LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 13, 28 December 1911, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

, Miv : ;md Alust-ers and Mr. an.d Mrs. J. \V. -.1500n left Stratfdrd yesterday for a short : Australian.tour.

Mr.' S. 1 A. Staples/ chairman of the Christchurch Tramway- Board, is at present in Stratford on a visit.

The annual school excursion to the Breakwater is fixed for- February Ist. Special trains will leave at 8.10 a.m. and 9.5 a.m., returning at 4 p.m. and 5.15 p.m. Fares- will be as usual.

Mr. Thomas Jones was married at 8 o’clock this morning to Miss May Porter, a daughter of Mr. W. E. Porter, of Stratford. Miss Kate Porter acted as bridesmaid.

We regret to 'learn of the serious illness of the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. It. MeK. Morison. The little girl is suffering from cerebral meningitis, and her condition is grave. Dr. Leatham attended a consultation which was field yesterday. We can assure Mr. <McK. Morison and his family of the sincere sympathy of the people of Stratford, and join with them in hoping that the illness may not be so serious as is feared.

Some surprising remarks wore made by Bishop Julius yesterday* at the Christchurch Anglican Cathedral on Monday. There were many in the church, he said, not among the priests, who had very grave doubts about the Divinity of Christ. He believed their difficulties had arisen through a false setting of Divine truth—-in the first place from a false amount of what was called Jesus worship ; they had stopped short of the bathe]- in an almost idolatrous worship of the man Jesus. Certain hymns showed this error; a sort of sentimental trash was all he could call them. They were not called upon to address sentimental hymns to the man Jesus, but to call through Him to the Father. Bishop Julius went on to say that the Divinity of Christ was an essential part of Christian belief, and added : “If I could only get rid of the infirmities of body, the infirmities of tongue, dullness of brain, and mind, and wits; if I could only tell you what I mean down in the heart of me, I would make you jump.” In conclusion, Bishop Julius* warned his hearers to 1)0 careful ere they threw any belief away