CHURCH of IRELAND the Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the Worldwide Anglican Communion April 2016 | £1/€1.10
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CHURCH OF IRELAND The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion April 2016 | £1/€1.10 Looking forward to the Queen’s 90th Birthday Beacon’s Event www.clogher.anglican.org ARMSTRONG Funeral Directors & Memorials Grave Plot Services • A dignifed and personal 24hr service • Offering a caring and professional service Specialists In Quality Grave Care • Memorials supplied and erected • Large selection of headstones, vases open books • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds • Open books & chipping’s • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves • Also cleaning and renovations • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds to existing memorials • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering • Additional lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Dromore Tel. • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) 028 8289 8424 Contractors to The Commonwealth Omagh Tel. 028 8224 0803 War Graves Commission Robert Mob. 077 9870 0793 A Quality Professional & Personal Service Derek Mob. www.graveimage.co.uk • [email protected] 079 0027 8633 Contact : Stuart Brooker Tel: 028 6634 1611 Mob: 07968 738 491 35 Kildrum Rd, Dromore, Cullen, Monea, Enniskillen BT93 7BR Co. 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BT75 0QP Towards the end of last Tel: 028 895 22461 year I was invited to St. Anne’s cathedral in Email: [email protected] Belfast to speak at the launch of a book which Despite horror stories to the contrary, clergymen did not had been edited by preach for an hour in those days. I reckon that most of his an old friend of mine. sermons would have lasted about 15 - 20 minutes. He In one sense it was a wrote them out more or less in full and used them many rather ‘rarefed’ book times throughout his ministry - in a few cases about twenty of sermons preached in times. This was at a time when there were relatively few Belfast by an eighteenth books and people remembered what they heard with century parson. In much greater accuracy than we do today. another sense it was The fact that the Church of Ireland population were in anything but ‘rarefed’ as the preacher tried to apply the such a minority certainly didn’t inhibit James Saurin from scripture readings to the lives of the ordinary folk around making his mark on the civic and religious life of the city. him. The original manuscripts of the sermons had been He was on many charitable boards and was in every way found by someone who was sorting through some an exemplary clergyman - well known in the city and with old documents in a storeroom and they are the largest his fnger on the pulse of what was going on. That he knew surviving set of sermons preached by an ordinary Church his parishioners very well is clear from the application of of Ireland clergyman of the eighteenth century. his preaching to their daily lives. Although I studied history at university and have tried to He lived and ministered during the frst period of what is keep up some reading on that subject, I am by no means sometimes known as the ‘Great Awakening’ in Great Britain an expert on eighteenth century Ireland. I am pretty certain and Ireland when the Wesley’s and George Whitfeld were that the only reason I was asked to launch the book was preaching in the open air often to thousands of people at because the editor (Professor Raymond Gillespie of the a time. However Saurin seems to have been untouched National University of Ireland) and I had been in the same by this Evangelical movement possibly because he was class all the way through primary school, grammar school already someone who stressed the idea of ‘the religion of and for four years at university - eighteen years in all. the heart’. Many of his sermons were critical of formal, Although our paths had crossed a little since we graduated cold conventional religion and he frequently urged his in 1978 I hadn’t seen much of Ray, but had read a fair congregations to open both their hearts and not just their number of his many publications. When we met briefy minds to the Holy Spirit. However he was also frequently on the evening of the launch he asked me “Well, what critical of a zeal that was without knowledge and expected does a professional make of them?” I assume he meant a people to be able to give an account of the faith that was professional clergyman rather than a professional historian. in them. He would have been interesting to listen to on a I was able to say to him that perhaps the most remarkable Sunday morning and in the modern church it would have feature of the sermons was that (with a few adjustments been encouraging to see his name appear at a Board of to the old fashioned language) they could have been Nomination. preached today and been found useful. We modern He seems to have had a couple of rather odd ideas. For people often think of ourselves as uniquely circumstanced instance he believed that the only reason why the Church and very different from our ancestors. In some ways that is of Ireland did not baptise infants by total immersion true but every generation has its joys, trials, uncertainties was because of the cold climate and his own baptismal and achievements. practise seems to have been to pour water over the baby’s In the Belfast of his day James Saurin had particular face rather than his/her head. I don’t think that would go problems to overcome. As his name would suggest he down well today. came form a distinguished Huguenot family. Both his Finally and contrary to today, Easter was a bigger feast father and grandfather were clergymen-scholars and he than Christmas in eighteenth century Ireland and Saurin’s too was very well read. However he wore his learning Easter sermons were preached to his largest congregations. lightly and didn’t show it off from the pulpit. In his day Although it may not be a very ‘spiritual’ motive, at least Belfast was an overwhelmingly Presbyterian city with a tiny part of the reason for the bigger crowds was because it Catholic population and about two hundred members of must have been bitterly cold in December and rather more the Church of Ireland, all of whom were his parishioners.