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Reverend William Limont 3 Nov 2010 15-40
A newspaper report from the time.....
Died at No. 6 Monti Street Edinburgh, on the 3rd instance, the Rev. William Limont, Minister of the relief Church, South College Street.
Mr Limont was born in 1799, licensed to preach the gospel in 1819, ordained to the pastoral charge of the Relief Church Kilmarnock, in 1820, and thence transferred to Edinburgh in 1821.
The removal by death from an extensive sphere of usefulness of a much esteemed minister, is calculated in any circumstances, to make a strong impression on the public mind; in the present instance, the sensation excited has been rendered more than usually intense and deep, by the comparative youth of him who has been taken away, as well as by the awful suddenness of the event itself; within three days of the termination of the past year, the deceased was in his usual state of health; before three days of the present one had come to a close, he had passed away from among living men.
In a brief notice of this kind, it were impossible to give any thing like a full detail of the many excellencies which adorned his public and private character. In the numerous and highly respectable assemblage who accompanied his body to its resting place, and in the tearful eye of hundreds who looked on the mournful procession, the best and the most honourable of eulogies has already been pronounced over him. His brethren in the ministry, his disconsolate people, and a vast multitude who had stood to him neither of these relations, all united over his open grave, in lamenting his removal as a great and common loss.
In his death, the Relief Church, College Street, has been bereft of a spiritual guide, whose exertions in his sacred calling were as unwearied as they were highly valued - and who, while his pulpit appearances were popular in no ordinary degree, was unremitting in his attention to ministerial duties of a more private kind. The Ministers of the Edinburgh Presbytery have lost in him a brother, whose activity and zeal were the admiration of all who had intercourse with him. The Synod has been deprived of one of whom any Synod might well have been proud, while the Church of the Redeemer on earth has had removed from her a member, whose holy example is no narrow sphere, was well eslculated to recommend her to the respect not only of friends, but also of foes.
While in his public character the deceased was respected and beloved, in private life he was marked by many amiable and endearing qualities. As a husband and a father he was tenderly affectionate. As a companion highly agreeable. As a friend warm and steady in his attachments, and at all times ready to oblige. - A prudence ever on the watch, and a strict sense of propriety characterized in an eminent degree his whole life and conversation, and the faith that animated him in the full enjoyment of health and every temporal comfort displayed at once its strength and its supporting influence when amid intensity of suffering, he anticipated immediate death. While consciousness remained, he gave evidence that the Gospel which he had so eloquently and so acceptably preached to others was sweetly comforting and consolatory to his own soul, - he died in the hope of a blessed resurrection, and the memory of his worth is embalmed in the grateful hearts of mourning thousands.
Reverend William Limont 3 Nov 2010 15-40
A newspaper report from the time.....
Died at No. 6 Monti Street Edinburgh, on the 3rd instance, the Rev. William Limont, Minister of the relief Church, South College Street.
Mr Limont was born in 1799, licensed to preach the gospel in 1819, ordained to the pastoral charge of the Relief Church Kilmarnock, in 1820, and thence transferred to Edinburgh in 1821.
The removal by death from an extensive sphere of usefulness of a much esteemed minister, is calculated in any circumstances, to make a strong impression on the public mind; in the present instance, the sensation excited has been rendered more than usually intense and deep, by the comparative youth of him who has been taken away, as well as by the awful suddenness of the event itself; within three days of the termination of the past year, the deceased was in his usual state of health; before three days of the present one had come to a close, he had passed away from among living men.
In a brief notice of this kind, it were impossible to give any thing like a full detail of the many excellencies which adorned his public and private character. In the numerous and highly respectable assemblage who accompanied his body to its resting place, and in the tearful eye of hundreds who looked on the mournful procession, the best and the most honourable of eulogies has already been pronounced over him. His brethren in the ministry, his disconsolate people, and a vast multitude who had stood to him neither of these relations, all united over his open grave, in lamenting his removal as a great and common loss.
In his death, the Relief Church, College Street, has been bereft of a spiritual guide, whose exertions in his sacred calling were as unwearied as they were highly valued - and who, while his pulpit appearances were popular in no ordinary degree, was unremitting in his attention to ministerial duties of a more private kind. The Ministers of the Edinburgh Presbytery have lost in him a brother, whose activity and zeal were the admiration of all who had intercourse with him. The Synod has been deprived of one of whom any Synod might well have been proud, while the Church of the Redeemer on earth has had removed from her a member, whose holy example is no narrow sphere, was well eslculated to recommend her to the respect not only of friends, but also of foes.
While in his public character the deceased was respected and beloved, in private life he was marked by many amiable and endearing qualities. As a husband and a father he was tenderly affectionate. As a companion highly agreeable. As a friend warm and steady in his attachments, and at all times ready to oblige. - A prudence ever on the watch, and a strict sense of propriety characterized in an eminent degree his whole life and conversation, and the faith that animated him in the full enjoyment of health and every temporal comfort displayed at once its strength and its supporting influence when amid intensity of suffering, he anticipated immediate death. While consciousness remained, he gave evidence that the Gospel which he had so eloquently and so acceptably preached to others was sweetly comforting and consolatory to his own soul, - he died in the hope of a blessed resurrection, and the memory of his worth is embalmed in the grateful hearts of mourning thousands.