CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 499, 11 September 1912, Page 5

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

SPECIAL SERVICE. In St. Luke's Church last Sunday night, mention was made of Mrs White's services in the church, and special hymns were sung. For Mrs White had been a member of the choir, the treasurer of the Ladies' Guild, and active in helping in many ways. The Rev.. E. S. Wayne took for the subject of his addresa, "Women who ministered to Jesus Christ." He pointed out that from the beginning to the end of our Lord's life, His teaching always appealed to women, whereas in men it often aroused hatred. That the women our Lord healed showed a deeper gratitude than was always shown by man, That throughout our Lord's ministry many of these women followed Him, to minister to Him of their substance, and at the crucifixion there were many watching Him. So now true gratitude always finds a way to minister to Him, not in home life alone, but following Him out as these women did. And it is by this service for others that we best guage the value of Christian lives. In the life of Mrs White a love of home, a characteristic of all womanly women was coupled with a kindly character that was always anxious to help all in trouble. But besides these she had a keen interest in the betterment of mankind at large, shown in one way by a deep interest in temperance reform, a senEe of duty to Jesus Christ that had expression in work in the Ladies' Guild, in singing in the crioir, and a willingness to collect for such objects as the Bible Society. Many felt one they truly liked had been taken away, and some mourn a friend they will greatly miss, and all must feel a true sympathy for the husband to whom home meant so much in a very buy life. He spoke of the words of the burial service, "In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ." Of the sympathy of the Saviour in loneliness and called upon everyone to give active service and true sympathy to all because Christ died for all. The last hymn was "For all the saints, who from their labours rest," and all stood while the Dead March was played by Miss Lee.