SEMI-JUBILEE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 December 1931, Page 4

SEMI-JUBILEE

CONVERSAZIONE HELD BAINBRIDGE CHURCH The semi jubilee celebratio the Baihbridge Memorial Ohuri brought to a happy and suc termination on Monday evenin a conversazione was held church. An exceilent programme oi was rendered including anthe the choir, an orchestral ber by Messrs. . Nelson, and A. Dixon, songs by Thomas, ahd French; a violin Mr. Nelson and an eloeutiona by Miss Cottrell. The chairman gave a brief of the activities of the- church the past twenty-five years, a the present time and speciall] mended the Ladies' Guild i Choir f or their very fine work. In a happy speech Rev. A. derson, M.A., B.D., tehdered i citations of the other churches town and referred to the very relationship that existed betw various dehominatibhs. The prin'cipal, address' was ed by Dr. Laws, on "The Ohai tic Features of Methodism," i he emphasised its unique- d position mid-way between the arid the Creedless churches, passio'n for eVangelism, the m ance of which, he said, was i reason for its existenee as a £ denomination. At the conclusion of the p me, supper was served in th hall. A feature of the occas the eutting and dispe-nsing of some birthday cake, crowned proper quota of candles whi been lighted and extinguishec f orm, This ceremony was pe by Mesdames Rosser, Cottre Miss Wylie as representing th ies connected with the churc inception twenty-five years ag