LYTTELTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12522, 18 June 1906, Page 9

LYTTELTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

At the close, of fbo morning service ! J in the LytteJton," Presbytotian church, \ } t!ie Roy.* A. O. Wedderspoon, speak- ' j Jof t.ho lato Promier. said : — i I" Wliatevor men's politics, all ; alike reorcnitsed in him one who, with j t groat ability and untiirijis energy, ap- j ( pli«l himsel't to the •betterment of the • f condition of tho people. A self-edu- ; v catod nnd Krlf-mado man, h? had puehed \ Km way to tho front among our Im- j r perial etateemon, and yet his grcat-E.esj j x never al-lowed him to forget his mates of former days. The highest in. the • Empire have haetenod to express their regret, but by none will he bo more sincerely mourned than ty the working '- c!as ; es, who ki his death have Icet or» j of ths?;T hcet friends. He- Jived tho j strenuous life, and gavp himßelf fox tho j people. Such a career as his cannot but ( havo an. inspiring influence on the youth a of our young and democratic country, ; t for in hie example is eho-wu how talents p and opportunibieß we' 3 ue-cd arerro w warded. Our -hearts go out in eym- fi pathy to h : s widow ortd famiry in thvTr p unexpected bereavement, and wo are all a reinindod to bo ready, for we know not b in what hour tire Sod of Man, may como s to ue." r i »