St John's Church, Feilding

Feilding Star, 15 June 1893, Page 2

St John's Church, Feilding

A special service was held at St John s >estenlav afternoon, when the coretnouy of unveiling a memorial wiudow to the lato Mrs Sherwill took place. The winis in three panels, the centre subject depicting the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary and St John occupying the other panels. Below each panel are throe medallions, the centre one emblematic of St John, and those on each side are erected to tho memories of Samuel Bamfiold, R.N., a brother of the lato Mrs Sherwill. and her niece Florence Wilmot Bamfiold, each of the?e medallions bearing tho arms of tho Bainfield family. The window is a beautiful work of art aud quito an ornament to the Church. It is from tbo establishment of Messrs Cox, Sons, Buckley, and Co., of London, and a most eroditable specimen of tho firm's artistic skill. The service was well attended, and the Rev A. Towgood preached a short sermon from the text, I Corinthians 2, 2. — " For I determined not to know anything among you. save Jesus Christ and him crucified. 11 Tho preacher in the course of a stirring address said : — Tho intensity and uarrowness of this aspiration was demanded from the fact that tho earlj Christians haye to keep going and improving the new civilization which has sprung out of it, and therefore a thousaud interests common to a modern Christian the ancient Christian could have nothing to do with. But the substauce of the text is always the same m all ages, Christ crucified has to bo supremo iv everything. Among several thoughts suggested by Christ crucifiod, aro thoso of suffering patiently borne, aud extreme sympathy for the sorrows and misfortunes of others. The speaker then explained that these were the leading elements in the character of Mary Carno Sherwill whose life amongst us this bouutiful window commemorates. " Loud kindly light," •• When I |survey tbo wonderous cross," from Hymns Ancient and Modern, and tho concluding hymn, " For ull tho saints who from their labours rest," woro excellently sung by the choir, and congregation, and tho service was most iiuprosivo throughout.