IN MEMORIAM.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 371, 18 May 1926, Page 3

IN MEMORIAM.

It to with deep rvgret that we chronicle the pa&dng of one of our oldest members, Mrs Johnson Wright. She Joined the W.C.T.U. when it was first organised in Wellington, and has always been in active service. For many years she was District I'resident for Wellington, ;uid until her death'was President of the Wellington South Union and Dominion Superintendent for Evangelistic Work. Always at Convention, she was in her place to arrange the devotional exercises, and it was while in Christchurch <it the Convention that she was taken seriously ill. For several years her health has been far from satisfactory, but she was only a few weeks laid aside from the work she loved. Her sister. Mrs Cummins, went to Christchurch and fetched her home. Her weakness was so great that she had to be carried on to the boat and off it. She never again left her room, where she was tenderly nursed by her sister and brother. Mrß Wright was one of the earliest women preachers in this Dominion, and conducted many missions In different churches with marked success. For a long period she was a member of the School Committee, where she did good work.

Mrs Wright was a woman ol deo| spirituality, and yet her »y input hie* were never narrow. She endeared her self to all by hoi loving, sunny dispose tion, ami by her willingness to help There are many of us to-day who feel that a “Mother in Israel” has gone, God granted her wish that she ought cease at mice to work and live. Nu long jieriod of inactivity, but pnwin .it Convention, doing her work, then a brief spell of weakness; a«t hist the full and abundant entrance into the Faih«i.» Honie,