IN THE CHURCHES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 71, 26 April 1930, Page 6

IN THE CHURCHES

LARGELY ATTENDED— AD= DRESSES GIVEN. Sex-vices in honour of Anzac Day were held in various churches in Napier yesterday whexx large attendances fulfilled their desire to pay their respects to the memory of those gallant" men who fought on Gallipoli 15 years ago. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. A oombined service in the St. Paul's Schoolroom was presided over hy the Rev. J. A. Asher, assisted hy members of the Napier Ministers' Association. The awful borror and ghastliness of war was vividly dealt with by the Rev. W. G.' S^de, who said that it was nothing less than "wholesale mnrder, legalised and justified on the grounds of patriotism, hut cruel ghastly murder nevertheless.'' In. dwelling upon

the sacrifice that had been made on that memorable first Anzao Day, Mr Slade said that it had brought people nearer to the Cross whose shadow fell slantwise across time and eternity for if there was anything in ideals worth living for it was worth dying for. ■ ADDRESS AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S. A fair-sized congregation assembled at St. Augustine's Church last evening, when the vicar, the Rev. A. Hodge, gave an appropx-iate address. Tlie remainder of the service was also suitable to the occasioxx. A service was held at 10 a.m., when Holy Communion was celebrated. /