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Hugh Redwood's "God in the Everyday" is reported to be in great demand at Home. The income of the Church of Scotland for last year amounted to the sum of £2,099,848 —an increase of £79,183 o\er the previous year. A text: —"Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity." —Psalm 119., 3(3-37. The Pope is now in his SOtli year. He was born at Desio, Italy, on May 31, 1557. "Zealandia" reports that he is hale, well-built, and erect, and retains a mind that is as clear as crystal. Here is a sign of the times. A London Free Church minister, the Rev. William Paxton, recently delivered a course of addresses on Wednesday evenings in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields Anglican Church, London. At the diamond jubilee celebrations of Feilding Methodist Church on the first Sunday of this month, the thankofferir.gs amounted to £S7O. This sum, later, reached £900, which will be devoted to the building of a new Sunday school. The International Congress of the World Fellowship of Faiths, which was founded to promote world fellowship through religion, will be held in University College, London, from July 3 to July 17. Addresses will be delivered by representative Christians, Moslems, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Confucians, and others.

The Catholic Church, among several other outstanding men, including G. Iv. Chesterton, has lost one of its Cardinals, who was a noted scholar and administrator, Dr. Aleois Lepieier. His death is a heavy loss to the Church. This month, however, two additions were made to the College of Cardinals, bringing the number up to almost 70.

Dr. F. W. Borcham thinks the Apostolic benediction given in 11. Corinthians, xiii., 14, is the most ill-treated text in the Bible. It is certainly one of the most beautiful prayers in the Bible—"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Allien.''

Wise sayings: "It is far more effective to live against evil than it is to speak or work against it." "Too much mass production in work and too much mechanical amusement in leisure —these are the two things that threaten civilisation." "Preachers should know what is going on in the minds of those they desire to reach so that the emphasis in their message may be in the right place." At the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England last month, one of the subjects discussed was the c-conomic causes of war. In its report 011 the subject of war, the assembly's committee 011 Religion and Morals, remarked that it could not be supposed that virile, enterprising and spirited nations would submit "to be restricted in their self-development, and limited in the necessaries of modern life. The assembly urged the Home Government to investigate the whole subject at an early date, as had been promised by Mr. Eden.