NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "My grace w sufficient for thee." (11. Corinthians, xii., 9. Canon Peter Green, of Manchester, has declined three bishoprics offered to him during the past 2.3 years. At the annual assembly of the Baptist Union of Scotland some weeks ago there was an even larger representation of delegates than usual—over 3.50. It is. reported that the United Church of Canada (the union was effected 11 years ago) has prospered beyond the dreams of the most confident prophet. Included in the large volume of direct social work carried on by the Anglican Church in Xew Zealand is the catering for over 800 unfortunate children if\ 21 homes. In the course of his sermon at the induction of the Rev. Leslie Weatherhead as minister of the City' Temple. London. Principal Whale said that there was only one way to believe in God. and that was to go down on our knees and worship. It is 50 years since the Rev. B. Hut'son, one of the ministers emeriti of the Presbytery of Auckland, first attended the meetings of the Presbytery. In those early days its bounds extended to Xew Plymouth, Gisbor«j>, and the far north. Mr. Hutson is now in his 83rd year. How many people know that there are 300 Methodist ministers in' Germany, a hundred" per cent more than we have in Xew Zealand? There are also 30.000 ! Sunday school scholars. Methodism has been developing in Germany owing to the missionary enterprise of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. At the thanksgiving meeting in London in celebration of Dr. Dinsdale Young's 00 years as a preacher, Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Alness, Viscount Wakefield, and other men of note—clergymen and laymen—paid tribute to Dr. Young and bis work. Congratulations from the King, the Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and representatives of all denominations were received. Mr. Lloyd George was the principal speaker. In the course of his speech he said that in Germany, whenever a great preacher had a'direct, earnest message to deliver with power, the churches of every denomination were thronged with the vouth of the countrv. , Several well known leaders in Great Britain, in response to a request by the "War Cry," have sent messages on the question of international reconciliation and peace. Dr. T. R. Glover, in his message, replied: "I can only say what all sensible people are saying. I am neither pacifist nor militarist, and I see the immense difficulties confronting 1 statesmen all over the world. I do not wish to criticise national' leaden in this or any other country; I realise something of their task, and I doubt if I could do it better—l am sure I could not. There is nothing to help us but perseverance, courtesy (in private as well as in international intercourse) and faith in God. If declamation could help we should have had the millennium years ago, but even ordinary people caul use patience, and prayer, and sense."- I