THE CHURCHES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14476, 24 June 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE CHURCHES.

-"QUIA FEGOAVIt" Wlionovor i liave sought to stray Froia lhy Atypoiutbu patk, Thou hast not t*?t uUiwutt iay >vay Tiie barriers of Xby wrutii. Thou Last preferred wy soul to v/in By luiiaiua address; Ana in diuutii oi Sin I mot ihy touderne-bB; Broad was the way tal'oro my foot, A pavement amooth. and wide; I know not iu wiiat retreat Thy Love nud learned to iiida. But when Thou hrdst jn<i safe at length i su.d to Tiueo in awo # "Thy sympitliy is 41IL Tny strength Tliy nicrcy all Thy luwl" —llauijuo F. Ilealy, in "The Tablet.'-' PKOFESSOIt JfARNACfc ON CUIiISTIAN IT Y. Those who may havo known Professor Harnack ehielly as on© oi the giant" minds of Geruum scholarship will do well to road ttie words with which he concluded the courso of lectures that iuako his volume entitled "What is Christianity ?" TU«»y form a memorablo commentary not oidy upon the in.sufti- ; (xtMiey of learning to in-set the needs of uie, but also upon the entire compatibility of great learning aind ehiid-like laitn. J hei© wero his words: • '-Gentlemen, it is rsligion, tile bv<3 ot God and neighbour, which yivi's lil'o a meaning; "knowledge cannot do it. Lf;t me, if you please, sneak of niv own experience, as- out? who It.r thirty years lias taken an enrnest interest iu these things. Pure is a glorious thing, and woe to the man' who liokls it l.glit or Hunts his sense for it. But to the question: Whence, whither, ana to what purpose? it gives aa answer to-cUy ;is little as it <iid two or thveo thousand years ago. It does, indeed, instruct us in facts.; in'detects inconsistencies; it links phenomena; it cor-r-octs tlio deceptions of sense and idea. Hut where and how the ourve of the world and tho cui'vo of our own Lie' l)egm—that curve of whicli it shows us only u section—and whither this cuito :t a<ls » 'suowle<lge docs not tell us. But jr with U -Steady, will we aliirin the loroes and the standards which on the summits of our inner lii'o shine out as o:u Jjjghesfc go.inl, nayj us our real self ; it \.e are earnest and courageous* enough to accept them as the great Kaality and direct our lives In- them - ami it we then look at th« course ot lunJvind s Justory, follow its unwaid Att-clmn.-nt, -ind search in strAuou* and patient serv.ee, for tlw communion S 111 IS ,vo not f"i"t in and despair., hut become eerrw? i ?J.. tlle Cod -whom Jesus 2rour c FltL?» Fatlier; flnd « NOTES. llie ltev. C. H. Laws t writing ia the "New Zealand Methcd;st Times" on tL-o new has.a lor union between Methodists a;id -Primitive Methodists, says: "ihe new constitution will surely commend rtseif to the Methodist ol : tho Dominion as a wi&«' b.endui"- of the polities of tli-a two Churches,- and as the ground-plan of a broadly democrats Communion in touch with the people s life nud. competent to p]ay a lull x>nrt iu tJi-o rne&t ifMgiiHtis work. Th-Gie :s no- suspicion of • absorption by tho largc-r botly; a true union is provided lor, upon which both the Churches may enter with-con-fidence and self-respect; and there.n' lies the confident Jiope of final success to the movement. Dnion on the terms laid down in tile basis now adopted for pi'tinentatiou to the Conferences will hr.ng to Methodists a new eense of viyour and and will result in n forward nrjvement to make the impact of tiie Cliurch U|>ou the nafc-cu\s life nuire' ti'lling th:m ever; '-'liilrj far outside the bounds of our owi: <ic:ioiuinatiou this latest demonut/otion o: th-u yood effects of i*e)iy;.ous cwnfcrocoa AviU have its iuiiuetice/'

Acooiding to Dr Clark, the founder : Oa thy Christ.an Endeavour movement, i Uioro than ton C.T\ Societies *«ire roroi&i every day 111 the yea r, and tho Rienibsrsiiip is enlarged daily by more t«iar> a thousand resi'u.u-s. It isy too that n quarter of a million Endeavors joined tbo Church in Great Britain alone during the past 17 years. Sue], figures servo to show the vigour of th«> movement that has operated amongst. ■ tlio young psoph* of all lands pract cally over a quarter of a cenfcnrv. Tlio great and difficult task of Prayer-book revision made substantia! progress .in Canterbury. (England) Convocation List mo-nth. The Lower House, by more titan a two to one majority, accepted the recommendation of its oomnrittee that upon occasions whi;-n there are many cor/iiminicante the celebrant may, with tlio of the Bjshop, say trie full words of the Administration and then use the first hall ot tho words to each individual. By tins_ arrangement (sav6 the "Guar* dian , 'j tho ohu-rcli, while not losing si2,bt of tho t-cciohing which the .latter tho "N lords of Administration was intended to emphasise, avIII greatlv relieve both clergy a.nd communicants. In this return to the phraseology of the !• irsc Prayer-book" of Edward VJ. th-07-e "3S nothing revolutionary, nochin"- which m tie teast ignores the historic iTttitudo of ibo Uiurcu England relative to the iloly Communion. "When the peseut long formulas, were adopted tho popiixation of England was small and co in in nn. cants few in number. It tlvreforo inattcrec/ little that the n ords of Admini.strixtivn were more than mx times as long as th* Latin ones wh.ch pix?>ceded the First j? a on tlie -onvjcratioii ?' Ei>i«ct)pal Cathedral in New tlie London "Guardian" •expressocl its nlea.sure that "many nonr,' 3: f?P^ a haus ' i>ad contributed to *ts i ' ,au7 - nnd atovd the iio'i • thaw these contributors mav ovcut'iia, ly_ become worshippers boneatli tho soaring root they have lHp--d to lui Id " t',vc-n mure «iU, o lie idtwls oe.-m t „ Ikehensued locally. Afc tlw m-tiuil con. .':ccrat.:ou a i>laue uas ailotted in the prooessson to "the dcrgv ( ,f. otl-or commun'.ci:*." This section was l.vl l, v t-vvo l J ersi)\teriai] niinisrors l)i- T li JoMltml i)r G. Alr- ;! ,,Kior ' ,> mciuw-a Pr S Pnrkcs b»hvnn, Or 11. -- 1 - SHUXOTI, Dr. C. h. ;; 11 •*! n'.anv n;» ol the r.....:i-Ep;r.,;:!i,ai -i.nr,Oiirin'- j N^ r ih'z '.'i'-'"'." (Vvr ! ! ! vV.'y.V"| "'••"'•'.'w Ii !*l :ii't!n» • ." !••?; ■* »' ''fm.', mull..- |.j< '.u-hr--;,,,. f,! wunld be one of the s spjakoriL ' ' «