 pr. Broughton clearly expects to draw worshippers from beyond the immediate neighborhood. He drew comfort from this thought: ''I have come to know the com munity and the community knows me-"
 Property worth $150,OO0,000 "a fortune almost beyond the dreams of avarice," is now in litigation in the probate court here. An attempt is being made to break the will of Henry Page. who died In 1929, the owner of 10000 acres in the heart of London Apart altogether from the legal side of the dispute which involves many technicalities, the hereditants which are its subject matter, are of historic interest. They include portion of northwest Lon don which has increased in value at immense strides within the last 50 years. At one time the property was held by the great ambitious Cardinal Wolsley, who was stripped of the estate when Henry VIII dismissed him in disgrace. When Charles and Charles II were mortgaging the royal demesnes to pay for their frolies with Fairfax and Rochester the lands passed from the crown. and so In due course to the eccentric Henry Page, who left a will which nobody has been able to
 
 demolished, other buildings put up, par- cels of the land have changed hands. rail- roads have been given franchise and run ming way, some have been paid into court and yet nobody has been declared the owner of the property. When Sir William Harcourt was chancellor of the exchequer and the then liberal govern ment hunting hard for funds, a sugges- ton was made that the crown should tba md daypta n f}aa benefit of the public treasury. Mir Glad stone. however, frowned on the proposi- tion, holding that the government should not deprive the rightful heirs of what was due to them. and now comes Mrs. Charlotte Anne Tappenden, a descendant Of Henry Page. who alleges that Henry Young. executor of the will. and a bene- ficiary, exercised undue influence, claim ing the s150,0o0,0OO of real estate which has so long gone a-begging.
 The Bishop of London GOT. Ingram) is a zealous devotee of the royal game of golf. On his tour of the United States he played with tho President; but took care that the match took place on pri- yate grounds, where the eagle eyes of the American newspaper reporters could not penetrate. How the game ended Dr. Ingram will<not say. But he has hearty respect for Mir. Tafts skill with the golf club. The bishop once played a certain lawyer whose language during the match shocked him intensely. Asked how he had liked the game, this was his reply: "I am afraid my opponents profession un- dermines his sense of justice, for over and over again heard him ask heaven to condemn his caddie. prematurely, for his own misdeeds''
 Douglas Hamilton head of the Agape- monites. the self-styled new Jehovah threatens to thrust himself upon the American people. Things have been made so hot for Hamilton and his Abode of Love" at Spaxton-in-the-Shires that he is seriously contemplating pulling up stakes and crossing the Atlantic. Some of the evidence printed against him here by certain of the less squeamish London newspapers is really unprintabe The principal witness against him is Sister Ruth" and the story that she is telling about the Abode of Love- had got all England by the cars. The immigration laws ought surely to be invoked to pro tect the United States from this man.
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