CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10066, 6 February 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

C H URCH NEWS AND NOTES.

"p'rit'lT VXD POLITICS IN EXG--11 L\Xl>. Hi.hop Cooper. <>f Graft..!, and Armi- ' f '.,,„,,! rocontlv ivitn a r.-piv-tative of the Sydney ilonmtjj Hpralrf upon matters of passing interH Great Britain. He said he found c S u , r ,. at tlm different son-.<.« Jiv .ri.n.rallv satisfactory, and ho 110riwl "that considerably more.-, people lore taking an active .part m religious He attributed this to the wide Iv'iwnVe the Church was esercisi.it;, I to'the establishment of Christian unions Services v.ere now ar- . red -o as to convenience all classes. 2; ! '~Jm,, lirn had come to recognise that i /aval bulk of the people would i.,,,."Sunday recreation, and it made _,i.*,.ii»'nts accordingly. . "XVithdra-.val of the Education Bill ' he said, a great disappointment. ??".' Vrehbishop of Canterbury had .had -od many interviews, and had hopes f.,% a. «.ttlement would be effected: I -' the extremists on either side did „;- exhibit a fair spirit of compro- ":(, and the Government iound, too, Ifhat'it could expect very little, hoarty !«unoort trom a great many of its sup- • "vr* Some had already given no-f-"'\if "their intention to move the re--""-um "i he Hill. "No doubt," said & Bishop, "the whips had counted C„i s but the reason given for the Irrithdrav.al was that at a meeting of i .Vreiras passed bv a considerable maThe Hight Hon. Walter Rtinci--1 „ the Minister for Education, who : ™;";,l.Kvd" the Bill, was a fellow pas""'•'"r to fort Said, and he felt disjointed at the turn events had tak -U can hardly be expected," added .!,,, Bishop, "for people who have lived -"3b all their lives, to underInd tt- difficulties which beset the hW sin- »f *" ch a measure ot educaS reform in Great Britain. Here 1° starUl from a clean sheet. On the !Lr hand. Great Britain has had us forms of education When ■ground that the growth of towns td population overran the power of Z .Chtireh to control..the schools the v ter Education Bill came in, estab-i-'VL-r ffliat were called board schools. ffA hanng boon able to draw ln „ t „, , r ere naturollv n a better STtol Church "schools.. The ff t «e actually placed in a posidS similar to the Roman Catholic hoots in Australia at the present da> had to find everything, includTlie board schools, m £ course of time, gave free cducaand made up the requiredl reve- " "'fnm rates. This placed the de- " unttanal schools at a greater d.sXn»'"" Thev too were in time i free Help was. however, given ,f* them to do this. The people fllt-an to feel that they, haying Contribute towards the up-keep, I have some share m their manI sh " a it The protest in reply was:— Sare our buildings and our -fit--Ite* ar sent Government I imp- .„'„.. r:ii s over this iiCd In any compromise there S£> something given up by both ffrTtoed that something on the Wales lines would have li. and were not beset with St Numerable difficulties as they element, also had Sing to do with the wrecking of ' B fSaul submitted to having R arlfcles' of furniture sold as a J-The Bill is hound to be taken j The open sore must be tared."

ITEMS. to a P« Mh «;, l , tb^I rU fc seb all, and track „„. -want* Mtol,* theological ex fraction for the young men who shall be lenders to-morrow. - ■ »„ np-ir "New \ork reapdv told a IK u a , a[U j Wh?h~l believe would be of beneht he, which 1 .^ T, er . iaps it was into .nunv ministers. 1 eruap- u it ret till r-'aturdav. On Saturday I turn ,*U Uere it can be then make the revision in «"Eo s «n Jar. I find this plan a great help to me. It's worth the added labor. Ih e new Roman Catholic seminary. •hiA i" being erected on the Blue MountaL \e W South. Wales, two miles from S o ringW. will be known as bt. 'ColomhisißHfonary College, ktamed tor the mission* ot Aplasia. Polynesia. Southern Asia China, ana laria It i- the- second ecclesiastical col- ! sftr,Ll Moran has founded since he Sir. charge of the See ot **«VjJ?* «ntlLe Feast"of the Epipbany *•"«*"£ to inundation stone. Ihe ; ceremouv was «inu. r.o one but Monsignor OH»ian, father P. C. Cretan (rector) Father -A J. Hoirm diocesan inspector of schools), ana the contractor being present The open ha will he public, and will *y?<&™*° mill the Tliird Australasian Catholic Lonress. postponed: from last year. n I bullies calculate on having their part ot f the contract completed before the close ot September next. Only little more than halt the building is being put up now bat, with the purchase of the land the cc«t will rrobablv reach about £Io,OUOA storv'wluch "is being told by the Rev ( W. Bovd vicar of All Saints , Wolk Square.' London, throws an interesting light on the events by which well-known tanes come to be identified with particular Wins. The tune which is now combwhK- with the hymn, "right the flood Fight." was originally composed h Mr 8..v,1" for "Come, Holy Ghost, our Sn!s Inspire." and was called "I enteral." "tine .lav." savs Mr Boyd, ""•if \ *fi walking along Regent Street, I telt *iiap on mv back", and. turning round, I »* mv dear oM friend, Arthur Sullivan. "H\- .fear Kill.' lie said. "I have seen a I toe of vours which I must have._ He »b tho:i" editing "Church Hymns. 'All right.' 1 said, -send me a cheque and I asree.' No copv of the book, much less »■ proof, was sent to me, and when I saw the tune t was horrilied to find that Sulj linn had aligned it to "Fight the Goo« Fight.' We had a regular fisticuffs about it." but. judging t'rom the favor with which the tune lias been received, 1 feel that Snilivan was right in so mating words Wi music." King Edward has issued an edict torkidding public entertainments in a theatre « musi..-li:iU on Sundays. Christmas Day. urGoud Friday, ""unless under very exceptional circumstances." The King of F.ng- ; land thus perpetuates a medicvar privilege j "till adhering to the crown and exercised through the office of the Lord Chamberlain —» post that has, been more or less under sre in recent years. The writer for the York Tribune, who signs herself 'Wanuus ile Funtenoy." gives these reaB a* for the King's "action: —"King Ed»ird has been led to issue this edict with "Sard to Sunday performances by the Pmeth and deterioration of the*e Sabbath tt tertainmems. As. in this country, they *Bmen.:ed wiMi concerts of sacred music. *W followed cinematograph displays of Biblical subjects. The latter, as well as fie- sacred music, have long given way to ""Kb. more frivolous and more worldly features: and whereas twenty or thirty . T wp ago all theatres, and " music-halls wwghout Great' Britain were shut on «-BnJays. to-dav- thev are nearly all open ' Jnd doing a rushing business, the houses "«ing often rented" on Sundays for sallied private entertainments, of a class 'aioix would not pass muster with the

mass of tlie general public on a week-day .Prompted, it is said, by :l Qu,een..--Upsan,dr;i. wlio is a very religious woman indeed, and urged by t"he ; -leading ecclesiastics; not only of the Church of England but of other denominations, the King has now turned to good account the survival of mediaeval despotism which excited bo much criticism at the time when it was invoked by subordinate officials of the Lord Chamberlain's department to prevent the performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, 'The Mikado,' during the state visit to England of several members of the Japanese imperial family a couple of years ago. The step taken by the King is meeting with the warm approval of the vast mass of the population in England, where it is construed as furnishing another striking illustration of the intimacy of his constant touch with public sentiment. The latter, as in all English-speaking countries, is ever in favor of a Tespect for Sunday, and so keenly alive is the Kiug to this that, although passionately devoted to racing, he has never in his life been present at the Paris Grand Prix, which is always run on a Sunday, and which is the greatest of races on the Continent of Europe, being equivalent to the English Derby."