SUNRISE SERVICE
Broadcast on Easter Sunday NTENSE interest is being manifested [= the Easter Sunrise Service to be held on Mount Victoria, Wellington, on Easter Sunday, March 24. Those attended last year’s Service have recalled its beautiful simplicity and the impressive sight presented by the thousands who gathered about the Cross on the hilltop. This year’s Service will be presided over by the Controller of the Commercial Broadcasting Service (Uncle Scrim) and the clergy taking part will be the Rev. H. C. Edridge (Baptist), the Rev. Dr. J. Gibson Inkster (Presbyterian), Captain Elliott Major (Salvation Army), the Rev. Percy Paris (Methodist), and the Rev. Harry Squires (Anglican). The singing of the hymns will again be led by a combined choir under the conductorship of H. Temple White, and the choir will render the " Hallelujah Chorus." The combined bands of the Wellington Boys’ Institute and the Salva‘tion Army will accompany the singing. It has been ascertained that the sun will rise from behind the eastern hills at 6.27a.m., and the beginning of the Service has therefore been fixed for 6.15a.m., the public being invited to gather shortly after 6 a.m. The big white Cross illuminated at night will again be associated with the Service. Towering above the city and standing out clearly against the darkness of the night, it conduces to a thoughtful appreciation of the significance of Easter. To convey the public to the Service, special bus services have been arranged by courtesy of the Tramway and Railway authorities. The details of these will be broadcast frequently by 2ZB on the day before the Service. The Traffic Department has made special arrangements for the parking of cars. This year, with many nations of the world engaged in war, the story of the Risen Christ assumes a new significance, Drawing aside for a brief period from the more material business of life, the Commercial Broadcasting Service in all humility dedicates this Service to the people of New Zealand and invites them to attend it, or to tune in to the network broadcast.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 46
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340SUNRISE SERVICE New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 46
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