THANKSGIVING SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 5

THANKSGIVING SERVICES.

'Received Jnr.o 7. 12. a.ra.) : ; London, Jane 0. . Cardinal Vaughan has ordered that thanksgiving services are to bo held at the Roman Catholic churches on Sunday. The Rabbi holds * thanksgiving service on Wednesday* Special thanksgiving services for the restoration of peace with honour will be held throughout the Empire to-morrow. The Kin? will set. the example by attending a sol em a thanksgiving in St. Paul'? Cathedral, Lou* don, and has ordered similar services to ha held in nil military centres on the same day. Throughout- the United Kingdom, and iit other parts of the British Empire, thanksgiving services are sure to be the order of the day alike in the great city churches and cathedrals, and the smallest country places of worship, no matter to what religious body they may belong. Auckland will certainly not bo behindhand in this matter, for solemn thanksgivings are to be held in the various churches of all denominations, and in nearly every case reference is almost sure to b« made in the course of the sermon to the happy conclusion of the war. On such an important national occasion the people o£ Auckland may be relied upon to be presents in largo numbers. At SI. Mary's Cathedral, Parnell, St. Paul's, Symonds-streei:, and All Saints', Ponsonby, there will bo special thanksgiving services. At St. Mat* thew's, Hobson-Ftroet, in the morning, special psalms and Jackson's "To Deurn" will be sung, and the officers and men 06 11.M.5. Ringarooma and Archer will be preI sent. In the evening tho anthem will ba Behold. How Good," etc. (Whitfield). Aft St. David's Presbyterian Church, Kliyber Pass Road, in tho morning, the Rev. \V« Gray Dixon, M.A., will preach on " Thank?-* giving for Peace;" in Knox Church, Parnell. there will be a peace thanksgiving service! in tho evening, with special hymns and an* them. At St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Great North Road, in the evening, the Row R. SonTmorville will preach on "Pcaco In South Africa:" and at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church there will be a special thanksgiving service in the morning. Patriotia and thanksgiving services will be held ira the Devonporfc Presbyterian Church in the morning and evening, and at Lake Taka* puna in the afternoon. At the Pitt-street Methodist Church the Rev. C. H. Garland will preach on "Peace'' at the evening service, and at the Grafton Road Methodist Church in the evening there will be a thanksgiving service and musical festival. Thanksgiving services will bo held in tho Auckland Tabernacle both morning and evening, also at tho Beresford-street Congregational Church, where at the evening service Madame Chambers will sing as an offertory solo, " The Dawn of Peace." Similar ser- - vices will bo held in the Newton and Mount! Eden Congregational Churches, and in the Church of Christ, West-street, and Ponsonby Road, special sermons will bo preached in tho evening. , [BY TELKGrtAfir.—OWN" CORRESPONDENT.} ! Wellington, Friday. Archbishop Redwood has ordered that 4 "To Deum" is to be sung in the Roman Catholic Churches on Sunday in thanksgiving for the end of tho war in South Africa. Ha has also decided that requiem masses will ha celebrated in all the parishes, on a dat« to be fixed, for tho souls of tho soldiers who havo fallen in tho war.