CONFIRMATION SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21007, 19 October 1931, Page 8

CONFIRMATION SERVICE.

ARCHBISHOP'S EXHORTATION PRINCIPLE C? TOC H. A confirmation service was conducted in Epiphany Church last evening by Archbishop Averill in the presence of a crowded congregation. Eighteen young women and six young men were confirmed. "The lives of Christians are the only Bible the world reads," said the archbishop. "The principle of Toe His ere of the finest things I know. All thoye who belong to it are pledged to spread the Gospel, not by preaching, but by their own lives." The archbishop told the candidates who had just been confirmed that their public witness was exactly what was wanted in these days. Their open confession was bound to be to someone else. He likened the confirmation service to the happy family gathering at which some members of the family came of age and entered into full responsibilities. Hs warned them that if tbey were going to be faithful Christians they must not expect always to have a good time. The members of a community were so bound up together that what affected one affected all.