The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-10-23
For the -Fgfs d Intelligencer.
Oar Rect0r's ResignatiOsa.

Change is written on the visible creation and the
sweetest thought of God is the that presents Him as
the same, Yesterday, to-day and foreVerr In proper
ton mans constancy is his dignity; but no is
never constant where ndeble impressions have been
made on his heart by gratitude or by association.
Such Is fallen nature that the everyday blessings
and gifts Of sour Heavenly Father are not appreciated
as deeply as those provdsntal and extraordinary
We may have experienced from disease disaster DEATH
3d. in estimating character, pass by often those hui
man examples which approach nearest perfection be-
such characters by their beautiful proprety and
proportion, not fully appreciated, by Him to
whom all hearts are as the pages of open book No.
we must be startled by striking exhibitions of faith or
remarkable manifestations Of hope or extraoI binary
deeds OF charity, fail to recognize, the beauty OF
holiness Not rejecting that violent exhibitions Of re-
ligoB-like other violent fcelings-too often did ont
with the impulse that gave them q momentary vgor-
That principle is perennial plant, not the bright
blossom Of a brief season. Yes We strive often to
PICK naws where find none. All OF us aspire to be
critics. even those OF us who do not possess tho ee
ments Of true criticism which are, sound reason and
correct judgment.
These reflections that hongsd to my notice as the
10 of the resignation of the reverend and
reyered Rector of St Georges parish Nd after minis
proach Never did the purity of that ministry strike
me so forciby as in the hour Of its dissolution Then
came throngiDg to my mind remembrances of the mas
tors innumerable good deeds and charitable words
Then, knocking at my heart memories of his un
ohrusiye sympathy In sorrow, or the gentle tones in
which words Of comfort fell from his lips on the ears OF
he sick and tho dying Then like angels pleading for
no good came the instances in which had known th
pastor to bear with tho nrmites of the weak and 10
take their sorrows upon him. Then I remembered
whom death cast its sombre cloud over q household
there was never there a sincerer mourner than our
pastor Our Joys were his joys Our sorrows were his
sorrows Such were afew ofmy medtatons this solemn
theme our Iectors resignation" and said within my
spirit he shall not pass from that church whose beaut
full and justly admired architecture was the osprne
OF his ZEAL whose prosperity the fruit Of hi faithful
stewardship without some mention that shall proclaim
to the public ear, that worth is wholly unrecog-
nized and unacknowledged that bameless priesthood
the most eloquent and its record not to be CLOSED
slightingy unfeengly. st. Georges parish is
III Waa
whose children have erected many Episcopal churches
in our villages, our towns, our neighborboods
spesutia Church. st. Georges parish was the first
church elected by Protestant Christianity in Hartford
county TO the worship Of God. mean, of course the
original spesutia Church The present built in
1851. The pulpit has been filled by priests of whose
ability the world has taken cognizance and fr,m its
peaceful haven they have launched out on wider
of usefulness The sacred walls have been the hal
lowed wherein countless woishppers for nearly
two centuries have offered up that form of worship
whose language-to borrow from the eloquent Bishop
Stevons-is sufuscd with Heaven" Her vestries in
the oldep timo comprised gentlemen whose character
for probty and intelligence stood BEFORE least be-
aide those of any other gentlemen in the State Her
anchor is the Rock Ages and amid the turmoil of The
late civil this ship Of Zion rode free and far above
the violent waves Of political conflict 1t to such
church, In such venerable parish, that the Rev g. W.
Champion called in the year 1916. The vestry at
that time comprised the following gentleman, (whose
words') Edward Griffith VIM. A. Patterson, DR.. Jacob
A. Preston, VIM. Fltzhugh Turner, John Cowan, j.
Sydney Hall, Andrew Hall, John c. Hall. Not one
OF this vostry are now living.
How many now live who welcomed pastor to his
then now charge cannot say, but his old devoted
friends have llen around him like the autumn leaves
and bo felt almos In land Of strangers. Faces that
he'd beamed with gladness when they caught view Of
his welcome form Voices that had Frightened as they
pronounced his nae Death had laid his icy touch up.
on thom. Tho grave claimed Its anpual tribute. Few,
indeed Of the children Of those old friends form
congregation Of spesutia church. Change is writtcn
here New houses, new associations heirs but u
they are children worthy Of such mother their L.s
Will turn with the deepest to tho church o:
their forefathers and OF their happy and Innocent
childhood. new race, perhaps our pastor thought,
would DO most improved BY a new rector
Let those who desire TO annhaie the old and thrust
on ns the new; let those no fud variety their real