OUR LATE PRESIDENT.

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 220, 18 October 1913, Page 13

OUR LATE PRESIDENT.

The South Ausi'alian Union send' the following letter to the New Zea land Union:— Dear Friends,—lt was decided at our Convention to-day to send a letter ot sympathy to you, in that you have been called to part with your late President (Mrs Cole). We feel that active workers can ill be 'pared from our ranks, but we nui't submit to the ruling of Him Who doeth all things well, and knows when our earthly work should tini'h. May it be a lesson to us to work while we have time and opportunity. Yours on behalf of Convention. ALICE M. WORDEN, Letter w rher. (ilenlee, Collator! Road, Kdinburgh, July ip. u>i.p Ihe Kdinburgh Executive of the British Women’s Temperance A>so (iation desire to express to their sisters in the W.W.C.T.I ’., in New Zealand, their deep and sincere sympathy in the lo's of their beloved President. They have heard from Mrs Napier of her devotion to her work, and of the great loss Mrs Cole will be to them. Her removal from their midst will leave a great blank, which we know will be felt by all her fellow-worker', (iod calls the faithful ones from earth to the Home above. lie takes away the workers, but He carries on me work, and we doubt not in lli> own time some other one will be* raised up to fill the place of the loved one now so deeply mourned. With loving greetings and heaitfelt sympathy. Yours m Hi> service, M. A. COLVILLE, President of the Edinburgh and Lothians District Union of B.W.T.A.