A Discourse Commemorative of the Reverend Talbot Wilson (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Edward B. Coe

9780332453064: A Discourse Commemorative of the Reverend Talbot Wilson (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332453065 ISBN 13: 9780332453064

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But it is not a personal tribute that I am now asked to pay to his memory. This was done at the funeral service which was held in this place a few weeks since. But he had been, at the time of his death, for more than forty-six years one of the ministers of the Collegiate Church - a term of service surpassed in length by that of but three of his predecessors in the same office. For the greater part of this time he had been closely identified with the history of the denomination with which this church is con nected, as well as with various movements affecting the church at large. He was one of the oldest, if not actually the oldest, settled pastor in this city. He was widely known as a scholar and writer. He had risen, by the force of his abilities, his character and his single-hearted devotion to the work of the Master, to a prominent posi tion, not only in this community, but among the leaders of religious thought in this country. And the tidings of his death were received with genuine sorrow in other and far distant lands as well as in remote parts of our own.

It is therefore most fitting that there should be some public review of his life, and some permanent record of the services which he rendered not only to this church, but to the Christian activities of his time. And yet not merely the necessary limits of such a discourse as this, but also his own abhorrence of eulogy, and his well-known moderation and precision of statement, forbid anything more than a rapid enumeration of the principal events in his life, and a brief mention of the most salient traits in his character.

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