CURRENT NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

CURRENT NOTES.

A recent straight-out appeal was made at Christ Church, Lavendar Bay Sydney, for £200, and £37& was received! i j<.; • ■■•),! c>. , • Professor Vernon Bartlott, upon retiring from his chair at Mansfield College, where he taught Church' history ' since, 1889, was presented with a cheque to provide a trip, to, Italy for Mrs. Bartlett and himself. Dr. W. B. Selbie has been appointed for another five years as principal at Mansfield College. A group of young Chinese, soldiers bearing revolutionary posters, came marching into a church to disturb the children's service. Silently they sat and listened to it all, then threw their posters on the ground. "Do what you like with these,' , they said, and went away. ' ' ' .Addressing the Yorkshire Baptist Association at Bradford, the Rev. J. B. suggested that the principle of religious toleration to-day was becoming religious indifference. He said: "Our generation seems to me to have the characteristics of the Mississippi— [it is a mile wide and a foot deep. Religious leaders have something to answer for with their cry of *Hueh, hush! , to religious controversy, which is equivalent to saying that good manners are infinitely preferable to strong convictions."

It is interesting to note, in a' recent circular issued by the Cremation Society of England,-as indicating the attitude of the Church in £ngland to the practice, , that : among the numerous, clergy whose remains have been cremated in recent years are the late Bishops of Truro, Lincoln and Ipswich,. Bishops Boyd. Carpenter, Ryle, Neligan (at one time Bishop of Auckland) and a number of other dignitaries. The only ments now. permitted in Westminster Abbey are those of the ashes of departed notables.

Mr. Maurice L. Jacks,. headmaster of Mill fiill Public School, speaking on "Religion and Young People," said there was little spirit of amongst the youth Of to-day. He added that young? people were impatient of fetters, whether theological, institutional, or ritualistic. They wanted a Church free to face tr,uth ip whatever form it came, and to fee! free to handle all truth in the interests of religion, free to read all Bibles—those of science, nature and history no less than the Scriptures. Youth wq,a impatient of what seemed a unique- emphasis on matters :of secondary importance.

Standing on a costermonger's barrow in the Borough Market, Southwark, the Bishop of Woolwich said:—"l am profoundly discontented with the conditions of life as I see them around me, and the root of our present system is a moral evil. It seems to me the idea of gain is the main motive of life, and it produces cruelty. . The amount of cruelty being inflicted in England to-day is simply terrible. You talk about people being Bolsheviks if they are .discontented with things as they are. They tell us Glasgow if. the most 'Bolshevik city in the Empire. - Do you know why that is T It is because half the people in Glasgow are living in one-room tenements." v .

At. the Wesleyan Conference in Liverpool the Rev. Dr. Barber moved that a letter be sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury congratulating him on his long service, and expressing appreciation of work, ;He said that".,the beautiful spirit in which the Archbishop had done, his work and,the wisdom with which he had been- endowed, were .such thatthe. whole Catholic Church rejoiced to express its warm appreciation of what he had! been enabled to do. Dr. Dinsdale Young said that the Archbishop was thoroughly evangelical in spirit, was one of, the most friendly and*kindly of men, and;had done a great deal to promote