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a nation's production of this class of men, its noblest wealth, is ever 

 very small, you will not blame me if, under these circumstances, 

 I ask you, within this inner circle of family and church relation- 

 ships, to pause and meditate upon the thought that in the great man 

 who has fallen a pure and noble spirit has passed from the commu- 

 nion of the Christian Church on earth to the communion of the 

 church triumphant in the heavens. 



While human learning and science are pressing forward to do 

 honor to one who was known and loved as a leader, I come in the 

 name of the Christian Church, and in the name of my Saviour, to 

 place upon this casket a simple wreath of immortelles, forming, 

 weaving the words JOSEPH HENRY, THE CHRISTIAN. 



He was such in his disposition, in the spirit and temper of his 

 mind. " Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," 

 is the injunction of the apostle, in which he sets forth the essence of 

 Christianity and points the path to individual discipleship. 



And Professor HENRY walked this path. He came unto the 

 possession of this essence. Look back, I pray you, through the 

 centuries. Scrutinize that Life which is the life of the world. 

 Analyze that Mind which molds the ages, which is world-regnant 

 through the sceptre of the Cross, which is the leaven working unto 

 the regeneration of earth and man. What is it? What were its 

 leading qualities? How is it differentiated? Purity, simplicity, 

 benevolence these were its characteristics; these formed the Christ 

 mind; these were the forces by which it impressed itself upon the 

 world eighteen centuries ago, and through which it makes itself felt 

 upon the world of to-day. 



Purity, simplicity, benevolence! A purity without a spot, a 

 simplicity which is transparency itself, a benevolence wide as the 

 sphere of human want and as limitless as the love of Heaven this 

 is God taking shape in human life; this is the mind of Christ trans- 

 forming the mind of the world ; this is the new creation, the redeemed 



