CHURCH SERVICES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 19, 6 February 1937, Page 3

CHURCH SERVICES

At St. Matthew's Chuurch the services " for Quiuquagesima Sunday will be Holy CommunioD at 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Mattins and sermon will be at 11 a.m. There will be Holy Baptism at 3_p.m., and the evening service will be as" used for the first Sunday evening of the rnonth, with address by the vicar. Service sheets with popular hymns and the Te Deum will be provided, and after ihe service the congregation is invited to the Parish Hall for a social halfhour At St. Barnabas', Selwood road. the- Holy Communion will be administered at 11 a.m. and an evening service at 7 p.m. oonducted by the Rev. K. Liggett. The evening service at St Janies 's HaO, Duke street, will be tak&a at 7 p.m by Captain Sutcliffo, C.A. • • why Does God Allow the Innocont to Sufferl" will be the subjeet of the address to be delivered by the Rev, D. J. A. Shaw in St. Andrews' Church to-morrow evening. Epidemics, accidents, disasters all challenge our thought. Can we explain what is happening? This service will be relayed to St. John's Hall, Mahora. Non-church-goers ara Specially invited. They cannot alwaya leave God out of the reckoniug. Strangers always welcome. To-morrow the Rev. C. B. Boggis will eonduct both services in the Baptist Church, Karamu road south. The special mornii;g service at 11 will mark the initiatioq of the 1937 progress programme, and will conelude with the Communion. The address will be entitled "Keeping Our Religion Vital." At 2.45 p.m. the Bible classes will recommence. At 7 p.m. for the bright gospel service the eubject will be "Abounding Life" (or , "After Baptism, \Vhati"). Everyone is heartily invited. , In the Methodist Church on Sunday the services, both morning and evening, will be taken by Mr D. Neilson, late of India, whose previous addresses in j Hastings have proved so helpf ul. Mr Neilson's morning eubject will be "Change and Decay in India," and the evening subjeet ""When the Mohamiue d&n Deserts Mohammed." The choir alsp. will render anthems fts follow; Morning, "God is a Spirit"; evening, "Crossing the Bar." All who enjby. a bright, helpful form of worship aro very heartily invited. The plain teaching of Christ is that "the m^ek shall inherit the earth,'-' "which is in accord with the teaching of • Moses and' thn prophete. The Apostles, belief in whose teaching is necessary to salvation. This subjeet will be considered .in an, address to be given (God willing) in the United. Hall on Sunday night mnder the title "The Earth— Not Heaven — to be the Puture.Abode of thp Righteous." "Holiness Applied to Everyday Life" will be the subjeet of the' address by Major M. Marshall in the ; Salvation Army Hall to-morrow morn- . ' ing. Adjutant Lamberton will speak at the evening meeting. There will also be a meeting in the Whakatu Hall at 7 o'clock. Tuesday night 's meeting will be conducted by Brigadier Powiek from Wellington. The centenary of the birth of D. L. Moody, the famous evangelist and preacher, falls on the fifth of this mOnth, and in view of this oecasion a ■ Jecture on the life of this great man will be delivered at the Baptist Sunday ; School, Karamu road, on Monday evenj ing next at 7.30. The lecturer will be ■ j Mr J. O. Sanders, LL.B., the euper- | intendent of the New Zealand BibleJ Training Institute, Auckland. Mr | Sanders is a lecturer of known ability and will have a selection of lantern pictures to illustrate his subjeet. The lecture will be repeated in the Baptist Church, Napier, on Tuesday night Mr. R. G. Nairn, the well-known Irish evangelist, will be the speaker at the Nelson Street Hall, to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock.