METHODIST TRIBUTE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 250, 4 August 1941, Page 6

METHODIST TRIBUTE.

THE LATE MRS S. CHAPMAN. At the Baring Square Methodist Church last night reference- was made to the life and work of the late Mrs iS. Chapman. The service was conducted by the Rev. A. Mcßean. Mention was made of the fact that the call to higher service and Home caine on her 83rd birthday. “During the day,” said Mr Mcßean, “ messages kept coming from those who had not heard of her death; messages of congratulation and good wishes upon the attainment of her birthday. Yet there was nothing incongruous in the coming of such messages on such a day for, after all, it was what she herself would have desired. She had found life sweet, and she loved it well. And she loved her family, to whom ,she had boon a wonderful mother, and they in turn had ministered to her with unfailing tenderness and good cheer. But Heaven was her home—for long she had breathed the • atmosphere of Heaven, and Heaven was in her heart. Her home was in a very real sense a Christian home, and both by precept and example her children were taught to love their God. The Church of the Redeemer occupied a central place in her h'eart, as it did also in the heart of her late husband. Always her life was marked by the tender grace of a truly sweet and winsome character. Her memory will live on, to be a gracious influence in the lives of all who knew her; and with one individual voice her whole life will say to young and old alike: ‘0 taste and see that the Lord is good! happy is the man that trustest in Him.’ ”

The choir, under Mr H. A. Humphreys, sang the anthem, “Sun of My Soul,” ancl some of Mrs Chapman’s favourite hymns were also sung.