GENERAL.

Waiapu Church Times, Volume I, Issue 1, 1 July 1907, Page 14

GENERAL.

The Bishop of Stepney, speaking to a large meeting of men at Leeds, said that it was not the work of the clergy to beg for money, to keep accounts, to run clubs, and so forth. " TJhey wanted men m the Church of England that the clergy might have time to do a little less running about and a little more climbing up to God. If there was one person he had an extraordinary desire to kick, it was the man who, priding himself of his manliness, sneered at women because they cared for religion. His experience was that m the matter of religion it was the men who wiere cowards and the women who were the heroines."

The late Dr. Dale.— lt is very possible indeed that it had been customary m Borne, m Corinth, and m Philippi, long before the close* of the first century, for one of the " elders,'' or "bishops," to preside regularly m the assemblies of the Church and m the meetings of the Church officers.—" History of English Congregationalism." (Hodder and Stoughton.)

The Eev. S. Baring Gould— Too often it is found that aii erroneous view of the relations m which God stands to His creatures is the barrier to progress. ■'.-.' , The primeval savage, when first he iormed a -notion of the Deity, conceived Him as a mighty Being who smote about Him m \ranton caprice. And too much of this misconception survives.— " The Mystery of Suffering" (Skeffington and Son).

Here is an extract from the Bishop of London's letter worth rfemembering :— •' Few people > realise the extent of the expenditure of the Church: of England on its schools. From 1870 to 1900 the expenditure on Voluntary schools, apart from erecting and altering the buildings, amounted to ll4f millions (£114,---754,024). The Government grants for the same period were £61,855;---280, or nearly 62 millions of money, leaving 51^ millions to be raised by voluntary subscriptions; The work of education was thus carried on. for these thirty years for the country, free of all management expenses, •m buildings rentfree and without charge for structural alterations or improvements, and a sum of 51£ millions of money was contributed voluntarily ; while all the time the friends of Voluntary schools also paid their share of taxes, and m many places rates as well, towards the support of Board schools."