DEATH OF MR. C. A. REDGRAVE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 753, 28 February 1910, Page 6

DEATH OF MR. C. A. REDGRAVE

■■;-"•' )V ; .' "•"."' :' EEFEEENCE:AT-ST,-JOEN^."'^ 'Preaching ,at, Str John's Church' 'yester-: his test Matthew xxii: 24,,- "Bo ye' also .ready, -ior.in : such. an, hour as.ye think motthe'Son of Mari:coraeth." -' ' ' ™ L ™W' y as suggested ';' (Dr. Gibb' ■said) by-the-death: by accident Chwles. A, Eedgrave,. who member or fat. John s.Church for, many years, arid ,an active worker, in the.XM. Bible Class, of which for the-last 18. months : he had been , joint■ .leader,., The,, question'-.-; propounded ,by-the. preacher was "how to make, ready for .death.!." He answered tho question, first • by,. stating that. the 'man .who would make .ready-.for",death' must: look .death■' lull m the. face'-arid realise that in ...every dcodaiid truth, ho: must die...'Overmuch.;brooding on death would lead to morbidness, no-doubt, but -even;man ought; now,and again to .set himsoff to realise the certainty of his'dcath. and .the uncertainty of; the hour of his summ°ns hence. / Having. faced- the fact" of .death,.the second preparatoin was to get into proper, relation.-with God. To be! atpe'a'ce with; the' Eternal: was a' necessity, for. a strong, brave life, regarded .even i the,standpoint of. the' world,. , but the question ,of our. relatiori, to -.God became one of awful moment when we .remembered that, after . death: came the judgment, 'and."the'.immediate' vision'of : the. All-wise,'-All-Koly. God." The third preparation for .death 'was this: .After having '. made I '' "one's peace .with God through-the 'Cross' of , Christ,' ;a ; man must:set;hmiself to live a life dedicated to tho service of God and: nian and/inspired by the Spirit'of Jesus Christ. This wouldnot; lead, to narrowness and bigotry, as .some' supposed. It; was a method of existence tliat had room lit it for the'highest'oultiyatiori of ones poicers in. a right direction",' but the dominating • part must be the. welfare of' tho world and the establishment of the Kingdom of God. The pulpitwa's notrthe place for extravagant eulogies, of any msji—dead or.alive-r but it could with great sincerity'bo.affirm-:. edthat their departed brother .was pve- , pared along the lines, to which he, had al-. luded for the great' cliango that had come so suddenly to him. He was a believer in the Saviour Christ.i and it. could with: plain,truth bo-said.pf him that ho was orio who had striven-well and spent, his. strength in the unselfish services: of his brethren. .The men- of the Bible class knew that, arid one of them had well sum-, mod up. the situation.in : the brief, sen-tence.:"liedgrave's-life was an inspiration to his follows." ..For his wife and little: one, for his parents, and-for'the-''other' relatives they, felt the profouudest sympathy, and. commended them', to tho help of the God of, all corhfort. '~,.- .-; .•

Appropriate hymns ,were : 'sung, and at the.close of'"Now.\the"labourer's task is o'er." the organist played , tho -Eead March th Saul. •■There was a: large .cohfrregatiou.'- ,■.'■;'".•:'"..•