NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in lieart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls." —Jesus.

Father Martindale, who is now on his way to Melbourne, is 55 years of age. He recorded his impressions of New Zealand during his previous visit in a book bearing the happy title, "The Risen Sun."

The Government of Kenya is removing the clan of 700 witch doctors, who are among the chief barriers to happiness and civilisation in its territory, to a district beside Lake Victoria. If any of them leave the district they will be imprisoned. Much of the crime and unrest in Africa is due to the evil influence exercised by these people.

The late Cardinal Gasparri was one of the outstanding figures in Rome during the last twenty years. As Cardinal Secretary of State at the Vatican, he took a prominent part in the settlement of the Soman question —the long-stand-ing dispute between the Vatican and Italy—and Mussolini and he were the chief signatories to the Lateran treaty which was concluded in 1929. He was a man of great ability and prodigious industry.

It i 3 thirteen years since the Rev. George Budd, the able and popular superintendent of home missions of the Presbyterian Church, was appointed to that important post. In an address given by him at the missionary demonstration at the assembly in Dunedin a week or two ago, he mentioned that it was practically certain that he would not again address the assembly in that capacity in Dunedin. The news will cause regret among a very wide circle throughout the Church.

The Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, of Devonport, who preached in one of the Oamaru Presbyterian churches a short time ago, and is likely to be called to the church, will, in the event of his receiving and accepting the call, be in tho interesting position of being a successor to the Rev. Ivo. Bertram, as he now is in Devonport, Mr. Bertram having been a former minister of both churches. Mr. Marsh has been a prominent member of the Presbytery, and has figured a good deal as a controversialist in newspaper correspondence.

Wise sayings: Saints are not given to judging. . . . Christianity interprets life in terms, not of time, but of eternity. . . . Spiritual things need more than intellectual powers to grasp them. . . . Eacli "ism" begins with tlie realisation of some real aspect of truth, then men shut it into a box and learn no more because their vanity makes them believe that they have got the whole truth, and they set to work to fight all others who won't put their knowledge into the same box.