CHURCH MEETINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 503, 10 May 1909, Page 5

CHURCH MEETINGS.

:MISS. ADA■',• WARD'S MISSION.. ;-, At, the Salvation Army Citadel yesterday Miss Ada Ward began her evangelistic mission'- in Wellington .with a prayer meeting, 'at : .which sho delivered a short address., in' tho evening, 'tho 'citadel ' was crowded-to the doors with an audience fully two-thirds of,whom wercsaid to bo strangers to the building.' Miss who is- a very quiet .| and impressive speaker, with clear enunciation and th'o power, of telling a story 1 vividly without I undue ■< emphasis or.'. exaggeration, took as her text the seven last -sayings of Jesus Christ.^, Sho told, in simple and. impressive language, the Btory of the Crucifixion, and closed her address,: with: a personal appeal to her hearers.';' There -.was little in the sermon of direct reference.' to her own story, though/she did- remind 1 her audience ' that the step she 1 , had ..taken in severing herself from,the life of the stage ■■ proved low earnestly.she herself believed the message whioh she felt it was her duty .to deliver to them. ' ! .. ,':_,;;;'-.-''.:'■.;..'..; v.-'-; , COTOTENAY PLACE CHTJBCH. '■"•':■ Tho- anniversary services ,of .the Courtdiiay Place Congregational Church were', attended by large congregations yesterday. ..Tie Rev.Alfred Hodge, of Masterton, preached both inLthe morning and evening.'' special singing of tho' young people was" a'fea'ture lot the services. . .:•■' ' ', I: \' ']'■•'"{' '.•'.*