LATE BISHOP NEVILL

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17292, 2 November 1921, Page 2

LATE BISHOP NEVILL

THE FUNERAL. (SHJOTAIi TO "THE PRESS,") DUNEDIN, November 1. Bishop NevilPs funeral was largely attended this morning. Tho attendance at Holy Communion at the Cathedral at 7.15 a.m. was exceptionally large. The service was plain. Bishop Richards was the celebrant, assisted by the Rov. V. G. Bryan King, who road the Epistle, and administered the Chalice, Mr H. West acting as server. Special prayers were used. Bishop Julius, the ActingPrimate, was present. The weather being bitterly cold and blustering, tlhe clergy did not robe for the procession from the Cathedral to the railway station. About ninety mourners foUowed the motor-hearse. Canon Nevill, nephew of the deceased, was chief mourner. » There were two reasons for burying the Bishop iri the Warrington Cemetery.. His first wife is interred there in a concreted vault, and his Lordship had mote than once expressed a wish that when his time came he Elhould bo laid at rest alongside of the church that he had always liked. Bishop Julius conducted the service at the graveside, and Bishop Ridhards gave the Benediction- The) Freemasons then held their burial service in the shorter form. Bro. tho Rev. W. Uphill offered the prayer, and JVI.W Bro. T. Tlloss Conducted the ceremony, and gave the address, assisted by Bro. tho Rev. C. J. Bush King, after wllnch the Brethren advanced one by one to the margin of the grave and- deposited therein the symbolical sprigs of acaciaAt a meeting of tho Dunedin Presbytery, it was decided, on the motion of the Rev. Dr. Cameron, "That the Presbytery desires to place on record its appreciation of the long and faithful services rendered to the Church of Christ by the late Bishop Nevill. Fifty years ago he came to Dunedin in the; strength of his early manhood, and was then consecrated the first Anglican Bishop of this diocese. The Btory of these long years is one of earnest endeavour for the extension of the Church he loved so well, and the God of all. In tho advancing of his own views, Bishop Nevill was strong and fearless, vet gracious to those who •differed from, him. His words never left the sting of bitterness in the hearts of those whom he opposed. He was a man of vision, who refused to be turned aside by difficulties or indifference from the pursuit of tlhe causes to which he felt himself called. Thus, when others thonglit a College unnecessary, he set himself to found Selwyn College for the training of the clcTgy, and when to others a Cathedral seemed but a dream, (he saw it as a necessity, <ond secured its sanction."