THE SUNDAY CIRCLE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18050, 25 September 1920, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CIRCLE.

RELIGIOUS READING FOR THE HOME.

THE SWEET O , THE YEAR. Tho upliiiid hills ato green again; Tho river runs serene again All down tlio miles Of orchard aisles Tho pink-lip blooms aro seen again; To garden close And dooryard plot Come back the roso And borgamot. Tho iirdont blue leans near again ; Tho far-flown swallow's here again; To his thorn bush Returns the thrush, And the painted-wings appear again. In young surprise The meadows run All starry eyes To meet the sun. Warm runs young blood in the veins again, And warm loves flood in the rains again. Earth, all aflush With tho fecund rush, To her Heart's Desiro attains again; While stars outbeat The exultant word — " Death's in defeat. And Love is Lord." Charles G. D. Roberts.

PRAYER. The Syrian Monks Grace before and after moat in tho days of St. Chrysostom (370381 A.D.). Blessed bo God -who hath fed me from my vouth and giveth food unto all flesh. Fill our hearts, with joy and gladness, that, having always all sufficiency, we may abound unto everv good -work in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Whom and to Thee with the Holy Spirit be glory, honour, and might for evermore. Amen. Glory to Theo, O Lord; glory to Thee, ° Ho 'y One;- glory to Thee, 0 King; because Thou hast given us meat to gladden us. Fill us with the Holy Spirit, that we ,may bo found well pleasing in Thy sight and unashamed when Thou renderest to every man according to his works.

THE CAUSING OUT OF ONE'S MORAL RESERVES. Tho searching demands of some hard test call out a man's moral reserves. When necessity is upon us we grow fast, adding cubits to our spiritual stature because we must. The small boy flung into the water by tho rigour of an older brother shows amazing progress in acquiring the art of swimming during those frightened moments which intervene before he reaches a, place ot safety. The man or woman thrust suddenly into a moral situation where it is sink or_ swim" calls into action unspspected spiritual energies., which might not have been employed but for tho stern neceesity. But more than that there comes a fresh accession of strength from the Ultimate Source. The soul thrown back upon God more completely and more confidently by jts desperate' sense of need opens more readily to His help. Peter, witn the, waves dashing about him, cries out, ix)rd save me," as he never could have cried had ho been comfortably seated m a chair on the deck of a ship. The «W«, strc f ng £ fl° ws ; n "PC" the heart conscious of its helplessness like the rush ot air into a vacuum The sore temptas™ nr^W th ° SeDSe of need - ™S ?o Ul "r S^, enffth which comes to every man who wills to receive it. We J«iow not what a day—any day, every dav— may bring forth. It is betted so 7lf we knew in advance half tho happiness of those deSov^ 0h a w frCS ! TOm ° l ™ ds bi destroyed. Wβ need not know the daywe know something better in knowing Him Sill n« S , OUrC %K Of , Stre "S th ' tor all the days that may come. ''We bnng.—Charles R. Brown, D.D.

DEAN INGE ON REUNION.

".WITH OR WITHOHT THE BISHOPS " "? n n In S e mad c e a stirring pronounceJli n faT °ur. of reunion- at i meeting w the Cit y HdiL Dr t ber ' of the Wcste W fer u nC 5' Y as > the chair . «-nd the of by d | ( fe? n P the essential ™4 ot Anglicans and 'Wesleyans. He would Sland Se -° ?f OPb g °- ine to the Church i n fvl 6 mOm ™ S aJld Wesleyan o our Church are dominated by the fear of ■an Angle-Catholic secession. There Is mmm co-operalaon in preaching, practical wnil USUI'S!

THE LATE DR W. H. ROBERTS.

AMERICAN PRESBYATERIAN LEADER, wfich 16 011 °/ *r Ri tirement only a month before h s dLtt a master in the law and rf £, they voted him a retiring salary of £1200

NEWS ITEMS. Sir Joseph and Lady Maclav of Gh, f f 10.000 to Moukdon Medicif otn^ he Stabl V sWnt of , a depSment for ?*• tra ' tun S of women doctors Miss Maude Royden, who was for a whilo associate pastor of City Temple in Lon? don, has not been permitted to preach n T l A f n f gl r£ n as Sieved when t° n 6 6 at she wou >d bebe,ng a . faithful Anglican ohurohwoman But she is preaching in Kensington Town Hall in London, and though it seats thou s-inds it proves much too small for the cim\ds that flock to hear her. The committee appointed by the Genonl Assembly of the Church of V Scotland Tn May to inquire into the alleged supernormal psychic phenomena so much in evidence at present began its work at a meetinin Mmburgh The theological professor! on the committee were appointed to draw up reports on tho psychic phenomena of the Old lestament, in ecclesiastical history and amor" the ethnic religions, and on the pronouncements of the various churches regarding modern spiritualism and nsvehic phenomena generally. In addition a report is to be given of the voluminous literature which has been published in rocent years on psychic matters, while a small comniittoo, with a Glasgow convener is to inquire into the spread of spiritualism in Scotland both within and without the Onurcn.

By some curious blunder tho recently published book, "Who Was Who?" rives ari May 1915. Mr WiUiams's many, friends will bo glad to know that ho has now reached throo score years, and is still alive and in good aoaita.