EASTER SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10421, 20 April 1897, Page 6

EASTER SERVICES.

The two churches of the Ellerslie-cum-Epaom Parish were beautifully decorated for the Easter festival. The vicar (Rev. W. E. Gillam) was the preacher at all the services. The congregations were larger than at any previous Easter services, and there were 90 communicants. The collections amounted to £27 '23 Id, and were given as free-will offerings from the parishioners to their clergyman.' The vicar also received as Easter gifts a surplice of fine linen, a black silk stole, and a literate's hood irom "the women of St. Andrew's." The new pulpit, erected by the Kauri Timber Company, to the order of the vestry of St. Andrews, was occupied for the first time on Sunday afternoon. On Easter morning Mr. Rattray, people's churchwarden of St. Luke's, Mount Albert, met the vicar (Rev. F. Larkias) in the vestry, and presented him with a purse of sovereigns as an Easter offering and token of esteem on behalf /of the congregation. The vicar preached in the morning at St. Luke's, and in the evening at St. Jude's, Avondale. Both churches were well filled and admirably decorated. Mr. Ewington conducted a children's service in the afternoon at St. Jude's and service with sermon at St. Luke's in the evening.