NOTES ABOUT THE CHURCHES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 45

NOTES ABOUT THE CHURCHES.

ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr Evan Roberts, the Welsh revivalist, who has been living for the last six years in comparative seclusion at Leicester, has recovered his physical strength, and is now planning new work in Wales. He intends to begin quietly and to avoid overstrain. Mr Roberta has devoted a great part of his enforced leisure to study, and especially to the study of natural sciences. The death is announced of Professor Borden P. Bowne, of the Chair of Philosophy of Boston University. Professor Bowne, some of whose writings are well known in England, was in his early days a student and friend of Hermann Lotze, and to the end was the chief representative of the Lotzian school in America. Herr David Wolffsohrr, who has recently, visited England, is head of the Zionist movement, having been elected to that position after the death of Dr Herzl, its founder. Herr Wolffsohn is a tremendously hard worked-, a banker at Cologne, and a man of much geniality and good humour. Succeeding so brilliant a diplomatist and so strikinig a personality as Dr Herzl. it is perhaps not strange that ho has failed to come up to the expectations of such hard taskmasters as the Russian Zionists; but it is his unfailing tact and courtesy that have enabled any pro* gress to be made at all. Speaking at a semi-private gathering of the Salvation Army at the Congress Hall, Clapton, General Bcoth toJd them that 3:o had been persuaded to rest by a generous offer from a wealthy lady, who had promised £sooo_ to his pet schemes if he would only "take it easy" for a time. He had dome his best to keep the compact, and, hoped the lady would bo so pleased withi him that she would make the £SOOO into £IO,OOO when he had finished his holiday. Perhaps General Booth was unaware of the l fact, owing to his defective vision,,, that the generous donor was present throughout! the gathering, and apparently enjoyed hi? broad hints as much as anyone. The parishioners of St. Michael's, Christchurch, New Zealand (says the Pall Mall Gazette), may be cordially conigratu-. la ted upon the appointment cf the Revy Darwin Burton to their living. It would be difficult to think of a cleric more to the taste of the vigorous colonials. Twentyyears ago he "pitched his tent" upom Bernard's Heath, St. Aliban's, where dwelt a colony of brick-makers, whose moral tenor had not altered since the heroine of "Bleak House" went to one of their ectr tages to succour a poor young mother at midnight. He began his miss-ion with a "tin church," and has lived to realise hia ambition l of a handsome brick edifice, filled with, a devout, and very largely male, congregation. There was no more familiar figure at the Y.M.C.A. headquarters in London than Mtf W. Hind Smith, who died recently at thai age of 81. He was formerly secretary of the Manchester Association, which becama a model of what such an organisation) should be, and it was his success thera that won the attention of the late Sir George Williams. He was chosen to follow the late Mr Shipton as general secretary in London. New Developments wertf badlv wanted, and Mr Hind Smith carried out much useful work in this direction). He was at the helm when Exeter Hall was purchased- Later he became travelling secretary, a post for which his persuasive speech and his attractive manner—dignifiecj! and genial—made him specially _ He did excellent service in stimulating existing associations and founding new ones, and was instrumental in raising large sums of money for. the cause to which he devoted himself. The successor of Bishop Barry in tha" Canonry of Windsor is a persona grata int those parts, the Rev. Leonard Tyrwhitt, M.V.0., Rector of Rolkston, and Chap-lain-in-Ordinary to the King. He is . a younger brother of the late Commodore Hugh Tyrwhitt, C.V.0., and C. 5.1., who coGSvmanded the Renown during the Indian tour of the Prince oncl Princess of Wales ; and the new canon officiated as chaplain

during the voyage. Cairon Tyrwhitt is the youngest son of the Baroness Berners by her marriage with the third holder of the Tyrwhitt baronetcy, who died in 1894. The Berners barony has had the distinction, since its creation in l 14-55, of two abeyances, cf two centuries and of one century respectively. The grantee was a Bourchier, and younger son of the Norman Cornte d'Eu. But, ae a result of its devolution in the female line, the surname has va.ried from Bourchier to Knyvet, Wilson, and Tyrwhitt. A sister cf Canon Tyrwhitt, the Hon. Aidyn Mary, was married to Lord Knollvs, the King's private secretary, in 1887.