THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 20939, 23 November 1929, Page 12

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES. FROM PULPIT AND PEW. ’ . The Rev; F. M. Beattie, of Gore, will conduct the services in the Orcti parish tomorrow. The Oecumenical Patriarch, Mgr. Basil 111., died in the Phanar recently. He was in his ninety-third year. Dr Robert. 0. Moton, of Tukegee Institute, has been awarded the degree of. Master of Arts by the Harvard University. The only other negro to have the degree was Booker T. Washington. To-morrow will be the Young People’s Anniversary in the Salvation Army, when 150 children will sing. In the morning there will be the enrolment of Y.P. soldiers, in the afternoon a programme and the presentation of primary prizes, and at night special singing. All the meetings will be conducted by Major Beasy (Dunedin). The New Zealand Council of the British and Foreign Bible Society is placing Bibles in bedrooms of hotels throughout the Dominion. Free copies have already been placed in a number of hotels, the proprietors undertaking the care of them. A similar work is also being carried out in Australia. The annual meeting of the Oreti Presbyterian Church will be held in the Drummond Church on Thursday evening, November 28, at 7.45. The Revs. C. J. Tocker and E. Gardiner, of Invercargill, will give addresses. At this meeting the Presbytery’s finding anent the recent visitation of the parish will be read by the Rev. Tocker. The National Institute for the Blind has begun the production of a Braille edition of the Book of Common Prayer “with the additions and deviations proposed in 1928.’’ The book will be issued in sections, the respective volumes containing the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings, the Order for Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the Holy Communion, the Burial of the Dead, and the Order of Baptism. Next Lord’s Day the Rev. J. Crozier will be the preacher at the Esk Street Baptist Church and in the evening at Georgetown. Mr. Crozier is the first Minister who has gone out from the Esk Street Church. Mr. Crozier has had five year’s training at Auckland, one year at the 8.T.1. and four years at the Baptist College and has been appointed to the charge of the Petone Church. The Rev. J. Carlisle will be the preacher in the evening at Esk Street. The Rev. James Sibree, D.D., F.R.G.S., who for over half a century laboured for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar, was killed while crossing Waterloo Road, London, by a motor cyclist running him down. Dr Sibree was 93 years of age. He first went to Madagascar as an architest, and later was for 32 years principal of the Theological College at Antananarivo. Dr Sibree retired in 1916. After his ninetythird birthday Dr Sibree took three services on one Sunday. A memorial to the late Dame Ellen Terry in the form of a bronze plaque studded with jewels was dedicated recently at Little Easton Church, near Dunmow. The rector of Little Easton, the Rev. R. L. Gwynne, conducted the service, and his brother, the Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan, dedicated the memorial. After the unveiling by Lady Warwick, the rector said that it was appropriate to endow that little country church with the memory of one who loved it and worshipped in it frequently during the last 15 years of her life. The Rev. S. Bailey will conduct both services at St. Peter’s on Sunday next. In the evening the monthly Community Song Service will take place when the Choir will intersperse the address with appropriate Anthems, Hymns, anti choruses. The hymn chosen is that precious 410 in Methodist Hymn Book—sung so frequently at B.C. gatherings and camps as also at synods and conferences —based upon Whittier’s Poem, “Beside the Syrian Sea.” A sincere invitation is extended to all lovers of song, music, and worship. At the Central Methodist Church, Leet Street, to-morrow, the Sunday School Anniversary will ~be celebrated. The services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. will be held ,in the church, the morning preacher being the Rev. C. J. Tocker, while the Rev. Augus Mcßean will conduct the evening service. A special feature of the services will be the singing of the scholars, who have been carefully trained by Mr. A. J. Service. An interesting service will be held at 2.45 p.m. in the Sunday school, Jed Street. It will include the annual Cradle Roll Service, with items by the infant scholars. Fn addition to this, the young ladies of the Bible Classes are contributing a specially prepared item, entitled “The Building of the Church.”

A "Religion and Citizenship” movement has been in progress at Leeds, all religious bodies and all political parties co-operating. Canon Elliott, preaching at a civic service in Leeds parish church, said that there had been bitter experiences during and since the war, and the minds of many earnest people were full of apprehension because of the rapid changes in ways oi thought and social institutions. The changes were full of possibilities of either good or evjl. “I feel to-day,” said Canon Elliott, “much more than I did five years ago, that the spirit of God is indeed working in our generation in the hearts of men; that there is growing up in the minds of men an increasing sense of their mutual responsibilities for one another; that there is a social consciousness which is not only national but international in ;ts implications.”

To me memory should be not memory of experience itself, but rather memory of that which is the outcome of the experience. You must forget the experience, and remember its lesson. That is true memory. That is eternal, because it is the only thing of value in the experience. That true memory is intelligence. Intelligence is the capacity to choose, with discrimination, with culture, that which is essential from that which is false. That intelligence is acquired through experience, through the lessons that remain after experience. The highest form of that intelligence is intuition, because it is the residue of all accumulated experiences. That is the true function of memory. The right kind of remembrance, from my point of view, is to remember, to hold to that residue of all experience, so that you will not again indulge in the same kind of experience. To a wise man one experience of one special kind is sufficient. So the right kind of remembrance, and the right kind of forgetting is to have learned from experiences, and to brush aside all experiences that have no value.—Mr J. Krishnamurti.