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 A SERMON 
 
 TORONTO, 
 
 On the SOth April, 1065. 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. DR. BARCLAY, 
 
 ox THE OCCASION OP 
 
 THE SUDDEN DEATH 
 
 OF 
 
 GOLOiNEL E. W. THOMSON, 
 
 ONE OF THE ELDERS OF THE COKOREOATIOW. 
 
 MONTREAL: 
 
 I'RIKTED BY JOHN LOVBLL, ST. NICHOLAS STREET. 
 
 1865. 
 
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 ETTRArT rnoM a sermon 
 
 Preac1ie(! in St. i|&^ir't Chttrcli, Toronto, on 
 the occasion of tSld Bttddefi death of Colonel 
 £. W. Thomson. 
 
 «* But man dieth and wastotli away. Yea, man {jiveth 
 up the ghost, and where ia he ?"— 1/06 xiv. lu, 
 
 Death is ever busy In the prosecution of his 
 melancholy mission among tho sonit of men. 
 With unrelenting perseverance, and sometimes 
 with startling rapidity, does he repeat, in suc- 
 cessiTO demonstrations of the frailty of man, 
 the one sad story of mortality-— opening afresh 
 the fountain of human sorrows— illustrating 
 anew tho transitoriness of human life— and 
 carrying one after another of our neighbours, 
 our acquaintances, and our friends away for 
 ever from the living intercourse we had with 
 them. 
 
 Within the circle of this congregation death 
 has once more come, an unwelcome intruder. 
 A man of mark among us, an Elder of the 
 Church, has been stricken down. In the twink- 
 ling of an eye — without the usual warning 
 
 
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 notes of the heralds which unftouace 
 approach of the King of Terrors — iinwasted by 
 sickness— engaged in the ordinary avocations 
 of life, he has passed away from us with such 
 startling suddenness that we pause and wonder 
 whether the sad story of his decease be indeed 
 a reality! Last Lord's day found him as usual 
 in his accustomed seat in the sanctuary— a 
 worshipper along with us, and apparently in 
 his wonted health. Ere another Sabbath 
 dawned, his mortal part had been laid in " the 
 narrow house," aud his spirit had returned to 
 God who gave it. 
 
 It seems fitting that here, where our departed 
 friend has united with us for so many years in 
 the worship of Almighty God, we should give 
 expression to the feelings that move our 
 hearts, and to the sympathies tha'^t press for 
 utterance, over the severance of those earthly 
 ties that bound not a few of us to him, as a 
 friend whom we had long known and highly 
 respected. It is not my purpose— nor will it 
 be expected of me, here to enter largely into 
 the details of the events of his life. It is enough 
 that in general terms, and in a few sentences, 
 I should simply remind you of the salient points 
 of his character, that for a few brief moments 
 you may contemplate what he was as a man, 
 
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 Il^yy re specie i! among »|l who knew him — 
 what as A member of society, for whose interests 
 he had done not a little in his day— and what 
 I also &f. a Christian, humble and earnest, whose 
 I ^7*<'k j*nd conversation so fully accorded with 
 li'ib I i'ofessioa «;3 a 'jnembcr of the household of 
 ffiith : that while we thus pay due honour to 
 hh memory, and dro the tear of sympathy on 
 ilia toiro, r? in?y atso iearn the lessons that 
 are taught i."j a!ike by his life and by his death. 
 The pulpit i» no place for unmeasured eulojry. 
 But I do not think that I use other than the 
 sober language of truth when I speak of our 
 departed fr'end as one who was upright in his 
 principles and honourable in aU his intercourse 
 with his fellowmen. Of active habits, and 
 unwearied diligence ; with an open manliness 
 of deportment, which gave its tone to all his 
 actions, and with a soundness of judgment 
 which enabled hira usually to arrive at right 
 conclusions, for his own guidance, and to give 
 valuable advice to others ; steady in his aims 
 and strenuous in h»3 efforts, to maintain the 
 ascendency of truth and right, with a kindli- 
 ness of disposition which led him to take a 
 warm interest in the welfare of those around 
 him, and, whilst decided in his own opinions, 
 prompted him to pay a becoming deference to 
 
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 the viovrs of oilier.-, : lie had thU8 many CXCd* 
 lent qualities botli of liead and of heart to com- 
 mend hitii to the approbation of the good, and 
 lie liad secured a high place in the estimation 
 of a largo circle of friends as a valuable mem- 
 ber of society and an upright cstiroable mnn* 
 
 Living, as he did) at c, period in the history 
 of tl? 3 Province, when men of public spirit and 
 of private worth were specially needed to aid 
 in the de\'elopracnt of the resources of a young 
 country, he, in various ways, did important 
 service, in his day, to the cause of tlie material 
 and the social progress of this the land of hii 
 birth. His country, to which ho was truly loyal, 
 he had served in the field. In early life he was 
 one of tlic gallant band of volunteer defend- 
 ers of its soil — whose ranks are now greatly 
 thinned by death— who in a time of need main- 
 tained a successful resistance to a foreign foe, 
 sustained with undaunted bravery the honour 
 of their country's flag, and preserved the 
 integrity of the Empire, of which it is our 
 pride and happiness still to form a part. 
 
 His subsequent life presented instances not a 
 few of unselfish devotion to the public interest: 
 and he was well and widely hnown as a man 
 of enlarged vicwf and generous sympathies, 
 %vho took his part with the foremost men of his 
 
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 perity of tlieir (joiuiaon coiuitr}'. 
 
 PArtictilarly is his imnu? Iiononrni)!}' msso- 
 ciated whh successful <'fforts to improve the 
 agriculturiil operations, i:i which so large a 
 portion of our poimhttton nru diiectly interest- 
 ed; And, in that imjtorttint dei'aiinitnt, to 
 advance the gencriki interests of the Province. 
 The qimUHcations which fitted turn fur taking- 
 pnrt in such work, justly detnttnd our respect- 
 ful recognition. 
 
 But there wn.s something far more importfint 
 than even th»'3e public nn<l putriotic eir»rts— 
 qualities and nin s of sufficient prf minence tn 
 his career to claim even a fuil<*r and lieartier 
 tribute to his worth— esjtecinlly from this 
 plitce. His rer«s;ions character wns decided. 
 Chcrishingabecoming reverence Cor relif^iori, he 
 cvermani<es(ed a due regard for sacred things: 
 Animated with an humble fai>h in the divine 
 Saviour, he paid proper respect tolliedayof 
 the Lord, and the ordinances of the church of 
 Chsiit— whilst with exemplary regiih«rity he 
 attended public worst»i!> here notwithstanding 
 his distance from this House of Prayer. Pos- 
 sessing an eminently catholic spirit, yet his 
 attachment to the church of his fathers, as an 
 hnnoured branch of the great Chii;>tiun family, 
 
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 SO \'illing!3r iijftde to aid in proi'ioiing tin; 
 prosperity bnd evtensioo of the Branch of the 
 Parent chinch In this land, were highly to be 
 commended. And he was e?er rendy to take 
 his part in the advocacy of the claims of the 
 Tarious missionary and other schemes of tfcd 
 Church, llh sec ^ices as an Elder, both In the 
 more local duties of his office, and hs a repre- 
 sentative of the session in tlie higher Ecclesias* 
 tical Courts of the Church, in which, in his 
 turn, be sat as a member, are woriiiy of special 
 mention. For the same clearness rf appre- 
 hension, soundness of ju'igraent, and honesty of 
 purpose and good practical common sense, 
 which formed apiominent ciiaracterisiic of his 
 miud, had there opportunity to manifest them- 
 selves in the opinion ho formed, and the senti- 
 ments he expressed on the varions important 
 questions that came up for consideration in the 
 Cliurch Conrls. Over all these qualities, which 
 thus distinguished the deceasedjthercwasspread 
 that strong sense of religion which gave colour 
 and complexion to his whole career. But to 
 s«\y this is but to atlirm that he en- 
 deavoured to put religion to Its proper use in 
 making it not so muvh a matter of public pro- 
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 perfoding principle by wl! lie sought to re- 
 gulate bis life. Hence his jiiigioiis characttr 
 was not of Umt demonstratirc liiua which ap- 
 pettls to the public eye und ^<?eks tu attract the 
 notice of otiiers'— as a thing sujieiaajeti to 
 other acconipIishin«^nts. It was rather of that 
 emia«nt!y practical sort whi«a quietly and un- 
 ostentatiously influenced his course of conduct, 
 and enabled him to give to i's claims Um re- 
 spoa3e of an upright, exemplary, Christian lite. 
 Ho had been the subject of eurly religious im- 
 pressioris, which grew with his growth and 
 strengthened with his strengtli into ihe con- 
 firmcd habit --fa life rvgulaled l.y t),e precepts 
 and hopes of the gosjiel. In early life he made 
 a narrow escape from a watery grave. On one 
 occasion when travelling with h:m, long after, 
 in that quarter, ho hImsWf pointed out to me 
 the place where he was mnde the sole survivor 
 of a numerous company who were overtaken 
 by a stoira on Lake Ontario, when the vessel 
 ^vas wrecked and all his companions were 
 drowned-hc alono succeeding, with much diffi- 
 culty, in reaching the shore. He was tlien pre- 
 served, in the good Providence of God, for a 
 life of activity and usefulness to his followmen, 
 and that he might present the life of a hnmble 
 Christian example ia ihu spher<. u which ho 
 
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 moved. Thai example he endeavoured faith- 
 fully and unostentatiously to maintain. And 
 though his departure was so sudden and un- 
 expected, and death overtook him in circum- 
 stances which deprived hira of the presence of 
 tliose whose kind offices of alfection would 
 have been ministered to him in the closing 
 scenes of life ; and although the stroke of 
 death came so suddenly as to deny him the op- 
 portunity even to arise and trim his lamp, yet 
 the cry "behold the bridgeroom cometh" surely 
 took not such a man by surprise, but found 
 him ready — firm in the faith wherein he had 
 stood so long, and in the blessed hope of glo- 
 rious immortality ! We reverently bow to this 
 dispensation of God's providence wliich has 
 thus deprived us, as a congregation, of the fur- 
 ther presence and counsel of an honoured 
 member and a valued office bearer— we cherish 
 his memory now that ho is hidden from our 
 eyes amid the dark shadows of the tomb — we 
 offer our respectful and heartfelt sympathy to 
 sorrowing relatives who lament his unexpected 
 departure. We hear the solemn truth as it 
 comes in distant echoes from the grave where the 
 righteous rest in peace, that decay and deatli, 
 which thus have their triumph over all that is 
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 cannot dim the brightness of the spiritual and the 
 heavenly, but only succeed in giving to these 
 elements of our regenerated nature a brighter 
 and more enduring lustre, — and that godly 
 example is the most precious legacy to friends 
 and kindred, \vith the hallowed remembrances 
 that hang around the life that was regulated 
 by the " hope that maketh not ashamed." And 
 surely a solemn admonition is lifted among us 
 this day that '^ there is but a step between us 
 and death." It may overtake you in youth 
 when the journey of life had scarcely been 
 more than begun. It may meet you in the 
 mid-time of your days, when but half your 
 course seemed to be run — or its dark shadows 
 may not envelop you until you have descended 
 into the vale of vears. But whether in the se- 
 cond or in the third watch the cry ariseth— 
 " Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out 
 to meet him." " The night is far spent — the 
 day is at hand." " Let your loins be girded 
 and your lamps burning," and ye yourselves 
 like unto men who wait the coming of their 
 Lord.