Part 8 (1/1)

The reat ventures, and of youth not knowing defeat, for on Easter Day, 1941 the authorities of Christ Church announced it as their purpose to erect a glorious new building on the site of the present edifice as the only adequate memorial to Frank Nelson As in the dark days of 1917 the parish audaciously built the Centennial Chapel, so the tragic repetition of world war sees in the present rector and people no di and firmness of vision This plan is, as Mr Nelson would have it, not for his own glory, but for the larger range of the Church in the service of the city He had said, ”This is the work of those ill come after me”

Christ Church will one day be clothed in garments of new beauty because Frank Nelson preached the Gospel that is the hope of a better democracy

The grandeur of his accomplishment i fact that his vision is still an influence in the city, and is the choice heritage of an unnumbered host

If because of human frailty we think of heaven as rest, his spirit corrects us If in our partial understanding he seems to deserve release froht with tireless hand through crowded days,”[22] we know in our htly a spirit the only possible reward is authority over ten cities

Frodom of the spirit, he speaks to us across the abyss of tiht clearer than in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians Here, forever sealed in the enduring words of Saint Paul, is the heart of Frank Nelson's ministry, a ministry valiant and without blemish:

I thank my God upon every reospel fro, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

FOOTNOTES:

[22] Inscription on a tablet in the chapel of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N H