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^r^lIK LOUD has clearer sight than we ; for, to human
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I something to be looked upon as precious. In
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erected to the memory of Lady Nightingale, who is seen
-shrinking from a hideous skeU.ton that creeps from an open
tomb and poises the death-dart wlMch an anguished
husband is powerless to avart. This is the light in which
the King of Terrors is most commonly regarded. We
instinctively cling to life and shrink from death; and the
woman of Tekoa has touched the deepest soundings of our
lieing when she said, " We must needs dve." We die, that'-
is to say, not from choice but from tiecessity ; and any ^
marked advance beyond the allotted span of .life accentu-
ates this fact. The growing^ infirmities of age are physical
•reminders that we leave the world, luat like Christ, as a
matter of expediency, but as a matter over which we have
no control. And yet, as heirs according to the hope of
everlasting life, we are able to recognize in death a
.preciousness commensurate with the infinite resources of
the grace by which we are redeemed. Tothe sordid sense
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the ground which cannot be gathered up again. But faith
has brighter figures. •* I walk through the valley of 'the
shadow of death," says faith. To a believer in Jesus it is
but a shadow and nothing more ; a shadow that retreats
forever in the brightness of the glory of God's imniediate
presence. " He is not dead, but sleeping,'* says faith ; and
it seems to me no words describe more perfectly the manner
in which our beloved father, the retired pastor 6f Melville
Church, fell asleep than those quoted at the funeral service
in kirkhall: ' '
"Life ! we've been long together,
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ;
'Tjjs har(f to part when friends are dear ; ■ '.-^i^ :.': '^^l^, '_:.:,
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; —
Then steal away, give little warning, *„
«> Choose thine own time :
Say not ' Good night,' but in some brighter clime,
Bid me • Good morning.' " ^
Even so, he fell asleep iii J^sus ; and, as we contemplate
his peaceful end, we cannot but recall the words upon
which he addressed us at a recent sacrament :** Return
unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bounti-
fully with thee." " I know no word," says Matthew Henry
—a commentator whom our departed father consulted
much throughout his protracted ministry — " I know no
word more proper to close our eyes with at night when we
go to sleep, nor to close them with at death, that long sleep,
than this, * Return unto thy rest, O my soul.' "
" But what is it that constitutes the preciousness of such
i(n event ? Let us answer ever so simply :
I. The death of saints is precious because Jesus diecL -^
The voluntariness of Christ's death givesjur^told
value tb the involuntariness of our own ^eatn ; for " this
corruptible must put on incorruptiop<;E(nd this mortal iijust
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put on immortality." Is it asked what the death of Christy
has to do with this ? The reply js that. Jesus Christ hath
tasted death for every man, and brought life and imnior-
tality to light. The saints, whose death is precious, are
such, not through nature but through grace. They triumph
not in their, own strength but in the strength of Him of
whom each bne says, " He loved me and gave Himself for
me." Thgjfcare saints because they are able to say, '• Unto
Him that l^ed us and washed us from our sins in His own
blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and
His Father ; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and
ever. Amen." The death of every saint is precious in
the sight of the Lord because affording a signal demon-
stration of the efficacy of the atonement made by Christ,
no less than the poWer of His resurrection.^ More than
on6 faithful servant of God, the time of wbose departure is
at hand, has been able to say with the eonfidence of Paul :
♦'Jesus Christ . . .hath abolished death, and hath
brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel,
where'unto I am appointed a preacher, . -. . for I know
Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able
to keep that which I have committed unto Him against
that day." \ \ .
2. The death of every saint is precious because it marks
the completion of an earthly career consecrated to the
service of Christ.
A saint is one who is " set apart," and none of us should
shrink from being known as saints— those "set apart "by
Him " Who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us
from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar
people." The life of a saint is that of one who is " pecu-
liar " enough to be zealous of good works ; and, when such
a life reaches its end, there is both human appreciation of
divine merits and divine appreciation of human merits.
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On the human side, the saint is able to exclaim : " I have
fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have
kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up for me the crown
of righteousness, which the'Lord,^the righteous Judge, shall
give n\e at that day." And on the divine side, are uttered ,
the words of astounding commendation : ** Well done, good
and faithful servant ; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
The work of Christ, comingbeforeour works, gives a value
to what we do that never can be estimated. The relation
in which it stands to our efforts is very much the relation
in which a digit stands to a line of ciphers. Our choicest
efforts are but ciphers; and a line of such indefinitely
extended — for miles if you will — must always be worthy
nothing ; but place a digit before them and they mount up
in value beyOnd computation. So when the vicarious
work of Christ has been implicitly accepted by the indiv-
idual believer, not the most trivial service that can be
rendered in Christ's name, even to the giving oracup of
cold water, but will be recognized and rewarded in the
divine estimate of the preciousness of the death of the
saints. Every time an honored servant of God is removed
from the sphere of earthly activity, not most subdued of
tl|p voices that are beard filling the vacuum that ensues
may be heard the voice of the Great Head of the Church
saying: ** I know thy works and thy labor."
The Rev. Dr. George Smellie, our retired pastor, may
be regarded as having lived in a more than ordinary sense
the life t)f a saint, He was peculiarly "set apart " to the
work of the ministry. His forebears for six generations,
with one exception, were clergymen. Of the early days of
his own ministry very few remain among us who have
definite recollections ; and fewer still who can recall the
wild, uncultivated state of the country when he and Mrs.
Smellie first came on foot to Fergus. Born in i8ii,and
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trained in Edinburgh .University under men like Dr.
Chalmers and Prof. Wilson, he had already been laboring
seven or eight years amongst an attached people in Lady-
kirk, Orkney, when through the urgent representations o(
Dr. Bayne, of Gait— whose memoirs he after wards wrote,—
he was induced to cross the seas, under appointment of the
Colonial Committee of the Church of Stotland. In Decem-
ber, 1843, ^® ^^^ inducted as successor to Rev. Alexander
Gardiner, in the pastorate of St. Andrew's Church, Fergus,
and in this community spent forty-four fruitful years in
active service, before his retireme^nt in 1888. Even in the
early days before the building in which we now worship was
erected, and when the country was far from fully settled,
the old rough-cast building, known as St. Andrew's Church,
was found to be inadequate for the accommodation of all
who wished to avail themselves of divine ordinances. It
was estimated, one year after Mr. Smellie's settlement, that
nearly a thousand persons were connected with the congre-
gation, and I find an entry in the minute book, in his pWn
writing, which records a resolution to devise measures for
increasing the seating accommodation. In 1844 ^Ir.
Smellie joined what is sometimes spoken of as the Disrup-
tion Movement in Canada, and njarly all his congregation
followed him. For some , time they continued to worsh'^p
in St, Andrew's Church, but it proved necessary to changip
the name of the congregation * to that of Melville Churcl^
and to proceed with the erection of a separate building.'
This was completed and formally opened for public worship
on Thursday, March 4th, 1847. Rev, Dr, Burns, of Knoi^L
College, officiated, and made a touching reference to the
little hand that had laid the corner stone ; this ceremony
having been performed by a child of the Manse, who dipd
before the completion of the structure and was buried
^beneath the floor.
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• Mr. Smellie, in his ministerial labors, was ever unspar-
ing of himself, and, more especially ih the early days, used
to make long tours, in all sorts of weather, in order to carry
ordinances to distant parts of his parisli, which then
practically extended to the Georgian Bay. As the country
became cleared and settlers grew in number, considerable
portions of the congregation, branched off and became
separate 'organizatiohs 'in Elora, Alma, Cumnoch and
Belwood, points at whi^li he had been in the habit of
preaching periodically in barns and similar buildings. ^
' Calm,Meliberate, thorough, with an exceptional regard
for lofty principle, his impressive >ersonality, both in the
" pulpit and out of it, characterized by alMe marks of a true
Christian chivalry, will long linger in the memories of tho^e
who had the privilege of knowing him; and his extra-
ordihary staying powers-physical, mental and spiritual,^
whereby, throughout such a long career, he was enabled to
keep his own freshness and maintain his hold upon the
love and esteem of his people, are exceedingly noteworthy.
He was ever mindful of" the dignity of his office, and
preached, as I have, been assured by more than one of you,
with unwavering fidelity to the truth as it is in Jesus. In
the mellow years of advancing life, he dwelt much upon
the efficacy of that blood whereby the accumulated sms of
individual responsibility and actual transgression are
blotted out, and remembered no more against us. lam
- -sure-we^OUMfc durmgjhi^^u^ months when he was
last with^ thaThis^reseiScriir-tbe-church was itself a
benedictioft, and the sweetness of our communiog at the
Table of our Lord Wag not diminished by seeing our
retired pastor in his accustomed place and hearing his voice
exhort us to go from strength tb^rength till, every one of
us, we shdtild appear before God in Zion.
3. But the death of saints is precious, not only because
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Jesus died and because those whom He redeems have been
" set apart." For His service* but precious most of all
because Jesus lives.
His resurrection power assures us that this life of
service is eternal, and that in our flesh we shall see God.
We may not folloW our departed father immediately into
that higher sphere of service, but through Christ's resur-
rection power we know the work he has now laid down
abides. He still lives in, what he has accomplished. He
labored and others have entered into his labors. His
voice, though it was silent as he lay before this pulpit in
his open casket, is still heard amongst us. He being, dead,
yet speaketh ; let us give due heed to the message of his
precious death. . •/
He speaks by the private life of faith and endeavor
iived in the cheerful, hospitable home of which he was the
head, and where he was through all these years so lovingly,
so faithfully, so ably sustained by her who has been in the
truest sense a help-meet to him and a mother to us ; sur-
rounded by a .family endowed with exceptional gifts.
Kirkhall has been described to me, by those who knew it
in former tinijes, as one of the brightest, happiest homes,
pervaded by a peculiarly hallowed atmosphere. Many a
one who went to the Manse heavy-hearted, received
comfort and strength for the struggle of life; and the
profound impression made by Dr. Smellie's voice as he led
in family worship, inspired visitors to say as they turned
away, " It was good for us to be herfe.V Through all the
sacred influences that proceeded from his home, he being
dead, yet speaketh to us. "■ . ^
But he speaks most of all by the exceptional fidelity
and endurance of his public work. ' He was never known
to trifle with his appointments, or shrink from difficult
service, and, niore especially in the early days, difficulties
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abounded in Christ's service; but what he said at the
twenty- fifth anniversary of his settlement in Fergus, he
might have repeated at his Jubilee : " 1 have not shunned
to declare unto you all the coufnsel of God.'' His preachmg
was characterized by earnestness and thoroughness. Me
was never able to consider the mere mechanical iteration
and re-iteration of a text a satisfactory mode of expounding
it, but would take the full meaning and lay it before you,
with conscientious regard to the analogy of faith. How
faithful he was in his private dealings with the members
of the flock is known to many. He would travel ori foot
great distances to see them, and, when occasion arose, was
fearless in Uttering truths that v^ere not always palatable ;
yet sympathetic withal, and <fver ready to point the fallen
tQ the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.
We shall not easily forget the last public words he
addressed to us as we wqre about to rise from the Lord's
Table. Somehow we felt they might be the last, though
at that time we had hoped to have had him with . us at a
general assembly of tbe friends of Melville Church to mark
the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the building so
long associated with his ministry. He has responded to a
higher call and joined the general assembly and church of
the first-born which are written in heaven. In the light
of his removal what deep significance attaches to his last
public words. "They go from strength to strength." We
almost hear him saying it still ; in a voice so clear, so
unwavering, so- charged with the accents of conviction :
" They go from strength to strength ; every oi^e of them in
Zion appeareth before God."
And now he himself has gone ; gone through the valley
which was so literaUy to him the shadow of death and
■ nothing more. When he fell asleep that Saturday rhorning
it was to fall asleep in Jesus, with the hope of waking on
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the resurrection morn. He has left us her<j in another
valley-the valley of Baca, of which he spoke and still
speaks-" the valley of weepihg/'or still more exactly
rendered, "the valley of tear-shoibs." The berries on
those shrubs when bruised may shed their tears, and the
valley itself have every suggestion of depression, but the
light of the promises, which are all yea and amen in Christ
lesus. shines through the dimness of our tears. This valley
in which he has left us may be a dry place spiritually,
where te^^f^oods are the. oply waters, but in themselves
those Wy waters beconie founts ^f blessing. Precious,
surely, ih the sight of the Lord is the death of^His saints,
whelf. passing thro^^h the valley of weeping, the survivors
make it a place of springs, and go from strength to strength
untU every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ^
- Let his voice, then, from the other world appeal to the
aged amongst us 'who are nearing the end of their pilgrim-
age, that they, too. may be prepared to say. '^^^'^^^
thy rest. O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully
with thee." And let it appeal to the young, who are but
starting on life's pilgrimage, that with simple faitlf in Jesus
Christ they may walk all the way along ^hat path which
is as a shining light that shineth more an4^more unto the
oerfect day. And to the Lord's name shall be all the
glory, in Whose sight the death of the saints is precious.
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