Caption: Book - John Milton Gregory Memorial Convocation (1898)
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Rl VDING S< R I P ! U R E S A N D PRAY] R. Rev. \Y. H. St( (man, P . P . . of Champaign, conducted the reli us exercise-, as follows; Pr. Or ory once j ive me an incident conn* ted with his per al experience which I think will make a fitting introducm t< the re ding of the Scripture lesson. He said, as we were talkin upon the subject of the inspiration of the Scriptures: " D o you know. 1 have found a new use for the Bible. 1 have been for many years troubled with insomnia. I have gotten into the habit of taking up some portion of Christ's sayings. 1 have committed to memory whole chapters of the Gospels and the writin s of St. Paul, and have sought to go to the bottom of them. I have turned them over and over. I have looked at them from every point of view until my soul 4t was aglow with light. My brother," said he, I no longer dread sleepless hours. I rather rejoice in them. They are the most blessed of my life." SCRIPTURES: PRAYER: Psalms lxv. i-8; xli. 1-4; 1. 1-6; xxiii. 1-6. Almighty God, our Heavenly bather, we yield unto T h e e most high praise and hearty thanks for the wonderful grace and virtue declared in all T h y servants who have been the chosen vessels of T h y grace and wisdom, and the lights of the world in their several generations; and we most levoutly thank T h e e for the life and character of Thy servant, our honored and beloved father and friend, whose remains we this day bury out of our sight. We thank T h e e for the strength of his character, for the breadth and tenderness of his sympathetic nature, for his devotion to truth and righteousness, and for the stimulating and uplifting power o( his instruction. We thank T h e e that in the morning of life his feet found a r< ting pi ce on the Rock of Ages, and thai he was led by the Good Shepherd inl 1 green pastures and by still waters. And hi d most humbly bes< h Thee that the greatest desire ol realized. We pray rhee that a for this I Iniversit) . which was conceived and brou lit into being by him, ma\ I v !1 hei afl ible portion of his spin! may abide upon all who an and all (nine into places <A authority in this
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