Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-05-23

few sermons have ever been, with grief,
and yet with joy; grief that one so re-
vered has been taken from us; and joy
that, for SO many years, we had our
Bishops counsels and labors; and that
he had finished his course in faith, dying
just as he had lived.
After the address, large train Of car
riages and hacks followed the remains to
Hollywood Cemetery. Mr. John G..
Shafer, Of Richmond, was the Joseph Of
Arimathea, who kindly furnished his own
tomb as a temper airy resting place for the
precious relics. Bishop Johns read the
service at the grave; and there we left
our Bishop to his rest.
1t is the purpose of his family to inter
him, at some convenient day, at Che bu-
rying ground in Hanover, where lie the
remains of his FIRST wife as this was in
accordance with the Bishops wishes,
that if he died West of the Blue Ridge,
he was to be inferred in the old grave
yard in Clark but if East of the noun
tains, then in Hanover.
ADDRESS,
DeItUeredby the ri. Rey. j. Johns, d.
D., at 81. Paurs Church, Richmond,
on the occasion Of the funeral Of the
1T. Rec. VIM. Meade, D. d., March
17th, 1862.
And his disciples came and took up the
body, and buried it. and went and told Je-
sug." -a. Nat. 2iU. II.
Ny ClriaiQn Brethren: Ihav scarce
ly courage for the sad service which de-
wolves upon me. / could not brace N.Y.
self for the effort, but for the special
commission which | dare not decline-a
commission not from the living, but from
the now dead-from the lips of our hon
ored and beloved father in God, whose
departure has stricken our hearts with
sorrow, and around whose mortal re-
mains we are assembled, to render them
the last tribute Of respect and affection.
My commission is not to present for
your admiration the rare and decided ex-
cellencies oe his character, and recite the
deeds of his remarkable life. All such
eulogy, either from the pulpit or the
press, he strongly deprecated a just
regard for his wishes on that subject, re-
peatedly and explicitly expressed, measu-
rably restraints utterances for which every
feeling of my heart pleads, and which
usage on such occasions authorizes you
to expect. Happily though it may be-
that formal panegyric was never more
deserved, it certainly has rarely, if ever
been less needed. lie, who more than
any other man, was honored as the in
strument iu raising the Church in Vir-
GINA from what was pronounced hopeless
extinction, who gave to this work his
early manhood-his vigorous maturity
and the wisdom and efficiency of advance
ed life-whose extensive itineration in
this service, year after year, for more
than half a century, had made his name
household word, and his name familiar
throughout the Diocese patriarchal
presence the privilege Of the people, and
his wise instructions priced as precious
epts-surely be needs no formal pan
egyric. His praise is in all the churches
of his care, and his spiritual children are
his living epistles Of commentator,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit
of the living God, not on tablets of stone,
but in feshy tablets of the heart.
1t was unusual TO find our good Bishop
here at this time of the year, and moth
ing but case of great importance would
have justified his leaving his home in the
valley, and encountering the fatigue and
exposure of the tedious journey. Such
he deemed the accomplishment Of the
conservation Of Dr. Wilmer. Repeated
arrangements had been proposed to effect
it without the presence of our venerable
Bishop, for we were unwilling that life
so invaluable should be subjected to the
least unnecessary danger. But when all
other arrangements failed, and he was
informed that Richmond was selected for
another experiment, which would also be
unsuccessful for the want Of the requisite
number OF consecrators, unless he could
be he-e-he thought his duty clear, and
though laboring under deep seated cold,
he cssayed and accomplished the journey,
on very ihelemcnt day, and under cir
cumstanccs Of great discomfort. The re-
suit was the serious aggrayation Of this
malady, rendering it exceeding doubtful
whether he would, after all his effort, be
able to unite in the conservation. When
the day appointed came, he was in truth
more fitted for the repose Of his chamber
aud couch than for the services Of tho
chancol But with resolution and en-
ergy which never failed him when duty
seemed plain, he reused his enfeebled
physical powers to action just adequate
to the emergency, and came only when
his presence could no longer be dispensed
with, and ofliciated merely in the act Of
conservation As he moved slowly up
the aisle to his scat in the chanccl, the
impairment Of his once powerful frame
was afcctingly apparent. And when
the Bishops present helped him from his
chair TO bis feet, and supported and
united with him in the imposition Of
bands, whilst that voice once Of 90 much
sweetness and compass, now tromulous