April 1880 A.D. Rev. Dr. Prof. C.H.H. Wright—“Prayers for the Dead”
April 1880 A.D. Rev. Dr. Prof. C.H.H. Wright—“Prayers for the Dead” Wright, C.H.H. “Prayers for the Dead.” Church Society. N.d. http://archive.churchsociety.org/publications/catracts.asp . Accessed 2 Mar 2015. PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD Church Association Tract 214 BY THE REV. C. H. H. WRIGHT, D. D., Ph.D., VICAR OF ST JOHN’S, LIVERPOOL, BAMPTON LECTURER (1878), DONNELLAN LECTURER (DUBLIN, 1880), GRINFIELD LECTURER ON THE LXX, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND EXAMINER IN HEBREW, &C., IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. The subject of Prayers for the Dead is of considerable importance. The practice has, unfortunately, now become common, and threatens to become still more so. Many things combine to invest that practice with special interest at the present day. Persons are always wont to take a deep interest in departed friends; and when someone has suddenly been removed by death from the midst of our circle, the thought naturally arises in every mind,...