Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-09
DEATH OF TnE REV. DIR. BALDWIN.


whose illness We have noted in these col
umns for several days, was seized with |
cholera on the 9Th ult., and after linger-
ing and painful illness, expired yesterday
evening at Sis ?. NJ. His bedside was
watched with unremitting medical and
friendly care, and though his disease was
violent, strong hopes we're entertained that
he would survive. But they were not to be
realized and a gifted Minister of GoD and
good man rests from his labors, and his peo-
pie mourn fcr him.
DR.. BALDWIN was born in Worthington,
Ohio, Nov oath, 1918. His parents were of
the middle class in society, but poor and
unable to give their children the advantages
Of liberal education. Thatreceived By him,
before he set out in life to achieve his own
fortune and destiny, was such only as was
afforded by the common schools Of the coun-
try. He left home youth, TO relieve his
parents Of the burden Of sustaining him,
and found employment for the athletic
constitution which nature had given
him, as a deck-hand on a western steam
boat How long he continued ia this
humble sphere is not known, but he felt
the sacred thirst for knowledge, and an in
ward prompting that he was born for higher
things. One who has the aspirations which
accompany genius rarely fails to manifest it,
and to command the aid which assists the
first steps up the steep assent where 'Fame's
proud temple shines affair."" The next that
is known Of him, he is entered at Woodward
College Cincinnati, from which institution
he graduated, in due course, with high
honors in the class with Hon. GEORGE H.
PENDLETON, Hon. GEO. E. PUGH, of Ohio,
and Rev DIR. HUsToN, formerly of this city
While at college he became Impressed with
the truths Of religion, and shortly after grad
uating, commenced preparation for the min
istry Of the Methodist church. As an evil
denee Of the energy and force of character
he possessed, it may be stated that during this
portion of his life, he suffered from an affec-
ton of the eyes-the result of exhausting
application to his studies-whieh, for several
years, deprived him Of sight, and compelled
him to rely upon others for assistance in
his studies His first service for the church
was in the Louisville Conference, and in the
city of Louisville, where he labored accept
ably for several years. In 1S4S he was trans
ferred the Tennessee Conference, inwhichhe
has ever since remained, filling the pulpi in
all theiprincipal stations with learning, power
and eloquence rarely surpassed. At the
outbreak of the war he was the pastor of
McKendree Church in this city, and during
the suspension of the Conference he preached
and labored in this city and the surrounding
region. Last year he was assigned to duty
at the same post, and it was at this work, in
the midst of season of revival, and in
constant attendance upon the sick and dis
consulate, that he was stricken with the cpl
demic which has so sadly bercaved his
church in his DEATH
While his name and memory will be
cherished by his church as one of the most
brilliant and popular of its preachers, and
by numerous communities in which he has
served, as a true Christian, and a man ofpure
heart and upright in his walk, and by a
wide circle ofpersonal friends who knew The
gentleness and goodness which, when he I'M
bent himself, were shown in the generally alb
sorbed and somewhat abrupt student, by the
general public he will be chiefly Remembered
for his published writings. OF these the
most notable is "Armageddon," a work
which has been widely read, and made the
subject of criticism by pens in foreign Ian
guages. This is not the time or place to adj
duce an opinion in regard to it, but it is con-
coded to be marked by originality, profound
research into the Scriptures and sacred his
tory, and to give evidence that the vast
subject of prophecy was in the grasp
of a master mind. Several years after
the issuance of this book, Dr. BALDWIN
published Dominion a work levelled
at chronological inhdeli:y, and tracing
of the primordial laws Of Providence
in reference to the tribes and races of men,
and the relations they hold to each other.
In style this work is superior to the first.
He had just given to the publishers in Phi
ladeiphia a new work on matters germane
TO his former publications, the proofs Of
which he will never see, thougEn he had
spent much thought and labor in its prepa-
ration. In these and his unpublished dis
courses and addresses he has left an impress
sion on the time in which he lived, whieh
secures him an enviable fame.
Dr. BALDwIN's mind was of high order,
quick, analytical and Imaginative II was
this last faculty that led him to the subject
which engrossed so much Of his attention.
He was a thorough student, and the master
Of many languages. His dietion was fluent
and brilliant, his delivery animated, and at
times he was truly eloquent. The church
has lost in him powerful advocate, and the !
society Of good men, benevolent genu-
lit CaAlintldii, WIZ hNhNA III HSAA-
doing, whether it was before the crowded
audience, or at the bed of the lone, the sick,
and the humble.
He leaves large family of orphaned
children, their mother having preceded him
by few months to the grave. His funeral
takes place at McKendree Church at $50
A. NJ, tomorrow, and his burial, with Ma
sonic ceremonies, at the residence of G. w.
MooRMAN, Esq, on Whites creek.
A GENIAL and humorous gentleman Of
this State, who has been several years dead,
used to relate a story of one of his younger
brothers who was rather timid in the dark.
One of his elder brothers had been playing
or his fears, which resulted in his rushing
in Georgia costume into a room full of