HIS LIFE AND WORK 



McCormick enjoyed with all his heart the 

 logical, doctrinal sermon. His favorite Bible 

 passage was the eighth chapter of Romans, that 

 indomitable victorious chapter that ends like 

 the blast of a trumpet: 



"Who shall separate us from the love of 

 Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or per- 

 secution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or 

 sword? As it is written, 'for Thy sake we are 

 killed all the day long; we are accounted as 

 sheep for the slaughter/ Nay, in all these 

 things we are more than conquerors through 

 Him that loved us; for I am persuaded that 

 neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principal- 

 ities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things 

 to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other 

 creature, shall be able to separate us from the 

 love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord." 



His favorite hymn, which he sang often and 

 with the deepest fervor, was that melodious 

 prayer that begins 



" O Thou in whose presence my soul takes delight, 

 On whom in affliction I call, 

 My comfort by day, and my song in the night, 

 My hope, my salvation, my all." 



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