New and Notes.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 2, 1 August 1924, Page 434

New and Notes.

Synod will meet this year on September 12th. The Rev. D. J. Davies has arrived from England and has commenced his duties as assistant Priest m the parish of Holy Trinity, Gisborne. Our readers will be very sorry to hear that the Rev. Canon Clarke, Vicar of Taradale, has had a very serious breakdown m health. He

w&Mrst Wfeiitorua but the medical officer there has sent him to the Sanatorium at Hanmer Springs. Extract from a girls' diary picked up by the Secretary to the N.P. Sunday School Council on the.fioor of his; parish room:— " Monday: Pictures with Bert.. : Tuesday:; Pictures with Jack. Wednesday: Dance with A.D.T. Thursday : . Worked . late. Friday : Pantomime . with Elsie. Saturday: Pictures, with Freddy. Sunday. : Had a bad .head. ' ' And no wonder! The craze. for amusement is affecting the .souls as well as the heads of our girls— and boys; it leaves no room for God or the realities of life. "I was calling at a house whither -I had been directed as to a f new family m town.' After the usual, openings and courtesies, and I had learned my error, the woman sitting opposite me startled me with: 'You Protestants are queer! Now we Catholics' (of course she meant Roman Catholjp; but whether one is Roman, or Anglo; or Greek, or other Catholics, her. statement is true " of him) 'we Catholics,' she said, 'whenever we go .to . a, hew. J;, place, always seek but the Church to worship Almighty God. But you people, you always wait until the ministers and the grocery men come around, to see

who: first can get -the trade ! ' ' 'r— Rev. J. C. Poland 7 '7; The famous Roman Catholic Archbishop Seton, m a book of memories, tells the following story :— " One of my. . earliest memories of •■' London .is of about 70 years ago. I addressed > stalwart policeman, saying: /Will you/please direct me to : the' nearest Catholic Church ?'. He drew himself up, and looked down upon my insignificance with this peremptory answer : 'There are no Catholic Churches m England, sir; there is a Catholic Chapel. First turn to the right, second to the. left.'" Giving" his experiences of choir training m .Newport, R.I. (U.S.A.) Dr. Madeley Richardson says: We had some aniusing experiences during the course of training. One day the subject of study was the hymn" The Church's one Foundation. " On reaching the words "by heresies dis7 tressed, " Do they know, I wondered; what they are^inging about? "Now what are heresies?": hesitation followed; no one ventured to reply. "Do you know?"- said I. "Oh, yes, I can tell you, ' ' cries a bright little fellow, "Why, Sir, ladies who inherit fortunes." As the summer congregation of Trinity Church, Newport, is mostly composed of millionaires, this answer seemed singularly happy.