NOTES IN PASSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

NOTES IN PASSING.

The popular Methodist Waiata Maori choir is now in England and will sin" m a number of cities. A text: "If any man wilt come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me."—Jesus. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church will meet tin's year in Auckland. The opening service "will be held in St. David's on the eveninz of November 10. Wise Rayinjrs: flood government ilways listens to the voice of the people . . . I am my own victim; I suffer from myself as much as from any one >lse .... Nothing is easier than to lyynotise ourselves with duty, allowing naterial values to become our masters. A Romnn Catholic bishop i n America las appealed to employers and workers n the United States to settle their disputes at a conference table. He considers it must be a bad cause that dare not bo discussed and solved at a conference table. Sir Harold Bechwith Whifehouse, the noted Birmingham gynaecologist, is of opinion that the countries that are adopting birth control wholesale are "on the down grade." and that "as a general rule the healthiest nation is the most fertile nation." Kathleen Kennedy has an article in 'Zealandia" on "the influence of the stars," in which she comments adversely on the growing belief in fortune-telling,' especially in astrology, and on the [.lace given to articles on astrology in magazines for women. The Rev. Bernard Wilson (son of the Rev. A. S. Wilson), now in Australia after an evangelistic campaign in the Old Country, is expected to arrive in Auckland early this month to conduct ' missions in various parts of the Domi- . nion, including Orange Road Baptist Church. Mr. Wilson is a graduate of the New Zealand Baptist College, and has , held pastorates in New Zealand and Australia. Tho World Conference on Faith and Order, which met in PMinburgh in August, was attended by about fiOO delegates representing 50 countries. No gathering to'compare with it has been seen in the Scottish capital since the World Missionary Conference 27 years ago. flic, meetings were held in the

Church of Scotland Assembly Hall. and men of many tongues, and of every colour, rubbed shoulders. Dr. Temple. Arrhbishop of York, was appointed president. on the nomination of Dr. Oarvie, a Scot*mnn. and one of the outstanding 'ongregationa 1 minister at Home. In «• sermon preaehed in St. Giles (the 1 lof -Tolin Knox) before the conference opened the arrhbishop deplored the ™rricrs ramed by certain churches, in- „ hl « ™n. njrain-t "cornplctenrw* of nii.on at the Table of the Lord" He conMdpml .1 the greatest of all scandals n the faee of the world," and went on to say thnt the ordinary lay folk are mor„ to „ m , he re.uroenre of paganism than the leadeis of ecclesiastical organisations."