Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 2.djvu/445

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

410

with the sublime sentiment, "the Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep"; and truly and verily he was the good shepherd unto the sheep whose tending was the prime concern of his God-illumined and God-accepted life.


(3)*[1]

Duty and desire, gratitude and affection, have drawn us here together. We are here, I believe, neither to mourn a loss nor to pronounce a eulogy. We are here to affirm a faith and to confirm a hope. The first of those noble messages, so eagerly awaited and so respectfully received, which used to be, for over a decade and a half, the centre of attraction in the programme of the College Day Celebrations, concludes with the touching words: "even when the present shadows close finally around me, I have tho hope that I shall be remembered for a time by some of you,"

  1. * Based on the opening and closing remarks made as President of the memorial meeting at Cocanada (31-7-23).