News and Notes.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 2 July 1923, Page 284

News and Notes.

The Standing Committee of General Synod will meet on August 16th. - .

A large part of the present building has been condemned by the health authorities and the necessity for., rebuilding is urgent.

- A'gentlemaji lias" pfferefliolO ."' 'tt'" wards the rebuilding- ,of St. ,'. Mary V Home if teii others will do the' same. , The .Bishop-qf Pornakal. preached at. the Cathedral qii June 17th and there was ah immense congregation.; • In Italy the new Minister of Public Instruction has decided to restore religious instruction m the ; schools. As the result of. a visit to Hufourere by the Bishop of Dorriakal, the girls of the school have undertaken to support a scholar m one of the schools 'in Dornakal. .; . ■ The Rev. A. Hodge, until recently Congregational minister m Napier, was ordained to the diacpnate at the Cathedral on St. Peter 's : Day-. ■ The ordination sermon was -preached - by the Very Rev. the Dean.^-^ ■:.■■■'■ The Rev; B; R, Brierley (assistant Curate at St: . Augustine' 's, ' Napier) was ordained to the priesthood' m St. Augustine 's • Church on Sunday," June 24th. The Rev; R. T: Hall preached the ordination ' sef moil. ! ■ : ; 1 Miss Isabel Saunclers and' .'iVliss Mabel Holmes. who have been m training for some time at.ihie peacpness' House, Hastings, were admitted by the. Bishop to the office of Deaconess "on June 27th, The Revl . T; ;Fi§her preached the sermon. - ' : The Bishop of Dornakal . took, part iii the consecration of the new church at Pakipaki oh Saturday June "■' 16th. There was a great gathering ;i . of natives present oh the occasion and .the Bishop urged upon . them, the need of realising the missionary ideal by passing on to others" the blessings of Christianity 'which had been conferred upon them.' We have received a long article by Archdeacon .ChattertPn , criticising.. the proposals of . four Auckland ' clergy and of the Moderate League for the reform of the liquor, traffic." We will, if ibossible, find room for it m pur next issue, though 'we think it ought have gone to the "Churchman" and not to us. • Church people who are buying A. and. M., Hymn books should ask for the complete edition with: second, supplement The proprietors: of Hymns A; and M. finding that the English Hymnal bade fair to di'ive them off the market have added m the second supplement many splendid hymns and have provided additional tunes for many of .the old ones. Churches which adopt the new supplement will find the deficiencies of the. old book largely supplied,, and (unlessvcongre- : gatipns are prepared to make a complete change: and adopt the English Hymnal) they cannot do better than adopt the complete edition of the old book. . Copies of the second supple^ merit can be had- Separately.

The '/Church Times," -spgaMng of the .'attitude of Angio-Catholies ; towards the Reformation, says :—" So far as it meant the repudiation, of a one-sided "development whereby the legitimate Primacy ' of the only apostolic see of the West had become converted into an oppressive monarchy, the abolition of specifically mediaeval corruptions, whether m teaching.; or morals, the translation of the Liturgy into the vernacular, the restoration

of fclie chalice to the lay-folk, th 6 suppression of bogus relicsj' pardons, and superstitious accretions generally," we venture to say that the great mass of Anglo-Catholics not merely admits but asserts "the legitimacy of the original Reformation. ■' ' So far as the Reformation was iconoclastic and destructive m character, ' so far as it tended to subject the Church .to ,the State, • to make -the Bride of . Christ the handmaid of unscrupulous poli-

ticians^; so far as it. tended to uproot the habit of worship and "devotion m the minds of the people and.to divprpe them from the use of the m, so far we reject and repudiate it."

The Rev..F. W. Whibley, OrmondVille, has' for sale paper rose leaves made by disabled soldiers. Boxes : . 1000, 2s Gd j ,5000, 10s. Use these beautiful leaves at weddings instead of confetti, and help the Church '* Army's work for crippled sol,diers. :

The Synod of Jerusalem has now recognised the validity of ' Anglican ordinations m terms similar to those used by the Church of Constantinople. A story lately -went the rotjnd of .mahy; ; papers of an enthusiastic lady whose letter on the evening of her arrival, at Venice contained the*p?tssage : "I am. sitting here looking out over the Grand Canal, and drinking it all m. Life never, seemed quite so full before." The Church m the' United States has been* making very great progress during the past year. There has been a .gain of 39,722 communicants and a substantial increase m the number of candidates for ordination. In Oklahoma of 379 persons confirmed only 168 came from Anglican homes. The '.'Church Times" calls attention to the frantic efforts of /Rome to discredit the movement towards re-: union between the Anglican and Eastern Churches. It quotes a letter by a Roman correspondent to '.'l'lnformation ' ' expressing pleasure at the overthrow of the Greeks by the Turks, and the expulsion of Greeks from Constantinople. This letter says :— " Better by far the Crescent than the Greek Cross upon the dome of St. Sophia, and better, m Asiatic Turkey, . Moslem indifference than . Orthodox fanaticism. Rome aspires to the conquest of the East. She must establish herself at Constantinople more firmly than ever, and create there the centre of influence which Greeks and Anglicans had dreamed of establishing." . "'. ■

Either Jesus was what the Catholic Church said He was, or He did not exist; either He was the Man from Heaven — a complete break with, the natural order of things; — the representative of a transcendental order, supernatural,, super-rational, or He was nothing." — Rev. R. J. Campbell.

The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, of St. Barnabas' Church, Sydney, has refused an offer of, leadership .of the World.'s League against aleoliol It required his residence m ~ London. The salary offered was. £lßoo a year.

..Twenty-eight- bishops and twelve hundred priests, of the Orthodox Church of Russia have already been martyred for their faith ' besides bishop's and priests of the 'Roman Communion.' .. , A measure is to be 'presented to the irrational Assembly for the severing of the legal connection .between Churcli of India and the Church of England.. " The passing of - such a measure and its "approval by tne-Bri-tish.- Parliament would-give the/.Church of India automonous powers similar to those enjoyed by the Church of New Zealand/ Owing to its greatly improved financial position" there is every prospect of the Board of Missions being able to meet all its obligations for the past year. The Chinese Christians m Wellington, numbering less than twenty, handed m £50 towards reducing the Board's deficit. The ship cards proved a great success. The official report of the Church Congress will be published shortly. Copies will be obtainable from Canon Wilford, College House, Christchurch, price 2s 6d posted. The report! should be read by all church people m New Zealand.

The death of Mr W. H. Mallock has given occasion for the recovery of one of the best stories m his .'• Memoirs of Life and Literature." A Russian had described to the Master of Balliol, Jowett, a new sect which had arisen m his own country. "It was not a good religion. It was schlimschalm. ' It . was vejesh-yash. It was vot'you cali'Bcoad-Church.' "

The Bishop of Johannesburg, on March 18th, admitted seven laymen to; the order of sub-deacon. This is a revival of an old religious order. The sub-deacons are not m "Holy" Orders, they. will, continue to follow their secular callings, but will^assist m parochial work and particularly m Divine , soi*vice. They will be licensed -to baptize m the absence of a priest or deacon a^iid. to administer the chalice at the Holy Communion.

"Ye are . My . friends, if ye do whatsoever I command; you, ' ' is .the test by which we can try ouvselves.rRev. Hugh ' Black. \ ;i ; ; 'We desire. .toi/cali; attention. to •. the "Rose petals'' 'made of cfiiikjiecf paper by disabled soldiersjuhdfer.thi§ caire of the Church Army m -Erig|&ti^ iThese petals are really beautiful; ajcid , are intended to take t)ie place of confetti at weddings. The Rev. ¥.. %Wnbley has them for sale at 2s 6[d per iftO or lOs" for 5000; Aril proflf on the sale of petals will be; sent "to; the Soldiers' workshop. Writing to the ' ' Church Times ' ' a critic of the new lectionary and of the proposed revision of the prayer-book says :— ' ' One is tempted to recall the forceful, even though feeble arid fatuous, words of Aaron at Siriaij "I/said unto the people who. soever hath any gold let them break it offhand I cast it into the firej and there c^me out thia 'calf;'»n ' Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. tells an amusing story of a Bantu, who/ reporting his mother's death, wrote : ' ' Regret to .inform you the^hand that rocked the cradle has, keeked - the _ bucket.", . ,^ Oii May 6th the Yen; Archdeacon Williams unveiled a handsoihe brass tablet m St. Stephen 's Chu'reh, ;Kawa> kawa, Te Araroa, which had, been^subV scribed for by his friends m memory of Hone Waitoa, who' was m: charge of Kawakawa ISSZ-l^O^-when: . he resigned, on account of deafness^ He was very much respected by. bpth Maoris and/ Pakehas and ;died on the -16th "of March, last year. The tablet also eommjemprates his father, Rotu Waitoa, the first Maori admitted to Holy Orders; deacon, March 3rd, 1855; priest, March 4th, 1860; and the first minister of Kawakawa. He died July 22nd, 1866, and is buried at St. Stephen's, Parnell, Auckland. There was a large congregation of Maoris and a few Europeans. The Yen. Archdeacon was assisted by Canon Pahewa and Rev. P. Kohere.^ -