Choir Festival.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XVII, Issue 5, 1 November 1926, Page 10

Choir Festival.

: A, fuller account; bf tKe jQhoit Festifat ;(3'ptQb^r ? 25tii, -.WriJJ;. appear m : pu£.. jDWember, j^sue-^rtieanwhil^ the s committee, and;, con^nctbrl ; .a]6.^. the iwjip took part are to'..Ue highly • I d^n^ratulated qn- the choice, pf. Snusic, and the manner of its rendering* In . .many respepts; there fis roopijfor imjan^. .^ something^iini&t be ■■ r^pne .to ensure tM .pftrticipatipn. of ■■-. ", moire^clipirs-^^^i^^^^piendi^ festival, .; , but t^he .main 'pt|j,ec^ of $ie, f esjbjyal is =■ ; - ; being! amply |attafiried.' . .The. r atmos- , • "pheW of devbitiori ' at ali the " services >i is most nnpl'essive; Those who take •; v;p;art,are quickly fcoining* to;. Appreciat e; iithe> beauty; and !lftvj»lihess l of';really -gpodi and -worthy jGhiirch music^ and -■ ijeveiiicif iOnJy : Hai.ffeTf>learnj«crraething oof i the^spirit >;of f efprm^itheirrinfluence '; i nisi bpund/tb tell land m time the cold ,-> iforiualityLMand 1 stiffness oil Ordinary L^Chuichiiaeriyiijeai^iliubeibroken down, , t congregational sinking become more

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