INTERCESSION SERVICES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 430, 9 August 1915, Page 3

INTERCESSION SERVICES

AT NAPIER Special intercession services were held yesterday in the various churches at Napier. Among the subjects preached upon were: “The power of national penitence and prayer” (Rev. Canon Mayne, at Napier (athedrai): "The nian will nut rest until he has finished the tiling” (Rev. J. A. Asher, at St. Paul’s); "A parable from the front (Rev. E. Evan*, at Baptist Church); ’The sufferings of this present time -not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us” (Canon Take, at St. Angus line's): ‘"After a year of war —the Cross is still standing’’ (Rev. A. Hodge, at Congregational Church). AT HASTINGS. Special services of intercession were heal at the Sacred Heart Church. Hastings, vestenlay morning and evening, the services being •>f a very impressive character. The choir lendered appropriate hymns for 1 he occ.tsii>n. There was a large congregation al St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church yesterday morning, when an intercession service was held, the Rev. IL Waugli ofliciat inn. The elders took part Hi prayer and appropriate hymns sung.

At. St. Matthew's t hui'cb. at s and I I a.in. special memorial services were held for the fallen and wounded in Ihe war. The latter part of the ••veiling service was devoted to inieri ession, appropriate hymns being sung I>y the choir. The Rev. •J. B. lbmfelelnirst preached nil in spiling sermon on "God Save the King.” There was large congregations at all tbe services. The inl ci cession services al the Baptist Cliurch held yesterday were hugely ai tended. The morning service was conducted by Mr. IL E. Barley and the evening by Mr. King. Special hymns were snug on both occasions.

Services of an ini••recssory nature were held at the Methodist Church yesterday, being conducted in tli‘‘ inoi'jiiig and evening respectively by liie Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, and Mr. V. . IL Herd. At the morning service 1 he congregat ion which filled the capacious church. was led by the pastor in a prayer of intercession. As .-ach sulijeet for inlerces sion vas annoiime'l it was followed by a brief interval for silent petition by lie' worshippers. Mr. Pratt di, coursed upon "The Reeoiieiliat ion of the Races” and after speaking of racial antagonisms and the attempts to al ;:y them showed that the one solution of the problem lay in the fashioning of a new race having the crios of (’liiisl as the ideal < f life and the love of < hrist a* its driving for.-.-.