KENT TERRACE CHURCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 11

KENT TERRACE CHURCH

JUBILEE SERVICES

SOCIAL TONIGHT

The enthusiasm that has been displayed by the congregation of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church during the fifty years cf its vigorous life has never been greater than it was yesterday when special jubilee services were held by the minister, the Key. W. ( Gilmour, and a former minister, the Eev. James Baird, who came from Timaru for the celebrations. Mr. Baird - conducted, the morning and evening , services, and Mr. Gilmour gave an ad- . dress during the afternoon, when a special jubilee tea was held. There was a full attendance on each occasion. The celebrations will be completed with a jubilee social tonight. , Approximately 150 past and present Sunday School teachers and - Bible ' Class leaders attended the jubilee tea, over which Mr. C. S. Falconer presided. Speeches \yere made by Mr, Matthew Barr, a foundation member of the congregation : who came from Hastings for the jubilee, Mr. and Mrs. Baird, Mr. W. Appletoti, arid others; A jubilee cake with fifty candles, the gift of Mrs. J. CarsweU,. wasflighted by Mrs.Gilmourand later extinguished by Mr. Baird and Mr, Gilmpur. The address for the afternoon by Mr." Gilmour was1 "Making a Good Beginning?' Recognition of the work of;. Several members of the congregation was made in >a pleasing, manner,' bouquets being given to Miss Sommerville^ the first pupil to attend the- Sunday School, Miss Janes and Miss Forsytn, who have given twenty-five years continuous service to the Sunday School, and Mesdames C. S. Falconer and Baird, former Bible Class leaders. . A bouquet was also sent from the ; gathering to the Rev. T. Fielden Taylor, Anglican City Missioner, who is at present ill, in hospital: ~.: . ■■■ n . Speaking from Genesis 31, 48-49, "This Heap is a Witness Between Thee and Me," at the evening service, Mr. Baird- said that time was memory s hour for them in a twofold sense. The observance of the" Lord's memorial were the golden hours of church history, and nothing could be more fitting than to look back over the way. they had travelled. - "We should not,.: have much difficulty after fifty years of congregational fellowship," he said, "in finding infinite material-for erecting a permanent memorial which should be to the glory of God and the honour of mankind. Let us then gather the stones- for this memorial. The first two stones relate to the signs or, the true church. The ministry of the late Dr. Kennedy Elliott; of; blessed memory, gave to this church a distinctive tone among the churches. The next stone is the communion of saints. Here tender memories come to us, dear forms rise before our eyes today and, dear faces look at us out of the past. The Church above and the Church be; ; neath are one, and in that love eternal , the; veil is taken off our hearts and ; we are united with the saints in heaven , as well as on earth. . ; - •; "The third stone is, the Word of God; The Word constitutes the Church and > the Church is the creation of the Word of Almighty God. So today in thank-, ful memory and humility we .pay ; homage to God for memory's divinely religious services and lor prayers prophetic finger that points the way to heaven and to peace,"