BAPTIST CHURCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8

BAPTIST CHURCH.

SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY. In spite of very bad weather good congregations assembled in the Baptist Church yesterday for the celebration of the Sunday School anniversary. The special preacher for the day was the Rev. E. N. Goring, of Wellington, President of the Central Auxiliary or the Baptist Union. Morning and afternoon addresses were specially for the children. In the morning Air Goring spoke on the importance and usefulness ot those in humble life, illustrated by a frying-pan, while in the afternoon, the children were interested in a big heart in which certain animals, representing various vices, were found, but which disappeared when Christ was allowed to enter. At night the preacher addressed the adults on King David s lament for Absalom (2 Samuel 18 :32.33). The sermon was a homely but forceful plea for the institution of a sincere, natural, unforced, home religion. It would be well with the young; the speaker said, when tlie parents recognised truly that life did not consist in merely material tilings, A feature of all services was the splendid singing hy the choir and scholars under the baton of Air W. G. Wilby. The opinion was expressed by many that the singing had reached a liiglier standard than for years. The anniversary will conclude this evening with a concert and prize-giving.