THE CATHEDRAL.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14109, 31 July 1911, Page 8

THE CATHEDRAL.

Before commencing his sermon at the Cathedral yesterday morning, Deau Harper spoke of Mr Taylor as being a man who never, under any circumstances, sacrificed the public good to his private interest. He was a man of considerable capacity and ability, and oiio who had dono a good deal ror the Dominion and tho city, amd if ho had eurvived would probably have done very good work as Mayor. Special hymns and psalms wero sung at the service, and the "Dead March," in Saul, was played. Preaching at the men's service at the Cathedral yesterday afternoon, the Rev. 0. FitzGerald said that although many might have differed from iho late Major yet nobody in tho city could help admiring him for the straightforward way in which ho always upheld what ho thought to be right. At the evening service at th© Cathedral Canon Carrington said that the late Mr Taylor's chief characteristic was that ho gave himself to service! So many of the best men would rather attend to their own affairs and live apart, considering it beneath them to bother about public duty, but Mr Taylor was a man who gave himself fully to tho public servioe. One perhaps did not agree with everything he said or did, but he (the preacher) had met several people who had voted against Mr Taylor at the Mayoral election and who had afterwards said they wore delighted he was elected for his strenuous interest in the city's welfare and ' his sympathetic personality endeared him even to his enemies. ''I beliove myself," continued Canon Carrington, "that if ho had lived we might have soon him do very great thing* in the future. We part from him as from an honoured ! friend and a faithful public servant., and there is nothing that one could draw from his life better as an ideal than that of service." The "Dead March" was played at the close of the service.