COUNTRY NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 12956, 22 November 1910, Page 4

COUNTRY NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.) MOTUPIKO. On Sunday, November ; 13th, his Lordship the Bishop- of ; iNfclsoh dedicated the new portion of St. George's Church in the preseuce of a large congregation. The Vicar said morning prayer," and the Bishop preached from John iv., 24, "God is a. Spirit: aud they that worship Him niust worship Him in spirit and in truth." The service throughout was. fully choral, the music being supplied by the IPoxhill choir under the leadership of Mr Edridge, with Miss E. M. Hewlett jas organist." The special ' psalms sung were the xxix. and cxxii. and the anthem "Walk . about Zion." The offertory was devoted to the fund for the purchase of seats '..for the new portioirof the church. . The "communicants numbered! 36. ~ Tlie new portion of the church, | which includes ten feet added to the main building, together with- a. comfortable vestry-room as a tfariscept, was faithfully and efficiently carried out by Messrs Robertson Bros., of Brightwater, who deseiTe credit for the care and pains bestowed on the wort. The whole building likewise has been newly painted, and looks -.well both inside and out. Best of all, everything has been paidjor, so that the church, is quite free from 'debt. The Bishop conducted evening service at St. George's, so that the 13th was quite a gala day fox Motupiko.> , During their stay at Motupiko the Bishop and Mrs Mules were the guests' of Mr. and Mrs' J. S. Rutherf urd, at.Ravens'WOod. ':.''.'