with which he has been visited in the death of Mrs Stuart. They feel that in this dispensation of Divine Providence the congregation and the whole community have sustained a great loss. Her deep-toned piety and exemplary conduct, both in her sphere as the minister's wife and as a Sabbath School teacher, endeared her to all God's people, and her amiable manners and consistent Christian character secured to her the respect of all who knew her." Some years afterwards the minister presented to the church two communion cups as a memorial of his late wife, and the Session cordially accepted the gift.
A neatly designed marble tablet, let into the wall of the new church at the right hand side of the pulpit platform, bears the following inscription:—
TO THE MEMORY OF
JESSIE,
THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE
REV. D. M. STUART. D.D.,
WHO DIED AT THE MANSE,
16TH APRIL, 1862.
AGED 32 YEARS.
"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART,
FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD."
ERECTED BY THE LADIES OF THE
CONGREGATION.
Within two months of Mrs Stuart's removal, the congregation and the community sustained another great loss in the lamented death of Mr C. H. Kettle, which took place on June 5, 1862. He had taken an active and prominent part in public affairs for a number of years; he was one of the first-appointed deacons of Knox Church, and had been chosen a member of the Session shortly before his death.
Charles Henry Kettle was born at Dover, England, on April 6, 1821. In his youth he received a liberal education, and having adopted the profession of land surveyor, he emigrated to New Zealand,
