CHURCH LEADER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23134, 5 September 1938, Page 11

CHURCH LEADER

AECHBISHOP JULIUS FUNERAL AT CHRISTCHURCH SIMPLE CATHEDRAL SERVICE CITIZENS PAY LAST TRIBUTE [BY TET.KGKAPn PRESS ASSOCIATION] criKISTCHURCH, Sunday "I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith." This was the Scriptural quotation which appeared on the cover of the order of service at Christchureh Cathedral this afternoon, and it aptly epitomised tho life of ' Archbishop Julius, who was buried to-day. The service which preceded the funeral was a simple but deeply-moving-one. An hour before tho service began people filed into the Cathedral, which was packed before 2 p.m. At the stroke of tho hour the choir filed in from tho right and clergy and members of the Cathedral Chapter from the left. There was a large representation of clergy and in the body of the Cathedral were representatives of local bodies, including the Mayor, Mr. R. M. Maclarlane, churches of other denomination, educational bodies and of every phase of the city's life, both public and private. 'J-randsons as Pallbearers Lhe eight pallbearers, four of whom were the archbishop's grandsons, and the other four the husbands of his grand-daughters, lifted the casket to their shoulders and passed through the surpliced ranks. 'J here was a deep silence in the Cathedral. It was evident that those who had come to bid farewell to a dearlyloved churchman and citizen felt a sense of personal loss. From the Sisters of the Community of the Sacred Name, which the archbishop himself established in Christchureh, to the girls of his cherished school of St. Margaret's, irom tho clergy who knew him so well to those of other churches who venerated and like him, all felt tho solemnity of tho occasion.

In Cathedral Square traffic stopped as the coffin was lifted to the hearse. ] here wore 710 cars filled with flowers. The archbishop did not want them and they were not necessary to express the city's affection and sorrow.

Crowd at Cemetery On the route to the Lin wood Cemetery people were clustered at street corners to pay silent tribute as the cortege passed on, and on the sodden slopes at the cemetery some hundreds of people had assembled for the final service, which was conducted by Bishop West-Watson.

There, after the simple burial service, members of the archbishop's family dropped their personal wreaths in the grave. As the crowd slowly dispersed the sun broke through the clouds for the first time in a grey day. The pallbearers at the Cathedral and the cemetery were Messrs. John Elworthy, Edward El worthy, Derrick Gould, Arthur Elworthv. J. Wilson, R. S. D. Harman, H. Thonjson and the Rev. W. E. D. Davies. The chief mourners were the Very Rev. Dean J. A. Julius and Mrs. .lulius, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Elworthv, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Elworthv, and the Ven. Archdeacon Arthur Hanson and Mrs. Hanson, and Miss Julius.

LOSS TO DOMINION

ADDRESS BY ARCHBISHOP OBSERVANCE AT AUCKLAND Simultaneously with the burial of the Into Arch hi shop Julius in Christchurch on Saturday afternoon a memorial service was held in St. Mary's Cathedral, when a number of his friends and admirers took the opportunity to pay tribute to a great church leader. "The main purpose of our service this afternoon," said Archbishop Averill, who gave the address, "is to join with the hundreds and thousands of the frimds of the late Archbishop in Christchurch and elsewhere in offering our praises and thanksgivings -to Almighty God for the life and service of a man of whom it can be truly said that he fought a good fight and kept the faith.

"From my close and intimate knowledge of him I am quite sure that he would not have us regard the termination of his long life on earth as a cause of sorrow merely, hut of holy joy and thanksgiving," said Archbishop Averill.

Although the late Archbishop was primarily concerned with the diocese of Christchurch, yet in his capacity of Primate and Archbishop he belonged to them all, and they all had a personal interest 111 his wellbeing. The service also afforded them an opportunity of expressing their sympathy with their follow churchmen in the diocese of Christchurch in their very real bereavement and with the members of the bereaved family. If ho might bo pardoned a personal reference, ho felt that ho had lost his own personal fnther-in-God, for Archbishop .Julius was the first, person to wclcomo him when he landed in New Zealand in 1894, Archbishop Averill stated. The close friendship which commenced 44 years ago had remained unbroken through all the changes and chances of life.

The o|>oning part of tho service, partlv following the order for the burial of the dead and with appropriate hymns, was conducted by Dean W. Fancourt. Tho Scripture passage from I. Corinthians, xv., was road by Archdeacon G. Mac Murray.