Excerpt from The Lost Sheep: A Sermon Preached on the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, at the Opening of St. Paul's Church, Brighton St. Paul wrote, Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you but six years afterwards, in his second imprisonment, he had need to change his voice and say, Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Only Luke is with me. Blessed companions! In life united, in death inseparable; partakers of the Gospel and of life, of the cross and of the kingdom, and now, in heavenly bliss, they together follow their Master whithersoever He goeth, and their names oat down to us upon the memory of the Church with the halo of saints and the crown of martyrdom. Today we unite them again, as in life they loved to be. But there is another fitness which I may not fail to note. St. Luke has ever had a name for skill in human science. In the world he was known for arts which grace our nature with cul ture and refinement. With his memory has ever been associated the sacredness of Christian art, the purity and the sanctity of conceptions and ideas of beauty. Therefore not without fitness is to-day chosen as the festival on which to open this beautiful church, -a structure conceived and framed by an eye and a hand of no common skill. The Church of Christ has, indeed, received no pattern in the Mount; there are no revealed, and therefore necessary forms in which we build. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."