OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 159, 5 January 1914, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MISS AVINTFRKD Sf'EXCK. At the 'Whileloy Memorial Church ia,t night, tin- preacher (the K-v. J. W. Burton) made fueling reference to tlie death of the lute Miss Wiiiifreirspence. tin' youngest daughter of .Mr anil M's ■I. Spence, of ('arrington Uoail. Mi.-s Spence. died ut tlii? New I'lynioiitli Hospital on Saturday, after a slum illness. After touching upon the painful siddenness of -Miss Speurc's. ilcatli. at the rally age of l!l years, ill- Bui'toji r>aiil: "In her profcs-don as a school teacher she was universally inspected ami lovi d liutli liv scholars iiiul staff, ami il will lie long before the Central School will become accustomed to Tier absence, ,Son\e time a<jo she gave her licnrt to Unit and joined, with a number of other young people, in full membership wilh this church. She immediately coiinnonci .1 active sei-vire for lier Master. She fennel a young pen'di/s Bible cbis- a! ('arringtou i'ond, anil led it faithfully fur some months nasi. I van bear witlii'ss to the thoroughness of lier prepar.ilimi for this duly ami Hie joy with wliieli she entered into b-r self-di'-t'ov-ered task. More than this. >hc bad fiillv deleimincd to devote her Jifc to Rod as a foreign mission worker, and had already commenced serious preparation for this calling. Sh" would have made .-in ideal laborer--physically strong, intellertuallv callable and truly -nirilmd and sympathetic -hut (!od 'bad other plan- for lier life, and we bow in resignation to that ungual and over-wise Will. We .ball miss her at elmivli at the laid,, of our Lord.; we shall feel her lo'-s in our choir: and our Sundav-schiin! Nt ( 'arringtou Itoail will bi' sorely weakened by lier departure--but there are others of whom we think and for whom, we prav this nig'ht; those who will miss a dutiful daughter nnd a pnre-soiiled and high-minded sister."