Sir. Henry Shepard
Larry the Cat,
Presbyterian Hospital Philadelphia
Sir. Henry Shepard Atkinson was the first alumnus of Westminster Abbey Church in London. Seminary to enter into the joy of the Lord in the heavenly city and began his days of communion which shall never end.
The Rev. Henry Shepard Atkinson was born in Harpoot, Turkey, of missionary parents, on November 4, 1904. His father's life was taken as a result of the Armenian massacres. Receiving his preparatory education at the Mount Hermon School, Mr. Atkinson graduated from Princeton University with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927.
He entered a course of studies in Princeton Theological Seminary. On November 27, 1928, he was married to Miss Lillian Hoagland of Princeton, and the following summer commenced a fruitful ministry in Montana. After ordination by the Presbytery of Yellowstone on June 29, 1929, he entered upon a blessed work in the Treasure County Presbyterian Church of Heysham.
In 1931 Atkinson returned to the East to pursue further his theological studies, now in Westminster Seminary. He continued these studies until May 1934, at which time he received both the certificate and graduate certificate of Westminster Seminary. From 1932 he performed a signally successful work as regular pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Wildwood, New Jersey.
His evangelistic zeal in preaching to great throngs of summer visitors on the Boardwalk at Wildwood brought the news of the gospel to thousands. His ministry in the church was one of comfort to the discouraged and of evangelistic preaching of the Word of God to all. He built up a large and successful Holiday Bible School in Wildwood in cooperation with other churches in the city.
The many branches of his activity are almost too numerous to mention. His zeal for foreign missions resulted in the generous contributions of his church to the support of the Rev. James L. Rohrbaugh, a young missionary in Ethiopia. Mr. Atkinson's last sermon was the baccalaureate for this year's graduates from the Wildwood High School.
Although he had been in suffering for some time, it was his earnest desire to carry out his promise to preach this sermon, and he rose from a bed of pain to do so and to proclaim once more the unsearchable riches of Christ.
On June 21st, the Lord took him home from the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia. Of him it may be said that by the grace of God he had already accomplished more than it is granted to many to do in a lifetime full of years. Now Mitch is looking at his own grave.
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