GRAHAMSTOWN WESLEYAN CHURCH.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VIII, Issue 2178, 21 October 1875, Page 3

GRAHAMSTOWN WESLEYAN CHURCH.

The adjourned anniversary soiree in connection ,with .the Wesleyan Churcli .Tras; last.evening;! .The're. .was:-, not .quite, so manyipr'eseut as on the previous even-' ing,; but' ; aboub 150 sat down ito tea, and adjourned to the church. ,< ■.i.rMr' S; E. 'Biehardswa's dalled'-to the' ,phair, and after'& brief "address',' ;he' read ■the (financiar stSt^ment ,; r of; rdeeip'ts fed' expenditure', in"' connection [ with , the'. '•Ohdrpji,,during the past year.,. the''receijj ts, mgliidingr seat .rents, £34125, and'. | Sabbath collections, ''$53 sd, amounted. ■to>.i£lo6 j:2s ißd /i-it /lie ,i expenditure," ;inclu'ding,mM) ,i4s;« ((interest on '. £500 salaries;)-! repairsj- ■ c&0.,,'Wountdd'pto; £103>-12s' I'd, "leaving a jbalbbce l p&.-h'an'd"o r f £210s '4d.' --'He said 'it sWfrom 1 th'6'-statement that 'made ; .by ;Mr; Kernick that'^ho/would i,cßntribute one-half ; : o|.isp $0 interest.'/.'T.liat' offer [still r^mained ?i and^he trusted they.would' be to i take advantage 1 of it., ' .JB3, Jto-njar.dg ithe) amount ? had already. been' Subscribed, on,;behalf of;the 'meeting, undertook that the remaining *£17 would be subscribed; • •"

, Jilr Jamekgave-an-interesting address 'upon "Poetry;".. „ ;• p .'Tho ;i Her Alexander'"Rdidi' : 'who; ; was then; proceeded *to 'itpip>n. tno subject' ■of Hei said j poetry,'lad: been iflealt!with% ' the ( preeedipg. sp^alcer y by tije. choiy, an'd:,itjho audiei}ce jwas nowinajfit' state j to. iigqst 'aritbmelib. : r' He ,s![st refer to the arithmetic offhechurcjii. sittings. ; sittings: .Were'i taken.in tho church, atid" paid for ; at tliei -rate of. jS§ 6d, : £looa-y ear-would bo : raised, and 1 their 'debt infive:ye'a>s The j aritlimetie 'of church. ~work-in the, individual effort of members ';waji'; ( then', dealt with,'showing that if eacli indtriber converted" one, in a "few "years "the" 'world i Kpjldi-rgpice.jn rthej- Saviour's; rule. He alluded to the altered Btate of 'the ftprld regard, to religlbwtplerationy There was first persecution, then the bare admissiotfof religious : t6lmtiani and 1 now' every handwashed ! up forifc,aiid it war in tlieVhigheat favour. ;. Should tliey ; iipt, then take : advantag'o of the altered aspect of (the world,.,and. every. one, claim the honour, atid. privi 1 egeof'jbearing parfc ,ia. thij work of- bringing on the milloniump.- ; " periences inTairtia,-and explained his first endeavoursl t icfis, lie' :^ti^(6Al ; somety Off iifor lie, regarded conformed to religibnMn!td^ni : it'niay io as !a cbdven[bu(j^arid. , a ' : profi|b^ he fgo't into'theivbusli.:left his religion jbo-, ! hind hifp, 'ai'dl ! addpted th'eTjpld ;rule : ; of j !s«►%- as. !C9lnei!dQsß r ia coward and a hypocrite. had; tried, ' and he T succeed in ! ; th^-fiffit VlO6 pyeri MU; vlij'? il Tie Eev; j.'Cfumjj, jn his jfosed *a thanksVjtgj tbS r ! :li'dies foj?; : 'oaiivassingM-tlie.^istriotVan3-/-providing tra^i-; 'ttf. v | .Ms Be\d-for' his[y i sitan d /ser vi c ea. during '.the present anniversary. J.«r, . In. the meantime,- Oaptain. ,'Bichards : 'collected Subscriptions to r a -Considerable ■ to'ount.,;:lir theintervals I between ' the" : ' 'addresses 'the i'olioir'sang mils' 'and Musical selections.