CHURCH SERVICES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 148, 8 June 1935, Page 6

CHURCH SERVICES

At St. Matthew’s Church the festival of Whitsuntide will be observed tomorrow with Holy Communion at 7 a.m., 8 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. Matins at 11 a’.m. will begin with the processional anthem “Hail Festal Day,” and also Attwood’s “Come Holy Ghost” will be sung. The vicar will preach. Holy Baptist will be at 3 p-m. A service will be held at the hospital at 6 p.m. Festival Evensong will be at 7 p.m.; the anthem will be “God is a Spirit” (Sterndale-Bennett) and the preacher will be the Rev. A. M. Niblock. An evensong service will be held at St. Barnabas (Parkvale) at 7 p.m. and also at Mahpra School, where the vicar wishes to meet all parishioners of.that district in order to tell them the present arrangements about the new hall in Duke street. Collections at all services will be given to the Melanesian Mission. Communicants should attend one of the services on Whitsunday morning.

Church services are held to remind us of God and our relation to Him, and to stimulate us to do our best in helping others. To-morrow evening in St. Andrew’s Church the Rev. D. J. Shaw will speak about Ralph Connor’s immortal character, the Sky Pilot and Gwen and Bill. The service will be relayed to St. John’s Hall.

“Power —-Every Man’s Need of It” is tho topic for the address to-morrow evening in the Baptist Church, Karainu road south. Tho preacher will be Bev. C. B. Boggis. To this hearty service all are cordially invited. At the morning worship at 11 a.m. the subject of the pastor’s address will be “Power- — The Church’s Need of it.” There will be choir anthems, and the church will be heated.

Both services in the Hastings Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. R. B. Gosnell. The subject for the morning service W’ill be “The Sins of the Religious,” whilst for the evening service the subject will be “When in Rome do as the Romans Do,” the first of a series of special evening talks on “Themes from Popular Proverbs.” The anthems will be: Morning, “Lead Me, Lord”; evening, “At Even ere tho Sun was Set.” The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be administered at the close of the evening service, with baptisms at 3.30.

The services in the Havelock North Presbyterian Church will be conducted by Mr. Osborne, of the Orphanage, in the morning, and by the Rev. R. Waugh in the evening. Mr. Waugh’s subject will be “The Love that will not be Denied.”

Mr. 11. Barley will be the speaker at Ha’.imoana at 7 p.m. His subject will be “The Glorious Heritage of the Past.” All are welcomed to this bright service.

The usual Sunday evening service will be held in tho Stortford Lodge Undenominational Mission Hall at 7 p.m. The speaker will be Mr. Butcher. All interested are cordially invited to come along and enjoy this bright service. All welcome.

Corps Cadet Sunday will be celebrated at the Salvation Army to-morrow. These special meetings will be led by the Corps Cadet Guardian, Sis. Mrs. Holloway. The Corps Cadets, who are in training for future service and responsibility, will assist.in all meetings. Whakatu outpost service will be con ducted by Brothers Scott and Grant.

The subject at the United Hall tomorrow night will be “The War of the Great Day of God Almighty: Its commencement at Armageddon and it result in the Subjection of all Nations to Christ.” All interested are invited, and opportunity to put questions will be afforded.

Pastor Greenway, the .young Welsh visitor to Hastings, continues his ministry this week in the Rialto tearooms, in Heretaunga street. During the last two weeks the interest in these revival services has been maintained, and the numbers of Christians attendings have steadily increased. Coming, as he does, from “The Land of Revivals” it is not surprising that Pastor Greenway presents the truth with fervour and that both “light” and “heat” accompany his expositions. Beside having a personal and practical application, the subjects chosen tend to explain to the hearers the special aspects of Bible truth held by the Apostolic Church. With the first principles of the Gospel of Christ, this movement also believes that, since the Holy .Spirit is to be the administrator of the affairs of Christ throughout this dispensation, the gifts of the Holy Spirit as well as the gifts of the Ascended Christ should be in operation to-day, and to a large extent they experience them in their midst. The various doctrines taught by this movement include Justification and Sanctification of the Believer through the finished work of Christ, the only Redeemer and Mediator; baptism by immersion; baptism of the Holy Ghost; gifts of the Holy Ghost for Edincation; gifts of the Ascended Christ for Government Mid the Second Coming of Christ as tho believer’s hope and the solution to the problems of to-day, in a world-wide sense. The predominant feature in all Apostolic Church teaching is implicit faith in the absolute deity of the Lord Jesus. Every Christian should attend those services and share the blessings.