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222 He had departed from Galilee, and had come into the coasts of Judæa, beyond Jordan. Many right-thinking people of all ages have sought to put that injunction into execution; but surely none have placed a broader interpretation upon it than the Church of England Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays—the Society which has been instrumental in obtaining comfort, hope and a fresh start in life for nearly 10,000 children during the last twenty-one years.

The Society affords another instance of good work conceived and established by representatives of the laity. The founder, the Rev. E. de M. Rudolf, who was ordained Deacon by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1898, was born in 1852, the second son of the late Major Rudolf, who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War, and was present at Waterloo as aide-de-camp to Field-Marshal Blücher. For nineteen years Mr Rudolf was in Her late Majesty's Office of Works, acting as Private Secretary to the Earl of Rosebery and to Mr Shaw Lefevre. It is gratifying to record that the idea which finds effect to-day in the Waifs and Strays Society was during those years being gently nursed and gradually developed. Meanwhile, Mr Rudolf was conducting on Sunday mornings mission services in connection with St Ann's, South Lambeth, in the neighbourhood of the Vauxhall Gas Works, and these services and the Sunday Schools appealed most to the