RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 18

RELIGIOUS WORLD.

CHT7H.CS NEWS AND NOTES. Rev. A. L. Canter, yip— -• Tγ-;'-^ has been appointed to Roxburgh and Miller's Flat. The Rev. S. Morris, who has been doing Home Mission work for the Baptis"? < hureh, Otago, left Wellington for England by tile Tainui. Tl:e Very Rev. Father Murphy, who for the 14 years lias been in charge of Hiwrton parish, is expected to leave Auckland by the Niagara about June 10 on a twelve months' vacation to visit his mother in Galway, Ireland. T'i.> Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert. nrhu i> Weil known in Auckland as well as other parts of New Zealand, is, according t'i information recently received in the South, on her way back to the Dominion. The rev. mother has been away for about six y,-ars. the delay for the last four being due to 1 he war. Her. 7M!o R. St. John Hovell priest in charge of the English Church at Hartley, Rhodesia, South Africa, whose death was reported recently, was the second ?o:i of the Dean of Waipu. Doceased was drowned while trying tc save some boys who were in the L T mpoli River. At St. Peter's Mission. Taranaki Street, Wellington, a farewell was given to the Rev. F. M. Kempthorne, late curate of St. Peters, who is leaving to take up duties as vicar of Pohanaina. iir Ballinger, on In-half of the congregation of the mission, presented Mr Kenipthorne with a silver communion service and set of altar linen. _ The British War Office has initiated a lino of service of great moment to the churches by sending forward the names of the men who are being da?sy uemobilisedIn the large centres chaplains sit in relays day and night in the discharging offices, and the men file before them, giving their religion and the names of their ministers. Arrangements are now being made for the annual effort on behalf of Foreign Missions throughout the Auckland Central Methodist Circuit. The aim is to raise jC-500, the same as last year, that being an advance of nearly £400 .vithin three years. There will" be no special deputation this year, local ministers and laymen preaching the sermons and carrying on the meetings. The special .Sunday will be June 15. and the meetings will follow in the same week. British and Foreign Bible Society has recently revised the selling price of books of the Bible published in Braille type for the blind. The price for the English edition is 1/6 per volume. These books are now costing the society 8/ per volume to produce. Moreover." n"v poor blind applicant can obtain a book of the Englfsh Bible in embossed type as a free gift, on the recommendation of some minister of religion. The society has undertaken to supply free of charge all the copies in English Braille that are needed for blinded soldiers at St. Dunstan's Hostel. The Boston "Transcript," referring to the death of the head of the Morman Church, Joseph F. Smith, states he -was the last of the men in power who outdated the exodus to Utah. He drove an ox-team on the lonj trek from the banks of the Mississippi to the Salt Lake Valley in 1546-7. J. F. Smith was born in IS3S at Carthage, 111. His father, Hiram Smith, and his uncle, the original " Prophet Joseph," were shot to death by a mob which stormed the gaol for preaching the Morman doctrine of plurality of wives. The British and Foreign Jible Society's circulation since it was founded in ISO 4, has reached the grand total of three' hundred million volumes, each volume being a Bible or a Testament, or at least on;; complete book of Holy Scripture. Between August 4, 1014, and November 11. 1918, the society printed versions of some part of the Scriptures in 34 fresh languages and dialects. This means an average of one new version every seven ■Reeks during the whole period of war. "Unity is necessary, not uniformity," was a pregnant sentence used by the Rev. Dr. Selbie, of Mansfield College, when speaking at Nottingham upon the importance of Christianity being at the foundation of all schemes of reconstruction after the war. "The churches," he added, "must interpret the teaching of Christ in the language of the present age, and must speak in no uncertain ■way on the application of Christian principles to social and international problems." During the British forces' occupation of Salonika the pastor of a Greek Evengelical Church threw open two rooms, and in these services were held for the soldiers by Captain Gibson and other chaplains. A memorial has now been presented to that church in the form of a rostrum with balustrading surrounding, and v handsome screen with panels. The inscription, in Greek, is as follows: 'This pulpit, screen, and communion rail were presented to Greek Evanglical Church, Salonika, by the officers, nursing sisters, and men of the British Army and Navy who worshipped in , this church during the Great War, 1015-IS." All the work was done by men of the ■R.K. in their workshops, even to enjrraving the plate. Mrs. Fergus, of Kelvinside, Glasgow widow of the late Rev. William Fergus, has presented to the British Admiralty two valuable cups of Sheffield plate of a pattern dated about ISOO. These particular cups are stated to have been used at communion on board H.M.s. Vietorv at the time of the battle of Trafalgar. A written statement forwarded with the gift is to the effect that tho cups were "r>t from the niece nf the chaplain of the said Ship, "out of whose possession they have r.-vr Wn." Mrs. Fergus gave the cupa on the 112 th anniversary of the battle of irataljjar "in appreciation of what the British Navy has done in the present war for the safety of the world and the honour and love I hold to my country.' . The Bi-hop of Peterborough, address .■ ♦W^* 1 Dean ot " Peterborough *ays taat the recent action taken by tit. (-.r.' , !".." 1 konfrtliorpe (the Rev. E. £ .-'...y) in exchanging pulpits with I Baptist minister leaves him no eours. C::; to make an emphatic prn;e~t again* .'- disregard of the essentials of th situation. The Church of England ha place.l resnonsibility regarding admU £..n to her pulpits in the hands of th Oisnops, and not of the individual < rumoe-.t*. Thk is part and parcel t tnat discipline which Mr. O'Reilly in th eo,emn moment of his ordination, swoi to owerve-