A LEADER IN SOUTH CANTERBURY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13651, 20 July 1908, Page 4

A LEADER IN SOUTH CANTERBURY.

There is nol a corner in Son:lt Canterbury in which a sense of personal loss vill nob tie occasioned by tlie nnnouiteement:! which lit is mil' painful duty to malio this morning of (lie death of tin; Rev, Goorgo.Barclay. We need say nothing more tliau is .said in our obituary nolia; of hi« services (o the- church of • which toe «•<«? pntclically the founder in this]district,, or t«» (lie advancement, of educatim to.which he gave fco many years of oaviest, labour. For a fuller recognition of, lis achievements in both those- fields, Mid of tlift obligations wider which ho Ins placed Smith Canterbury, it is tiuing.that wo should defer to the au'horitiei- of ihti Church and of iihe educational ovganisat ior.fi with which he w:is associated. Bjub at the moment of his departing, wo dm no move than discharge a functim -which the people of South CanO.'i'buiy would wish us to perform for them, it; exposing their senso of Ova value of his long and useful life, and their rogret .that, now the inevitable, debt of nature lias been paid. Death, coming" as if; dd in Mr Barclay's caise, in tlia fulnesA-of yeatw, after a career rich in active- service and high achievements, is not a mounful ending. .1 fc is bub Ihe closing of vplnnui whos* pages are full of honour to tlui' departed writer, and of inspiraton lor tiluiKe- who read it, and who roiiain in carry <in the work which lie begin^