CURRENT NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 187, 9 August 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

CURRENT NOTES.

A woman was ordained recently to the Baptist ministry in England.

The new Catholic University of Peking is nearing completion, and will accommodate 1000 students.

A new Roman Catholic cathedral is to bo built in Liverpool. The site has been, chosen, and has been purchased at a cost of £100,000.

Dr. J. D. Jones has been the minister of Richmond Hill Congregational Church, Bournemouth, for over 32 years. In all that time he has only been twice out of his pulgit through illness.

The mission services conducted by the Rev. Raymond Preston in Pitt Street Methodist Church have teen very well attended. Mr. Preston will address meetings elsewhere in the circuit for another fortnight.

It is 900 years since King Olav was killed in battle near Trondjhdem, or Nidaros as it was then called. It was to Olav the introduction of Christianity into Norway was due, and the Norwegian Government, in honour of the 9th centenary of his death, has given the town its former name.

It is more than a century since the Methodist Church began work in Australia. The first Australian ordained minister, the Rev. John Hutchinson, was ordained in Sydney in 1826. His wife was a daughter of one of the first missionaries who were sent out 30 years before by the London Missionary Society to the South Sea Islands.

The congregation of St. George's, in the West Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh, are spending no less than £12,000 on repairs and improvements in connection with the church. Dr. James Black is the minister, and former ministers were Dr. Candlish, Dr. Whyte, Dr. Kelman, arid Dr. Black's elder brother Hugh, who is now a professor in America. . St. George's is one of the famous churches in Edinburgh which visitors from all quarters of the globe make a point of attending. It is, and always has been, noted for the liberality of its members. Last year its income amounted to nearly £10,000, and of that sum about £5000 was given to missionary and benevoilcnt purposes.

The Rev. Tulloch Yuille, formerly of Knox Church, Dunedin, was inducted in June as minister of Trinity Church, Claughton, England. The name "Trinitv" is reminiscent of the inroads of Unitarianism towards the end of the 18th century. They were such that for years many people . confused Presbyterianism with Unitarianism. Dr. Newman,' even, made this mistake, congratulating himself in his Apologia (edition of 1873) on his being a member of the Church of j England. "But for this," he gays, "I might have been a Presbyterian, and, so, perhaps, have never known the divinity of our. blessed Lord." It was with the object of distinguishing themselves from the Unitarians that many of the English Presbyterians called their places of "worship "Trinity" Church.