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SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 1928.
Jerusalem, Palestine.
London.
EUROPS
STRALAS
March 19th-April Ist. Missionaries' World Congress.
June 26th-July 7th. World's Dairy Congress.
Amsterdam, Holland. July 28th-August 12th.
Olympic Games.
Cambridge, England. July 14th-25th.
Munich, Bavaria.
Vienna, Austria.
Oslo, Norway..
Amsterdam, Holland.
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Budapest, Hungary.
Sydney, Australia.
Japan.
International Geographical Congress.
July 26th-August 31st
Wagner and Mozart Festival.
July,
Festival of German Singing Federation.
August.
International Congress of Historians.
August.
International Physical Education Congress.
September 3rd-9th.
International Congress in regard to illness arising from employment and industrial accidents.
September 12th-17.
Eucharistic Congress.
November 7th or 8th.
Coronation of His Majesty, The Emperor of Japan.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928.
IMATE'S NEW YEAR The Prayer Book discussions la their own degree bavo brought it HOPE.
out again. That thought, that fact, Increases our sense of high res ponsibility. Everybody Cares. MOMENTOUS YEAR FOR THE We welcome the knowledge that
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outside, the ordered ranks of devout Churchgoers, observant and ex- pectant, there are multitudes who BISHOPS AND PRAYER BOOK. instinctively and half unconsciously feel the matter to concern them too. Of them we should be think ing, for them be providing, so wo execute our task. Our trust is for the common good of all,
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A number of New Year messages were given by letter, from pulpit, or diocesan gazette by the leading Church dignitaries.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's message under the title "On. Not Holding Aloof." He writes:
"Pasa from the Prayer Book to the wider field of our whole work for God. May we not fairly plead with those who in recent weeks of controversy have shown their in- "Looking back along the last terest that they should in the whole score or thereabouts of New Year's field of our ordered Christian Days, we recall that ench of them activities let their caring take had its distinctive note of some braver and moro defaite shape? thing in the air, some thought, Large tasks await us in a confused for the then hour, dominant.It and difficult hour. Younger folk was political, or it was industrial, look to us for what spiritual in-. or again and again it was inter-, upliation and moral guidance we national, with Versailles or Genova' can give. Nover was opportunity or Locarno or Lausanne as watch more widely open for united words; or a little further..back it Christian effort. And some cap- sounded out something of the tragedy of the Great War,
"This time, the dawn of the coming year 1928, finds more people than over before in Eugland's history thinking and talking about our Common Prayers.
able man will tell us in plaintivo or indignant tone that he is given no voice direct' or indirect, in the Church's organic life. But is it so? The place is ready for every quali fled man who is at the pains to use it. What of you, my friend? You criticise, perhaps fairly, our "We, clergy and laity of the inadequate or halting work. Tako Church of England, have been con- your rightful place with us, and Bldering and resolving with in-help to mend and speed the enter- anile care how we can most use-prise." fully strengthen and widen und enrich our forms of public worship,
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and I am anxious to call attention! Twenty-âve boxes of gold, repre- to the undoubled fact of the well-senting £250,000, were landed at nigh universal interest therein Liverpool on New Year Eve from taken by the Euglish people. On the liner Melita. The money was -vast scale the Great War brought sent from the Royal Bank of out the breadth and depth in Eng- Canadu, and was despatched under land of our care for the common a strong armed escort to the Mint, heritage of our Christian faith. London,
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