The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

EXECUTES OF REV. w. c. BLoUNT-
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES. The pail of
gloom that has been thrown over our
community, composing the twin
eities,' by the sad circumstances attend
ing the death of this much esteemed
clergyman-whO was so strangely cut
down in the flower of his manhood. and
heightof his usefulness, will long cloud
the hearts ofthis people. A community
feels deeply when a good citizen is re-
moved from its midst, even by the ordi-
nary laws of nature and much more
deeply does it feel when such an one
falls suddenly by the hand of violence.
and in q manner SO startling as was the
taking off in the case ofthis gentleman.
The funeral of the Rev. Win. G. BlOunt
took place yesterday, from The Court
street Baptist church, i'm Portsmouth. at
3 o'clock-the Rev. DR.. Leroy M. Lee
officiating. Long befOr the hour for
the services, the church was filled TO its
fullest capacity with the friends of he
deceased. The funeral sermon was de-
livered by this eloquent Divine, who took
for his text the words of the Saviour
contained in the 18th chapter of st.
Johns Gospel, It'll verse, "What / do
thou knowest not now, but shall know
hereafter" He said the circumstance
of the text, the wonderful condescen-
sion of the Saviour in washing the dis
ciples feet, was illustrative of the great
and important truth, that in the present
dispensatiOn of Divine Providence there
is a 1eep and hidden meanings STU
pendous purpose. There are grand and
important designs connected with the
divine economy, of Which the world
''knows not now, but shall know here
after"
This general truth was ably and for
chilly illustrated by the eloquent speak
erin its application to individual eases,
private bereAvements, i'm all of which
God has a purpose which will only be re.
vealed in the light and velopments of
the eternal world. The loss of the in
FAINT who was allowed for a time to look
upon the world, and then close its little
eyes only to open them upon glories and
beauties of the eternal world, has been
often sanctifiedt TO lis bereaved mother as
the means other eternal salvation in be-
ing the link to bind her to the other
world Although there is uncertainty
and mystery about many of the dispen-
sations of Divine Pro idence, and the de-
velopmentso of the future world, will only
show their now hidden and unseen sig
%nifcance, yet of the future state itself,
Ofthe fact that God has prepared, with ali
that infinite taste can select, or Almighty
provide, a place of rest and happiness
TO the finally faithful, there is not the
slightest shadow of doubt i'm the volume
Ofsacredtruth, for the Saviour says him
self, II go to prepare a place for YOU"
if Ii were not so, if there were not a
place of final repose--a place where the
weary are forever at rest iOOuid hare
told yOu.
The Minister in concluding the main
discourse, made a very apt and happy
application of the whole subject to the
sad and solemn circumstances of the oc-
casion. He plainly and fofcibly demon
strated that while other deaths in the
ordinary course of nature might not
seem so significant, yet in this so sud-
den, so unexpected, SO strange, so SEEM
ingly opposed to what seemed to be the
revealed and apparent purposes of God,
with reference to his church and people
here, there was evidentand unmistaken
the hand of Him, who, while he thus
m~ysteriously, yet wisely works, says
what / do We shall know hereafter.U
He closed with an eloquent and feel
ing eulogy on the life of the deceased
minister, during which he took Occas-
ion to remark that he had known him
for twenty years, only to love and re-
spect, and that it was a painful event
for him to convey the fact to his breth-
rem of the Conference, of the loss of so
faithful a laborer in the vineyard of
Christ