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A sparrows' parliament has been puzzling and interesting the people of Vienna.
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World-wide preparations are being made to celebrate the bi- centenary of John Wesley's con- version on May 24. The Church of England, to which the founder of Methodism originally belong- ed, will have a share in the ob-
servances.
In his "Journal," date, May 24, 1738, lates:
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under the Wesley re-
In the evening I went very un- willingly to a society in Alders- gate-street, where one was read- ing Luther's preface to the Epis- tle to the Romans
It does not meet every day, but three or four times a week, always About a quarter before nine, in the same spot, a tree in the while he was describing the Ring the city's famous circular change which God works in the thoroughfare and always at the heart through faith in Christ, I same time, 5 o'clock in the after-felt my heart strangely warmed. The Rev. C. Ensor Walters, ex-
moon.
At that time a plane-tree- no president of the Methodist Con- different, to human eyes, from any ference, stated yesterday that of the others in the avenue the forthcoming celebrations: gradually fills up with a chattering were not intended to serve as the multitude of sparrows. From being glorification of a person or even practically bare the tree suddenly of a Christian community. The seems to be covered with brownunderlying anxiety was that "the leaves.
spiritual experience which came to the founder of Methodism may be recaptured and rekindled in modern life.”
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Several thousand birds make a noise so shrill and deafening that it easily drowns the clatter of the trams and other traffic, and passers-by, hearing it, look around them in wonder. When they finally locate the cause, they may be seen unite in the celebrations on May The Church of England is to to stand and watch incredulously 24, at Evensong, in York Mins- for long periods.
ter. The Archbishop of York, When the favoured tree is so Dr. Temple, will preach. On the crowded that there is literally no following day the Archbishop of room for another sparrow, overflow Canterbury, Dr. Lang, will preach. gatherings begin to collect on the 2 commemorative. sermon at neighbouring trees, but here the Evensong in St. Paul's Cathedral. late-comers hop about restlessly from twig to twig, evidently still hoping to find 2 place in the parliament tree.
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Naturally the commemoration. will be centred in Wesley's Cha-- pel, City-road, E.C., where, May 24, a service is to be con-- In newspaper correspondence on ducted by the president of the the subject it has been suggested Methodist Conference of Great that the sparrows gather in the Britain, Dr. Robert Bond. It is tree as a stage in some migration hoped that a section of the ser- But the fact that such gatherings vice from 8.45 to 9 p.m.-mark- repeatedly occur in the same spotting the time of Wesley's conver- seems to tell against this explana-sion 200 years ago-will be broad- tion of the puzzle.
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Outside London the national celebrations will be at Bristol. Newcastle, Oxford, Epworth, Lincolnshire Wesley's birth-- place and other places particul-- arly associated with him.
Methodists in every part of the British Empire, and in foreign. countries, are to join in the com-- memoration. Even the islands of the Pacific are to take part. Queen Selouki, Sovereign of one- of the Tonga, or Friendly, Is- lands, having intinated her in-- Itention to organise a celebration..
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