MEMORIAL WINDOWS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 11

MEMORIAL WINDOWS

LATE REV. W. BRAMWELL SCOTT

DEDICATION SERVICE

Tomorrow evening, at 7 o'clock, in Trinity Methodist Church, Riddiford Street, a service will be held to dedicate memorial windows to the late Rev. William Bramwell Scott. These windows have been erected by the returned soldiers of Wellington, to whom Mr. Scott was exceptionally well known, and the officials and members of Trinity Church.

The service will commence with the National Anthem, which will be followed by a prayer by the Rev. Walter Parker, minister of the church. The lesson will be read by Colonel C. Walls, M.C., Salvation Army, and following the singing of Psalm XXIII, the choir will sing an anthem. Then a hymn will be sung, and this will be followed by the unveiling of the window erected by the returned soldiers of Wellington. The Right Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, M.A., Bishop of Wellington, will officiate.

Another hymn will follow, and then the Rev. F. Copeland, president of the New Zealand Methodist Conference, will unveil the window erected by officials, and members of Trinity Church. The remainder of the service will include a prayer offered by Colonel Walls, a hymn, and the Benediction, which will be pronounced by the Bishop.

The Rev.. W. Bramwell Scott, C.F., was born at Thames in 1873, and his boyhood was spent in Wanganui, Napier, and Auckland. He was a home missionary in different parts of the Dominion for ten years, and was subsequently ordained into full work for the Church in 1910. His work among miners, the farming community, and sportsmen, fitted' him particularly in later life for his service to many returned soldiers and others. He was the first chaplain of the Legion of Frontiersmen in the Dominion, and he served as a padre with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War.

Returning to the Dominion after the cessation of hostilities, he occupied the pulpits of Methodist churches at Kaiapoi, Cargill Road, Waimate, and Wellington South. A keen gardener and lover of beauty, he was noted for leaving a circuit in a more beautiful condition both in buildings and grounds. Many returned soldiers will remember with gratitude his great work on behalf of unemployed ex-servicemen and others whose circumstances deserved help.