TAIHAPE NOTES.
• The vicar of St.-Margaret's Parish Church, Taihape, the Rev. Percy Wise Clarksbn, organised special thanksgiving services last Sunday, and asked his '.congregation to place the sum of: £150;' in voluntary- offerings- in , tho plate, to bo.present' ' at tho altar, the money to. boused: for; paying off tho.. debt on the church, sd-that.it might bo consecrated. The vicar ■■hold/six services during the day, ; and thcrb ivcro about 50, communicants. At both Matins and Evensong the church was full, and had: it .not been, for a" wet evening niany'vwould.,;have ;been. unable to.gain ad'missionl .'Tho vicar,', in t appropriate sermons during.tho day/said that his faith had never: wavered, and'no believed his' pcoplp would;rise to the: occasion. .A. noblo response vras-the result of thoivicar's appeal, and .£lsl (including a small sum'of pennies)'was placed in tho alms dish.:.When:.tho total gifts were announced, at tho 'end of tho evening service, great enthusiasm . was . shown..; The vicar thanked tho 'parishioners, but was visibly too much moved, to. say\ much. .;He .characterised tho offering, as a "noble effort of a noble and "generous people." . - '....
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 10
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178TAIHAPE NOTES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 10
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