NEW VICAR INDUCTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 14

NEW VICAR INDUCTED

HOLY SEPULCHRE CHURCH SERMON BY ARCHBISHOP The Rev. J. E. Draper, the new vicar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was inducted on Saturday by Archbishop Averill in an impressive service. The ceremony concluded, the Archbishop gave an address on the duties of a vicar. The charge of a, parish church required courage, sincerity and self-discipline. His Grace exhorted the parishioners to give their new vicar whole-hearted support and to assist him in his work among them. Among the clergy present were: Archdeacon G. Mac Murray, Archdeacon W. J. Simkin, Canon C. H. Grant Cowen, Canon J. Haselden and the Revs. G. C. Cruickshank, E. Bamford, C. A. B. Watson, J. L. Litt, W. W. Averill, A. Drake, R. J. Stanton and J. R. Monteith. Mr. Draper, who succeeds the Rev. G. Gordon Bell, now Archdeacon of Waikato, received his education at St. Paul’s Missionary College in England. He arrived in New Zealand in 1922, and served as a curate, first at Dannevirke and then at Hastings. In 1925 he became vicar of Opotiki, remaining there until receiving his latest appointment. OPEN-AIR SERVICE SERMON BY BISHOP CHERRINGTON From Our Oion Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. Probably the largest outdoor meeting held in Hamilton marked the service held at Ferry Bank last evening under the auspices of the Church of England Men’s Society. The attendance was estimated at over 2,000. The occasion marked the last public address to be given by Bishop Cherrington before leaving for England to attend the Lambeth Conference. Speaking from the steps of the band rotunda, the Bishop gave a striking and forceful sermon, attacking petty snobbishness, which, he said, was the greatest barrier to real brotherhood among mankind. Hymns sung by massed choirs and the huge congregation had an inspiring effect. Prayers were said by Dean Barnett.

MEANING OF LOVE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERMON “Love” was the subject of the les-son-sermon in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ai/jhland, yesterday. The golden text was from Psalms xlii., !!: “The Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.” Among the citations was the following from the Bible: “I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith Lord God. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick.”—Ezekiel xxxiv., 15-16. The lesson-sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science text book: “Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud. All the varied expressions of God reflect health, holiness, immortality—infinite Life, Truth and Love.”