DR. TUDOR JONES'S CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 7

DR. TUDOR JONES'S CHURCH.

••■:';•;'■■•.•. -i\.--- —.''■'-. Vi V'",' , ',\ ■-",••:■- '''~.-: \ ; permony. r • •■•■ The foundation-stone of the new.Unitarian Free:/' Church; ■ Ingestre- Street, - '"will be laid to-mbrrow.'at 3.30 p.hi. by the Bev. Dr. Tudor Jones', :'.ih6) first' minister of the church. The Unitarian movement!in Wellington originated through. a;, risifc in 1904..0f ■ theßev. Charles Hargrove, representative of the. British'.arid Foreign Unitarian Association;! At the. end of'.March, 1906, Dr. Tudor Jones: reached Wellington as' representative of the same association; ■■ The success .of 'the-movement has; it ..is claimed,' been remarkable, -the Masonic Hall having jboen filled every Sunday, oven* ingj:; and large .attendances experienced at the winter, classes :jii : philosophy and-religion. •; v.. The,.efforts of Dr. and Mrs. Jones ; in 'obtaining' funds* for the new building have been satisfactory.' They have received large sums from friends ,-in ; England, andv the response in vWellingt'on: has been" good; Already the minister and his wife nave paid in'over £1500,. arid, have some hundreds more to como in. The new building'will be of Gothic design, built of briok:- In tho front {hero'willibo a library;and cloak-rooms. , The main - building- will seat -about-500 people, ; and/ ■<■:instead, df the'i ordinary'; pbwb; chairs, ■will be used. " At.; the ; back' of' the main building ; wiir be a""hall for Week-night purposes'/ and r for the ;Sundayj Sobobl, 'kitchenand other arrangements, The building ia to be oomploted r by the fiist Sunday la April;