The New Zealand Evangelist

Testimonial to the Rev. John Inglis

Testimonial to the Rev. John Inglis.

On Thursday last, the 30th ult., a deputation from the Scotch Presbyterians, consisting of Messrs, Lyon, J. Frazer, and G. P. Wallace, waited upon the Rev. J. Inglis, and presented him, as a testimonial, with a purse, containing seventy-five sovereigns, accompanied by the following address, numerously and respectably signed:—

Mr. Inglis said in reply, “that he was quite taken by surprise with their spontaneous and unexpected kindness, but he begged to return his most sincere thanks to the subscribers for the very handsome testimonial of which the deputation were the bearers. During the whole of the time he had laboured among them, he had universally received the utmost kindness, and it was gratifying and encouraging to him to find that this feeling was continuing and encreasing to the last. As often as an opportunity should occur, he would ever, from a feeling of pleasure as well as a sense of duty, be ready to do every thing in his power to promote their spiritual interests, either as a body or as individuals; and his earnest prayer was, that the seeds of gospel truth which he had been feebly attempting to sow in the congregation, might by the blessing of God, spring up plentifully and produce abundantly the fruits of holiness,—that God might beg lorified and many souls saved.”