NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "He that governeth his lips doeth wisely." Proverbs 10.19.

It is interesting to learn that the first Catholic school in Auckland, opened (in Pitt Street) by the Marist Brothers in 1885, still stands, and is used to-day as a commercial house.

The most virile Welsh movement just now is said to be Urdd Gobaith Cymru-— the Welsh League of Youth. It is believed that it is likely to do more to perpetuate the language and culture of the principality than anything else in 6uf generation.

Wise sayings: "Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been." "Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; still in thy right hand carry gentle peace." "We are here to win, if wo can, in every condition that confronts us, to do - our best in any case, and to do it to the end."

The "New Zealand Methodist" says that seven out of every nine preaching appointments in British Methodism are taken by local preachers, and that in New Zealand the "percentage" .of appointments is 74 ministers and 26 lay. Eighteen months ago, it says, statistics showed that there were 606 local preachers in active service in the Dominion.

The (Anglican) Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich read a paper recently at the Modern Churchmen's Conference in' which he urged closer relationship between the Church of England and the Free Churches.. "The Free Churches," he said, "are too often regarded as in a position of inferiority, irregular, lacking essential qualities of true churchmanship, to be treated with a measure of condescension. These are things to be overcome. There must be a frank recognition of the full equality of standing between ourselves and them." ,

"It is rather hard sometimes to think noble thoughts of this poor human race to which we belong, but I am asking you to receive the witness of Jesus Christ Who knew men at their worst and at their best and He taught us that men, women and children are somehow lovable. We are not good, many of us are not even nice, or only nice now and then, and we cannot keep it up for long. Though we are n6t good and* not nice, it is a joy to us to know that God loves us; not just because He made up His mind to do so, but because, somehow or other, we are lovable."—Dr. Russell Maltby.

Provost Murray of Dornoch (the smallest country town in Scotland), who was temporarily suspended, a month or two ago by the Kirk Session of the Free Presbyterian Church in which he worshipped from the* rights and privileges of the Church for having allowed dancing to take place at a children's party in his house last Christmas, is well-known in the north of Scotland as a lay preacher. He is holding largely attended services on Sundays in a public building in tho town. Varied views about his suspension have been appearing for weeks back in the correspondence columns of the "Northern Chronicle," an Inverness paper, and it is claimed that the majority of tho congregation has followed him. •

The Churches at Home are strongly supporting the Imperial Government in its endeavour to make the Covenant cf the' League of Nations effective in the Abyssinian question. Letters from Church of England, Free Church and Catholic leaders have appeared in the "Times," expressing the strong feelings of their fellow churchmen in the matter, j Dr. Sidney Berry, who is the secretary j of the Congregational Union and also i Moderator of the Federal Free Church Council, closes his letter with these! words: "It is only a courageous policy: which can save it (i.e., the collective system), with all that it means for the future welfare of mankind." Writing" in the "Richmond Hill Magazine," Dr. J. D. Jones says: "Whatever France may do, I hope Britain will stand by her pledged word and will let the world know what she thinks." ,