THE CHURCH

Southland Times, Issue 22490, 26 January 1935, Page 9

THE CHURCH

NEWS AND NOTES

FROM PULPIT AND PEW.

! Dr W. H. Frere, who has resi'ned his position as Anglican Bishop of Truro, England, on account of his health (he is 71) was one of the five clergymen who, under the late Dr Charles Gore, founded in . .1892 the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield, near Huddersfield, The services at the North Invercargill Baptist church to-morrow will be conducted by the . Pastor. The ing meditation will be “Symbols of the Holy Spirit,” and the evening message “A Divine Appointment.” A memorial service in memory of the late Mr D. Brash will be held at East Road at 3 p.m. '

A stone is being shown at the University of Yale (U.S.A.) on which is engraved the terms of a peace treaty signed about 4600 years ago. The signatories were the . King of Chaldea aria the King of Babylon. As far as is known, that is said to be the oldest treaty in the world that is still in existence.

Here is a bit of counsel taken from the first page of a weekly paper the other day. It may be worth the while of some of us laying- it to heart and acting on it: Wake up! Everybody should look forward to waking up—not only out of sleep, but out of ignorance, bad habits, laziness, discouragement, and many etceteras. You cannot run away from the struggle of life and imagine that you are thereby going to attain spirituality. Everything is of advantage for attainment, because everything gives of its experience. Therefore, when you ask if the business world is a suitable ground for the advancement of spirituality, I would say that it is.—Mr J. Krishnamurti.

The meetings at the Salvation Army Citadel on Sunday will provide for all, a full list appearing in the church services column. If you have neglected to attend a place of worship, begin this Sunday. The singing, messages, and prayers will be an uplift to you. About your children—the Army wants them. Send them along. They will bless you for your trouble some day. Clandestine, drug factories are said, to be giving anxiety tp the League of Nations’ advisory committee on. the traffic in drugs. The fact that it is endeavouring to deal with this underground eyil is one of the indications of one of the League’s-many quiet, widespread, and beneficent ; activities for the settlement of problems which can only be approached by such an international organization. The last of the combined services of Christian fellowship arranged by Knox Presbyterian and St. Peter’s Methodist Church will be held to-morrow. In the morning at Knox Church the subject will be “Words, a test of character”, and in the evening at St. Peter’s Church “Is it impossible to change human nature?” At the evening service the combined choirs under the baton of Mr W. H. Farley will render special music. The anthem will be Coleridge-Taylor’s setting of “O ye that love the Lord.” Mr Farley by request will sing, “I shall not pass this way again.” A special invitation is given to the last of this series of combined services.

“Why don’t we build beautiful churches?” lamented Robert Bums speaking of the grim interior of Presbyterian churches of his day. . Was this a primary cause of his spiritual agitation? Here is a man in which flesh and spirit were always at war, yet thro’ the world to-day his immortal memory is annually toasted—for his admirers say of him: “the man’s the gewd for a’ that.” Sunday being the nearest to the birthday of Bums, the occasional address on Sunday night will treat of Robert Bums and his attitude to the Christian faith. The theme of the 11 a.m. diet will be:. “Jesus says, ‘I will build my church so the best is yet to be’.” Mr Royston G. Brown of the New Zealand Baptist college, who has been acting as Pastor of the Georgetown Baptist Church for the last three months, concludes his ministry there on Sunday. Special services are being held and special farewell messages are being delivered. In the evening a baptismal service is to be held. This is the first baptismal service to take place in the Georgetown Church and on this occasion five candidates are to pass through the baptismal waters. Another feature of the evening service will be special singing by the choir and a duet to be rendered by Messrs Schroeder and Dark. On Monday the people of the church are saying farewell to Mr Brown at a social evening which is to be held in the Georgetown Church.