Around the Churches

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 122, 13 August 1927, Page 5

Around the Churches

Canon Grant Cowen is to be the preacher at St. Matthew’s Church, Wellesley Street, to-morrow morning, while the Ven. Archdeacon Simkin will conduct the evening service. The choir are to sing the anthem "O Taste and See.” Sunday School and Bible Classes will be held in the afternoon. The Associated Churches of Christ are holding the usual services tomorrow. Meetings are to be held at Ponsonby Road, Dominion Road, Onehunga, Richmond, Avondale, Mount Albert and Devonport. At the Ponsonby Road Unitarian Church on Sunday evening the Rev. Albert Thornhill, M.A., will give an address on “Why Men Become Sceptics,” in which he will deal with the confession of the novelist, Rupert Hughes, “Why I quit church going." An address on “Soul” is to be delivered by the First Church of Christian Scientists in the Church Hall, Symonds Street, to-morrow. A midweek testimony meeting is to be held on Wednesday. The usual Sunday afternoon mens meeting at the Y.M.C.A. buildings will be addressed by the Rev. J. F. Jones, D.D., on the “Greatest Text in the Bible.” „ The evening address at the Spiritual Scientists’ Church, Xewton, will be given by Mrs. Harris-Roberts on “Glimpses of Spirit Life.” On Wednesday a social evening will be held, while next Saturday there wiSt be another meeting. Mr. W. E. Bush, president of the Auckland Baptist Auxiliary, will preach at the Grange. Road Baptist Church to-morrow morning. In the evening, the minister, the Rev. A. S. Wilson, will speak on “May Christians Dance?” The communion service at the Royal Oak Baptist Church is to be taken by the Rev. A. S. Wilson. Mr. E. Batts, a Baptist College student, will offi.ciate in the evening.’ . ..