The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-02-08 00:00:00

THE LATE LORD LYTTON.

Last Sunday afternoon, at Westminster Abbey, the Rev.
Profemor Jowett, of Rsllsol Coliegw, Oxford, preached ser.
mon .n refereece to the death of Lord Lstton. The rev.
profemor took for his text Luke, second chapter, and 29th
and 30th verges : "Lord, now fittest houThy servant depart
in peace, for my eyes haw gem Thy salvation" He said :

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" We do not wish our departed friend, Lord Lytton,
back again, nor do we repine at hie having expe-
rienced the common lot of all men. But," remarked
the rev. professor, "we think of him, we speak of
him, we call his works to our remembrance—we love
him stilL" To have " served his own generation,"
whether in a higher or lower sphere, was a glorious
description of any man's life. He (Lord Lytton) had
laboured hard, and was now at rest. He had gone
home, and wan nearer to God than we were. Many
things which were befor, obscure to him were now
clear and visible. His life had been a solid good
to his family in this world. Ile had left us his
example. His friendship was one of the blessings
which they all must prize, because it continned to
the latest hour of his life. He still spoke to them
words of hope and comfort, and at times he was almost
prtsent with then. What could they desire mere
for him? What more for themselves? Yo doulA they
felt a load of solitude, and when An eminent person
died seine thoughts arose, naturally, in their minds
about him. There was one person now the less to
carry out the will of God in the world—to impart to
us nes-, and higher and 19 ,re forcible thoughts than
would have occurred to our minds. We do not
like to see eminent men, like the stars of heaven,
one after anolier setting and no one to succeed
in their place; but still we know that we and they
are both alike in the hands of God, and that He is
not confined to this or that person in the accomplish.
moat of His work. He (Professor Jowett) had been
asked by the dean, who was unavoidably absent, to
speak to the congregation, to speak of two eminent
men, one of whom slept within those walls. They had
both been personally known to him With one of them
he had become acquainted a short time since, Just
before his sun went down; the other had been the re-
vered friend of mans years. /co doubt those be iii-
dressed well understood that he referred to Lord
Lytton and Dr. Lnshington. They were very &s
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and types of character, and were not connected in
any way, except by the accident that we lost them
within a few hours of each other. He had some-
times asked himself how eminent men, if their
spirits could hear what we were Paying, would wish
to be spoken of after death. "Let me not be for-
gotten" was the natural cry of the human heart; "I
do not want a panegyrical oration or &funeral sermon;
but f should like to be known as I wan" That ap-
peared to him to be the true principle in writing the
lives of men. It seemed to him almost incredible that
only three weeks ago that very day he had seen and
heard the,first of those two eminent men, fall of life
and conversation, speaking of the interest which he
took in young mew at the universities, and asking