MOTHERS’ DAY SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 3

MOTHERS’ DAY SERVICE

An unusual stvle of meeting is to be held at the Town Hall, Dunedin, on Sunday afternoon, May 8. It will take the form of a musical service, community singing forming a feature, while a united choir, under the baton of Mr H. J. Desmoulins, will render ‘ The Hallelujah Chorus ’ and 1 .Icrusa10111.’ Dr V. E. Galway will play the Town Hall organ. As the meeting is to be a “ Remember mothers’ meeting,” the Y.W.C.A. will supply buttonholes, and sympathisers arc requested to bring white and also coloured llowers for platform decoration. Tho speaker for tho occasion will he Mr Harry Dawson, the Australian interdenominational evangelist, who is now in New Zealand, and who has conducted several successful missions in Christchurch and Dunedin. His subject will bo ‘ Mother’s Cross,’ and tho offering to be taken up at the meeting will he in aid of unemployed distress. The Council of Christian Congregations will be represented by its president, the Rev. R. Ferguson Fish, who will occupy the chair, and local Christian workers will assist in the details connected with a large gathering. The missioner, Mr Dawson, is said to have commander’ largo audiences in Australia, and to ho a racy speaker, easily heard in the largest hall, having both the material and art to enthuse an audience. A further announcement of the Mothers’ Day meeting appears in the advertising columns.