NEW LYNN ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 10

NEW LYNN ANGLICAN CHURCH.

FOUNDATION STONE LAID. ARCHBISHOP AVEELLL'S ADDRESS. . The ceremony of laying the foundation stone ot the Church of St. Thomas at Xew Lynn, took place yesterday afternoon i* the presence of a good gathering of those interested. The building is to be of briek, situated in Islington Avenue, on a site adjoining the old church. The nave is to be 54 feet in length and "24 feet in width. There will be a chancel 19 feet by 21 feet, and a vestry 10 feet by 12. The plans also provide for a porch and a square tower 26 feet high. The roof of the church will be of tile?. jSo tar the parishioners have contributed : £750 towards the cost of the bnildin?, I for which the contract price is £18ia. The offertory at the ceremony yesterday afternoon amounted to £113. Archbishop Avuriil's message to the (parishioners of New Lynn was: "Go forI ward with great principles of taiw, [courage and peiscverencc in your heart?, ifor without these nothing cau be acconi-'nli.-h<v)." Pγ. A>o! ill based his remark? on the words of King David to his son. "Be strong and of go o,l / 0 "' age; dread not, nor bo dismayed." H* Said that, in chinch building, they teemed |to be passing out of the wooden stage, I for which he" was glad, as it was a witness of the permanence of faith, permajience of religion, and permanence ol I character. Churches should not be built i merely from the utilitarian point ot ! view." That was why the cathedrals and I parish churches of the Old World were such noble edifice*. They had been built .■is the best pr.-sihlo ortVrin? to God. U> ■ ■Kkiii- (io.l's i.le.-ms on the house bein? ierected to His glory the parishioner* •were aho pk-dgin'sr themselves to carry ;the work to a issue. It ** s no good having progress without charlacter. on which all true progress was based. T'n.- only true foundation war ! thnt of luvo and sacririce. Man needed r.od, and in bj;iidi:i? a church they were ■doing something H-γ «";.vl and somethin e for tlifir own characters. ■ The Archbishop f-ounn-nded the wort jdone by t!i..- %i'-ar. l.'ev. Harold R. 'and ooncraiulatpd h\m upon the 'of his efforts in connection with getta r a now chiirrli built.