CURRENT NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 133, 7 June 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

CURRENT NOTES.

Archdeacon Simkjn returned from a three weeks' holiday at Taupo on Monday. . ' The person and work of the Holy Spirit will be emphasised in Christian Churches' throughout Christendom tomorrow. The Rev. D. C. Herron and family left for Dunedin on Thursday morning. Mr. Herron enters on his new pastorate next week. A writer in a magazine of recent date says) "I 'find myself raorb and more irresistibly drawn to the conviction that the 'best' consists in the maintenance of loyalty to the Christian Church."

At the Synod meeting of the Auckland District Methodists last week, inspiring addresses were given on the Holy Spirit in the individual and on the Holy Spirit in the Church, by the Rev. G. Frost and the Rev. S. J. Warren, i : "

A novel has recently been published in which' Joseph is the chief character. He is revealed k as a stronger personality than is apparent from the references to him in the book cf Genesis, a man of ability, shrewdness, and determination, whose brilliant career was full merited,

The late Mrs Drew, daughter of Mr. Gladstone, in her newly published "Diaries and Letters," quotes.the remark of a friend about death. "Death is the one fact in our lives that: is absolutely certain, yet we dare not contemplate it. We do all we possibly can to run away from it." .

On' Sunday evening,' June 15, at 8 o'clock, there will be a rally in. connection with the Anglican churches in the Town Hall. The praise will be led by a combined mass choir, 'and "the speakers will be the Rev, George C. Gruickshank, the Rev. Walter Averill, arid tins Rev. Jasper Calder. \

The growth and. linking up of associations in . different- countries to bring about disarmament, and to strengthen the hands of governments to bring abont disarmament and permanent peace, has been extraordinarily raipid and widespread of late. Tills is largely due 'to the influence and the interest in the sub. ject aroused by the Churches.

The Press-Radio Bible Service in America celebrates its tenth anniversary 'this year. It is stated by the supporters ;of the movement to publish verses from the Bible in daily newspapers, that 60 per cent of the,population in the United States .have no church communion, but every American home takes a news-; paper, hence the need for the publication of verses from the Bible.

There was a rally of Bible Class young women of . the various Presbyterian churches on Tuesday at Ellerslie. They were addressed by the Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, and, after dinner, which was served in the hall of the Ellerslie Church, they engaged in a games tournament. ;The young men of the Bible classes held a ■ geven-a-side football tournament in the Domain. 1 -. ■ .-.

Sir Charles Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, in an address -in Dunedin 'in connection ' with' the Y.M.C.A. spoke in high terms of the line work done, and the useful part played, by the different Y.M.C.A/s..- He urged greater interest and' financial help on the part-of Christian people generally in connection with the Y.M.C-A., so that it could exercise a still larger influence on the young men of New Zealand.

At a meeting of ministers held;.recently 'with the directors of the Auckland ;Y.M;C;A'., and later in the Auckland Ministers' Association, the work of the association was spoken of in high terms, and Mr. C. H. Furness, the president of the 1 Auckland '• Y.M.C.A., was assured of the sympathy and appreciation of the ministers of all denominations. . ' " '

. Preaching on "The Hidden Ways of, God's Wisdom," Dr. Archibald Alexander,- at St. 'John's Wood- Presbyterian Church, quoted the following from.'the modern translation of Job 28: flron from the .earth is taken, copper smelted out of stones. Men search the darkness to its depth, and in the pitchy gloom for stones they grope. They run a shaft down far from daylight, they hang below, swinging on a rope. A harvest comes out of the earth below, when the rninqr blasts it underground, Sapphires' lie among 'its stones, arid lie picks lip lumps of gold." The preacher said he wondered' how many miners' knew' .tbey had a chapter in 'the Bible all to' themselves. ~; " _ . ' : .

"We are all pilgrims and.Wayfarers today," says Miss Christine Orr, the novelist. "The, . essentia 0 I^e I s rapid movement, .spiritual'ag well as .physical. We go on pilgrimage by aeroplane. . And the faith we need is not so much a solid rampart behind which we can crouch down safely among 'ologies and 'isms, but a parachute which will bear us up when we must needs leap out of our aeroplanes into desperate space. It will be experimental rather than theological. ~, I- feel most strongly that one of our greatest needs'in church* iis words with an everyday human significance, used with humour and fitness by men who have caught our generation's mental accent."