her she saw my look, and in a moment, without any hesitation, she sent some one for the missing books and they were brought in. These are trifling matters from one point. of view; but they were not trifling at the time, and the success of my experiments, however they are to be explained, was a great relief to me both in the chapel and in the drill hall.

The service in the drill hall was the beginning of the work which my Good Friday Committee carried on with me for twenty-two years. Our first service was held in 1890 and it was held for the twenty-second time in 1911, my last year as Bishop of Ripon. I took the service, by the wish of the present Bishop of Ripon, in 1914, but this lies a little outside my own record, though it was a joy to meet again those loyal helpers, who for upwards of twenty years had never failed me.

The bonds between us were drawn more closely as the years went on. We understood one another: we loved one another. We had taken several excursions together, and an intercourse when visiting towns of interest, in meeting the fatigues and pleasures of the journey, served to make strong the bonds of a friendship which was begun in a joint endeavour to be of help to our brother men.

The excursions-we had fifteen in all-included, besides our house at Ripon, Brussels, Cambridge, Oxford, Windsor, Belfast, London, Chester, York and Ryther. The tale of our adventures on these excursions would be too long to tell. Brussels was, I think, the most remarkable, as it was the most adventurous of them all. It was not to be expected that many could afford the time or money for

a visit to Brussels-nevertheless, as many as fifty joined in the trip. They left Leeds on the Friday night before Whit Sunday they reached Brussels early on Saturday: we took them out to Waterloo: there we had lunch; we brought them back to Brussels and took them to the Exposition, which was then open. The engineering section attracted some of our party, and it was amusing to see an eager Englishman trying to get a mechanical explanation from a Belgian who knew no English. We had to act as interpreters on more than one occasion. We had, indeed, more than one laughter-provoking experience. The men were much impressed when they saw, as they journeyed through Flanders, the women working in the fields. "Eh," said one of the party, "the next time I marry, I shall marry one of these women who can work, and besides, when she scolds me I shall not understand her."

The buildings in Brussels were a kind of revelation to some of the party. "This," said one of them, as we came up to the Palais des Beaux Arts, "this reminds me of the age of Sardanapalus!" On the Sunday we attended the English Church: it was an imposing party which entered the church that morning: more than fifty of us, all of whom joined lustily in the singing. "Aye, didn't we lift the roof off?" was what was said. We made a goodly addition to the number of the communicants in the little church.

On Monday we went to Antwerp, saw the churches and the Zoological Gardens, and returned to Brussels in time. for dinner, after which the party started back for England and were landed at Leeds on Tuesday morning.

The arrangements for the excursion were undertaken by Messrs. Lunn, and they were admirable. A courier was with the party all the time, and he relieved us of a great many small details of business: he made himself responsible for the tips and prices of admission to the various places we visited. I think that our party caused great astonishment to the hotel-keepers: the party was scattered for sleeping purposes among three hotels; but all met for the principal meals in one hotel. The men of the committee were accustomed to sing the grace before and after their meals, and when the fifty men lifted up their voices for the purpose, there was grave astonishment, which bordered on alarm, among the officials of the hotel. However, before the Monday was over, they had accepted the position, and no doubt regarded the singing as another proof of the madness of the English.

The Brussels excursion was in every way a great success, and I feel sure that many of those who were with us in 1897 feel their interest in that happy excursion deepened now as they have read of all the savage and wanton cruelties which an unscrupulous and ruthless enemy has brought upon that land which we saw then peaceful, industrious and happy, little dreaming then that sinister ambition would tempt a powerful people to violate their pledged word and stain their honour with a stain which centuries of virtue can hardly wash away.

Perhaps next to this visit to Brussels our excursion to Belfast possessed the greatest interest: it had a characteristic of its own; for it was marked by the ready hospitality shown by the working men of Belfast to those of Leeds,

It came about in this way. The Bishop of Down and Connor (Dr. Welland) had been a lifelong friend: his father and my father had been friends, and the friendship descended to the next generation. To Dr. Welland I owed much in days when I was a schoolboy, and he was an undergraduate, working hard for honours, he came as a visitor to our house. He was a most industrious student, and I admired the indefatigable diligence which he showed even in those days which he might have reckoned as holidays. It so happened that I was at that time face to face with a step forward in my education: I had to commence Greek, and in the initial stages our guest, Mr. Welland, gave me useful help. I used to say in after years that he taught me my Greek alphabet. Time went by: he found himself bewildered in a question which in those days exercised the minds of theological students in a degree which would amaze the students of to-day. There were those who, laying heavy emphasis on the doctrine of Election, would have it that our Lord's death purchased, as it were, the body of the elect, and only these: the benefits of His death and sacrifice did not avail for others. Only the elect would be saved, therefore only the elect had been redeemed, otherwise the sacrifice was in part a failure, which was unthinkable. The question, therefore, which was raised took this form: Did Christ die for all men or for the elect only? The Calvinistic view, as it was called most unfairly, for it was contrary to Calvin's teaching-the Calvinistic view or the view which advocated a limited redemption by Christ's death, fascinated young Mr. Welland. My father, who took a deep interest in him, wrote a long letter on

the subject, and the letter was the means of liberating Mr. Welland's mind from the narrow and harsh conceptions of this so-called Calvinistic doctrine.

Later, when I had won an open scholarship at Cambridge, and we were spending the summer in Ireland, Mr. Welland again helped me by coaching me in mathematics : and three or four years afterwards, on the Sunday after my ordination, the first church in which I officiated was the church in Dublin in which Mr. Welland ministered. Thus in the earlier part of my life my lot was often cast near to Mr. Welland. Years passed by, and our lives were sundered; he remained in Ireland: my lot was cast in England: and during those years we scarcely saw one another. In process of time he became Bishop of Down and I became Bishop of Ripon, and I ventured to invite him to come over and preach for our diocesan charities. He kindly came, and our friendship revived. While he was with us I had to meet my Good Friday Committee, and he accompanied me. He did more he spoke a few kindly words to the men, and as he heard of our excursions he very cordially invited the committee to visit Belfast. I think that the Bishop was surprised at the alacrity with which his invitation was accepted; the moment he mentioned the idea, the consenting acquiescence and appreciation of the meeting expressed itself in long and loud plaudits.

So the visit to Belfast was arranged, and as it happened, it was fixed for a most appropriate time it coincided with the opening of the Belfast Cathedral. It was marked by the warm and generous hospitality of these northern men of Ireland. A committee of working men, brought