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Title: Tribute to a Good Man
Extract from a Sermon Delivered at the Bulfinch-Street
Church, Boston, January 9, 1853

Author: F. T. Gray

Release Date: March 22, 2010 [EBook #31734]

Language: English

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TRIBUTE
TO
A GOOD MAN.

EXTRACT
FROM
A SERMON
DELIVERED AT THE
BULFINCH-STREET CHURCH, BOSTON,
JAN. 9, 1853,
THE SUNDAY FOLLOWING THE INTERMENT
OF THE LATE
AMOS LAWRENCE.

BY REV. F. T. GRAY.

BOSTON.
JOHN WILSON and SON.
1853.

The following pages
are
Respectfully Dedicated
to the
family and kindred of the late lamented
AMOS LAWRENCE,
by one who would offer a grateful tribute to the
memory of him who so well deserved
the exalted title
of the
Poor Man's Christian Friend.

The text of the Sermon, from which the following extract was taken, was
the seventh verse of the second chapter of Paul's Second Epistle to
Timothy: "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all
things."

After contrasting the views and maxims of the worldly-minded with those of
the Christian, and stating the claims of the Young Men's Christian Union,
the Discourse closed with the following tribute to the character and
memory of one who was the early patron and devoted friend of that Society.

THE GOOD MAN.

Among the warmest friends of the Young Men's Christian Union was one,
whose departure from among us this community has recently been called to
mourn,--one who was beloved by all who knew him; whose wide, expansive
benevolence and Christian charity won the admiration of those of every
name and sect; who so truly loved the Saviour, and was so truly baptized
into his spirit, the spirit of divine and heavenly love, that he became
through it his blessed messenger; so that all rejoiced who came within his
influence, as "he went about doing good," ready to take each believer by
the hand, saying, "One is our