Opotiki.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 1 June 1918, Page 95

Opotiki.

Vicar: Rev. T. Fisher.

We are at last finding the church as we like to see it, after the disturbing interference of the flood. Willing hands shared m the necessary drying and cleaning, finally Mr Vickers, attested by a kind visitor, spent an evening cleaning and polishing.

We have to add a cheque from Mr T. R. Bridge for £2 to the. amount paid m last month to the Church Army Hut Fund. We wish we could do raore.

We fell into line as well as we could m observing Anzac Day, with Holy Communion at 8 a.m., and a special service of commemoration at noon, which a good number attended.

And again during the time from Ascension Day to Whit Sunday, We believe many m Opotiki are adding their own earnest prayers.

There is a growing desire for a larger and more general congregation of the mothers and wives at the monthly Mothers' Union service, held at 3 p.m. on the first Friday of the month, so that the intercession, prayers, and thanksgivings may be shared by all; it is an opportunity not to be missed. In these days of incessant anxiety all are busy, but after our Lord's example, "Our Father's business" has a prior claim — believing m Him as we do, and m His gracious willingness to hear and answer prayer.

Is it not time we completed the furnishing of. the altar by adding the two brass candlesticks'? A gift of altar linen is also needed as at present we are using a borrowed set. Who will think of these things??

Can some, friend offer a suitable horse for driving, at a reasonable figure,, to enable the. Vicar to get out beyond town when he can make timef Messrs Mead and Iw. JJeecfc spent a

busy W,ednesday r af ternopn, straighten^ ing up" : : som'e ! ' of. ,th[e ' fences * around the vicarage paddbcks. ''" Cbws on the road^ere'a'^little too.'ffee!' '■,'■•'■s yi ;

A- few Subscribers to the ' <r Gazette!''? have- left 'the- district • ; since I wrote' last. • It is desirable > that • our- good name be kept up 'by new : f amilies sub-; scribingv By ■■ the way, : the ; annual half-crown is- m ow due. ; : Some have already remembered;; will all please hand it to the Vicar at the -first opportunity 1 ?' ■:. :•"•- •■• : : '.!■ ■.■:: ■•;,!•.=■