HARVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5

HARVEST THANKSGIVING SERVICES.

AT MASTERTON CHURCHES

Harvest thanksgiving- services were held in St. Matthews Church yester-; day.: The in'te'iior of the building was tastefully decorated with flowers and greenery, which, together with an assortment of flowers and vegetables in season, made an,unique display. The fruit and vegetables are to be given to the sick and the poor of tie parish. Both the moniing and evening services were conducted. ■By the Rev. H. A. Walfce, vicar of,Eketahuna. The morning subject was 'bruits of the Spirit," and in the evening *au earnest address was given on the subject of the peMtion in the Lord's Prayer— "Givetfs This Day Our Daily Bread." In the evening -the choir sang the anthem J, •' '0 Lord, Hpjv Manifold 'Aire Thy Works;'' The Rev. Mr Wialke conducted har- , vest Thanksgiving services/ at To Raiigitijmau -yesterday afternoon. TJre gifts of.fruit »nd : vegetables whicli werVusM for dee&rating :. thg church \vere fcroughtlin- to the .Mai'-" tertpn Hospital. . At the Mastei*tbn; -Methodist Church yesterday, ; the Rev. C. H. Olds- conducted, iharvest' thanksgiving services. ,The church had been very v " prettily decorated inside by /the young ladies of the congregation. A considerable quantity of fruit ''< and vegetables which was used for decorating is to be 1 pTOseilted. to_ the Solway Home and the public hospital.; The preacher delivered an address in the, morning on verses 15 and-16 of -Psalm/ "The eye's ./of all.-. wait /' Upon .Thee,cand ...thou '■■'- them"/■"■ meat'^ Thine ■Hand, land*; satisfy thej desire : ; of every, living thing." • In/|he ; even- ■/■ ing; Mr Olds' subject shall we do then yith Jesua whiph;|s - called .Christ," dealing/with/'/ supply; of man's spiritual andman's.consequent obligation«">v Ap-" propmte anthems and hjinins were rendered by the choir iinfle* Mr S. H. Ralph. :(r ' ' '■