CURRENT NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

CURRENT NOTES.

In 30 years 100 Wesleyaji mission lialls have been built in Britain, at a cost of £2,500,000, These halls provide seating accommodation for 120,000 people. At tl\e dedication of a memorial window to John Bunyan at Ha,rlington Parish Church the Bishop of St. Albans' pleaded for charity and tolerance in religion. He added: "The spirit that sent Bunyan for trial was not dead in the Church." In recognition of his fifty years' wonderful ministry at Hampstead, Lyndhurst Road Church is setting itself to raise a presentation fund of £5000 for Dr. R. F. Horton on his impending retirement (states the "Christian World"). The fifth International Congregational Council is to be held at Bournemouth next July. The council consists of four hundred members, distributed as follows: United States, 150; British Isles, 150; Canada and Newfoundland, 20; Australasia, 32; South Africa, 10; other countries, 38. Mr. F. J. Chamberlain, C.8.E., who has been appointed national secretary of the Y.M.C.A., in succession to Sir Arthur Yapp, is a member of the Anglican Church. For the past 1(! years Mr. Chamberlain has been Sir Arthur Yapp's right-hand man in connection with finance and general administration... He was decorated for war work done for the association. In the course of a sermon preached at Hiff Town Church, Southend-on-Sea, the I!ev. D. Ewart James, M.A., referred to "that sleepy feeling." He said: "In the matters of business, of money, of pleasure, it is insomnia that threatens us. It is in spiritual affairs that we can go to sleep. We get worn out by the straggle of making a living, the rush of the world, the demands and excitements of pleasure that we cry out in religion for a narcotic, an anodyne, a sleeping draught." "The Overcrowded Life" is the subject of an interesting article in the ''Christian World" for August, which states: "So joninioiily young people are criticised tolay because they are too independent. I submit that is nonsense. The trouble, ivith young people to-day is rather that they are hot independent enough. They ire being pulled, pushed and hauled l>y the crowd. You can see them on every ;ide subserviently surrendering themselves to the , pressure, of the mob's iscendency, and what needs to be said ;o many of them is, For your soul's sake, ;ake intelligent charge of your own ifc." * Dr. A. Herbert Gray, M.A., preaching it Crouch Hill Presbyterian Church on 'Christian Warfare and Christian Peacc," said: "We expose the falsity of the opposing views,, but when it comes to dealing with people, we must remember that violence achieves nothing—not even moral violence. Denouncing people anv , ar . f * ens them. Putting them to not nl' Piilts and penalties does in- ±, a . nCe > the rea} God. Hafr»ii ecausc u,Gir views are hatetheir wovs Flat '"» people because Not in such, w-!w l"' " ' lU wron fr (cause of Christ." We turwarU the