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SERMON

PREACHED AT SHAW'S LANE CHAPEL,

ALTRINGHAM,

SEPTEMBER 14, 1834;

ON OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF

THE REVEREND ROBERT HARROP:

BY CHARLES WALLACE, A. M.

WHAT I CAN

IS RENDERED PIOUSLY, PRESENTING HERE

THY PERFECT LINEAMENTS.

MANCHESTER:

PRINTED BY ROBERT ROBINSON, ST. ANN'S PLACE.

1834.

SERMON.

WHEN I last addressed you from this place, our feelings were deeply excited on behalf of a friend whose life, after a protracted period of usefulness and enjoyment, seemed rapidly drawing to a close. Since that time our saddest anticipations have been realized. The friend whom we possessed is no more. The vital spark has fled, and the dust which it formerly animated was yesterday consigned to its permanent abode. The mortal remains of our revered friend are deposited in the vicinage of this house of prayer; this house which was erected under his auspices, and which, while health and strength permitted, he was accustomed to adorn with his presence; a presence so venerable, that it seemed to diffuse the spirit of piety from himself to all around him. The prayer then offered up, that it would please the almighty guardian and benefactor of his life, to smooth his passage to the tomb, coincided with the benignant purposes of divine providence. He lingered not long after the time of its utterance. From the evening of that day he continued to breathe shorter and shorter, till noon of the day following, when, with a gentle sigh, he quitted this dark and transitory abode, to become an inhabitant of a brighter mansion. It now devolves upon