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'* For ever with the I,ord." n DE8BARAT8 A CO., ENGRAVERS AND PR,NTER8. ( i nEnORIAL SERVICE ZiON Congregational Church, September 17th, 1893, IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL REHEHBRANCE OF ROBERT 5EATH, For thirty six years a member of the Church, and for several years a Deacon and Trustee. SERMON BY THE PASTOR THE REV. W. HENRY WARRINER, B.D. •5K- riontreal, 1893. MEMORIAL SERVICE Hymns : Nos. 38, 426, 684 and Chant 16 in the Congreyrational Church Hymnal. Scripture: Romans Viil. 18-39. SKRHON. " /•encration by the 7. •/// of Cod, fell on sleep. ' ' — AcTS. x 1 1 1 . 36. lIIvS Church has been bereaved : of one of its royal members. A kingly presence has passed away from u.i in the person of our friend and brother Mr, Seath, and our hearts are sad to-day. Zion Church — a church which has in a peculiar way won the devoted love of its members — had none who loved it more Uian he, none who r joiced more in its successes, none who was more willing to give of time and talents and means to its service. For thirty- six years he was a member of this Church. Indeed at the time of his death there were only two others still in fellowship who united with the Church earlier than he did. During a great part of these thirty-six years Mr. Seath had been intimately connected with the great movements in the Church's life, either as Deacon or Trustee. My knowledge of him, or at least my intimate knowledge of him, began with that day four yeans ago 8 next December when I came from Bowmanville to consult with him, and the other representatives of the Church, in regard to my coming here. I rememljer the pride with which he took me through these streets and poinded out the great and growing prospects of the Chuich, and the earnestness with which he urged me to come and labor here. I remember the kindness with which he received me and my family into his house until our own home could be made ready. Since then we were very much to each other, and I and mine have received many kindnesses from his hands. He was to me as a father and I to him as a son. As such he loved me I am sure. Rugged of speech he might be at times, for he had a fashion of saying what he thought, and of saying it in his own strong way, but his heart overflowed with kindness. He wrs ever ready to forgive, and be forgiven ; which is harder still. He was quick to sympathize with the sick and sorrowing and no one in the Church visited these more faithfully than he. A typical Scotchman he was, in form, in face, in heart, as wholesome and as free as the heathery hills of his native land. We shall all miss him greatly, for he had a smile and a welcome for all, a warm clasp of the hand for acquaint- ance or stranger who might chance to worship within these walls. But while we shall all miss him much, I not least of all, he will be missed most of all in that home of which he was the honored centre and head. We would forget our own personal griefs and think of those to whom he stood in the nearest, sweetest and tenderest of all relations, a father, whose growing years and many afflictions only served to ripen and mature his spirit and make him more and more the object of warmest filial love. We would think of them in our prayers to-night and lovingly commend them to the infinite grace of the great Heavenly Father, who only knows how to heaf the broken hearted. To that Heavenly Father we would also offer our unfeigned thanksgiving and praise that he so magnified his grace in the happy and triumphant faith of our brother, who did not shrink from death but while loving life with a heartiness that was one of his chief charac- teristics yet looked on death, as the entrance upon a life of glory with Christ. And now as I thought of what I might say to-night that should be most helpful to us in our life, 1 thought of this verse that I :-ave read. It was Paul's epitaph'^upon the life and death of David, and it seems to me that these words might also be inscribed, without irreverence, on the grave of our friend, and might form for each of us an ideal to which we may strive. For he, "after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep. ' ' A millenium of years had passed away since David's death, but his name still lived a precious legacy to his nation, and as time wore on, distance mellowed men's memory of him. They forgot his faults, then remem- bered only his virtues, and these grew brighter and more luminous with the growing years. Men forgot his faults, did I say ? Ay..- more, God forgot them. For does he not promise that our sins and iniquities lie will remember no mere. When God forgives and saves, he thinks no mo-e of all our faults he remembers only our virtues, and when, a thousand years after David's death, his faults,— his many and grievious faults,— have all been buried deep in the lO infinite ocean of God's love, and God himself inspires his epitaph, this one line describes his life, he served his own generation by the will of God and fell on sleep. These words are somewhat differently rendered in the Revised version, which also, in snbstance, gives us this, and another alternate reading in the margin. The fact is that the order of the words is ambiguous, but the main ideas are the same in each translation : — lyife — the kingly life is a service, and death a sleep. ''He served''' says God of David. He makes no mention of his great battles and glorious victories. Victo- ries that made his name to be feared by all the surround- ing nations, and himself the hero of his peoples' songs. His military might, his poetic gifts, his wise and broad statesmanship — the things that made him famous in his own day are forgotten and only the meaning of them is given, they were consecrated to the service of his day and generation. And what more or better could be said of any man, whether king or lowly subject, than this : that he served, and that he served not himself, but others ; — his generation ? "I am among you as one that serveth," said the lyord Jesus himself— and we are most kingly, most Christ- like, not when we are ministered unto but when we minister, when we serve others. ''He served his oivn generation.' ' — Of course he served God too. Served God first and last of all, but he served Him by serving his fellow men. God needs not our \\ alth, but if we have pity on the poor. He takes it as so lething lent to Him. God needs not our aid, yet if we give to drink a cup of cold water to a little one in his name, He takes it as done to Him. We serve God best I T 1 I II when we serve men most. And so he served God in serving his generation. " //w own generation y How much he thought of the generations that were to come after we do not know. But this we know he did not waste the present in useless dreamings of the future. He did not ignore tlie needs that were near him, while feeling a useless sentiment for those that were far off. He was a practical man. He did what he could. He influenced those about him. He loved his own country. He served his own generation. And doubtless in so doing he best served the genera- tions following. It must be so. If we do our daily and allotted task in the place where God has put us, our sphere may seem to be limited and our influence but small, yet we may depend upon it, we shall thus serve all generations in faithfully serving our own. Jacob built a well, and drank of it, himself, his family and his cattle. He built it for his own generation. He probably thought little of the fact that two thousand years after, succeeding generations should be blessed by him, and still less did he even dream that his service to his own generation should give sweet refreshment to the weary Son of God. Yet so it was ; for Jesus drank of Jacob's well ! And so too we may say of David that when in the prime of his young manhood and in the strength of his faith, he dared to meet the giant of Gath, he thought not of us but of the service he might render to his own generation, and yet it is true that the splendid faith which he then showed in God has most wonderfully served all succeeding generations and inspired a multitude of souls to dare the right in the strength of God. 12 He served his own generation ' ' by the ivill of God, ' ' or according to the counsel of God, which may mean either that God's providence guided and led him, or that he himself consciously set God's will before him. Both indeed would be true of David. For surely it was God that chose him from following the sheep and .set him on the throne of Israel. David himself realized that. Not always, indeed, for he was human and frail, as we are. Once when his faith was eclipsed he said in his heart that he should one day perish by the hand of Saul and that there was nothing better than that he should escape into the land of the Philistines as quickly as possible. And so he threw away his hope in God and trusted in the enemies of God's people. But God gra- ciously brought him back ; and when He raised him to the throne of Israel, David acknowledged that it was God who had done it. So also the servant of God to-day may be tempted sometimes to doubt if the I^ord be really leading and guiding him ; but when he brings us home we shall bless Him for all the way in which He has led us. But not only did God's will direct his paths, but David also set God's v/ill before him as the guide of his life. He served his own generation by the will of God. That is he made God's plan and purpose the guiding principle of his life. ' ' I have set the Lord always before me " he says in one of his psalms. That is he intended to do it. Not that he always succeeded in fulfilling the purpose of his heart ; it would have been better for him if he had, then surely he would never have been " moved." But which one of us is as good as we want to be. We say that we will live according to God's will, and God knows i \ i 4 we mean it, but alas ! how soon does our own will assert itself. It was so with David, and yet God, when He looks back upon his life, sees not the failures, the departures from highest ideals, the wilfulness and sin. He only sees the earnest endeavours, the struggles after righteousness, the loving deeds of kindness, and He says he served his own generation by the will of God. Oh that God may say that of us when we die. We would not wish anything better. We would not wish that men should say, he served himself, he became rich and famous, he won a brilliant fame. Enough for us, aye more than enough if God shall accept our poor endeavours to do good in the world, and say when men have laid us to rest : he served his generation by the will of God ! And thus thank God, we can speak of our brother to-night. He was not called of God to do an exceptional work for his generation, as David was, but such as he could, he did, and in the place where God put him. What man could do better ? He served his generation. He served it in his business, for no man can conduct a business on principles of righteousness without serving and helping others besides himself. He served it in his home, seeking ever the good of his loved ones. He served it in this Church in very many ways, not least by the changeless affection which he gave your pastor. If I have been inspired to do my best, and if the Church has in any way benefited by my so doing, you owe it largely to him who was ever ready to appreciate my every effort. And to-night it gives me comfort to lay this tribute of my love at his feet and to tell to you what with my own lips I have told to him. 14 And was it not true of him that he served his generation according to the will of God ? More and more, especially in these latter days when he consciously walked on the border land, his heart turned to God, and he longed to serve Him and have all his loved ones serve Him too. And now how true of him that "he fell on sleep." So quietly and peacefully did he pass away that his children scarce knew that he was gone. It needed not that he should give any farewell testi- mony, any last and parting expression of his confidence in the hour of death. That had been given before, again and again. God had been leading him consciously nearer to Himself. The severe sicknesses which he had been called upon to bear, as well as the afflictions which had fallen on others in his own home, had brought Heaven near, and made Christ very precious. He was ripe for glory, and as the ripe fruit falls easily from the tree in autumn time, when you do but gently shake the branches, so did his spirit fall gently into the hands of his Saviour. "I feel " he said some little time ago when death seemed very near. *'I feel that Jesus is with me carrying me in his arms over the river." Blessed Jesus ! thou sinners' friend ! Blessed Heavenly love that can so comfort in mortal weakness and give victory over death ! The Church below is one less to-day but the Church above, has one more to welcome us when we go. The home on earth is empty now but the Heavenly home is all the sweeter and the richer and nearer for it. We too shall soon be called away. How soon we cannot tell. M 4 4 15 Let us be admonished all of us to live well while we may. To live a life of faith in the vSon of God, loving him and serving Him with all our powers. Whose turn it will be next we know not, for " Death with his sickle keen Cuts the bearded grain at a breath And the flowers that grow between." To-day it is the "bearded grain," a shock of corn fully ripe, to-morrow it may be the little flower that shall fall before death's " sickle keen " God speaks to each of us by His Providence as well as by the written word. Calling to the sons and daughters of our departed brother to ftilfil their father's prayers, that the family broken and disjointed here by death may be united again in the life eternal ; calling to us in this Church to do our work while it is called to-day " for the night cometh when no man can work." lyCt us make the most of the life we have. At the best it is " Like the river that waters the uplands Darkened by shadows of earth But reflecting the glories of Heaven." And oftentimes the shadows of earth hide the glories of Heaven. But it shall not be so forever. In a little while we shall come out from the shadows into the clear heavenly radiance, and not even a cloud shall come between us and God's glory. May we as sweetly fall asleep as our friend and brother did, and may God say of each of us : " He served his own generation by the will of God and fell on sleep. ' ' i6 A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE GONE. MR. ROBKRT SKATII PASSES AWAY AFTER A SHORT IIXNESS. Early this morning, after only a few days' illness, Mr. Robert Seath passed quietly away. I.ast year, while at the seaside, he was taken so seriously ill that his friends had little hope of recovery. Again last winter he suffered a serious relapse, when he seemed to be on the point of death, but he recovered his wonted health, and during the summer was able to attend to business, apparently as hale and hearty as ever. It 'vill therefore be a surpri.se to those who had not even heard of this last illness to know that he has gone. Fifty years ago last July he landed in Montreal, and ever since has taken a prominent part in the history of his adopted city. Born in Cupar, the county town of the " Kingdom of Fife,' as he was fond of calling his native county, he bore all those sterling characteristics that belong to the true son of Scotland. He took an active part in organizing the Caledonian Society, in which .society he retained his interest to the last, having served it for a number of years as vice-president. He was the oldest merchant tailor in Montreal, having commenced business in 1850, on McGill Street, then the centre of that trade. Although the city has grown more than six fold, he developed his busine.ss to suit the growing and changing needs of the city, until at his death he stood at the head of his trade as far as a knowledge of its requirements was concerned. Imbibing a spirit of Liberalism from an old Scottish constituency that had never returned a Tory representative, he was a Liberal in politics and a pronounced free trader. In every political contest he was ready to do his part. He became a member of Zion Church shortly after his arrival in Montreal, and remained true to that old mother church during all its difficulties It was due to his determination as much as to anything else that it weathered the storm and is now again a strong flourishing church. He has long been its senior deacon, and the church has sustained a serious loss in his departure. As a prominent Congregationalist he was one of the organizers of the Congregational Club, and as chairman of the reception committee helped to make the organization a success. His genial smile and hearty shake of the hand will be missed by a large circle of acquaintances. — The Witness, September 11, 1893. r I V ^