IN MEMORIAM

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 222, 21 October 1929, Page 5

IN MEMORIAM

LATE REV. P. RAMSAY. MEMOR1AL TABLET UNVELLED. There was a very iarge congregation present at St. Andrew's Presbvterian Church, Hastings, yesterday morning, when occasion was' taken to unveil a granite tablet erected in the church to\ the meinorv of the late Peter M. Ramsay. who was minister of the eongregation for a period of 20 years. The Rev. D. J. A. Shaw occupied the pnlpit, and toolc for his text, the words "I have fought a good figlit ; 1 have tinished -my course ; I have kept tlie Paith." In unveiling the memorial, the Rev. Shaw said that the occasion was not one for grief or sadness but one for pride and thaukfulness tor there was much in the life and wnrk of the departed minister to canse pride and alford inspiration. The lnte ^lr Ramsay was a. man of passionate earnestness to wliom the Gospel of Jesus Christ was not merely a- tlieor.v to be talked of, but something to be lived throughont the dailv life. He was a great reader, and vight to the last had kept himself informed of the development of religious life and tbought. He was a man of sublime courage, foarJess in his defenc'o of truth and alile to endure a. long and tr.ving lllness with rare fortitude. "His real monument wqs the work he did and the place lie won in the liearts of the people,1' coucluded the prea'clier. An appropriate service ended with the singing of the hymn, "Forever with the Lord."