JH Munday obituary by Frederick J Gould, 19 January 1918

19.1.18

Our dear friend, John Hill Munday, had, many years ago, courageously & decisively made up his mind {} his relations with his fellow-man & with nature at large. Towards his fellow-men his attitude was that of duty & honour. Towards nature his attitude was one of study & reasoned {}, without any attempt to penetrate to supernatural secrets, or to spend {} time in discovering a world beyond death. In other words he was both a good citizen & and staunch Rationalist. Such was his record, honest & clear, when he died at the age of 73. His memory is honoured by wife, son & daughters & by his {} in the struggle,—the victorious struggle—for liberty & progress of thought. When, nearly twenty years ago, a small band of us laid the foundations of the Rationalist Press Association, our friend not only gave his sympathy to this {} on behalf of intellectual light for England & the world, he {} substantial aid in drawing-up the Articles of the new Association. For it was important, besides taking up the enterprise for freedom of the mind with enthusiasm, to refine & state its objects with plainness, with precision, with business-like {} word & phrase, so as to give confidence to supporters as well as candid & unmistakeable notice to the public. Trained & accustomed to the practice of law, our friend proved that he was