METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 26, 20 November 1930, Page 7

METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY.

The Lower Hutt Methodist, Sunday School is celebrating its 91st anniversary on Su^ay^ Koveiftibei; 30t;ti, in, King George Theatre. Bey. J. C. liOan, Presbyterian minister at> Petone, "will address the children in the morning, Rev. McDowell (Kilbirnie) in the afternoon/and Bey. Harold Sharp will be ■in the pulpit at the evening service. The children, assisted by members of tkeCflinrch Choir, are being trained <by that weU laiown conductor, Mr. Ernest Dawson, and tiieix singing will -be a special feature of each, service. Mr^ A. Ballantyne«is the pianist and there twill be an orchestra. • ; The choice of music has proved a happy one, .--the Lppems being expressive of the highest 'form of ibeauty-^-the beauty of spiritual things—and the settings enhancing their devotional note., Among -the numbers are Sir John Stainer^s "Whither Pilgrims a.T© you going1?" J- H. Mauncler's '^lowers from His Own garden/ "In the SUent Midnight," (A. M. Goodhart), and the anthem "Open the Gates of the Temple," with its exquisite soprano solo from Handel "I know that my Eedeemier liveth.";, Residents of the Hutt should not fail •to be present at this great festival of music. It is your one opportunity in the year to hear tlie children 's singing. and to show your appreciation of theii efforts in a practical manner by contraiTjuting to the funds of the Sunday I School. /