CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 12

CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

The Rev. lather Hdbrook returned on Sunday from' "yvelliagton, where he 'has 3»ea attending tie conference,, a .V

The Rev. Dr. Canon George Henry Wslpole,. Sector of Lambeth, who has teen chosen Bishop of Edinburgh, was at one time incumbent and warden of St. John's College, Auckland, 2Jew Zeai land (ISB2-S9}, r theological professor in the General Theological Seminary, New York, and principal of Bede College, Durham. For seven years past he has been -rector.of Lambeth;and-sttshonorary ■canon of Sonthwark. Dr. Wilbur Chapman is expected to conduct a mission in 2vew. Zealand in 1912. The erection of a new club-room for St. Benedict's Old Boys' Club (Which now totals about 60 members) was started this week, and will be finished in about a month's time. These clubrooms are being constructed in brick at an estimated cost of about £400. There are to be three rooms —toe for billiards, another for the committee, and the main room for social purposes. By means of folding doors, the billiard and social-rooms can be thrown into one for special gatherings. The rooms adjoin the church, and tfoere is a space at the ■back for a tennis court, -while the 'basement of the church has been placed at the disposal of the club for use as a gymnasium and drill-room, as well as to provide a dark room for photographers. The General Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church passed the following resolution on the Coronation Oath question:— Thg.ft thi3 General Conference declares that no alteration in the form of the Coronation Oath and declaration will be acceptable that shall relax in any degree the safeguards which ensure the Protestant succession of the throne of Great Britain and her dependencies, or that will permit the oath and declaration so taken, to be understood in. any form other than ■their obvious and ordinarily —understood meaning." The New Zealand Students' Summer Conference will be held t.his year in the South, Island airout Christmas time. The Eev. Wm. Beady has returned from the General" Conference with a high regard! for South Australian Methodism, and -particularly for the Methodists -of the city of Adelaide. One in every five of the population is a. Methodist, and the- hospitality and kindness shown to the representatives was most generous, if the two previous conferences he had attended had been m&Tked by the same features as thie last one, he would; not have been in favour of separation. St. Benedict' 3 Hall has been raised another storey. The top one is to be iutllised as a day school by the sisters of St. Joseph. The ground floor Toom •will be available for the former uses of the fcaEL. Last year England contributed £9991, New Zealand £4212, and Australia £2153 4o the ttfelanesian Mission. It is -reported that -the church at Box HUI (Victoria) las cent a hearty and unanimous invitation to the Rev. A. S. Wilson, of Wanganui CNJZ.), to become its pastor. The church has been pastorless since the removal of the Eev. M. L. , Murphy to Sou£h Australia. The collections taken trp at Hie series of meetings "which comprise the anniversary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in London reached a total of £2215, being an advance of £732 on the year 1909. At the crowning meeting over 8000 people were present in the Albert Hall on a very wet evening, and two of the three speakers -were laymen.

An allotment fronting tie main road | on the Sher.wood Estate, Bichmond, has just been acquired for £he Presbyterian ■body in view of future requirements, •when a church is Tequxred in that district. •It is estimated that the Joss sustained fey the Methodist Missionary Society through the disastrous hurricane in Erji Trill amount to £4,000. To meet this, to -wipe out a, present deficit of over £7;000, and to provide for necessary extension, the recent conference Tesolved upon raising a. £10/300 annual increase of income during the yeara 1911-13 inclusive. The scheme -was endorsed at a large 'missionary meeting in Adelaide, when £300 -was collected. ■ The {Biennial Conference of Australasian Youpng Men's Christian Associations -will at Wellington during the first -week in October. ,~MV Keir Hardie, recently when delivering an address in London, said there was not, and there never could be any (antagonism ibetween Christianity and the Labour movement." Colonel Wright has resigned from the Salvation Arum E;e iwill be remembered as "Ted," who pioneered the Salvation Army in Australia and New Zealand* Since then lie introduced the Army in Japan, and recently returned from, similar ■work in Mexico. He had received invitations to several pastorates in the United States in- the event of ever severing connection with the Salvation Army. The Adelaide jMethiodJst Conference agreed to the transfer of the Eev. S. J. Giieon, now of Oneltunga, to New South Wafes. The Rev. W. A. Hay, of West Australia, is to come .to New Zealand in place of 'Mr Gibson. For health reasons, ttte Eev. H. A. G. Keck, a probationer now stationed at Westport, ds transferred to Yieboria. The ■transfer iwill be effected next April. Eev. J. D. Jones, who undertook to shepherd the movement to Taise £250,----000 for the purpose of improving the stipend of Congregational ministers in England and Wales, has succeeded so far in raising about .£-150,000. Dr. Henry, who recently carried on a ■mission in Auckland, in conjunction -frith Mr S'otts, will spend a year in New Zealand. It is his intention to conduct missions in sboist- 25 .towns, which will occupy until next April. Heavy work and .financKl Tsorry cause many a clergyman to become. "Mpped," said the Eev. G. A. Hozelhurst (Vicar of St. TShomas , , Derby), his enthusiasm dies out, and ihe shuts himself up in his study. He preaches more scholarly sermons than before, tmt there is not that living interest in them that there used to :be." The Protestant Church traflfc on the Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem, lias been presented with four magnificent foslfe. The largest one was by Emperor William- H. of Germany, and bears the inscription. "Christ is my only hope." The 'Empress has also given a bell which bears the inscription, ■"•Bβ faithful unto deailu" In Cuba there are now 145 Protestant' churches, 8S mission stations, 96 pastors, 60 assistants, 139 Sunday Schools, wit3i 400 teachers and 6.042 children; 44 Christian Endeavour Societies with 1,325 members; 21 Protestant colleges with 95 professors, and 2,477 students; also 27 young men Who are studying for the ministry.