Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-11-18
Obituary.


Died in Warren, Ohio, November
9Th, 1858, Rev. Benjamin st. John
Page, aged 50 years.
MI. Page was born near New Ha-
wen, Connecticut, in July, 1915.
when twelve years old he removed
with his parents to the Connecticut
Western Reserve, and settled in Col
lamer, in C~uyahoga County. At the
early age of thirteen he entered the
preparatory department of Western
I Reserve College and graduated in the
syear 1888, when only eighteen years of
sage. After he graduated he was COM
sDelled by i'll health to forego his stud
lies for a time. Within the next three
wears, however, he was enabled to
spends yeafin the Theological depart
! ment of Yale College, and also to pur-
Sue his studies privately and was licens
ed to preach, preaching for time in
sEIyria, Ohio, where he hada call TO set
tile butdeclined, and also in Chester, Ge-
auga County, where he was ordained &c
the ministry when twenty-three years
of age; but kyas not settled as a pastor
over any church until he removed
again to Connecticut, remaining as
pastor of the Congregational Church
in Bridgeport, from the year 1915 to
Ils5S. Afterward he preached for sew
eral years in Winstead, North Haven
land Durham. His natural energy
land inclinationtO hard work, however,
again broke down his health and he
WAS compelled about the year 1852, to
move to the west, preaching in Jack
SON, Illinois, until he was able to re-
turn to Durham. On the first of Jan
uary 1866, he engaged to supply the
pulpit ofthe first Presbyterian Church
Of Milwaukee for six months, when
HE was invited to become their pastor.
He declined; but consented foreman.
until the first of January following,
when he returned with his family to
sCollamer, Ohio, to renain for a time;
with his aged mother.
On the first of March, 1867, the pull!
pit of the Presbyterian Church of this
place being then vacant, he was in:
|vited to supply it for the remaindeI
|of the year; at the close of which. I'M
answer to the unanimous voice of the.
Church, he engaged to remain anOth-
Ier year.
On Wednesday Nov. 4th, he was
taken violently i'll with inflammation
|of the bladder, caused, as subse-:
|quent events proved, by incipient
|-cancerous formation, and suffered sci
we're physical distress from that time
until he died at seven o'clock on Nom
day, the 9th inst.
On Wednesday the remains were
to Collamer for burial, attended
|by the elders of the church and a few
others. Perhaps Mr.. Pages character
could not be better expressed than I'M
the words of the Rev. DR.. Blood, who#
attended his funeral. He said "Mr.
Page was eminently Christian War;
.rior,' battling for Christ wherever his
Master called him, with an earnestness
c~haracterizes the true soldier.
had more than ordinary zeal andE
fearlessness in Christ's cause, and hada
an original manner of presenting the
truth. Few if any of all those whoH
heard him preach were ever found
asleep during his sermons, and verys
few went away from hearing him
without being able to tell the subj
of his DISCOURSE"
Of late he has seemed to be more5
than usually warmed TO his work.
sermon of two or three sabbathss
ago, from Isaiah Xiv 8, 1--WE all dob
fade as a leaf" will be remembered as
containing just such fOrcible admoni-
tions, just such solemn words of warm
ing, as he would have wished to leave
behind him as a parting legacy.
He was conscious until within a few
hours of his death, and knew that he
could not recover. He left lOvingH
messages for his wife and son, who
were not with him until just before he
died; also for the church for which he
had labored so faithfully for the past
year and a half; and looking back on
a life well spent in the service of God,
and forward to a blessed Immortality,
he confded himself trustingly to that
Saviour whose kingdom and cause he
had labored to advance.
pH-The President elect declined