NEW METHODIST CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 205, 31 August 1925, Page 9

NEW METHODIST CHURCH.

FIRST SERVICES AT VAUSHALL. The first services in connection with the new Uauxhall Methodist Church, Devonport, were held yesterday, when larrre congregations assembled at the children’s service in the afternoon, and at night there were about 70 worshippers present. The church is built of rough-east, and is a well-designed, sub-stantially-btiilt edifice. It has been erected entirely by voluntary labour and will not be absolutely finished for another three weeks. There are now three Methodist Churches in Devonport Borough, vim, Stanley Bay Churc-h, the main church in Church Street, and now the new one at VanxhaiL

[ The official opening and dedication ! —ill take place on the last Sunday in ; September. The Rev. J. Ernest. Parsons 1 officiated at the services yesterday, and congratulated the people oi the district | for'having such a beautiful building to worship in. He had been connected with many churches in the Old Band and in this "country, but he had never preached in a more beautiful little church. A few months ago the thought oi a new church was only an idea, bat they had graved about it, and now the children esneciaibr had a place in which to study the Bible. It was wonderful how they had been helped to build the place: one builder did so much, and another builder did another thing, and ail in their spare -rime, and now very little remained to be dope. On Saturday men had worked all dav to get the place in order for their —.“iv, ,7in soon the grounds tDou, the church would be tastefully laid out. On Saturdav he had received a gift of £SO to build a pulpit asd provide a‘ sacrament table and chairs by a resident who wished to do something for the church, and that had been the spirit all through. The rev. gentleman then preached an eloquent sermon, basing his remarks on Hebrews, xili.. S, showing the unchangeable nature of Christ.