LATE MRS PARKER SMITH

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 8

LATE MRS PARKER SMITH

PULPIT TRIBUTE

Feeling reference to the passing of the late Mrs Parker Smith, of Palmerston North, whose death occurred a few days ago, was made by the minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, in the pulpit yesterday. “To-day this congregation is called upon again to mourn the loss of one of our oldest and most devoted members in the death of Mrs Parker Smith,” said Mr Brown. “She devoted the strength of her splendid womanhood and the force of her powerful personality to the work of her Master and her Lord. Her hand was in every good work, especially the great work of missions. She was a devout worshipper in this church until advancing years compelled her to confine her activities to the more passive ministry of sympathy and prayer. Her latter clays were enriched rather than clouded with suffering and trial borne with the patient and heroic endurance of an undimmed Christian faith. Our congregational life will be greatly impoverished by. her loss. Our heart’s sympathy and prayers go out during these days of bereavement to the members'of her family and her personal friends. May the God of all comfort sustain and keep them and lead them continually, in the path of faith from which her feet never departed. that they too may experience increasingly the covenanting mercies of their God.”