NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 22, 26 January 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A Text: God is our refuge .and strength. A very present help in trouble. Psalm xlvi.l.

The late Archbishop Redwood lived under 110 fewer than five Popes.

Wise Sayings: "A little thing is a little thing, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing." "Life's victories and defeats are to be seen in the soul and not in circumstances." "Science, like religion, lives by faith. It is forward iooking, expectant, unwilling to set bounds to future possibilities." "It is the man who feels himself wise who is truly ignorant."

Dr. Marshall B. Lang of Whittingeliame, some miles east of Edinburgh, in East Lothian, has been nominated for the Moderatorsliip of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which meets in Edinburgh in May. He is a son of the late Dr. John Marshall Lang, who was principal of the University of Aberdeen before Sir George Adam Smith, and also, many years ago, Moderator of the General Assembly. Dr. Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, is another son.

In the course of an article on the power .of the Gospel among children Hugh Redwood makes this true remark: "Even the most earnest Christians are in danger of under-estimating the potentialities of the simple Gospel message where young children are concerned, and also the practical evangelising power which God can wield through the children themselves." And he adds: "Let us never forget this in our meetings, and never be tempted to cut out a talk to the children."

A religion is always in danger of losing some of its original force and freshness. It stands in periodic need of a return to the fountain-head that it may receive a new baptism of lift*. It has been so with Christianity in the past, nor are there wanting signs tliat it is so to-day. Men tend to forget that Christianity is essentially supernatural, that it is from above, and that the very core of its message is that God seeks to be creative in the human heart. They water down its confident assertion of the availability of Divine power, and envisage the Kingdom of God as something to be attained solely by human effort. We live in days when there is much to divert our minds away from the transcendent. —"Tin Times" (weekly number.)