LAWN TENNIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1909, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

■WJELCCWME TO THE NEW ZEALAND LADIES' TEAM. ' Covered with a good deal of glory, the New Zealand lady tennis players, who defeated New South Wales in the championships after the latter had put out Victoria, are due back in Wellington to-morrow by the Sydney boat, and the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association is taking steps to have their return recognised in an official manner. Tomorrow at neon the players will be received by his Worship the Mayor (Dr. Newman), and on Thursday evening they Avill be entertained by the association at a dinner at the Grand Hotel.

Speaking on the subject of "Predestination" before the Conference of the . Society of Friends at the Druids' Hall yesterday, Dr. Hodgkin said that a man might keep all the Commandments and yet certainly miss his vocation. The necessity laid upon us as fellowworkers with the Creator involved the assistance of a spiritual faculty by which we understood so much of the will of the Eternal, as it was necessary for us to know. It was something more than conscience, he was sure, for it meant not the power to distinguish between right and wrong, but the power to decide which of two courses of action, each in itself harmless, or even praiseworthy, that we should choose. It was the continuance in our own day and the manifestation to the humblest and weakest of believers of the same Divine gurdance which prevented Paul and Silas, in the days of the Apostles, from going to preach in Bithynia, and guided them to their world-important service in the cities of Europe. The speaker believed tnal the churches had been slow to ctaim-the benefit of this wonderful privilege, but their eyes were more and more being opened to the truth that this •which men have called mysticism was an' essential part of the scheme of . Christianity.