HOLY TRINITY, DEVONPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8, 10 January 1905, Page 3

HOLY TRINITY, DEVONPORT.

INSTITUTION OF THE NEW VICAR, j | Tbe Rev. Trevor Evershed. MA, who arrived from England on Sunday, was (instituted into the vicarate of Holy Trin- | ity, Devonport, last night by the "Bishop |of Auckland. The church was well filled, the congregation including a large numiber of parishioners of St. Sepulchre's, i where the new vicar worked as curate before he left for England to take up work ill the parish of St. Mary's, Brighton. The well-i—own ceremony of institution was impressively performed by Bishop Neligan, while the first lesson was read by the Rev. W. E. Gillam, tbe second by the Rev. G. A. Carver, the 'letters testimonial by Archdeacon Colder, the notice of nomination by Canon MacMurray (tbe chairman of the Board of Nomination), and the prayers by the Rev. H. A. Hawkins, cither clergymen present were tlie Revs. Mark Sutton (Bishop's chaplain), Vey. H. A. Favell, P. Cleary, F. Latter, and E. Rice. Bishop Neligan gave a short address from 1 The-alonians v. 12, 13, "We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you: and esteem jthem very highly in love for their work's [sake, and be at peace among yourselves." No priest, said His Lordship, could win 'the respect of hi.* people except upon the two grounds mentioned by the apostle, the ground of work, and the belief that he was called to do it. "A house-going parson made a church-going peopled' and though a man who did not visit them j might be a Demosthenes in the pulpit, or a Cicero, he would not win his people: a man might be a mast learned theologian, but they might not respect, him as a parish priest. And what was the laity to do ? They must p-ivc the credit credit for the best motive, and be at peace among themselves. The accursed thing which i would destroy parish life everywhere j where it was allowed to grow was gossip, criticism, and want of prayer. 111-feel-ing in that parish had died down, and he believed that the Rev. Trevor Evershed came to a parish that was un- I equalled in the diocese for a body of lay- ' men who had tried, under sacrifice and j sore trial, to exhibit in their own lives | the brotherhood in the Church of God to | the laity. The call wafted across the | seas to a man who had apparently done his colonial work was a deeply respon- I siblc one, and the congregation would receive their new vicar in the spirit of love, as he received them. He would be a faithful priest: God forbid that he ' should be popular, but he could be loved. The service was choral, the special i hymns sung being the processional "On- | ward. Christian Soldiers,'' '"Come. Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire," "We Love i the Place. O God." and "O Thou Who -Mnkest Souls to Shine." The anthem, I "How Lovely Are the Messengers" (from { "St. Paul") was sung by t.he choir, who also rendered the Te Denm after the I Benediction. Mr K. Phillips being the ! organist, and Mr Alf. Bart ley conductor | of choir.