The church and the slum; . CHAPTER IManchester and Salford Mission I PERHAPS ought to say, first of all, thatmy interest in Wesleyan mission halls beganin 1891, when I heard Hugh Price Hughes inSaint Jamess Hall, West London. One couldhardly hear Hughes without being won to hiscause. When I was here five years ago therewas great rejoicing among Wesleyans over theglorious success of the ^Million Guinea Fundmovement and the purchase of the RoyalAquarium in London, on whose site, facingWestminster Abbey, Wesleyan Methodism isbuilding a great hall and Methodist head-quarters. I had the privilege o
The church and the slum; . CHAPTER IManchester and Salford Mission I PERHAPS ought to say, first of all, thatmy interest in Wesleyan mission halls beganin 1891, when I heard Hugh Price Hughes inSaint Jamess Hall, West London. One couldhardly hear Hughes without being won to hiscause. When I was here five years ago therewas great rejoicing among Wesleyans over theglorious success of the ^Million Guinea Fundmovement and the purchase of the RoyalAquarium in London, on whose site, facingWestminster Abbey, Wesleyan Methodism isbuilding a great hall and Methodist head-quarters. I had the privilege of attending amonster mass meeting in the Aquarium whenten thousand sons and daughters of JohnWesley sang and shouted their R. W. Perks was in the chair; there werefourteen speakers, and nearly all of them hadsomething to say of a new era for Methodismand of the Forward Movement, of which themission hall is one of the concrete Aquarium meeting only increased myinterest in the mission halls.
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