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and consolation in the supreme hour. It was a rock beneatK him 

 when the cold waves of the dark river dashed i^pon his feet; it 

 was a pillow of rest beneath liis head when flesh and heart failed 

 him. Faith in Jesus Christ, as the revealer of God and Saviour 

 of man — this anchor he had cast within the veil, and his spirit held 

 firm and steady, while its earthly moorings were being sundered and 

 its fleshly tabernacle dissolved. 



But once more. Professor Henry was a Christian, in that he 

 lived and died in the communion of the Christian Church. He 

 emphasized no church-ism. It was impossible that he should. 

 Only narrow minds, only little souls, do this. But he found his 

 chosen spiritual home in the Presbyterian Church, and while he laid 

 no stress upon any one of her peculiarities, yet in all loyalty, and in 

 all comfort, he abode in her communion until the day of his death. 

 So, again, the great man witnessed to the world that he was a 

 follower of the Saviour. He heard the voice of the Christ calling 

 him unto confession; and he obeyed. His heart listened to the 

 tender accents of the Crucified One, saying, " Do this in remem- 

 brance of Me," and in glad and grateful loyalty he reached forth 

 for the consecrated emblems of the broken body and the shed bloods 



The Church was not too narrow for Joseph Henry, as it has 

 not been too narrow for many of the profoundest minds and noblest 

 souls of the ages. And his example teaches, with emphasis, what 

 many of us knew l)efore — that in the Church, as in the State, it is 

 not always the largest man who requires the most room. • 



But I must not detain you. These — that he possessed the mind 

 of Christ; that in the aims and purposes of his life he was like 

 unto the Master; tliat his faith of immortality was the faith of the 

 Son of God, and that he lived and died in the communion of the 

 Christian Church — these are my reasons, and these my justification, 

 for pressing through the illustrious throng which surrounds it, to 

 place upon this casket this simple wreath — Joseph Henry, the 



