NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A "I had fainted tmless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thino heart." —David.

The biography of the late Lord Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, is being written by Dr. Bell, Bishop of Chichester. Dr. Bell knew the Archbishop intimately; he was his chaplain, his private secretary and his Dean at Canterbury.

There are many in New Zealand who will learn with regret that Dr. Maclean Watt, who had a breakdown shortly before the meeting of the General Assembly, of which he was Moderator, has had a relapse as a result of tho strenuous duties of his office, and has had to cancel many of his engagements.

The late Rev. D. D. Rodger, who died suddenly last Saturday morning, was one of the most kindly, unassuming and lovable ministers in the Presbyterian Church. He had a host of attached friends in both Islands, to whom his swift passing, coming so soon after the jubilee of his marriage to the devoted wife who so unselfishly assisted him all these years in the Dominion, will have come as a shock. The respect and affection in which he was held in Mount Albert and in the church there, of which, sine:' his retirement, ho had been an office-bcarer, was clearly evinced at the funeral service on Monday. Calmly lie looked on either J.ife, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to (ear. Of manners gentle, of affections -mild; In wit a man; simplicity a child.