Going Strong

NZ Truth, Issue 1177, 21 June 1928, Page 6

Going Strong

SOME parsons are perforce itinerants, and, like unto the Arab, are forever folding their tents, collecting their families and silently stealing away to fresh pastures. .. t . ■ Others there be who spend almost a lifetime m ministering to one flock. Prominent among the latter, and still going strong, is the Rev. John A. Asher, of St. Paul's Presbyterian

Church, Napier.

For more than a quarter of a century has he. heard the surf pounding Napier's shingly beach and rugged breakwater. In the interval perfectly new babies which J.A.A. received into the fold have so successfully emulated "Topsy" that they m turn now proudly prqisent /ttieir own 'tiny, air 'Clutching infants 'at "the font. : J -J ' '"■ Thus—to our discomfiture — doth wily old Father Time wave his magic wand.

J;A.A. was tending the Scotchbyterian flock at Gore when he heard the S.O.S. from Napier, since when he has quietly, but firmly, declined to tune-in on similar calls. -Napier, it seems, will do him yery nicely, thank you. He has held the highest office h!~ Church can confer— the Moderatorship —and hls election said something for the perspicacity, of his reverend brethren.