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Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent §tre film6s d des taux de r6duction diff6rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour gtre reproduit en un seul clichd. il est film6 d partir de I'angle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. D 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^J /• F SERMONS PREACHED IN TRINITY CHURCH, MONTREAL, ON THK OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF THE HEV. MARK WILL0UGH13Y, IMUUMHEMT. MY THE REV. Wii.LIAx\I BOND, I. A CHINK, AMD THE REV. CHARLES BANCROFT, A. M. iNcaMBKNT or ir. xuo.aa.sb ;hukgh. i 3pu{>M0iS€i; %s t^c Ve»ix'£ bl Siiniilj! mjwsl;. MONTREAL : J'ltlNTED J5Y I.OVKLL & GIBSON, ST. NICHOLAS STREET. 1847. i ; The i)rohH,, it any, aiisinft from the Sale of tliis Pamplilet, will bo nppiojiriated towai di, llie erection of the " Wili.oi'oiidv Sindav Stiiooi,," A SERMON, ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MARK WILLOUGHBY, I'UE ACHED IN Cn'm'ti? COurcI), iBoutieal, Ox\ SUNDAY, THE 18th JULY, 1847, nv THK H REVEREND WILLIAM BOND, LACUINK. PUBLISHED BY THE VtSTRY OF TRINITY CHURCH, I) MONTREAL : PRINTED BY LOVELL & GIBSON, ST. NICHOLAS STREET. 1847. SERMON. " I heard a voice from Heaven saying nnto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in tlie Lord from lionceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, tliat they may rest from their labors ; and their works do follow them."— /iVw., xiv. 1.3. There must have been something very remark- able in the fortitude and constancy with which the first Christians met various and dreadful deaths : their conduct often exacted from theu* bitterest enemies, — their most cruel persecu- tors, — both admiration and respect. In the Heathen world death was no strange siffht, splendid self-devotion no uncommon thing; yet such was the lofty and noble bearing of the Christian martyrs, that men maddened with the thirst for blood looked on with won- der. Apparently there was nothing to inspirit or support the sufferers ; nothing to work up the passions to stern endurance; no proud feeling of defiance ; no fierce spirit of rage and hatred ; no crowds of admiring and encourag- ing friends; no superstitious belief that the A mere act of enduring would secure endless glory: they were a meek and an inoffensive people,— desi)ised by the great,— eontennied and scorned by the basest and the vilest,— jeered and ridiculed even at the stake or on the bloody arena,— by the congregated nuiltitude: but they were not moved. With noble gran- deur, they braved suffering, and calmly and firmly sustained every pang. AVe know the secret of this ; we know the source of this more than human fortitude and courage. We can account without hesitation for that which astonished and confounded the heathen persecutors. AVe know that they were Divinely su])ported, that,— as they were " baptised for the dead,"— as they contemplated the jeopardy in which they stood, as they pic- tured the savage beast ready to devour them, —they turned to the promises which they knew were written and were sure ; and as they read, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life," and " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord," they went fearlessly on with the work of their master and welcomed,— when he came,— Death in his most terrible and appalhng aspects. The season for which St. John wrote was fruitful in such scenes: often was the ground wet with the blood of the Suints : often were the famished beasts of Ephcsus and other cities gorged with the flesh of God's people ; but the faithful were not daunted ; they pressed on in the work ; tliey joined " the noble army of martyrs," and won for themselves the crown of glory. We do not say that this self-devotion was easy then ; we do not maintain that to foUow ni their steps is easy now; we cannot deny that there is something terrible in death ; that naturally we shrink back from the grave, and cling to life. Death has modes of ai3proaching man,— of seizing upon his victim,— the very thought of which sickens the soul and causes the whole frame to shudder. And this is true, not only of the time when the mind pictured the wreathing rm\ the scorching flame,— the rending teeth c t the furious beast; it is often true of common hfe and of the present day. No small portion of the martyrs spirit is required to face infectious and malig- nant disease ; to look upon the agonies of the dying; to behold their fearful struggles and contortions, and listen to their delmous rav- ings : no small portion of the martp-'s spirit is required to witness these proofs of intense and sudden sutfering; to feel around the breath of death ; to know that you are braving- iiini as it were in the midst of Iiis kingdom ; and that in a moment you may be one amongst tlie layuio- and the dyino-; no small portion of this spirit is recjuired to witness, and to know all this, and yet ealnily and iearlessly to go on with duty; resolutely and perseveringly to enter the abodes of the infeetion, and minister to the wants of the dying; to see it fastening upon and pulling down one affer another of those who, in their career of benevolence and duty, dare its poAver— and yet to persist in lift- ing the cup of water to the parched lip,— in alleviating the suflbrings of the wretched,— in kneeling by their side and telling them of the mercy of God and the all-sufhciency of Jesus. It is not an easy matter thus to act ili the midst of all this danger and death, and without any earthly motives to prompt to the self-devotion and the sacrifice. We can see sufficient mov- ing power, only in the Spirit of the Gospel and the love of God. An attempt may l)e made to controvert this conclusion l)y meeting us with proofs of a mercenary spirit. We do not dispute their existence; but arguments manifesting their weakness Avill occur to every mind, and we shall content ourselves with simply replving— Death is faced; his stin^r^ as it is eiiterin^r the soul of tile penshino', is often pUieived away; many, in ^rapj)liiio- ^vith liini around the hcds of those already struel<, fhll l)eneath his Iiaud ; and we heheve tliat tin's courage, aud pliilan- tln-opy, and eliarity, mainly spring from trust in God and hope in Ciiimst. And as persecution rao-ed around, as blood flowed in rivers from the Church, and the Christian knew not how soon his ini<-ht swell the stream, doubtless encouragement was often drawn fi-oni tlie tliouoht, "JMessed arc the dead Avhich die in tlie Lord:" and doubtless often since,— as Christians have st(K)d annmd the p-avc of friends— martyrs to their duty, and listened to the words, *" I iicard a voice from Heaven saying- unto me, AVrite, Blessed are the dead wliich die in the Lord,"— doubt- less they have been encouraged and streno