Dick Sheppard was one of the great preachers of England in another generation. He was really one of the British church, a great preacher prophet. His preaching often set all of Britain aflame. The morning after he died, almost all of England mourned his passing, and a London newspaper proclaimed a great truth. The paper carried a picture of the pulpit of the church where Dick Sheppard preached, St. Martin’s in the Field. A soft light shone down on the reading desk where there was an open Bible, and in the margin of the photograph, someone had written this word, “Here endeth the first lesson.” That’s it. Death is the end, but only of the first lesson. There is more. Much more. And that’s what I want to talk about on this Memorial Sunday. Not only are we recalling today those members of our …