Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / by A. Halliday Douglas, M.D.

  • Douglas, A. Halliday (Andrew Halliday), 1819-1908.
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[©1844?]
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Credit: Statistical report on the Edinburgh epidemic fever of 1843-44 / by A. Halliday Douglas, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    you more expressly, and as explicitly as I can at all ven- ture to do, of that instance which so powerfully contrasts with all this, it being the instance of one “ who walked with God, and was not, for God took him.” He was a pattern to all, and doubtless specially such to you, who saw him here twice every Sabbath, excepting only his last on earth; and knew well his deep and affecting interest in even all that concerned you, both in time and eternity; and ac- counted his presence here the chiefest earthly honour of our house. Nothing more likely, dear brethren, than that, though we could not love him too well, we may have loved, and also leant to him disproportionately—that, leaving it to him to do very many things which (most willingly as he did them) yet others should have shared in doing, and leaning upon him so confidently, as in a greater or less degree to cease from leaning upon God—this, too possibly, was a reason for the Lord’s taking him away and leaving us as we are now, thus desolate and distressed. Ah! little did I think, when my heart exulted within me to see this holy and so beautiful edifice complete, which has been more loved by me as a home than any other I now have on earth, and which, mainly under his fostering care, grew up to be a pattern of things in heaven ;—little did I think how soon it should be bereft of its brightest ornament, and saddened by these funereal emblems of death and the grave. And little did I think, when devising with him, as I did almost con- tinually, how best to promote your comfort and edification, and fulfil the ends of that oversight which we had received from the Lord ; and (to specify just one topic, which more recently, as oft, engaged us) how best to extend amongst you that interest in the maintenance of other Churches in the land, to which his munificence so very largely contributed;