ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10478, 2 December 1895, Page 2

ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.

VISIT OF THE BISHOP OF

WELLINGTON. Tiirc reception given to the Right Roy Dr Wallis, in St Mary's Sunday School on Saturday afternoon, was well attended, and was a pronounced success.

On Saturday night the Bishop held a confirmation service in St Mary's Church, when about thirty young people were confirmed. There was a large congregation to witness the ceremony. ANNIVERSARY SERVICES. On Sunday the Bishop, assisted by the clergy of the archdeaconry, held anniversary services in connection with the establishment of the Anglican Church in the district. At 8 o'clock the Bishop conducted the Holy Communion service. There was a large congregation at the 11 o'clock service, when the Bishop preached, taking his text from 35th chapter of Genesis, 2nd and 3rd verses. The sermon was attentively listened to and thoroughly appreciated by the congregation. The choir music, Mr Sidney Cooper being organist, was a special feature in I the service. The offertory on the occasion, which will bo devoted to the reduction of the debt on the Church enlargement, amounted to £57. The Bishop was assisted in the service by the Yen. Archdeacon Govett, Revs. F. W. Walker, and J. M. Devenish (Bißhop's Chaplain), and the lay preacher and lay readers of the district. The service in tho evening was conducted by the Yen. Archdeacon Govett, who preached on the text, " My house is the house of Prayer." The offertory, which was also in aid of the Church enlargement fund amounted to £31. The Archdeacon in his sermon ref ei red to the labor that the early settlers performed to establish the Church, and the several enlargements of the building thafc had been made. HOSPITAL SUNDAY. The Benefit Societies in the town and district inaugurated a local Hospital Sunday on Sunday afternoon. Special arrangements had been made for the inauguration by a committee appointed from the various Societies .and as a result a very successful gathering took place. A special train, which had been arranged for by the Committee ran from Hawera and intermediate stations, arriving here a few minutes after 12 o'clock. Some six hundred passengers came by this special. Punctually at 2 o'clock the members of the Societies who intended to take part in the procession to St. Mary's Church assembled at the Foresters' Hall, Gill-street, and after the regalia was donned by officers and members, the marshals, Messrs Abner King and W. H. Free, formed, the procession, in which it was estimated over five hundred marched. The Societies represented were the .Friendly Society, several Lodges of Oddfellows, Courts of Foresters, and Rechabites. The Benefit Societies' Band, under Bandmaster J. Birch, headed the procession; and the Town Band, under Bandmaster G. Garry, were placed in the centre. The route tho procession took was up Gill-street, then by way of Gover, Dovon, and Robe-streets to tho Church, which was reached at 2.30 o'clock. The members of the Societies were first accommodated with seats, and when their number was supplemented by those of the general public desirous of taking part in the service, the seating of the sacred edifice was so much taxed that forms were arranged down the aisles. REV. DR. WALLIS' ADDRESS. Tho Right Rev. Dr Wallis, Bishop of Wellington, preached a special address to the membara of the Societies, taking his text from St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians on the words, " Bear y« one another's burdens." The preacher began his address by asking why the early Christians were so cruelly and vindictively oppressed by the < heathen Roman empire for a period extending over centuries. He pointed aut that the reason was difficult to understand looking at the tolerance extended by the heathen Roman empire to nations they subdued. He asked was not the cause to be found in the fact that the Christians, according to the teachings of Christ, practised an nniversal religion, one that was made for no one nation but for ali men, and that accordingly the Christian teaching was against the principles of class distinction as practised by the Romans and embodied in their laws. The speaker gave an instance of what c.ass meant in those daya. The Romans maintained barriers between classes and any universal religion 11s practised by the followers of Christ did not meet favor with them ; and benoo the relentless persecution thsy meted out for many years to the early Chrjslians. T\m Bishop then dwelt on the lo vo aad kindness that Christ preached should bo shown by man to man, and added that the benefit societies in their aims were carrying out that teaching. Societies should not be looked on as mere assuranoe organisations, but with a duty to perform according to the teaching of the Saviour. After the service was conoluded, an offurtory was taken up for the Hospital Fund, the amount of which was £15. The hymns sung during the service wero "Onward, Christian Soldiers," "All People that on Earth do Dwell," and "Abide with Mo. ' Mr Sidney Cooper, organist, and members of St. Mary's Choir, augmented by others, gave their assistance. The members of the Societies formed in procession again, and heasled by the Town Band marched to the Foresters' Hall. SOCIAL TO-MORROW NIGHT. Bishop and Mra Wallis will be welcomed at a Benefit Societies Social, toba held in the Alexandra Hall, to-morrow night. Satisfactory progress is he;ng made at the Petroleum Prpspecting Company's works at Moturoa, the bore on Saturday having reached a depth of 380 foot. Tho formation now being bored through is sandstone, At the annual meeting of the Taranaki branch of tho Teachers Institute an unanimous resolution was passed expressing sympathy with Mr Murray, late Inspector of Schools for this district, in his recent sad bereavement. A boy named John Stanley, Son of Mr E. Stanley, boarding-housekeeper, Brongham-slreef-, sustained a severe cut ou his foot tho other day through stepping on broken glass. Tho ivound was attonded to, and the boy appeared to be" progresHiiig favorably till Saturday night, when tetanus set in. The boy was lying in a precarious state on Sunday. Drs O'Carroll and Loafihatrj wefo cabled in, but thoir attention v/as unaviling, the boy dyjng this mßrnjpg. A sensational " bolt " is recorded by the Hawera Star, On Saturday a horse attached to a oart owned by sslv Barraclough took fright at something, clearing off at a great force up Regent-street. The remarkable part of the affair was, as we are told by one who saw it, that the horse jumped a perambulator with a child in it, and tho wheels of the vehicle on either side carried the cart free from contact, and loft the perambulator and child unharmed. A Ziphid whale about twenty feet long was found this (Monday) morning washed ashore near the foot of tho Outfield Road, about halfway between town and tho breakwater. Mr J. McCmcken while giving the racehorse Donovan walking exercise along the beach is reportjd to have mado the discovery. Mr Jones' bus will run to tho spot this evening ao half past five, and to-morrow morning at 9 and 11 o'clock, in order to give those who with an opportunity of seeing the fish.

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