The Crthedral, There w s a large congregation at the Cathedral on Good Friday morning. The servic was intoned by the Dean, and the usual penitential psalms were sung.
Exster Sunday and Christmas Day always bring large congregations and {ou Sunday was no exception to the rule. Three Communion services were held during the morning xt which a very large number of ommunic nts tended, The pulpit, and the chancel and altar rails wore beautifully decorated with white roperies and arum lilies. At the morni service the Cathedral was crowded. The hymns "li reflected the joy which Easter always brings and the Venite gave place to the beautiful Easter anthems.
The anthem in the middle of the service was Goss's "Christ our Passover," The Dean preached from I Cor v. 7 the first of the Easter Anthems The offertories during the day, which amounted to $508 were devoted to the Assistant Curate's fund.
A very interrating lecture entitled "Some Indian pictures. Plavue and Famine" "acdelivere! at the Union Church Hall Wednesday evening by Dr. H. C. Patrick Nhe Rey. ©. E, Darwent presided, and chore was a large xttendanc-.
D.. Patrick in the course of his lecture spoke of what plague was and of the Virulence of it.—e said that a short time ago there were 117,000 deaths in Indin from plague, and in Bombay city alone in ous week iv March there were 300 deaths. A few pictures were shown of plague hospitals, interiors and exteriors. The lecturer wont to India in 1898, but after six months fell ill and went home, but returned to India in 1899 and was engaged in the treatment of plague for four months and then famine again came over the Jand and he was transferred to the famine department. The Government scheme of famine relief in India was to provide work whereby the people might arn money to buy themselves food, be-ouse there was plenty of food in the country but it was a matter of distribution, The work carried out by those who sought relief was road-making, railway embankment work, and the construction ut dams for irrigation purposes, so that water could be fided for "he land in cave of future raught. At each of these works the
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