BAPTIST CHURCH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 11

BAPTIST CHURCH

INGESTRE STREET MONTHLY CHURCH NOTES. Several of our folk have been in hospital or laid aside in their homes, Mrs Adams and Mrs Hurley are about again after their operations. Mr Hurley had six weeks in isolation with fever. Airs Howe is making progress. Mr Pinkney has been down with pleurisy and neuritis Airs Humbly is suffering from throat trouble In a conscious moment on Monday Mrs Berthold recognised her sister and said, “I am trusting in Jesus” She passed away on Thursday morning. The Bible Classes have been in prominence. The concert for camp funds was an uproarious success and the camps were well up to the standard of previous years. Echoes will be given around the tea-table next Sunday and, we hope, on some week-night fairly soon. The Harvest Thanksgiving decorations, services and social, were all excellent. The thank-offering was a little below expectations. The Junior C.E. had a delightful picnic at Long Acre. We heartily congratulate our elder, Mr Herringshaw, on attaining his 84th. birthday. It was a pleasure to see him at thc Conununion on Sunday morning. At the beginning of March, Miss Alison Gaze and later Air Bert Land, wont to Wellington. Both were recipients of tokens of esteem from thc choir and their respective classes. Wc also farewellcd Mr R. H. Jenkins. Owing to pressure of business in Palmerston, Air J. AV. Wellington has declined regretfully the conductorship. AVc fully appreciate Air Nelson and Mr Bolton and the choir for thc splendid rendition of the cantata under adverse circumstances.

The General Secretary of our Union, thp Rev. AV. AL. P. Lascelles, visits Wanganui next week-end. He speaks to the Junior B.AV.ALU. on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 and lectures at a united gathering Tuesday evening on Ihp Baptist AVorld Alliance Congress held at Toronto last year. On Wednesday next the British and Foreign Bible Society holds its annual demonstration in St. Paul’s Hall. All denominations arc co-operating. The Rev. David (’alder B.A. speaks on the World’s ATissionary Conference, which hp attended at Jerusalem. Every missionary society is under an incalculable debt to the. B. and F. 8.5., so please support it loyally. Readers of “The Chronicle’’ must have noticed with pleasure some features of late. Several loading articles have been sympathetic, and some more than that, toward the things for which wo stand. Let us uphold the editor by live and prayerful interest. “Evangelise the inevitable” is a grand phrase in that excellent little book. “Thc Afan Nobody Knows.” Newspapers most certainly come under that category. The column on Saturdays entitled “For Sunday” is in the hands of Rev. IT. G. Goring and also the arfo r “Our Pulpit” on Mondays. giving a. digest of sermons preached in different churches week bv week