Veteran Wesleyan Preachers

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1693, 27 April 1886, Page 3

Veteran Wesleyan Preachers

The celebration of the twentyifirst anniversary of the opening of the Durhitf^trcet We^leyan Church. Christ church, on .March 30, was fitingly ch»sen as the occasion for unveiTing' iwo inemoral tablets which ha^e been placed on either side of the, pulpit - tliß one m commemoration of the Key. J\ {sailer, and the other of those -£Steen)ed members of the Wesleyjin^bKimunion who perished m the shiowrccjc of the Tararua, jn ApV>l»; 18M/"fKoKev. J. Aldred siidho had been se'.ectcd to speak on the life, I character, autl deiith of each of the brethfeq whose names appeared on thettabjet* - He vefer.reJ, -first, to the' tablet pV. his left,. ..which boie the name of the Rev. J. Bullejv He had known,'.. Raines. Bnjleras one of the dearest . friends he ever bad Their friendship commenced, m 1840 pre- j vio'is io when most of the present congregation- were born. That friendship, bWI deejjened and had :neverbeen )»'QVf>iv : rill Mr. Buller,s. death. Huridrefbof times, they had listened to him: with delimit . preachinflf from thnb. ppjpils'.and, m his jti,lgmi.>nfc,Ne\v Zealand b:ul.h;ifl no. more powerful ])rfi|jchftVs tnaai the la* e .Thomas Bmldlc, John Wiirren, and James Buller. Mr, Bui l<;r : had loved his, work, and. had r a .great ' cajiacily f»'V work. He never complained of weariness. Year after year ho had conduct d four services."" > si Sunday to the native and English .ciingrpgrttions. H.e was a goqxCp:i?tor, and especially atteutive to the sick. Towards the close of his life* his sufferings hatTtbeen very great, buChe here them... Without mnrmuring, and on November 6, 1 8>84, he p:isj,sed; r peaceably away— the friend of all, the eyomy of none. r