CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10060, 30 January 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

uWKCTIOX TO IXTEIi•,fc; MARRIAGE.

,' lenKi P«« le to observers ! Ur Zaruwill should advocate dpv * which would keep the Jews a and peculiar people, and at the time advocate ntermarriage with SKtian* which would tend to break YT the 'separation- His explanation is f! he would prefer to' keep his race Kate and intact, but that if they tti!. fP~[ e w ith the other peoples, it ii best 2vthev should amalgamate. Mr ZangSf na'rried. in 1903, the daughter of tfrnfessor V,'. K. Ayrton, the British etec£Tl en-nnier. inventor, and president S iwntifio ,-ocietie.-. A he.*ed disensf„ „f ilis views IS i O5l nmv raging J"® h tiie columns of the Hebrew week- ?? ~IV main objection urged' against doctrine is not that intermarriage 'ild de-tri)'.- race purity, but that it im- *" r ':v the puritv of religion and of the L e In this respect, the Jew is but V with alt religions, points out a Sriter in The American Hebrew |Xew V j. -Wide experience has shown that itfit uniaDpraess and absence', of. true jwv unity * due to intermarriage ol Sisort." The objection is stronger, this Seer urges, 'Srith creeds Roman vhollci-m, or Judaism,' 'where so milch Lend* «F o[l tradition and early associafc,n in producing specific religions leeliL" Brtides this, editorial, expression. (he "Rev. t)r Schulman writes in 'the Kiurnal. . -The prohibition against intermarriage L oalv and exclusively a religious nio- ?■ e This <.an not be too strongly emphh!Ld t,m ,:lear " 1 aqlt not in " JTestid i £l the- purity.of the Jewish race. I Jo believe, however, in" my right to perpetuate the life and integrity of my Liiioa. There L- much loose talk about (ke-Uesirahility of perpetuating the Jewish L, Much of this loose talk and the natal intipathv to the Jew which it must Render has" heen recently encouraged 3 increased by the Zionism and nationalism which "has taken hold of many nce Jews who have no religious conviction at all We feel that two ."oiaiclerations compel our insistence upon j e conversion to our faith of those who iiiili to enter upon marriage with sons anil dauffhters of Israel. We must maintain tlie unity of the home, which is the kin of the social organism, and we must protect the integrity of Judaism as a telittion of a very small minority as comjared with the population of the world. y e jjoU that we can not worship the God { Israel with divided homes. We feel that the proper moral and religions education «t children necessitates spiritual anitv oE the household. If two parties, Jew"and Christian, who ask a rabbi to soL'tumie their marriage, are indifferent fa reliaion altogether it is better for them to jo to the civil magistrate and be marritil. If. on the other hand, they have teligious convictions, they are laying up i peat deal of heartache for themselves fur the tuture. When they are confronted with, the problem of rearing their offspring, thev wiC find that their religious beliefs ink deeper seated in their hearts than, they imagined in the heyday of their cWtifli- A religiously divided home has iowa tiie seed o£ nnhappiness. Judaism, thereiore. refuses to consecrate a step towatd domestic disunion." ITEMS. I [Me;. England, evidently has a specimen ot muscular Christianity in the persmot its vuar. the son of the well-known Jfc Siniw. <;£ Cambridge, and one- of six imtSra- a.'i clergymen of the Church of Muni It is related that one Saturi? night recently Mr Sinker visited a imberoi licensed houses and invited the in to a special service on the following using: la the course' of .the service' the ,jr soke on the"subject. of gambling, j, wording to the correspondent of a tkif religious newspaper, said : "If ever ,'S i bookmakers tout in Ilkley tempt- ■ ymnx lads to bet I wil£ give him a if hiding, if I get run In For it,, and I will gladly" take the risk of a thrashing myself." It is added that BGO men listened with rapt attention to the vicars stirpiny- address. Dt Carter. BL-hop of Pretoria, has, according to a Renter telegram, accepted the Archbishopric of Capetown, rendered vacant six months ago by the death of Dr Wffit Jones. Tills appointment puts an end tu the unfortunate position caused by both the- Bishop of Southwell and Archdeacon Burrows declining "the see. The new Archbishop, who comes oi a very iiirp; Eimily. is one of the most popular at Old! Etonuuss. irod earned great_ praise ifi the East End of London as priast-in-charze of the Eton 'Mission at Hackney. He was consecrated; Bishop of Zaluland in 1891, and succeeded Dr BeresFord in the set» of Pretoria en 1902. In each of these jphffles tie has done excel I eat work, and die news of his appointment will-be rewith great pteasure. in Capetown. Professor Currie Martin, who has heen ifpuinted joint foreign secretary of the linden Missionary Society in succession tn tlh* Rev. George -Cousins, is the Xew Ifc'jnieii tutor at the Lancashire and %iahire Independent Co lieges. lie was . «Mje<i at Kdinharghi and Xcw College. hia mrnitrj- at Xairn nearly twaljjears ago, and remained for about removing thence . to Reigate. JftsSf. I'rofeaeor iTartin. undertook the <Wmcy of the stewards at the uiition at Bradford, abet, proved more Signal to "the-, task ol inspiring a Sjiand young people to become enthuMbßc workers. Tf» professor will, it is K&ippatedi, succeed Dr Th«np«al. whenever the unhappy event/ of. the feeta retirement should, take place. '4lMsia:hb Mass at Christmas is, of all *««nonies. the meet* cherished • by . the OrthoEcs. Since the aiietom has been allowed naia during recent, years, it is almost inipcfcsible at any' church where iS is observed to cope with the- demand fef admision. The Pope, in order to increase the devotion of. the'faithful has, of ™ own accord, given permission " that «t convents subject • to the law of ent&tae. religious institutions and clerical swiimries I which have a public or pri'Jte oratory with permifision to reservehabitually the Blessed Sacrament) bonceeach year on the sacred night of Xativity there may be celebrated fee ritual Masses, or even according to fittanstances one Mass only, and that ffoly Communions may. be jjiven to ail rtiL piously desire it- His Holiness also Wcted that it should be expressly de«ai that the devonfc hearing of this or ®Stilasses should, avail all who-are pre•®t. for . the satisfaction of their obligahearing Mass. Be liter's telegram from Dijon an®Bces the recent; death of . the Rev. wiert Charles-Fxllingham. Vicar of HexSt. Albans, who was taken ill. on l> journey from Italy. Mr Fiilingham at M«rton, Oxford, and took! Sus ia 1889. In view oi his sub&e?|ttt career it is rather singular to rethat in iis earlier years university ®od «l'>cribed him as "a.bigoted Tory, 4.Jacolite, and a strict Presbyterian, with [Ssng leanings towards the Church of "toe." During the .South African war : FUUr..'ham was a viofent pro-Boer, appealed to President. Roosevelt to Serene on behalf ; of the Republics. In Jlr Fiilingham was convicted at the Mdleigh Petty Sessions, Suffolk, _ for during the celebration of Divine u. the .parish church of - Kettei2®°°- The demonstration - .was evoked 5 the eu>va:i«n of the elements at Holy He appealed unfiucoes6fully Iciest the conviction and was afterward jßonisfe'-I «)u the same-question by the {0< ®. Jlr Fiilingham : ®aaict with the ecclesiastical authorities, time with the Bishops of /Ely and exchanging puipits with Xon?itormi6t p ®as siimniioned before- the Court of ,-in.l found guilty . of .."committing S "iegal act in pretending to ordain -a ""sconforini-t minister-" Mr Filltßgham his regret, bat was suspended Z°® otfici! and "benefice for two years, "•i admocahed not . to offend again. .. reached Sydney a few days before bjhnatmas (i f the death, 'of Dr flenry Skuman, who has -worked in' the MeJajpM Mission during the hist 20 years. S ®as the son of a medical man in Lichwhire the influence o£ the . great phop U»or',;e Augustus Selwyn was paraJ?® 11 - He was at the time a modScal ""flent. ard for 17 years continued to

. work at his profession in England, until the need of a medical man to work amonj.' the glanders of the South Pacific urged him to offer his sefvices'to Bishop' John Selwyn _He arrived at Xorfolk _ Island s in 'IBBB, where' hfe meaical sKil' was n at e once brought into requisition, a foi*m of a brain disease having attacked several of e the boys, which proved fatal in four j caises. The island of Ysabel, in the Solo- - mons, had attention. The old head-hunt-s ing chief, Soga, had but lately put awav » his numerous wives "and "become a'pupil ; in the school. Then foHowed the baptism t of Soga, his wife, aild about .70 of hife . people. Dr Welchfean's skill a f cirin secured him .'the co-operation of'this great chief. When Bishop Jo(m Selwyri t was crippled by malarial sciatica, at- the end of 1890. he was brought' tti Svdnfev, r under the care of Dr Welchman, who [ shortly afterwards accompanied him to ; England. In 1892 Dr Welchman returned- . from England; and received an ordination at Auckland. In 1896 he was niar- , rie- at Norfolk Island to Miss Rossiter, - . who had worked on the mission staff r>t [ St. Barnabas. She accompanied him back . to Siota. and was the first white lady . to live in the islands; within three J months she slckeiied and died. Nearly 12 .- years have" since then. He has. been failing in'health for some time; arid ' died , ness. "JTo. one'~was with him' but" nis natives.