News and Notes.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 September 1925, Page 11

News and Notes.

, ,W« regret to have to. record the death of Mr Samuel Gempton, for many years verger at the Cathedral. We hope to insert an m memoriam notice; next, month. , , , - it At a conference between memHeSs of the Standing Committee of Grettr feral Synod and the editors Sand managers of 1 Diocesan papers, Archdeacon Fitehett ; stated that unless^ the «ireiila^ion of the '-Ghiirchmaai?' is

inereaseW liy '^Ofll ; cbpies ; per month it will have to etase-^ublication. The Dioceses of Auckland and Wellington refuse to circulate the "Churchman"; if these Dioceses will favorably reconsider their position m the matter, the /'Churchman" will continue publication next year.

"I am perfectly certain it iis not irreligion or Anticleriealism Which keeps men from Church. Once at Derby, m N.W. Australia, during a race meeting, all the men got together and resolved they would go to Church

m«/ mfcjb; Bftt oo Sufcday* nighf, wh*n flrey the tfSest? bell,' they got th£ wiridupv So instead of corriiiig along they retired to the parlor and had a twq-bo)>in poker hand, arid the loser had to go to Church and -put the pool m the plate. It was just social shyness. ,On my promising them that, if they came to Church next Sunday, they need not wear coats, arid that they should not have to sit among; the women, but could have one side of the Church to themselves, they gathered up all the cars they could get, and went from puV to pub., and from house to house, and cleaned up the town. They all went m a mob."— (E.J;P. m Rqckhamptqri "Church Gazette. "). " The shingled hair fashion, npw qpiisidered so smart and originai "by w,pmeii,. is a revival of a mode woiii ;by early Christian wpmeh as a jien;aiice for thjeir naughty habits, "said Mi- Berber t Noriua, the costuifle designer, m a leeljiiue m Lpndpii on the " Costume of Imperial Rome." "It is. possible, of cour-se," he added, "that the women and girls of to-day-shingle for the same-reason. ' ' (''Argus "']". A. recent paper tells of a "horseback wedding" m the South; and now another gives us the thrilling a<3co»nt of "a marriage by radioj"' the fond couple standing up bef ire the Radio Exhibition m Portland,

Me., and the officiating/minister (with the appropriate name of th.c Rey. Charles Chaplin.) pronouncing the words of the ceremony m Boston. What next? And when will the divorces be obtained?— -(From the "Living Church, "U.S. A.)" ■ .' ■ The habit of touching wood >yheii we haye boasted of good liicjt is ■"/_& "throw back" to the ancient tree worshippers. The primitive belief was that spirits resided m trees, and wood ,was touched to direct the at- . tention of the tree spirit to the fact that his influence was recognised, and that he might not feel slighted and change good fortune into bad.— ("Argus"). For the whole brotherhood at the end of that great day of His Resurrection, the Lord brought the fresh breath of the Spirit an inspiration which was life from the dead; and with it a mission which made the Church the messenger of the new life to all mankind. — Swete. "When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can."' — Anon. "The great simple rule is just to pray. Keep on praying. Stumble along as we did when we learnt to walk as children. Push along somehow, as we did when we first learnt to ride a bicycle." — G. Granger Fleming, m "The Dynamic of All Prayer. ' '