ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 8

ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.

UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH. | The first anniversary of the United- j Evangelical Church, conducted by the gag Rev. A. A. Murray, was celebrated on j . Saturday in the Grafton Library and yes- I -^ terday in the Tivoli Theatre. » ing was largely attended. A very irwpir- H tag address was delivered by, Mr. W. » -H Wilson on Saturday. « At'the two services yesterday Mr. Mur- a§ ray preached impressive sermons. At tne s evening service he said that 12 montW I ago " cruel hands " drove him out of tlie E Church of his fathers, and under the T?rs- i tence of purity of doctrine he had been censured in the name of Christ, A» g censure had been recorded in Heaven, i* . H had since been frequently said that he ha* s started a -*iew church. He did-not, WW K the office-bearers and people had, andMO Bgj placed their proposals before him. we w , ware called by a name which rightly «- MB scribed us," he continued. We were , united in propagating the good truth 01 I God. God had been gracious to us during m . the past 12 months." Mr. Murray said MK he had a band of office-bearers p,nd a con- gjggj gregation of which be was proud to W «a the minister. He had pot over the pas |K| with its sadness and bitterness. . bpeo» raw collections were tiken for _ u»*wnwj » work. The mornings collection for tW WBM Bolivian Indian mission totalled hoi W* B|