Service of Institution.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 June 1944, Page 2

Service of Institution.

Value Of Chapter. A service of institution important in the Diocese took place at St. John's Cathedral Church on May 19, when the Very Rev. Joseph B. Brocklehurst was instituted as Archdeacon of Hawke's Bay and the Rev. Stephen Francis N. Waymouth as canon, St. Aiden's Stall of the Cathedral Chapter. Three lay canons, Messrs. E. G. Loten, Patrick F. Hunter arid Reginald P. /Wilder, were also instituted. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Aotearoa; assisted by the choir. Included were the hymns 'JThe Church is One Foundation" and "Thy Hand, 0 Lord, Has Guided," and Ps^lm 132. The'_ introductory exhortation reminded the Archdeacon and canonselect that, as counsellors and advisors of the Bishop of the Diocese in holy things, they must be students of

sacred learning and of all such mat-, ters as tend to stablish and confirm the truth of the Gospel and the-dis-cipline of the Church. . In the course of his address Archdeacon Butterfield testified to the usefulness of the Cathedral Chapter in an advisory capacity to the Bishop of the Diocese and if he. so desired to make use of the opinions of the senior clergy and laymen. The Chapter had not functioned to any valuable degree since the resignation of Bishop Sedgwick, in whose time it met regularly. The archdeacon, appealed to the members, both clerical and lay, 'to fulfil . the purposes associated with their stalls for the furtherance of educational, Sunday School, missionary and social work of the Diocese. .The service continued with the Creed, Versicles, the Lord's Prayer and the singing of the Veni Creator Spiritus. After the presentation to His Lordship of the Archdeacon and the. Canons the Te Deum Laudamus was sung, the service concluding with the Blessing.