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1 JULY, ~IIDDIJIIOIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIU~ = ~ Eating Wild Spinach ~ - " Now that the better weather has come we were hoping for - some relief of the intense pressure of need, but here in Greece = things are getting worse. The value of money has so depreciated ::~:~isb=~ it almost impossible for the poor to earn enough = "It is a common sight to see women searching the = = hillside, digging out wild spinach with an old knife. = ~.~ fear are just existing on boiled spinach and no == = == " In Macedonian villages money has almost disappeared. I = saw two eggs brought into a shop in exchange for a box of = ~ matches : another time five eggs for a candle." ;;;;;; Please help us a little more, so that really necessitous = = cases can be relieved and starvation held in check. 5 = = = Armenian Massacre Relief = at the office of = : Bible Lands Missions' Aid Society = 7 6' 5 T RAN D, L 0 N D 0 N, W. C. 2. == HARRY FEAR, Esq., J.P., Treasurer. = = S. W. GENTLE CACKETT, Secretary. a IDWIDUIUDIIOIIIIIUIIIUUIUIOIUIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIDIDUUUIUIUUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIUIIIIIUUUIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIHIIUUIIIUIIUIIIIRIIB

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3 THE CHURCHMAN ADVERTIBER. 3 NATIONAL CHURCH LEAGUE (INCORPORATED) For the Defence and Promotion of the Reformed Faith of the Church of Eagland. "CATHOUC. APOSTOUC. REFORMED. PROTESTANT." T PresUlmt: The Rillat Hoa. SIR THOMAS INSKIP, c.b.e., lt.c.. M.P. Of/it:a: Dean Wace Roue, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, E.C.4. HE NATIONAL CHURCH LEAGUE conducts an active propaganda work on constructive and educational lines, to maintain the Character of the Church of England as the National Church and also as one of the Reformed Churches of Christendom. Its activities include :- Providint lectures aacl MniiODS oa aubjects dealiat with the Bible, the Pnyer Book, Church History, Church Doctriae uul curreat Church q-aioal paenljj'. A Jarre Book Room uul Publiabia, Depot at Dean Wace Houle. The orpaiutiod of the CODII:itueaey id the m- for pl'oidotiar the retum of auitable c:aadidatea OD Church bodiea compriaed withia dioeeaaa oqujzatioa. A Pab'ollale Truat. A FUDd for uaiatidc cmdidatea id their traididi for Holy Orden. The proviaioa of material for wod IIIIIODa JOQDI people, Sunday Sc:llooJa, etc. PPORTUNITIES for an extension of the work of the National Church O League were seldom more promising than they are to-day, but they await the active support of Church men and women in the parishes. T HE help of individuals is needed, not only in the formation of local branches of the National Church league, but to ensure that the Branches shall exert a definite influence upon local Church affairs, especialiy in matters of Diocesan interest. T HE National Church l.eque abords a prac:tic:al and available centre for this work of organization, of education and of propaganda. U you do not bow of a Branch in your neighbourhood get in touch with Headquarten at Dean Wace Houae, Wine OBice Court, E.C.4, and join the central organization.

4 4 THE ORUBOHKAN ADVERTISER. Closing doors In many homes doors are closing, silently, surely, relentlessly-doors to employment, to comfort, to independence, to enjoyment. Some incurable malady has gripped the once active man, the once busy woman. All the days of the future are darkened. Opening doors The British Home and Hospital for Incurables, Streatham, has opened many doors of hope since it began its beneficent work in Sadness has been tumed into gladness as successful applicants of the Middle Class have been notified that they have secured a home for life or a pension for the remainder of their days. 6o is needed each day to maintain the Home and Hospital, and to provide the 291 pensions of /,26 a year. Please help generously toward meeting this constant daily need. Contributions may be addressed to EDGAR PENMAN, Secretary, British Home and Hospital for lncurables Office : 73 CHEAPSIDE, LONDON, E.C.l The Church or Enalald Newspaper HAS NO EQUAL in its long list of eminent contributors 1'he c.e.n. il pabliaw id the batenlt of ad c:laarch people Every Friday Price Cwopenc:e A&..a-~fll- ~ wid.. - lne to "Ciaarclom.a... - ~tor THE LAYMAN'S HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BY Rev. G. R. BALLEINE, M.A. Third Imprunon. IUtutrtlted. 2s. 6d. It is diflicult to speak too highly of this admirable little book. No better book can be l!iw:n to a church worker, official, or penon, whoever he or she may be.'"~l Di«aan Gazette.,!I The M...-, C... N. TilE CHUROI BOOK ROOM, 17 Tavlatoc:lc St..... W.c:.2. 7 WINE OrriCE CouJrr, E.C.4.

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