MEMORIAL SERVICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12366, 5 December 1904, Page 5

MEMORIAL SERVICE

A memorial service was held at tho Collegiate School Chapel yesterday afternoon, when brasses in memory of the late Rev. J. M. Marshall, for many years chaplain of the School, and Captain P. L. Tudor,.D.S.O., .and the Old Boys who died in South Africa were unveiled.

The Right Reverend Bishop of Wellington officiated. The Rev. T. B. Maclean, of Christ Church, acted as Bishop's chaplain, and the Revs. E. T. W. Bond and A. 0. Williams were also present. The chapel was crowded, there being, in addition to the scholars, a Large attendance of Old Boys.

The service, -which was brief, was of a very impressive 'nature, anld consisted of two appropriate hymns, a psalm, and •the following commemoration prayer:— We give Thee humble, thanks, most merciful Father, for the grlaces and virtues which Thou hast shewn forth in Thy saints, whom Thou h-as 'bestowed upon Thy Church from the foiindatioin of the world to shine as lights in their generation —patriarchs and prophets, apostles and evangelists, martiyrs and confessors, pastors and teachers, rulers and leaders of men, by whose example Thou, hast bui'lit up Thy Church. For whonr, with all others Thy servants, our fathers, mothers, . brothers/ and sisters whose bodies now rest in peace and whose souls :are with Thee, we praise and glorify Thy Name, particularly for those who have gone before us in this place—Joy M. Marshall, Piers L. Tudor, lr. S. Melville, G. N. Borlase. L. P. Russell, W. D. Armstrong, C. S. Bourne, L. H. Arden, E. T. Towgood, C. Parkinson, —humbly beseeching Thee shortly to accomplish the number of Tihine elect and to hasten Thy Kingdom, that we with all other Thy servants in the Communion of Saints may have our rperfect consummation and bliss 'both of body and soul in Thy eternat and every'lasting joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Bishop, in addressing the congregation, said: Those whose memories we have com© here to-day to revere—-chap-lain and scholars, captains and troopers, have all worshipped here, singing the same psalms and reading the same prayers as we have been singing and reading to-day. We mention them here in God's presence, knowing that we shall see them tio> 'more 'before iwe stand together ■ with them and see Him. face to face. "We 'are mentioning their names first because we want to give to God the glory a.nd thanks for all the courage, endurance,'and unswerving faithfulness to duty that we have knoiwn in the lives of those for w-hom we sorrow to-day. Your former chaplain is known —very' well known —to most of us who are ihere tor day. I can speak from my own personal knowledge of how strenuous 'was his obedience to duty, how not only in school time but in the iho'lidays his one thought iwas how best ifco promote .the welfare of the SchooL And liow well he loved—'honestly and genuinely loved— those boys in whose work and in whose games (he was ia constant companion. And there are others, you know betlter than I do. You know of those officers who held their own against very great odds, who met their deaths facing,the enemy, or who died from fever or exhaustioih, the insult of the work they had tried to do—^ork to which they belived God had called them. And we are longing to keep their memories fresh. We >ara longing by some outward sign to show how dear their memory ,and their example are to-day, And there will come into ithis chapel in future years those who have never known them, and (they wM'l be reminded by these brass es ttbey will see en walls of your chapel to eonnetot their thoughlts of God and God Js g'Jory and the Mves God means us to live with the knowledge ifchat there have been those who have been trained here and worshipped in this place who counted molt their lives dear to tihem so thaJb they might do steady faetly and unflinchingly the duty which had 'been assigned them.. And to you, dear boys, thosie brassies speak. : And the message they have Ito say is just this: that the marTwho 'Ceases to struggle has reaiMy ceaseS to .live; that there is nothing to bo 'compared with dimply obeying God's 'commands; that a man who eeeke pleasure or popularity and riches <and places these albove all things is dead Wiliile he lives. And lastly, death has no terrors —can have no iterax)fs —to the man who does God's will, for our. Saviour has taught us that the man who gives a cup of cold water to one of his brothers shall not go without his reward. Now I will ask the vicar of this church to unveil the brasses.

The Rev. T. B. Maclean then drew aide the veil, and the brasses, which contain the -following inscriptions, werte exposed to view:—

Rev. J. M. .Marshall's Memorial.—Erected by the 01<J Boys in memory of Joy Marriotit Marshall, bonn January 28, 1867, died September 2, 1903. Onoe~ a chaplain of this College,, whose untiring' patience, strenuous life, and tenacity of purpose inspired many •wibh the 'courage which refutses to acknowledge de-. feat. "Whosoever -would be chief among you Jet him be youir servant." Tudor 'Memoriall. —In 'memory of Piers Lloyd Tudor, D.5.0.,wh0 ias trooper and sergelant in the. Third, /lieuteinarit in the Sixth arid Ninth, and^captain in the Tenth N.Z." Contingents, . .served with distinctioii_in the war •-•"■■' against tihe.'Rei'pu?blics or'theJTraiJSvadl and Orango. Erie-3" State, being; twice monlfcioned in despatches. He died .at Pretoria, Decexnlber 11, 1902, aged 24. Noble and unselfish in life, patient and brave in the face of death, ihe did his duty^ War Memorial.—Th© easit window was placed in this Chapel in memory of those Old Boys who died fighting or •from injuries received in the South African War of 1899-1902—L. S. iMelviJle, L. P. Russell, L. H. Arden, G. N. • GBorfiase, W. D. Armstrong, E. T. Towgood, C. S. Bourne, C. Parkinson, and P. L. Tudor.

The window (referred to was dedicated some time ago, and is placed over the altar of ithie dhiapel albove the yeredos. It consists of a ■ red Latin cross surmounted t>y a Latin cross on the blue ground, underneath being inscribed the words "In hoe jsig.no vinces." The service concluded by the Bishop pronouncing the- Benediotdoji.