MEN imagine alad eriod of life, and have b ission into the fall membership of the Chur ition which inst large exceptions in the case of the cla pure son represents. hat d ich 1 This is t tat effort should be made assist the young man is cons the attainment of a spiral The. little is really done to induce him to contin to com.auiente, and how large is the age of those who, having () the Holy Sacrament. ever do rds OW nt par of agai Class custom, ridicule, tillity, ignorar keep hundreds from ever again apping the Table of our Loal. Here is the oppor nity for a society like the Young Mo Friendly. Here it can step in, an organisation enable a clergyman to kee weyonds of Le con или of a hi social Jard, and by ing them to think and work for others, assist them in the cultivation of their own moral natures. By means of it, or of some similar organisation, he can get his young men together, instruct them, guide them, sympathise with them, make friends with them, gain their love and esteem, and prepare them for the higher duties of Christian life. Organisation will give courage to the timid, instruction will enlighten the ignorant, example will inspirit the downhearted, and social intercourse will soften roughness and teach courtesy and good-will. Should a young man leave his parish, he need not be lost sight of; he can be recommended to the care and kindly offices of the branch of the Society in the place to which he is removing. Herein lies the advantage which membership of a large society possesses over that of a local 'guild.' A member of a local organisation loses all privileges on removing from his native town or village; the member of a wider organisation only leaves friends in ocality to meet with equal friends rotherly support in another. Ind San organisation should bring class Toge hould draw forth mutual good-y and self-sacrifice, and should material ist ising a higher moral standa abers, but, through their inf ence. should be the means of eleva character of the surrounding population. If the London Diocesan Council is det mined to do more than play at benefi young men of London, its fullest ene The names of the Duke of West tinguished men, both of the clergy a who constitute the Comcil encourag bthat hurch Purch toward + 41- youn ve to its du n of London. God g it, to fulfil the the vill ter, rity, 1 is 93 OVER-POPULATION: ITS EVILS AND REMEDIES. I. STATE-DIRECTED COLONISATION: ITS NECESSITY. Reprinted, by permission, from the 'Nineteenth Century' of November 1884. PROFESSOR SEELEY has endeavoured, in his Expansion of England,' to make Englishmen realise that the colonies are not merely possessions but a part of England. He has taught us that we must cease to think that emigrants when they go to the colonies leave England, or are lost to England, and has urged us to accustom ourselves to contemplate the whole Empire together, and call it England. He has shown that the drift of English history during this and the last century has been ads a diffusion of our pansion of our State, an the we conquered and ple fit of absence of tool X as half t prov to us that Greater Britain He 1 English Songdal not mer nationality, as I that it is the whole free from that weakness 11 Tought down most empathe of being a more mechanical freunion of al He has are lugencrollree des by which State together community of re community religion, an Leomnity of interest-and t whilst it is evilest that we are bom If these things be so, and if at time we find that the density of an has ere eld the me populatio and ninety of |