The death of the Rev. Frank Lenwood on the Alps
is an immense loss to the Free Churches. Though a little marooned at Plaistow Lenwood very definitely influenced life and thought not only in his own congre- gational Church, but over a much wider field. In his Oxford days, when I knew him first, he took a leading part in lifting the University. :Christian Union out of the very narrow evangelical rut into which it had dug itself, and up to a few months ago he was leading a group of younger Congregationalists who pleaded, rather controversially, for a wider interpretation of Christianity than some of the more orthodox leaders could admit. Whether as supporter or opponent he was always stimu- lating, and it was characteristic that he should have met his . death climbing with three of that .younger generation which he knew so well how to influence.
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