A HARVEST FESTIVAL.
(From a Correspondent.) When reading the accounts of different countries' Harvest Festivals, it occurred to me that one m which I took part might be of interest. It was when living at Fort Qu'Appelle Sask, Canada, that the choir of which I was a member was asked to go to another church m the parish, 20 miles away to sing an anthem and help at their festival. Several of us went, and found the church most beautifully decorated with wheat, oats and barley and some vegetables, but apples, etc., will not grow there. The people were all very enthusiastic and grateful for our coming, and the service ■was heartily entered into, but it was the most pathetic festival I have ever attended. The harvest had been a general failure on the prairie, but they had caught the frost extra badly and not one scrap of their corn was fit for food, they could not even sell it. for chicken food. The service concluded with the hymn, "What Our Father Does Is Well,' 'and it will always remain one of my treasured and helpful memories.
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 26, Issue 7, 1 July 1935, Page 5
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187A HARVEST FESTIVAL. Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 26, Issue 7, 1 July 1935, Page 5
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