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 THE REV. MONTAGUE FOWLER, M.A. 255

The sympathy in thought and in literary tastes so markedly apparent in the case of Mr and Mrs Fowler enables each to assist and supplement the work of the other. For example, while Mr Fowler obtained a grant of ^250 for the re building of the Coptic Church at Khartoum, Mrs Fowler recently collected and sent out a sum of money sufficient to provide a complete set of altar vessels, vestments, and other orna ments for the same Church.

After his visit to Egypt, Mr Fowler was appointed Rector of All Hallows, London Wall, in succession to the late Rev. S. J. Stone, author of the well-known hymn &quot; The Church s One Foundation,&quot; and the selection was appropriate if only inasmuch as it will be seen that one literary man in Orders succeeded another. There the new Rector has largely developed the social, as well as the religious, side of the parochial work inaugurated by his predecessor. To the girls and women reaching the city hours before they are due at business, because of their desire their need, in fact to avail themselves of the workmen s trains, All Hallows Church is a haven of rest, and, at the same time, a source of spiritual enlightenment, and the best testimony the Rector could have of the leavening influence of his effort came, only recently, in a spontaneous petition from his early morning congregation of toilers to have a communion service at least once a month. Of course he com-

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