WESLEYAN CHURCH, DURHAM STREET.
The only recognition of the Nativity festival season by this body was a service held at seven o’clock on the morning of Christmas day, when the Esv. A. Read preached, tbs sermon bearing on the events commemorated by the day. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, ST. ASAPH STREET. A morning service was held at this chnreh at eleven o’clock on Christmas morning, the Revs. Messrs Perry and Peters officiating. AMBERLEY. As usual the Church of Holy Innocents was tastefully decorated, a novelty being in the toils appropriate to the season being paint don caro in old English letters. The tout was decorated with oak, yew and scarlet geranium, the windows with yew and various colored flowers, whilst the reading desk and altar rails were most prettily ornamented, the former with juniper, geranium and passion flowers, tbo latter with yew and. fuschiaa. 'Two largo designs in lilies and holly were placed on either tide of the altar with considerable effect, and the decorations as a whole evidenced considerable taste and much labor on those concerned in their arrangement. _ The Rev. H. G. Gould held morning service, the Christmas carols being most effectively rendered by the choir.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2134, 27 December 1880, Page 3
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197WESLEYAN CHURCH, DURHAM STREET. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2134, 27 December 1880, Page 3
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