NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A Text.-»-"Let the peace of God rule in your heart."—St. Paul. King Leopold has issued a decree forbidding the entry into Belgium of certain foreign licentious magazines. Sheriff Jameson, of Edinburgh, son of the late Lord Ardwall, said in a Court recently": "Whisky used to be the curse of Scotland when I was a boy; gambling is the curse of Scotland to-day." A lady, who died recently in Wales in her 93rd year, was connected with the same church, and was a regular attender at it for an unbroken period of 80 years, ) An Edinburgh minister, Dr. J. R. Aitken, conducted a Communion service on the Queen Mary on a recent trip. The Communion vessels and vestments used were presented to the great ship by the Church of Scotland in May.

Lord. Snowden, in his booklet, "End This Colossal Waste," mentions that the drink bill at Home for 1035 amounted to £237,732,000, whilst the milk bill totalled only £53,000,000. Nearly twice as much money was spent on beer alone as on milk.

I Independent of the children in the Dingwall orphan homes at Papatoetoe. 90 children are housed and cared for by the Presbyterian Church at Onchunga and Meadowbank, through itfl Auckland Orphanages and Social Service Association.

Wise Sayings from Thomas a Kempis.—"Sometimes passion moves us and jWe call it zeal!" "The Godly man keepeth closer ward of himself than of anything beside." "If thou hast learned to hold thy peace, and to be patient, doubt thou not but God will aid thee from above."

lona, the island with which the name of St. Columba is imperishablv associated, is only three and a half miles long, and one and a half miles broad. It lies off the Argyllshire coast on the west of Scotland, not a great distance from Ireland, and has a freshness and beauty all its own.

The Sunday School Convention, held recently at Oslo, was attended by 3000 delegates from almost every part of the globe. Among the speakers was the Primate of the Church of Norway, who mentioned that religious instruction was given in every school in Norway. King Haakon was present and had a seat among the delegates in the body of the hall. An interesting account of the convention is given in this month's "New Zealand Baptist."

"Littleness is the mother of unbelief and hatred and envy, suspicion and cruelty. Littleness endeavours to pull down every great structure that the big fellows seek to build. Littleness laughs at every great dream. It mocks at every great emotion; it sneers at every great endeavour; it always hates, it never forgives; it always doubts, it never commends. It always persecutes the big, the noble, the good. It crucified Christ; it handed the hemlock to Socrates. Littleness mocked Galileo; it derided Columbus; it jeered at Lincoln." —Millicent Preston Stanley.