Church Services

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6918, 23 July 1932, Page 8

Church Services

To-morrow Rev. F. C. Long, M.A., general secretary to the Board of Missions of the Church of England in the Provinco of New Zealand, will preach at St. Peter's Church at 11 a.m. and at All Saints’ Church at 7 p.m. This will bo an opportunity for church people to hear of the good work of the board sot up by tho Bishops of the province. Special preachers will officiate at the Cuba Streot Methodist Church to-mor-row. At 11 a.m. tho noted evangelist, Rev. Raymond Preston, will be the preacher, Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, president of the Methodist Conference, preaching at 7 p.m. Citizens are cordially invited to attend and make these services memorable. Rev. A. N. Scotter, 8.A., will preach at Longburn at 2.30.

The special preacher for the day at the Baptist Church will be Rev. Ivor Thomas, an evangelist who has been much used in Wales, New Zealand and Australia. Welsh folk should not miss hearing their own countryman. Mr. Thomas has accepted a call to a large Baptist Church in Massachusetts, U.S.A., and will leave for his new 1 chargo in September. Ilis subjects morning and evening for to-morrow will be “Optimists Among the Ruins” and "A Refuge from the Storm.” A male choir will lead the singing at the evening service.

The services at St. Andrew’s Church to-morrow will be conducted by Rev. J. Hubbard, M.A., 8.D., of Kclburn, Wellington.

After a boyhood of popular singing and a youth and manhood marked by cricket enthusiasm, Raymond Preston looks back with most satisfaction on his 50 years as an evangelist. He claims to be “not out and approaching 80.” In the course of many voyagings he has visited Wales, Australia, U.S.A., Canada, Norway, Switzerland, France, and the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and is still recognised as a real Yorkshiroman. Among cricketing memories is his friendship and fellowship with Vic. Trumper, who called him “Uncle.” Ilis evangelistic meetings have been a blessing to thousands, and he comes to Palmerston North after special visits to Christchurch, Invercargill and Dunedin. Mr. Preston will be welcomed at St. Paul’s this evening and will commence- his campaign of ten days with three services to-morrow.

At Emmanuel Congregational Church, Broadway, to-morrow, Pastor C. G. H. Bycroft will conduct both services. The subject in the morning will be “Precious Things for Every Child of God.” This will be a special message for every Christian. At 5.30 p.m. a service will be held at the public hospital, while at 7 o’clock the subject will be “The Real Ills of the World.” The choir' will render the anthem, and a very warm invitation is extended to visitors and strangers to the city to worship at tho Congregational Church.