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540 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xvm.
candidates in this chapel. And now our last Christmas Day.
Preached in Fulham Church, extempore. An excellent sermon
by Fisher in the chapel, which was full of the parish, in the after
it looked beautiful. The Choir of Fulham
noon. 1 .ighted up,
Church came, and we had carols and hymns in the hall, and all
our old people, and the orphans who had roused us in early morn
ing by their Christmas hymns. A happy, holy Christmas to end
our Fulham time.
"
FULHAM, $ist December, 11.30 P.M. I have seen the sun
of 1868 go down over the Thames, as I have watched the last sun
and time has
of many years back. . . . Year has succeeded year,
healed our wounds, and Craufurd has become a man, and Edith
and Agnes have been added* to our family, and much happiness
has, by God s mercy, been ours in this home. And now we have
come to the end of our connection with Fulham, and, before long,
we shall, for the short remainder of our life, be launched on a
new home. O Lord, forgive my many shortcomings for the past;
O strengthen me for the time to come. Yesterday, as my last
act, I published
1
my letter to Mr. Mackonochie. I trust it may
be united in
do good. Grant, Lord, that all good men may
mutual forbearance, and work each according to his own way in
saving souls, but avoiding foolish contentions from mere obstinacy,
whereby the Church of Christ is rent asunder. O Lord, this year
will close in a few minutes. We shall hear the bells from many
spires announcing its death. Raise us to hopes of a bright im
mortality with Thee for ever. Amen."
1 See above, p. 435.
END OF VOL. I.
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