Remembrance – How to be had in – Charles Spurgeon

Sir Bernard Burke thus touchingly writes in his Vicissitudes of Families: — ” In 1850 pedigree research caused me to pay a visit to the village of Finders, about five miles south-west of Derby. I sought for the ancient hall. Not a stone remained to tell where it had stood! I entered the church. Not a single record of a Finderne was there! I accosted a villager, hoping to glean some stray traditions of the Finderses. ‘ Finderses ‘ said he, ‘ we have no Findernes here, but we have something that once belonged them: we have Finderne lowers.’ ‘ Show them me,’ I replied, and the old man led me into a field which still retained faint traces of terraces and foundations. ‘ There,’ said he, pointing to a bank of ‘garden flowers grown wild,’ ‘there are the Findernes’ flowers, brought Hy Sir Geoffrey from the Holy Land, and do what we will, Lahey will never die!” 1 So be it with each of us. Should our names perish, may the truths we taught, the virtues we cultivated, the good works we initiated, live on and blossom with undying energy, ” When time his withering hand hath laid on battlement and tower.”