Sermon PreachedMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 16 pages |
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Abbey JUNE 19 advocacy ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY awaken beggar named Lazarus CALIFORNIA LIBRARY characters CHARLES DICKENS clothed in purple comes the story crumbs which fell DEAN OF WESTMINSTER degraded demand a special depth divine English fared sumptuously feel fiction fictitious narrative FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL full of sores FUNERAL OF CHARLES genius gift glory Gospel grave hearts human suffering Jerusalem laboured to tell lessons letter licked his sores linen live London MACMILLAN loved memorials mighty mode of instruction monument moral name given NEW-STREET SQUARE novel Parable PARLIAMENT STREET poor PREACHED BY ARTHUR PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE refresh and exalt remember rests beside rich man's table romance sacred place Sacred Records Scripture SERMON PREACHED sit in judgment solemnity spake speak special notice spirit SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT sumptuously every day SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY SUNDAY FOLLOWING sympathy tale thoughts Tuesday last UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Westminster Abbey JUNE WESTMINSTER In Westminster worth
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Page 3 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day : and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table : moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 16 - I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition thereto. I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's...
Page 12 - By him that veil was rent asunder which parts the various classes of society. Through his genius the rich man, faring sumptuously every day, was made to see and feel the presence of the Lazarus at his gate. The unhappy inmates of the workhouse, the neglected children in the dens and caves of our great cities, the starved and ill-used boys in remote schools, far from the observation of men, felt that a new ray of sunshine was poured on their dark existence — a new interest awakened in their forlorn...
Page 16 - Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever.
Page 10 - ... unclean suggestions, and debasing scenes. So may have thought some gifted novelists of former times; but so thought not, so wrote not (to speak only of the departed) Walter Scott, or Jane Austen, or Elizabeth Gaskell, or William Thackeray: so thought not, and so wrote not, the genial and loving humorist whom we now mourn. However deep into the dregs of society his varied imagination led him in his writings to descend, it still breathed an untainted atmosphere. He was able to show us, by his own...
Page 12 - ... though they were seen. Such were the gifts wielded with pre-eminent power by him who has passed away. It was the distinguishing glory of a famous Spanish saint, that she was "the advocate of the absent.
Page 15 - May I speak to these a few sacred words, which perhaps will come with a new meaning and a deeper force, because they come from the lips of a lost friend — because they are the most solemn utterance of lips now for ever closed in the grave. They are extracted from "the will of Charles Dickens, dated May 12, 1869," and they will be heard by most here present for the first time.
Page 9 - Let others tell elsewhere of the brilliant and delicate satire, the kindly wit, the keen and ubiquitous sense of the ludicrous and grotesque. " There is a time to "laugh, and there is a time to weep." Laughter is itself a good, yet there are moments when we care not to indulge in it. It may even seem hereafter, as it has sometimes seemed to some of our age, that the nerves of the rising generation were, for the time at least, unduly...
Page 12 - That is precisely the advocacy of the Divine Parable in the Gospels — the advocacy of these modern human Parables, which in their humble measure represent its spirit — the advocacy of the absent poor, of the neglected, of the weaker side, whom not seeing we are tempted to forget. It was a fine trait of a noble character of our own times, that, though full of interests, intellectual, domestic, social, the distress of the poor of England, he used to say, " pierced through his hap" piness and haunted...
Page 13 - ... this great city — the starved ill-used boys in remote schools, far from the observation of men — these all felt a new ray of sunshine poured into their dark prisons, and a new interest awakened in their forlorn and desolate lot, because an unknown friend had pleaded their cause with a voice that rang through the palaces of the great as well as through the cottages of the poor. In his pages, with gaunt figures and hollow voices, they were made to stand and speak before those who had before...