CANON GRANT COWEN.
ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION.
Preaching at- St. Matthew's Church yesterday, Trinity Sunday, Canon Grant Cowen said that on Trinity Sunday -25 vears ago he was ordained a minister "of Goddn St. Paul's Cathedral by the present Bishop of' London. There \vererJ3o ministers ordained that day, and the same lesson, from Isaiah, was read-as had been read in St. Matthew's yesterday. It included the passage: "Our. trashy possessions and accomplishments, our earthly honours, which we prize so much and strive so. strenuously for, become as dust in the balance compared with our duty to God and to our neighbour." Canon Grant Cowen said that Ire knew that the'prayer in the hearts of the 30 young men was that their lips might* be touched with the living coal froim.God's altar and that they might go out all over the world to preach the Gospel and save souls for God.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 16 June 1930, Page 5
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