Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine"

part in expressing the popular desire for peace between England and

America in reply to President Cleveland's message on the Venezuelan boundary dispute, and was invited to Washington to preach in connexion with the endeavour to establish an international arbitration treaty. In 1896 he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. In 1898 his health beg...