St. Augustine's, Napier.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume X, Issue 11, 1 April 1920, Page 271

St. Augustine's, Napier.

Vicar : Rev. E. p. Rice, M.A. The congregations and the numbe]* of communicants during Lent have been most encouraging. The Vicar is giving a course of sermons on ' * Sin . addressed to the children at Sunday morning services, and on Sunday evenings on "The Example of Jesus Christ m the Great Facts of Daily Life." On Thursday evenings he has been preaching on ''Sacrifice." Asusual the self-denial 'offerings of the kdults will go to St. Mary's' Rescue Home, and the children's to tbfe Church of England Waifs and Strays Society. / - We haye ordered the organ which is to be erected to the memory of rthos©frpm the parish who gave their lives m -the. war. It is to cp^t, ; with structural alterations to the church,, about £850, towards which . we have £526; m sight, including- tie sale of the old organ; The new organ will not be here ; :for; about: 18- months. .'We' are' organising- a, big sale* of work for Wednesday^ Ifetay sth, m aid of the Organ Fund. r * r "' ■ The parish Magazine has so increased m circulation thatt the; 28 district^ /visitors now distribute" 500 copies into Church of England houses m the' parish. These ' visitors ,afe a great Help to the m .finding put

cases of n,e,ed and sickness, and somore^ really making Christ's Body, the Church., the centre of '.sympathy m the world. The; yestiry : h.as r^ise^ :^evyiciar 's;: stipend a jreaf;; V^ 'pr ; The box fforr r missions! at the chra-cli door, to which are^' requested to give? a r , penny a week, brih^:itt:abp|i:t; f l^s a :^eek>— alv fes;c|ilent response^ ■ ■"■■ '- :; "'■■''' '^f " ::; '%