WESLEY CHURCH ANNIVERSARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10719, 18 March 1911, Page 1

WESLEY CHURCH ANNIVERSARY.

Special .services arc announced in connection with the 30th anniversary of Wesley Church, Eden street. To-mor-row two sermons appropriate to the occasion ; jvij 1 lie preached by the Rev \V. ' J. Williams,. his addresses .being respectively "Strength and Beauty are in His Sanctuary" and "The- Song of Moses and the Lamb." The choir have also been practising assiduously to make the- . musical .portion of -the services' bright and attractive. At the morning service will be given Mendelssohn's "How Lovely arc the Messengers" and in the evening Stainer's anthem "I am Alpha and Omega" will be sung, while Mrs Eraser (nee Miss Winnie Nixon), who is a recent arrival in Oamaru will sing as solo "Nearer ray God to Thee." The anniversary services will be continued on Thursday next, commencing Vitli a tea meeting at 6 p.m. A departure lias been made this year from the ordinary routine of the business meeting, for immediately after the reports have been read the evening will be given up to the choir, who have prepared a cantata entitled "The Good Shepherd." This item has never before been given in Oamaru, but has proved a great success in Nelson, Dunedin, and Wellington, and no doubt those that hear, it here will be. delighted with its sweet melodies. The | solo and quartet parts are being taken by four well and favorable known singers in the persons of Misses Will and Glen and Messrs F. Jones and H. Rosevoare. An efficient orchestra has also been obtained for the evening, and altogether this cantata should prove as successful in Oamaru as elsewhere. The country services in connection with the Church at Kakanui and Elifield will he conducted by Mrs W. J. illiams and Mr H. Grocott respectively.