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Order of Service :
Hymn, ' Hark the glad sound ! Tlia Saviour comes' (Tune: Bristol) (English Hymna], No. 6)
Confession and Prayer Chant, Psalm 46
Lesson, John i, 1-18
Intercession and Thanksgiving
Hymn, ' Thy Kingdom come on bended knee '
(English Hymnal, 504)
Address : Canon GARFIELD H. WILLIAMS , O.B.E.,
M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Secretary .of the Missionary Council of the National Assembly of the Church of England
Hymn, ‘ Jesu, Thou Joy of loving hearts' (Church
Hymnary, 420. Tuno, Maryton).
Benediction
IT is appropriate that at this St. Andrewstide, when the Established and Free Churches of Groat Britain are specially considering their missionary responsibilities, the preacher should be the Secretary of the Missionary Council of the National Church Assembly. The Church has few such eloquent and forceful speakers and advocates. After taking his medical degrees at ' Bart's,' ho worked with tho Student Christian Movement, and was for some time in charge of the Science Department of St. John's College, Agra. He was ordained in 1914, and during the War was Principal of St. Andrew's College. Gorakhpur, and also undertook important work for the War Board of the United Provinces. After being foreign secretary of the Church Missionary Society for three years, and also serving as a member of the Phelps Stokes Education Commission to East and Central Africa, he took up his present work in 1924. He was one of the British delegates at the recent Jerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council.

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