A TRIBUTE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2928, 27 August 1925, Page 2

A TRIBUTE.

(Contributed). The .Methodist Sunday School pays a tribute of love to the memory of llie late Air. Staff and family. In his boyhood Air. Staff was n scholar in our Sunday school, and upon his return to Foxtoii, after the lapse of years, his children. Buleie, Walter, Alfred and little .Margaret, wort* introduced to tlie school, by I heir cousin, Airs \Y. Signal, Jnr, (nee Afiss 0. Ifonore). 111011. and for many years, a valued teacher. Since their infroduetion, the children have been loyal and consistent members of the school, the two hoys lately leaving owing lu having passed tlirough (lie school and grown to young manhood. Buleie had been an active member df Ihe teaching stall for about four years, taking a great interest in the primary department, espeeinllv the little hoys. —“Aly hoys,” as she called them. On the Sunday previous to her death she sat surrounded he a dozen or more. lmxing refused assistance with them, as thev were so good. Sin* knew she could manage them. The sand table was a great joy In her, and >he loved to work out her own ideas, to instruct and interest the v, ce ones. She could not understand anyone not being regular a I Sunday School, and was never absent herself, unless detained al home by duties there, which was verv rarely. And every Sunday saw Ditleie and Margaret, together

with their little brother and sister, in their places. lessons learned

and conduct exemplary. Fellow teachers and scholars alike will sadly miss ihein, and their kind and modest ways. "I hey were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in death they were not divided.”