ROUND THE WORLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2237, 6 March 1886, Page 3

ROUND THE WORLD.

A regiment of negro trpopsiwaa Ibeing organised in Massachusetts';; AThe;/iight,! preceding their (lejmrturo/fotthVMmjj'of' rendezvous a meeting ■"'ffiis.-shel&ihyiib': African Church, at the cloaivpf; which-flio'i Ten orabl e inin is to r,-i u t: :i- p niy erV miicl e; 1 h.O, following remarkable..Request..:■■'!. That'. when these men .went-on':the:-;battlerfieltl.'' thaunay be as bold lis lipna-and.-Adrwilcsjj aS|les/" ... A curious circiiliistaiicp.was .brougjit' -tolight at the iT)eeting-;o.f,.thciomkjii ;Pres: bytery. ■ Very, many/years .'ago a -'minister:' broke down in■:healtli ■'.aiiJ'; rbaignt'd 1 : : his• charge in London abroad.. , The congregation ■wished to:.preseiiioinjh/. with a partinggift-i ance on his life Tor. £3oj) j; /.which-sum- .the:Society at once ail Vaiiced,.. ; tlip. congregation to pay; the- premiums.;... ''l liisVwas; .solong ago : that ; ;'\^ : beliQyu';;iipt : a:; rsinglemember .ol- tlio ":c6ngi - cg;ifci6n'/..0f:. ■ thrt't;poriod "remains' .coiiijected ''■..';with'/.;.,the'. ; church to-day/;;, and, - the;' 'congregation-■ 'which .:■ has ; already' jjaid;-- 'over-vi'liDO-' for tho : decessors,- c(nitiinie..tp''u'ay/tHe'. : :,pr'iniiiiiVi';: ; The' minister/ r ninety years of age^and-ih : :«aod ; : hcalthV^ : M. Eenan, wlidlnioy/s.a.'.gi/od.'.'.deal/ about St; Paul, ha'sifcakei'i/tp revising :lnVtext, not quite in the spivit'of our Englishrevisers.'"' Celebrating -the; supremacy-j:>fj science at a' scientific;' ; dimiei' the; -ptlieK night he remarked ,;flwi|" :^t,' : Paul* ■liajl;,; said there were thre'e'' : hopefgnd charity, but':.;that jthe''greatest' wasßarity."' He/(M;^i{enan),;; otherhand, would'aflii-iij that, the' threq. great things were truth, and that the : of' all-.was; truth. . Virtue : aiid^iri;;ho;"cbntinued^- 1 .did not exclude strohgillusioiis, but truth/

is that which actually .vis,;' and science ftttill remained the moit/serious thing'-.'in fflhe world. He concluded ■ with • templous dismissal of !'■•' that miad indulged by certain people.over/the. pretended Paradises of which./thei'world; is being deprived this utterance on the part of *'phe:;b'f/;the:' greatest litterateurs -; of-; : th'u.i "day v'fluttb'r--: certain literary cEiigjancl ■■ where science is regarde'd'asathihg'-cdmT mon and unclean,■■■uttei : ly:;dest'r ; ucti'vp: Of the beauty and niystel ; y;;nf/tjie';/universe ■!. M. Renau knows, that: it gives us keener'by'esV/fojv.thq/ bGa'uJy, and rather deepen^tlian/vulgarises, thd mystery, and recognisesi'that'literatu're, must adjust itself of dying of is -tlio wiser, the greater,--the tr«er,F / ■■■■*"■