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I ■ ' - ^ f^l?T>MmVT tXHJAH.It>Kt ij ii '■ TKl! ■ EuiUNSUN v».t le. #t„ W%u SADTT JOHN, N. B. PRINTED BY BARNES & COMPANY, PKINCB I^ILLIAM STREET. ^^mfmmmmm / SI * :1 'I hay A SERMON OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OP THE REV. SAMUEL ROBINSON. lATE PASTOR OP TRE %tmt\% ^Xtzti %m»\ C!lltt«^, Jjl*. i«htt, 1. % PREACHED IN HIS LATE PULPIT, BY REV. I. E. BILL. September 30, 1866. ' I hare fou«ht % good light, I have floished my course, I have kept the fftith."-2 Tiv. ir. T SAINT JOHN, N. B. PRINTED BY BARNES & COMPANY, PBINCB I^ILLIAH STREET. m' \' AW .m:m REV. I. E. BttL. OiAA Sir,— Saint John, JV. B., October 4, 1866. form, the Scmo. preached bYvoulLf^KKfu. Publish, in pamphlet death of their Utrpttoth/S^L^^^^^^^^^ with such additions a. y'ou may MT^,^^'''''i^,T' ' "^^""'^^ ^^^ dMireto.cknowledMwlih(rr»titud. th«!i^I 7/. * "*""* ^^^^ they you have given expreLron toThl r «;! v •"•l*^"'™^'^ '°*°°" ''^ ^»>'«»' g en eiprewion to their own views and feelings on this sad occasion. Bj order of the Church. , JOSEPH READ, Church Clerk. To the Brussels Street BapUst Church. Djjar Brkthren in Christ,— memory of one deepCV ITv hi' Tk ''''"* '^ '^ '"^'^« *"^"*« *°'he laflt fourteen/earS^^ tir^H^^ T^ ^IT ' '^^ °°^ ^'*^ ^^O"' ^^^ the in delightful h^o^; 2^1^^^::^ '^-'- ^^ P-^oua soul. Most respectfully, yours, In fraternal sympathy, I. E. BILL. Germain Street, Octobm- 6, 1866. iefe:;-l ■Mil SERMON. nrlLSr J^** T ^^^ J'^P®' ^"^ *"'<*'^° o^ rejoicing? Are not even ye in the When viewed from a mere worldly stand-point, how sad and cheerless are the separations and linal farewells of earth. They seem to us as the drying up of all the foun- tains of human enjoyment ; as the very death knell of our brightest and fondest hopes, and as the deep lone grave of our most precious anticipations. When no christian faith 18 nigh, O how imperviously dark is the death-room— how hopeless and dreary is the charnel house. Husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, minister, pastor, all are gone ; and gone for ever, cries unbelief. I shall see their smiling faces, listen to their sweet voices, hold social converse with them, no more. All is over. Unrelenting death has riven my heart cords, and spread the pall of dark despair over all that is dear to my soul. Henceforth this bright world must be to me as a lonely prison cell, until I too shall return to the dust. Such are the cheerless complainings and the gloomy forebodings engendered by unbelief in the hour of worldly sorrow. But faith in the divine testimony lifts the veil which hides the mysterious future, and con- templates a happy re-union in that blessed world, where death never invades, and where the endearing relationships of our humanity are invested with the durability of im- mortal life. ^ Such, my hearers, is the soul-cheering prospect indicated in my text. Paul is inspired with joy unutterable, in the prospect of meeting his Thessalonian converts in a future state of blessedness, " For what," says he, *' is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the pre- sence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye 6 THE BS^UKION AMD BEGOGNITION OF 1 are our glory and joy." We have in this language indi- «ated the aima and the proapeoia of the Christian minis- ter ; and to these two thoughts I invite your prayerful attention. I. The aims of the Christian Minister. These are entirely different from the purposes whieh go- vern the pursuits of men generally. The accumulation of wealth, the multiplication of honors, and the gratification of appetite and passion, are the controlling elements in the schemes of earth. A man goes to his farm, to his shop, to his trade, or to his merchandize, that in the exercise of a laudable calling he may meet the necessities of physical nature, and provide for the wants of those dependent upon him for support ; or he adopts some mode of professional life, connects himself with the army or navy, or engager in political enterprise, with the conviction that in this or in that particular sphere he can most successfully promote his worldly purposes, and meet the aspirations of his being ; but the true minister of God receives h^s inspiration, not from the emoluments of time, but from the immunities of eternity. By nature he is subject to like passions with all other men, but by the grace of God, he is elevated to a higher life ; his soul becomes the abode of higher purposes, and in the presence of all the glory of wealth, of fame, of pleasure, he exclaims froiii the depths of his renewed nature, " God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." " A necessity is laid upon me, and woe is me if I preach not the gospel." His nature shrinks from a vocation so high, so holy, so awfully respon" slble ; but his faith in God enables him to say, " Unto me who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." What are kingdoms, what are crowns, what is a universe of material good to the man upon whose soul is laid the message of salvation through the blood of the OSS I Like holy Paul, he counts all things but loss mn^'w « ' '^<< 'iii'-i m >' W^ THE HEDEEME© m HEAVEN. 7 for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jp«n« i.- lord. His enquiry is «T^^^ ^u T "\,°"" ^es^s* his Gods ministers are "Warning every man ZafJ^^' streammg eyes « Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ,W ofttHd f;^:Ltrrt;:I;^::?riIr^i^^ forgive them, for they know not what th y dT> n^^^l blessed Lord Jesus, from the cradle to the cross hL fow ex^ion in the testimony of God's faithfo^italt "n iTl^n'T''' ''^^^-^-'-n dispensatioTTheu the wrath of God was ready to break forth upon the ^^ belhons Israelites in the wilderness Momm iJTv ■ tnnity, pleaded in their behalf,":^i„^ThS G 5 "^Z out of tl K ^t^T" ' """» '^ "-'*• "ot «•«. I P~y thee out of thy book." The man after God's n«m I,..!! ' whelmed with a sense of the terr^Wsr^Tcnt of 7Z of sm, pathetically cries out, " Rivers of water ™d2 mme eyes, becanse they keep'not thy laws." I^S? tZ ^th nnntterable anguish, in the Ltempi"^;/"^ "inltiphed iniquities of his countrymen, exelaims "T^.^ away from me : I will weep bitterly • U}ZTJT'^,\ »e, because of the spoilin'g of the'daShL^V^iTpr "Otha"^mTl '.'" '""'' "' ^^Vest%n,p.a.y, pray^ U that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fonnt^n of tea«. that I might weep day and night foTthe slatl f 8 THE RE-UNION AND EECOGNITION OF u roSpart i-/the impulses of the -PO'tf J ' .'l^; "My little children," says the »«lf;f ^f "'"S/*"^,/^ whom I travaU In birtl. again until Chnst be /o'>««f in yo„T With what holy earnestness and o«ctog yeam- fngs he pleads with his unbelieving «<'»'>"y'"2 Jj^^ the truth in Christ : I lie not : my conscience also bearing *e Alness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness Td continual sorrow in my heart; for T could wish my- self accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my tansmen accordTng to the flesh." " Day and night he ceased not to Ti'S^b7!M:"^e, men have J^cen found wiUinir in all ages of the church, to sacnflce all the pros pects ol worldly ambition, to endure hardships and poverty Tseverlhe ties of kindred and of country to leave the ende ments of home and the charms of <=-ted h ; and «lunse into the depths of the grossest superstition, for the ~e of guiding the lost to the salvation which is in E jlf AnI what though P-cut^- ^"^^ ^^ bitter assail them, and bonds, imprisonment , and death await them; yet, in view of the eternal f"*";*- ^fj; claim " None of these things move me, neither count 1 my t d;ar unto myself, so that I may finish my course -'h joy, and the ministry, which I have received rf the^-^rd ri,™ to tc'tify the gospel of the grace of God. wnen Sstp^ltual childL: seeing the danger before him, in bU er r^uish, "Wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck and t^d ZS.r Ui's only Lwer was, " ^^^^^t mean ye to weep and to break my heart 3 for 1 am ready, not to bo bouna ^nfy! but also I die at Jerusalem for the name of the "^"o tiln, rest assured that no amount o, literary research! of classical attainments, of critical acumen or of aorical power, however good or useful each and a are when rightly employed, can supply the place of this divine affection for deathless souls. r souls, :d exact inistry. il, " for med in ; yearn- "I say bearing eaviness ^ish my- dnsmen, )d not to en found the pros- poverty, leave the [ life, and n, for the hich is in the most md death , they ex- tountlmy jurse with ' the Lord ,." When >re him, in neck and ye to weep > be bound ime of the o. literary acumen, or ach and all (lace of this *HE BEDEEMED IN HEAVEN. 9 Nor need we wonder that the ministers of Christ should cherish these spiritual impulses ; for in the process of their own consecration to God, they have profoundly studied the value of the immortal soul, the overwhelming misery to which it is, by sin, exposed ; the infinite cost of its sal- vation, and the inconceivable honor, happiness, and glory, to which, tiirough the wondrous provisions of the gospel, it may be raised in the future ; therefore no marvel, we say, that they should lift up the voice, stretch out the hand, and immolate self upon the altar of the crucified One, if they may but be the means of saving from perdition's fiery depths, and of raising to heaven's glorious heights the souls for whom the Son of God bled on Calvary. Such, then, my brethren, is the grand aim of the ministerial vocation. We pass — IL To notice its ^prospects. These are two-fold. 1st, the re-union, and 2d, the le- cognition, of the saved in heaven. Such, it seems to me, is the sentiment of my text. Eead it again. " For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing ? a/re not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming." The thought of meeting and of knowing these beloved brethren in the heaver 1y state, inspired Paul with joy un- utterable and full of glory. And such is the "hope, and *^® Joy> and the crown of rejoicing," of every true minis- ter of the Lord Jesus. And where, you ask, is the foun- dation for this hope of re-union ? We answer, in the word and testimony of the blessed God. This inspired record teaches us that all the disciples of Christ have a blessed home prepared for them beyond the grave. Such is the instruction of Jesus to his disciples, as recorded in the 14th chapter of John,—" In my Father's house arelhany man- sions. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and pre- pare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye n;^y be ^Isq." H§nce he prays for his chosen, " that they may be with him where he is, to behold his glory." The thought of this promise^ ■MMiM 10 THE KE-UNION AND RECOGNITION OF and of this prayer, cheered Stephen when they were ston- ing him to death. Said the man of God, " Behold I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the nght hand of God ;" and in the midst of his death strng- gle lie prayed, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." In the prospect of dissolving nature, Paul gloried in the contem- plation of « a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." My brethren, the God of grace has prepared a blessed habitation, a heavenly home, for all his ransomed children ; and in that delightful home the union of the universe of redeemed souls will be enjoyed in all its celestial bles- sedness. Hence it is said, " They shall come from the east and from the west ; from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God." John, in vision, saw the glorified as « an innumerable multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, and people, and tongues, standing before the throne of God and of tlie Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands." There, my brethren, in that bright world of celestial glory, will the interchange of thought, of affection, of sympathy and of joy, be renewed between the christian pastor and his glorified flock of saved souls, in all the fullness of an unalloyed communion and of uninter- rupted fellowship. The separation here may have occa- sioned deep and abiding sorrow ; but there the pangs of grief shall give place to rivers of eternal joy. Happy, thrice happy greeting, when all the saints get home. But associated intimately with the thought of re-union, is the prospect, secondly, of full and delightful recognition! The idea of meeting our friends in heaven, aside from the hope of recognition, would afford but little pleasure. When long* absent from our home in a foreign land, what is the motive power that stirs the deepest sensibilities of our soiil«, as we think of returning to the embrace of oup friends? Is it not that we shall not only see them, but recognize them personally as occupying the same relation- ships to us that they did when we left. Imagine a family II W W I I ft »imiiii*i # y were ston- Jehold I see ding on the death strng- it." In the the contem- ernal in the 3d a blessed sd children ; he universe 3lestial bles- le from the n the south, ' John, in > multitude, nd kindred, 3 throne of } and palms right world hought, of setween the 30uls, in all of unintcr- have occa- le pangs of • Happy, ome, >f re-union, ecognition. le from the > pleasure, land, what jibilities of race of oup them, but le relation- le a family THE EEDEEMED IN HEAVEN. H or a church if you please, where the members are not in- dividual y known to each other. Can there be fuU com- munionm such, circle? Certainly not. So if in earn we fail to recognize each other, then surely there cannot be enjoyed the perfection of bliss. Heathen philosopWs poets and orators, who have believed in the immortaCof the soul have exulted in the prospect of recognition in the " whTn tTi, I "" ""T^" '^^'" ^^^^-- -« of these when I shal have reached the divine assemblage of tho,e mmds with which I have congenial predilection sf and ^dl escape this untoward and uncongenial throng." " We but depart," said another, "to meet our ^neas, a^nd our TuHy and our Ancus." ^ Shall the light of a heathen philosophy inspire such cheering hopes, and shall we, with God's Bible ;n our hands question its reality ? The Scripture, of course, 18 oar only infallible guide in this matter : whatever the aspirations of the soul may suggest, or a cultivated heathen mind may imagine, nothing is perfectly reliable on this Bubject but the inspired testimony. And, my brethren, this to my mmd, on the subject of heavenly recognition IS clear and decisive. Let us look at the evidence itself. ist. Angels are set forth as "ministering to the heirs of salvation." To do .heir work effectually fhey must W tiniir.r J"'"" !^'^ "^^"^^*^^' «^ ^' *« b^ ^ble to dis- ^nguish them froni others. An angel held back the knife pill the life blood of a beloved son ! Did he not know that that was Isaac, Abraham's covenant son ? An angel ddivered Lot from the scorching flames which consum^ed the cues of the plain. Did he not know Lot ? When -Uaniel was thrown into the den of lions, an angel came down and shut the lions' mouths. Did he norr^cognize Ins man as Daniel of the Hebrews ? Shall angels be\b e ent t^h "''"''^.'l^ '" *^^^ "^^^^' '^ -^0- they are do iM f T'?T^ ^"^' ' ""^ '^^^^ '^' "^^^bers of the glorihed family m heaven not recognize each other ? But we have testimony more direct. What consoled the King ot Israel when the messenger entered his chamber of sor- 13 THE BE-tJNION AND EEOOGNITION OF I ill m row with the mournful intelligence that his idolized son was dead? He tells us, "Now he is dead, wherefore should 1 fast? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me." There was the hope expressed that he should re-commune with his own dear child, not in the grave, but in the heavenly state. On the mount of transfiguration, when the representatives from the church above and the church below met in sacred converse, they recognized each other. "Jesus, master," said the enraptured Peter, " It is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias." Is it rational to sup- pose that saints on earth could thus so recognize visitants from the heavenly world as to call them by name, and then not know them when they meet them in the home of the blessed ? Then there is the case of the rich man, Abraham and Lazarus. All had departed this life : the first was a lost soul, and the two last were associated in heaven, and yet Abraham and Lazarus were recognized by the rich sin- ner, and he called them by name. Paul indicates, in his letter to Philemon, that the convert Onesimus should be recei/ved ly him forever. Could this be so, and yet there be no recognition of each other ? Again, the process of the final judgment, as described in the 25th chapter of Matthew's gospel, is exceedingly pertinent. There the Judge is represented as specifying the deeds of charity performed by each individual before him, and then he tells them, " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it uuto me." The idea obviously indicated is this, that in that awful day we shall know the individual who received from us the " cup of cold water in the name of Jesus." Let this cloud of witnesses to the doctrine of heavenly recognition, as incul- cated in my text, suflSce. I think you are all satisfied that when Paul speaks of theThessalonians as his Jwpe^joy^ amd (yrown of rejoieing in the presence of his Saviour at his comin/;, he intends that we shall understand him as teach- ing that in the heavenly glory, where we no long " See THE REDEEMED IN HEAVEN. 18 idolized son I, wherefore I shall go lere was the nth. his own ivenly state, presentatives net in sacred ms, master," J to he here : for thee, and ional to sup- lize visitants me, and then home of the an, Abraham le first was a heaven, and r the rich sin- licates, in his us should be mdyet there he process of th chapter of . There the is of charity L then he tells e of the least ;o me." The awful day we us the " cup this cloud of tion, as incul- satisfied that hope, joy ^ cmd aviour at his him as teach- I long " See in part or know in part ; but see as we are seen, and know as we arc known ;" that when there ho would know his brethren, and that they would distinctly recognize him as the agency which God had honored in the salvation of their precious souls. This, then, is the brilliant prospect which encourages the servants of God amid the conflicts and trials of minis- terial life. Gold and silver they may not have ; their names may have no record upon the tablets of worldly distinction or national fame ; but when they come up before the throne they shall have crowns of imperishable glory, studded with many a brilliant gem, and in the presence of rejoicing mil- lions they will be able to say to their Saviour and Lord,—" Here am I, and the children whom thou hast given me." O, to be surrounded in the New Jerusalem with those who were rescued, by our humble instrumentality, from the miseries of the second death, and raised to glory ever- lasting, what greater joy or higher dignity can mortal man desire ? What though he should perish on a foreign shore ; what though his body be consumed in the martyrs' flames, and its ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven, or what though no costly monument should mark the place where his body slumbers in the grave, yet in the eternal kingdom he has monuments of grace erected to his memory more enduring than the pyramids of Egypt, the rocks of Horeb, or the stars that bestud the firmament. You will perceive that so far we have applied this sub- ject mainly to the ministers of Christ. The peculiarities of the present occasion naturally awakened this train of thought ; but christian parents, sabbath-school teachers, and all of every condition who have labored successfully to win souls to Christ, will not fail to share in the blessed- ness resulting from this re-union in heaven, and this recog- nition before the throne. Surely such bright anticipations should stimulate us to labor diligently in the Master's ser- vice ; for in so doing we shall not only have the satisfac- tion here of knowing that we endeavored to do our duty, 14 TUB EK-CNION AND RECOONITION Of but in tho future the grateful remembrances of those who will there recognize us as their guides to life eternal. But by what process, you ask, is this re-union with de- parted friends to be realized ? God, in his sovereign pur- pose, has immutably fixed die process. Saints In glory will never return to us. We must go to them ; and the path thither lies through the dark valley. Tin's must be crossed ; tho death river nust be forded ; and the grave for a time must be the abode of our mortal body. With two solitary exceptions, all the redeemed who have entered heaven have experienced the " pains and bliss of dying." ♦' Death is the gate to endless joy." The anguish of separation therefore must be felt ; the so- cial ties must be severed ; the death angel will sunder near- est and dearest friends ; bereft wives and fatherless children must mourn in solitude over the graves of those they dearly love ; churches must be draped in mourning because he, who was their spiritual guide to lead them, and their under-shepherd to feed and protect them, has gone the way of all the earth. But though we sorrow, yet it is not with- out hope. The gloi'ious re-union above will recompense a thousand fold for all the anguish occasioned by a temporary separation. To recognize a fond father ; a loving mother ; a dear son ; a precious daughter ; an affectionate brother ; an idolized sister ; a fellow member in the church ; a sym- pathetic, whole-hearted, godly pastor, in that world of unending felicity, where death pangs are never felt, where sighs are never heard, where tears are never shed, where' graves are never opened, whore funeral processions are never witnessed, where night never comes, where even the light of the sun or of the moon shall not be reqaired, be- cause the Lamb of Calvary shall be the light thereof: this surely will compensate for any amount of desolation occa- sioned by the death severances of earth. But when, you ask, shall all this glory be realized ? Not perfectly until, as suggested in our text, our lord shall come. "To those that look for him shall he appear the iMii THE BEDEEMED IN HEAVEN. 15 n, and their second time without sin unto salvation. O see him m he will appear in that solemn day, " clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs white like wool, as white as snow ; and his eyes as a flame of fire ; his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. In his right hand are seven stars ; a sharp two-edged sword is in his mouth ; and his countenance is as the sun shining in his strength." But tremble not, believer ; for though invested with all these emblems of resplendent majesty, dignity and glory, this eternal judge is your Sa/vimr. The time was when he was the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; when he trod the wine-press, and the fierceness of the wrath of Almiglity God alone, and of the people there was none to help ; when from the sixth to the ninth hour ho hung be- tween two malefactors, in bleeding agony upon the cross of Calvary; there the barbed arrows of accumulated wrath pierced his righteous soul ; there he cried in intense anguish, My God I my God I why hast thou forsaken me 2 There, amidst the revilings of his enemies, and the grief and des- pair of his friends, he poured out his soul unto death, was numbered with the transgressors, bare the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. And all this that you and I might share in the eternal triumphs and resplendent glories of his second coming. All this was endured that he might « ransom us from the grave, and redeem us from death." Amid the fearful struggles of that awful hour we seem to hear him saying, in trumpet tones, '• O death, I will be thy plague ! O grave, I will be thy destruction !" " In robes of judgment lo He comes, Shakes the wide earth and rends the tombs." But he comes that "mortality may be swallowed up of lite. O, lift your hearts my brethren, to the greatness and the glory of that hour. Think of the immortal awakening wh^n the blast of the archangel shall reverberate through 19 THE BE-UNION AND BEOOOKITION OF all tlie Bopulchroa of earth ; when the soa shall give up the dead that arc therein, and death and the invisible world shall give up the dead that are in thorn." Triumphant, joyous moment ! Some liave, like our brother departed, slept their last sleep encompassed by dear i . latives and friends ; others have passed their death struggle on a foreign shore ; or upon a sinking wreck amid the wide waste of •waters, the watery billows have rolled over them ; the fishes of the deep have devoured them. In their last mo- ment no bosom friend was present to wipe the death-sweat from the brow, to whispor words of love, to shed the tear of affectionate isympathy, or to imprint the last kiss of love. But, ray brethren, a morn of unutterable brightness, out- shining ten thousand burning suns, 'shall break upon the darkness of the tomb ; and then the sleeping dust shall rise, invested with the elements of immortality, and pre- pared, by God's rich grace, to bear up under an exceeding and eternal weight of glory. " On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blendiug, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." Then the blessed re-union and recognition will be en- joyed to the full. Vast assemblage I Patriarchs and pro- phets, apostles and martyrs, ministers and people of every generation, every tribe, and every age, and every class, will all blend in holy fellowship, in sweet communion, and in adoring love, before the throne of God and of the Lamb. All sectarian ties are sundered ; all false prejudices are r.iiao ed ; all imperfections are left behind ; all hearts are «: Ao ; all voices are one; all anthems in spirit are one, saying, " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing." O then, ye ransomed ones, will you gaze upon the countenance of your late beloved pastor ; not as you saw it on his funeral day, pale and cold in death, but illumined by the transparent brightness of heavenly glory, and sparkling with the intelligence of the skies. You will behold in that radiant face the sympathy and llM I W W iw II " THE R£DEEM£D IN nSAVEK. IT love of your old pastor pimfiod, expanded, and pe-fected, amidst the complctenogs of consninrnated bliss. And ho will recognize you as the objects of his deepest solicitude and tenderest sympathies, when an inhabitant of these lower grounds ; as iliose over whose couverson to Christ ho rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full of glory ; as those that he conducted through the baptismal waters into the church of the living God, and as those over whom he watched wikh a pastor's reepoufiibility and a father's love. Then will he greet you all, freed from the imperfections of your militant state, and adorned with rubes made white in the blood of the Lamb, " as his joy and his crown of re- joicing," in the presence of your adorable and all-conquering Saviour, Jesus Christ, his Lord and Redeemer, and your King and Saviour. Bright angels and glorified saints will witness the transporting scene, and in humble prostration will exclaim, " Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." And all heaven will say Amen I Having thus briefly unfolded the aims and the prospects of the Christian ministry, permit me to show how these ai'ma and ihQ^Q prospeota filled the heart, and permeated the life, of your late beloved pastor. On this subject I may remark that, in the absence of any documents written by himself, regarding his early christian experience or his ministerial labors, I cannot be as minute in my observations as his friends might desire ; but with such aids as I have been able to command, I shall endea- vor to make the portrait as life-like as possible. Samuel Robinson was born near Belfast, Ireland, August the 12th, 1801. His ancestors were the descendants of the old Scotch Covenanters, and were trained amid the fiery persecutions with which these people, of inflexible reli- gious convictions, had to contend. On account of these persecutions they fled to the north of Ireland for shelter. His father was a very godly man; hut he died when b2 / / / / L. , „XiSi- : 18 THE RE-UNION AND BECOONITION OP Samuel was young, and it was so ordered in Providence that his early religious training was placed principally in the hands of a very devotedly pious grandmother. The Covenanters, inspired with an ardent love of civil and reli- gious liberty, cherished a profound veneration for the Bible ; and hence young Samnel's godly grandmother early taught him to read and ponder this Book of hoohs. He became 80 deeply interested in the study of the scriptures, that when a lad, engaged in work, he was accustomed to tslve leaves of the sacred book in his pocket, for the purpose of committing their contents to memory. In this way he treasured up an immense amount of scriptural knowledge, which was used to great advantaj;e all through his after life. But not only was the Word of God thus early im- pressed upon his memory, but there is reason to believe that, in answer to the prayers of his pious grandmother, this good word found a lodgment in his heart, directing him, in penitence, to the mercy seat for pardon and eternal life. But, while deeply interested in religion, he made no public profession of his faith until he was in his 17th year. At that time revival meetings were held in his neighbor- hood by the Methodist brethren ; and it was in these meet- ings that he first began speaking of his love to Christ, and of his personal interest in the great salvation. So ardent did he become in his christian love and zeal at that time, that he resolved to consecrate himself to missionary work in some heathen land. At this stage of his experience, the idea of a mission to Africa was agitated in the community whore he resided ; and he proposed himself as a candidate, and entered upon a course of study in relation to that work. Something occ .rred, however, to thwart his purpose in this matter, and the idea of going to Africa was, therefore, abandoned. In 1821 he became united in marriage to Miss Isabella Crawford. She also had consecrated her youthful heart to God, and hence was prepared to sympathize fully with him in his religious hopes and desires. After his marriage ho continued to hold religious meetings in connection with 'r^' THE BEDEEMED IN HEAVEN. |0 try ; but he had given np the idea of a foreign field. Some of h.8 fnends who had emigrated to New York were deeply a™ that he should come to America ani be their preacher. To their proposition he finallv con sented ; came over, and spent some two yean, among them While there he sustained himself and family prindpa^ Irr:- '"''zk^''' '*^<'*«'* '"^ -bbaL^nd 'uch other portions ot his time as he could spare from his Chris? "'' '" "■' P^*"""-"""" of the gospel of ntw**' • T° '™* '"'' ""*"•' '"» '"•""'e"^. » Sister, and other nends, emigrated to the Parish of St. James, Char- lotte County. They formed a new settlement: and as might be expected, were largely destitute of the pCh „: of the gospel Knowing that their young friend Samuel wasanxious to be engaged in missionai^ woSc, they b Jugh um to come on and be their minister. He /»«% con eented ; came in the autumn, spent the winter, audi the spring removed his family to this new district, cons st ing, at that t me of his wife and his daughter £ 1^ he wufe of the Rev. Mr. Ryan. He had before th s"o I two children by death; one in his own countiy'and ano tiZ ^'T f "*■ ^'" '•^•"»-> '» St. James took pLce n 1829 ; and ho immediately beg,.n preaching in that d^ God. The people received his ministry with the dpe, J, interest, and with open hearts. P^" In 1830 a marked providence occurred, which brought about a change in the whole course of his life. Rev. Thoma An ley, then the pastor of the Baptist Church at Bridge dca 'twT; ''"y^r^ PO-^-^-l'x -ipressed with tfe County of Chariotte. It was not convenient for him to eave h,s w, andhe at fli^t resisted the impression but It 80 ncreased that he could not rest by day or by niX and he accordingly yielded to tl.» „„/ • .• , ^ ' over Hr. ».= . yeiaea to the conviction, and came over. He was a man of remarkable impulses and irresis- 'I' 20 THE BK-BMION AHD BEOOONlnOK OF tible rchgions convictions; and on entering upon his mis- 8.on in Charlotte he hoard of this young preacher Kobineon. He resolved at once to visit him ; and did so. He found Inm m his httle cottage in the wilderness ; and their inter- change of thought was such as to produce a deep, mutual in erest in each other's welfare. A public meeting w«, called : Mr. Ansley preached. Mr. Robinson was present, and was deeply impressed with the unctuous power of the preacher. Up to this time his training in the duties and ordinances of the faith of his fathers was perfectly satis- factory ; and he had no idea of becoming a Baptist preacher ; but this interview strangely affected him ; and, to add to his perplexity, Mr. Ansley, after leaving him for home and proceedmg on his journey many miles, became so im- pressed with the Idea that he had not discharged his whole duty to his young Presbyterian brother, that he returned to his house, delivered his message in great solemnity, and ^ain left for home. The result of all this was, that Mr Kobmson turned his attention especially to the study of the Scriptures on the subject of christian baptism, and wH .r'^T?'"'. P'"^*"'^"' Investigation, adopted the Baptist faith. Havmg done so, ho sent for Father Ansley to come over and baptize him. The good man hastened with a joyful heart to obey the summons ; and in the pre- ««.ee of an immense concourse of people, gathered f^m all ections of the country, administered to his young brother, m the waters of St. David, the baptismal rite. I may remark here that this change was not limited to a single adoption of the Baptist viel regarding "e sub- jects and mode of baptism, but it was one which deeply and permanently impressed the entire range of his religious sensibilities and life. It constituted, in f!ct, a new ^L Ins existence, and developed in new forms the rich giZnd graces which, up to that time, had existed only fn TnTn fantile degree. He seemed to see as with new eyes to Wr as with new ears and to understand as with a new he^t Ue messages of the man of God, delivered to him in a m^de of profound solemnity, filled him with such an all-perad^ THE BEDEEMED nr HKAVEK. 21 iK'i^rZr/' •"' ™«P<"'»i'>iIity to God and to m.n, that he felt tiat be mnet not only embrace the ordinance^ of Chnst a, xncnlcated in the inspired testimony, but ?C he mnet hasten throngh all that country with « e 1 n^ message to lost souls. ^ P®' Jl at St Andrews and after days of severe sickness, died m the tnnmphs of faith, and went home to his rewarf vn-n.hf ^r?."' "^"'^ "'-^ P~P''^' had fallen up^rWs youthful brother, and hence the work that had nowteen » With increasing power. Kot long after his baptism Mr. Eobinson attended a meetrng of the Baptist Association in Fredericton.ld there informed the brethren what great things tl.„ iTrd was domg m the County of Charlotte ; how cLer^ w^^ mulhplymg on every hand, and requested that s^e 7^ should be sent to baptize them. The whole AssocTation Tnu Tnd"bv''tr'%"'";.''""'''°""^ "-"-^^ ^y"^" »^' ments and by the extraordinary unction and power of his ministrations. With one heart they most cordially 4" iv^ tlT r *« 7°«™ble Joseph Crandall and Eev John Masters as a delegation to go to St. George, and If deemed advisable, to ordain him to the work of Ihe mbis |7, and hus qualify him to administer the ordinanZ of the gospel In accordance with this arrangement hlTrd" nation took place in August, 1883. It waf a day of won- self witHnli '"""^l"" ^"""^ ■•* """''""^^ 'o -J^^te Wm- buUdTn!. o?!^"* 'ndustry and unflagging zeal, to the up- countrv^ TT , T"" "^ ^^"'' *'°"S'' "J' that region of Hlt^V /"^l ^'^ '"""S^'^ «*■ *■>« ™i«^iona.; type 8t. Davids, St. James, St. Patricks, St. Andrews St about. Those who sat under his ministry in those days l;lii'::.i!!. Hi- . 22 THE BE-0NION AND REOOGNITION OF say, that his preaching was emphatically in demonstration of the Spirit, and in power, and as a legitimate result, as in apostolic times, " The word of God increased, and the number of disciples greatly multiplied." Or as in the case of the Corinthians, — " Many hearing^ helieved, and were ha/ptized^'' Under a ministry of this stamp you '^Irill not T)e surprised to learn that the church at St. George was greatly enlarged, houses for religious worship multiplied, and a new impetus given to the cause of Christ in all directions. In 1838, by the invitation of the brethren of Germain Street, he made his first visit to St. John. He came in the spirit of his Master ; and his ministry produced at once a wide-spread impression, which resulted in a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Germain Street Church, then the only Baptist church in the city. The mutual attachments between him and his people at St. George induced him to hesitate for some time as to the path of duty, so that it was some two years before he finally decided to remov« his family to St. John ; but he spent a large portion of his time here, and labored indefatigably and with distinguished success. The church was greatly revived, difficulties healed, and precious souls won to the Saviour. In 1840 he removed his family, and took permanent charge of the church. 1 need not here detail the extent or the success of his labors. It is known to many of you, at least, that from Germain Street they extended to Pitt Street, to Brussels Street, to Portland and Carleton; to Milkish and South Bay; to Musquash and Dipper EI arbor ; to Loch Lomond and other sections. In all these places he witnessed the conversion of souls, and led them forth in Christ's holy ordinances. I must not particularize ; but here is a fact that speaks volumes. When he came to St. John in 1838, Germain Street Church, as we have said, was the only Baptist church in the city, and tliat was not large ; was without a pastor, and in other respects was in an enfeebled state ; but the records of the church, during his p^tqrate of eleven ye^ra, ghow an incre?ise, by bapti&m, of 374, apd by letter, of 188 ; ^A- ^*iii.,.ONrnON OF missionary interests of his own denomination in these Pro- vinces, from the beginning to the close of his ministry, he performed well his duty ; and while he was the faithful pastor of a given church, he had upon him, in no stinted measure, " the care of all the churches." In contemplating the breadth and diversity of his labors, one is ready to ask, How could one man perform so much woi-k ? The answer is, Ist, He had a physical constitution of amazing strength. 2d, His mind was unusually elastic, and could accommodate itself, with great ease, to circum- stances. 3d, He was not easily disheartened by obstacles. 4tli, He " had a mind to work ;" and last, but not least, he cherished strong faith in God. The missionary impulses which stirred his soul when a youth in his native home, with thoughts of love and toil for suffering, bleeding Africa, permeated his whole ministerial life. He believed in Chris- tianity as an aggressive power brought to bear upon the present and eternal destiny of the race through human in- strumentality ; and he labored accordingly. While he loved secular education, and toiled assiduously for its advancement, his scholastic attainments were limited ; but he was educated in the holy Bible, drank deeply from the fount of eternal wisdom, made himself conversant with the great book of nature, and thoroughly studied the dis- pensations of God in history. Ths truth is, by a diligent and careful examination of the demands and responsibili- ties of his life work, and by turning his attention con- stantly to the most effective means for meeting them, he made himself master of his own business ; and that is the very best education that man can have. Whatever else a minister may know, if he fail here, his life cannot be other- wise, so far as the ministry is concerned, than a tremen- doits failure. If you ask for the secret of his success, here you have it in a nut shell. He clearly comprehended his work, and faithfully performed it. In other words, strong, sanctified common sense, applied with a steady devotion to his voca- tion, was the secret of his power. I'HB KEDEEMED IN HEAVEN. 25 As a christian pastor he had no superior, and but few equals. He was, emphatically, one of nature's rulers. His practical knowledge of human nature, coupled with the charity and humility of the gospel, admirably qualified him to adapt himself to circumstances. He knew how to be firm ; and he knew how and when to yield, and to do both with a grace that inspired confidence and commanded respect Hence he was, in the true gospel sense, the Uahxyp of his church. His constant interchange of thought with the members of his flock at their own dwellings, and his kindly and unremitting attentions to them in all seasons of trial, sickness and death, made him thoroughly acquainted with their spiritual wants, and tended, in no small degree to strengthen their love and respect for him as their teacher and guide. If his sermons were not embellished with the graces of oratory, or enriched with the learning of the schools, they were adorned with what is infinitely better,~-the graces of the spirit ; and filled up with what is vastly more impres- sive,— a practical knowledge of Jesus Christ and him cru- cified. His discourses were generaUy natural in their divi- sions, instructive in their unfoldings, and impressive in their spirit. The educated and the untutored alike listened to him, in the pulpit and upon the platform, with more tnan ordinary interest. The following brief record, found among his papers, as made by himself, will give us some idea of the extent and success of his exertions during the thirty-foir years of his Joaptist ministry. Sermons preached by him, 4 041 Marriages performed by him, .*.*.'.*....'.'. '7I6 Funerals attended by him, V.'.V. .'."*.'.'.'.'.'.* * * f^go Baptized by him, , , , ^ ' * " To Bay that he had no defects would be to say that he was more than human. It would be a silly attempt to ele- vate h.m, in this respect, above Moses or Daniel, Peter or Paul. But I do say, after aa intimate acquaintance with him, extending over fifteen years, and a pretty thorough 26 THE BE-UNION AND KECOGNITION OV opportunity of scauning his whole character, that as a man, a husband, a father, a christian, and as a minister of the Lord Jesus, my matured conviction is, that the defects of Samuel Eobiuson were comparatively few ; that his excel- lencies and his virtues were manifold. For twenty-eight years of public life in this city, his character and his minis- try have stood the test of the severest criticism ; and who would not envy the verdict that was given to his memory by all classes of this community on his great funeral day. The universal expression of that iumiense gathering was, that a great and a good man had suddenly fallen at his post. Doubtless his genial disposition, his smiling face, his urbanity of manner, his freedom from a contentious, cen- sorious spirit, and his broad christian charity towards other denominations as well as to his own, contributed very much towards giving him his deep hold upon the confidence and affections of the people ; but beyond all this was the con- viction, deep down in the hearts of thousands, that the man who had thus suddenly fallen in the christian battle field, had, through evil and through good report, acted worthily of the deep responsibilities of his christian and ministerial profession. As with Stephen, so with Samuel, ^^ Devout men carried him to his hirial^ aiid made larnentation over him!''' I will not dwell upon . lesti'j relations. Suffice it to say, that in the first Mr u.:ison he had a help meet indeed, in things temporal and in things spiritual. She became the mother of ten children ; two died, as we have said, in infancy ; two sons, both young men of promise, sleep in the cemetery of Carleton ; two sons and four daughters remain to mourn their sad loss. The second Mrs. Robinson was the stay and solace of his advancing years ; and, like some ministering angel, smoothed his death pillow, and shed light upon his pathway as he trod the dark valley. '' Sit close beside me," said the sick husband to his wife, " when you see me dying." Church of God, you cannot but mourn your bereavement. THE REDEEMED IMP HEAVEN. 27 In the vestry, in the pulpit, in the committee-room, in the sabbath school, at the sacramental board, in the baptismal waters, at your domestic altars, in your sick rooms, and, when on your death couch, you will sadly miss him. But O, look by faith into the upper sanctuary ; there he is amonc the " shining ones." The old '' Fathers" with wliom he once held sweet communion at tlie militant table,— Manning Harding, Crandal, Aneley, Pettingel, Drake, and others of like precious faith,— have already extended to him the hand of celestial fellowship. And it may be that your fathers and your mothers, your husbands and your wives, your brothers and your sisters, your sons and your daughters, who were conducted by him into the militant household' were among the first to greet him beyond the flood. What remains for us but to "follow him, who through faith and patience is now inheriting the promises." Remember that in the prospect of the great change before him, no cloud darkened his soul, no fear preyed upon his spirit, no sin pierced his conscience. " All," said he, " is bright beyond." ^' He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure ;" and when the death angel came for him he exclaimed, " Put oul; the lights : there is no- thing now but heaven." In view of such a death, who would not devoutly pray,— "'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." (2S) APPENDIX. [From the Christian Visitor, September 20, 1866.1 Death and Funeral of Rev. Samuel Robinson. it Sf n^ShU*;"*" v"*^:! '**^ ''''n ""■■ P^P'*' '<» '•«^«'^- Many will exclaim, " Can 1 be po83ible r Ye», it is rcallj so. Our beloved brother and lellow-laborer Sn'Jhn?*' '^^^,r^F^?%^f death. The circuni8t.nce8 which have lid to Al. ^n^S r°^' '? ^"'J r *^^'« = ^ y«" '^eo in Aug.,8t last, he attended IIi«^'1»L?7h?^"'? ""^ *^r P'-o^n^'«« 5° Berwick, aSy «" lasses. On Friday night last he rested more quietly than usual, and in th. morning seemed so h«W Z^f %^' ^'' -T"^ ""^ *»"'** encouraged; but it was only a revival Jnw LIh^I; *^.^Tt ^Tl?^. ""T^^ """^ «"ly '"^ *he afternoon it was pain- fully evident that the hand of death was upon him. His physicians were un- remitting m their eflTorts, but all medicine was unavailing. He lingered uEtU JnS huT ""^i °° ??^*.*^ ™r '"S' "'^^" h^ peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, J? G^'s r"g^rhand"" '^ ^^* *° *'"*^' "P"" '*^ "^^""^^ ^^^'''^^ °^ '^«* His friends will be anxious to know the state of his mind in the prospect of ^Lf ^^i A°^u: We ••ejoice to say it was calm and peaceful as the summer's morn. No doubts, no fears, no gloomy apprehensions in regard to the future. :ill!^- TJ"*^ ^?^"* and heavenly. His ministerial life had always been cha- l»iT.li f ^ % strong faith in the purposes and promises of the blessed God, !?hfa« • '°,^\^u*''^T^^''^^'"«' *™^""g' rejoicing in the finished work of his Saviour, and m the glory so soon to be revealed. ^„£° ^J.^*** ™/>™ing the sad tidings of his death spread rapidly through fZ^! VV^^ city creating a profound sensation in all minds, and calliSg forth sympathetic remarks from multitudes. ^»"ius At ten o'clock the bell of the Brussels Street Church sent forth its slow and solemn tones, and a large and weeping assembly was addressed by the acting do XbtT ^,^/^«!"^ weal to God, - Shall not the judge of aU the eartE do nglit ? —the umversaluy and integrity of the divine administration. In '(ill APPENDIX. 29 on. tcla'im, "Can fellow-laborer ive led to this , he attended i there bad a soal vigorous itment of Dr. le was 80 far -nrenfion, ou to Jiis borne ; ; the last six le dtschargo a to fear that ebended any Convention, Mibly beyond delighted to and happy, id privileges t that be was kturday fol* i iumily pby- serious, and J. R. Fitch, siduous caro one, and no d him to go astened for- 1 interest in On Friday ; seemed so ily a revival it was pain- is were un- igered until jp in Jesus, >ath of rest prospect of e summer's the future. 8 been cha- essed God, ished work ly through and calling » slow and the acting 1 the earth atioD, In the evening, again from fho pagaago in Isaiah, " Comfort ye comfort vo mv Go.l m tluH afllictivo dispensation, but noarly, if not all, the other "van JcHea pu Ipits of the cty, gave forth utterances of "profotrnd grief and deenc"r8vra pathy The universal foding of ministcTH ind peopl? of all denTinatio™ En'at hi po^^It' '"°' ™'" '^"' ' ''''''''' «*^'^'«'«* '^' --« STddeS; Our departed brother leaves a sorrowing wife, two sons, and four daughters to deplore their bitter bereavement. For their support in this season of oveJ' whelmmg sorrow, hundreds of prayers are presented befort he meit sla ttCh'e£.srjir;; (S "^ ''' '''''''-' '^-"-''' -^ '^ ^"^^ THE HTNERAL. The deacon.s and brethren of the bereaved Church ot once took the matter of ftineral preparations in charge, and made all necessary arrangemen s tS^have every thing done in a style moat respectful to the memory of tieir late oasLr and in a manner in all respects worlhy of tho solemn ocisioi In cons^l^^^^^ with the dootors it was deemed advisable that the interment should take pUcc as soon as Tuesday, and it was so decided. ^ SUnVlCES AT THE HOUSE. pa^Lo'^I'Sek ^'^Th'f r"^'' w"n- '^ t' ^^''''''^ ""''^ commenced at half past two oclock^ The Rev. William Harrison read tho ninetieth Psalm- after which the Rev. Mr. Spencer offered up a solemn and unproSe praye? • at tlie close of whidi tho Rev. I. E. Bill pronounced the benedicttoT ^ ^ ' BStcS'^Vt'Sl ^}'^''^'^''> and marched to tho Brussels Street waptist thuicU. Tho following was the o- ^er of tho processiou :~- Sons of Temperance. Medical Attendants. Ministers of the various Churches of tho City and Suburbs. Tall Q Bearers. o n Mourners. Members of the Church of the deceased, Friends and Carriages. »,, SERVICK3 AT THE CHURCH. Ihc corpse was placed near the Pulpit. The dead march in Saul was nor iZnn^t \*^' ""^f.u ^'"- ^^'- ^'"' ^^'^« P^-'^^^'J^d, called upon the Rev Mr Bennet, who read the opening hymn, which was san- in a verv imnrL^fl Scice tC:T.- f '• ^^'- ^'^'^y "ff^^^J prayer amid the mosr/rofound silence. There seemed an awe over the whole congregation and all felt aaif some dear friend was being lost to them forever. ' ORATION BY RKV. I. E. BILL. Christian Brethren :— I presume I but express the impression which nervadea J^is meeting, when I say that this is a solemn place. We come not here lo in ii^K^ f ^K""*''•*^' '^^t^ please ourselves with empty ceremonv bu? we assemble for the purpose of expressing our heart's deepest sjTuTathy for a be 30 APPEKDIX. reared fwnily and for an afflicted ohureh ; and to meditate upon themrflterioui E!? u» I*'" .^^ ^.** *^ "uddenlv and unexpectedly citlnguluhed one of the brighteat moral and roliKioua Ilghtn of our City. HUndIng aa we are in the preaence of death fint of all our thought* naturally turn to tbo contidentioQ of thli Dolomn subject But you aak What is Death? II in the npenoy of God to fulfil hi« stem decrees. Ita universality is every- Where acknowledged, ralaoes and cottages, gorgeous mansions and gloomy priaou ccl 8 are alike the homo of death. Ho demands admittance into every human habitation aa his legal right; a right invested with the awful sanctiona ot the Eternal. Thr power of death cannot bo broken bv human skill. The science of the world for long centuries has been engaged in exploring the flecreta of nature to find an antidote for death ; but on. and still on the destroyer rushes, as if no physician, however well skilled in the healing art, must stand for n moment in hjs path. Medical sagacity, in Us amazing researches, has discovered remedies tor every imaginable disease, but when death comes, the whole materia medica 18 powerless in his sovereign presence. Man, in his wisdom and in his energy, has bottled the lightnings of heaven and commanded them to do his pleasure, not only on the earth's surface, but along the ocean's dark, deep bed, and they have yielded obedience to his autho- rlty ; but death be cannot control. Wealth, poverty, wisdom, ignorance, nD^I' ui m' happiness, misery, faith, unbelief, holiness and sin, are ali aufce to him Tears of sorrow, the charms of beauty, the treasures of wisdom, nor the diadems of monarchs, sparkling with maryr a brilliant gem, »an hiduce nim to change his course for a single moment. His mission is universal ; his power bids defiance to the agencies and Influences of man. Nothing can be more certain, ny hearers, than that you and I must, sooner or later, bow to the authority of this disturber of earthly joys. And Is this, you ask, the end of man ? We see him die ; we see him con- fined in his coffin ; we commit him to the dust, and the monmers return in solitude to weep; but is this the end of man?-man originally made in the image of his Maker ? ^jnganctlfied reason, a sceptical philosophy, say It Is ; but m the presence of Omniscience they speak fnlselv. Blessed be God, when human reason fails, when an infidel philosophy fails, then Christianity comes as a bril- liant sun from heaven, throws her celestial light Into the chamber of death and enables the dying saint to exclaim, " 0, death, where is thy sting ? 0, grave where IS thy victory ?" The sting of death is sin, the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Ohrist--it IS only the outer material tabernacle that is dissolved. The death dart pierces only the body— the immaterial ; the soul defies the power of death and says to him, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further." And hence this immortal thinking power, bathed in the light of heaven and filled with the faith 01 God s elect, amid the struggles of dissolving nature ascends the mount of vision, and holds communion with eternal things. For as believers In the in- ^iration of the Almighty, we know if this earthly bouse of our tabernacle were diasolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. True, this body, so fearfully and wonderfully made, by the righteous decree ot heaven must go to its sepulchral home ; but «ven there the light of our glorious Christianity enters, and along the dreary vault Is heard a voice saying I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." Proud reason cannot scale these gloomy walls. Sullen upon toe crave she sits, and dreams not of a resurrection from the dreary prison ; but Christianity whispers in accents which angels love to hear, " Sown in cor- ruption, but raised in incorruption ; eown in dishonor, raised in glory ; sown in w^kness, raised in power ; sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body." So when " this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall r APPENDIX. the myttcrioin ed one of ihe we are in the contidentioa altty Is erery- 8 and gloomy ice Into erery v{a\ Banctiona icience of the a of nature to lehes, as if no n moment in Bred remedies ateria medica igs of heaven I surface, but I to his autho- n, ignorance, d Bin, are all B8of wisdom, n, "an induce niveraal ; his thing can be later, bow to see him con- era return in made in the jay it is ; but when human aes as a bril- 3er of death, g? 0, grave, >f sin is the ir Lord Jesus The death iver of death, d hence this rith the faith le mount of rs in the in- ernacle were 3, eternal in teous decree light of our oico saying, igh he were ills. Sullen jary prison ; lown in cor- 'y; sown in body." So aortal shall 81 ir.*. ttiiritt JX 1^^^ ^ P- ^^^ -J^-^ that U writ- Inc^lS'.tvt&a^h'Lu^ '''''I T^'^'^' '» -- • thing brethren, in the chamber of death when tTu "P.''*. *"* '"^ ^^ ' N»y, mj life's tenderest ties are b^inaJutidooTv ilv ^Y* "'"»"«■ f* breaking, 'wheJ sepulchre broo^" darkno««%f the wreck of our earthly hope! by l^iJh wo Imt! L ""u.f"'',^ ''"^ spoliations and and joyfully await fhe foJirWoirToniyT^j' w "en'" ft^^^^^ shall bo raised and fashioned like unto his gTor ous bod v " O Z«« n ^k*^ " praise of mortal man^ W^are he.^ n^Uo euloZ th '^*^">\'" "'^ ^"'«°'"« the living. Wo may sav lmw«vl M.a? l '^ ,*o^^'^*'**^' **"* ^o speak to through L rich bSng'oV Gorupon Ss mtisTrv t' "'"" ^"^'?"«. y^*"*' in this city. IIo comnicnced his mrni« Jv K •^' .? ^^^ * spiritual power t.enty.eigh't years ago ; "S^V^iir 1 'Xs"s itnTLy Z ^L''''''' and out of season, at home and ahrmul in hJ " , *'' \ ?»y that m season in the chamber of the sTk^nd trdVini iZL"'^^^^^^^^^ and in other churches. to know that during these lobars Lha^^^^ "^^ "' ""* '"'P"««^ nity, high and low ricii an 1 ifonn »1 1 f P'^«*^»"°d'y impressed the commu- bereaved sons and dauehters follow in tho fAnflf«,,» !<• *u • . ^.„ . dS "tTu th. ;^r f P/r^* 'P^^^**""' ^'^ *^« «'^t>'^«t'> '°'>™i«g before SJ aeatn, That the greatest kmdness they can show me is to be atea-ifaJil /a! /a» J, discharge their duty, and fill their place in iheTmleofG^-^&^Z^^^ brethren, let these words, proceeding fro£ the very hefr of yoTdyinrpTstor be written as with the pen of heaven upon the tablets of your memory H« has been with you in the hour of sorrowfin the chamber of SnSHSeafh poured consolation into the souls of loved ones who have gone before com t^Tnl "''V'''' '"^ *^" '""'^^ '^'^'^^ «f y'*"'- Christian faith, fdminisLrcS to Z God's cCroh^'IIn^L'^r ^''^«^«1,^«".gr welcomed yoi to the pr vilegesTf Gods church, unfolded to you the rich promise and preeioufl provisions of ai-li m APPENDIX. «a^\AobeprTpa4^^^^ to his parting .es- thought. He has Draved for ^LSrth2^ ' ! }^^^^^^ -^O". Pon^er this solemn for ti last tim"/uX4S^oToft^X^^^^ spoken to you of the glories of lieavon Wd of ti.e pSf Sell for^l* 'I"? ■ Keitrrni:Sni%triTtL sago which comes to y "f ^rh ' deaS 'c'offin Cinr^-Pr *" *'^ "^^" to meet thy God." " Set thine house in order forTChTil H^ ^^'J' P'tP*'? My esteemed brethren in the ministrv T ftS'/ifoVi^ • "*", '^*^' *°'* ''O' "^e." God's righteous P«,vidence to worTlTile [he £y lasS ?o? h'^'' M 1 *' "' 'L^™ which no man can work ^ ' ^^ *°® °'S^** cometh in see bv faith the glorv bevond and C thl " ' " *^?°' ^'^^ ^""' ^e shall *K • • .!• o'"'.'' "^jona, ana oia the raessen"or wplr^nmo a^a *u ..lake thee ruler OTer many tWnS F,!f., ,i fer « fe., things, I ,ill H»>v inspiring the promSYv &«™tV Sf i^^ffitl''"^ '•"?■;; shme as thebr ghtncss of thp firnnm«^/„ i *i . ^^ t"*** ^ ^'se shal ness, as the starts for ever Ind evei " ' *^'^ ''^"' *"™ '"""^^^ "ghteous- the^'blne'iLt';" ''''' ''^ ^'^^^°^ ^^•™"' '^""^ ^^^ ««v. Mr. Gunt.r pronounced had^XXXlftSTlas;^^^^^^ .-^ the congregation broken to them the Bread of Life ^ ° °*''' ** '""^ ^'^^ ^*d for years The funeral procession left the churrh nt Loif ,,»a* p , . , ceeded to the Cemetery. *" P*^' ^'^'^ « <^Iock, and pro- At the grave the burial service was read by the Rev. William Harrison. " Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust " had been called from a fiSd of U3d& Ld that . fl '/"'* 'k"* ^.^ood man ^'fe m.V fdi* T ^^^- ''' ^-ttfriTnVtt richtg^fi'^^^^ °' * ""^^ solemnitie's by all ctos of thT co2u i tv '^^^^^^ interest felt in the above and below to its utmost caSvS I a ^^''"'"^ "^''^''^ ""^^ fi"ed the whole. , Surely God brhls'^trTtwIrShl';^^^^^^^^ "'^'""'*^' P^-^^^** solImni^rcS'lSe ho'ur"'^"^"''^ ^"^'"^ '^ *^« ^^oir'aMed immensely to the the^'/orrJSg S:.Wg?vre".3 -« ^-e ^^ departed pastor. ^ expres^^mn to their profound respect fortheb The foUowing ministers were in attendance •— G Armstonp, and W. ArmstroDr ^""""'^' Disbrow, DeVeber, McNutt, Swabey and Huestls. '"• ""^''"^ ^'J***' Sponagle, England, Temple, i>icklerNarrawaT p^l^'lT^rl^.^.y''^^^- «-»n^ and Black. . to him with an 13 parting mes- repeated minia- ler this solemn instructed you ' the last time bU for the last les, is now still len to the mes- cpare, prepare and not live." call to us from jght Cometh in md as faithful him, we shall And the.i in " Well done, things, I will of thy Lord." be wise shall 7 to righteous- sr pronounced congregation had for years ck, and pro- larrison. after prayer le sorrowing mities of the a good man eft of a kind te of the ex- t felt in the chwas filled ity pervaded nPE]vdix. ■'SssB=r£!sssff«= " Ji'on «,.a„ we meet again^ ""* ''^ ^'''^ ^*^"'^ «'*3'- Meet ne'er to sever- Our snners of praWsha^clo*, Never— no, never I" ^^^ Th.f,, ^ ^''®'*^® Memento. ^enumentaand feelings of the merbet ofl V'^'"'^' "^ representing he -Jly, towards their late beloved pasTor ' ""'"^^^'^ ''•■^^' Church, |ene! JiKv. I. E. Bir,L :— ■Dear Brother As \n of our very tor;Lr2 r"* "ii '™™w pXrTr^: t*^" • s*" "'»'"'«i. the christian fi^iA e , , '*'^> *na many more tn ,?« » i "^ ^* •'"'** he was despite olhl'lltS: ^^^"/'^^-ed opeA to hL wE "C' ""* ^' ^''^ ^« sphere of th s c^v n t?^ "" education, flavin^^ft^.trf ^® '"'^' ^nd ^Aa^ in Aurch where!?. ^'^"*^""«»'J'eeyentuaU; oTr^!fV^''^^ *he wido te left'Sl '?'r'''',<^.""^'''J°theopS '^^^rrnain Street •Tanged Joti aJd^r ''^l ,°"S'"«' tho«gbts S „^^?JT^>^' «^««">- "lense labore hi« t- -S ''™"S'''y studied sublect ^-inii? ? ^ut a few well SpiHt of grace S^^ •^^t-''^^ ««'n™and which he Lh .? ^'T'^^ ^«« con! natural d1 potitb' ? I".,*^""' «^«'- ^hat he has admllT'"'*^' *'"-«>«gh the that I discos tl.^"^ '* '''«' °°' *•» after lone tSrinf '"*' *° impetuous control, was a no f^' ^f f"'^^ «° infirmity ; whfch hi ^'"^ "^^a^aintance, e/P.-osson:a?daSo^^.tS?i!-^^ control was « 1 .•^'■*' "^"^ '"'^i^ an infirm ^^p-sio^^^srr/L^s-.ve^T pow^^ ie^ih-cr:;:^^^ abundant » t„ energetic thought rha?a1Sy?& •*'"«'' ^^'^'o'-s'ie^bu^drnT'''^"'" '" ?'?^''S*'*'« though; Pf a strong'moro;?xor • \ ""'' -'ra^orSnary equSl'^V' ^l'^^ ^^^^e) ill temperf and if it ^^P'^^«'^'"g his feelings, it seemed S-"^' ^'°'' i" *iespite the da';k do^d wh r-'f '' *' f St. Andrews, hat place; and ^hose vigorous el that he was mt of good in as, and that in seed the wide '■srraain Street without strife, planted that at his death, five hundred, 'hing, accom- ^t a few well lents and im- without the common lot, keep within ' eqaent ooca- with others, 'ay morning, Pse was con- through the impetuous quaintance, thus under io thought, this frame, in despite ipanied by >s but like sain in its and Ihankfu] forth!?'™ '■"'.■'' "asoutfor liconoSf ™"''? '» "mistaken to render the e^erei»T,'r''^-. ■" "»»"«S te™?'^ "■" '«''« «M Satan, to a Dorcas JZ; ^ "' '*''' vicinity ao-iins^ ii: '^,^'^"V"®"'»g some new promote suiSe IS' ^ ^^«»-'« « -"angeSts 15' ^^'"'nionsV vice a„3 of the week but hp^i^ ^'^ accompany prfyer^n fhf '^ T'^ ^""^^^^ effort to the objectfand tJiLlJf/r'-P'-^r ^ '^^e he eadTlr-?^"<- '"^^'^"^s to time was most ivo!. T^ ^"^''^ weetin-s d enpSl!i ?.^'^* "^ carryimr out exhortation ^'h ^-JJS V!'^'^^' ^^'^ ^-^ but%SSe wo^r^^'^ Punctu'aSv of God, were, at least to I'^'T^""'^^ '''^ readCofl? .•^'-'P'^"'^*io« or teachings. ^^' *^ ""^ny of ug the be8t«nH° P'''"*'"" of the Word His bve for th. ^ ™'*'* profitable of all Li« a largely increased interest an ""^, *'^" ''^''^^ the p^Zeo ^J^-^o^^lng house, cause his exertion, w ^'"^"^ the people insLniT- ^^ "^ revival, or of with hope and gS Je r,"f' *'^« object'^ of attSon '"^P'^fg .Jealousy be his beaming co?,;Sit:l?lP''^^P«f P^^«<'nted, "aftnrS '" '^^ ^'^^ His liberal feelings toward! ntl"^ ^?S"«g«- oppression in r - ^Sd^^^^t^^^^^ another of for, or could 1^ny^^^.t?*l?^""^^' «" e^ery „c?alT/K'*'''l''^' «"d ^^i»<^h .^'^'i from this he nV^e^E^^the common cause^orchstiaSv"' k '''' ««"^'-"'» "1 his own church and \?i ^ ''''^'* ^^en overburdpior x • ? or benevolence ; choice of those hvnm« .^^"^"^'nation, and in his nS V^^ numerous cares a longing for rest' r?.V° ''"' P''«.^^^'" '"ectinL l^oh n ' f '''''■ »'« fr«juc,u of inind,Vd hS*':;^'^'- surprised me at ?£cs btr'''7t'^ '« beaut ftuiv i'nmense labo.^ ir "PP^'""* bodily victor 2 ^u '^ ^^ ^'^ cheerful state their breadth ':;,5'deSrV"f ^'^'^ ^^^ -h ZZS kL'''^""''"' ' ^»' h£ J^stem have aceount'ed'fintS '''r'r ''J"^'^ ^"'^^reaseS hy^aT;nl^?'^'''"? ^'"^^ from the strucfde of lifn ^ r "' '^« 'onged for tho , n-.M ^"^^'*^^« »" the .the "farmorrevcipif ' *"? ^^'' *he full burst on h;« *■?«* of cessation -tl.ehea.e„,VS'"^""^ «'-nal weight Tf^^ory'^ TS\TLf''''''l'' In fine, he most eminenflv . v.- ^ ^^"""^ ^"™ ^an.of.paecpreve«f:t''''"°'*''«P™»»- ^'""' "' *"" -- — '. ^:* aU^e^Sad r ""/'"*-wt ^==g ■'' ^^ nig remains were APPENPCt. £^ow«d, from hia late residence to tbe churcb, here he bad so lonicj faithfully tpiaifltered, bjr a large concourse of people, repruaenting all the var'.ous comnau- fiions at ohrtetians among us. No less than twenty-eight ministers of the dif- •ferent churches walked in advance, and on entering the church were arranged /•round that which was once the pulpit of their departed brother, from which ? it was hia joy to set forth a crucified Saviour as the all in all of salvation to a ^ ioBt world. Before leaving the residence of the departed, the Rev. Canon Harrison read the nineteenth Psalm, and the Rev. Mr. Spencer prayed, and on arriving at the chnrch the Rev. Mr. Bennet read the first hymn, the well known " hymn by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, on the death of a pastor, beginning : — Faetor, thou art from ub taken, In the glory of thy years, which was very solemnly sung by the choir ; after which the Rev. Dr. Donald read the 16th chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, begin- ning with the S5th verse to the end ; followed by a prayer offered up by the Rev. Mr. Addy. , , . , , j The Rev. Mr. Bill then delivered a short impressive address, ni which he ae- aervedlv spoke of his departed friend and brother as having been one of the brightest moral lights of this city, whose faithful walk and conversation had profoundly impressed the community in which he dwelt, quite unconsciously to himself ; and he summed up his character in words a [)lied to Barnabas of old, ♦' He was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and faith, and much people was added unto the Lord." He stated that the message his dying friend had left with him to deliver to his bereaved people was that the greatest kindness they could show to him (their deceased pastor) would be for them to continue steadfast in the faith, and m the discharge of their duty by filling their plaoe regularly in the house of God. The Rev. Mr. Baylis then gave out the hymn by Montgomery, commencmg, Servant of God well done, Eest from thy loved employ, which was very foclingly sung by the choir, accompanied by very many through- out tbe immese congregation, which was at the conclusion dismissed by the the Rev. Mr. Gunter pronouncing the benediction. After which the remains were followed by many to the public cemetery, where the sacred deposit was committed to the grave to await the resurrection of the just. l! S-^?i tt' (From the Christian Messen'jer of Halifax.) The important position which Mr. Robinson has for so many years filled as pastor of the largest Baptist Church in these provinces, gave him an amount of influence enjoyed by but few, but for the exercise of which his superior ad- ministrative talents peculiarly fitted him. To his labors, in no small measure, is the denomination indebted for its commanding position in the city of S». John. We know of no man in the body who will be so much missed amongst the Baptists in New Brunswick as Mr. Robinson Quite a number of our friends will feel deeply his departure. To them, whether in St. John or elsewhere, and to his bereaved widow, we tender our very sincere sympathy. It would ill become us at present to attempt any extended remarks in reference to the departed. We shall shortly have better opportunities of doing so. The church will find it no easy task to obtain a pastor to fill his place. We trust the brethren will have Divine guidance, and thus secure a continuance of the blessing of Almighty God in the church and the large congregation now mourn- ing their departed minister. || ijim^ fl ihliVmK. <■ 'n iBiiiif'ilifiTi'i'SfiJH^ifeSlli' ," ; faithfully us commu- of the dif- e arranged irom which cation to a lev. Canon red, and on well known •''■"^. \' Dr. Donald ians, begin- up by the hich he de- one of the *sation had isciously to ibas of old, luch people ; friend had St kindness to continue their plaoe 3namencing, * 4 ny through- 5sed by the the remains deposit was iars filled as a amount of superior ad* ill measure, } city of S». sed amongst ■ our friends : elsewhere, r. It would pence to the The church e trust the ance of the now moum- i