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wh^ f u ^'^y ***"" <=""«! for as to one

SD^ct^'il^M "? T"r''"°"" »"" 'o ""><=h re
B« Ut kJ^n "^"^ more than 30 years.
Dut let It be in the sehse of that Scnotore
which best explains the spirit and the pSw^of
he last so years of his life, and which he ,0
truly acknowledged.-" By the erace of r!.H ?
am what I am."^ He WellVnew^tM. ^ '
w?."^^S^™' "•* birth-place, in l8o8 of Mr

a^r f^'lf «»y"-\Hi>' fother, who wa^^f
a Ueyon family, was then Major General inH

Tats'"cSr"' °'r""= Caiiada^'rif/esfr
James Craig was Governor General Hi«
mother was of the Gators of Ken lie tool
the degree of BA.at Trinity CoHeKe'cW

numin^man. There was some « fortune " on

other, eslls" 'h TP^''^ '"''-" »"d
omer estates. He declined a Civil annnint

ment to India, and declined The Armv in

which three of his brothers have served * He

then prepared to take orders in the Church

Indf f f " i'"!!^ a; man of the worfd M^t'
and of It, as he himself was always will ns t„
acknowledge— in later days. """mg to

But the circumstances of his new birih _fl„f
new birth spoken of to Nicodemus-a e slrikt^
and more noteworthy. He was driv ng o" t "n
his trap, when a friend who was with him fell
to tlie ground and was taken up f ad Th s
Tm V^'r"" r jo-^^'^n^e and h'^art as a vlice

H.wStZl*''"; fi«rr-a^ a new man
"* was to hunt at Collarton Rawley the fol-

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lowing day, b«t •*"" °"' "l* ''"l^f '""i"
'^U^.m Ihit he would not hunt hU pre.*.
V niimher of the hunt came to bear, two oi
^hoJ were converted andhunted no more.
WhaTa word that is "Now are we he «.n. of
6od" I John, iii. a, "and jf children, then
£S, hliri of God and joint heirs >«"th ChnsL"
Rom viii, 17. Thus Chrirtians are of God .
roval- toily-children of the King. ^He
«w that as become by new birth a child
S God and a member of ~ Chnst he was
torn into the church of God. and had no
^™ to take "denominational or church
ptace " to get into the Church. He refused to
take the oath of conformity and ks M.A. at
Cambridge, and gave himself t" »»«"^«'°;^
preaching and missionary work. His separa,
tC from former friendships and a^'"^"™'
was complete ; for he saw that as «he Church
takes its character, so should the individual
Christian take his character from Christ a^d-
den fn the heavens. He was soon after in feH?w-
sWp wi\h Brethren and became well known
amongst them in England He came o« .»
" anada to take possession of some of his father s
lands t Shipto^ E. T. There he built mills
and farmed lands and lost "•o"'/-?" '°°
generous and trustful. But there too he abored
hi the Gospel, and there are many stiUin the
townships o( kingsey. Melbourne and Sb.pton
who testify to the grace of God coming to them
throueh his ministry. . . ,

After 12 years in those parts, he was induced
to cime into Montreal to assume the appomt-
Ut of secretary, registrar »"d bursar of Mc-
Gill University, and secretary of the Royal In-
stitution for the Advancement of Lw™"*. «»
which was added that of lecretary of the Normal
^hool This was in 1856. HUh«KJ»were
ttus officially fall, and his time was much oc-

cupied. Yet he begin at Once thcGoipcl work.
A series of lectures on the Dispensations, de-
Uvcred m the old historical St. Gabriel Str^t
Church, attracted much attention and awakened

*™I?f^u- u"*^*?."', *"**''^*^ '« ^^ispenwtional
w^^ w »»,^*«««»hing the ec^omiesor

JSd^r^''""1.*''.^*^P *« "»««*» ^o aright
understanding of scripture), and the Lord's com-

M^i- -If"" '•"*'* ^** fi^*""* ^" »>» unofficial and
unttlaned ministry. There was indeSd a time
When he came into open and declared sjTmpathy
^Lnff'^u " cvangeiistic ^o^ties anS move-
ments, whose claims he ca^ upon public plat-
forms to urge, and preached in severall of the
city pulpits, and many are now to-day telline of
the power of that public ministry ; but liter on
his separation from Organized Christianity Be-
came more complete. He was thus gathered
.to Chnst, according to Matt, xviii, 20— not ta
Christians, nor an ordinance, nor a doctrine, nor
a truth which is sectarianism, but to Christ
which is not sectarianism. 'J I l,elieved, and
therefore have I spoken," he could say. He was
decided in conviction and earnest in utterance.
Disallowance and displacement of the Holy
Ghost by human arrangements and system and
by ministry he bore witness against. He saw
tjiat this more than anything else is the distinc-
tive failure of the Church under its responsibility
to God, in this which is distinctively the dispen-
sation of the Holy Ghost. So,tWoreThe
took and maintained the place of separation

ChL^'^'!i'"*^ Christianity,Vone gathered^S
Christ, on the^ground ofthe one body, i Cor. x.
and xii. and th<s one Spirit under the endeavor
of Eph IV., 3, 4, on the principle of Matt, xviii., .
ao. 'For where two or three are gathered to-

^^^ ?*2.' *" fellowship of believers so
gathered to Him.

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He wa» thui in association with believers
known as Plyniouth Brethren, but who call
themselves siniply Brethren, the name which
the word of God gives to all Chnsiians and
amongst whom practically James l, 9» «<>» "
most seen. " Let the brother of low degree
rejoice in that he is exalted, but the rich fh that
he is made low." •* Peace be to the brethren,
and love with faith fn-m God the Father and
the Lord Jesus Christy Eph. vi, f3- ''^«
know that we have passed from death unto
life because we love the Brethren/ I John iii,
14 All this shows unity. And who claim to
represent, though in much feebleness and fail-
ure, the principles of the Church of Ood as shown
in Acts II. and elsewhere, and first Corinthians
chapters IF, la. H. l^hil. in., 3*' an^^.o^hcr
Jicriptuies. Tl.is is the great open meeting of
Christianity, breaking together the " one loaf
and drinking together of the one cup as gather-
ed not to Christians but to Christ as centre, and
as Lord. Here is room and plnce for all Chris-
tians, and here is the real unity which many
Christians are looking for^ in diverse and wrong
directions, and where they all should be gather-
ed. Eph. IV., 3. Limited this may now be
practically and locally to 2 or 3 yet large enough
in principle and provision for all everywhere.

Though thus going on in what is called an ex-
clusive and narrow path, he had heart truly large
and comprehensive of all Christians. In this
sense his catholicity of spirit was conspicuous.

Not of so extensive learning, nor so exact and
ichoUrly, nor so logical as Mr. Darby and
fome other .well-known Brethren, nor free to
give himsclfjo the study of the Scriptures, nor
time to bTa writer as they, he was neTerlhcless
a preacher of the Gospel and expositor of
Scripture of extraordinary power. Brethren,
attributt this not to the mail— though as man

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he had uncommon gifts and powers — but to the
Spirit of God using the eaithen vessel *'For
we have this treasure in earthen vessels that
the excellency of the power may be of God.'*

He went down into the depths of God's word,
not in his own intellectuality merely— which ii
always so dangerous to self and to others—
and on which the judgment of death need* to be
passed, but in Subjection to the Holy Sprit of
God, who is Himself Interpreter as well as In-
diter of the WQrd (i Cor. i., 17, to the t-nd of
second chapter —truth which needs in these days
of intellectuality and of homage toman's natural
powers to be borrfe in mind>and realized.

Of persuasive arid commanding mfluence, of
kindness of dispositiH^ and courtesy and dignity
of manner he was respefet:ed and acknowledged by
all who knew him . As i man, he was of courtly
bearing and distinguished presence. ^ Grace and
forbearance usually acted, but sometimes almost
to failure of governm||||^and due exercise of
authority; and now Jl^ again when natural
JtigftOtemper arose grace speedily assumed
control and self judgment speedily ensued.
" In many things we all offend." But loyalty
to duty, to truth and to the Lprd really dis-
tinguished hiri\ in all his relationships.^

As husband there is one who can speak of
him ; but others too know something 6( the
beauty of his character. As father, almost over
indigent and generous, bearing burdens for his
chilA-en, in his joy to have them around him
and with him for his own satisfaction and as he
hoped and believed for their welfar^ and their
blessing. As brother among brethren he added
" to godliness brotherly kindness, and to
brotherly kindness love." . He used hospitality.
As a man in the world and in office, ample
acknowledgment is made to his worth. He
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voted— mainttining what was due to the insti-
tution he represented, but conciliatory alway».
He thuH commended the interests of the Uni-
yersity, and was a power on its t^ehalf and
helper to its prosperity, as well as glad witness
of its growth and its success. ** He was well
able to dire<!t and control the whole routine
and <;eremonial of the University, and it Mill be
hard to find hiseoual to succeed bim '* are words
of a Governor. For this sort of thing, presenta-
tions at Court in earlier life had given him apti-
tude. Matters of etiquette and ceremonial there-
fore he knew, so that the more public and pro-
minent duties o( his offices he could well per-
form ; and it was noticed of him that he led up
the gentlemen of con ocation of the University
BS few men couhi. But he had no love for these
occupations. "Let ine fulfill as ah hireling my
day," he often said, and desired nothing more
than freedom for other service still more congen-
ial to his spirit. -It was well for his comfort and
his testimony as a Christian amongst men and
in affairs that the nature of his offices and hit
duties kept him clear of frictions jind difficulties
and involvements with others, which the
ordinary man of business and affairs has often
to encounter in his endeavor to pass as a
Christian through this world.

He knew that the world, the flesh, and the
adversary are dead against the Christian ; but he
knew aflo that He that is for us is greater than
all thai caii be against us. So he endured " as
seeing >lim who is invisible." He had worked
hard and long. Two brief visits of recent years
to the homeland of his early manhood, for
needed rest and recreation, were used aAd en
joyed in fellowship with brethren, an* in nMhis-
try which many over there will lovingly remem-
ber where he has many friends.

He was of good and robust health all through

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life, and reached hit old age without any break-
down. Some of the erectness of earlier yeara had
indeed gone, but there was still apparently
much constitutional vigor. His latest ministry
is felt by those who heard it to have been of
uncommon power, the three latest Sunday
evening gospe^ especially. He had a hard
official day on his last Saturday. He retired
early from a brother's meeting on that evening,
breakfasted With his family on Sun^y morning,
but remained indoors } and whileUrethren were
assembled (Mrs. Baynes too) at the Lord's
Table, he was given eikrance into the Lord's
presence. His son Dr. George, and Dr. Arthur
Browne, son of an old and valued friend, had
just come to his side with willing hearts, if
human affection and skill could interpose to de-
taThs^im here. But not to be so--it was other-
wise arranged. He was at once called home.

It had been his desire to die in harness, and
he had got it. It had also i>een his desire to
f die suddenly, and he had got that too. He had
thought it would be sweet, if he was not to wait
till the Lord should come, to pass away on the
<Xord's Day, and he had got that also. *' It is
with the believer well." When we looked
upon the loved and sweetly composed features
when the spirit had gone, it seemed as if the
Lord had said, "Let not my servant suffer,
let him come easily and speedily to me. "

** How long, O Lord, our Saviour, wilt thou
remain away, "What will it be to dwell above.
Forever with the Lord," had been amongst
hi* favourite hymns . He leaves Mrs. Baynes
and^ three sons in Montreal, and the eldest son
and a daughter in England. The simplicity of
the funeral wait noticed by the newspapers —
plain cofKn — no pall bearers — ^no pall— no
flowers — no form, of service or ceremony. One
Brother opened with the hymn " What rich

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eternal burstR of praise," and after a pauw read-
ing 2 Cor. V. I to lo ; then another Brother .
(Lord A. P. C.) read and Sam. xxiii, i to 5, and
spoke upon it. Then was sUng the hymn ♦* Tis
sweet to think of those at rest," after which
'Lord A. P. C. prayedj, and then the benediction
2 Cor. xiii 14, was read from the Bible.

This was in the Natural History Hall, which
YfAs crowded, ahd*many unable to get entrance.

After looking at the body the assemblage

passed out. We then took him away to burial

at the Mount Royal Cemetery . There we laid

the body in the grave, putting it in as a seed

which shall arise by divine power, a body of

immortality like the Lord's own. We sang

the hymn.

" His be the victor's name,
• Who fought the fight alone,
Tiiumphant siaints no honor claim.
His conquest was their own."

There hearts were raised, with another
Brother's ^oice leading in thanksgiving and
prayer, and we turned away leaving that body
to sleep, till the Lord Himself shall come to
raise it up and all His own sleeping ones, and
change all that are alive and remain to be all
together fore%'cr with the Lord. So let it be.

The Brother who spoke at the funeral on 2nd
Sam., 23rd Chap., i to 5 testified lo the power to
his soul of that scripture as used by Mr. Baynes
in an address in Toronto 20 years ago. It had
left an impression on his life, second only to that
produced at the time of his conversion. An-
other Brother, not able to reach Montreal in
time for the funeral, speaks also of the power to
his soul of that same address in Toronto. The
other Brother who took part at the funeral could
testify to the influence upon him of Mr. Baynes,
both as to his character and teaching beyond
that of any other man. So likewise could
many testify.

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Have faith in God *' for self, for family,
for the church, was power to his own soul, and
the testimony of his Christian life and teaching.

"Grand old man— beautiful character,**
said a graduate, •• he impressed many of the
students." ''You will not have his like
again,' said another ' graduate **so perfect a
man." He had influenced many of them.

*• So our dear friend is gone," said a Govirnor .

He was an old worthy— so fljp a character."
Another Governor said at the grave t " His"
, speaking made me think it must be like Christ's "
** Of old style— no equal here," said another. '

The venerable Chancellor in response to the
words "you have known him Jong.'» *• Yes I and
for my soul's profit. " These two aged gentle-
men together a short time ago, the one said to
the other. " We are near the end of our course
down her " «* yes," answered Mr. Baynes, ** but
we are both in the covenant, and for us all things
are ordered and sure." The predecessor Chan-
cellor (now departed to be with the Lord) had
borne testimony to blessing to his soul through
Uie mfluence and character, and teaching of Mr.
Baynes. The Principal, alluding to his " long
and valued services to the University " add^
"that in his constant intercourse with Mr
Baynes for thirty yeprs,he had always regarded
him with the greatest esteem and affeetion, and
found him a true example of the Christian gentle-
man. Others had spoken and still speak of
his uncommon knowledge of the Bible. Great
the sense of loss expressed and the sorrow of
many christian women and faithful women
who h*d known and valued for years his minis-
try and his work. Many were the respectful
utterances of that funeral assembly. "Know
ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fal-
len this day in Israel "—was the thought. '

If we may now look back upon the Christian

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course of one who has long moved amongst us,
he is pictured according to Old Testament history
as under shelter of the blood and saved from
God's impending judgment (Ex xii.) not still m
fear upon the Egyptian side of the Red Sea, but
passed through and on its other side in the joy
of deliverance, singing its song (Ex. xv), and be-
yond that too through and over Jordan also m
realized resurrection life in union with Christ
the Risen One at God's right hand. " Blessed
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in
Christ." Eph 1.3. More literally speaking we
have been looking at a man first as a man in
nature, then as a man in grace, now bom (while
in this world) of grace by the Spirit as
quickening into life and formative of character.
<• ITie jiist shall live by faith." This is basis truth,
(So too is what he had received for himself and
what he delivered to others, (i Cor. xv. 3 4).
"Fori delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received, how that Christ died for
our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he
was buiied, and that he rose again the third
day, according to the Scriptures."

The man made just, not on the ground of
woiks but on the principle of faith is the*
man that lives before God and shall live.
But there is more, the man who is just on
the principle of faith, also lives practically
this life down heren)n the principle of faith ;
and there is this more " these all die in
faith." Faith is thus distinguishing and charac-
teristic, for living and dying arc both on the
principle of faith ] we walk by faith and not by
sight). But our firiend had something still be-
yond this. He realized that he as down here
in this dispensation of the Holy Ghost was him-
self a man indwelt of the Holy Ghost, a member
of the body of the risen Christ, and so himself also
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cation with Christ, and in acknowledged rfeht-

eousnessand life before Go<l. So, therefore, in

«pirit he sought those things which 'arc above

and set his mind on them as knowing that his

hfe was hid with Christ in God, and that when

Christ who is our life shall appear then we also

shall appear with him in glory." Not only was

this received doctrine, but it so possessed him

that it was power, joy, elevation to his soul and

. theme of his ministry and teaching, namely, the

'. risen Christ, in the glory, Himself the Eternal

Life and the eternal life of the believer in Him

as indwelt of the Spirit "sealed of the spirit,"

and already meet for the inheritance of the saints

in light, and as therefore ^ heavenly man in

this world, which is Christian development.

This is power for walk apd practice, and this

determined and characterized the wal^of our

friend. " The life which I now live in the flesh

(this body) I live by the faith of the Son of God

who loved me and gave himself for me." So

waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption

of the body (also). Gal. ii, 20.

That word picture of the Christian which ist

Thes. I. -10 affords us was well exemplified in

him, so also i Cor. xiii. 13 « Now abideth

faith, hope, love ; but the greatest of these is

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the Spirit, these foundation principles of Chris-
tianity, all had exemplification in his life. Faith
has been spoken of; his Christian sympathies
and love too. But there was hope also. He
hoped for that which he yet saw not and with
patience waited for iw The Lord himself wasv
his hope. ITius these/three things were in
exercise and extant in hi§ylife.

He could so distinguish between things
which differ, between the flesh and the Spirit,
between the old man and the new, a man in
Adam and a man in Christ. He took upon

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himself the cornplctest condemnation as a roan
in Adam of the words "of Paul •* In me that if
in my flesh dwclleth no good thing." While as a
man in Christ he knew his part in those
other words of Paul, Eph. I, l8 to 23, and
had blessedly full apprehension of what
belonged to him while In tl.is world, at
already saved by l^is blood, and of what shall
belong to him in the Kitigdom and Glory of
Christ. I Cor. ii. 9 to 12.

The scriptures read at the funeral assembly
were 2 Cor. v i to 10, ahd i ^or xv. 42 to 57,
How blessed the knowledge and the certaintiei ^
there unfolded. There was truUasense in which
he groaned, as every creature groans (Rom. viii
21 and 22, " not only they but ourselves also
which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselv^ groan within ourselves waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body *'—
Nevertheless, while still down here our converw-
tion, rather our citizenship, our community is in
heaven, whence we look for the ^aviour the
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of
humiliation that it may be fashioned like to his
own glorious body, Phil iii.- 21. \

He had been waiting for 50 years in the body,
thus waiting to be at home with the l\ord — and
willing rather to be absent from the bpdy. But
he had gone on " always coivfident," always of
good courage in face of the fully realized
antagonism of the world, the flesh and th^ adver-
sary (let this be thus repeated), notwithstanding
trials, troubles, sorrow^, disappointments,)osses,
failure in self, in family and in the Church of
God,of good courage always, counting upoil God
as the all-sufficient One ; waiting th^Lord*s\pwn
tiro? peradventure He should tarry till He should
call hiro to Himself, for «* where I am there shalll
my servant be ;" an4 thus to be delivered <!^ut
■ of this scene of failure in everything committed

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to man*! resDonsibility was indeed his joyful ex-
pectation. In short, if another scripture were
to be adopted as a motto for our friend it might
be •• for me to live is Christ and to die is gain."
And now may not the question be submitted to
the reader — to any one who knew Mr. Baynes,
** Is there not a marked contrast between this
and the condition which the uord of God calls
** dead in trespasses and sins,'* *♦ in the wicked
one," ** and without God and without hope in
the world." And may it not be expected that
the ministry of one altcady so used of God in
blessing to souls shall yk be further used,sp that
he being dead shall yet speak in power By the
already spoken word to\ consciences and hearts
unto their salvation and blessing also, as
seed bringing forth fruit after many days,— a
Paul planting, no Apollos watering, and God
giving the increase.

There is also that which is for the Lord's
glory '' for His own name's sake," the riches of
the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
when in a life like this and its future ** He
shall show the exceeding riches of His grace in
His kindness towards us through Christ Jesus."
Who ar*} the us? The word answers *»for
the Lord himself shall descend from hea^h witi
a shout, with the voice of the archangel ^aijid with
the trump of God and the dead (them which are
asleep in Christ) shall rise first , Then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught up to-
gether with them in the, clouds to meet the Lord
in the air,and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

It is by the promptings of affection and res-
pect, and the yielding too as it is believed to
higher impulse, that this brief writing goes out
in grateful tribute to the memory of a departed
friend and brother, and in testimony to that
truth so truly applicable to him, and who
by that power so exhibited practically and in

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life ~ of salutary ancf helpful example — not the
"down grade " but the up grade of Christian-
ity. — ** By the grace of Go*!! am what I am."

T>M. T.

Job xxviii.-i2 to 28.
Prov. iii.-i3 to ao.
pRov. viii-92 to 36.
1st. Cor. i.-i8 to 24.

And is it so— I shall be like Thy Son?
Is this the grate which He for me has won?
Father of Glory, (thpught beyond all thought I)
In glory^ to His own blest likeness brought 1

OH, Jesus, Lord, who loved me like to Thee ?
Fruit of Thy work, with thee, too, there to see
Thy glory Lord, while endless ages roll,
Myself the prize and travail of Thy soul.

Yet, it must be : thy love had not its rest
Were Thy redeeemed not with Thee fully blest.
That love that gives, not as the world, ^ut shares
All it possesses with its loved co-heirs.

Nor I alone ; Thy loved ones all complete
In glory, round Thee there with joy shall meet,
All like Thee, for Thy glory like Thee, Lord,
Object supreme of all, by all adored.

(This was the last hymn the writer remembers
Mr. B. to have given out.)

WILLIAM CRAIG BAYNES,

DBPARTBD TO BE WfTH TH« LORD

OCTOBER 9TH, 1887,

AGED 70 YEARS.

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