MEMORIAL TO VICAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 14

MEMORIAL TO VICAR

LATE REV. W. E. GILLAM

CEREMONY IN ST. MATTHEW’S

“To the glory of God, and in loving memory of William Eugene Gillam, for 20 years vicar of this parish, 1900-1920. ’Well done, good and faithful servant.’ ”

This is the inscription on a memorial brass tablet to the memory of Mr. Gillam, late vicar of St. Matthew’s Church, City, unveiled yesterday morning by Archbishop Averill. Mr. Gillam died at the age of 73 on July 23, 1929. His ashes were deposited in a pillar, and it is over this place that the tablet has been erected.

In a sermon the archbishop said that this life should not be counted an end in itself, but should be regarded as an opportunity for the service of God and man. Such was the religion of the late Mr. Gillam. He had served his generation faithfully and well, showing thereby how natural gifts were to be devoted according to God’s pleasure.

In an age when the chief object of a great proportion of the people was to seek new sensations, it became increasingly evident that without saints like the late Mr. Gillam, the world would rapidly sink into degradation. A life of such service could never end in death, even in this world, it would live on in the consciousness and ideals of those remaining. “We can honour our loved ones best by following in their footsteps,” said his Grace.

MEANING OF MIND

“Mind” was the subject of the lessonsermon in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Auckland, yesterday. The golden text was from I Corinthians ii; 16. “Who hath known lhe mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” Among the citations, was the following from the Bible: “Let this mind be in you. which was also in Christ Jesus.” The lesson-sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook; “Mind is God The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only mind, and that the suppositious opposite of infinite mind —called devil or evil—is not mind, is not truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There can be but one mind because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown.”