VETERAN TEACHER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 8

VETERAN TEACHER

HONOUR FOR MISS CHURCH. PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMA. Members of the Masterton . Methodist Church and Sunday School joined in honouring Miss Lilian Church on Sunday morning. Children of the Sunday School attended the opening portion of the morning church service during which the president of the Wellington Sunday School Union, Mr W. F. Stock, presented to Miss Church a ■diploma inscribed as follows: —“The National Sunday School Union Diploma of Honour. This diploma is awarded to Miss Lilian Sarah Church, of Masterton Methodist Sunday School, foi’ continuous and valuable services in the Sunday/ School cause during 40 years. Arnold G. Clark, chairman of Council and Board of Management; Robert E. Denholm, General Secretary, 56 Old Bailey, London, August, 1938.” At the close of the evening church service a social hour was held in the Sunday School Hall when e'ulogistic reference to Miss Church’s work was made by the Rev. F. J. Parker, Messrs J. H. Conly and W. F. Stock, particularly to her work in the infant school where her love for the children and her master had inspired her to devoted and successful service. Miss Church recalled that her first Sunday School work had been a year’s service in the Taranaki Street Methodist Sunday School, Wellington, and that the greatest part of her work here had been under the superintendency of Mr C. E. Daniell. Up. to the beginning of the Great W,ar Miss Church was active in the main school and Bible Class work, but when Mr Arthur Hoar joined the colours she undertook the charge of the Infant Department where she still carried on with joy. Many friends had the privilege of personally congratulating Miss Church, who was the recipient of a beautiful floral tribute from the Sunday Schoffi. The gathering was brought to a close by the singing of the Doxology.