ST. JAMES’S HAREWOOD

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30279, 4 November 1963, Page 15

ST. JAMES’S HAREWOOD

Celebration Of Centenary A. realistic vision was needed of whait faith demanded as persons congratulated themselves on the past, the Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren) told 120 guests attending the centennial high tea of St. James's Church, Harewood, on Saturday evening. The guests included visitors from all over Canterbury and the North Island. A centennial cake was out by Mrs D. E. C. Wooldridge, who has been associated with St. James’s Church for nearly 59 years. Other speakers at the tea included Mr C. Stanley, a descendant of one of the earliest families to settle in the district, who spoke pn early families in the church, the Rev. Canon A. C. T. Purchas, who spoke about former clergy, and Mr J. A. Sanderson, the present vicar’s warden, who spoke of the present-day church. The proposed new church to be built in the Armitage subdivision, Mr Sanderson said, was a task and a challenge to begin the next 100 years. A centennial Holy Communion service was celebrated by the Ven. H. M. Cocks, • vicar of Papanui, of which St. James’s is a subchurch, yesterday morning, and the celebrations concluded with .the centennial compiemoration service in the afternoon, at which the. preacher was the Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. W. A. Pyatt). Deen Pyatt said that while it was tempting to look back on the previous century as a "time of our own achievements” it was rather God who had “brought us to this place, and we must ask what He demands of us in thanks and service in the next century.”