Rev. Frederick Hof [18169]

   Another name for Frederick was Charles Frederick Hof.¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Newspaper: Award Notice, 1890 Feb 22, Charters Towers, , Queensland, Australia. ² VICTORIA. (1890, February 22). The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld. : 1874 - 1954), p. 3. Retrieved July 4, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article769>
Melbourne, February 21.
The Royal Humane Society has awarded a certificate to Hodgson Johnston, aged 12, residing at Townsville, for rescuing Frederick Hof from drowning on October 26th.

• Registration: Birth, 1902, Queensland, Australia. ³ 1902/C11387
Frederick Hof
John Frederick
Jane Edmonds

• Service: Peace Thanksgiving Service, 1919 Jul 12, Darwin, , Northern Territory, Australia. ⁴ Peace Thanksgiving Service. (1919, July 12). Northern Territory Times and Gazette (Darwin, NT : 1873 - 1927), p. 17. Retrieved July 3, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3297244>
Peace Thanksgiving Service.
Sermon by the Rev. Frederick Hof.
The following is a brief epitome of the short sermon preached by the Rev. Frederick Hof, Methodist Minis-ter, at the Peace Thanksgiving Service, held in the Darwin Town Hall, on Sunday evening last, the 6^th instant :
The sermon was based on the words of the royal proclamation-" Thank-fulness for Peace." The sound of this proclamation had gone out to the ends of the earth and the solemn echoes of the grand old hymns and the choral oratorio were resounding and rolling round the world. It was a wondrous thought that we were so worthily catching up the strain of peace harmonies and passing on the glad refrain so that the chain of thanksgiving might encircle the globe As the Town Hall was brimming over with people, so our hearts were brimming over with thankfulness for the blessing of "peace in our time "-for all the blessings of life, and above all-for the blessings of life are only the manifestation of something else-for the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ which is unfathom-able, for the love of God, which is equally unfathomable, and for the blessed fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Thankfulness for Peace,-The word has a larger and a deeper content since we have met, during the war, in various places to pray for the incoming of more of Christ's kingdom on earth, of which one sign was to be a " peace with honor," safeguarded by the League of Nations.
In that thankful spirit that God loves, we can~ contemplate history, past, present and future, realising the fundamental fact proved through the war-" The best of all is, God is with us."
Many doubted Providence when the Pilgrim 'bathers departed to found America, but after three centuries their descendants had answered the call of the blood,
Our own Australians had imperish-ably written their fame on those "impossible" cliffs of Gallipoli. They had given us a new motto " You never know what yon can't do, till you try, by God's grace."
History alone will reveal the result of all the sacrifice in order that right-eousness might prevail. The Almighty had special,regard unto ''the noble army of the martyrs."
Peace-is evidently something which has to be made-" Blessed are the peacemakers," from the Sermon on the Mount, and in Colossians, I 20, God is represented as having made peace through the blood of the Cross. He did not give His son in order that He might love the world, but because He loved it, and because He desired that the world might love Him. Now in Working towards that result He began by " making peace through the blood of the Cross," of His son, and' that having been accomplished, He goes on, through the Son, whose blood has made peace, to reconcile all things unto Himself.
This peace, in its "first aspect, was the effect produced by the death of Christ, [" It was for (i.e., instead of) us He hung and suffered there."] upon the moral government of God, so that it became possible for Him righteously to forgive the believing sinner and receive him again into His family. The Law and Justice of God were thus infinitely more honored than if we were to suffer the full punish-ment for our sins over and over again. The second aspect of this Divine Peace has reference to our own hearts. At the Cross of Christ we become reconciled to God, and the story of His life and death removes the enmity of the human heart as nothing else can. And great as our sense of grati-tude is for the declaration of peace, yet were we now in reverent mood to appreciate in a greater degree than ever the abiding peace of the heart which is the Divine gift.
A soldier, mortally wounded, was carried from|the field by his comrades and laid beneath a tree in the rear. Then they were obliged to hurry back to their posts. Presently an officer rode past that tree. Dismounting, he asked very kindly, whether there was anything he could do for the dying man.
"Yes-knapsack-book; read St. John 14.27."
After searching for a little while the words :, " Peace I leave with you ; My peace I give unto you ; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid," were read, according to the request of the wounded man,
His face brightened.
Thank you, Sir," said he, " that's all I'm wanting."
The sermon was rightly concluded by the good wish and ascription :- Heb. 18.20,21. "Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead, the great Shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus. Make you per-fect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well pleas- ing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the, glory for ever and ever. Amen."
PRAYER OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING.
The following prayer of special thanksgiving was offered up by the Rev. F. Hof :
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we Thine unworthy servants do give -Thee must humble and hearty thanks for all Thy goodess and loving-kind ness to us, and to all men, particularly for the blessing of peace now vouch-safed unto us. We bless Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the bles-sings of this, life; but above all, .for Thine inestimable love in the re-demption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech Thee, give us that due sense of all Thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we show forth Thy praise, not only with our lips but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to Thy service, and' by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to Whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen.

• Registration: Death, 1958, Queensland, Australia. ⁵ 1958/B28873
Frederick Hof
John Frederick
Jane Edmonds

• Burial, 1958 Nov 14, Morningside, Queensland, Australia. ⁶ NameBurial or Ashes Interred DateAge
Hof Frederick (rev)14 / 11 / 195878 years

Cemetery Details
Cemetery:Balmoral Cemetery
Street Address:441 Wynnum Rd, Morningside
UBD Ref:Map 160 P12

Portion
Grave Number
13
98

Frederick married Florence Ethel Smout [18170] [MRIN: 7322], daughter of William John Smout [36049] and Emma Elizabeth Gadsby [36050], on 1918 Sep 7 in Queensland, Australia.¹ (Florence Ethel Smout [18170] was born on 1896 Jun 1 in Cunnamulla, , Queensland, Australia ¹ and died on 1984 Sep 26 in Auchenflower, Brisbane, , Queensland, Australia ¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1918, Queensland, Australia. ⁷ 1918/B21973
Smout, Florence Ethel
Hof, Frederick

• living, 1952 Oct 20, Brisbane, , Queensland, Australia. ⁸