Memorial Sunday.

Southland Times, Issue 14855, 26 January 1901, Page 2

Memorial Sunday.

The services in all the churches to-morrow will be memorial services. Tho hymns, prayers, and discourses will have special reference to the death of her Majesty the Queen. It is expected that large congregations will assemble in all the churches in respect to her Majesty’s memory In larger towns memorial services have already been held but to-morrow will be the first opportunity the people of Invercargill have had of meeting together in this most solemn and appropriate way to at once evince and assuage their sorrow at the death of the Queen. At All Saint’s. Gladstone, the Rev. D. C. Bates will conduct a memorial service at 11 a.m. In the evening Mr S. E. McCarthy will officiate at All Saint’s, and Mr C. H. Roberts at Clifton. ■ Tho services in the First Church will be conducted by the Rev. W. G. McLaren, M.A. In the morning brief reference will bo made to the Queen’s death, but in the evening the service will be entirely memorial in character.

The Rev. J. A. Luxford will preach at both services in St. Paul’s Wesleyan Church. The evening diet will be a service of sorrow, when Mr Luxford’s subject will be “ The Good Queen,” and Mrs Blue will sing the air, “I know that my Redeemer Livetn.” '1 he morning service in St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church will be conducted by the Rev. J. Cummings, M.A., whois expected to preach a memorial sermon. In the evening Mr J. J. Wesney will officiate. The singing at both services will be suitable to the occasion. At the Bluff the Rev. 1). C. Bates will preach a memorial service in the Anglican Church at 6.30 p.m. At the Presbyterian Church tho services will be taken by Mr A. Thompson, 8.A., of South Invercargill, who will fittingly allude to the Queen’s death. Memorial services will also be held in the other churches of the town. We understand 'that all the churches have been draped for these services and that the insigna of mourning suggested by the Government will be largely worn.