Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 8, 23 February 1910, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

CongregattonaUata and Missions. GjT NGLICANS, with 368,065 adher- * I ents, raised last year for 1 foreign misions £4736; the Presbyterian Church, with 203,597 adherents, £3,795; Methodists ((including the Primitives), with 89,038 adherents, £2915; Baptist Church, with 17,774 adherents, £2000; and the Congregations list Church, with 7360 members, £l5OO. That showed the Congregationalists in New Zealand contributed per capita more than the others.-— Rev. 'A. E. Hunt, Congregational Minister. * * * * Aristocracies and Civilisation. Lord Curzon quoted the saying that all civilisation has been the work of aristo-

cracies We humbly believe the carpenter’s Son of Nazareth and the Galilean fishermen had far more to do with it. If I may say so with reverence, the heaviest swell among them was purely an Exciseman.— Mr. Lloyd George. * » » » Vicars of Bray. He believed that Ministers to-day would be freeholders, or leaseholders to-morrow, free traders or protectionists. Protestants or Roman Catholics, so long as they could remain in office.— Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, M.P. » • * • Pooling Its Conscience. Under the party system each party pooled its conscience, and anyone declining to do so was expelled, as grit hindering the oily working of the machine. —■ Lord Rgsebery. » • • • Not Appreciated. The Public Service, T am afraid, is not appreciated by many of its younger members. They do not know what the struggle

for existence is outside.— Mr J. W. Poj/n--ton, late Public Trustee. Sins of Commission. Commission is the curse of everything in Auckland.— Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M. • • « « England Skelters All, One of the greatest menaces to England at the present time is the alien peril. In London the foreigners are in their thousands, and there are whole streets and localities where not a single word of English is spoken. England is the safe refuge of all the nondescript refuse of Europe, in London the anarchist walks secure to plot further mischief, the thug to murder, and the pickpocket

to steal. There they stay, a menace to the community, and a drag upon the country, as if we did not have enough trouble of our own to contend with. Of course these anarchists know full well that it pays them to do nothing serious to disturb the peace and order of the land, for if they were expelled they would have no other safe refuge to flee to, but other countries have justifiable grounds for complaint as to the action of the British authorities—England shelters all, from fleeing king to dastardly bomb-thrower.— The Earl of Orford.

The Protetcionist Paradise. That Protectionist Paradise where you have got Custom-house officers lining the shores like cherubim with the flaming swords of a scorching tariff to keep out every foreign-made article from the Garden of Eden. — Mr. Lloyd George.

A Shy and Modest Daughter. Probably the captain of the Malwa thought when he came here that, this was the only part of New Zealand, but

there were a few small villages in the South. Although Auckland was one of the proudest daughters of New Zealand that day, he wanted to assure the captain that she was the most shy and most modest daughter of New Zealand. — Hon. Dr. Findlay, at the Luncheon on P. and O. Co.’s Malwa.

English As She Is Spoken. I know that New Zealand writers in Home papers and magazines have said that the New Zealand boy has no accent. These writers do not know what they are talking about. People who say that the New Zealand boy has not got an accent —that he speaks English as it should be spoken—have a want of knowledge. The tendency is not towards improvement, but rather the reverse.— Mr. J. P. Firth, Wellington Boys’ College. Half-Timers at Chnrch. Look at this congregation. The cathedral—the only church of its kind in New Zealand —nobly built, open free to anyone that will come to worship; a true

cathedral church, having no parish ties and no district work to do—the central mother church of the diocese. What of the congregation? There is a certain number who are accustomed to worship here, and many of them are workers and labourers. Then there are visitors, and I am thankful to see them here. There are a few half-timers—people who can just

manage to survive the evening service, and never dream of coming to Communion. Then there is the nondescript they are not Churchpeople; they are not Christians. Goodness knows what they are, but they go to the cathedral.— Bishop Julius, Christchurch. Our Old Soldier*. i he question of the employment of our ex-soldiers is a most serious one. Day by day I receive most distressing accounts from men of good character who have served their country in the field, and are yet unable to obtain work in civil life, and I am powerless to help them. If immigration is to be the solution I would welcome it, for though the loss to the country of some of her best and most valuable citizens would be great, anything is better than that such men should be walking the streets seeking for work which cannot be found for them, while their wives and children are starving at home.— Lord Roberts. Black and White. There is no evidence of the inferiority of the black race to that of the white. Anatomical characteristics show that all are alike. The brains of the white man average slightly larger than those of the negro, but 90 per cent of the negro is the same as 90 per cent of the brain of the white man. ■ The weight of the brains of white women is less than that of the negro. We are only justified in saying that there is the same relation between brain weight and ability. But if a negro feels that he is lacking in social opportunity. he does not meet the problem of the times. He must recognise that prejudices cannot be met except by achievements. Distrust still exists, and the anatomical basis is of little value. Opinions cannot !«' readily eradicated, and so long as the present emotional state continues hope of a complete understanding is very slight.— Professor Franz Roas, Columbia University. Divided We Fall. Do not, because we can or cannot get a coalition Government, make that an excuse to divide South Africa and revert to old party lines.— Mr. J. W. Hauer, Cape Colony. A Warning to Prohibited Persons. I wish to warn prohibited people that under the amended Reformatories' institutions Act they are liable to be committed to a reformatory for breach of their prohibition orders. It behoves prohibited people to be very careful.— Mr. Widdoyu son, H.M., Port Chalmers. The Song of Wales. The song of Wales will re-echo through its hills and dales—a song that has not been equalled since the song of Miriam after the Red Sea had been crossed.— Mr. Lloyd George. Scripture and Motor Cars. A greater speed than 18 miles an hour for motor-ears is allowed by Seri pt UM in the second chapter and fourth verse of the Book of the Prophet Nahum: ‘‘The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.” To run like lightning is to go eonsidejably faster than 18 miles an hour. — Mr, i. V. 'Woodhouse., Dunedin. • « • * Political Honour*. When the King, through his representatives. asked who in his over-sea dominions merited special honour, it was almost invariably the case for politicians and heads of governments to name themselves as most deserving of such recognition.—Mr. J. H. Upton, Auckland.