It is with a profound sense of loss that we record the

falling asleep in Christ, on 27th November, 1947, at his

home in Amersham, Bucks., of our beloved brother

The fellowship now broken by death, and which reached

to within one month of forty years, was as unique as it was

full.  Without in any sense undervaluing the unstinted

fellowship which has been extended to us during all these

years of endurance for the faith, we believe we can say

without reserve of our brother's loyal friendship:

We who are left bow in the presence of infinite Wisdom,

and know that we shall honour his memory best by a

deeper consecration of ourselves to the furtherance of that

truth for which the best years of Mr. Brininger's life were

so unselfishly devoted.

It is with some sense of ultimate triumph, even in our

present sense of loss and sorrow, that we use the language

of the Apostle in our tribute to his memory: