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ReviewsWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places.Write review Common terms and phrasesALSTON ELLIS anxieties beloved beseech Thee born Breck brooke brother building called Cambridge Cardinal Newman Channing Church Channing Religious Society Charles H Christian church at Lincoln Club comfort coming to Newton committee companionship CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH courtesy of ALSTON death debt denomination Doctor of Divinity early earnest East Hampton eternal extemporaneous faith father felt Francis Bickford Hornbrooke funeral gave a paper give glad Harvard Divinity School hearts Horn Hornbrooke preached Hornbrooke's husband hymn immortal Jacob Hornbrooke JAMES DENORMANDIE Let Thy blessing meeting minister ministry months mother never NEWTON GRAPHIC Normandie Ohio University ORINDA ALTHEA DUDLEY parish pastor preaching the sermon pulpit quartet sang salary Sir Francis Burdett soon soul street strong theology Thomas Hornbrooke thought Thy blessing rest tion told Tuesday Union Congregational Union Theological Seminary Unitarian unto Thee West Virginia Weston Wheeling wife Popular passagesDeath takes us by surprise, And stays our hurrying feet ; The great design unfinished lies, Our lives are incomplete. But in the dark unknown Perfect their circles seem, Even as a bridge's arch of stone Is rounded in the stream. Page 46 He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time: For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked. Page 41 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father : for my Father is greater than I. Page 46 ... grateful as long as they live for this life, and they know that he will be with them still in innumerable sweet and precious memories of gentle companionship, of daily duty and sacrifice, of unfaltering devotion, of unbroken love; in influences which belong to the things which are unseen, but eternal. It is ever the story of old ; a cloud has received him out of our sight The veil of the future is never lifted, but because it is not, we believe it has fallen around us from the same Eternal Goodness... Page 48 O Lord, support us all the day long of this troublous life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in Thy mercy grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Page 51 And the useless seeming man the crown hath won In his vast world above, A world of broader love, God hath some grand employment for his Son. Page 45 British army both in East and West India. He was a skilled chemist... Page 8 We see those on whom our hopes are centered, whom we have most fondly 67 loved, drop away, and we ask, " Are the infinite purposes defeated, or are we listening only to an unfinished tale, to be told out elsewhere ?" It is in the presence of death that we first and most surely believe there is no death. What this loss is to this inner circle, privileged to be at one with him, we may not now venture to say, but they will be grateful as long as they live for this life, and they know that he will be... Page 47 In Memoriam. A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Francis Bickford Hornbrooke, DD By his Wife. Page 1 ... this roll ; it must become a part of his very soul ; its words must come forth living and burning out of himself. He must understand, besides, all the fearful responsibilities of the prophet. He was to speak whether the men about him would hear or whether they would forbear. There were times when his tongue would cleave to the roof of his mouth, when he should be dumb and should not be to them a reprover. But when God opened his lips, the blood of those to whom he was sent was upon him ; it would... Page 15 Other editions
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