FUNERAL SERMON.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2123, 13 December 1880, Page 2

FUNERAL SERMON.

Yesterday morning the service in St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church had special reference to the death of Mr Andrew Duncan, Mr Elmslie selected os the subject of his discourse John xi., 11-15, and towards the close of the sermon spoke of the words of the text as having a meaning and appropriateness which it was hardly needful to point out. One of their friends and fellow-laborers, who had been connected with the congregation from the time of its first beginning, had gone from the midst of them, and had left a place which in some respects it would not be easy to fill. It was always out of place in the pulpit, he went on to say, to indulge in anything like adulation or manglorying. But it could not be out of place to refer to the career of one who had held so prominent a position in the congregation, were it only for the purpose of suggesting such lessons as the event was fitted to teach. Mr Elmslie then proceeded to impress those lessons upon his hearers, and in the course of his remarks spoke of Mr Duncan as a work! ing, liberal, and large-hearted member of the Church, who up to the very close of his life took a hearty interest in her welfare.