whilst his memory endures! May the God whom he worshipped, and the Saviour whom he loved, be glorified by his death, even more than by his life. And may we all, in every place, who are of his own kindred and household of faith, whilst we look round in vain for still another of our Christian Fathers, who has been to us a burning and a shining light,-turn our faces upward, and beholding a new star set in the beautiful constellation of our sainted dead, make haste ourselves, like them, to be wise, and live to turn many unto righteousness.* *The thought of his friend and brother Dr. Greenwood, whose death occurred so near to his own, was doubtless much and often in his mind, although I have not learned that he made any particular mention of it. But he evidently had reference to it, and connected the departure of that kindred spirit most beautifully with his own approaching change, when he asked, a few days before he died, to have read to him from the Bible, the XXIII Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd," which he knew that Dr. Greenwood had desired to have chanted at his own funeral. This was the last passage of Holy Writ to which he was able to listen. With a similar reference, also, he requested one of his children to repeat to him Milman's beautiful hymn, commencing, "Brother, thou hast gone before us." The Psalm was chanted, and the hymn sung, by the choir of the Second Church, on the Sunday appropriated to the commemoration of his death. |