LATE CONSTABLE DUDDING

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 21, 20 October 1919, Page 4

LATE CONSTABLE DUDDING

A MEMORIAL SERVICE. At a memorial service held in tho Town Kail last evening by the Method' dt Central Mission, tho Rev. G. Knowles Smith delivered an address inspired by the heroic death that Constable Vivian I)udding recently mot iu tho performance of his duty, Tho Primo tho Mayor, the Spenkers of both Houses of I'atf.iament, members of the Cabinet, the Chairman of Committees, members of nil three Parliamentary parties, City Councillors, tho Chief Justice, Stipendiary Magistrates, and many other well-known citiisens, were among the big crowd that attended. Mr. Khowlcs Smith said of tho departed: Who could assert that he had gone, and gone forever? Every true heart would revolt at such a thought. I ; cath meant something wider and higher than that. Whatever differences might divide men upon theological questions, ali>> Agreed in assigning to duty place as a stepping-stone to what was highest. No choice of, calling gave such opportunities for the performance of true service as tho choico which lay the way_ of the ■jiolice force. The policeman's life was mado up of "hero am in the commonplace." Tho policeman had many a time to go to thi? aid of tho powerless, the weak, the weary, and the lost-ones. Constable Dudding had laid down his life because he was ready to answor the ec.'.l of duty to do his work as <i policeman. He had imswl f7X)m the earth, but'ho was still living: he, was but called to a larger solt'co, and to a fuller duty. If the manner of his passing hence spoke to the heart, of other men, summoning them to take their nlace and perform their due service to God and to humanity, his deatli would not hnve been in vain. Mr. ICnowles Smith concluded with an expression of the sympathy Mt hy nil for tho widow of tho lato constable.

At the conelns : on of the. nddjws tho Mission Band rendered "Tho Garland of Flowers," while the audience Blood. The .Rev. Knowlra Smith wns .ii=w'*ted in the conduct of Hie servico by Hie Rev. J. Da n son.