NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

Text: Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whoso sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. —Psalm, xxxi., 1, 2. Melbourne is the stronghold of the Salvation Army in Australia. No prayer, no power; little prayer, little power; much prayer, much power. Anon. Not only his congregation, but his many friend's in Auckland and elsewhere are glad that Canon Grant Cowen is again able to undertake his duties. Canon Haselden and his daughters have the heartfelt sympathy of many people in Auckland and further afield in their bereavement. Strange as it may seem to us, the first heresy in the Church was the denial, not of the divinity of Jesus, but of His humanity.—John A. Hutton-. A biography of Sadhu Sundar Singh, written by Mr. C. F. Andrews, will be published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton within the next few weeks. • Palestine now has a population of well over a million. The persecution of the Jews in Germany by Iptler and the Nazis is likely to add to it. No fewer than sixty languages are spoken in the Holy Land, according to a census taken. Pray for the day's special opportunities and perplexities. Ask His blessing on yoTir appointments, on your period of refreshment, on the particular burdens the day is to lay upon you. You cannot weary God with your petitions, however small they may be. Donald Carruthers. One of the rare treasures that will be seen at the Century of -Progress Exposition in Chicago is the great chalice of Antioch. It" is an ancient, heavily carved silver communion cup, that was discovered almost a quarter of a century ago by workmen when digging among debris in a ■ cellar in Antioch, and depicts the earliest known portraits of Christ, the apostles and the Gospel writers. Another book from the pen of Sir Oliver Lodge lias been published. It is called "My Philosophy," because, ho. writes, It is really my pronouncement, probablv my final pronouncement, to the world as to what I think of things in general." The book is in four parts, in the last of which Sir Oliver states his case 'for his belief in the survival hereafter of the human spirit. Sir John Marriott in a review in "The Observer" (London), of a recently published' volume of lectures bearing on Victorian philosophy, refers to Phillips Brooks as the fastest, as well as one of the greatest preachers he ever heard. Sir John does not say so, but, as a rule, great preachers arc, in the main, deliberate in speech, and, seldom, or never, shout in the pulpit.

In r.n address to the leaving students of Regent's Park College, London, the Rev. J. vS. "Whale said that sound learning was as necessary for the minister as for the doctor, the lawyer, or the economist. It wan by sound learning that rationalism, superstition, and obscurantism could be overcome, yet, the emphasis in the ministry must be la ill on what God has done for men in drawing nigli to them and redeeming them. The minister must be an expert in the Teaching of the Word.