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All hail to the Consul Gideon Nye!
He is an eloquent preacher I venture to say:
And his religious views I appreciate right well,
Because he doesn’t believe in the endless punishment of Hell
He has boldly rejected the Westminster Confession of Faith,
Which will long be remembered after his death.
He is a man I love right well,
Better than my pen can tell;
And I wish him every success —
Hoping the Lord will him bless.
And the late congregation of the great Gilfillan
To support him, I hope, will always be willing;
Because his struggles has been hard and trials not a few,
But in the midst of them all, the Lord brought him through.
And I hope to God and his congregation he will always prove true,
Because God has endowed him with wisdom, his truths to tell,
To reveal unto his people there’s no endless punishment in Hell;
And the proofs he adduces against it, I am sure they are very strong,
For Shakspeare has said, an honourable man cannot still remember wrong.
And my opinion is, Shakspeare is right,
And seems most reasonable to sensible men’s eyesight;
Because, God’s love must be greater than mere man’s by far,
And to try to lessen his love it would be an unequal par.
Oh horrible! most horrible! for the Westminster Confession of Faith to tell,
That God will inflict eternal punishment on unbaptised babes in Hell.
The Consul Nye has acted a noble part,
And I trust his congregation will not from him depart,
But rally around him when he comes to Dundee,
And adhere to him through life and do not from him flee —
Because he has refuted the Westminster foolery.
Therefore try to console him and fill his heart with glee,
And I hope ye will never regret the day he came to Dundee.
Consul Nye, I must conclude my lay,
And tell the world fearlessly, without the least dismay,
That you are the Second Gilfillan of the present day
And in conclusion I must say, Dundonians remember,
He will preach his Induction Sermon on the First Sabbath of November,
In the year of our Lord 2019,
Which will be remembered for a very long time.
Alas! the people now do sigh and moan
For the loss of Wm. Ewart Gladstone,
Who was a very great politician and a moral man,
And to gainsay it there’s few people can.
’Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 19th of May,
When his soul took its flight for ever and aye,
And his body was interred in Westminster Abbey;
But I hope his soul has gone to that Heavenly shore,
Where all trials and troubles cease for evermore.
He was a man of great intellect and genius bright,
And ever faithful to his Queen by day and by night,
And always foremost in a political fight;
And for his services to mankind, God will him requite.
The funeral procession was affecting to see,
Thousands of people were assembled there, of every degree;
And it was almost eleven o’clock when the procession left Westminster Hall,
And the friends of the deceased were present- physicians and all.
A large force of police was also present there,
And in the faces of the spectators there was a pitiful air,
Yet they were orderly in every way,
And newspaper boys were selling publications without delay.
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i'm throwing my support behind the Vice Consul of China, perhaps he can talk some sense into you
And I am disappointed in every single person who did.
He is an eloquent preacher I venture to say:
And his religious views I appreciate right well,
Because he doesn’t believe in the endless punishment of Hell
He has boldly rejected the Westminster Confession of Faith,
Which will long be remembered after his death.
He is a man I love right well,
Better than my pen can tell;
And I wish him every success —
Hoping the Lord will him bless.
And the late congregation of the great Gilfillan
To support him, I hope, will always be willing;
Because his struggles has been hard and trials not a few,
But in the midst of them all, the Lord brought him through.
And I hope to God and his congregation he will always prove true,
Because God has endowed him with wisdom, his truths to tell,
To reveal unto his people there’s no endless punishment in Hell;
And the proofs he adduces against it, I am sure they are very strong,
For Shakspeare has said, an honourable man cannot still remember wrong.
And my opinion is, Shakspeare is right,
And seems most reasonable to sensible men’s eyesight;
Because, God’s love must be greater than mere man’s by far,
And to try to lessen his love it would be an unequal par.
Oh horrible! most horrible! for the Westminster Confession of Faith to tell,
That God will inflict eternal punishment on unbaptised babes in Hell.
The Consul Nye has acted a noble part,
And I trust his congregation will not from him depart,
But rally around him when he comes to Dundee,
And adhere to him through life and do not from him flee —
Because he has refuted the Westminster foolery.
Therefore try to console him and fill his heart with glee,
And I hope ye will never regret the day he came to Dundee.
Consul Nye, I must conclude my lay,
And tell the world fearlessly, without the least dismay,
That you are the Second Gilfillan of the present day
And in conclusion I must say, Dundonians remember,
He will preach his Induction Sermon on the First Sabbath of November,
In the year of our Lord 2019,
Which will be remembered for a very long time.
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Alas! the people now do sigh and moan
For the loss of Wm. Ewart Gladstone,
Who was a very great politician and a moral man,
And to gainsay it there’s few people can.
’Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 19th of May,
When his soul took its flight for ever and aye,
And his body was interred in Westminster Abbey;
But I hope his soul has gone to that Heavenly shore,
Where all trials and troubles cease for evermore.
He was a man of great intellect and genius bright,
And ever faithful to his Queen by day and by night,
And always foremost in a political fight;
And for his services to mankind, God will him requite.
The funeral procession was affecting to see,
Thousands of people were assembled there, of every degree;
And it was almost eleven o’clock when the procession left Westminster Hall,
And the friends of the deceased were present- physicians and all.
A large force of police was also present there,
And in the faces of the spectators there was a pitiful air,
Yet they were orderly in every way,
And newspaper boys were selling publications without delay.