NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A nun has been admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of the United States. She is said to be the first nun within the memory of the Court to be admitted. A text: "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardcth the clouds shall rot reap." (1.e., he who is obsessed by the difficulties in the way, will never accomplish anything) — Ecclesiastes xi., 4. ,• ° Wise sayings: "It is "impossible to enslave mentally or socially, Bible-read-people. "Religion is always decaying amongst the many, and being revived by individuals." "The task before the world is to recover the lost fifith in man on the basis of a greater faith in God." » Gipsy Smith's diamond jubilee as an evangelist has been celebrated at a crowded gathering in one of London's largest halls. Many hundreds were unable to get even standing room. Mr. Lloyd George was one of "the speakers, and they were representative of nearly all the Churches.

At the conference the other week of the National Association of Head Teachers in England, a Cardiff magistrate said: "The influence of the home has greatly deteriorated. Life seems to have become to many parents a perpetual joy-ride, and home to many people a place merely to sleep and eat in." Three chief constables in Wales, he added, all held the view that lack of parental control was one of the chief causes of the increase in juvenile delinquency. ,

"Apes can learn to do much by carefully imitating man, their master, as I nearly every zoo is now demonstrating. But, if left to itself, what more can any ape do to-day than any ape did a million years ago? Nothing. Here yawns a mighty chasm, which natural selection, even with unlimited time, could not bridge, and never will."—Quotation from the "Christian World."

The sheet of water in Palestine hitherto known as the Dead Sea is now being looked upon as the Sea of Life. One writer calls it the most precious body of water in the world. The reason is that a chemical company licensed by Britain has found that its mineral salt deposits make it possible to estaolish a world supply of potash, bromide and other salts. /

Dr. Vernon Bartlet,' one of the outstanding men who have been connected with Mansfield College, Oxford, in the course of a communication to the "Christian World" on the subject of infant baptism, says that it is probable in a high degree that infant baptism was not some have asserted) an innovation which crept in after the Apostolic age, but rather, as Origen positively avers, a usage having Apostolic authority. Origen lived in the first half of the third century, and. next to Augustine, was the greatest theologian of the early Christian Church. " ■> '

Dr. T. Hvwel Hughes has resigned the principalship of the Scottish Congregational College, Edinburgh. This college, as a result of his influence, is now recognised by all the Scottish universities as an extra-mural college (i.e., as a college outside the universities) with the right, of giving a B.D. degree tn its students without their having to attend the divinity classes in any of universities.