CHURCH SERVICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1938, Page 6

CHURCH SERVICES

On Sunday evening, at Knox Church, the choir will render special music appropriate to the Christmas season. This will include the prophetic chorus from Handel’s “Messiah,” “And the Glory of the Lord,” Barnby’s beautiful setting of the carol, “Like Silver Lamps,” a difficult modern work of Tertius Noble’s, “The Shepherds,” and Handel’s immortal “Hallelujah Chorus.” The organ voluntaries are “Noel Ecossais” and “Offertoire on Two Christmas Themes,” both by Guilmant.

Tomorrow, at 8 a.m.. the Holy Communion will be celebrated at St Matthew’s Church. At 11 a.m. the vicar will preach on “Divine Justice,” and at 7 p.m. there will be Christmas carols and an address on “Moral Safety— What of the Child?” At 2.30 p.m. the annual Sunday School prize-giving will be held in the Parish Hall, and at Lansdowne at 9.30 a.m. The services at other centres will all be held at the usual hours.

The subject for discussion at the Ruhamah Gospel Hall tomorrow evening will be “A King’s Decision Regarding Christ.”

At the Lansdowne Church at 11 a.m. tomorrow, a special musical service will be held. The choir will render a number of Christmas carols. Arrangements have been made for a special Christmas service of song to be held in the Masterton Park at 7 a.m. tomorrow. The service will be conducted by the Bible Classes of Masterton. Residents are invited to be present at the service and to join in the singing of favourite carols. The service will not be a prolonged one. and in the event of wet weather will be held in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Dixon Street,