New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-09
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The Committee appointed TO express the feel
ings Of this Convention in view Of the death OIL
Geo. 8. Yerger, find themselves inadequate TO the
task, through the very nature Of their own senti
ments towards the deceased. The commonplace
Of euiogy will not serve rs. To the Clergy espe-
cialy it seems difficult to convey to others sense
OF their feelings towards Mr.. Yerger and Of the re-
lation in which he stood to them. Had he been
indeed one Of them, his character would still have
made him beloved, and his abilities respected.
But from Iayman, such an appreciation Of their
peculiar feelings and their professional character,
such deep and tender interest in their affairs, and
such real, unaffected and unfailingEr for
Their office as men appointed TO minister in holy
things, IS without a parallel in their experience.
He viii live in their memory and In that Of the
Church OF Mississippi, as the Great and Good
Ld5pad' title that he would not have exchanged
for any other were it even that Of the Great Com
moner, which IL suggests. This generation must
have passed away, ere the mere name Of Yerger
shall fail to awaken vibration in the hearts of
Churchmen-
Many generations win have passed before the
memory of the great lawyer and civilian, who
loved the Church, and all the monuments Of his
learning and Of his piety shall have disappeared
from the earth. That he adorned the doctrine 81
God our Saviour. as few among the Christians Of
later times have done, is proved by the spontane-
GUS outburst Of feeling which succeeded his death
not only in the church but in the community, and
was even more strikingly witnessed by the grea1
concourse of the poor, which together with ths
numbers of all classes of men and of all denomina
tons of Christians, oyerfowed the Church ani
crowded the streets at his funeral.
A liberal Churchman, large-heated man, AT
humble self.concealing and seifdenying Christian
met in one, and combined to form the man WHOM
we knew as Geo. S. Yerger. We can wish nothing
better for ourselves than that we may hereafter
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inscribed upon the white stone-the mark Of his
election into the confraternty of the saints Of all
ages.
To his family, what expression can we give Of
our sympathy with their sorrow for his death /?
It may console them to know that the Church
mourns with them, and ahe, who is the Mother OF
us all, does not sorrow for her children as those
" without hope.n So much Of faith, and hope, and
charity as he carried with him into the grave
must, if it were possible, revive and strengthen
our faith in the Resurrection.
To his Bishop, his Pastor and the Church, to
whose Sacraments he was united, we tender our
Christian sympathy in their common bereavement
Without extravaganza or affectation, we can say
that we have lost Christian brother and fellow
disciple, who bore such resemblance to st. John
as the beloved disciple himself maintained to our
Lord
The Rev. w. g. Crane then offered the resoIu
Resolred, That we have learned with profound
sorrow Of the removal from the scene of his earthly
labors, of our beloved brother in Christ, Geo. s.
| Yerger.
| That to no one is the convention more deeply
indebted, under God, than to this great and good
man-for many years its distinguished and honofed
member-who was always in his place and always
doing his appointed work with all his might put
ting forth his MODEST powers, and consecrating hi
time his means and his influence to the best inter
ests of the Church of God.
That in the harmony of his life and character, i
his earnest and valiant advocacy of the truth, ii
his almost unexampled unsel6shness, and devotion
to every duty in all the relations of life, we recog
nize one of the most beautiful and attractive
illustrations Of Holy Faith that has ever beer
presented to our view. sr w
That while we revere his character, we will eve
ciples which made George s. Yerger what he was
and, with Gods help, will also follow the example
of this His servant who, having finished his course
in faith has gone to his rest in the sure hope Of
glorious resurrection.