RELIGIOUS WORLD

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 73, 27 March 1920, Page 18

RELIGIOUS WORLD

CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES. The Eov. Herbert Arnold has just com- | ploted his 50th year in the Congregational ministry. A tablet has been placed on ihe out- ! side wall of Lowther Street Congrega,l tional Church, Carlisle, in memory of the visit of President Woodrow Wilson. The death of Mr. H. C. Frick, partner of the late Andrew Carnegie, brought a windfall of to charitable and educational institutions in the I'nited States. Rev. Thomas (.rear has just completed j Do years as minister of the Congrega-; tional Chapel at Bishopsgate. in the heart of London. It was announced recently nt the Liverpool Presbytery that £81,750 had been raised towards the £100,000 Thanksgiving Fund for increasing salaries of ministers. The- Eev. W. 11. Campbell, organising secretary of the Church of England Sunday School Institute, recently is reported to have stated that teachers are handicapped hy worn out ronditiones and hamperedbv theologians. i i The Sultan of Turkey evidently lias a sense of humour, for when interviewed by an American journaliist, he twitted the scribe, upon the United States copying the followers of the Prophet of Mecca by prohibiting the use of alcoholic drinks. On the completion of his fortieth year as minister of Hampstead Congregational Church, Dr. Horton was presented with an address by the elders, expressing great appreciation of his manifold services, not only to that church, but also to Congregationalism and to the world. Tho King, in the course of conversation -with General Bramwell Booth, of the Salvation Army, showed interest in the forthcoming visit of that gentleman to the overseas Dominions, and said he would like to hear about them upon the General's return. Dr. Mannix, Roman Catholic Arch- • bishop of Melbourne, leaves for Rome. ( via the United States, by the Ventura , next May. He is to furnish the Pope , with a report of the progress of Catho- , licism in the archdiocese. .Later lir. Mannix intends to visit Ireland. An exchange states that Dr. Mannix is men- | tioned as a probable successor to Dr. . Walsh, Archbishop'of Dublin. The Anglo-American Society proposes | to celebrate the tercentenary of the • Bailing of the Pilgrim Fathers from Eng- ■ land by founding a Chair of American , History, Literature, and Institutions for British Universities as a permanent memorial of the visit of the Prince of Wales to the United States. Sir W. G. , Watson donated £20,000 towards this • object. ■ Dr. Jones, preaching at Richmond Hill , Congregational Church, referred to people starving in Austria, and said he wished to awaken pity and love. To care for an alien enemy was the teaching of the parable of "The Good Samaritan," though John Bull might call it unpatriotic. The great need to-day was a change of spirit, not only in Germany, but in England- The peace made with the Boers saved the British Empire. Germany changed from a sullen enemy Into a friend, would save the world. It is provided in the Constitution that tho vice-president of the .New Zealand Methodist Conference must always be a layman. This year the honour has fallen to Mr. E. H. Penny, of Blenheim. His father was a local preacher for half a century, and Mr. Penny himself has been preaching 30 years, mostly in the Marlborough district. It is said that he has i preached more sermons in the pulpit of ■ the Methodist Church at Blenheim than any minister who has been appointed to the circuit. Mr. Penny is also well acquainted with official work of the connexion, having been a member of the conference for many years. The Methodist Church of Canada has appointed one of its ministers to permanently reside in. England as a kind of representative of the Dominion Church. One of his principal duties will be to inform and assist Methodist emigrants who may desire to settle in Canada. It ■will also be his duty to try to secure suitable young men for the ministry of his Church. He will have an office in Liverpool, and will open up communication with ministers and officials of all branches of the Methodist Church throughout the United Kingdom. The Bey. Dr. Darwin is himself an Englishman, who went out to Canada as a young man. Under the will of Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, a great collection of art treasures is given to the United States Government for the National Capital of Washington. The collection includes a valuable copy of the Scriptures. The early history of this copy is unknown. It was purchased by Mr. Freer from an Arab dealer at Gizch, Egypt, and preyed to the University of Michigan for decipherment. It proved to be an almost c TP le *? CO Py °t t fl e Scriptures, the copy of the Gospels being the oldest part, ana dating from the fifth century. It has been suggested by antiquarians that it COme from tne Church of Ttmothy, from the monastery of the Vinedresser which was located near Cairo, ?eentl + WBB de6tr °y*<l in the thirIno t A an - BCript ' the on * important 41m ecvx7 o „i.. ° ta 'i will be known as 6cript^ hmSton C ° dex ° f .«» Holy Captain the Bey. 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