MEMORIAL SERVICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 13

MEMORIAL SERVICE.

UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH. In the passing of the late Mrs 0. R. Gordon the United Evangelical Church has lost one of its most devoted Christian workers. On Sunday evening Pastor James Walker conducted a memorial service in the church, making special reference to the life of the one just departed. The Scripture lesson was read from one of her. favourite chapters, the 14th chapter St. John’s Gospel. Pastor Walker based his address on Heb. 12, 1. In his introductory remarks he stated that we are to imitate the Christian faith in others and not theii failures. “Our departed friend was the last to claim perlection, but her desire was that all should seek to follow in the footsteps of the Master, 'Whom she strove to serve since her days of childhood.” The preacher, in describing death, quoted D. L. Moody as having said, “To the Christian, death was merely a Heavenly birth,” or a passing from the earthly to the Heavenly. Mr AValker said: “Our late sister’s life spoke, justly, a word of assurance, because she was so sure of Christ: her testimony was as St. Paul said, f I know in Whom I have believed.’ Her life was an outstanding example of child conversion, which bore the true fruit of a Christian life in the days that followed; she was a lover of her Bible.” In the second place, the pastor said, Mrs Gordon’s life spoke a word of comfort, because her heart was right and she knew she was going to Heaven to see her Lord face to face, and that one day all who loved God would meet again when the Master came. The passing of a Christian was not death in the spiritual sense, but merely a passing on. In the third place her life spoke a word of advice, because she lived for God and was so practical in her church work, was an ardent worker for missions, and for all that was good and noble. One could not but be inspired to go and do likewise. During the service favourite hymns of the late Mi's Gordon - were sung. The choir also rendered one of her muchloved pieces, “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth.”

In the closing of his address the preacher appealed to any who had not accepted Christ as Saviour to do so then. He reminded his hearers that there were only two classes of people, those who were God’s children and those on the side of Satan.- In the concluding prayer he commended the bereaved husband and the two sons, together with all sorrowing relatives, to the love and keeping of their Heavenly Father.