RELIGIOUS WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1922, Page 18

RELIGIOUS WORLD.

\ IK.miru'cm Church ( orrtrress is to be ' ~:1 i;i < hrifltchtireh !ie\'t year, follow-j .ii' ti|.,in ;' re-iilntion passed by the i \ ~:.;, a>i General Synod in Auckland. X j - i,. ;. ;iu attempt, of tiie Church to] ■: :~s man mure into rontm ,, with hi* j \ ( harli-s Biro, a well-known j \ in Melanesia, died a few days i losman. X>.\V.. aire.l 7P years. I ■vd:iin?d by Bishop Patteson in! r. Hire remained in thr mission i :! WV_'. wh"!! he w;is appointed! ~"—cr.uv ii< tin- Australian I .'.. :ii,! i.: V i~ : -ii.iiV. I lie following w .i rec.iii'd probably mi- , !ii.Uchi>d in NeV Zealand. A Methodist! huiidny M-ho.il in Tleref.irdshire has] niii'Uig i hiiiolßre two eistpr.-. Hilda i and Manor I .:' Mw>. Hilda, aged I."'. has I i:<ii !'o"u late or absent, morning or J ii'mtiiiii:!, for ten year?: and Marjorie. i 'i-.-d li. ha- iii-l been !«!>• "r anwm tori Colonel W. R. .1. McLean. Mus. Mac j ■■; Durham, and some time grand or-, of ihc Kreeinasous in England, is, | at ihe ago or 04 years. U> be ordained j li_\ the J>l ~llop of Ixindon. Colonel Mc- | ien ii commanded the !3th /Princess j l,nui?f'sl Kensington Battalion, aud' Inter, the Kith York and Lancaster ) Hi-giment. lie was mentioned in die-1 (..itches and awarded the C.8.8. I Dr. W.irdlc Stafford, ex-Preoident of j ■ i;i- British Wesleyan Conference, if! • hiiphiin to the Lord Mayor of New-! •:i -tio-oi'i-Tvrip. At ihe civio service re-; ■ •iMitJy held he incidentally stated that I dnrirjt hie ten \ears' residence in the city j '!ii! wart the li ft ii mayoral service he j had conducted, and he had been five | y..;ir chaplain to the Lord Mayor. '■ \; tiiß Anglican Synod seseion at j •ijpitfland (\'ic.K Rev. B. B. Lousada j ..iliicd a nuit:o7i urging iht- provincial to appoint registrars of births Hiid deaths, registrars of marriage.s. and : in it the nwdiup; of (he burial service in • ih" , ease of nominal or non-churchgoers j iie added to the duties of the police, de- \ I'ariment. The first suggeetion found Home support, but the second was cry Ktrongly opposed, and the motion wa.- j negatived. j Phi' British VVeelcyan Methodist Church has lost one of its most distinministers through the death ot Rev. ft'm. Goudic. In hie earlier years ho served as a missionary in India, but alter a period of twenty-four years he returned to the English work, and foe-j .ame -widely known as the General Sec- ; •■•tary of the Missionary Society. At. ':m> last conference he was elected 'Pre--i.ii-nt-Drsijrnatc, and was ti> have j (i.-.-upied the i-hair this year. I The r|ueftion of Methodiet union o-.-iipies a large space in the. minds of Mrthodists in England. Meetings are !>e:n<r held in many parts of the country. | nrid there is ii vitrorous diecussion pro I :iiid con in the 'Methodist newspapers. IVrhaps the most prominent champione aro Sir R. W. Perks. Bart, who stands I tor union, and Rev. J. A. Rattenbury, ■.•'lO i=; against. One of the points) •nisei is the efclesiastical position of I ninistcr* and their right?. [ 'L'lii. Very Rev. Prior -lohn StokcF, j i>.- ; ..A.. who hns charge of the Angus-I li'iiau parish of Kyabram fVic.l. re-| . Piiily returned from a trip to Ireland, ; irir.g'ing with him a. chali'.-e 300 years ulil. The Lntin inscription is dated 163 d. The chaHee is ot hammered silver. He ■ ..nip across this piece of church plate at his mother's home in Ireland. His \enerafblo Irish mother gave it to her -■■n a.s a gift 'for his parish church. The Auckland Auxiliary of the London Missionary Society has arranged for a .-cries of monthly lecturee in the various < Vngregational churches of the city and Mitmrb?, at which the subjecte dealt with will be "'lndustrial Missions in Papua." "Growth of a Newer and Brighter Africa," "Awakening of China." "Mass Movements in India," '"Gospel Triumph in Madagascar." '•"Home Mieeions," and "The Value of Missionaries in the South , By religion I mean the power, whatever \l be, which malces a man choose what as hard rather than what ie easy, what ie lofty and noble rather than what is mean and selfish: that puts courage into timorous heart?, and gladness into clouded spirits: that consoles men in Uriel", misfortune, and disappointment: that makes them joyfully accept a heavy hurden; that, in a word, uplifts men out hi the dominion of material things and -niK their feet in a piy-er and simpler religion.—A. C. Benson. . Dr. Liston, Coadjutor Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, eaid recently at St. Benedict's Church: "The only means of freeing the world from the evils that are crushing it to-day is to be found in the ro -establishment both in the family ■ iicle and in society, of the doctrines and practices of the Christian religion." fa , added: "May all of us take the lf-son to heart, so that out of the. sorrows and bitterness and tragedies of ■ iifi past few years a new world may be iniilt up wlitrii will give to God the ihings that are God's, and to the < iimmonwealth, all that both society 8 lid individuals may justly claim." There is a Swedenborgian village of four hundred souls, Bryn Athyn, fifteen miles from Philadelphia. Its leading light i= Mr. Robert Pitcairn, head of (.he Philadelphia Plate Class Company. His father, Mr. John Pitcairn, emigrated From Gotland in 1547. Like Andrew Car* negie, he started as a telegraph worker mi t.ho Pennsylvania Railroad. Tic waa fascinated by the teachings of Swedenlinrg, and founded the Bryn Athyn settlement for "believers," for whom he designed to build a cathedral, church and ni-iiool. He died in 1910, but his son inherited both I lie father's business genius mid his devotion to Swedenborgisin. The elnireh is n> he built at a cost of IHOO.OOO. It is to be lavishly decorated \-i'.:i enstly work in bronze, stained glass, nil!; and inosai. , . Mr. -lames Wilson, MX.A. tor Peters-j h,.m, Ni>.\v South Walee. who this week r. newed old iv Auckland ;ii:er an absence of ten year*, ivaa vs .irmly weli-onied ai the East Street M jfjjiioii. Mr. Wilson ha?; « - isely dropped' ilio title oi reverend mih-c he entered ].olilic.J. Ifany years ngo Mr. Wilson -.us i:i the Salvation Army on the West ('nasi. Later he was for a time in charge ~!' Ka~L Street. Mission, and from there v,er.t across to Australia. Durinp the war he did good work as a chaplain with tha .\u=traliaii Korre.-. and when opportunity ■ _ l'rr" 1 lectured in England for patriotic purpose*. He was called by the Press ••["hi' Mnoriland Messenger." The Rei.irned Soldiers selected Mr. Wilson to r 'present them in Parliament, and he \.u_- returned tor Prtcrshmn.