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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Lord under your well-tried leadership. But whenever the day comes on which you will be called to render an account of your stewardship, you will be able to say: Divine Master, I have manifested Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given me out of the world.... Those whom Thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost. And even when you have passed from the scene of your labors, and entered into the joy of the Lord, you will not be unmindful of this city and of this people with whom your Episcopal life has been inseparably identified. In his wonderful funeral oration over St. Basil, the great St. Gregory of Nanzianzen, besought that departed Bishop to pray for his stricken flock. So you when that time shall come, will lift up your hands before God in his eternal and glorious kingdom for those who were committed to your pastoral care on earth. And now, Venerable Brother in Christ, during these festive scenes you are no doubt in a retrospective and prospective mood. You are solemnly reflecting on your fifty years' labor in the ministry, and prayerfully looking forward to the reward from your Sovereign Master. Surely it is not an unreasonable fancy of mine that you are at this moment piously paraphrasing the words which Christ uttered to His disciples at the close of His earthly career, and devoutly thus communing with your Lord: I have glorified Thee on the earth; I have nearly finished the work which Thou gavest me to do, and now glorify Thou me, 0 Father, with Thyself. I have manifested Thy name to men. Thine they were and Thou didst give them to me. The words which Thou gavest me I have communicated to them, and they have received them and they have believed that Thou didst send me. I pray for them because they were Thine. Sanctify...

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