METHODIST CHURCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 7

METHODIST CHURCH

KURIPUNI SUNDAY SCHOOL. ANNIVERSARY SERVICES. Fifty-nine years of Sunday Schoo! activity was celebrated yesterday in the Kuripuni Methodist Church, when three special services marked the occasion. Such a celebration is ever a stir to memory and the older member, of the Church found it easy to go back in thought through the years as they remembered the small beginnings of the Kuripuni Sunday School in that earlier day. A fine large choir of happy boys and girls found place on the raised platform and gave of their best in leading the special praise portions of the services. Their splendid singing was t: marked feature of the whole day and reflected the thorough training they had received from Mr W. Davies who conducted and trained them. The morning service was conductor by Mi' Ben Roberts. M.P.. who gave an interesting address based on the psychology of the child. The afternoon ser vice was fully choral and was under the genial chairmanship of Mr W White. Deputy Mayor. Special guests for lhe afternoon service were the children of the Whatman Home Choir wh< were heard with fullest appreciation in several numbers. The Tiny Tots o< the Sunday School were given a place of prominence in this service. Al night the Minister of the Circuit, the Rev Fred J. Parker, was in charge of the service and gave the children an interesting object talk on "Chains -- chains that bind us and chains we arc making—illustrating the talk with al ; manner of chains from lhe fragile daisy chain to the great steel chain. Mr Parker also gave a short address to tin adults on "The Imitative Faculty in the Child." Splendid attendances marked each o l ' the services and a very happy day resulted. The instrumental work was it’ the capable hands of Mrs H. Speight at the organ and Miss Valmai Davies at the piano. The celebrations are to brought to : close with a great demonstration this evening when a line programme will be presented and the annual distribution of prizes made.