Sydney Rupert Hodge : the 'beloved physician' / by J.K. Hill.

  • Hill, J. K. (Joseph Kimber)
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: Sydney Rupert Hodge : the 'beloved physician' / by J.K. Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is a song of esteem and honour; grati- tude and love; homage and service. It is a song of esteem and honour. IVoi thy is the Lamb. It is a great song, this song of worthiness. Sung, as it is, by those whose lives have been familiar with so much that is unworthy, and who are themselves keenly conscious, in the light streaming from the throne, of their own unworthiness, it is a song which fills them with abasement. There is no need to open any books of record, there is no need of any accuser, but as they sing it and gaze at the vision of the Lamb that is worthy, all the sordidness, the sin the unloveliness of their own past lives rushes into their memory. And here stands the worthy one—He who though rich, for their sakes became poor—who laid aside His kingly glory, His equality with God, emptied Himself and came down to earth—who stood the test of our lives untainted by sin and suffered in our stead. And the living creatures and elders, representative of redeemed man and creation, sing, as they bow in lowliest
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