NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him," — Ezra viii. 22.

Dr. Buxton, of St. Patrick's Cathedral, is still at Oxford, making a special study of social problems.

In his tribute to his mother, published in "The Times," Sir John Simon said of her: "The beauty of holiness mingled easily with her sense of fun." A London writer has aptly described this as a new epitaph that every Christian might well covet.

Negotiations are reported tc be in progress in Eastern Nigeria for the union of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist Churches and missions there, with the object of creating one selfgoverning Protestant Church for the colony with a staff'of African ministers.

"Zealandia" is giving fortnightly the early history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand. We learn from t.hejssue of December 31 that Bishop Pornpallier's first mass (the first in the island) was celebrated in the principal room of a small wooden house near the Hokiangn River on January 11, 1858.

Wise savings: "Perhaps twentieth century bustle and speed are keeping us from the richest blessings." "Look at both sides of the milestone and thank God for the distance you've done." "Jt is only as a man discharges his duty that he can realise his destiny according to the will of God."

"I liave only one purpose," said General Evangeline Booth before setting out oil the longest journey slie has yet undertaken, a journey involving 30,000 miles of travel by sea; rail, and road, "that of seeing the people who stand under our flag in the distant parts of the world, and of lending them a hand in their great task of proclaiming salvation for all." . ,

The Newcastle Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of England, has an unusually large number of students for the ministry under its care. A writer in the "Christian World" mentions, in illustration of the part religion is playing in the civic and national life o? Wales, that many of the new borough Mayors are actively connected with the Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, ' Presbyterian, and Baptist Churches respectively.

In his inaugural speech»as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, Sir lan Colquhoun spoke, not only on the international situation, but on the thoughtlessness and bad manners of many people who, in their picnicing, litter countrysides with orange peel, banana skins, ice cream cartons and paper bags. Many people complain of the litter left lying about nearer home, in bush districts by workers after their meals, as well as by picnic parties, and have wondered if Sunday school teachers as well as day school teachers and, still better, parents, should not try and educate young people on the subject. Thoivrlitfulness and good manners are practical forms of Chrirtianity.