NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "To be spiritually minded is life and peace."—Romans, viii. 6. I The wife of Gipsy Smith died in England some weeks ago while her husband was engaged in mission work in America. They had been married 54 years. I "Zealandia" reports Sir A. S. Eddington, the astronomer and physicist, as saying, in the course of a lecture in Vienna on the "milky way," that modern physics lead to God, not away from Him, permitting us "to divine an omnipotence ruling over the universe." I , Wise sayings.—lmpatience is the .mother of many sins. Our excuses are often worse than our faults. Nothing is so great a foe to peace as a frightened heart. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. I "There are competent authorities whose province it is to pass judgment on others; but, to most of us the province assigned is that of judging ourselves and no one else; and our hands will be full enough if we confine ourselves to that business."—Archibald Fleming. Tt is suggested by a contributor to the "Xew Zealand Methodist Times" that the Churches in the Dominion should combine and appoint a chaplain in each of the four large cities, who would be in touch with students irrespective of denomination. In Christchurch an Anglican clergyman has already been appointed by the Anglican Church.