WESLEYAN METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

2, LUDGATE CIRCUS BUILDINGS, E.C.; 2, Castle Street, CITY ROAD, E.C.

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LD City Road Chapel, London, has been the scene of hundreds of interesting and memorable events and services. In the olden days, when particular services, such as the Covenant Service, were attended by great crowds at City Road, it is probable that a larger number of saintly, godly, devoted Christian men and women were massed together within the walls of Wesley's Cathedral than could have been found assembled in any other one place on earth; and the fathers and mothers of old men now living used to tell of the wonderful works of God on such occasions in their days and in the old time before them.

In later days no such interesting meetings and services have been held in City Road as those connected with the Ecumenical Methodist Conference. The body of the chapel was occupied by delegates, the galleries by visitors. Almost every land was represented in which evangelical religion has been planted.

It was impossible to look upon the Conference without deep thankfulness to God, and strong hope for the future. In those hundreds of delegates we saw a great gift of the Lord. They were Christian men pledged and consecrated to work for Christ and Methodism. Many of them were evidently speakers, organizers, and administrators of great intellectual force. With them intellect was not wasted through being torpid; and its activity and industry was undoubtedly devoted to the high cause of our Master and of Methodism. This gave us great hope for the future of our Church.

The practical result of the Conference will be good, and a proper sentiment has been gratified. Charity has been intensified ; asperities, almost dead before, were killed. Brothers previously known only to each other by name, and some who had never heard of each other, have met in the old homestead, held pleasant intercourse, shaken hands, compared notes, and, though now separated, will never again be strangers. Some of our visitors from distant lands will be remembered pleasantly, not only because of their eloquent utterances, but also because of their social and Christian intercourse in private. England and America will both profit by the Conference. Our Transatlantic cousins came over in great strength, and they maintained the reputation of their country and Church splendidly. Their DEC.-JAN., 1882.