Harvest Thanks-giving Services at Highfield: There were harvest thanksgiving services at Highfield Church on Wednesday, the same day as the Garden and Industrial Exhibition, reported in another column, was held in a tent in a field adjoining the church. In honour of the occasion, the sacred edifice was very tastefully decorated with flowers and the usual other materials brought into requisition on such an occasion, the chancel itself, together with the font, being very prettily adorned, the whole of the embellishments having a pleasing effect. The work was very skillfully executed, under the superintendence of Miss Pinsent, who was ably assisted by the Misses Hughes, Miss Pearson, Miss Johnson, Miss Boughton Smith, etc. At the morning service the sermon was preached by the Rev. A. M. Hoare (Rector of Fawley and Rural Dean), and in the evening by the Rev. E. H. Blake (Vicar of Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire). The offertory was devoted to the Highfield Church Organ Fund.
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