NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 26 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

A text: "The Lord shall guide thee continually."—lsaiah.

The City Temple, London (the Eev. Leslie D. Weatherhead), has seats for 2300.

The recent self-denial effort of the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom brought in £155,975 13/8.

"Zealandia" states that there are over 1,000,000 Catholics in Australia, and that in the last 50 years Catholics there have spent £50,000,000 on the education of their children.

It is intended to hold a Roman Catholic exhibition in Paris next year to "show how the Catholic Church leads man, from the day of his birth, through the stages of life to hia eternal destiny."

A correspondent in the "New Zealand Methodist Times" quotes Henry Ford as saying: "All that I am I owe to the Bible in the public schools. If I had my way, it would be read daily in all the public schools."

A speaker at the annual meeting of the Catholic Big Brother Society, held recently, condemned the parents who permit and, in some cases, encourage their children to read general magazines indiscriminately.

It was in 1884 that the first annual meeting of the Congregational Union of New Zealand took place in Wellington. Prior to that there were two unions, one embracing the South Island and Wellington, and the other.the churches in the Auckland provincial district.

Dr. Sidney Berry, a distinguished English Congregational minister, has been invited to preach the official sermon in Geneva Cathedral at the opening of the Assembly of the League of Nations in September.

Wise sayings: There can be no goodness where there is no alternative of evil. The depth from which our words are spoken is the measure of the depth at which they will be heard. There is nothing that develops ability, improves character, arouses ambition, and generally sets a man on to do his best like responsibility.

The Christian education secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in China expresses the hope that eventually all evangelical and orthodox Churches in China will unite into one Church. Denominationalism, he maintains, is of no significance and meaning to most of the Chinese Christians. It sometimes engenders the spirit of competition and jealousy among workers of different Churches in evangelistic work, hindering the development of the spirit of cooperation and love.