ORDINATION SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 19583, 15 June 1927, Page 10

ORDINATION SERVICE

On Sunday morning tho Bishop of Dunedin held an ordination service in St. Paul’s Cathedral, at which the Rev. j. W. Foster, curnto to Archdeacon Russell, of Onmnru, was ordained priest. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Canon Nevill. taking his-text from Ezekiel xxxiv., 16. He referred to the office of the priesthood, which combined the spiritual ideal with the everyday one in the work of the pricstlv office. They had to live, often a lonely spiritual life, in an atmosphere ■'of materialism, to reconcile other people’s quarrels, and to avoid quarrels themselves. Often they had to deal with people broken by the struggle of life, by personal sorrow or by bad surroundings. In their visits to the sick they would find not merely sick bodies but sick minds as well 1 incapable of taking a brave oi healthy view of life. Nothing but a conse-1 crated life was able to meet such difficulties as these. ' After the sermon Canon Novill; as examining chaplain to the Bishop, presented Mr Foster. The litany was said , by the Rev. C. W. H assail, followed b'v the euebarist, the Bishop being the celebrant. The Rev. V. G. Bryan King acted as chaplain to the Bishop, 1 and the Epistle was read by the Rev. E. B. Wethey, and the Gospel by Dr Holloway. At the ordination those who assisted tho Bishop at the laying on of hands were the Rev. Canon Nevill. Dr Holloway, Rev. E. B. Wethey, Rev. V. G. Bryan King, and the Rev. G. E. Moreton (mission chaplain to tho Bishop). Dir E. Hoy wood. F. presided at the organ, and the music was appropriate. Mr H. G. West acted as sacristan at the altar.