CHURCH SERVICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 4

CHURCH SERVICES

The harvest festival thanksgiving services at the Salvation Army tomorrow will be conducted by Major and Mrs Avenell, from Wellington. The Major will give topical addresses in each service during the day. In the afternoon the children will be featured in a tableau of a harvest scene, and they will also present their gifts of fruit, etc., on the altar during the service. A special thanksgiving service will be held at 6.30 p.m. At 7.45 a great gospel service will be held in Queen Street, as was done last Sunday night, and was attended by a splendid gathering of the public. All are heartily invited to join in with the Army in this special effort in' public witness for Christ. Old Gospel songs will be sung, and requests will be responded to. By special request, Kenneth Mahaffie, Masterton’s youngest cornetist, will play a cornet solo, “The Stranger of Galilee,” at this service. Services appropriate for the first Sunday in Lent will be held by the Church of England tomorrow. The Holy Communion will be celebrated at St Matthew’s at 8 a.m., at Kuripuni and Upper Plain at 9 a.m. The vicar, the Rev E. J. Rich, will be the preacher morning and evening at St Matthew’s, and the Rev T. V. Pearson at Kuripuni in the evening. There has been keen interest in the special addresses being given in the Ruhamah Gospel Hall, Queen Street, where Mr Wesley E. Richards, of Palmerston North, has been speaking on the fulfilment of Bible prophecy, particularly in our day. These addresses are being continued as advertised, and a warm invitation to attend is extended to all who are in any way interested to know what the Bible has to say concerning the times in which we live. The services at the Masterton Methodist Church on Sunday will be conducted by the Rev Frederick J. Parker. At the morning service Mr Parker will give some account of the spiritual work of the annual conference just concluded i.n Christchurch, and in the evening he will deal with the message of the president of the Conference. At Kuripuni, Pastor C. H. Skuse will be the preacher. Special harvest services will be held at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. These will be the last services at which Pastor C. H. Skuse will be preaching, as he leaves for Trinity College, Auckland, next week.