HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1996, 4 February 1907, Page 2

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

The annual Harvest Festival services held in the above church yesterday were marked with great heartiness and success in every sense. On the previous alernoon a number c-f helpers decorated the church with sheaves of oats and other grain, flowers, and produce of many kinds. The church looked extremely pretty, a number of harvesting implements lending a realistic appearance to the services. The services began at 8 a.m. with a celebration of the Sacrament of the Holy Communion, the vicar offieiiting. Choral morning service was sung at 11 o’clock, a capital congregation attending. The assistant clergyman, Rev. H. AI. AVriglit, occupied the pulpit, and taking as his text “AA’hilst the earth remainetli, seed-time and harvest shall not fail,” delivered an appropriate festival sermon. . In tho afternoon at 2.45 a special young people’s harvest sorvieo was conducted. There was a very great concourse of children, parents, and friends. The vicar officiated, and addressed tho children on the parable of the sower. The children were strikingly alert and attentive, and lent much assistance towards the heartiness of the service.

A very great congregation attended at 7 o’clock for the choral evening festival service; seats and forms were placed in all the open parts, of . oliurpfi.—A—lm-go —olioiiw &mig ; !m' Harvest music splendidly, and also rendered n very beautiful anthem of thanksgiving. Rev. H. Hamilton assisted in tho service. The Vicar again occupied the pulpit, and took as liis text Psalm 104-24, “How manifold are Thy works—tho earth is full or Thy riches.” The speaker dealt with the beauty and tlie abundance of tho gifts of the Almighty, particularly in this new country. Prosperity was writ large all over Ihe land, “but,” said the speaker, “prosperity sometimes destroys our desire for higher things.” ilo urged upon liis liearers_ to make their thanksgiving something more than mere lip service, to live daily as those who acknowledged the Giver of all things. The service was strikingly bright and inspiring, several familiar hymns being most heartily sung. The worship closed with the Vesper hymn sung kneeling.