CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 14

CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

p s Xo less than 400 of the boys of the - Auckland V.M.C.A. have gone to the t front. t Eight hundred and fifty clergymen c and lay Anglicans attended a conference s of the four Welsh dioceses. The Bishop c of St. Asaph nailed up the "No Corns (promise' , flag, and a resolution of p "solemn protest" against the passing ot r the Act was carried, and a joint com--1 mittee of the dioceses was appointed, s "with full powers to take such steps in matters of business as they consider " to be necessary under the Welsh Churvh s Art." ? The Archbishop of York, speaking reT .carding the recent bombardment of defenceless English towns by Germans, eaid: c "I am sure that the death of those who ■' shared the life of this town with you, wil: move, as perhaps nothing else c could have moved, the heart of th» n-.sr.hood of the North of Englnad to ccc '" that the cause for which they suffered '" wiii be the more eagerly, and with more c self-denying chivalry, taken up and cara ried through, by the strength of the men n who remain." s The West London Methodist Mission y Magazine prints a liet of 102 names of • men connected with the mission, who '■' have gone to the help of their country. At the head of the list is Bernard Price Hughes, son of the founder, who is lieutenant in the Royal Er.gineerß. j. Handsworth (Wesleyan) Theological 0 College had GO students at the beginning r of the September term, but at the end , r there were only 34. Xo less than 20 of the men had joined His Majesty's forces. t Others have been called by the president y to do duty as chaplains* c The Baptist Church at Hartlepool is , r the first religious edifice in England to j be completely destroyed by German shells. n Dr. Xewell Dwight Hillls, of Brooklyn, a who five months ago was a keen propaj% gfirdist for Germany, has, according to the "Daily Telegraph's" Xew York core respondent, now definitely sided with the British. This is said to be considered by Americans as a blow to Germany eqna<l j tc the capitulation of Herr Dernburg, the Kaiser's Press agent in the United States. c Dr. Hillis, on a recent Sunday, preaching j s at Plymouth Church, declared pointj blank that "Germany is a world-menace; j' the burglar, bandit, and murderer of s Europte." Th-e Teuton members of his g congregation rose in a ma&s and demanded the pastor's resignation, but Dr. r _ Hillis sfciekis to his guns. He denies that ho is sinning against the law of neutrality. "Neutrality does not mean the : s wiping out of convictions. If the tinre IC over comes when I must add God and the '*: devil together and divide 'by two in the ' name of neutrality, I .vill wit&draw." c The war has its sufferers even in the • Holy Land. The Jewish papero in Europe are calling for heJp for 100,000 ]' Jews in Palestine. They are referred to ac '? "a starving population of a hundred . thousand souls, who cannot be moved at !" present ■for lack of shipping accommoda--18 tion, and who, if moved, would not find ' a refuge ready to receive them anywhere." This was the position before Turkey entered into the aTena on the side of Germany, so affaire muet be s, much worse now. At an enthusiastic Christmas festival, °_ thi- principal of the National Children's Home, Rev. Hodson Smith, dwelt on the ' bombardment of the forts by the Ger- } mans. That imsane, detractive policy, •he pointed out, was costing the country 2 tc fire one of its big guns £2,000 a time, '* and the salvation of their great family "" of 2.250 children was £150 a day. The war had materially affected the sources '• of their income, but it was plain that the c Home had a firm place in the affections •r of the Methodist people. This was mani- ." feet when the collection was made, a •c sum of £214 being contributed. .; It is estimated that 600,000 Jews are c serving in the armies now opposed !j to one another in Europe. The Jewish c community at Warsaw is supplying ten d thousand dinners each day to their ;e poorer co-religioniste. Aβ oire writer y puts it: "Participation in a world waT g breaks down the ghetto walls more effecs, tively than any laws can do, and whether it Russian arms meet with victory or deT feat, when the war is over, Jewish solil diers will bring back in their hearts d other things than are contemplated by the Czar and General Staff." ». Miss Ashly. of Mangatainoka, hae been 2- tendered a farewell social, as she is !S leaving that district to take up duties ac ie a deaconess of the Methodist Church. t, The Rev. A. D. Tupper-Carey,canon»of i, York, who has 'been appointed commisi- sary to the Bishop of Wellington, Tieie came a deacon in 1390 and priest in 1592. o He was curate at Leeds Parish Church i- from 1890 to 1898. head of Christ Church, if Olford Miesion, Poplar, from 18f)8 to g 1001, and rector of Lowestoft until 1910. is Methodism lost not only property but lives in the 'bombardment of Scarborough >f by the Germans on December 16. Queen 3- Street Chapel, one of the finest in Brito am, was struck through the roof of the d left hand corner, and the organ -was also a damaffd. A postman ivas killed at the y door of a house, and the maid was also sv a victim, both being membere of the n church. In the afternoon the circuit c quarterly meeting was held a.s usual, all tne ministers and officials being present, c The Rev. H. S. McClelland, who has n accepted the pastorate of Trinity Churnh ;- Glasgow, began life in Fleet Street as an >f office boy at 5/ per week. Later lie got ,o 15/ per week at a bookseller's in Cheapr, side, and used to push a hand-cart with ;s monthly magazines. Afterwards he h went to a 'big firm of merchants as secrecr tary to one of the partners. Next he d was travelling, selling perfumed, and hy d his nineteenth year he had saved more than £100. which enabled Tiim to go to college, and then he entered the ministry. The various Methodist conferences urge their people to unite for worship ' s on the gTeat Christian festivals. XTn--13 fortunately this recommendation h e > almost a dead letter in certain places. d But on Christmas morning the Wesleyir ans of Bedminster. Bristol, invited the !U Primitives and the Uniteds to join them. lt The response was very gratifying, and 'f the service was hearty and well ate tended. "Rev. William Wakinahaw welig corned the other representatives of 'd Methodism, the Rev. T. J, Cox, of the id United Church, delivered the address, of and Rev. A. SutclifTe, of the Primitives, joined in the Beryice,