News and Notes

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 August 1923, Page 293

News and Notes

Mr Hickson has promised to hold a short mission at Eotorua at the inclusion of his New Zealand tour.The date of the opening of Syifiod has been fixed for September 14rth. : A Church Music Society has been formed m Sydney with the object of raising the standard of Church music m Australia and providing the best music for congregational singing. Speaking .of Mrs Starr, who recovered Miss Ellis from her captors on the Indian frontier, the "Church Times" says: — "Mrs Starr is a nursing sister on the staff of the C.M.S. Hospital at Peshawar. Her husband,

who was /m charge of the hospital, was murdered just five years ago; undaunted, she returned tt> continue that work- among the wild tribesmen b£ tfee frontier wliich has been a real factor m their pacification. Mrs Starr is well known m England as an eloquent speaker on the frontier work of the CM. S-., on which she has writr ten a book entitled ".Frontier Folk on the Afghan Border and Beyond.?' Her deed wins the applause of all; yet . no less admirable, perhaps even more difficult is that devoted and ceaseless zeal for the suffering Jto which her life is given. "The real trouble is at the marriage altar and not m the divorce courts. The reason why ther,e are so many unhappy marriages and violations of the marriage covenant js, m a measure, because young people have rushed unguardedly into matrimony without any real understanding of the sanctity and significance of it all. They have never been taught a sublime appreciation of marriage, nor have they been warned of the terrible consequences which .ate almJost sure -to follow a carelessly and hastily conceived union. In the home, m the school, and m the social circles, every where they have heard courtship and marriage made matters of a joke and ridicule from their earliest memory. Always they have been teased about the opposite sex, and teased about 'getting married, ' as though the

whole, subject were a joke. And it is rarely ever that they have heard any sane and kindly counsel upon the sweet privileges and holy obligations of home building and' 7 parenthood. Oh eyei'y han'd,'i m this and.^dther ways, they/are educated to think lightly and, superficially, and even sceptically, of the whole- question of marriage. The jokes m the funny papers, the. tremendous amount of ridicule and fun-poking at marriage and divorce m the vaudeville and on the stage, and the constant teasing from childhood upwards,, m school and at horne — all tend to break down a sense of the moral and sacred equations involved. " The " Herald "is right. This is a matter of such supreme importance as to deserve large and enthusiastic attention at the hands of the Church (especially at the time of confirmation) and of parents every \vhere. ; — ' ' The Living Church. ' ' The late Canon Benham recorded that he heard a parish clerk give out on Easter Day m a country village: "Last Friday was Good Friday, but we -forgot it, so next will be." — "Church Chronicle," South Africa. "The pipe of a religious denomination is at best a puny instrument, and an orchestra of all the denominations which claim to be a ' Federation of the Churches' only provides a hopeless alternative for unanimity.

;s Denominational Christianity has had its day; it was the pride of the 19th century, but it is the opprobrium of the. 20th; discredited- by its uglier offspring—Uxidenominationalism. ' ' The Superfluous Woman.--- "Births. —On 15th December, at .'•- — -Crescent, .Cardiff, to Mr and Mrs , a daughter. For sale by auction." — "Welsh Paper." v History Paper.- — 1. Six events m the reign of Henery. VIIII. ■ (1) He married Katherine of Arragon. (2) He soon got tired of her. (3) He wanted to get rid of her. (4) He wanted a divors. (5) He got a divors for her. (ft) I don't know. Maker and High Priest I ask Thee not my joys to multiply— Only to make me Avorthier of the least.— E. B. Browning. AJI service ranks the same with God : If -now, as formerly he trod : Paradise, His presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills " Can work — God's- puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first. In prayer it is better ' to • have a heart without words than words without a heart. — Bunyan. Under the shadow of the Cross tho spirits rest m Paradise.— Davidson.

Likeness to Christ is ; brings the living and departed nearest to one another. • ' ~ .' Jesus .Ayas concerned .to make the world less. hard, but still . more concerned to make people who could master a hard world.— JP. G. Peabody. The only chance this world has of becoming a righteous world is by the contagion of the Christian men m it. — Drununond. ■ , Love and service m turn bring the revelation of the Lord. — Mark Guy Pearse. . ' , Infinite love joined to infinite skill shall pilot the way through every strait ; and temptation.— J. Alexancler. •'.-•' Piety is the genius of- the entire matter; but piety, when it fronts sin has got to become grit;— C. H. Parkr hurstvD.D. The following paragraph appears m "Laudate' 7 under the heading of "Notes from the Abbey:— " The Benedictine community "of ' Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire, had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Kempthorne, the recently consecrated Bishop of Polynesia, on a visit of some days' duration. The Abbey workroom ia busy just now with a cope, mitre and chasuble for his lordship." Bishop Kempthorne is a son of Archbishop Kempthorne, of Nelson.