Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton.

  • Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
1917
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Credit: Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    go to meeting that day, as the motor was not in good condition, and he was tired and felt it would be an effort to go. At the morning family prayers he read the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy, dwelling, before he began to read, on the meaning the words had for them. ' The wanderings of the children of Israel are so like our wanderings away from the Lord our God. We build up our own idols often and forget Him. We have to take heed to ourselves/ He read with much emphasis and power, and prayed with deep earnestness that they might * seek God with all their hearts and souls and give to Him all their hearts’ love and all their souls’ devotion.’ He had not been able to feel satisfied with not going to meeting and finally sent for a carriage to take them into Falmouth. At ten the carriage was there and his wife in it waiting for him. But even as he got ready to go, the swift summons came to another meeting, the meeting with the Master whom he had loved and followed all his long life. Without a word or a struggle, he who had feared death and disabling illness, passed from the fulness of life to meet Him of whom he had written : Oh Son of Man ! if Thee and not another I here have known, If I may see Thee then, our First-born Brother, - Upon Thy throne, How stern soe’er, how terrible in brightness That dawn shall break, I shall be satisfied with Thy dear likeness When I awake. One who had never seen death before, his son George’s betrothed, thus describes his earthly form as it lay at rest : There was no sense of death in that room—not as I had imagined death. On his breast was a tiny wreath of lilies sent by Rachie King. His face was so wonderfully beau¬ tiful, majestic and peaceful, and yet it was not the face I knew. If some sculptor had determined to carve a face which should show to the world his ideal of a great and good and noble man, if he had been gifted with skill and wisdom and