SUNDAY SERVICES

Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 10

SUNDAY SERVICES

At First Church the Rev. W. Allen Stevely will preach in the morning on ‘ The Spirit of Anzac,' and in the evening the preacher will be the J Rev. D. Calder, of Wellington. At the evening service there will be a parade of members of the Returned Soldiers’ Association and special music will be sung, the anthem being ‘ The Supreme Sacrifice ’ and the tenor solo ‘Be Thou Faithful Unto Death.’ Dr Galway will be at the organ. . • Services on Anzac Sunday in Knox Church will be conducted by Rev. D. Calder, 8.A., of Wellington, in the morning, and Rev. J. D.'Smith, B ; A., in the evening. The evening subject will be ‘ Sacrifice. Desecrated or Consecrated.’ Solo, * Th 6 Holy City,’ Miss Lucy MTntosh. •Anthem, ‘Crossing the Bar.’ Solo, ‘ln Flandets Field,’ Miss Jean M'Lay. ‘ Things Angels Desire to Look Into * will be the subject in St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church at the morning service, and ‘The Spirit of Power, Love, and of Sanity will be the subject :in the evening. The Rev. Thomas Miller will be the preacher at both services. . Anzac services will be held at the Maori Hill Presbyterian Church. Rev. A. C. W. Standage will preach, and special music will he rendered by the choir. The Rev. 0. H. Olds will conduct Anzac services at Trinity Church, preaching in the morning on ‘ The Assurance of Peace and in the evening on ‘ The Secret of World Conquest.’ In the evening Mr A. J. Jones will sing ‘ Christ in Flanders,* and Mr R. Duerdon ‘Jesus Of Nazareth, King.’ The anthem will be ‘Across the Bar’ (Samp-. S °The services at the Methodist Central Mission will be conducted in the morning by the Rev. B. M. Tasker, and in the evening a special Anzac .service will be held, when Mr Neale will speak on ‘Matched With This Hour,’ and the men of the military units will parade. The soloist at this service will be Mr G. M’Kay. Anzac Day is being observed at the Methodist Church, St. Kilda. Suitable hymns will be sung, and appropriate addresses will be given by Rev. T. Skuse. The Rev. J. Ewen Simpson will conduct the services at the Hanover Street Baptist Church, speaking in the morning on The Song of the Well ’ and in the evening on • The Christian and His Country,’ In the evening the anthems will be ‘Jerusalem and ‘ Into the Woods My Master Went. The services at North-east Valley Baptist Church are to be conducted by the Rev. James K. Reid, his subjects being ‘ The Eleventh Commandment ’ and An Astounding Discovery.’ Appropriate music will be rendered by the choir. Visitors are welcomed. . - An Anzac remembrance service will be held at the Caversham Baptist Church at 6.30 p.m. Returned soldiers and their relatives are invited to attend- The preacher is the Rev. R. L. Fursdon. An anthem, ‘I Am He That Liveth,’ will be rendered by the choir. The service will close with the sounding of the ‘ Last Post ’ and the singing of the National Anthem. Both services of divine, worship at Moray Place Congregational Church will be con-' ducted by the minister. At the morning Anzac service the Imperial Ex-servicemen will attend, and the choir will sing the anthems ‘ O Valiant Hearts ’ and ‘Jerusalem’ (Parry). The. evening subject will be ‘ Courage—The Lovely .Virtue,’ and the anthem ‘ What Are These?’ (Stainer). Continuing with the series of addresses on true religion, the Rev. C. G. Hedley Bycroft will speak on ‘ A Religion of Love ’ at the United Congregational Church, Albany street, to-morrow morning. The evening will take the form of an Anzac service, and tlie subject will be ‘ Will You Volunteer?’ Miss Ruth Sell is the soloist. At the. Salvation Army Adjutant and Mrs Victor Dick will conduct Anzac remembrance services. 11 a.m., subject, ‘ A Studied Slight.’ 7 p.m., ‘ Deeds not Lost.’ At the evening service a cenotaph will be . erected for floral tributes./ Songster selection, ‘ A Prayer for Peace ’; leader, Bro. Win. Bayliss. Band, anthem, ‘Jerusalem, My Happy Home’; leader, Bandmaster A. Millard. Young people’s meeting 10.15 a.m. and 2.15 p.m., reopening Young Women’s Legion and Social Club. Y.P.S.M. Sister Mrs Lemin. At the Theosophic.il Society there will be an address by Miss 0. Dalziel on a subject suitable for Anzac Day—viz., ‘ The Law of Sacrifice.’

Mr J. M. M'Ewan’s subject at the Spiritualist Church to-morrow evening will be ‘ The Warrior.’ On Monday at 8 o’clock the Healing Centre will meet.

At the Greater World Christian Spiritual Mission an Anzac service will be held, and the subject, chosen by the Rev. G. Brooks is 1 They Are Not Dead.’