MOST SACRED FEAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 5

MOST SACRED FEAST

GOOD FRIDAY IN CHURCHES SPECIAL SERVICES HELD Good Friday is observed by many as the most sacred feast in the Christian year, and this was exemplified by the large attendances at the city churches yesterday. At St. Mary’s Cathedral and many other Anglican churches special services were held in the afternoon in commemoration of the three hours’ darkness after the Crucifixion. The evening service, which was broadcast, was conducted by the Rev. G. C. Cruickshank. At St. Paul’s, services similar to those at St. Mary’s were held, with the addition of a lantern lecture on “Palestine” by the Rev. C. A. B. Watson. A service illustrated by lantern slides was also held at St. Matthew’s. Easter’s significance was the subject taken by the Rev. Ivo E. Bartram at St. David’s Presbyterian Church. A similar service was held at Stephen’s, Ponsonby. The three services at St. Patrick’s Cathedral attracted large congregations. The Mass of the Presanctified was celebrated by Bishop Liston in the morning. Father McKeefrey officiate* as deacon, Father Brown as sub-deaci/.i and the Rev. Dr. Buxton as master of ceremonies. The Stations of the Cross were held during the afternoon, and in the evening Father Mansfield preached a sermon on “The Passion.” The services at the Pitt Street Methodist Church were mainly choral, an augmented choir giving “Olivet to Calvary” in the evening. Three services were conducted at the main Salvation Army Barracks by Colonel and Mrs. Toomer. The Rev. J. "W. Kemp conducted a special noon service at the Baptist Tabernacle. A large number of meetings, including the Young Peoples’ Missionary Conference at the Beresford Street Congregational Church, are being held during the week-end. Apart from a bi-annual Christian convention held in Scots’ Hall, the meetings are all beingheld in the country.