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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 49

Rev James Paterson, in his memorial discourse on Saturday morning, related two or three stories of the Queen's private life, which helped his hearers to understand something of the grief her death has caused among those who had! come into contact with her. Quite recently she visited some soldiers at Nebley Hospital, invalided' from South Africa. In one bed lay a man fearfully wounded in the face. The Queen was deeply moved at his appearance. She cried again and again, “Qh ! what can I do for the poor fellow ? Oh! what cans Ido for the poor fellow?” The wounded man, part of whose face Had been shot away, whispered something about the Queen thanking his nurse for what she had done for him. The Queen at once did! so in a few gracious words, referring to the soldier as “ her poor son.” Again, when Principal Tulloch, a great figure in the Scotch Church, died at the zenitß of his power, the Queen, who had ss great admiration for his preaching and teaching, wrote to his wife and sen in, terms of such womanly kindliness and sympathy as to make her letters infinitely touching and beautiful. Not- com tent with sending these tender, simply and sincere messages, the Queen paid the widow a private visit, and helped to console her with her tears and sympathy. The way in which she watched over the interests of her servants, especially the young women, made an example to mistresses. Last night at the Kent terrace Presbyterian Church, Mrs Stott, of the China Inland Mission, delivered an interesting address on mission work at Wen-ehau, where she .spent thirty years of her life. Mr P. Thomson presided, In spite cif the inclemency of the weather a considerable number of people were present.