In the death of George Halford, on Friday, November 29th, there passed to his rest one of those good old-fashioned Christians who know their Bibles and love their Church, and by the loss of whom we, as a Christian community, are so much the poorer. Preaching on "The Bible" on Sunday, December 8th, the Vicar said, "I stood by the bedside of the dying a few days ago, and the claims of the Bible were once more vindicated. We all profess to read our Bibles, but few read them to as good purpose as did George Halford, who passed away the other day. As you all know, he very seldom missed a Sunday morning service in this church so long as he could get about, and he was not an infrequent communicant. It was hardly then matter for surprise to find that when I recited the psalms and prayers of the Church at his bedside, although stricken with blindness, he was able to recite them with me, for he could truly say with the Psalmist, "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage"; and so he passed to his rest full of confidence in those "exceeding great and precious promises".
Published in the January 1908 parish magazine.