CHURCH HALL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 9

CHURCH HALL

TAIvARO ANNEXE OPENED. GROWTH OF 7 DISTRICT. Thanksgiving services were held at the Takaro Church Hall on Sunday to mark the official opening of the annexe to the building, the ceremony being performed in the evening by Ven. Archdeacon Petrie, of Feilding. There was a good attendance at the early morning service, when Corporate Communion was administered by the vicar (Canon G. Y. Woodward). A large congregation, including members of tho Takaro Girl Guides, assembled in the evening. Before delivering his address, Archdeacon Petrie congratulated the Takaro district; on the faithful service rendered since the building was erected seven years ago, and evidenced by the need of the additional accommodation which he had dedicated that evening. He understood that a further extension was contemplated and he hoped parishioners would cooperate with those who were giving of their best to further the important work of the Church in the district.

Referring to the kindergarten, for which the new room was to be used, Archdeacon Petrie stressed the importance of young children attending Sunday school, for religious truths acquired at the “enquiring age,” wore retained throughout one’s life, he said. Taking texts from Exodus XII, verses 26—27, Deuteronomy YI. verses 20 ; —21, and Joshua IV, verses 21—22: “When thv children asketli thee. . .

thou shall say. . . ,” the Archdeacon delivered a very instructive address on the duty of parents to give true answers to questions put by their children. Although the Sunday school teachers were doing a magnificent work it was for the parents to instil into the enquiring minds the religious principles of right and wrong, lifting their thoughts Heavenward to God, the loving Law Giver. After enlarging on the three points of his address —“The Passover,” “The Laws,” and “The Stones” —Archdeacon Petrie spoke of Jesus first visit to Jerusalem when twelve years old; how He was found in the temple “asking questions.”

It behoved parents, therefore, to prepare themselves in readiness _to give the right answer to their children’s questions, because it was at that age of asking “Why should I” and “Why can’t I” that the foundation principles of right and wrong were laid, concluded Archdeacon Petrie. The Lessons were read by Mr E. G. Spraggon and Miss Helen Muir presided at the organ.