The Archive · 1928

The Lester Memorial Window

'A Sermon Preached in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on Sunday, June 24, by the Very Rev. Dean A. C. S, Trivett am tle Light of the World: Yndarkness, but shall have the Light He that followeth me shall not wall: of Life-—St. John VII, 12, We have just dedicated a beautiful window to the glory of God in memory of one who Will always rank as a great benefactor to this Onthedral and community. Sunday by Sunday, he used to sit down in his place in the south aisle, He must often have looked up toward the blank walls of the south transept, which then remained one of the few unsightly things in our Beautiful Cathedral. I think he would rejoice to know that it is no Tonger unsightly, but made striking-beautiful by the window which has been evected in his memory.

Tt was most appropriately decided that the: panels of the window in their main subject. matter should represent the late Mr. Lester's munificent gifts in the cause of education and for the healing and prevention of disease, The two topies chosen were the boy Jecus among the scribes in the Tentple court, the scene depicted in the latter part of Chapter XI, Of St. Luke's Gospel, and Christ healing the blind man, as recorded in St. Matthew XX, "32.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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