A MEMORIAL SERVICE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4622, 15 January 1894, Page 2

A MEMORIAL SERVICE

A memorial refprenge o( soiqe interest was ragde yesterday it) tl)e Preabyterinu by. tlje fyr. Kabeitr WqqcJ. The preaolier cjiacou on theiyordsit) flev, "Tlierq ~ shall bo no more curse, and His servants shall Bene lliui, and they sball seo His face, and His namo ' shall be in their foreheads." At the : close of his sermon\on " Heiven and its People," the preacher suid that "as a congregation wetare much poorer to-day than we wero a week ago, The true wealth of a Church consists in the pare, prayerful,Cbbt-liko siiarao< ter ot its members, anu, one possessing such a character has pisvd from our midst during the week.'ut ia a flatter of dero interest to riojica howtflio only members in feHoffspjplwiili uswljo have-died during tbo lasu three years • havo ripe in Wrs' and in Chrisjiian '.Batefdavtjie r of Mrs pales TO? laid jh the grave. For ngafly (h f ei years she ■ has been unable, by reagoi of old age and infirmity, , j ship, but in her heart. Qu|f aged sister. *V noy yifii God, was tfiej widow of pne pf-ote Presbyterian ° (winters ' n Irejand. Her jpbandl ffaathpEey, : (fames Dales, an M.A, of Queen's QcK ... • leg*. Beffast, who fabpurpjl fffr p'eaflv" W thirty years in qienhoy, County W Tyrone, with faithfulness and' sue' I OfSB. Six years ago she owe to the ■ Colony, and to Mnsterton, with her ■ family, in feeble health. J Her saintly J life impressed all who knew her. The Jfl spirituality of her mind; her prayerfulness, her pure unselfishness, made her life very beautiful, God's name, the God-like character, was seen in her forehead. And no* is spending her first Heaven. . great, erdrqt H tod* th'a.grave is'known of lier as Pdrerfiae jrejjlßetl 'by: Irjiffo fheife jg'no njoj'e Vporajt | said f| Thpy ceased say's: V" On ryi Dales, •ry.'_