NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 282, 28 November 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

The Presbytery of Manchester has agreed, with only one contrary vote, that the ministry of the Church should be open to women on the same terms as to men.

The sums asked and given for Church purposes in the United States make the Christian "libferality" of most of our churches rather poor showing. "The First Presbyterian" Church in New York is one of the most generous. It budgets for £23,000 a year, and gets it.

Viscount' Brentwood, presiding at a Band of Hope demonstration in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, said the bulk of the wonderful improvement that had taken place in the last hundred years Was due not so much to education and other causes as to the work done by the temperance societies.

Another book has just come from the fertile pen of F. W. Boreham. It is published by Sharp, and is called "The Swans Fly High." Dr. Boreham is noted for his instructive and uplifting religious essays, and felicitous phrases and illustrations, and his new book will add to his popularity. 1

It may not be generally known that the ministers of Auckland are ex-officio members of the Council of Christian Congregations, without fee and with full privileges of membership, and that congregations are entitled to representation in the proportion of one delegate per hundred members up to a maximum of three. Congregations are expected, if it is convenient for them, to pay an annual fee of a guinea.

Philip Guedalla has written a life of the Duke of Wellington, in which he speaks of his greatness as being the result of such striking qualities as a perfect simplicity of character without a particle of vanity or conceit, a thorough and strenuous self-reliance, a severe truthfulness, never misled by fancy or exaggeration, and an ever-abiding sense of duty. He speaks of him as the humblest of citizens and most obedient of subjects.

Speaking a short time ago at the conference of the Modern Churchmen's Union, of which he is president, Dean Inge remarked, in the course of his address, that anen might reject an infallible Church as well as an infallible Book, and that it was the Church that gave the Scripture its authority, but was all authority then gone? When Christianity was fresh from the mint there was no Church and no Christian Bible. But there was the indwelling Spirit of God. which St. Paul identified with the Spirit of Christy It was this inspiration which created the Church which cliose the Bible which formed the religion of Protestants.