The Cairo Bulletin

A Beautiful Tribute.

The morning service at the Episcopal church Sunday, was the occasion of a graceful and most appropriate testimonial by the members of the church to its soprano singer, Mrs. W. P. Halliday who is to leave home in a few days, to spend a year in Europe for the benefit of her health. Mrs. Halliday has been a member of the choir of the Church of the Redeemer for nearly fifteen years, only absent from her part on account of sickness or absence from the city, and as a grateful and appreciative recognition of her faithful attendance and the assistance rendered by her sweet and powerful voice, she received a beautiful and fitting flower testimonial from her friends.

The music stand upon the choir platform used by Mrs. Halliday, was trimmed with a delicate wreath of myrtle and lilies of the valley, fastened at the corners by knots of brilliant blossoms, with a basket of lovely flowers suspended by blue ribbon from the centre of the stand. Beautiful bouquets were placed upon the organ, and in the window back of the choir seats. Upon a small stand just in front of Mrs. Halliday's pew, on the platform, stood a beautiful lyre, about two feet high, covered entirely with flowers, brilliant tulips and delicate white blossoms, intermingled with green, the strings of the lyre being formed of exquisite lilies of the valley, a fragrant and fitting type of the highest style of music--the worship of the sanctuary. The following inscription was placed at the foot of the lyre:

“TO MRS. W. P. HALLIDAY--In recognition of the deep obligations that the congregation of the Church of the Redeemer are under to Mrs. Halliday for her kind services in the choir for many years, and in token of their warm appreciation and affection. The most graceful rewards of art are Nature's gifts."

The music was unusually fine, and Mrs. Halliday will be greatly missed by her warm friends, who all unite in cordial wishes for a pleasant and prosperous journey in foreign lands, and a safe return, with renewed health and strength, to her friends and home.