CARVED IN STONE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 2

CARVED IN STONE.

M_3s_.o-.A__._rs many v____nr__s. OLD TOaEBSTONB O-EAKTHEn. A curious find, wan made this morning at the. T_>idence at the top of .shontlaaid .Street that wan juany years ago occupied by Sir (ieorge drey. Some workmen were digprmj; at tho side -of 'the house wthen they came across what appeared to be a huge wl.ib of tand-strme. When tbe find wa_s unearthed and cleaned, il wan discovered to be an old tombstone. The Inscription on. the rttone tell its own story. It .says: "'Here lies all that could die of the Rev. CJiarles Locus Seay, formerly of .Tiicens College, Oxford, B-4_ and vicar of Swan- : bourne Buck.-, i a England. He was an . Israelite, indeed, irr whom tbere was no I guile. Learned and brave, yet simple si* a. child: a fond h u..han<_. a -tondcr parent, a tfaj'thftii friend. In obedience to the. commands, of his Crrat IMa-ster to go forth and preach the Gospel among all nations, be left a Christian home and Christian friends, and here, borne by the weight of bis labouTß in tiie Lord's vineyard, be tsank to rost. IM-arCh 31. 1848. age J ,'JS. in the hope and faith of -,i joyful resurrection. A volume would not tell bis many -rii-tups. but this stone i.s erected to bis memory by '!ii-> widow."