AT ST. JAMES’ CATHEDRAL
Rev. Canon Plumptre preached at St. James’ Cathedral from the text, “Ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses.” With reference to the disaster in the St. Lawrence, he said the collect for Whitsunday struck exactly the note desired. He said that in our perplexities and bewilderment at the ways of God we should rest assured that He would “give right judgment in all things,” and prayed that the bereaved might be given grace to “rejoice in His holy comfort.” Canon Plumptre spoke of the comfort in the memory of lives consecrated to the service of God and fellow-men and of the acts of heroism that had illumined the darkness of the night. “Whether death comes to us,” the preacher concluded, “as a lightning stroke in the darkness or amid the calm of a peaceful destiny, may it be said, ‘We died like men and fell like one of the princes.’”