Our Workers.

White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 178, 18 April 1910, Page 6

Our Workers.

Mrs Henderson, Frankton, writes : “ I wish to thank most sincerely all those who have sent such kindly helpful letters. I would like to assure them that their prayers for us have been abundantly answered. Our God has indeed been ‘a very present help in trouble.’ We have received much comfort from the following lines so kindly sent by one Union : “ E’en for the dead, I will not hind my soul to grief; Death cannot long divide. For, is it not as though the rose that climbed my garden wall, Has blossomed on the other side? Death doth hide, Hut not divide, Thou art hut on Christ's other side : Thou art with Christ, and Christ with me : In Christ, united still are we.”

Miss Frances Barton writes re Maori work : “ I have decided to give over the whole of the cash in hand to the W.C.T.U. to be used expressly for the benefit of the Maori settlement north of the Hokianga River—for which purpose the money was contributed—in the distribution of marked Testaments and other literature. I will send addresses of reliable Christian people who would be only too pleased to distribute same. 1 also wish Mrs Boxall to kindly make use of any money she may have collected for my mission, in furthering the cause of Christian Temperance work amongst the Maoris in general. I trust that before long active work in the north will be resumed. My hope for these Maori people is in their great need, and God’s certain promise to answer prayer. J do trust that all God’s people may be in real down right earnest with regard to this work for the race at our very door.”

By the death of Mrs Mcllquhatii a noteworthy figure has been removed from

the public life of Gloucestershire, England. She was a pioneer, her fidelity to the piogressive movement, dating back to the days when to he an advocate of woman's suffrage, with full share in all the privileges and rights of citizenship, was to be regarded as an “oddity.’ She was one of the first women to be elected on the Board of Guardians, and her return was objected to on the ground that she was a married woman. During her long and busy life she was an active member of the “\\ omen’s Emancipation Union,” “The Women’s Suffrage Society,” “National Union of Women Workers,” and the “\N omen’s Freedom League.” She o was a tireless worker for the emancipation of her sex in all directions, especially of local government. She was an Overseer of the Poor, Chairman of a Parish Council, Rural District Councillor and on the Board of Management for the School Board. Mrs Mcllquham succumbed to an attack of heart failure in the seventy-third year of her age.