SYDNEY STREET METHODIST CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1712, 1 April 1913, Page 5

SYDNEY STREET METHODIST CHURCH.

i : * •• ■ ■ ■ As a result of Methodist Union, "it ■] in? been decided to amalgamate Street congregation with; that .. of 'thiii'v;! Moleswortu Street Church, the final ser-.Vi , vices at the Sydney Stwct Church, was established sixty-fivo years'ago, worbi:-; if •'held 011 Sunday. At tlio;morning tho. Bev. H. Cottom (junior minister)' gave -y a short address to tlio voimg people, and subsequently delivered his farewell sermon to tlio' congregation, taking a* his text,;:. ,? j"Hitlierto tlio lord.hath helped us." Mrs. Grant, who in form«T years.- had boeii' closely associated with the church, renderr cd tho solo, "Man-of Sorrows".Tho cvcli-:J ing service, which was largely 1 attended* f was conducted by tho Ecv. P. .T. Cossum, who delivered.an.appropriato di«ou«e on .; Isaiah, Chapter 55, .vepfO X, "Ho! Everyone. ; that thirstcth." Mrs. Willis contributed!; .! tlio solo, "Nearer" my God," aud Mr. T- , C. Newton saiu "I Heard.tho Voice of ;i .Tesus," whilst tlio choir rendered the on-.,.*) them; "They that wait upon thalord." At ■;> ■; the final communion strvico lwld enW ■ qucntly a number, 'of young people received as junior members. Tlio closing ;}', function, which takes tlio form of reunion, will bo held on> Wednesday evening, when short addresses (appropriate to tlio occasion) and nrusicat-items.will' given. ' ' '■ v .v':< \ '■ • =