Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Photograph

Grave of Rev William Gurney & Family

Lightcliffe Old Church



The grave of Rev William Gurney at Lightcliffe Old Church

The Epitaph


In Memory
of
THE REVD WILLIAM GURNEY, M.A.
FOR 50 YEARS A FAITHFUL MINISTER OF CHRIST,
AND FOR 29 YEARS THE DEVOTED PASTOR
OF LIGHTCLIFFE CHAPELRY,
IN THE COUNTY OF YORK,
WHO DIED
THE 28TH DAY OF AUGUST 1869,
AGED 73 YEARS
   
"THOU WILT KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE,
WHOSE MIND IS STAVED ON THEE:
BECAUSE HE TRUSTETH IN THEE." ISAIAH. XXVI.3.
   
"WHOSE FAITH FOLLOW." HEBREWS. XIII.7.
   
AND OF HARRIET.B.GURNEY HIS WIFE,
WHO DIED JANUARY 12TH 1881
AGED 77 YEARS

[Taken in September 2010]



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