APPENDIX I 



From a Sermon preached by Canon Wilton in Londesborough 

 Church on Sunday Morning, February 19, 1893. 



" I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, 

 I die daily." I COR. xv. 31. 



THESE words were read on Wednesday morning in 

 Nunburnholme Church at the funeral of my friend 

 and neighbour for twenty-seven years, the Rev. F. 

 O. Morris. The removal of one who for so long 

 a period has lived in the next parish, and whom 

 through his writings I have known for a still longer 

 time, must needs be an impressive fact for me. I 

 cannot but recall the many hours I have spent with 

 him in intercourse at once friendly, literary, and 

 religious, for we often met to discuss Scriptural sub- 

 jects. You all know what a lover and friend he was 

 of birds and beasts how he pleaded in the papers 

 and the pulpit and in his books for dumb animals. 

 They have lost a fearless advocate in him. But the 

 lover of God's creatures was a lover of God a lover 

 of His House, of His Holy Word, of His glorious 

 Gospel. He was eminently a godly man, a man 

 who lived in the fear of God all the day long ; con- 

 scientious, nay scrupulous in the discharge of duty, 



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