NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1923, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

LAWLESS CLERGY. LONDON, July o. Prayer Book revision and the restoration of discipline among the clergy were the principal topics of discussion at the National Assembly of the Church of England at Westminster yesterday. In the House of Laity, where Prayer Rook revision was further debated, .Miss Thesiger moved to omit front the prayer in time of. war the reference to our enemies in the words “Abate their pride,'’' assuage their malice, and confound their devices.’

During the war. she said, she reminded a woman of the Christian duty ol praying for the Germans, and the woman replied, "1 do. 1 pray every day for God to corse them.” i Laughter). The proposal was doleaicd.

in the House of Bishops the Bishop of Chelmsford moved, in view of the need of restoring discipline in the Church, that a. measure for reconstituting the Diocesan and Provincial Courts and the Court of Final Appeal he carried into law. Among the clergy, he said, were to he found men who had what might lie called lawless minds, who deliberately flouted authority and sot:,gilt to break it down, hut he believed the overwhelming mass of the clergy were not of that mind. At any moment Parliament might pass some measure such as on divorce,

or tl o Prime Minister might make appointments which would inevitably lead tn a clash between the Church and the State. It might be remote, but li p possibility existed.

The Bishop of Durham, who seconded, said there was denlornble idleness and disobedience among those who More commonly called Evangelical and Broad Churchmen. The resolution was carried.

.MFNXOMTFW LONDON. June 29

More than -1 ,('•;)() Alennoniics—members of a strange religious sect founded at Zurich in lAid—-are emigrating to Canada from Russia.

The Canadian Paeilic liner Bruton has left London for Lilian, the Hal tie port where D'e first hatch ol 7o Mcuneiiitcs "ill embark. From there they will he brought to Southampton. In If>2o there was a great trek on the part of the .Mennonitcs away from Canada. -More than 8,000 members of the Orthodox Mennonite Community of Manitoba and Saskatchewan left those provinces to establish a colony in Brazil. By doing so they more or less depopulated over a dozen prairie towns, and necessitated the sale of improved land holdings valued at L'2,000,000.

Their decision was due to their failure to retain certain special privileges, such as the conduct of their own s' hunts, end to the fear that public opinion might wrest from them the privilege ol exemption jyom military sen ice in lime oi war.

Many of them have since drifted hack owing to the hardships that wore enforced upon them in the south.

"BELLE OF NEW YORK.” LONDON, .Tune 20. The death is reported from New York of Mr Gustav .Adolph Kerker, (ompeser of "The Belle of New York,’ “The Lady Elnvov.” and many other musical plays. "The Belle of New York,” with Edna May ns the demure Salvation Army lass, was produced at I ha Shaftesbury Theatre in April 1899. Ale K'u-k'r was a rapid writer. Mueli of tie score ol "The Belle ol New York” he is said to have written on his shirt cull' as the melodies occurred to Inin. CONS I'M f’Tl V E>’ HOPES. LONDON, .June 28. More than a dozen tuberculosis eases are Icing treated with Dr Droyer’s "antigen’’ vaccine at Hie Hospital lor ('oosmaption end Diseases of the flu st. Prompt',in, S.AV., and the results in each case me considered satisfactory. A woman who is receiving the l)re,ver treatment was to have been

discharged as a hopeless case at the time that Dr Drcyer discovered how to increase the strength of the vaccine. A few weeks after her admission to the hospital the husband was told that there was no hope at all for her and that she could not live three months. Now, although the patient has been subjected to the new treatment for less than a week, the results arc such as to make the husband extremely hopeful on her behalf.

The house surgeon last, night expressed regret that anything had appeared in print, as he said the work was “experimental” only and that the publication of various details of the new treatment had given thousands < f sufferers the idea that it represents a definite cure.

"If in two months," he said, “a person who had revived treatment seemed absolutely fit it would he impassible to regard him as cured. The disease might appear again, and only the lapse of three or four years could prove fin actual cure.