Evening star., 1923-12-14
British Mission Off to Brazil
To Aid Economic Restoration

estate any one of his children who
married d Christian.
The remainder OF the mission is
composed Of Sir Charles Adds,
president of the Institute Of Bank
ers, in London; a director OF the Bank
of England, and one Of the principal
English experts on foreign invest
ment. Another member of the mis-
sion is Lord Levat. who has until
now shone rather as a particularly
gallant soldier and as general OF
the British army, than as a financier.
His name, however, is calculated
to inspire general confidence among
his countrymen by reason of the
wholesome nature Of his character
and his unblemished reputation. he
is the sixteenth peer OF his line, the
superchieftain Of the great scottish
clan of Fraser. and owns close upon
100000 acres of land in the northern
kingdom. He throws himself with
most magnetic enthusiasm into every
cause which he undertakes. and if
he is satisfied with the information
which he expects to gain in Brazil,
that great South American republic
will find in him, on his return to
Europe. one of its most useful and
convincing champions.
But it may well be asked why the
Brazilian government should have
found ii necessary to appeal to Great
Britain, rather than to the United
States. for assistance and encourage
economic restoration and financial re-
organization.
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Since it is proposed to bring across
the Atlantic, for the reconstruction
in this western hemisphere, a score
or more Of old city OF London
churches, most of them masterpieces
Of the architecture of Sir Christo-
pher Wren, the creator of st. Paul's
Cathedral, churches which, by reason
of their proximity to one anosher.
have no longer any congregation and
stand empty in the British metropolis
most Of the year round, 1t may be
we'll 10 write something about the
rone-forgotten saints whose names
,hev hear. AS a general rule, these
churches. which are to be transported
across the three thousand miles OF
ocean were built on the foundations
of churches in the city of London
that dated several hundred years be-
fore the days of Sir Christopher
Wren. and which had been almost en-
tireIv destroyed by the great fire of
London. in the reign of Charles IL.
one Of the churches slated to come
across the herring pond is sacred to
ST Rotolph The latter was Lin
coInshire hermit and the founder of
the Lincolnshire town Of Boston,
which word is a corruption of Bo-
toIph Town. He was supposed to be
the patron saint of travellers, which
explains why church dedicated tn
him stood at each important gate oe
the city of London-Billingsga with
out. Aldersgate without, and Bishops
gate, all three still in existence
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The Church OF st. Alphege, in Lon
don wall. commentaries man
whose name is worthy of honored re-
membrance by, England Alpheg"
was Archbishop of Canterbury and
was captured by the Danes,~who Of
fered to release him If his people
would pay a large sum of money by
way of ransom. The archbishop re-
piled that his people were poor and
in distress and that he would not al
low them to pay anything to set him
free He was thereupon put to deatl
by torture on the spot where 81.
Alphege's Church now stands ST.
Bride, the tall tower or which over
looks Fleet street, in London, rs sa-
cred to the Irish Abbess st. Bridget,
and not the Swedish queen OF the
same name. She seems to have been
very popular and greatly reyered by
the Irish missionaries of old. For
wherever they penetrated in Their
spread of the gospel they founded
churches and chapels in her honor.
1t is remarkable that, although
model of purity, vet her name, name
Iy, that of Bridewell, was given by
the city authorities of London to their
prison for ldisorderly and .dissopute
women.