WAIMATE TAYLOR MEMORIAL SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10843, 14 August 1911, Page 1

WAIMATE TAYLOR MEMORIAL SERVICE.

j•. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ' The Oddfellows' Hall was well filled lon Sunday.afternoon for the above sarI vice. His Worship the Mayor (Mr X. Francis) presided, and seats on the platform were occupied bv Mrs Goldsmith, Mr and Mrs W. J7 Roberts, Mr R. Meredith, Mr T. Brown (President Temperance Union), Mr P. Boyd (1.0.0. F.), Messrs A. Walker and C. Cunningham (Labor Party), Mr E. Hall (ChristI church), Mr G. Dash (convenor), Adju- ! tant Howe (Salvation Armv), and the Town Clerk (Mr C. Dash). I : The service opened with the singirtfT. Of "Lead Kindly Light," after which 1 J Adjutant Howe offered ;up a prayer. I i His Worship .the Mayor read apologies I for absence from the Revs. Guy, Morrison, Penny,- and-Messrs Tl L. Hart, G. Paul, and.F; Rule. ..... I His .Worship expressed!, pleasure in I presiding, at siich r - .V,' well-attended I gathering. - T While'-iegfetfcing . the cirI cumstarice rorth; their I sbrroTC, 7 | of being : allowed/.toiexpress his admira : I tidn'for;;- the of- a ■•- fstr6ng,:venefgeKS^mlaHl?wboShw--spent ;pf the 'people:-'^Sißee"attaining 1 r tlie office of : Sfayor 'of Taylor had'- given' practically valutas. J tjme'.toJHsibivic^ endeavor; 1 city; r ; and .hisiswbrlJS had'terminated so^suddeply':>" Haiing.? once: had'the ipnvileggv J stand that his /cfo£smSoi personality drew aU:men. l to..njm. < eluded %. urging tatibii ijY,,a ; menibriaTJfurid.J;,.;^.:::''! !.S.-" ';£*.,-,.,". * r ,.J^ ]Vlr,E.Yßair;;of wJio ; ;r6;, ; f erred to'tbe. faWUnat^h^ha.dJivedjin;-; see so secret of success in life attained-by th'b ' late Mr T. ~E. Taylor laj.in. the factthat he h'ad'!de^ofed::MinseK;-to^,ser-- ; . r vice". His" life %as;an :; embodiment of-; the Scriptural' it is'yet dayS for-tEe nigbticom^em : when*;: no man ';may r; wbrj£?.' -JFrprn, j;he age^og.': 14 he- liad-eriaeavored: tb<;db-thev''wbrk--of Himl/.thafi "sent m&?%Z AX manisilife was. notitohad.:beea ; saidv livej- welllas ts° -:\WSi" ' ldng,'£-.and■although' ■, of life^Mf don&.mpre thttaj i niany rweJiyedjifoi- 2QQi. h'e Aadimad£7a i -; of :his de"aih\ir ' ,:<■ ] Mrs:"\%X' Rbbetts^ralithpflgtenQt^per^,. Taylor, felt in;:'cbnimon : ;- of the. I?spunio^.tl^t :J slie'*.&d[ r real friend.. for- the .political,; ehfranchisement of. ;. women;' but, by jhis ""Iffe?s fwort, in;the: causa of the,cause of: humanity, -land.theuphjtr-. ins of women... Mri.j Roberts v.mad e .:;,-.; strong appeal! for the cause" of temper;- . ance. • ■..-.'.-". - '..■.*■■■''(, •■■ .•■ .'• ';:.:' \ -..- Mr W r . Ha.y. s then sangf,'-'Grossing.the Bar," and his. contribution..; well -merits ; ed the hearty appreciation; bestowed.,, Miss A.,; Miller .acted, asL-.accompanist :■ Mr George.i Dash, ,wbb at.the. request: of the Borough':Council, had ..convened, ; the : meeting was : .inclined.-to. look' • only on the mburnfuliide of .the'matter, but rather to rejoice, that such a man had'lived.' He><ju6ted^Lbweirs.lines.tii ~ Kossuth beginning ( ''A, race- .of -iipbles;: r t maydie out, ".'and. ending ' "The, strain •, he : hlew rounds; on,, outliving .chains, and; v death'.".' .Siicli prophets .of .-whom. Lowell■■ , wrote vbnly, appeared now- and, agaia 5; but they;m'ade.,their;n^ark. ; as.leaders pf ;; menv: *Gartlyl&;,,-.iin-.his';; bad; ' dealt.; fulTy *'witir'/great men r 'V_and stated that their the his- _ tory of the worlds What great men thought and. did-moulded, the thought and'work of the world. Cailyle laid .t down that the essentials' of greatness were sincerity and a mindT>pen to the divine significance of'this world. , While we could .be sincere without being great, no one could he great unless, sincerity was so a part, of their moral construction tbat they not not possibly be other than sincere. Such a, man was the late Mr T .E. Taylor, and .the message of his life to young men was that service was the greatest, of all''things. He had. served .without reward. Wealth arid" social position were not h'is seeking. Had he been prepared to pay the price, h'e could have attained to the highest political .position, in the Dominion; but Mr Taylor had i told a friend of the spealcer that _he I should never be the leader, of a politicalpjarty, as he could not possibly-make the compromises necessary in such a po-, sition. As Carlyle said, society is based on .hero worship, and all" action vs prompted ; by example, The life of one who, had been a. leader and prophet would; and should, influence the lite ot oiir'Dominion. Since Mr Taylor's death.' no' word bad . been written, or said against' bis; life, but, friend and-oppo-nents' were unanimous that bis.life was right " and it was a- logical deduction that If Ms lif.e-'w.as. right, „then_ tbat for whicbrbe .lived'and,wbich'-on bis.deathbed" he declared"to.be worth'Jivjng for and'di-ingTfor. nmst.' 4 also. be. right, lhe Borough' Gbuncili''fearing' that something, might be said"at, this meetrngon favor of prohibition, 'had- not- cared to take, the. responsibility calling the thej meeting, arid' Efd".landed it over to the speaker'to, arrange, ..and he would like to say tbat, the_ job" smted him. Mf Dash''then,spok'e for,five minutes on Prohibition, asking those, present not to be satisfied with', -voting only but to give the cause their -unqualified- sup-

JVIr E. Meredith, ex-M IK, as one who Jiad been associated, m Fdiliamen,t with Mi Tavloi, eulogised the ability and character displayed by one the influence of whose honest life would last longer than marble monuments and inscriptions Many people were under the impression 1 that once a man entered larhament his. fortune was made line was a Sir.H/ Atkinson had died poor and Parliament had-voted £2OOO w!dow- The same sum had been voted'to th'e widows of the late Sir J" M'Kenzie and James Maeatlrew! while £6OOO had been voted to Mrs Seddon- He was delighted- to £w aa the people of Canterbury MrTnot asking Parliament to providefo£%* widow of TVIr Taylor, but weye butting their shoulders to the wheeHn . ffi"fe was confident would te a sacfceSful effoit to relievo the w.dow ind orphans from financial worrj TWr A Walker, as v ice-presrdent ot | ifche Waitnk! Branch of the New Zealand tabor Federation, <=poke bnefh in niovmgttie following resolution, which was seconded to Mr C Cunningham ,"That this gathering of i esidonts of Wa,mate and distuct records its deep s>m- • paMv with Airs Taylor in tne death of her hushind Mi T E Taylor, M P iMa\oi of Chrrstchuieh, whose many ,and notable s«rwcos to the people ot this -Dominion, in political and social \reform, maikod him as a truly groat - man, whose death is a more than ordin'arv loss to the Dominion and its lesolution was carried to the gathenng standing "The Thou Ga%cst Lord is Ended" was then <=nnc, and A.d-|titant Howe pronounced the benediction. A collection taken during the meeting a mounted to £4 17s 6d.