SUNDAY READING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUNDAY READING.

“QUIA PEOCAVI.” Whenever I have sought to stray From Thy appointed path, ’l’hou hast not s?t athwart my way Tho barriers of Thy wrath. Thou hast preferred my soul to win By infinite address; And in the citadel of Sin I met Thy tenderness. Broad was the. way before my feet, A pavement smooth and wide; I know not in what strange retreat Thy Love had learned to hide. But when Thou hadst me safe at length I said ’lhce in awe, “Tby sympathy is all Thy strength Thy mercy all Thy law!” —Maurice F. Healy, in “'Hie Tablet.”

PROFESSOR HXRNACK ON CHRISTIANITY. Those who may have known Professor Harnackk chiefly as one of the «iant minds of German scholarship will do ■.veil to read the words with which he the. course of lectures that make his volume entitled “What is Christianity ?” They form’ a memoinble commentary not only upon the insufficiency’ of learning to meet the needs of life, but also upon the entire compatibility of great learning and cliild-l’k*? faith. .'These were his words: “Gentlemen, it is religion, the love of God and neighbour, wT.ich gives life a meaning: knowledge cannot do t. Let mo. it you please, speak of .my own experien'-e. as one who for thirty tears has taken an earnest interest in these thins. Pure knowledge is a glorious thing, and woe to the man who holds it light or blunts his sense for it. But to the question : Whence, whither, and to what purpose? it gives an answer to-dav as little as it did two or three thousand years ago. It does, indeed, instruct us in facts; iu detects inconsistencies: it links phenomena; it corrects the deceptions of sense arid idea. Put where and how the curve of the world and the curve of our own life ('nogin—tihat enrro os’ which it shows u; only a section —and whither this curve leads, knowledge does not tell us But if with a steady will we affirm the forces and the 'standn-ds which on the summits of our inner life shine out as our highest good. nay. as our real self: if we are earnest' and courageous enough to accent them as tho great Reality and direct our lives by them ; and if wo then look at tbo course of mankind’s history’, follow its upward development, and search in strenuous and patient service, for the communion of minds in it, wo shall not faint in weariness and despair, b;it, become certain of God. of the Cod whom Jesus Christ called His Fai.lwr and who is also our Fathe*-.” CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES. _Tbe Rev. R. J. Campbell, of tho City Temple, London, is starting an order of Women Pioneer Preachers' and is now raising £lOOO to establish a hostel for their training. The preachers spend one month a quarto*- n. then go out preaching in different parts of tho country fo- two months They are to do thehi- own household work at tho hostel. The Methodist Church in Cann.4 > proposes to raise a million and a-hr.lf to put the missionary society of this church upon n basis which will e nable it to do its mil share towards i lo evangelisation of the world in this generation. The Moscow papers declare th-it (general Booth ha-s received sanction to organise the Salvation Armv in Rusfcia. At the present time there is a •vave of religions thought and feelin-r in Russia not in the city populations' mt among a section of tho educated classes, and, especially in the Volga pi or mess, among the peasantry.