KNOX CHURCH JUBILEE

Evening Star, Issue 19406, 15 November 1926, Page 14

KNOX CHURCH JUBILEE

CELEBRATIONS CONTINUED There were large attendances at Knox Church yesterday, when the jubilee services were continued. In the morning the Rev. W. T. Todd conducted the first part of the worship, and spoke to the children from the words “ She hath done what she could.” Mr Todd, before he entered the ministry, was for many years the superintendent of the Sunday school. The Rev. Tulloch Yuille preached on ‘A Fruit-bearing Church,’ and urged the members of Knox Church, if they would be successful in praying for the church and the Knigdom, to have always a good life at tho back of their prayers. At the afternoon service there was an attendance of about 600 young people, when the Rev. W. T. Todd spoke on ‘The Ideal of Life and Service.’ Mr Duncan Wright led the singing, as he did fifty years ago. The Girl Guides formed a guard of honor outside the church for the young people to pass through on their way up from tho school. At a reunion of youth workers, held after the service, 180 past and present teachers were present at tea; and two hours were happily spent renewing old friendships. At the evening service the church was crowded. _ The Lion. G. M. Thomson gave a brief retrospect of the last fifty years, and showed how to-day differed from that period in such things as scientific achievement, the presence of hurry everywhere, the lack of family worship and of Bible knowledge. He urged the people to more prayer and to simplicity of religion, and expressed the hope that fifty years afterwards many of the young people would gather in the church to thank God for all the ways He had led them. The Rev. Tulloch Yuille preached on ‘The Responsibilities of a Great Church.’ A full choir augmented by past members, rendered fine music at both services under the direction of Mr W. Paget Gale, who was assisted in tho morning by Miss May Young. The morning soloists were Mrs J. A. Moore and Miss M. Campbell, and Mr Bert Rawlinson; and the evening soloists wore Miss Mabelle Esquilant and Miss Hope Hodges. The celebrations are to be continued to-morrow, when at a reunion social one of the speakers will be the Acting Prime Minister (the Hon. Downie Stewart), a deacon of the church, and a former pupil in the Sunday school.

jecting to anything savoring of compulsory arbitration. Mr Evan Williams stated to-night that ho only communicated to the Government the information he had received from the districts. He is further communicating with tho Government with a view to clearing up misunderstandings. CHAGRIN IN RUSSIA. LONDON, November 13. Tho Riga correspondent of ‘The Times ’ says that there is dismay in Russia at tho probability of a settlement of the British coal strike. M. Lozovsky, in an article in the Moscow papers, urges tho miners not to allow the Trade Union Council to interfere. Ho declares that the position is not so desperate as to warrant suicidal steps. Britain’s economic structure is shaken to the foundations by the loss of her foreign coal markets, and that it is madness to allow Messrs Pugh, Thomas, and Co. to min the situation while there was still a winning chance.