Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 15:48:38 GMT
This church closed in 1958.
579 Private Reginald I Bone, 5th Royal Irish Regiment. 17th March 1915, aged 22. Son of Charles J. and Elizabeth J. Bone, of 14, Rosehill Street, Darwen.
THE LATE PRIVATE BONE.
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT BOLTON ROAD WESLEYAN CHURCH.
There was a large congregation at the Bolton-road Wesleyan Church on Sunday morning when a memorial service was held to the late Private Bone, whose remains were interred at the Darwen Cemetery on Tuesday of last week following death from pneumonia contracted whilst in camp in Ireland. The Rev. J. D. Bisbrown preached an impressive and most appropriate sermon on "Hope," making application to the hope the country had at the present time and the hope that many of the soldiers engaged in the present struggle were imbued with. The musical portion of the service was appropriate to the occasion, and under the supervision of the organist, Mr. Arthur Kay, was rendered most effectively. Miss Bell sang the solo "Angels over bright and fair," with much sympathy, whilst the choir rendered the anthem "Vital spark," and at the close the Dead March in Saul was rendered by the organist.
The subject of Mr. Bisbrown's address was the 13th verse, of the 13th chapter of St. Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, "And now abideth hope." Among the temples of the Romans, he observed, were several erected to the goddess of Hope - a cherished goddess. The coming of Christianity had not retarded hope but had made it into one of the graces of the religion. Hope as an energising principle, he instanced as a principle which made men hope for the knowledge which would solve the problem of life, that man might enter more fully into the knowledge of the life hereafter. Mr. Bisbrown, dealing with the war, referred to it as the greatest in history. So many, he said, had laboured for peace, yet hope still lingered on and people hoped that this war would be the last. Hope, he said, was also a great factor in social reform.
The second point was not the hope that led to endeavour but the hope that ..tained that left them calm and still after the earthly hopes had been frustrated.
(Darwen News, 31 March 1915)
579 Private Reginald I Bone, 5th Royal Irish Regiment. 17th March 1915, aged 22. Son of Charles J. and Elizabeth J. Bone, of 14, Rosehill Street, Darwen.
THE LATE PRIVATE BONE.
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT BOLTON ROAD WESLEYAN CHURCH.
There was a large congregation at the Bolton-road Wesleyan Church on Sunday morning when a memorial service was held to the late Private Bone, whose remains were interred at the Darwen Cemetery on Tuesday of last week following death from pneumonia contracted whilst in camp in Ireland. The Rev. J. D. Bisbrown preached an impressive and most appropriate sermon on "Hope," making application to the hope the country had at the present time and the hope that many of the soldiers engaged in the present struggle were imbued with. The musical portion of the service was appropriate to the occasion, and under the supervision of the organist, Mr. Arthur Kay, was rendered most effectively. Miss Bell sang the solo "Angels over bright and fair," with much sympathy, whilst the choir rendered the anthem "Vital spark," and at the close the Dead March in Saul was rendered by the organist.
The subject of Mr. Bisbrown's address was the 13th verse, of the 13th chapter of St. Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, "And now abideth hope." Among the temples of the Romans, he observed, were several erected to the goddess of Hope - a cherished goddess. The coming of Christianity had not retarded hope but had made it into one of the graces of the religion. Hope as an energising principle, he instanced as a principle which made men hope for the knowledge which would solve the problem of life, that man might enter more fully into the knowledge of the life hereafter. Mr. Bisbrown, dealing with the war, referred to it as the greatest in history. So many, he said, had laboured for peace, yet hope still lingered on and people hoped that this war would be the last. Hope, he said, was also a great factor in social reform.
The second point was not the hope that led to endeavour but the hope that ..tained that left them calm and still after the earthly hopes had been frustrated.
(Darwen News, 31 March 1915)