day die, and this world fade away from you as a dream; make it, therefore, your serious business to disarm the king of terrors beforehand, and by heartily yielding yourselves to Christ your Saviour, and loyally living for Him, even as our departed friend and pastor did, turn death, whenever it shall come to you, into an unspeakable gain.

ACTON GRIFFITH, Printer, 8 Baker-street, W.

THE MEMORY OF THE JUST.

A SERMON,

PREACHED IN ST. MARY'S, MARYLEBONE, SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH THE 16TH, 1862,

ON THE OCCASION OF

The Death of

THE REV. JOHN HAMPDEN GURNEY, M.A.,

PREBENDARY OF ST. PAUL'S,

AND RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S, MARYLEBONE,

BY

THE REV. ANTHONY W. THOROLD, M.A.,

RECTOR OF ST. GILES' IN THE FIELDS,

AND CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL.

LONDON:

ACTON GRIFFITH, 8, BAKER STREET,

PORTMAN SQUARE.

En emoriam.

J. H. G.

A SERM O N.

PROVERBS x. 7.

"The memory of the just is blessed."

THIS inspired sentence defines as well as justifies our subject this evening. If the memory of the just is blessed, then it is a duty to cherish it. If at first it seems impossible that GOD can ever quite make up for what He has taken away, we will gather up the fragments of the past. To trace in any one the lineaments of the Divine Image will be to honour GOD, as much as to edify man. To count up God's mercies to us, may be to quicken our sense of responsibility, and to give us the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

And yet let us remember, that we are here, not to exalt each other, but to glorify the grace of God. "A man can receive nothing,

except it be given him from Heaven." If our thoughts this evening are to be acceptable to GOD, and useful to ourselves, they must be accurately and severely true. He, who now stands without fault before the Throne, when on earth, ever wished us to think of him, as of sinful heart, and imperfect life, and mingled motives. Could he send to us from Heaven, his message would be-Follow me, only as I followed Christ.

My brethren, an occasion like this is both affecting and solemn. It is affecting, for you are grieving over the severance of a tie, the very closest and holiest that can knit man to man. It is solemn, for your pastor has been called up to God to give his account of you, and you will meet him again before the Judgment-seat of Christ. O pray

presence of the Holy Ghost.

earnestly for the

O think of him on the Eternal shore, looking back at his life, at his home, at his children, at his friends, at you; thankful for some of you, fearful for others, anxious about all. Let us wake up to the conviction, that the night is far spent, the day is at hand.

Our text speaks of the just man; and "just" seems to indicate that uprightness and integrity