NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A Text: Cast all your care (all your anxiety) upon Him, for He carcth for you (is interested in you, or, Letter still, lias you on His heart). —St. Peter.

Reviewing the etory of one of the smaller and more exclusive Christian sects, and the controversies that have affected it, which one closely connectcd with it has made public, a writer in the "Scots Observer" says it shows the danger there is to religion when zeal is not according to knowledge and the spirit of uncharity takes the place of love.

A bill to protect animals from cruelty during the preparation of cinema lilins is shortly to come before the British Parliament. Commenting on this, a Home paper says: "Indignation at bull fights to make a Spanish holiday is scarcely justified while we allow animals to be cruelly treated in order to provide thrilling spectacles on the films."

The Maori Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church has made a new venture. It/ has started a magazine in Maori for Maori Presbyterian people, bearing the title "The Christian Canoe." The magazine is edited by the Eev. J. G. Laughton, of Taupo, and will be pub-

lished monthly. The first issue was published last month. It is attractively got up, with an appropriate artistic design 011 the front outer page by Mr. McDonald, formerly of the Government Publication Department.

Dr. Elizabeth Sloan CheSser, speaking some time ago at a conference 011 mental health in London, said that the disease of discouragement was prevalent among young people to-day, and that their sense of insecurity and hopelessness was in some cases so intense that life had ceased to be of value to them, and that the impulse of suicide was being fostered to a dangerous extent. This is true of more countries than England, and should be a call to all who have the interests of young people at heart to try and win their confidence, show sympathy tvith them, and do all in their power to help ; and guide them.

The president of Magdalen College, Oxford, says that a study of new words in the language gives the impression that this is a talented, nervous, highly-strung generation, 0 jually harassed by its pleasures and its pains, and eager to pass from one sensation to another. There is too large a vocabulary, lie adds, for a virile nation devoted to distinguish every possible kind of comfort at every hour of the day and night, and an extraordinary amount of space is taken up by the games. Let us hope that ffirtlier now words will gradually be coined indicative of a general turning to more seriousness of life. 1