THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT GORDON

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 304, 9 November 1883, Page 5

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT GORDON

»_ ' t : XO THK JBDITOB., Sib,-— The beavers believing that " Churchless" has' 1 fane to Jericho to grow his beard, will no doubt account for the pulpit in this edifice tbeing Occupied the other Sunday, by a vendor »f soft goods. ' If the Committee of Management would apply their vacant Sunday t» a Choral service — a performance of sacred > music -under, the. leadership of their precentor with his efficient choir —it wOuld Jbe greatly to edification;:, both from the refining influence of music, the inspiration of character by sacred song, and the provoking of one another to love and geod works— harmonizing and humanizing influencos not sufficienty cultivated,* j -ST« prior rehearsals would be necessary, and a prose reading of one ofthe songs of Isaiah, the Dirges of Jeremiah, or a parable of Our. Lord, would give intervals. I hope the ■ Committee are'not above taking the suggestion from a stranger. ' ; I was to remark that. theMrmon preached by the minister there last Sabbath could not. ;have been excelled in matter and composi--1 tiofl -Htfi-. day in ; New Zeailindi ' The . r^gul'aif ' at'tenders who were absent missed a Spiritual' arid intellectual discourse of great merit; a**hply.; .demonstrating ; -the .expediency pf ra reg*4ftt;';pifirgy: .CaQd. the »ban«?rtnment;.of se^tarianisna. — I am, etc,, , Chbysoiitb. . I