OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1102, 15 April 1911, Page 9

OBITUARY.

DR. ARMORY BRADFORD. The death is announced of Dr. Armory Bradford, of New Jersey, United States, a man of the liighost'Christhn character and culture, who was roco"■nised for many years as one of , the religious leaders of America. jfho news reached the "British Wceky .m a privato letter from the wellUnown writer, Mrs. Margaret- E. Sangster, from which the following is an extract:— "Montclair, and tho region round about, inclusive of Glen Ridge, Bloomneld, Caldwell, Essex Fells, and other little villages and hamlets have suffered bereavement in the sudden death , of-the Rev. Dr. A. H. Bradford.- It is nottoo much, t<) say that Dr- Bradford was Mnntclair's most-distinguished citizen. His only pastorate, continuing forty years, was in the Congregational Church there. The charm and grace of the man ami !iis marked ability were consecrated to the service of that church. For several years lie has been in failing health, and his death.- was hardly a surpnV, although at 1l;c last it whs like a translation. On Saturday afternoon he was walking tohis daughter's home, not very far from liis own. Just as ho reached the steps he fainted and was carried in, but life had ceased. Everyone who lsnmv Dr. Bradford is' at o;:ce grieved that be is gono and happy that rel:ase h,is conio to him from long weariness and pain." To the end liis mind was unimpaired and even singularly clear, but the frail body grow more, and'niore feeble d.iy by'day."' : '■

PAISLEY ABBEY, AN INTERESTING SERVICE. The service held in Paisley Abbey on Sunday morning, February IS), was, in somo respects, remarkable, if not unique. The crowded congregation had the pleasure of listening to two former ministers of the church, who, after leaving it, •ittaincil the highest positions in their denomination, both having, occupied the Moderator's chair. The Very Rev. Dr. Mitford Mitchell took the devotional part of tho service, andthe Very Rev. .Sir James Cameron Lees, D.D., preached. He took as his text Ewlos, iii. 11: "God hath set the world in their heart.". A''bit . of coloured', glass ho said, gives every object viewed through it its own colour. So. the nature of a man's heart determined to him the appearance of the. material world, of the world of humanity, of even the world of divine truth.- To some the material world thaii'-ial. moans of ministering to the pleasure"of. the senses; to others, with noble aspiration's, it was a training ground for a higher ami'-better." To somo the men in the world were there to bo exploited and used to gaiii their own ends of pleasure or power or wealth. To nobler hearts every man was a brother to bo helptid jind seived. Even I. man's ideas of divine, truth depended on the state of his. heart. "The pure in heart see God." The duty from all I his was to "keep tho -heart with all diligcnee.' ,vr 'H6 quoted Burns:" /. .. "Thri'hert'saye the.pairt nye : ■■ ' : That make us richt or-.wrang." Ho pointed to Jesus Christ as tho: means to make and keep tho heart right. At tlio close of tho sermon tho preacher referred to the pleasure ho felt in preaching again in the Abbey, and the pain, because so many who used to listen to him were now no longer with them. It is proposed to restore Paisley Abbey at a cost of £50,000.