John Kennedy

MDCCCXLI/Sacred to the memory of/JOHN KENNEDY/minister of Killearnan who died January 10th MDCCCXLI - a man of God, sent forth into the vinegard/with the fullness of gospel blessing, the peculiarly honoured/ambassador of Christ, through whom shone forth the excellency of the power/in the conversion of many a soul to God./The joy of the Lord was his strength/the ministerial gifts and graces of primitive times/when on the glory of Zion there was defence/in his person were soon realised, attracting the love of believers/and in evry utterances refreshing their souls/They were glad in his light. in any ordinance of the sanctuary/rightly replenished in spirit by close communion with God/of intimate standing in the mind and counsel of Christ/with holy unction/fervour wisdom and love/he watched, warned and nourished the heritage./Sinners in Zion were afraid./Full of faith and of the fruits of the spirit/abounding in labours, and/ripened for glory, he fell asleep.

This parish mourns.

As a mark of regard for the memory of the Rev. JOHN KENNEDY, this stone/with the same inscription replaces the original one of sandstone, July 1937.

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