THE LATE REV. F. W. ISITT.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15752, 20 November 1916, Page 8

THE LATE REV. F. W. ISITT.

MEMORIAL SERVICES. * A service in memory of the late F. W. Isitt was held in the DurEa® street Wesloynn Church yesterday*, afternoon. The ..Mayor, Mr 11. Hoi?., land, presided. and said that during-, 1 the thirty years or more he had been associated with the late Mr Isitt, h®' ! had always found him a champion of \ the abstainers' cause. Mr Holland spoke at length in culogism of the late Mr Isitt. and moved: "That assembled in this memorial service, we beg respectfully to express our sympathy' with the relatives of the late Rev. F. W. Isjtt. and insnired liy his memory we hereby pledge ourselves to carry on with increased earnestness and deterj,; mination the work to which he devoted his life." The Rev. \Y. J. Williams, who waj a college chum of the iate Mr Isitt, and . who came out from England at the same time with him. added a comprehensive eulogy, as did the Rev. J. Dawson, who was in close contact with late pastor for over twenty years. Eventually the resolution proposed by the Mayor was carried in silence. Last evening a memorial serriavWai conducted by the Rev. \V. J. AVilliaffll at the East Belt Church, at which the j late Mr Isitt was pastor for several I years. "1