RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2169, 6 June 1914, Page 9

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.

THE SAUVATiOfi ARMY.

WHAT IT JIASDONB IN NEW

In_a recent issue of ''The Social Gasette," the official organ of the Salvation Army ,3 social eperatioms (jmhlisheti in .Lpndoß), appears a very faterosting artiele desaribinw the work of tho Arwj- in New Zealand. The Writer suites:—

Aw Zcalajiders hold tho Ariny in tagU esteem. Fm over thirty years our flag has been flying j B the i-slands-, and tho Army is now strongly entrenched in tho life of the people..worklßg rtS oOnißVonplace, everyday m'iraeles, by. tie grace of God, m that fadefatt gable, plodding way which has won for it the Wonder and admifatkn of men and women of nil races and all modes °J ™ m^ a S-' 'New. Zealand W need ei tflo Army; For. no waiter how siugaiarly blessed a country may ha in all that tends to. human eomfwt and conteiitm*»i, where sin is thet-e ftitist U sufterjn* and sorrow also, and in tiiis.rospect. the islands have tte> own allotted problems,. Sβ, as in other Jarads.-tlro Araiy is present to , tend the woqndcd soul and direct it t-ow-ards the ight.

An 4 to take- advantage of the j<jurBalist s pnvjlefie to ho .tepieal, it ma? be Stated that up to the present it 5s a *f; a}and corps—GisboDie—which iioMs the record for anv individual ewjis ,m 'the matter of self-denial coi- ! lectuig, beating. Melbourne, Sydney, and the Congress Hall, tente. . .The climate of New Zealand i 5 nised as one of tho fiji«sfc oi the world; Ws death-rate-H the ■ recorded •■ Hγ jnost peojSfo' who have visited tile Domnueti ■ it- is resarded as, an ideal I country to-reside in. Referring to this aspect of New Zealimd, Commissioner If mo, who, it will be remembered, vis■ul d l *st ye«r in cotttteotfon Tvith. his Ausfcralasian tour, re-marked . that on his return k>m© he na-cl been asked if, it, his wotld-wide travels, lie Iradcoate acress -a- place which attractea him Jncre-.thsß ji:iiy other as a- desiraftte spot to live tn, and to tmd tepherj tiiat, after Seotlafti} and tl» gowth of. E-nglaijd, AW Zeal-ftijd. Was - well' ap Hie list.- Tlla Commissioner also nllodert to the part played la the evolution of .New Zealand by the tat* fh« Bfeß Hon.. RiehssKl-SetUkn ("King Bicit"), n'lio dommatod .'tha poHtic.nl situation Uγ so many years. Even-the-late Fγ*m,io.r.s' political opponents now .i|n«t that his marW a Wriod of groat progross 'for tho 80-minion. Sβ gave the islanders a continuity of policy conducive to tho matitrirts: 'of mea-s----iir-ps of constnictivfi legislation, {tarn yrhkh they are now reaping tlto bciidii 'Shu ptesent Govwnaippt is imbued.with the modern snirjt awl is pursniiig lofty ideals. While in Now Zealand. CWmissioner Lamb Siad il-itervieWa with tho Premier, -the Hen.-\Y, F. lhs&\>: and the Hon. P. H. D. 8011, K,C,,thc Minister nf Internal Agftifs and Ifflfiiigration, i.a whom. tfea Dominion has men deeply eonecrnod in encouraging .ovofy <vrrtcrpriso end ercry finrpaso that T.-iil tenrj., ft> the fle-Mopment- snd lietterrt.ojit of the country frhich has entnisteel them with so hon«uralxle a place aEinMgst its couMrtllors. Tho only drawback to New Zctland'a adriHwe is lnofe of posulatton. . If not t> complete TJtojjJa-. 'the newest- of the Ring's Dominion's tho Seas cer-tainLf-pnssessEs. idea-t attribuf-cs.

FAREV/ELU TO BETHNAL GREEN. DB.' WAITS-DITCHPIBLD'S UST. ■.;.. : ; SERVICJSS. :::;;«/;• vi There were stirring .scenes at ' St. .Wmcs : ilic».kcss, Scv.nßa! Uwen, -on &ui«le.y (Afti-jJ. 19), when Dr. Viatts- ■ WtejilieJd . aeiivfirecj ins ■ farewell mes'6ajy;s priof io \m onthron.emeftt. as liisiiop of Chehnsford, \i\ the aftnii - - fWOii tho Slayer and G>rpos'atiw, ' the Liaard ot Uqarijians, aua menibsrs of tho L.C.C. wont in state, to show their appreciation af all tkat Dr. Watts--oitf;liiield had done for tho borough, Iβ the course of liis closing address to tho members ©f his Brotherjiood, the Bishop ftsked, ''Has Bcitheal Qjeojr improved in the past seyentccn years?" He 'thouffbt that ift niutti'Dipal aifairs there had Wit a decided improvement. The-dcatfitrete had .gsfle. idynn from 2& per IOOSJ.to 15.3j' and the ilifantilo mor--taiity. from '163 per- 1000-to 103. Btit Bothnei Cr-reon" was growittg poi>r«r. It iviiE 'iHrille a-licn and poverty-striakcE Bone/.and the ■better : ekss wodeman and fto clerk bad oio'vcd ftirtbor out, Jeaviiie: behind'tho casual labourer and the sweated ; loine-worker. Nevertheless) the morai tono was much higher. Be fcftretted, feosvever, tfet so' little' had been done to ckar slum β-reas^ In the evening, wjica Dr. WattsDifehfiflliJ said farewell to his own people, there was a great crush at the. gates of the church an hour before tho tune of the service, a&d tm overflow senies was h«ltl in St. James's Hafl> at which tbe Bishop also, preaflhoa. Ois. filial fert. was, "Go Ferwaid." When h© was appoiuted a Bishop, ho ea'tdi alawjst everybody lie met said, "What Wilk'happen to St. J&i&es-the* Less?" His reply was, "The same iiofl who has blessed it hitherto will iToiitinue 'to htess ■ it." Dr. WattsDitchficld remarked that there would bn. a. bigger crisis in England during Ww next few years than many thmighf, ami good praying mnii, and meii with- heads, would be needed everywhere.

OBITUAHV

MONSIGNOK, CROKE HOB.INSOH. Tks death of the Itiglit. Bev. Moftsiguor Waiter Croks liuonisw, a wciiknown preacher anil lecturer in the Homan Catholic Arcii-droeeso of Wc&taiin* Biuj', eecuned at Brijsfitoß on April 17. He ivas Hwiid dead m his bod. iloiisigiioi , Robinson-was ko/tii in 1839 and wa« tlio'-soai ci' tho then rector oi JBtooesfield, near 'tt'oodsiocis. lie was odacatofil at \Vinchester and at Now Colkgo, O:;wrd, and had the distiivotion -of teoMing me lirst ivMuui Catholic FcJkf\v 'of Aew since -Utc Kolorma- ■ tion. After holding tlirco Anfeikaji ears- | ci«-8 be was received into tiio Haiaau • Catholic Ciiurtii in and was educated for the priesthood at Oscotfc Colfcge, where ho was ofdainod. in 1575. I'ftjiu < la?s to 18-7S he was \'io(;-Hoci.o.r of , tiio Cfttfiolic Unii'ersity Colfcgc, Ktmsingtoii, mid from 1878.t0 1892 K.oniaH Catholic chaplain at tho KoasiHgton NVorkbouto; • Fswn ),892iie s-as Preacher and .Lecturer of lljo Arfh-dioeoso' of Westminster, rtiwl was appointed to the office of domestic Prelate to th* Pope sa 1900. Monsigiior'Robinsoa was wetl knowa os a preacher and'speaW, slid publisliod sevei-al works, the best- known of vhicli is a Life of Bishop .Qrossetesto. He was a groat supporter of all forms of outdoor sport. As a schoolboy at Winchester fie played isi tho cricket eleven against Eton in 1857, was also in the Wiitehester football tMtti. Ho was also a musical coniposet. ..