THE SUNDAY CIRCLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18760, 13 January 1923, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CIRCLE

RELIGIOUS READING FOR THE HOME. HOME. The joy that some hearts treasure, the hope that others prize; The wistful wish that, buried deep, sometimes in others lies; A word so dear that men will die with gladness for its sake ! The forgo at which are welded strong the lies that naught can break; A pardon in the wildest waste of this world’s desert life; A spot, where dwell both peace and calm amid the fiercest strife; A refuge from each storm that beats; the place in all the land Where there arc souls who sympathise and hearts that understand; The rock whereon the anchors hold that keep us safe and fast. When else would perish all wo are and

have amid the blast; The shrine before whose holy light does fondest, worship come ; The choicest ideal of the heart—its sacred name is HOME. Clarence E. Flynn. PRAYER. Help us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that the deepest meaning of all our prayer may bo, Thy will be clone. Calm our hearts, control our desires, help us to limit ourselves to Thy plain will and always to bo sure of the answer, because wo are asking the things which are in accordance with Thy will, and therefore know that we have

(he petitions wo desire. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. SONS OF THE MANSE. WHY THEY MAKE SUCCESSFUL MEN As tho son of a Presbyterian minister Lord Beaverbrook had some interesting things to say about tho sons of the manse at a bazaar ho opened at Leathorhoad. He said ho knew something about the output of the manse. There was tho spiritual output —of that ho had nothing to say. And there was another output—the sons of the manse. Lie could tell them why so many of tho eons of the manse had been successful in the affairs of tho world. It was because of the influence and the environment of the life of the manse in those early days that wore full of hardship and self-denial. Lord Beaverbrook said that tho sons of die manse had profited by the very inadequate stipends that bad been given as a reward for theitr fathers’ services. They might expect him to say they had suffered, but it was not so. They had learned selfdenial, and that, had given them, capital in the shape of qualities that wore of the utmost importance in the work of the world. Then there was tho early training in the Bible and the Shorter Catechism, and the

Shorter Catechism had had a most extraordinary influence on mankind. And, lastly, there was tho influence of tho father and tho mother, especially tho mother, for tho woman who married into the Church was a bravo woman. She married into a position where thei'e was no financial reward, where limitations were abundant, and where there was a life of care filled with uncertainty. BISHOP FALLOWS, OF CHICAGO. The Chicago Daily News of September 6 announces tho death of the Right Rev. Samuel Fallows, head of the Reformed Episcopal Church in North America. Bishop Fallows, who was in his eighty-eighth year, was born at Pendleton, near Manchester. He came into contact with the prairie frontier while still a boy, and his, youthful experience coloured his whole life with the pioneer spirit. Wisconsin was still pretty much of a wilderness when the Fallows family settled on the rolling prairie near Madison in 1848. Young Fallows had all the hardships, joys, and broadening experience of a trail-maker, while fighting wolves and. breaking sod on tbo border farm. He worked 10 hours a day. he was proud of telling afterwards, at all the hackbreaking jobs which wont into farming ;n those days. To get an education he walked 10 miles daily to a little prairie school. He had begun preaching while an undergraduate at Wisconsin University, and the combination of pastoral experience and college training served him well when he obtained his degree in 1859. From his pulpit Bishop

Fallows consistently preached strenuous good citizenship and devotion to the Christian ideal. He was a fervent admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, and lived a life little less strenuous than the the late president’s. Ho rendered his country important aid in the Spanish-Americnn War and later in the war with Germany. NEWS ITEMS. Dr Orchard preached on a recent Sunday evening on a popular novel, which ho said ho would not advertise by naming. It was by a well-known author, with a very wide

circulation, and had been taken very seriously in Roman Catholic circles. Ihe book had some irritating details, obviously autobiographical, and tho author referred to well-known persons, living and dead, under altered names, but not so as to conceal their identity. It was a ‘‘novel with a purpose.” It fold the story of a. young man. brought up in Low Church circles, who went to Cambridge, and came under the influence cf the High Church movement, and through somebody who was obviously Father Hugh Benson, came very near accepting the Roman Catholic faith; bnt afterwards through a sceptical don, and be-

cause of the objections of his own people, dr»w back, and at Inst denied the existence of God, ajid fed into awful and unapolo-pised-for sonsunlitv. Tho hook posed tho question that atheism was tho only alternative to Catholicism, and to this question Dr Orchard devoted his sermon, and answered it in his own brilliant and unexpected way. At the meeting of the United I 1 reo Church

Commission of Assembly, the Rev. Daniel Lament, of Helensburg. convener of the Central Fund Committee, made a vigorous replv to a recent statement by the Arcnbishon of York to the effect Hint people were" attracted by Christ but repelled by the Church. That statement, Mr Lamont said, had been brought, up against him over and over again ns he had been going about the country in tho interests of the Central Fund. Whatever was in the mind of the Archbishop nt the time he made tho statement, Mr Lament, declared that the impression created in. many minds, and especially in minds critical and hostile towards the Church, was that he had admitted on behalf of tho whole Church,

vicariously for them all, that it was f lie world to-day that was standing for Christ, and the Church had denar ted from Him. That, however, was not his reading of the world to-day. Within the Church there were those who were true to Christ and sought to do His will day by day lovingly and humbly. He did not object to carping criticism from outside the vfliurch. bur it was so much more foolish when rhe criticism came from within.

Among those just appointed on the Snecial Committee to revise the Scottish Church Hymnarv are Dr Lachlan MacT.enu Watt, Rev. J. Cnullie, Rev. G. Wnuchope Stewart, (author of an excellent handbook on church music). Rev. A. Galloway, of Minto, Rev. R. S. Kemp, of Deer, and Lieutenant-colonel Hope (an enthusiast for plain-song) for the CtniHi of Scotland, and Dr J. A. Hutton, Professor Moffatl (who has among his mam accomplishments a rare knowledge of music and npe(rv). Dr J. R. Flaming, of the Presbyterian Alliance,

Rev. W. T. Cn.ims, Rev. J. G. Goold, »nd Mr William (bivan (nerhaox the leading expert in Scotland on the history of.psnlm and hymn times), for the United Er*e Church. The Irish Presbyterians are shortly to enpoint a committee to co-operate in the work of revision, and the Presbyterian Church of England is considering the question of taking part. The Presbyterian Churches of New Zealand and South Africa ars !-» he represented in the movement, which it is expected will take at leas) thro" years to reach an issue in the publication of a new hook. At the General Assembly in Auckland tho New Zealand Presbyterian Church set n;> a committee, to consider the question of revision. Gipsy Pat Smith, the pvnncelist. whose (inrncial and advertising methods have been challenged by the Daily News, returned from America bv the Maicstic, and. sneak-

ing to interviewers at Southampton, retorted upon It is. critics, Ho said that, at Cardiff lip received only £lO7 and n gift of rhef|ties for £l3O '>iv"ii him hv a few members of tho Coal Exchange. TFo stated that his travelling expenses for tho oast 11 months had linen over £IOOO. and that his journey to A merino, (made to apologise for not going for an 18 months' mission which had he"” arranged for him) had cost him £3OO. If he had stayed in America ho would have mad" £ I COO. ‘'As a "onoral role.” he said. “T make £2OOO a year in America, whirl) is " deal mere than I can obtain in England " Tn another interview at. Exeter, (lipsv Pal Smith attributed tho Dnilv Xews criticism® lo a Congregational minister (they are the work of Mr C. T. Bateman, a well-known r.omlon journalist and a layman), and suggested that jealousy prompted (he criticism whirl), lie says, has eomo from “Congroga tiornil ministtrs and ethers who tire know to be opposed to aggressive evangelism and who aro leaders of what is known as the liberal element of the Free Churches of England.”-