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 OF THE LATE 
 
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 Hon. Senator Ferrier 
 
 Of Montreal 
 
 A SERMON 
 
 Preached in St. James Street Methodist Church, on 
 SUNDAY, JUNE 3rd, 1S88 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. HUGH JOHNSTON, M.A., B.D. 
 
 With an account of the Funeral 
 
 AND 
 
 AN ADDRESS 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. :john potts, d.d. 
 
 ALSO 
 
 William Briggs, 78 & 80 King St. East, 
 Montekal: C. W. Coatbs. Halikax: S. F Hle8ti». 
 
 1888. 
 
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 ^cmortal Service. 
 
 " Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, 
 always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know 
 that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."— 1 Cob. xv. 68. 
 
 JHIS chapter is the climax of this noble epistle, 
 and our text is the crowning climax of the 
 chapter. The fifteenth chapter of first Corin- 
 thians, which contains the sublimest description of 
 the resurrection to be found in all the Bible, is so 
 constantly used for funeral services that we forget its 
 general drift, and think it a requiem to be chanted 
 over our dead, rather than an urgent and impressive 
 call to the living. But while it is so appropriate to 
 this occasion, when we mourn the loss of one most 
 dear to all who worship in this house of God— our 
 revered father and friend, of mellowed wisdom, untiring 
 energy, ripe experience, and true devotion, whom God 
 in His goodness gave, for more than three-score years, 
 to be a pillar and ornament of His Church in this city 
 and centre of influence— it is also suited to this con- 
 gregation of Christian workers, leaving their place of 
 worship, hallowed by ten thousand associations, fra- 
 grant with ten thousand tender memories, to go forth 
 to a yet larger and statelier edifice, and form a yet 
 mightier centre of religious influence in this great 
 commercial metropolis. 
 
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 How touchinglj' pathetic the thougjht, tliat in the 
 closinji; services of this time-honored sanctuary— this 
 City Road Cliapol, nay, this Westminster Abbey of 
 Canadian Methodism, this monument of the faith and 
 love and devotion of the people — we pay the tribute of 
 respect, and shed the tears of affoction over the great 
 man and prince in our Israel, whose name will be 
 forever associated with St. James Street Methodist 
 Church, and inseparably linked with the history of 
 Metho'lism in this city and land. 
 
 With the closing of the portals of this house of 
 God has closed the mortal existence and activity of 
 its most munifictsnt supporter, the Hon. Senator Fer- 
 rier. But, brethren, though the standard-bearers fall, 
 and church walls crumble; though the crown of 
 honor, the conspicuous personality of this church, is 
 gone, and our loss is irreparable, yet this is the so- 
 lace of our hearts, the Master still cares for His Church, 
 an<i will provide for its need. The trusted worker is 
 gone, yet the work will live, and the beautiful church 
 in yonder square, that is lifting its towers and mina- 
 rets to the skies, will proclaim to future generations 
 the zeal, liberality and loyalty of the old St. James 
 Street congregation, and perpetuate the name of the 
 venerable man who, a year ago, amid impressive cere- 
 monies, and in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy 
 Ghost, laid its corner-stone, striking it with the same 
 mallet which he had used forty-three years before, 
 when he laid the corner-stone of this church, after 
 the structure built in 1821 was found to be inade- 
 quate to the wants of the worshippers of that day. 
 
 The human forces of the Church of God are its 
 living men of zeal and wisdom, force and piety ; and 
 
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 while its treasures are the hlessed and holy memory 
 of those who have been reiiioved t:) the Church tri- 
 umphant in heaven, they also constitute the motives 
 "to bo stedfast, immoveable, always aboundir,j in the 
 work of the Lord." 
 
 The call which the apostle here ur<^es is full of 
 affection. " My beloved brethren." How touching the 
 expression ! I do not think St. Paul uses it anywhere 
 else in his epistles. James uses it once or twice. As, 
 " Do not err, my beloved brethren ;" " Hearken, my be- 
 loved brethren." But where else does Paul say, " My 
 beloved brethren ?" Ocoasionally he says, " Brethren ;" 
 once or twice, "My brethren." But here, carried 
 away by the grandeur of the subject he is consider- 
 ing, carried away by the force of his affection for 
 these Corinthian believers, he uses the most tender 
 language he can possibly employ to constrain them 
 to steadfastness and unraovableness in the service of 
 the Lord. So, this morning, in the spirit of gentle- 
 ness and Christian conviction, we would endeavor to 
 re-echo this counsel, dictated by the Holy Spirit 
 through the great apostle, and would constrain you 
 by all the affection that has subsisted between us as 
 pastor and people — by all the endearing seasons we 
 have ha<l together ; by all your kindness, all your 
 love; by all the tender memories which throng about 
 this dear old church, that has been to many of us 
 indeed a Bethel, " the house of Crod, and the gate of 
 heaven ;" by all that is inspiring in the memory of 
 him whose face and form are photographed upon our 
 hearts, and whose strong and noble and precious life 
 has just been closed — " My beloved brethren, be sted- 
 
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 fast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of 
 the Lord." 
 
 As, with calm and reverent minds, we ponder the 
 text, notice: I. The Argument, *' Therefore." II. The 
 Duty, " Be stedfast," etc. Ill The Encouragement, 
 " Forasmuch as ye know that your labor is aot in vain 
 in the Lord." 
 
 I. The argument." Therefore;" or, as the New Version 
 has it, " Wherefore," " So, then." The apostle refers 
 to the great argument which has gone before, the epi- 
 tome of the Gospel. All Christian activity flows from 
 fully-believed Christian doctrine. 
 
 1. The argument begins with the third verse, " For 
 I delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also 
 received, how that Christ died for our sins, according 
 to the Scriptures." 
 
 This truth of Christ dying for us is wrought into 
 the very substance of the Word of God. " He was 
 delivered for our offences." " He gave Himself a 
 ransom for us all." " He," His own self, " bare our 
 sins in His own body on the tree." " He is the pro- 
 pitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also 
 for the sins of the whole world." His death is the 
 reason and ground of our acceptance with God. We 
 cannot penetrate the mystery which surrounds His 
 Cross, but we know '• that we have redemption through 
 His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the 
 riches of His grace." The atonement alone makes us 
 one with God. Repentance will not repair the wrong 
 our sins have wrought ; reformation will not avail ; 
 but in our distress and anguish we see One hanging 
 on the tree for our sins, and it is as the smile of a 
 Father reconciled. We extend our hands as upon his 
 
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 Oross ; we feel anguish like His ; His death becomes 
 our life, and He renews us in the image of God. 
 Therefore, because of this redemptive work, be stead- 
 fast. " Ye are not your own ; ye are bought with a 
 price ; therefore glorify God in your bodies, and your 
 spirits which are His." 
 
 2. The second basal truth presented is the re- 
 surrection, verse 4, "And that He was buried, and 
 that He rose again the third day according to the 
 Scriptures." This was the chief topic of apostolic 
 preaching. "With great power" they bore witness 
 to His risin^^;. Can you conceive what your own 
 religious faith and life would have been had our Lord's 
 history closed with His death and burial ? Take this 
 doctrine out of the creed and Christianity collapses, 
 just as the arch tumbles when the keystone is re- 
 moved. Deny it, and in the place of the Conqueror of 
 death and the Redeemer of souls, you have a deceiver ; 
 the grave is dark, sin abides, and death is an eternal 
 sleep. 
 
 But this truth stands as the mountain of God. 
 and because He brake away from death, vanquished 
 and destroyed the powers of the grave, seized 
 the tyrant king of terrors, took away his crown, de- 
 molished his throne and empire ; and, laden with the 
 spoils and trophies of the tomb, came forth all glori- 
 ous as the representative of His risen people, there- 
 fore, because of your hope of resurrection and eternal 
 life in Him, and through Him, etc., be steadfast. 
 You are serving not a dead Christ, but the living 
 One, who holds the keys of death and hell, who has 
 rolled back the stone from the door of every sepul- 
 <;hre of buried hopes, and become the first fruits of 
 
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 them that sleep. "Therefore," because you know 
 Him, and the power of His resurrection — that new 
 power which has entered human life, opening the eyes 
 of men to the vast prospects that await them in the 
 endless future — that tremendous power which invig- 
 orates the will, purifies the affections, and elevates the 
 whole aim and purpose of life — know the real mean- 
 ing of your destiny, and " be stedfast." 
 
 3. There is not only the resurrection, but tho 
 ascension, and gloritication of Christ. This chapter 
 presents Christ as ascended and reigning; and in 
 verse 25 it is said, " He must reign till He hath put 
 all enemies under His feet." He has been lifted to the 
 highest pinnacle and throne of universal love, honor 
 and worship. When the daughter of Jairus was 
 brought oack to life she returned to the same life 
 that she had lived before ; she was a child again in 
 her father's house ; she may have grown to woman- 
 hood, may have married, passed through the cares, 
 sorrows and joys of maternity, and at length she 
 died again, and was buried. So with the young man 
 of Nain. He went home with his widowed mother, 
 took his place again in the common ranks of 
 men, and lived and died like others. So with 
 Lazarus. He took up the broken threads of life 
 just where he had dropped them, and dwelt with his 
 sisters in the cottage-home at Bethany. But when 
 our Jesus returned to life. He re-ascended to the infinite 
 heights ot authority and glory, and now the Lord of 
 all is He that was crucified, and not another; the 
 Ruler of earth and skies is He that was born in Beth- 
 lehem, that agonized in the garden and hung upon 
 Calvary. 
 
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 O, if we would escape the sorrows, sins and temp- 
 tations of our present condition, and be lifted to the 
 very heights of God, let us look up to Jesus Christ, 
 on the Father's throne, reigning in Heaven, reigning 
 over His Church, reigning in human hearts. What 
 victory He has achieved for you and me, and every 
 believer; for His people are so closely joined to Him 
 that their resurrection follows from His, that they 
 share in all His triumphs, and partake of His victories. 
 These triumphs are over all our enemies. The first 
 great enemy is sin ; and this He hath put away by the 
 sacrifice of Himself, for " His blood cleanseth from 
 all sin." The next enemy is death, the consequence of 
 sin; for "sin entered into the world, and death by 
 sin." But our Immanuel is the conqueror of death, 
 and He cries out, " 0, death, I will be thy plagues I" 
 and so is brought to pass the saying that is written, 
 " Death is swallowed up in victory." The third great 
 enemy is the grave, which dissolves the fair fabric of 
 flesh, and leaves it the prey of worms. But " in all 
 these things we are more than conquerors through 
 Him that loved us." " O, death, where is thy sting ? 
 O, grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death 
 is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks 
 be to God, which giveth us the victory through our 
 Lord Jesus Christ." " Therefore," seeing that the vic- 
 tory is sure, and the bliss and the glory, the honor and 
 immortality are before you in all the golden ages of 
 the boundless future, " be stedfast, unmoveable, 
 always abounding in the work of the Lord." 
 
 This brings us, II., to the Duty enjoined. 
 
 " Be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the 
 
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 work of the Lord." We need no divisions here ; the 
 words of the text provides it. 
 
 1. j'n the first instance, we are directed to be stead- 
 fast, that is, firm, positive, unshaken. " Be not moved 
 away from the hope of the Gospel." Never doubt 
 the blessed truth of Christ dying for your sins, ris- 
 ing for your justification, and glorified at the right 
 hand of God. Be steadfast in obedience, in duty, and 
 in suffering. How it transmutes our sorrows into 
 joys, and our tears into smiles ; how every pang, and 
 peril, every decay of the outward but strengthens 
 and renews the inward and immortal life ; when the 
 chambers of the soul are crystalline to let in the full 
 light of God, and there is the fixed adherence to the 
 truth of Christ standing for us, conquering for us, liv- 
 ing for us, and sharing His glory with us. 0, to look 
 away to the unseen Saviour, and realize that He sends 
 His angels to encamp round about them that fear 
 Him, nay, is Himself a pavilion where He hides His 
 people until the -storm be overpast, Himself a rock 
 and fortress more solid than any visible rock, and 
 more enduring than any earthly tower. 
 
 "Be stedfast." What an example of this steadfast- 
 ness we have in the life of Senator Ferrier. Born in 
 Scotland, October 22, 1800, at the beginning of this 
 century, at the age of twenty-one, he came out to 
 Canada, when the colony was largely a terra incognita, 
 and it required a spirit, of determination and .self- 
 reliance to face the difliculties and hardships of a new 
 country. But he was a son of the hills, dowered with 
 strength, and ready to labor and endure. Starting 
 with very moderate means, by diligence and enter- 
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 intellect, a well-balanced judgment, a prompt and un- 
 tiring energy, this many-sided business man achieved 
 such amazing success, that in twelve years he had 
 amassed a competent fortune. A stranger in the city, 
 he was invited by that regal man, the late John Tor- 
 rance, to his pew in the old St. James Street Church, 
 and the services of Methodism so won upon him that 
 he cast in his lot with this people of God. He gave 
 his young heart fully to God and His work, and stead- 
 fast in his adherence to the truth, firm and unswerv- 
 ing in his religious convictions, by his pure, true, 
 earnest life, his zeal, liberality, his high honor and 
 faithful service, he has done more to build up and 
 strengthen the Church in her Educational, Missionary, 
 and Church -extension movements than perhaps any 
 other layman that God has given to Canadian Method- 
 ism. My beloved brethren, let us be thus steadfastly 
 devoted to God's cause. 
 
 2. " Unmovable," unshaken in faith, and stable in 
 Christian character. That word suggests forces tending 
 to carry us away. Who has not felt the boiling, seeth- 
 ing, roaring surge, ready, like a desolating flood, to 
 lift our faith from its foundations, wrench it into 
 fragments, and sweep it mercilessly down the stream ? 
 Who has not so felt the power of depravity from 
 within, and of evil example and harming associations 
 from without, that, but for a pierced Hand which we 
 grasp, and, grasping, are held, we could not keep our 
 footing in the rush and swirl of that fierce tide ? 
 
 This was another element in the Christian charac- 
 ter of our distinguished friend, whose busy hands are 
 now folded, whose brain sleeps, and whose active feet 
 are now still. 
 
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 His will was iron ; while his heart had a mother's 
 tenderness, his purpose was rooted like the oak. 
 
 " Rouk^i have been shaken from their solid base, 
 But vyhat can move a tinn and dauntless mind?" 
 
 How upright and downright he was — an honest 
 man — and that is 
 
 " The noblest work of God." 
 
 His life was not built on shifting sands, but founded 
 on the Rock of Righteousness. He had deep convic- 
 tions, firm Christian principles, and he shaped his life 
 by them. As a young man working his way upwards 
 — as an active merchant, a senator and law-maker, in 
 every position, from the humblest to the highest, in 
 every duty, in every responsibility — he trod the path 
 of rectitude. He could not be moved to do a dishon- 
 orable thing. His honor, his Christian consistency he 
 would not barter for place nor gold ; and an upright, 
 spotless, imtarnished name was the ornament of his 
 old age, and is now the priceless heritage of his chil- 
 dren and children's children. Having yielded himself 
 to God, he could not go back. He was a good citizen 
 because he was a good Christian, and unswerving faith 
 in the Lord Jesus Christ was the deepest source of his 
 strength, the sure pillar of his integrity, the fountain 
 of his benefactions, and the comfort of his declining 
 years. 
 
 3. Still further. " Always abounding in the work 
 of the Lord." Every believer is called to work; and 
 we may say of the work of the Lord as of the land of 
 Havilah, " The gold of that land is good," for most pre- 
 cious is this work of faith and labor of love. If you 
 
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 are not a believer, but a stranger to Christ, and ask, as 
 did the Jews of old, " What shall we do that we might 
 work the works of God ?" we give the Master's an- 
 swer: " This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him 
 whom God hath sent." The first lesson is not work, but 
 faith ; unless faith first, no work ; but having the true, 
 saving faith, you will find it an active principle. The 
 faith leads on to work, nay, produces all the Christian 
 working of the world — the works of all saints, the 
 deeds of all martyrs, the toil of suffering, bleeding 
 hearts; not only the conspicuous deeds, but the obscure 
 fidelities and unobtrusive services in all the hidden 
 examples of true Christian activity. 
 
 "Always abounding. ' God has given us our powers 
 of mind and bod}^ and He means that we should use 
 them for His glory. Some Christians appear to do 
 nothing ; others do a little ; others abound, are at it, and 
 always at it. How many are the professed followers in 
 the Church that do not do any work, bub simply make 
 work! Such was not the character of him whom we 
 commemorate to-day. He was a member of the 
 Church, not in name only, but in deed and truth, and 
 was ready to devote every moment of his time, every 
 faculty of his being, every particle of his influence, 
 and every dollar of his money to the glory of his 
 Master. Some do very little. They can find fault 
 with other people's working so well, and are so good 
 at grumbling and criticising that they think they must 
 be excused from personal activity. Or they would 
 work if they could do what others do. " If I only 
 had a ready tongue." Well, use the tongue you have. 
 Ring the bells that hang in your own steeple. " If I 
 only had the gift of prayer." Well, use the gift you 
 
 
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 have. " if I only had Mr. So-and-So's fortune, I would 
 give." Use the means you have for God. If you are 
 not ready to give when you have but little, you would 
 not give plenteously were you affluent. If you will 
 not work where God has put you, and with what you 
 have, you would shirk anywhere. 
 
 Some know not where to bestow their wonderful 
 talents. They are Oreat Easterns, afraid of running 
 aground in ordinary channels. They would do works 
 of honor, but will not do works of drudgery. They 
 would let their light shine from a golden candlestick, 
 but not from a glass lamp-stand. They would shep- 
 herd a flock, but will not feed a lamb; and would 
 superintend a Sabbath -school, but will not teach a 
 class of half-a-dozen little children. They would 
 speak to a crowd, but will not lead a helpless, tempted 
 one to Christ. They forget that life is made up not 
 of great occasions, but of a multitude of small things. 
 One Niagara thunders for a continent, while it takes 
 ten thousand silver streams to water the meadows and 
 gardens and woodlands. O, to abound in the work of 
 the Lord and to be always abounding, whether it is 
 popular or unpopular, fashionable or unfashionable, 
 agreeable or disagreeable, whether it pleases or dis- 
 pleases. It is easy enough to do work by fits and 
 starts, to make it half-work and halt'-play, just as 
 men often take up amateur gardening or amateur 
 farming, just for the sake of recreation ; but true 
 service for God is no child's play ; it means taking 
 pains, it means self-denial and offering sacrifices ; it 
 means downright, uninterrupted, real, hard, though 
 blessed labor. 
 
 What is meant by the work of the Lord ? Well, it 
 
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 is work that He enjoins, work that will glorif j' Him, 
 work that we do for His sake, with our eye fixed 
 upon Him, and our heart saying, " 0, Lord Jesus, I 
 do this for Thee." It is, in short, the Christian life, 
 with its active and passive duties and graces. It is 
 the work in us to bring out what is purest, best, and 
 most Christ-like. 
 
 You cannot get pears from a crab- tree, or ripe clus- 
 ters of grapes from the thorn-tree; so the fruits of 
 the Spirit come only from the renewed life and cul- 
 tured heart. How much work we have to do upon 
 ourselves ! How marred and faulty the marble which 
 we are trying to shape into nobleness and beauty ! 
 One finds it hard to be just, another to be irenerous. 
 another to be patient, another to be pure. We must 
 fight to win victories. The Christ-life should mean 
 victory, constant victory over self and sin ; too often 
 it consists of hard-fought battles, with occasional vic- 
 tory, but frequent defeats. 
 
 There is the work of endurance, "for they also 
 serve who only stand and wait." Afflictions are not 
 good in themselves, and do us no good of themselves ; 
 but when they are used aright they become a great 
 purifying, productive power. The regnant qualities 
 of the soul are ennobled by sorrow just as gold is 
 developed by the hammer and the fire. Beloved 
 brethren, do we not know how the cup of suffering 
 may be turned into a chalice of joy? Suffer a per- 
 sonal reference. While I was pastor of this church, 
 a precious child was born to us at a time when 
 failing health threw its dark shadow over me — a 
 time when this true, warm, and loyal friend, whose 
 memory we honor to-day, showed to me and mine 
 
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 a tenderness and sympathy for which I will thank 
 him when I meet him in the palace of the King, 
 amid the ineffable glories of the heavenly world. We 
 called our child James Ferrier, and we loved him for 
 himself and for his name. But at the age of five our 
 pet lamb, the fairest of the household, was taken from 
 us, and he went down with all his sweet and winning 
 ways into the grave, the dull earth falling between us 
 and our darling. My heart was well-nigh broken ; 
 but Jesus came to whisper comfort, the invisible 
 world gathered about me, and lifting up my eyes to 
 say, " Father, Thy will be done," I saw the celestial 
 landscapes, I saw the shore untouched by sorrow, 
 and unwet with tears ; and there, amongst the white- 
 robed, crowned and radiant, I beheld my angel-boy, 
 and my heart said, " Father, I thank Thee." What a 
 work in me that sorrow wrought. And so to many 
 before me, the unseen land is not dark, but flames 
 with liirht. Our friends are there; our loved ones 
 are there, and white hands stretched out are beckon- 
 ing us away ! Sometimes we can almost see their 
 bright forms, can almost hear their well-known voices 
 chanting their high praises before the throne. Thus 
 by afflictions we are strengthened and invigorated, 
 every virtue is quickened and ripened, and every grace 
 flowers out into celestial beauty. 
 
 Then there is the work of the Lord not only in us, 
 but about us. It takes on a hundred different forms 
 of service. Anything in our most ordinary walks of 
 life that we can do in His spirit, with a view to ex- 
 tend His kingdom, is the work of the Lord. 
 
 Here is a mother, whose work lies right in the 
 sphere of home, and if true to her household, conse- 
 
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 cratinor her life to the work of makinoj her husband's 
 home happy and holy, and winning her cbildran to 
 Christ, she is doing truer work for the Lord than if 
 she were to neglect her home for some outside mis- 
 sion service. Here is a man who says, " I cannot take 
 delight in the prayer-meeting and in Church work. I 
 love to study, to cultivate literature and arts, and im- 
 prove my mind." All right is this self-culture. But 
 as a Christian you are bound to ask, to what end ? 
 for what purpose ? Is it for the sake of self, or to 
 become something to others and something for God ? 
 
 Another says, " My business is secular, behind the 
 counter, in the office, at the wharf." All right. You can 
 carry heaven down into your shops and offices, and I 
 believe that many of you do. Go, buy and sell, bargain 
 an<l write, carrying on the business of this mighty 
 metropolis, in the right spirit, in the religious spirit, 
 and you will make every warehouse and place of mart 
 a centre for God to bless, and a place for doing the 
 work of the Lord ! 
 
 Was ever this tireless energy and activity more 
 completely embodied in any servant of the Master 
 than in him whose record is now on high ? His 
 name has stood conspicuously for three-score years 
 and ten associated with the growth and development 
 of this city, and with the social, educational, commer- 
 cial and political life of Canada: a director of the 
 Bank of British North America, and for six years 
 president of the Mutual Assurance Company, a lieu- 
 tonant-colonel in the militia of 1837, a mayor of the 
 city, and a municipal officer of integrity and purity 
 and sound judgment. Called by royal mandamua 
 to a seat in the Legislative Council, he has for nearly 
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 fifty years taken an active part in the legislation of 
 the Province of Quebec and of the country at large. 
 
 Engajred in many of the leading enterprises of this 
 commercial capital, ho was the projector and presi- 
 dent of the first Canadian railroad, and has been for 
 years the chairman of the Canadian Board of the 
 Orand Trunk Railway. Interested in the advance- 
 ment of hiarning, he was the Chancellor of the grow- 
 ing University of McGill — an institution that is 
 becoming world -known — and a member of the Board 
 of Regents of Victoria Universit}'. Identified with 
 all philanthropic movements, he has been for a 
 generation the President of the Bible Society. Why, 
 when we sum up the achievements of his life, 
 we arc amazed that oni; man could accomplish 
 80 much. Yet, did any or all of these things hin- 
 der his activity in the work of God, or dampen a 
 zeal which sacrificed everything upon the altar of the 
 Clmrch ? Never. As soon as he took his place 
 among the disciples of the Lord Je.sus, he endeavored 
 in all things to approve himself a faithful member 
 of the Church, seeking her honor and usefulness. 
 Small in body, he v;as yet wiry and strong, for that 
 frame was dominated by a master-spirit, a vigorous 
 and tiiiconquerable will; and he entered forcefully 
 into all the activities of the Church, and made his 
 presence and influence felt in all her councils. 
 
 He could not bear indolence, laziness, or inactivity. 
 And with his heart set on doing good, and all his 
 energies quickened, what his hand found to do he did 
 with all his might. 
 
 From 182.'] he was a trustee of the Church. In 
 1 837 wo find the record of his fitting up a building 
 
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 in Quebec suburbs at his own expense for the pub- 
 lic worship of God, and keeping it free of expense 
 until 1846, when the present Lagauchetiere Street 
 church was erected. He has given largely towards 
 the erection and the liquidation of the debts of 
 the Methodist churches of the city. Fitted to be a 
 leader among men, he has filled every office in the 
 gift of the Church— steward, class-leader, delegate to 
 the Annual and General Conferences, and Superintend- 
 ent of the Sabbath -school. The oldest Sunday-school 
 superintendent in the world, he demonstrated that 
 the weight of over four-score years does not incapaci- 
 tate for efficient labors among the young. Aged men 
 before me were children in his school, for in 1827 Mr. 
 Dangerfield was a child attending the school in which 
 lie taught, and in 1830 Mr. Masterman was a little 
 boy under his care. 
 
 He identified himself with the Educational move- 
 ments of the Church, and as long as one stone .stands 
 upon another will the name of Hon. Senator Ferrier 
 1)8 associated with the Wesleyan Theological College, 
 and Dr. Douglas, the learned Principal, whose eloquent 
 words should have been heard this morning in place 
 of my feeble utterance.s, had he not been shaken with 
 emotions too tumultuous for speech, has lost his wisest 
 counsellor, his most noble, unselfish, strong and trusted 
 friend. His gifts and his labors were not confined to 
 his own Church. He was the helper of every good 
 cause, and threw all the weight of his fortune and his 
 influence on the side of Christianity. He was the liv- 
 ing representative of energy, force, undaunted will- 
 power, and unprecedented activity in the Master's 
 service ; and now that the long day's work is done. 
 
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 his is a well-ea ried repose. Therefore, my beloved 
 brethren, by the memory of his life and labors, which 
 will continue to be a benediction to this Church, " Be 
 ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the 
 work of the Lord." 
 
 And this brings us, III., ami briefly to the Encour- 
 agement, " Forasmuch as ye know that your labor is 
 not in vain in the Lord." " Your labor." Not the 
 work which you pick and choose, but which the Lord 
 assigns you. Not what you get done by proxy, but 
 what you personally do — your labor. It will not be 
 " in vain " as far as your own character is concerned. 
 You can tell from a man's gait on the street whether 
 he has a purpose, or is wandering aimlessly ; so work 
 for the Lord .steadies character and inspires to noble 
 living. 
 
 It will not be " in vain " in view of the reward. 
 Already our translated friend has received a portion 
 of that reward. See him as he treads the golden 
 streets, his first Sabbath in heaven ; see ten thousand 
 hands stretched out to greet him ; see, shining beyond 
 the stars, twice ten thousand eyes brightening at his 
 coming ; see, swelling in ten thousand bosoms, hearts 
 throbbing his welcome ; see him recognized by one and 
 another, who stop him and say to him, " Do you re- 
 member, down on earth, when you took me b}'^ the 
 hand to help me, when you gave of your means to 
 relieve my distress, when, in the Sabbath- school, you 
 led m*> to Jesus ? When I think of my Saviour, and 
 praise Him for His salvation, I think of you." The re- 
 ward of turning " many to righteousness." O, to hear 
 Him .say, " Well done, good anl faithful .servant." 
 
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 Dear friends, the work of this Church has not been in 
 vain. 
 
 "All else may die, and be forgot ; 
 Work done for God, that dieth not." 
 
 The very memories of this sanctuary are as joy- 
 bells. I remember when we were sailing up the slug- 
 gish river to Antwerp how anxious we were to reach 
 the city before noon, that we might hear the cathedral 
 bells ; and all the while that we remained, every hour 
 the weird, delicious music rang out from those fifty or 
 sixty bells, tilling the air with sweetness. 
 
 So the songs and prayers and sermons of this his- 
 toric sanctuary echo like the ringing of cathedral 
 bells in the soul, and the precious associations will hal- 
 low this spot of ground forever. But the old must 
 continually give place to the nevv. No doubt, with 
 similar feelings, the church of 1821 was abindoned for 
 the grander enterprise of this Zion which now you 
 leave to prepare to enter another, which, in location, 
 style of architecture and appointments promises to be' 
 one of the finest ecclesiastical edifices in the Protestant 
 world. 
 
 What a day was that opening day, the 27th of July 
 1845. " The Lord was in his holy temple." The Gover- 
 nor-General, Lord Metcalfe, attended in state ; the elo- 
 quent Dr. Richey preached a sermon full of majesty 
 of thought, beauty of diction and spiritual unction 
 and the cloud of glory descended and rested upon 
 the place. Since then what a galaxy of pastors this 
 church has had— a Jenkins, a DeWolf, a Lachlan Tay- 
 lor, a William Squires, a .saintly Bishop, an Elliott, a 
 Douglas, a Briggs, a Sutherland, a John Potts, and 
 
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 a Leonard Gaetz, who, under the shadow of the Rooky 
 Mountains, in broken health, turns his thoughts to us 
 to-day, even as we think of him and his fervid min- 
 istry. What throned kings have, from time to cime, 
 occupied this pulpit ! A William Morley Punshon, the 
 ApoUos of Methodism ; and a Henry Ward Beecher, 
 a Dixon, a Thornton, a William Arthur, a Gervase 
 Smith, a Coley and a Bishop Taylor; a Newman and a 
 Bishop Janes ; a Butler, a Tiffany, a Newman Hall 
 and a James Caughey, who won hundreds to the 
 Saviour, that shall be his crown of rejoicing. How 
 these walls have echoed the songs of salvation from 
 new-born souls, and the shouts of redeemed hosts. This 
 church has spent in its own legitimate work not less 
 than half a million of dollars, while it has contributed 
 to the cause of missions alone, during the past thirty 
 years, $111,000. And when we think of the young 
 that have been guided into the right way, the way- 
 ward that have been reclaimed, the sorrowing cheered ; 
 when we think of the noblo lives that have been 
 inspired, and the thousands of deaths that have been 
 made triumphant, surely our hearts should be jubilant 
 with the thought. What a roll of honored laymen asso- 
 ciated with this house of the Lord — Daniel Fisher, 
 John and David Torrance, John and Samuel Mathew- 
 son, Thomas Kay, William Lunn, Robert Campbell, 
 Richard Latham, John Hilton, William McBride, and 
 a host of worthies whose names are written in heaven. 
 I was in Washington, the Paiis of this continent, a 
 few weeks ago, and went out to the Soldiers' Cemetery 
 at Arlington, on the wooded heights of the beautiful 
 Potomac. And while I read the names of thousands 
 upon the headstones, what touched me most was the 
 
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 raonument to the unknown heroes who died for their 
 country. Their names were not recorded, but they were 
 not forgotten. So there are a great cloud of witnesses, 
 their names, perhaps, unrecorded here, who have gone 
 up to the company of the glorified. 
 
 But standing out from all others is the name of him 
 upon whose face we but yesterday looked for the last 
 time, and whose mortal remains we have laid away in 
 Mount Royal Cemetery. A genuine sorrow has sought 
 to find expression for the loss of one of the most hon- 
 est, active, and useful citizens that Montreal has ever 
 had. Love prepared those obsequies, love wreathed 
 those floral mementoes, and it is love that dictates the 
 tribute which we pay to his upright memory. To 
 have been the centre of so many influences— to have 
 awakened throughout so large a circle sentiments of 
 affection and esteem, to have borne testimony for three- 
 quarters of a century to the reality and power of re- 
 ligion, to have been a friend of the poor and weak, the 
 succorer of many, as well as a public benefactor and a 
 friend of all the Churches, and then die amid the 
 general and unaffected sorrow of a great community 
 — is not to have lived in vain' 
 
 The closing scene was a brief one. His illness was 
 not long, but severe. Watched with tender solicitude by 
 children and grandchildren, his life was ebbing away. 
 There he lay, in the fulness of years, and with his 
 spirit ripening for the heavenly harvest. How appro- 
 priate the language of Scripture, " They have come to 
 the grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in 
 in his season." Prayers were offered, and hymns were 
 sung. The dying patriarch said to his son, "I feel that 
 Jesus is precious ; He is all my trust and stay," when 
 
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 suddenly and silently came the last messenger ; the 
 heavy breathing ceased, the heart stopped, the s'l^er- 
 ings were over, and his freed spirit passed upward into 
 life. 
 
 " Jesus is precious " were among his last words. O, 
 how precious to the dying saint. 
 
 "Jesus can make the dying bed 
 Feel soft as downy pinions are, 
 While on His breast I lay my head, 
 And breathe my life out sweetly there." 
 
 Infinitely beyond everything else, more precious 
 than all that he had earned of wealth or honor was 
 his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 This alone remained in death, and this abides, mak- 
 ing his name great in heaven. 
 
 The other day, in Toronto, a grandchild of Rev. Mr. 
 Hetherington, one of your own early ministers, passed 
 away. Her death was a rapture. As the heavens 
 opened she said to her sister, a young widow, " O, 
 Emily, I see Alick coming down to meet me ; and there 
 is sister Lizzie just behind ; and there is Jesus, precious 
 Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus ; come quickly," and she was 
 gone. Oh, think of Mr. Ferrier's friends that canio 
 trooping down to tne river shore to meet him ; the 
 members of his family, who had passed through the 
 gates into the city, his Mary and George and Roberta 
 and the angel-faced companion of his pilgrimage, his 
 precious wife. How distinctly I remember them, as 
 they used to tread together the courts of the Lord's 
 house — his kind, strong hand supporting her, their 
 faces irradiated wit., the heavenly light of pure affec- 
 tion, as they sat there in that vacant pew, after more 
 
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 than half a century of wedded love. How tender his 
 devotion to her ; finding the hymns and the lessons, 
 adjusting her seat; so anxious that she should hear 
 every word of the discourse. Now they meet again. 
 It is better far than their golden wedding day. Dearer 
 and fonder their hands clasp as of old, and thev are 
 " forever with the Lord." 
 
 Dear friends, I call upon you to forget in him 
 all that was of earth, earthy— all that he had of 
 human infirmities— and reach forward in his character 
 to all that is "immortal." What a loss this church 
 has sustained. It is as when a standard-bearer fall- 
 eth. We cry after him as Elisha after Elijah, with an 
 almost despairing cry: "My father, my father; the 
 chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." Who, 
 who will take his place? There is so much to be done,' 
 and the workers are so few. Lord, send down a 
 double portion of Thy spirit upon us who are left 
 behind ! 
 
 Into the sacred sorrow of the household we mrst 
 not intrude. God comfort the sorrowing, especially 
 the daughter, whose hands have been busy, her feet 
 active, and her whole life given, for many years, in un- 
 selfish devotion to her parents. Blessed the children 
 who have parents here ; thrice blessed they who have 
 a glorified ancestry in parents passed into the skies. 
 
 "God of our fathers, be the God 
 Of their succeeding race. " 
 
 May the children and children's children, down to 
 the fourth generation, be blessed to-day; and may 
 they, like their grandsire, give God and His Church 
 the highest place in their aflfections. 
 
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 Of our translated friend we say, " Farewell, dear 
 father ; honored in life, peaceful in death, blessed in 
 eternity." The monument we raise to his memory is 
 no broken column, sad emblem of failure and incom- 
 pleteness, but a finished column, strong, complete, and 
 lifted high ! 
 
 " Servant of God, well done ; 
 Thy glorious warfare's past ; 
 The battle's fought, the victory won, 
 And thou art crowned at last. " 
 
 And robing ourselves in the garments of the holy 
 departed, we would follow him even as he followed 
 Christ, and " Be stedfast, unmovable, always abound- 
 ing in the work of the Lord." 
 
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 ^be jfuneral 
 
 The funeral of the late Senator Ferrier took place on 
 Saturday afternoon. June 2, 1888, from his late resi- 
 dence, 100 St. Alexander Street, and was attended by 
 u very large number of prominent citizens, who were 
 present to pay their last tribute of respect to the 
 memory of that gentleman. It was particularly appro- 
 priate, too, that the funeral service should be held in 
 the historic old St. James Street Methodist chuich. 
 with which h^ had been so lonj? connected— having 
 been a trustee since 1823— and in which was yester- 
 day held the farewell services, prior to the congrega- 
 tion anding another place of worship until such" time 
 as the magniHcent new edifice on St. Catharine Street 
 IS ready for occupation. A short service was held at 
 the house, at which Rev. J. Philp and Rev. Hugh John- 
 ston officiated, after which the funeral cortege formed 
 and proceeded to the church The pall-bearers were • 
 Mr. Joseph Hickson. Mr. L. J. Seargeant, Sir William 
 Dawson, Sir A. T. Gait, Mr. S. Finley, Mr. T. D. Hood, 
 Mr. J. H. R. Molson and Rev. Dr. Cornish. 
 
 The chief mourners were Messrs. James Ferrier, jun., 
 John To.rance, John Torrance.jun., J. F.Torrance, H. Fer- 
 rier, G. Ferrier, R. F. M. Macfarlane, J. F. M. Macfarlane, 
 and W. Oliver. Among the large number who followed 
 were— His Lordship Bishop Bond, Rev. Dr. Williams, 
 Rev. Dr. Potts. Rev. Dr. Antliff, Rev. Dr. Norton, Rev.' 
 Canon EUegood, Rev. Canon Henderson, Rev. Dr. Shaw, 
 
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 Rev. A. B. Mackay, Bishop Ussher, Rev. Mr. Botterel.Rev. 
 Hugh Johnston, Rev. W. Jackson, Rev. Geo. H. Wells, Rev. 
 Wm. Hall, Rev. James Patterson, Rev. James Fleck, 
 Rev. Prof. Coussirat, Rev. Mr. Scanion, Rev. Wm. Hans- 
 ford, Rev. L. N. Tucker, Rev. S. Massey, Rev. Wesley 
 Guard, Rev. A. B. Chambers, Rev. John Nichols, Rev. 
 Dr. Campbell, Rev. J. W. Sparling (Kingston), Hon. J. 
 J. C. Abbott, Mayor of Montreal ; Hon. D. A. McDon- 
 ald, Hon. Henry Starnes, Hon. Senator Ogilvie, Hon. 
 Senator .Alexander, Hon. James McShane, Mr. Justice 
 Church, Mr. Justice Doherty, Hon. W. W. Lynch, 
 Messrs. W. C. McDonald, W. J. Buchanan, Andrew 
 Allan, Andrew Robertson, S. H. Ewing, A. S. Ewing, 
 F. W. Thomas, Wm. Wainwright, E. P. Hannaford, 
 James Stephenson, Geo. Macrae, Q.C., Charles Garth, 
 Prof. Alexander Johnson, Prof. Bovey, Prof. Darey, 
 Aid. White, Aid. Clendinneng, Aid. McBride, Aid. 
 Archibald, Aid. Grenier, Aid. Griffin, James Crathern, 
 Lieut. -Col. Fraser, James O'Brien, George Young, Wm. 
 Weir, George Hague, R. R. Grindly, S. Carsley, Wm. 
 Ramsay, J. E. Robidoux, M.P.P., John S. Hall, M.P.P., 
 J. J. Curran, M.P., Dr. George Ross, N. W. Trenholme, 
 L. H. Davidson, D. Sinclair, Thomas Workman, Dr. 
 Robins, Dr. Reed, J. Fred. Walker, Aid. Stevenson, 
 Hugh Graham, D. Bentley, John Lovell, M. P. Ryin, E. 
 Rawlings, W. E. Dickson, J. C. Hatton, Q.C., J. A. Mat- 
 thewson, Edward Murphy, Dugald Graham, John L. 
 Morris, E. B. Greenshields, Col. Hart, Captain Howard, 
 W. D. Stroud, A. Desjardins, M.P., James Shearer, 
 Robert Mackay, J. R. Dougall, A. T. Drumraond, Dr. 
 R. P. Howard, ex- Aid. Holland, J. Sleep Honey, R. 
 Roy, Q.C., G. Lamothe, Hugh McLennan, Dr. Stewart, 
 Dr. Wyatt Johnson, Robert Miller, Robert Reford, S. 
 
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 D.vis, Dr. Fulton, W. G. Francis. John Barry. John 
 Taylor, H. Wallis, W. Edgar. Joseph Richards H W 
 R. Walker, P. J. Evans. George Irvine, W. F Li.rht- 
 hall. James W. Brakenridge, C. R. Black, J. H.Carson 
 Robert Irwin. Charles Alexander, J. H. Burland Dr j' 
 Alexander, A. B. Stewart. R )bert Kerry, Alex. Robert- 
 son, John L^5wis. George Cruikshank, P. E. Noman- 
 din. VVm. Tees, ex-Alderman Masterman, ex-Alderman 
 Desmarteau. A. F. Dunlop, A. M. Featherstone D Mc- 
 Millan, George Vipond. Stanley Bagg. George Bishop 
 J. Murray Smith, James Stewart, W. M. D. Marler, Dr' 
 J. Baker Edwards, Dr. McConnell, W. R. Salter E 
 Hollis, Robert Graham, Joseph Duhamel, Q.C J Van- 
 neck, R. Muir. C. Gushing, J. B. Loarmont. J. McDon- 
 nough, Thomas Chambers, W. S. Gentle, R. T. Gibb, H. 
 Dunne, E. Lusher, and many others. Messrs. Desaul- 
 niers, M.P., and Duplessis, M.P.P., attended as a depu- 
 tation from St. Maurice. The members of the Method- 
 i.st Sunday-school Association were also present in a 
 body. 
 
 Tho floral oflerings were very numerous, and most 
 beautiful. The Wesleyan Theolo.^ical College sent an 
 open Bible made of flowers, with the word "Jesus" 
 across the open pages ; the trustees of the church sent 
 a inagniflcent floral tribute, with the design 
 
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 in purple letters ; the Grand Trunk Railway anoth 
 
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 with the words, " At Rest ;" the afternoon Sunday- 
 school in connection with the St. James Street Church, 
 a pillow with the word " Superintendent," and the 
 employes of the Dominion Steamship Company an 
 anclior, cross and chains in one. The morning Sun- 
 dny-school, Mrs Bragg, Mrs. Finley, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. 
 Hickson and others also sent handsome floral tributes. 
 
 3ctt}icts at tlic CTturcTx. 
 
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 The church was draped in mourning, and the ser- 
 vice commenced by the Rev. J. Philp giving out the 
 hymn, " Asleep in Jesus," after which the Rev. Dr. 
 Williams, General Superintendent of the Methodist 
 Church in Canada, offered prayer. The Rev. Dr. Shaw 
 then read a portion of 1 Corinthians xv., beginning at 
 the 35th verse. The Rev. Dr. Potts then delivered 
 the following 
 
 FdNERAL BRATieN. 
 
 Senator Ferrier, whose death we mourn, and whose 
 memory we lovingly revere to-day, was one of tht; 
 most conspicuous public men of this country. As 
 such he was a man of sterling integrity. Through 
 a lengthened period of public service, his was a repu- 
 tation of unsullied honor. Mr. Ferrier was a sincere 
 man, and sincerity is a crowning glory in any man. 
 
 
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 His vote and advocacy of any subject were the pro- 
 found expression of his deep conviction. Mr. Ferrier 
 was a successful man viewed from every standpoint. 
 He achieved success in a remarkably short period of 
 business life. He carried with him into every enter- 
 prise the constituent elements of success — foresight, 
 will-power, energy and patience. The place made 
 vacant by his death shall be hard to fill. Has your 
 great University in this city ever had a more enthu- 
 siastic friend than Chancellor Ferrier ? Has its dis- 
 tinguished Principal ever had a more sympathetic 
 supporter in all those developments which have made 
 McGill College eminently worthy of its more than 
 continental reputation ? Montrealers are noted for 
 their pride in and love of this great city of the St. 
 Lawrence. None excelled our departed friend in 
 genuine admiration of Montreal. And yet to-day, 
 while Mr. Ferrier shall be missed in this city as one 
 who helped to build up its commercial greatness — 
 while he shall be missed in the Legislative Council of 
 this Province as one of the few English-speaking 
 members of it ; while he shall be both missed and 
 mourned in the Senate of the Dominion, for upon 
 both sides of the Speaker's chair Mr. Ferrier was re- 
 spected, esteemed and beloved — I may venture to say 
 to-day that outside of his own family Methodism shall 
 miss him most of all. From the Quarterly Official 
 Meeting of this grand old historic church, up to the 
 General Conference — the Supreme Court of our Cana- 
 dian Methodism — Mr. Ferrier was in the front rank of 
 the most influential of our laity. His form was fami- 
 liar, his voice was welcomed, and his judgment was 
 respected above many. His interest in missions was 
 
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 based upon Christian principle, and nourished by 
 supreme love to Christ. His interest in the educa- 
 tional work of the Church, especially that of the 
 University, finds a liberal expression in his oft-re- 
 poated gifts to our Wesleyan Theological College in 
 this city. But to-day our comfort is not that Mr. 
 Ferrier was a conspicuous public man, not that he was 
 a chief magistrate of this city, not that he was a leg- 
 islative councillor of Quebec, not that he sat for many 
 years in the Senate of the Dominion, not that he was 
 President of the Bible Society ; our comfort to-day is 
 that James Ferrier was a Christian. He was con- 
 verted in early life, and became an unfaltering 
 believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He confessed 
 Christ before man. He meditated on the Word of 
 God by day and by night. He loved the house of 
 God, and delighted in all the services of the sanc- 
 tuary. He lived a genuine Christian life, and died 
 in the faith and hope of the glorious Gospel of the 
 blessed God. Within two hours of his death he said 
 to his son James Ferrier, " Jesus is precious ; Jesus is 
 all my trust." I rejoice to-day that this is a Christian 
 funeral. The light of revelation shines upon us to- 
 day. The inspiration of faith throbs in every heart 
 in this vast assembly. My friends, we find our sub- 
 mission voiced in the words of Job : " The Lord gave, 
 and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name 
 of the Lord." John of Patmos memory furnishes out- 
 ground of Christian hope: "I heard a voice from 
 heaven saying unto me, ' Write, Blessed are the dead 
 which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the 
 Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their 
 works do follow them.' " Could he speak to this gath- 
 
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 Tlj'^'TT"}:^"'^ "'^'"^"^ to-d^yho would say, ■■Live 
 
 h ;;„"■;« 7r": *" ""^' *•'>■ «»'••■• ■• Whatsoever 
 hy hand ftndcti, to do, do it with thy might, for there 
 
 .no worlc, nor desire, nor knowledge, nor wi.dom in 
 
 he grave whither thou goest." Citizen., of Montreal, 
 
 Montr^ri ?^ •" ^'■?' ''"' Christianity, citizens of 
 Montreal, there 1, nothing good but Christianity ; the 
 memory of the just is blessed, and we shall bur; the 
 mortal remams of our distinguished friends in the 
 sure and certam hope of a glorious resurrection. 
 
 The hy„,n, ■■ Forever with the Lord." was then sung, 
 and the service concluded with the Rev. Mr Philn 
 pronouncing the benediction. 
 
 The funeral cortege then re-formed and proceeded to 
 Mount Royal Cemetery, where the remains were con- 
 signed to their last earthly resting pla«e 
 
flibemorial TResolutions. 
 
 Graxd 1.1UNK Railway of Canada, 
 
 General Managers Office. 
 
 At a meeting of the officers of the Grand Trunk 
 Railway Company of Canada, held in tihe offices at 
 Point St. Charles, Saturday, 2nd June, 1888, Mr. Joseph 
 Hickson in the chair, it was resolved : 
 
 " That the executive of the Grand Trunk Railway 
 Company in Canada desire to record their deep sense 
 of the loss which they and the company have sus- 
 tained by the death of the Ho?iorable James Ferrier, 
 who has for upwards of thirty years been a director 
 of the railway, taking an active interest in all its 
 affairs, and to convey to his family in their bereave- 
 ment the sympathy and condolence of the staff of the 
 company. 
 
 " By those officers whose duties have brought them 
 into close personal relations with Mr. Ferrier, his 
 memory will be cherished and associated with the 
 geniality, kindness, energy, loyalty, and earnest sense 
 of duty which characterized his long and useful life. 
 
 " (Signed) J. Hickson, Chairman." 
 
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 MoGiLL College, 8th June, 1888. 
 
 James Ferrier, Esq. : 
 
 Dear Sir,— I have the honor to inform you that at 
 a special meeting of the Royal Institution for the Ad- 
 vancement of Learning, Governors of McGill Univer- 
 sity, held on the 5th instant, the official announcement 
 of the decease of the late Honorable James Ferrier 
 having been made, it was 
 
 Mesolved,~Tha.t in the removal by death of the 
 late Honorable Senator Ferrier, President of the Board 
 of Governors and Chancellor of this University, we 
 not only mourn the loss of our official head, but of 
 one who, during the long period of his connection 
 with the University, as a member of the Board of 
 Royal Institution, and of the Board of Governors, 
 and in later years Chancellor and President of the 
 Board, took a leading part in its organization, in its 
 early struggles, and in its laier progress. 
 
 In the midst of many cares and public duties he 
 
 was always ready, with an unselfish spirit of devotion 
 
 to the interests of the University, and to the cause of 
 
 education in general, to contribute of his pecuniary 
 
 means, and of his time, thought and influence to the 
 
 furtherance of these great interests, and has thereby 
 
 earned the title to the lasting gratitude of his country. 
 
 That the members of this Board desire to express 
 
 their deep sympathy with the surviving friends of 
 
 their late colleague, whose memory will be gratefully 
 
 cherished by all who knew him. 
 
 That a copy of this resolution be communicated to 
 
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 James Ferrier, Esq., and to Mr. and Mrs. Torrance, 
 and the other surviving relatives. 
 
 I have the honor to be, dear sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 J. W. Brakenridge, 
 Acting-Secretary Royal Institution. 
 
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 Protestant House of Industry and Refuge, 
 
 Montreal, June ISth, 1888. 
 
 Resolved, — That the Board of Management of the 
 Protestant House of Industry and Refuge, &t its first 
 meeting subsequent to the death of the venerable and 
 Honorable James Ferrier, a life governor, decided to 
 place on record its deep regret at the sad event, and our 
 sense of the loss sustained by the departure of one 
 who, although amidst the many public duties of his 
 busy life, was unable to take part in its management, 
 yet ever evinced his cordial good will towards our 
 good work of relieving and elevating the necessitous 
 poor of the city. 
 
 That a copy of this resolution, with the expression 
 of the deep sympathy of this Board in their bereave- 
 ment, be sent to the sorrowing family. 
 
 Normal School. 
 
 Resolved, — That this committee has learned with 
 sincere regret the removal by death of the late Hon. 
 Senator Ferrier, one of its members. Mr. Ferrier was 
 one of thfa original promoters of the McGill Normal 
 
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 School and bore an important part in all the arrange- 
 ments for its establishment. He continued as Chan- 
 cellor ot the University and as a member of this 
 committee to cherish a warm interest in its affairs, and 
 to give his time, thought and influence to its main- 
 tenance and improvement. For this all interested in 
 education in the Province of Quebec are deeply in- 
 debted to him, and this committee feels that it has a 
 right to speak for them, as well as for itself in 
 expressing regret that he has been removed from 
 this one of the most important of his many offices of 
 usefulness. 
 
 That a copy of this resolution, with the assurance 
 ot the sincere sympathy of the members of this com- 
 mittee, be conveyed to James Ferrier, Esq., and the 
 other members of the late Hon. Mr. Ferrier's family 
 
 Evangelical Alliance. Montreal Branch, 
 
 Montreal, Ju7?e 15, 1888. 
 Besolved.-That this Alliance has heard with pro- 
 toun.l regret of the death of the Hoa Senator Ferrier 
 the revered and honored Vice President. Having ob- 
 served his long life of labor and usefulness, it gives 
 thanks to God for the grace vouchsafed unto him and 
 desires to place on record its high appreciation of his 
 many virtues as a Christian gentleman. The Alliance 
 desires to convey to the members of the bereaved 
 family its sympathy with them in their great sorrow 
 and prays that they may be Divinely sustained and 
 comforted. 
 
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 And that the Secretary be instructed to send a copy 
 of the above resolution to the bereaved family. 
 
 J. W. Dawson, President. 
 Wm. Jackson, Secretary. 
 
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 Montreal Auxiliary Bible Society, 
 
 At the regular Monthly Meeting of the General Com- 
 mittee of this Auxiliary Bible Society, held on the 
 fourteenth instant, the death of the Hon. Senator Fer- 
 rier, President, which occurred on the thirtieth ult,, 
 was formally reporte '» whereupon the following reso- 
 lution was unanimously adopted : 
 
 Resolved, — That this committee, at their first meet- 
 ing after the decease of the Hon. Senator Ferrier, for 
 upwards of twenty-five years the President of this 
 Society, desire to place on record their deep sense of 
 the loss which this Society, in common with so many 
 other kindred religious, educational and benevolent 
 institutions in this community, has sustained by his 
 removal. 
 
 In the capacity of President of this Auxiliary and 
 also of one of the vice-presidents of the honored parent 
 Society, he not only manifested the keenest interest in 
 the great work of disseminating the Word of God 
 throughout this land and the whole world, but he also 
 rendered essential help therein, by the cheerful contri- 
 bution of his time and thought and means thereto. 
 
 And whilst the committee will sorely miss his wise 
 and prompt co-operation with them in the conduct of 
 the varied business with which they are charged, th3y 
 yet rejoice that he was spared so long beyond the age 
 
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 usually allotted to men to engage in this and other 
 good works for the benefit of his fellow-men, and that 
 all through his long life he was enabled, by his con- 
 sistency of character and conduct, to adorn the doc- 
 trine of his God and Saviour, and so to be prepared to 
 receive the welcome and reward of the good and faith- 
 ful servant. 
 
 Ordered,— Th2i.i a copy of this resolution be sent to 
 the family of the deceased President, with the respect- 
 ful and sincere sympathy and condolence of this com- 
 mittee in their bereavement and sorrow ; and also to 
 the committee of the parent Society, in whose pro- 
 gress and prosperity he so greatly rejoiced. 
 
 George Cornish, LL.D., 
 Corresponding Secretary M.A.B.S. 
 Montreal, June 14ft h, 1888. 
 
 Department of Public Instruction, 
 
 Quebec, 3rd July, 1888. 
 James Ferrier, Esq., 
 
 144 Metcalf Street, Montreal. 
 
 Sir, — I have the honor to inform you that at a 
 meeting of the Protestant Committee, held on the 
 22nd June last, the following resolution was adopted 
 in reference to the decease of the late Honorable 
 James Ferrier : 
 
 Resolved, — " That the Committee have heard with 
 profound sorrow of the decease of their late honored 
 colleague, Mr. Ferrier, and they hasten to place on 
 record their high appreciation of the excellence of his 
 
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 character as a Christian gentleman, and of the great 
 value of his services to the cause of education, as a 
 member of this committee as well as in other high 
 positions which for a period, unusually long in the 
 life-time of man, he occupied with an ability, regu- 
 larity, and attention so conspicuous and exemplary 
 as to render it a difficult matter to till the place his 
 decease has made void." 
 
 I have the honor to be. Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Elvar J. Rexford, 
 Secretary Protestant Committ<e. 
 
 Trustee Board, St. James Street Methodist 
 
 Church. 
 
 Resolved,—" That we, the Members of the Trustee 
 Board of the St. James Street Methodist Church, 
 desire to record our profound sorrow at the removal 
 by death of the senior member of the Board, the Hon. 
 James Ferrier. His great attributes of character, his 
 unrivalled executive power, the unsullied integrity, 
 which for two generations made his name the synonym 
 of confidence ; the entire consecration of his personal 
 and social influence, with the prestige of his public 
 career, for the advancement of Methodism in general 
 and this Church in particular, his untiring zeal, which 
 no age extreme could abate, and exalted piety, which 
 throu'Th ^i-race made iiim faithful unto the end, all 
 combine to deepen our impression of the irreparable 
 loss which we and the Church in general have 
 sustained by his translation to the Heavenly state. 
 
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 " As the last and most eminent of the honored men 
 who constituted the original Trust, we will cherish the 
 legacy of his great example as an inspiration for all 
 our future. 
 
 "To the family who bear the inheritance of his 
 honored name, we tendei our sincerest sympathy, and 
 pray that grace may be given to sustain amid the 
 severities of the bereavement and animate with high 
 resolve to join him, at last, in the beatific rest." 
 
 John Philp, Jqhn Torrance, 
 
 Chairman. Sec. -Treasurer. 
 
 Resolution of the Quarterly Board of the 
 
 St. James Street Methodist Church, 
 
 Montreal. 
 
 Moved by J. A. Mathewson, seconded by G. E. 
 Jaques, jun., and 
 
 Mesolved,—" That this Board cannot allow the demise 
 of the late Senator Ferrier to pass without placing on 
 record its high appreciation of his work and worth as 
 a Christian and fellow-laborer in Christ ; also its sense 
 of the great loss which the Church sustains by this 
 dispensation of Divine Providence. 
 
 " For over sixty years our departed brother sustained 
 an official connection with this Church, and in the 
 various capacities of class-leader, Sunday-school super- 
 intendent, as well as that of trustee, his energy, 
 wonderful force of character and attachment to the 
 church, continued to the last hour of his life to be the 
 admiration of all. 
 
 "Among the surviving members of his class his 
 
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 memory lingers like a benediction inciting to greater 
 zeal and fidelity. His kind attentions to the poorest 
 and feeblest of his class members, both as regards 
 cheir' temporal and spiritual wants, are held to-day in 
 grateful and affectionate remembrance. The Sanday- 
 school had ever a place near his heart. His great love 
 and loyalty to its various interests form some of the 
 most notable features of his life. 
 
 "The Missionary Society has lost in him a true 
 friend. One of the most conspicuous names that have 
 appeared for years in the list of its largest contributors 
 has been suddenly struck out by the hand of death. 
 Let us hope that others catching the contagion of his 
 liberal example will till up the blank thus created. 
 
 " In the matter of Christian liberality, his heart and 
 home were ever open. None of our ministers or 
 others engaged in the work of God and humanity ever 
 appealed to this servant of God in vain, while his 
 home and hospitality were b}'' his generosity as well 
 as thu,t of his now sainted wife placed at the disposal 
 of all whom he felt had claims on his sympathy. 
 
 " He has passed away into the unseen, but he though 
 being dead yet speaketh. Our sympathy is cordially 
 extended to his bereaved family, and our prayer is 
 that, while they inherit the legacy of his spotless repu- 
 tation and good name, they may be enabled to imitate 
 his example of love for God and humanity, devotion 
 to the Church and the salvation of souls, and at last 
 hear with him the welcome plaudit : ' Well done, good 
 and faithful servant.' " 
 
 John Torrance, 
 
 Signed on behalf of the Board, 
 Montreal, July, 1888, 
 
 James Henderson, Pastor. 
 
 Rec.-Steward. 
 
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