SUNDAY SERVICES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 27 March 1926, Page 6

SUNDAY SERVICES.

The services at tn© Hastings Baptist Church to-morrow will be conducted by Rev. T, Keith Ewen, whose morning topic will be “The True Vine and the Branches,” and in the evening “The Taunted Saviour.’’ He will also preach at Pukabu hi the afternoon. The subject of tho address at thc Orange Hall on Sunday night will i “Th© Uoventants made to the Fathers of Israel and what their fulfilment involves.” There is no collection. At St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church the morning service will be conducted bv Mr. D. N. Mac Diarmid, representative or the Sudan United -Mission. Evening service at 7 o’clock, a choral service. The choir will render the “Ciucifixion”; soloists, Messrs. Ferbrache and Compton. On Monday evening Mr. Mac Diarmid will give an illustiated lecture on mission work in the Central Sudan, in St. Andrew’s School Hall at 7.3 U. A collection for missions is requested. Harvest thanksgiving services will he held at thc Salvation Army to-morrow, which will be conducted by Brigadier Saunders of Wellington, who will be assisted by Captain Blincoe and McKinnon, also ten cadets from Wellington. The Rev F. Copeland will be tho preacher at Wesley Church, Hastings, to-morrow. The morning topic will be “The Triumphal Entry,” and the evening subject: “A Perplexed Judge.” Service will bu held at Whakatu at 2.30 p.m. Jo-morrow evening at 7 o’clock “The Crucifixion’’ will be rendered by St. Andrew’s Choir with Mr. Ferbrache and Air. L. Compton as soloists. Io those familiar with the work no exhortation to hear it is needed, but those wiio have never heard it are assured that .'this is undoubtedly Stainer’s masterpiece. From the opening agony “Could ye not watch with Ale one brief hour” to the most dramatic interpretation of Christ’s death on the Cross, every bar is extraordinarily expressive oi each stage of the Crucifixion, and is replete with heartsearching melodies, cadences, and recitations. Perhaps the most striking numbers are the stately processional to Calvary with its reiterated demand to “fling wide the gates”—the exquisite unaccompanied quartette “God so loved the world,” and the majestic and pleading “appeal of the crucified.” The work is interspersed with five hymns for the congregation to sing and leafelets containing all the words will be provided. atteirLion to the “strangers” and lie should Have recognised them. When ne iius leaving he said he lioped he wouid get a dividend out oi them “wnen mey were killed. ’ In the case of the wool. Woon was not the owner oi stock and should not be the owner oi the wool. Certain wool, which was to have been sent to Weaver’s last January, never arrived and, a tew days later, Woon was selling wool similar to that left in the Mied. Referring to the cattie, he said mat it iia-d been proved there was a shortage on the properties. It was no part oi Woon s duty to earmark grown cattle and evidence was given mat lie had put the pieces removed Horn the ears on the ground and covered them with earth with his foot. His Worship interrupted Detective l uzgibbon, saying that he was satisfied on that. Hid TTorship said the Court was not to decide on the man s guilt. He it*. \ lewed the facts and said he consideri ed that a case had been established. I In answer to the usual questions I accused said he had nothing to say I and that he reserved his defence and i lie pleaded not guilty to all the i charges. j Accused was commitieed lor trial to I the Supreme Court sittings at Napier j mi J uue Sth, on all the charges heard. ■ bail being allowed himseTT in £2OO j I md tw<) sure Tie-. of £lOO each.