A VETERANS BIRTHDAY.
Tfie Eev. Dr. Jaroe3 Martinean, probably the oldest Nonconformist minister in London, received many congratulalations on his 90th birthday, on April 21 Araoncflt the wishes for "many happy returns of the day" was a resold tion passed by the London District Unitarian Society, to which Dr. Mamaeau replied. "In the retrospect of ninety years" he says, ''there is a pathetic mixtu'o of sratitudo for ample opportunities nnd humiliation for in. sJenißoant performance?," The habitual rj-essure of the latter is the only cloud that overhangs my declinin? path. My friends-as. if tty the shadow and understood it-try to assure me, as they gather round ii eat i he cose of my last decade, that the labours of so many seasons have not been in vain. If tojßomo few souls the meaning of life has indeed, become clearer, its possibilities nobler, its sanctities deeper, its immortality surer, through the simple re. port of my own experience, I thank the Patter of Light for thus joining me in lore-be it only to two or three brethren in spirit and children of His,"
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8163, 1 July 1895, Page 3
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182A VETERANS BIRTHDAY. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8163, 1 July 1895, Page 3
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