PRESBYTER AN CATHEDRAL IN SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 204, 22 May 1908, Page 11

PRESBYTER AN CATHEDRAL IN SYDNEY.

' v.'-——-4——— THE SCHEME FAILS. ' Someltime ago the Presbyterian body in New South AVales conceived a great scheme for': establishing a Grand Central Chnrch. and Assembly Hall ill Sydney, that in grandeur and magnificence. would rival St. Andrew's and St. Mary's:; A committee* was formed. ;'However,'when tho report of the central church committeo was called for at. the Presbyterian Assembly the other day, nether the convener nor members of. tho committee undertook to submit the document. ;Rev. R. Maclntyro;; There is none of them game .to tackle tho. subject. llev. : J'.' Burgess: They won't faco the music. Dr./; Harpur: There is no music. . It's all ■ discord.": ■ Kev. J. Burgess: It started with a great - blare. of.trumpets. ' Eer/A..M'Clinchio:';lt is another case where the-mountain'was inTlabour';- arid/brought forth a • mouse. Dr. Hariiur: There was not even a mouse ' here.; : ■■ ■ "Rev. A. M'Clinchio: If I had been in tho city I.would have tackled it. ... . ' Dr. .Harpur: It is all'through the perfectly idiotic ..way.- • '.' . : Chorus: Oh!' .' ■,• Dr. Harpur:' I repeat, the perfectly idiotic way, the assembly does ; business. Tho sarcasm- of;. Her. Mr. M'Clirichie is beside tho question.' Wo wanted to deal with the neglected parts of-tho city, but it was impossible owing to the' perfectly; idiotic way business was carried- on. It .was the same in 'Melbourne. The, Anglicans and Methodists manage much better.. It is not creditable the way the Church neglects the city proper. Those who blamo the ■ committee v know nothing about it. It is hearties'.* and hopeless to deal with tho little bodies .of trustees, with their little plots' of ground. . Mr. Bowen: The idea of a central church is absurd: while-wo cannot fill tho. churches we ' have;. j.Eventually tho committeo was discharged, i rind, the grand scheme for a central cathedral faded 1 into oblivion.

The woman who makes of art a very perfect'understudy -to nature has by far the best-itime of it. It is the girl with the unwavocl looks and the hygienic shoos, who has never powdered her nose in her life, who goes to' swell; tho ranks of ' spinators.—'"Vanity Fair." '" He went to the butcher; also the baker; Ho'went'to the grocer and cabinet-maker; He. even enquired of the new undertaker, And asked the distiller 'arid' brewer! And all of them said > That for col(ls in the head, And the best for the ehest as proven by 'test .Was "Woods's Great Peppermint Cure. i