NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text? "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee."—Proverbs, 3, 3.

There are over 19,000 members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Great Britain.

The United Free Church of Scotland (the section that did not unite with the Church of Scotland in 1929) lias 124 congregations, and a membership of 21,142.

A prominent English lawyer, Sir William Jowitt, gives as his recipe for happiness: Interest, enthusiasm, and service. Dr. James Black, of Edinburgh, calls it a great and wise choice, as wise in what it omits as in what it includes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury was present at the recent meetings of the General Assembly of which his brother was Moderator. Among several eminent preachers in Edinburgh on the "Assembly" Sunday was Dr. W. R. Inge, late" Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

The swastika, the political emblem of Hitler and his followers, is a peculiar form of the Cross, having four Greek capital letters (the letter gamma) placed together. According to Dr. Stoyan Lasitch, a former member of the League of Nations' Secretariat, it was first officially used, not by Herr Hitler, but by a League of Nations Commission in the Vilna area (Russia).

Wise Sayings. —"Think it possible you may be mistaken." "In learning how to earn a living young people do not learn how to live." "There is no picture that was ever painted, there is no statue that was ever carved, there is no work of art ever conceived that was half so beautiful as is a living man thoroughly developed upon the pattern of Jesus Christ."

A tablet has been unveiled in a church in Aldershot in memory of three sisters who had been members of the church foi over fifty years. They took part in every branch of service, especially the Sunday school and choir. They are said to have been rarely absent from worship, and, though very busy women, were never too busy to minister to anyone in trouble.

Dr. A. T. Scliofield, in his book, 'Where He Dwelt," says that Jerusalem had space on all four sides outside its w r alls for pilgrims, and that it was on the north side that our Lord was crucified, for that was the place where the Samaritans ought to have camped, and they never came to the Passover. It was the only place, he says, outside the city where He could have been, crucified at the time without being in the middle of a vast throng of tents and caravans and the general bustle of a fair, whilst the city itself would be overflowing with people.

An English paper draws attention to the fact 'that an enormous amount of work for the betterment of mankind is being attempted by the League of Nations. Not only, it says, does it stand for peace aiid mutual good will among the nations, embodying an ideal which° remains desirable even when failure has to be admitted, but it is presenting an increasingly powerful front to such grave evils as the traffic in women and children, tyrannous labour conditions, the enormous drug traffic, slavery, oppression of children, bad sanitation*, abuse of th£ laws of health, and many other matters which, because of the development of transport and economic interdependence, have all become international questions. This is a timely statement of the valuable and pressing work for peace and good will ithat is being done by the League behind the scenes, and regarding which many I people seem to be in ignorance.