DEBT TO PENTECOST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 5

DEBT TO PENTECOST

BIRTH OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH AUCKLAND’S CELEBRATIONS Millions of Christians throughout the world will unite in the celebration of the 1900th anniversary of Pentecost, which will fall on Whit-Sunday, June S. For the whole 24 hours church members in some part of the world will be meeting in thanksgiving services. New Zealand and certain islands of the Pacific will be the first to gather in their churches to remember the day on which the Christian Church was born. The new day begins a little to the east of the Dominion and passes westward, and it will be 8 o’clock on the Sunday evening by New Zealand time when celebrations begin in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. England, Europe and America will have completed their acts of thanksgiving before the day dawns over Hawaii.

Arrangements for united services next week in preparation for the celebrations have been made in Auckland by the Ministers’ Association and the Anglican clergy. These will be held in several of the suburban centres as well as in the city, concluding with a united service in St. Mary’s Cathedral on Friday night, June 6. On the following night the churches will hold special prayer meetings, and sermons dealing with Pentecost will be preached on the Sunday. The City meetings next week will be as follow;—•

Monday: Baptist Tabernacle, speakers, the Revs. R. C. Roberts and Lionel B. Fletcher. Tuesday: Beresford Street Congregational, speakers, the Revs. Evan Harries and W. Walker. Wednesday: St. David’s Presbyterian, preacher, Ven. Archdeacon Mac Murray. Thursday: Pitt Street Methodist, speakers, the Revs. H. A. G. Clark and Frazer Barton. Friday: St. Mary’s Cathedral, preacher, Rev. Dr. C. H. Laws.

The suburban meetings will be as follow:—■

Mount Albert —Wednesday: Baptist Church, the Rev. J. Laird. Saturday: Methodist Church, Rev. T. R. B. Woolloxall. Mount Eden—Wednesday: Balmoral Road Presbyterian, Rev. A. Fear. Thursday: Grange Road Baptist, Rev. W. Rowe. Epsom—Tuesday: Methodist Church, Rev. W. McDonald. Remuera —Thursday: Methodist Church, Revs. H. A. Coleman and P. N. Cuttle. Devonport—Tuesday: St. Paul’s Presbyterian, Rev. H. B. Wingfield. Wednesday: Holy Trinity Anglican, Rev. W. Lawson Marsh.