DECEMBER 19TH, 1895

DECEMBER 19TH, 1895

I had a telegram this morning from S — -, ‘Restless night, about same, end approaching’, — (J.B.S.) ^† ...

^†It was a year and a half after this that he was taken to rest.

^[p. 111] The breaking of these links is hard to us — and I am very thankful for all tenderness of affection — but if we could see all we should see that in the Lord’s light, he has finished his service — long and diligent and devoted service — and is about to be taken to rest; and according to his own saying the Lord shows His sympathy in drawing us to His own side. For myself I can say that there is no one on earth whose ministry and self have produced so lasting a moral effect on me as Mr. Stoney. It is a great figure removed from us whose place no one on earth can fill.