FIRST SERVICES IN CHURCH OF ST. DAVID

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 177, 17 October 1927, Page 14

FIRST SERVICES IN CHURCH OF ST. DAVID

PRESBYTERIANS CELEBRATE “rpHIS house of God is to be a preparation for that other house not built with our hands,” said the Moderator of the General Assembly, the Right Rev. G. H. McNeur, yesterday at the first Sabbath services at the new Presbyterian Church of St. David at Khyber Pass. There were large congregations at all the services yesterday at St. David’s. Adherents took a natural pride in their handsome new church, which is their memorial to soldiers who fell on the field of battle. Collections totalled £l5O, and £IOB was subscribed at Thursday’s service. When appealing to members of the congregation to give as liberally as their means permitted, the minister, the Rev. D. C. Hebron, expressed the hope that a total of £SOO would be in hand by the end of the week. A feature of the service was the choir’s singing of the anthem, “The Lord Is My Shepherd.” It was specially composed for the occasion by the organist, Mr. E. S. Harston. “It is a memorable day in any minister’s life when the congregation he serves dedicates a new church,” said Mr. Herron, at the evening service. “To have been minister of St. David’s when this stately and beautiful edifice was opened will probably be regarded by me to the end of my days as one of the outstanding events of my life.” Emphasising that the church had been dedicated as a soldiers’ memorial, Mr. Herron said: “This congregation, through the succeeding generations, will be forever linked with those all over the earth who struggle for the Christianising of international relationship^.”