ROLL OF HONOUR FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKERS.
The Special Silver Medal and Presentation Bible offered for the longest known Sunday-school service in the county of Wiltshire (for which applications were invited up to December 31st, 1898) have been gained by
Mr. Matthew Henry Trent,
Berry Cottage, Holt, near Trowbridge,
who has distinguished himself by fifty-nine years' service in Holt Congregational Sunday School.
As already announced, the next territorial county for which claims are invited for the Silver Medal is
DURHAM
and applications, on the special form, must be received on or before January 31st, 1899. We may add that Devonshire is the following county selected, the date-limit for claims in that case being February 28th, 1899. This county, in its turn, will be followed by the territorial county of Kent, for which the date will be one month later—viz. March 30th, 1899.
OUR INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEACE.
The full particulars of our League of Peace were published in our last number, and we would impress upon those readers who desire to obtain the distinction of being the first to send in a thousand signatures that such names and addresses should reach us as soon after the 1st of March as possible—or even before. Since the January part went to press we are glad to hear that other movements have been set on foot with the special object of rousing up the nations to a sense of their responsibilities in strengthening the hands of all who desire to secure permanent peace, and we heartily wish "God-speed" to these schemes. But the individual, personal responsibility of every man and woman in this momentous matter must not be overlooked, and for this reason we desire to obtain the signature to our memorial of every interested person. The following is the form in which it has been issued:—
"We, the undersigned, desire to express our earnest sympathy with the peace proposals contained in the recent Rescript of his Imperial Majesty the Czar of Russia, and hereby authorise the attachment of our names to any International Memorial having for its object the promotion of Universal Peace upon a Christian basis."
This may be copied at the head of blank sheets of paper, and the signatures placed beneath, but we shall be very pleased to send (post free) any number of printed forms on receipt of an application addressed to the Editor of The Quiver, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C.
The objects of our League have already been endorsed, amongst other prominent men, by the Lord Bishop of London, the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes (President of the Wesleyan Conference), the Rev. Samuel Vincent (President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland), and Pastor Thomas Spurgeon of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
