MINISTER’S LAST SERVICES

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 6, Issue 65, 6 April 1937, Page 4

MINISTER’S LAST SERVICES

Rev. T. Coatsworth Leaving Rangiora FAREWELL GATHERINGS The Rev. T. CoatsAVorth and Mrs CoatsAvorth Avill leave for their neAv charge, Woodville, on Tuesday next. To-night the Soutbrook Young People’s Missionary Auxiliary Avill give an evening in honour of Mr and Mrs CoatsAvorth. A church fareAvell has been arranged for Monday in Rangiora.

On Sunday afternoon Mr CoatsAvorth preached his fareAvell sermon at Raithby (North Loburn), and after the service Mr H.' Barker took the opportunity of Avishing Mr and Mrs CoatsAvorth the best of good luck in their neAv charge, and expressed the hope that relations Avould be as happy in Woodville as they had been in Rangiora. On behalf of the congregation he presented Mr CoatsAvorth Avith tAvo books, “In the Steps of St Paul,” by H. V. Morton, and “It Happened in Palestine,” by Leslie Weatherhead. Mr CoatsAvorth suitably replied. On Sunday last there Avere good attendances at the Rangiora Methodist Church, at both the morning and evening services, Avhen Mr CoatsAvorth preached his fareAvell sermons. In the morning Mr CoatsAvorth spoke to the children on “Radiating Sunshine,” and to the adult congregation on “The Mind of Christ.”

In the evening the preacher took- the Gospel as his subject. The choir rendered the anthems “0 lioav Amiable,” and “And the Glory.” Soloists Avere Mrs E. R. "Wright (Culverden) and Mr K. H. B. Strong (Wellington).