ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 102, 17 October 1918, Page 2

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH.

Memorial Service. A most solemn and impressive memorial service was held in All Saints’ (Anglican) church, Matamata, on Sunday evening as a tribute of respect to the memory of Chaplain-Capt. C. A. Mallott, Corp. C. B. Beeson and other men of this district who have recently been killed in action at the front. Upwards of 150 people were present, the seating accommodation of the church being taxed to the uttermost. The Rev. J. C. Fussell, of Waiuku (formerly vicar of this parish) conducted the service, assisted by Rev. T. H. G. Partridge. During the course of the service the Rev. Fussell spoke feelingly of the loss which the community in general and the Church in particular had sustained through the passing away of such men as Chaplain-Capt. Mallett, vicar of All Saints, and Corpl. Beeson, lay reader and Sunday school teacher. Both of these men, he said, had set us a noble example. In pre-war days their lives had been devoted towards the uplifting of their fellow beings to higher and nobler things. Recently they had gone out to take up their share in the present struggle which is being waged between legions representing Truth and Righteousness on the one hand against tyranny and oppression on the other. They have now been called away; but in passing from this life they were able to look back over their lives and say, in the words of St. Paul, “ I have fought a good fight—l have kept the Faith.” Surely, he said, this was an example worth following, and he implored one and all present to avail themselves of the opportunities offering to help their fellow beings both in the spiritual and the material sense, and thus emulate the noble example set by those who have left us. Appropriate hymns were sung for the occasion.