Transcribed from the 1888 William Rice edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Memorials OF FRANCIS STORR. * * * * * _SERMONS_ BY REV. CANON HOARE, AND REV. W. MAY, _Preached in Brenchley Church_, _26 February_, _1888_. ALSO _NOTES OF THE LAST SERMON PREACHED BY_ REV. F. STORR, _12 February_, _1888_. * * * * * LONDON: WILLIAM RICE, 86 FLEET STREET, E.C. * * * * * In Memoriam. FRANCIS STORR. _From the_ GUARDIAN, _Feb._ 29_th_, 1888. {3} On Saturday, February 25th, the mortal remains of the Rev. Francis Storr, for thirty-four years Vicar of the parish, were buried in the beautiful churchyard of Brenchley. The snow lay thick upon the ground, but the sun shone bright in heaven, and the outward scene symbolised and reflected the feelings of the mourners—the blank sorrow of a bereaved parish, and the rejoicing that the last prayer of their beloved pastor had been granted, and that he had been summoned home before increasing years had necessitated that resignation of his work and ministry which would have been to him a living death. His work was well described by Canon Hoare, who preached the funeral sermon:—“He was a true specimen of a devoted parish clergyman. He did not take much part in things outside his parish. Most thankful should we have often been if we had had more of his help and counsel in matters concerning the diocese and the Church. But the parish was his sphere, the parish was his home, and the parish was the one object for the benefit of which he spent his life.” The Bishop of Dover writes,—“No one could possibly be half-an-hour in his company without seeing a transparently Christian character, the chief features of which were personal humility and genial sociability.” And the Archbishop of Canterbury writes,—“My last day in Brenchley, and my walk and talk with him were one of the never-to-be-forgotten days. The labour and the love which turned an affliction so great [his blindness] into a gain, were indeed in the very spirit of St. Paul and of his Master.”