The late Rev Cyril Paul will be re­mem­bered for his provoca­tive ser­mons, forc­ing so­ci­ety to look in­wards ac­cord­ing to chair­man of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Jack Warn­er. In a me­dia state­ment on Paul's pass­ing, Warn­er said the for­mer pres­i­dent of the In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­gan­i­sa­tion was not a spir­i­tu­al leader just to the Pres­by­ter­ian Syn­od but to the na­tion. Warn­er said: "Rev Paul's de­vo­tion to his faith and call­ing as a min­is­ter of God demon­strat­ed gen­uine self­less­ness.

"For more than 40 years he di­rect­ed his en­er­gies to­wards shap­ing and mould­ing peo­ple's minds, con­tribut­ing to­wards the mak­ing of a bet­ter coun­try, re­gion and world." Warn­er said Paul's pass­ing is a tremen­dous loss to the na­tion and that he will be missed. How­ev­er, his good works will live on in the lives he touched and guid­ed. He re­mind­ed that even in his re­tire­ment and in spite of his med­ical chal­lenges, Paul con­tin­ued his work in the min­istry and en­sured that a col­lec­tion of his most cher­ished speech­es was pub­lished in book form; con­duct­ed dis­cours­es; per­formed com­mu­ni­ty work and, most im­por­tant­ly, groomed young min­is­ters.