SUNDAY SERVICES

Evening Star, Issue 20980, 19 December 1931, Page 19

SUNDAY SERVICES

At First Church the Rev. W. Allen Stevely will preach in the morning f on ‘ Making Room for Christ,’ and in the evening on ‘ Christmas Customs.’ At the evening service Miss Margaret Howden will sing. ‘ 0 Thou That Tellest Good Tidings ’ (‘ Messiah’), and Miss Pearl Westland will be at the organ. Rev. D. C. Herron will conduct services in Knox Church. Christmas music will be sung by members of the junior choir in the morning and in the evening by the choir. Solos by Misses Darracott and Teviotdale. Christmas services will be held in St. Stephen’s Church, the preacher being the Rev. Thomas Miller. In the morning he will speak on ‘ His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful,’ and the evening subject will be ‘ Glad Tidings.’ Christmas services will be held at the Maori Hill Presbyterian Church, when the Rev. A. C. W. Standage will preach on ‘ The Dawn of a New Day ’ and ‘ Making Room for Christ.’ At the evening service Miss M. Campbell will sing ‘ I Know That My Redeemer Liveth,’ and after the service an organ recital of Christmas music will be given by Mr W. Paget Gale. A Christmas service of song will be given in the Green Island Presbyterian Church in the evening, at which the choir will render choruses from ‘The Messiah,’ interspersed with solos, carols, quartet, and trio. The soloists will be Mrs George Scott (contralto) and Mr G, C. Scott (tenor). The service will commence at 6.30. ... Christmas services will be held in Trinity Methodist Church, Stuart street, the Rev. H. E. Bellhouse preaching morning ( and evening. His evening subject will be ‘ The Leading of the Star.’ The choir will render the carols, ‘ The First Noel ’ and ‘ Listen, Lordings,’ Master Norman Farrell and Miss Phyllis West acting as soloists; and Mr B. C Bellhouse will sing the solo, ‘ The Star of Bethlehem.’ At the Methodist Central Mission, Octagon Hall, at 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., there will be Christmas services. The preacher will be the Rev. Leslie B. Neale. At the evening service an augmented choir will sing a choz’us from Ths Messiah** assisted by Messrs A. White, M. Kenward, and H. Christmas services will be conducted at Mornington Methodist Church by the Rev. James Richards. Appropriate music will be rendered morning and evening, and retiring offerings taken up in aid of the South Island Methodist Orphanage. At St. Kilda Methodist Church the Rev. Percy Paris will conduct Christmas services with appropriate hymns and music. In the morning Mr Paris will speak on God s gjtrn: A Babe,’ and in the evening his subject will be ‘ The Prophecy of the MangerCradle.’ , . , ~, . Christmas choral services will be held at Dundas Street Church. The Bible class choir (winners of B.C. contest) will sing carols and give solos in the -morning. Evening, church choir, special Christmas music, and solos by Miss Lang, Mr Lamb, Mr Leech, and Miss M'Kenzie. „,, . At Roslyn Methodist Church, following the evening service, a carol service will be given by an augmented choir. Rev. H. L. Blamires will conduct Christmas services at Cargill Road Methodist Church. The forenoon service will be for children. The evening topic is * The Enduring Name.’ Carols and anthems will be rendered. , , , , Rev. W. H. Greenslade will conduct morning and evening worship at St. Clair Methodist Church. ‘We Three Kings of Orient Are’ will be the evening subject. Christmas services will be held at the Salvation Army Fortress. Mrs (Adjutant) Tong will deliver the morning address. In the afternoon Sergeant-major Tong, of Palmerstou North, will be th© speaker. At the evening service Adjutant Tong will give the address on ‘ The Birth of Christ. _ At York Place Hall in the evening Mr A. Loudon’s subject will be ‘ The Dwelling Places of Christ.’ . First Church of Christ, Scientist, will hold services in :Allbell Chambers, Stuart street, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The subject will be ‘ls the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?’ . ‘ What Progress Have You Made? is the subject matter of an address to be delivered at the Spiritualist Church in the evening by an experienced observer. Christmas services will be conducted by Rev. B. S. Tuckwell in the Hanover Street Baptist Church. In the evening a large choir, under Mr H. P. Desmoulins, will render a number of Christmas carols. The ordinance of baptism will be administered at close of the service. Elliott’s Christmas cantata, The Life Divine,’ will be rendered by a choir of forty voices at the Cavershara Baptist Church in the evening, at 6.30. Principals: Soprano, Miss Florence Sumner, L.A.8.; contralto, Miss Helen Roy; tenor, Mr G. Crawford : bass, Mr W. Hilliker. Numbers from ‘ The Messiah ’ will also be contributed—' Comfort Ye,’ ‘ Every Valley,’ ‘For Behold Darkness,;’ ‘ The People That Walked in Darkness,’ ‘ He Shall Feed His Flock,’ and ‘ Come Unto Him.’ Services at the South Dunedin Baptist Church will be of a Christmas character. In the afternoon the Sunday school prizes will be presented, and in the evening a grand carol service will be held. The subject of a brief Christmas meditation in the evening will be ‘ The Love and the Gift.’ Preacher, Rev. Stanley Jenkin. The Rev. Albert Mead will conduct the services at the Moray Place Congregational Church. In the evening the choir will render Pughe-Evans’s ‘ Lead, Kindly Light,' and Mr Alfred Walmsley will sing two solos from the ‘ Messiah,’ * Comfort Ye My People’ and ‘Every Valley.’ . ' A Christmas choral service will bo held at the United Congregational Church in the evening, when the choir, hoy choristers, and the following principals will take part;— Mrs A. Matheson, Mrs D. Ewart, Miss Alice Campbell (recital), Miss May Drydon, and Mr Dudley Poole. The Rev. James M. Smeeth will speak briefly on ‘ Good Tidings.’ His morning subjects will be ‘ Father Christmas’- (for the children), and ‘Unto [Yoa « « i JJnto for .the adults*