 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1901 - 412 pages
...service, had been one of his preachers almost thirty years. When he came to that part of the service, " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother," his voice changed, and he substituted the word father ; and the feeling with which he did... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...service, had been one « his preachers almost thirty years. When he came to 'Jut part of the service, ' b ٬T`Ɇ9e irstter,' his voice changed, and he substituted the word father ; and the feeling with which he did... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1903 - 172 pages
...Thou wilt not leave my soul in the grave : neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take unto himself the soul of his child, we therefore commit the body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Potterton - Consolation - 1903 - 178 pages
...labors, and their works do follow them. A Hymn may be sung here, or after the prayer. "Cbe Committal. * Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take unto Himself the soul of His child, we therefore commit the body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Clergy - 1903 - 336 pages
...John Richardson, one of the clergymen who had helped Wesley for nearly thirty years. When he came to the words, "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take unto himself Tomb of the Rev. John Wesley. the soul of our dear brother," and substituted with profound feeling... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Clergy - 1906 - 340 pages
...preachers; and when he instinctively changed one word in the solemn sentence of committal and read, "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take...himself the soul of our dear Father here departed," the grief of his hearers could no longer be controlled, but broke out into convulsive sobbing and tears.... | |
 | Eri Baker Hulbert - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...The church has no right to lower the body of a notoriously wicked man into the grave with the words, "It hath pleased Almighty God to take unto himself the soul of this man. We therefore commit his body to the ground in sure hope of the resurrection to eternal life."... | |
 | Robert Neumann - Funeral sermons - 1912 - 156 pages
...< ternal ; suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee. Since it has pleased Almighty God to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother (sister, child), we now commit his body to the ground. EARTH to EARTH: ASHES to ASHES; DUST... | |
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