Death Of Miss Hester

Clark

WRITERS in the “Missionary Review” of July pay warm tribute to the lifetime’s service given by Miss Hes ter Clark, who died at Manly, Sydney, on June 1. From 1912 to 1938 she worked as a missionary among the Indians in Fiji, except for a short period of 15 months, in India.

“The name of Miss Clark will always be connected with the Dilkusha Orphan ages, for she knew and loved every child who passed through those institutions during her long years of service,” said Mrs. B. C. Meek, MA, of Fiji. “She knew their background, their .family history, and their individual characteristics.

When they grew older and left Dilkusha, Miss Clark’s love and interest still fol lowed them; she sympathised with their ambitions, she was interested in their marriages and their growing families . . . in times of joy and trouble they came back to her, the only mother many of them had ever known.”

“Always unobtrusive, and seeking neither praise nor reward, she devoted herself utterly to the well-being of her Indian sisters,” said Dr. C. M. Church ward. MA. “In her retirement, living at Balgowlah, near Sydney, with her sis ter, she was constantly in touch with her beloved Indian women and the work of God among them.”

Mr. Sidney Herbert Nobbs, who died a few months ago on Lord Howe Island, at the age of 70, was a grandson of the Englishman Nobbs, who went to Pit cairn Island as pastor and schoolmaster in 1820. A saddler by trade, Sid Nobbs first visited Lord Howe Island from Nor folk Island in 1916; a year later he returned and settled there for the rest of his days. All his life, he was actively associated with SDA Mission work and was head of the LHI Church from 1921 until 1935, when he retired.