THE CHURCHES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14453, 27 May 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE CHURCHES.

GENERAL .BOOTH AT 82. On April .10, General Booth was 32. That is perhaps tlie only now thing that can bo said of tin's truly wonderful old mini who has for so long been a phenomenon and a monument. One has nevertheless to add as one listens to h.s eariuM, talk full, of li'-.s plans and his lm;:r\ for the future, that Ji!s outlook is that ol one h-Jkm:- youth is renewed like- Hk. eagle's. Oeneral Booth is 82, but '..hough his eyes have become dim, a can almost be said that his strength has not abated. Tireless, he is st.ll formulating plans for the extension of the work «f tli u Salvation Army, plans which would place a heavy tax on the strength of a much younger man. He is tho Jloltke of inili'talit religion, and night and day is preparing M-hemes for the overthrow of the forces I of evil. .At his home at Hadley Wood I naked ! hjni (writes, a member of tho "Daily >;owx" staff) how he was doing, "1 am | gradually creeping back," he said, "to imy old condit'on of vigour. I have j my ups and down 3, but on thei whole ; I am better and stronger than I have been at any time since mv acce'dent. J I am hopeful that I shall liavc tlie rema:iimg inipcdiincnt in.my eve removed m tho autumn, and then I shall be nn:t c young again." Then he went on to speak of lr's plans for the future. "Next month I shall meet the foreign delegates who are coming to London for tho International Social Congress. Officers will be hero from Australia, Asia, South Africa, Canada, and the Statr.v, and all tho European countries, and we shall hear from their own Ups what they are doing and why and we shall dearr/he to them the methods we have found beneficial in • "Alter the congress I commence a torn- m Scandinavia, visiting Dennmrk. Aonvn.v. Sweden, and Finland, and tliou/jli I am not ouite certain at prc•seut. it is probable that I shall visit St. Petersburg and see how far bureaucratic obstacles have been, removed to the extension of our work in Russia. "In September and October I visit Canada and the States, going as far a* Manitoba and British Columbia. ,lf the operation on mv eve does not take place .in the autumn I shall take another tour in Germany in November, and if it does, and is .successful, I shall, pay the German visit later in tho year. General Baoth was impressed during Jus recent Continental tour with tlie influence of the Army's social work on the heads <>f the Government, the leaders of public opinion, and esosc'allv on tie Press of Ttalv, . "I lovo Jtalv." be went on, "and the Italians, and" I am not surnrirsl at the people rising to liretik their chains." What did the General think of the new Nvovement for t.hc peace of the world? One could well nntic/oato his answer. "I «*. <n it a. gleam of hope " he Trphed. "There is a Rood deal of self-interest mixed no with it, but it cannot lint be gw>d for the future of thfe world. We ar» peace men and women through and tlirojgh. If war should come T do net know what lisp couid 7x> made of the Salrat/oiiis+s—unless they mode thorn into Red Cross volunteers," he added with a laugh. JOTTINGS. A man asked.the Bishop of London at one of Iris missions last month if it was wrong for him to play golf on Sunday afternoon." He was a business man, a regular communicant," and seldom missed Matins and' Evensong. It was very hard, the Bishop said, to say m the abstract that a man who attended church , thrtje times, and who caused no labour in his amusement, was doing any more harm in pluving golf on Sunday afternoon than in taking a walk,. But two questions aroce—Did tlm man plav every, dav chivmg the week? He'himself'found that the men who played on Sunday ■also played- every other day. Their tncj-9 was the question of example. Archbishop 'lemnle. , however, cut through many dii'fk-ult ; es of this sort when he said, "Let him follow his own conscience." Canon Driver, one of the ablest of tlie Anglican theologians of the. Oldcountry, preaching- at Christ Church Cathedrai, Oxford,, on tho occasion of the Tercentenary of the Authorised Version, after warmly recognising tha undoubted meriis of the Version warned his hearers that, w-liile tliev might admire and revere, they must not idolise it, or make even a Version oi the Bible a fetish. The Authorised > crs'on, translated 300 vears since, was not adequate either to'the scholarship or the needs of the present day. The two main causes of this were the change in our .language, which rendered much of the Authorised Vers'on unintelligible and even misleading; and the fact that that Version was* now !nad?nuate on account of the progress of -knowledge. Hebrew and Gre«k wore now better understood than rornierly, and discoverv and research had also thrown much light upon what was previously obscure. The Authorised Version also failed to make clear whole passages which can now be read as mmseeutivo argument or narrative. Ihe original trnnslatsrs, were tliev alive, would be the first to do this themselves. 1 In connection with tho Coronation a movement haa been .sot on foot for holding a great day of intercession and conference in London at Queen's Hall "■Laufiham Place, en June 21. Tho Bishops of Durham, London, Liverpool lUpon and Derry; Hers. Dr. Jame.4 Kobertson, Preb. Webb-Peplw, Dinsdale, T. Youik;. Dr. Horton, Charles Brown and Gipsy Smith, and many others will take part. The platform thus includes representatives of all the I rotesfnnt Churches, and tho blessi'ii" of God upon the Sovereign and the Queen will be specially sought by united prayer. A German company has the contraot. to bring pure water from the Judean mountains into Jerusalem, and another he" nir" r"l cnr ''"ne from The Jafla Gate to the heart of tho city. Later tins is to be extcinled to Bet.ii- : •■ .em. six nn e s south. A third firm Mill iiini.xh electric hght for the Holv l-.ty. lo en.wn all, a. contract. 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