CHURCH SERVICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 7

CHURCH SERVICES

The Holy Communion will be celebrated at St. Matthew’s Church, Masterton, tomorrow, at 8 a.m. The annual Palm Sunday service with children’s Procession of Palms will be held at 11 a.m. In the evening, the choir will render a musical service of Passion Music. Services will be held, at Kuripuni in the evening and Taueru in the afternoon. Special meetings will be held at the Salvation Army Citadel on Sunday. The services will be led by Brigadier Powick, who has held many important positions in the army. Captain Berry will also be a speaker. The captain is' matron of the Kensington Street Hospital, Wellington, and is well known in nursing circles in New Zealand. Captain Coldstien will also assist. Special addresses will be given by the visitors. A feature of the Palm Sunday services at St. Matthew’s Church tomorrow will be the music. In the morning the choir will render, “The March to Calvary," by Maunder, and in the evening a selection of Passion music appropriate to the occasion will be rendered. including a duet and quartette. Those taking part will include Mesdames Moss and Burke, Miss Rose Robinson and Messrs. L. Dilnot Wales and | Frank Thornton. The choir will be under the direction of Mr. Wm. C. Mann, with Mr. A. Miller Hope at the organ. The services at Knox Church. Masterton. tomorrow, will be conducted by the Rev. John Davie. Special music appropriate to the season will be rendered on Sunday evening. An anthem. “The Strife is o'er." by Melchior Vulpius. dates back to the early 17th century; another, “I Sing the Cross." is an adaptation of a well-known Irish folk tune which is ranked among musicians as one of the very finest in existence. The solo. "There is a Green Hill," by Gounod, is included, and the chief item is Stainers "The Story of the Cross." This work, whose simple, devotional character cannot fail to .make a deep appeal, has never before been performed in Masterton —possibly not in New Zealand. The organ voluntaries are Parry's “Prelude on the tune Rockingham" and the "Prayer" from Boellmann’s Suite Gothique . Tomorrow morning, at 11 o'clock, at the Y.M.C.A.. the Baptist Fellowship Service will be conducted by representatives of the Wellington Young Men's Baptist Bible Class Union. The Sunday School and Bible Class will meet at 10 a.m., to which scholars not attending anv other Sunday school are invited. The services at the Methodist Church tomorrow will be conducted by the Rev. H. S. Kings and Mr C. Trim. The '■object at the morning service will be “The Challenge of the Cross.” Mr Trim, of Eketahuna. will preach in the evening. There will be a service at IWangaehu at 2 p.m. The evening serIvice at Kuripuni will be a sacramental one conducted by Mr Kings,