NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 291, 9 December 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?" Jesus. Several additions from overseas to the Auckland Catholic clergy were made last month. Mr. Lloyd George has written a foreword to the Biography of Samuel Chadwick, the eminent English preacher, m the course of which he says that he never saw a man to his audience as he did. . ' ' . A. Eucharistic Congress is to be held in Melbourne toward the end of next year in connection >with the centenary celebrations of the city, at which, it is expected, the Catholic bishops of .New Zealand, and many of the priests and laity will be present.. . / Mary Borden, the novelist, has written a book, "Mary of Nazareth" (Heineman), in which she reverently retells the lite of Christ, in.the. form of a novel. Her story is mainly based on '"the facts recorded in the four Gospels and on the history of the period. It is said that the programme, as devised, for the clearance of slums in the larger cities at Home during the next five years, represents a capital outlay of £05,000,000. Commenting on«U8, one of the Home papers remarks: "The builders of the tiny brick boxes winch have become the elums, did not include this in their balance sheets. But someone has to pay, as always, with compound interest, for ignorance and greed. A writer in a recent issue of the London "Observer,"' Mr. Garvin's great weekly, makes the following remarks about Christianity: "When people abuse Christianity, as constantly'happens, the devout Christian lias always the same perfectly satisfactory answer—it has never been tried. I cannot understand the distress of Christian people, or, people who call themselves Christians, at its so-called failure. Christianity cannot fail."

A scries of. lunch hour addresses on Thursdays on the reunion of Christians is being given by representatives of different denominations in St. Edmund's Church, Lombard Street. London. The opening address was given by the rector, the Rev. J. Adderlcy, who took for his subject, "Pulpit Exchange." He deprecated attempts to force external unity, as he believed it would only divide Christendom more than ever. In his opinion, the first thing to do was to get more into the habit of praying together. '•If," he said, "there are matters about which we cannot pray together, they arc very few compared to those about which we can, euch for example, as the- Kingdom of God. Is it conceivable that if St. Paul came to London (I will not say Christ), he would refuse to pray with the Bishop of London or General Higgius or the President of the Free Church Council? Is it possible that he would take no interest in the Oxford Group? To get together all who love- Christ and love their fellow-men, or at least those who love their fellow-Christians, is an object worth living for, and that is what is meant by the spirit of unity. The important thing is to get Christian congregations interested and not merely the ministers."