School was now penned till change, but nothing noticeable occurred, except an aimless punt by Holt, one of the Keble half-backs who, however, had played very well all through.

After change, Keble kicked off, and began their operations at Beesly's end, and very soon Ashmore, by a fast run along the top, got over the goal-line high up: the place was well-tried, but unsuccessful. After the kick-out, the Keble forwards charging up, again took the ball over the goal-line, but this time Fox was too quick for them. Still the School were penned, and the ball was taken over the line a third time: Keeling unfortunately slipped in trying to touch it down, and Holt was enabled to secure a second try for Keble, this time straight behind: the place was successful. Hankey kicked off, and the School forwards, led by Buckland, now played up more spiritedly, and for a time kept the ball in the visitors' quarters, but though Fox was very quick, they were unable to score, and Keble gradually worked the ball back towards the School geal and here it remained, chiefly at the bottom, till time was called. Thus Keble were winners of the match by one goal and one try to nothing. Both sides had worked hard, but our forwards were over-matched. For Keble, all their forwards were brilliant; while for the School, Buckland, Hankey, and Hardy, were most prominent.

Behind, C. B. Ashmore was facile princeps of the Keble backs, though well seconded by Holt and Stokoe. For the School, Fox was himself both at three-quarters and at half-back, and Keeling and Mangin often made good runs.

Keble-T. O. Ashmore (back), C. B. Ashmore, E. W. Stokoe, H. Randolph (three-quarters), H. S. Holt, D. M. Wauchope (half-backs), C. Mackenzie (Capt.), A. B. Turner, G. F. Bradley, T. Serjeantson, E. W. Sawyer, A. T. Farquhar, W. F. Robberds, H. Moore, L. Mackesy.

School.-F. H. Fox (Capt.), R. R. Mangin (halfbacks), H. T. Keeling, F. G. Padwick (three-quarters), M. M. Beeton (back), E. P. A. Hankey, A. V. Buckland, E. N. Gardiner, R. Hardy, S. G. Williams, F. W. Yeates, E. H. Hughes, S. Earle, H. R. Robertson, C. S. Preston.

mon.

COCK HOUSE GROUND.

WAYS' V. HORNER.

FIRST DAY.-The match was played on the ComAfter waiting some time for a ball, Gamon kicked off for Horner's; but Way's, after returning the kick off well, penned their opponents. Trethewy made a good run across the ground, but was pulled down close to the line. After a drop at goal by Badcock, Horner's had to touch down, but the ball was again taken back into Horner's quarters, where Badcock tried his drop a second time, the result being a "poster." Soon afterwards Chambers got the ball passed to him and obtained a try for Way's behind the posts, which was converted into a goal by Badcock.

After kick-off, Forrester gained another try for Way's, rather low down, which was well-tried by Badcock, but failed. Soon after this, the latter dropped his first goal. After change Way's were penned, and Horner's looked like getting in, Buchanan making some capital dodging runs. Waller failed to get well off at all, being always collared by Trethewy. Had it not been for the excellent collaring of Annesley, Coates would have several times got tries for Way's, as every one failed to stop him. The game ended without more scoring.

SECOND DAY.-Way's had lost Coates and Hardy; and Horner's, Waller and Hobhouse by promotions. On this day Horner's played up very well, and were reinforced by Davis, a fast three-quarters. Their forwards were much more energetic and drove Way's back coutinually. George obtained a try during the first halt-hour, and Davis 2us made a good run round everyone and obtained another try almost behind Way's posts. Neither of the tries yielded a goal. Thus at the end of second day's play, Way's had got 2 goals and a try to Horner's 2 tries.

THIRD DAY.-On this day Way's played up to their form on the first day, and penned Horner's gradually. Badcock dropped a goal soon after the commencement of the game, and Bacon gained a try high up. Moore caught the ball after the goal was tried and gained another try below tho posts. Badcock tried both of these well, but both just failed.

After change Horner's played up hard and passed to Davis as often as possible; he however failed to get off well, being hampered by Hamilton who had been. set to mark him especially. After Badcock had got two more tries, which were disallowed, as the ball was thrown forward, he dropped his third goal just before time was called, and Way's were victorious by 4 goals and 3 tries to 2 tries. For Way's, Hardy, Coates (on 1st day), Forrester, Trethewy, and Nicholson-were perhaps most brilliant: while for Horner's, Buchanan, Blandford (on 1st day), Elles, George, and Annesley were noticeable.

At a private meeting held the same evening, R. D. Jones was re-elected President; and on the resignation of A. V. Hume, C. W. Horsburgh was elected Vice-President.

* Visitor.

Master's Latin Prose Prize :-E. N. Gardiner.
Hon. Men. :-L. T. Hobhouse.
Colbeck Reading Prizes:-1. G. J. Elliot.
2. H. B. Lawford.

Hon. Men. :-C. W. Horsburgh.

FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS. DECEMBER, 1882.

1. T. L. Davies, (Mr. Robinson, Marylebone Grammar School).

2. R. G. Alexander, (Rev. J. H. Edgar, East Sheen).

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VOL. XVII.-No. 286.

We have the kind permission of the Master to print the following Extract from the Sermon which he preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, November 5th.

Last Sunday I went to preach in behalf of our Mission in the Parish Church of Tottenham, and I took the opportunity to visit the Mission District, of which I will give you a few details for the information of those especially who have joined us in the last few terms.

A short time ago Tottenham was a quiet country place, just far enough from London to be outside the circle of its troubles and its responsibilities. Almost suddenly, by the natural, or unnatural growth of London, hundreds of houses, thousands of people, have been planted in what were quite recently some marshy fields between the great high road that runs through Tottenham and the River Lea. It is here that our district has been formed.

There was already a small population in squalid cottages, mostly clustering round a factory that gives employment to some seven hundred people. Now there are about a thousand houses and a population of about six thousand. Of the new houses, the majority are inhabited by artizans and labourers, very many of whom find their work in London, and go to and fro by the cheap workmen's trains. They are not, as a rule, of the very poorest class, though of course they are always liable to the changes of fortune that constantly befall those who live by weekly wages. If they were ever so eager for the means of

grace,

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their poor resources would do little to supply them in a spot which a few years back was as destitute of such provision as a settlement in the backwoods of America. But the material wants the lack of proper buildings and appliances are not the chief hindrances to, the work of God's servants in such a place. Many of these people are affected by the apathy and indifference to religion that has come on thousands in our town populations, mainly through past neglect on the part of the Church, or the absolute inability to meet the calls upon it. They have to be won. They have to learn that the Gospel has a message of peace and love for them, and that Christianity is something more than a fashionable opinion of the well-to-doclasses.

What can be to them a more certain proof of this than generous tokens of Christian love and sympathy on the part of those who are more fortunate than themselves? I read somewhere the other day that the working man hates to receive help or favours from the middle classes. It may be so, if the help or favours are meddlesome or patronizing. But no one shall make me believe that love has lost its power over the heart of man. No one shall make me disbelieve that if you go the right way to show any man that you care for him, body and soul, his heart will go out to meet yours; and if he sees that you love him because you love Christ, and that you love Christ because He first loved you, then you will have sown in that man's heart the seed of a Christian love.

And, as a matter of fact, these people in our district are plainly very much touched and impressed by the fact that the boys of a great public school have thus combined to offer them Christian teaching for themselves and their children. Everywhere that I went the greatest possible cordiality and goodwill was shown by way of greeting to me, as your representative. No doubt the welcome was all the warmer, because my companion was our Mission-Clergyman. Many of you will remember Edward Smith's genial and earnest address some months ago, when he told us of his experiences among the poor in Holborn. That was just before he was leaving them to take the work for us, which was a most unselfish act. For the love of God, and for the sake of his old School, because we felt that there was no Old Marlburian who was fitter for such a duty, he left a most congenial sphere of work among attached friends and colleagues, and a people who had learnt to love and value him, and went away to labour singlehanded at Tottenham. From many who have had the best means of judging, I learn that he has begun admirably, and is day by day more and more winning the affection and confidence of his new flock.

In the few months since he came he has established the mission solidly. His Sunday School is well supplied with teachers, and has become so full that he is just about to open a second one in the poorest part of his district close to the factory, whose owners are seconding his efforts with much liberality and goodwill. The Sunday Services are held in a spacious and lofty room, the Central Hall of the Board Schools. There is a small but efficient choir of men and boys from the District, and the congregation take their part in the services with much hearti

ness.

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Week by week the Members who attend have increased until now on Sunday evenings there are nearly four hundred, almost as many as the hall will contain, among them a most encouraging proportion of men of all ages. hearty goodwill of these artizans and labourers and their wives is shown by the fact that their offertories now amount to some £10 a month, a material help towards the many inevitable expenses of services and Sunday Schools.

The time is now at hand when the need of more accommodation will be severely felt, and there should be no delay in building a Church. Accordingly the Committee (with the Bishop of Bedford at their head) are actively pressing on with the Building Fund, for which several thousands of pounds are required. Old Marlburians

and other friends have already paid or promised some £1,200. Last Sunday the offertory at Tottenham added some £235 more. *

With the Building Fund, however, our Offertories have no direct concern. They go to form the contribution of £150 a year that we have promised towards the curate's salary. This annual gift of ours is the mainstay of the Mission, as its offer was the origin of it; and I have given you these few details in order to show you how useful and promising is the work we are helping to carry on, and how fully our Mission Curate deserves our utmost goodwill in his encouraging but very laborious task.

*This is inclusive, not exclusive, of generous promises of £200 by Richard Foster, Esq., and £10 by the Vicar of Tottenham.-E. F. N.S.

MEETING OF O. M's. AT WESTMINSTER, MARCH 14.

(Reprinted from the Marlburian of April 3.) CONSIDERING the fact that the London Marlburians are for the most part professional men, and that at 5 p.m. business is scarcely over, it speaks well for the interest taken by Old Marlburians in our Mission that they mustered some seventy strong at Westminster in response to the invitation of the Dean and Canon Farrar. As the Old Testament Revisers were talking Hebrew in the Jerusalem Chamber, where the meeting was to have taken place, an adjournment was made to the Hall of Westminster School.

The Dean having taken the chair, and opened the meeting with prayer, called upon the Master, who gave a brief and clear account of the origin of our Tottenham Mission, and its history up to the present date.

Canon Farrar then moved the first resolution :-"That this meeting of Old Marlburians hails with pleasure and sympathy the resolve of their old School to take a part in the Home-mission work of the Church; and rejoices that the actual conduct of the Mission has been entrusted to an Old Marlburian.”

Dr. Farrar began by calling attention to the growing separation of classes in our large towns. The last census shewed that while the population of the country districts was falling off that of the towns was rapidly increasing. Misery and vice were festering at the fringe of the glittering society of London. Yet men looked on at the danger with a disregard that was immoral. Physicians tell us that great cities are the graves of the physique of our race. Let us beware that they are not also the graves of the morality of our race. As a mere question of self-defence, we might not remain passive. The Church of England, with its parochial system and the house-to-house visitation of its devoted clergy, did more than any other agency to stem the tide of evil. He was rejoiced to see such a work specially connected with Marlborough. His experience as a London clergyman had taught him that Public School men were exceptionally valuable. They excelled in activity, in thoroughness, in aggressive inventiveness. And of Public School clergymen Edward Smith was a good specimen. He came of a good stock. his father, Canon Reginald Smith, was loved and honoured by all who knew him; he had a large and varied experience; he had the greatest of all gifts for the work-that spirit of enthusiasm which won converts row as it had done in the first days of Christianity; and he had taken a leading part in the great crusade against the most fruitful source of London evil, intemperance.

The resolution was seconded by the Rev. E. C. Coney, who spoke of the glaring contrast between the wealth and the poverty of London. Schoolboys seldom see it. They live in the better quarters, or come up for the theatre or the match at Lord's

and never realize the misery and vice that lie so close to them. He was even more glad for the sake of Marlborough than for the sake of London that the school had taken up this work. It might serve to remind them that there was an ideal in life higher than pleasant case or athletic success. He rejoiced that a Marlburian had been secured for the work, for he could enlist Marlburian sympathy better than another. As a colleague of Mr. Smith at Holborn, he could not speak too warmly of him. He was earnest, hard working, eminently aggressive, and most successful. A better man could not be found.

The resolution was carried unanimously.

The Bishop of Bedford moved the second resolution :-" "That a Committee of old Marlborough boys or masters, residing in or near London, be appointed to collect funds for the building of a Church and for providing the Mission clergyman with a colleague, and with other helps towards the efficient working of the district."

The Bishop said that there was not only the centripetal force at work, bringing increased population to London, but also a centrifugal force. The railways had made it possible for artisans to live out of town and come in for their daily work. This led to the rapid growth of towns on the skirts of London. In one of these the Marlborough district lay. He was told that in three years an area of 100 acres would be covered with houses for 15,000 people, all of the poorer classes. For these there was no prospect of spiritual provision, unless the Church of England supplied it. Let no one think that the work in such districts was hopeless He had found greater responsiveness there than in the older parts of London; and this, in spite of the fact that many of the inhabitants came from the worst of the destroyed rookeries. Hence there was good ground for hoping that so earnest a worker as Mr. Smith would be blessed with a large measure of success. His own experience of Marlborough was encouraging. He had had three sons there, and knew how strong a spirit of work pervaded the School. Such a spirit gave good promise for the future. Few things had given him so much encouragment as the fact that the large Schools and the Universities were recognizing the duty of taking their part in the work of Homemissions. It would re-act beneficially on the Schools themselves. It would teach them a lesson, too little brought home to boys in his own School days-the lesson of unselfishness.

The Rev. E. F. Noel Smith seconded the resolution. It had, he said, been a bitter wrench to him to tear up his roots at Holborn. He had always been used to work with loyal and earnest colleagues, and he felt some natural shrinking at the greater isolation of his new work and at the burden of business which would fall upon him. Yet in itself the work was interesting and engross ng in the highest degree. He would not exchange it for any work under the sun. But he must have help from Marlburians, and he felt sure he should get it. He had already found that Marlborough was a name to conjure with. He had only found it necessary to tell Dr. Farrar that he was a Marlburian to induce him to give a temperance lecture at Holborn. It was a name to conjure with not only to their old masters but to themselves. He was especially glad to have an Old Marlburian on the spot in the person of of Mr. Almack. He appealed to all present to give active help-those on the Committee, more; others, not less. They must build a Church-not a makeshift, but one worthy of the School. They must build mission rooms to catch many whom the Church would not catch. They must multiply agencies to make the people feel that their clergy were not tied to the pulpit, but were of like flesh and blood with themselves. Above all they must give him a colleague, who should be, if possible, also a Marlburian.

The resolution was carried unanimously.

The Bishop of Bedford begged to be allowed to add a few words. They must not be discouraged at the largeness of Mr. Smith's demands. Marlborough past and present, might reasonably be expected to do much, but there were other sources from which help would be largely forthcoming.

Canon Farrar, promised the Mission an annual offertory. The Rev. W. Almack echoed the Bishop's caution against discouragement. He himself knew of many quarters whence help would come, and, living as he did on the spot, he was able to say confidently that the field of work was full of promise.

Mr. T. H. Carson moved a vote of thanks to the Dean for presiding. The Dean, in reply, spoke of the pleasure it gave to see so many old familiar faces. He rejoiced that Marlborough had taken up this work. No better or higher work had ever been undertaken by any School. The crying need of the times was to draw the different classes more closely together, and to multiply the links of connection between them.

MEETING AT OXFORD.

The increased energy which has recently been shown in matters connected with the Mission has quickly spread to Oxford, where many among the resident O.M.'s have for some time past been desirous of an opportunity of declaring their sympathy with the scheme. A committee was accordingly got together, which made arrangements for a meeting, and invited the Dean of Westminster and the Rev. E. F. Noel Smith to attend it. It was found necessary to fix the meeting in the afternoon; and when the hour approachod, viz., 4.45 p.m., on Thursday, March 16th, a brilliant summer-like day, close to the very end of term, there were some sad prognostications that the meeting might be found to be made up mainly of empty chairs. However it was found that out of some 80 or 90 Marlburians resident in Oxford, the interest of the subject was sufficient to bring together some six or seven and thirty in the library of the Rev. J. F. Bright, Master of University, which he had kindly lent for the purpose. The meeting having been opened with prayer, H. Vassall of Hertford was voted to the Chair; who, after a few excellently put remarks, called upon Dean Bradley to move the first resolution, viz.,

That this meeting of O.M.'s resident in Oxford, having heard with much pleasure of the resolution of their old School to take part in the Home-Mission Woak of the Church, is desirous of co-operating in the work; and with this object requests the following O.M.'s to form a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the collection of Funds,'and furtherance of the work, viz. ;-The Rev. the Master of University; A. Robinson, New; Rev. T. L Papillon, New; W. W. Fowler, Lincoln; S. H. Butcher, University; F. Madan, B.N.C.; Rev. W. Lock, Keble; R. E. Prothero, All Souls; Rev. W. H. Payne Smith, Ch. Ch. ; L. R. Furneaux, C.C.C.; H. Vassall, Hertford; E. Peake, Oriel; F. W, Hodgson, Trinity; W. H. Chappel, Worcester; A. D. Burnett, Keble; A. H. Hawkins, Baliol; E. Mahon, Exeter."

The resolution having been seconded by A. Robinson, New College, Mr. Smith was then called upon, and gave a most interesting account of the Mission District at Tottenham, and of the prospects and the necessities of the work there. It was felt by all to be a great point, that he could touch a sympathetic cord by his first words, "Brother Marlburians," and a smile of approval was to be seen, when he declared that his ideal of the relation of pastor and people was one of friendship, sympathy, and mutual interest, which found its aptest parallel in the relations of Marlborough boys and Marlborough Masters.

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Some conversation followed, the object of which was to get a clear declaration as to what it was intended to do at Oxford. was stated that there was no intention of assisting in the special task which the School has undertaken, viz., the providing of a stipend for the Mission Curate, but that contributions would be sought primarily for the fund which is being raised for providing the Mission with buildings.

The resolution having been carried unanimously, a vote of thanks to the chalrman, the Master of University, and the speakers was proposed by W. H. Chappel, and seconded by L. R. Furneaux, thus concluding a very interesting and successful meeting.

Some Small Wants of the Mission.

Donations to the Lending Library and Sunday School Library; Convalescent and Victoria Park Hospital Letters, Clothes, especially Boots. A Piano. Donations towards the Furniture of the Reform Row Mission Room and Sunday School.