MEMORIAL SERVICE.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 372, 18 June 1926, Page 7

MEMORIAL SERVICE.

MRS JOHNSON WRIGHT. A Memorial Service was held by the South Wellington Union for the late President, Mrs Johnson Wright, in the rooms, 3 5 Constable Street, on Thursday, the 27th May, in the evening. The Vice-President, Mrs Evans, was in the chair, and there was a fair attendance of members and friends, including a visitor from Auckland Union. Two of Mrs Wright’s favourite hymns were sung; Rev. A. N. Scotter read a lesson from 1 Thessalonians 5. and offered prayer. Words of loving appreciation were spoken by the President of the Central Union, and by two of the oldest friends and fellow-workers of Mrs Wright, who had closely coop erst .ted with her in her work on liehalf of the giris of Newtown, viz.. Rev. W. Shirer and Mr C. M. Luke. They all dwelt on the strong faith in Cod, the faithfulness in every detail of work and the spirit of loving kindness and sympathy that had always characterised the life of the late President, and appealed to those present to carry on under the inspiration of her memory the work to which she h (1 devoted herself. No matter what disappointments and apparent failures she met with, she never lost her courage and confidence in the ultimate success of the cause for which •he laboured. Several appropriate 'oral items were rendered by members of the Union.