The Haslingden Gazette. — 1910-06-18 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

HASLINGDEN MAN IN THE WESLEYAN  MINISTRY.  Deep sorrow has been occasioned in lisslingden by the news of the death, at the ago of about 33, of the Rev. Delay Coupe, Wesleyan minister of the Woodville and Swadliecote Circuit, Staffordshire, which took place on Tuesday from appendicitis.  Mr. Coupe wits second son of the late Mr. Wm. Coupe, a well-known insurance agent at Hasling-1 den, and of Mrs. Coupe, now of Park-street. The i family are intimately connected with the Wesleyan body. at Manchesterroad Chapel and School, and though the deceased tuoceeded his father to a valuable connection as insurance agent he early . displayed a desire to cuter the Wesleyan ministry. ' For a time he found outlet for his zeal as a local preacher in the Ilaslingden circuit, but later !this outlet widened by his appointment a, lay I agent to the Barnard Castle Circuit. After a successful winter's work there he was recommended as a candidate for the ministry and was accepted by the Conference of 1900. Rather unusually, Mr. Coupe was called upon for "immediate work." and wan sent to Evcatuun Icircuit for one year. during which he loarned the demands and the peculiar difficulties of the minister's work. Following this he had three years' residence at Didsbury college, leaving in 1904 to go to HUHU Mission, where he spent his three years' probation. When in Haslingden Mr. Coupe was an enthusiastic cyclist- He kept up the ues of the wheel both as a means of recreation and as an aid to work.and in the Hunts Mi66ioll he covered several thousands of miles in travelling to and from appointments. The Rev, W. Lee (a colleague), writing of Mr. Coupe's services to Banta Mission, said he had worked with great aaoeptanee and success He was known as a loyal and brotherly colleague and was reliable. As a business man, Mr. Coupe was judioious, and he gave that close attention to detail which is the secret of weer's. He knew Methodism and loved it. The splendid school at Giddings, opened free of debt, woufd always be associated with his ministry, rpon finishing his prohabationary period, Mr. Coupe, in August. 1907, went to the Woodville and Swadlincote Circuit, to which Its had been engaged for some time. Prior to his departure the societies under his charge at Hunts Miusion presented hini with a gold albert and seal. On this occasion the Rev. W. Lee and Messrs Geo. Lane and S. Garrett spoke in high terms of the !abours of Mr. Coupe, to whom it was made evident that hosts of friends bade him good-bye with regret and wished him success in his new sphere.  In the Woodsille and Swadlincote Circuit, Mr. Coupe laboured with marked success. About the end of June of last year he was the recipient of high-clan tributes on hie marriage with Miss Haddie Harvey, L.R.A.M., C.P.T.C.L., who had been organis at the Woodville Wesleyan 'Chapel and is the elder daughter of Mr. Junes Harvey, of Ivy Leigh, 00116 y-road, Woodville, He was engaged to go to a circuit near Scarborough for his next term.  _ With the widow, bereaved so soon after the marriage, and with the bereaved family at Haslingden, the deepest sympathy is felt. Mr. Coupe had not been in good hearth for dome time. The illness, which terminated fatally, commenced several week, ago. He underwent two operations. At one time it was thought he had got over the worst, but late last week it was known that there was no hope for him, though all along he had had the beet medical skill and nursing attention. The funeral took place yesterday, the interment being at Smadlincoto  Two liners for Quebec and Montreal and one for New York sailed from Glasgow on Saturday, carrying 2320 settlers, including 110 girls for domestic service in Canada.  Lieutenant. Colonel the Hon. Newton J. Moore, C. M.G. (Premier of Western Australia), and Mm. Moore are returning to Western Australia to-day.  As an experiment there has just been landed at Glasgow 100 tons of pig iron for foundrs purposes manufactured by the Bengal Iron and Sheet Company.  Knocked down by a motor-car while crossing the road after leaving school, a Rochdale butcher's ten year old daughter, Dorothy Taylor, died in hospital on Tuesday.  For the murder of Alfred Doggett by stabbing him in the neck with a carving knife in a stable. James Henry Hancock, fifty-four, was executed at Cambridge Gaol on Tue.day.