WESLEYAN CHURCH ANNIVERSARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1188, 7 June 1884, Page 3

WESLEYAN CHURCH ANNIVERSARY.

The Temuka Wesleyan Church anniversary, of which we gave a short report in our last issue, passed off most successfully. At the concert there was a very l*rge attendanca, and it was one of the best entertainment? ever held in the hall. It was opened by the Rev. Mr Clark, of Geraldine, offering up prayer, after which the Rev. Mr Wills delivered a abort address on the advantages of music, and its good influences ,on people. He apologised for toe absence oa the Rev. D. Gordon, who had gone to

Dunedin, and ih® R®v, Mr Hamilton, who had a meeting of his own, (Mr Hamilton, however, attended later on,) The following sacred programma was then gone through : Jubilee song, • Prepare Us,’ bj the members of the Company ; solo, ‘ He wipes the tear,’ by the Rev. P. Wiles ; solo, ‘ Winter Story/Miss Brown; solo,‘Dream Faces,’ Mrs Holdgate ; Jubilee song, ‘ Mary and Martha,’ by the Company ; solo, ‘ Consider the Lilies/ by Miss Warrington ; solo, ‘ W here is Heaven ?’ by Mrs Rout (encored) ; Jabilee song, He’s the Lily of the Valley,’ by the Company. A Jubilee song, ‘ My ship is on the Ocean/ by the Company, opened the tecond part, and,was followed by the solos * Come to me/ by Mrs Holdgate ; ‘Ruth,’ Miss Brown ; ‘ Resignation.’ Mrs Rout (encored) ; Jubilee song, ‘ Hard trials,’ by the Company ; ‘ Oh Paradise’ Miss Warrington ; solo, ‘ Rest, where shall we rest ?’ Rev. Mr Wills, and the Jubilee song, ‘Oh Yes, Oh Yes/ by the Company. The singing on the whole was exceptionally good, but it would be rather invidious to mention names. Mrs Rout of course sang in that really artistic manner for which she is so wellknown, and was loudly encored. The Jubilee songs were the chief feature of the entertainment. They were culled from the songs of the Negro Jubilee Singers, who created such a sensation in England some time ago, and they have a freshness and a novelty about them that is quit® taking. The Company that sang them consisted of Misses Brown and Cant, the Rev. Mr Wills, Mr E. Brown, Mr Harrison and Master Storey. They appeared to have practised th®m well, and they sung excellently. At the close of th» entertainment the Rev. Mr Wills proposed a vote of thank* to the singers which w«s carried by acclamation. Mr Butler proposed, and Mr Thompson seconded a vote of thanks to the ladies who supplied the tea. The motion was carried by acclamation, Ihe cakes and other eatables were .then sold by ‘Dutch Auction/ Mr Jackson, Mayor ol Timaru, officiating as auctioneer, and were eagerly bought. This afforded a a great deal of amusement brought matters to a pl®asant termination, Mrs Hayhurst played the accompaniments to the jubilee songs excellently.