SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1921, Page 6

SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.

TRIBUTE TO MISS DEVENISH. i At the conclusion of the children’s | service at St. Mary’s Church, New Plymouth. yesterday afternoon, the teaenI ers and scholars adjourned to the Parish I Hall, where the opportunity was taken to say farewell to Miss Devenish, who ' with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Skinner, is I leaving for England early in January, i The Rev. F. G. Harvie made appropriate • I reference to Miss Devenish’s long con- ' I nection with the school as teacher, and i also superintendent in both morning ' and afternoon schools, and said that the i teachers and scholars wished to say [ farewell and make a small presentation prior to her departure. Mr. S. W. Shaw said he was very pleased to he present to do honor to Miss Devenish, who was one of his lifelong friends. He had been associated with her for many years in Sunday School work, and* no one knew better ! than he the value of the work which Miss Devenish had done, and her influence for good upon th 6 children who had passed through her hands. Wjth her it had been a. labor of love, and no one could estimate what she had done for the parish. The vicar then asked Miss Devenish • to accept a travelling bag from the ' teachers and scholars as a slight token of their love and esteem. Miss Devenish feelingly replied. She mentioned that she had been associated , with- the school for 42A years. She loved the children and the work, and although she was leaving them for a time • she hoped upon her return to take up her work again in the morning school. She also mentioned that of the junior teachers present, all but two were old pupils, and that her successor in the morning school had as a boy been taught by her. While away they would be continually in her thoughts and remembered in her prayers.