The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-31


MS Alma Mater. His mathematical
talent was of an unusually high order.
1t is said that at the age oftwenty-six he
successfully calculated the orbit OF a
comet, taking into account all the del
cate disturbances due to planetary at
.raction.
He studied Theology with the Rev.
Tilton Eastman, of Randolph, and was
licensed at Williamson, Vermont, Oct.
q, 1925 by the Roylton Association.
He was ordained August 8, 1925, the
irst pastor in the Congregational
Church in Stowe, and was dismissed
June 10, 1880, but continued to supply |
The pulpit till August 8. From that
ime till May Is, 1886, he was acting
pastor at Coventry, with a salary of
1926, payable one third in cash and two
thirds in grain. He was acting pastor
in West Hartford from May, 1886, till
July, 1s45, and at Rupert from the last
late till 1855. His voice failed while
md he was obliged to give up the care
of a parish, nor was he again able to
preach, except occasionally.
In 1855 he removed to the west, and
was four months book keeper in Chi
ago. He then purchased farm of
about one hundred acres, at Turner
Junction, where he resided till his
death. The death of his wife, few
| months after his removal to Turner, a
highly cultivated and accomplished
| woman, to whom he was tenderly at
tached, completely Frustrated his hopes,
energies and spirits, and under the
combination of grief, ill-health, pecu-
mary and agricultural misfortunes, and
INJURIOUS treatment by those with
whom he had business transactions, he
| gradually sunk into state of personal
| degradation, rarely, if ever paralleled.
| He and his daughter who lived with
him, withdrew themselves entirely
from society, and would neither enter
the house of neighbor, nor permit any
one to enter their house. For years
they lived on nothing but corn bread.
They procured no new clothing. and
wore their old till it fell to pieces. They
lived in rags and filth, and when at
length they were compelled by protrac-
ted sickness, to call the neighbors to
their help, they were found in oondi-
ton positively horrible" He was per
shing with running sores, probably in
luced by his dirt and habits of life, and
ne died in about fortnight afterwards
During this long period of isolation
md restitution he did not cease to
maintain family worship, and to cher
sh the Christian hope. He met death
1t last with Christian composure, fully
conscious of his condition, and trusting
only in Christ To friend who asked
whether the Saviour was still precious
20 him, he replied in a whisper, Eyes,
yes, yes" and these were his last.words.
He married, November IA, 1926, Lu-
ia Throop, of Chelsea, VT, born May
y, 1898, died April 20, 1855. BY her he
aad Chauncey Langdon, born Novem-
Der 2, 1927, and Lucia Elizabeth, born
June 81, 1886.
| SENDOL BARNES MUNGER was born
in Fairhaven, VT, October 5, 1902, and
lied July %, 1868, in Bombay India,
aged IS years.
Mr.. Munger was converted during a
revival of religion in Shoreham, VT q,
IN 1921, and the same year united with
the Congregational Church in that
place. He began to study in
1923, having already decided to become
a missionary. He graduated at this
College in 1928, and at Andover TheO
logical Seminary in 1888. Having beer
employed for II short time us agent Of
he American Board in Vermont, h,
was ordained at Shoreham in 1884. II,
married Miss Maria l.. Andrews, o
Bristol, VT, and sailed with her from
Boston, May u, 1884, for Bombay
where they arrived the following Sep.
TENDER.
In 1912 he was compelled by the i'll
ness of his wife, to return to this coun
try. He re-embarked for India, Jan. s
1916, but Mrs. Munger died March II
on their passage out, and was buried il
, the Indian ocean.
He was stationed for time at Ali
Q mednuggur, then at Bhingar and il
1855 removed to SAHARA, where he re
sided until 1865, when he returned t
Bombay. lie visited the United State
> "a second time in 1858, returning tn
- next year to his field of labor, and agail
in 1860, returning in 1862. He wa
married three times, in 1854 to Mis-
!, Mary f. Eli, of Chicago, Illinois (wh
! died June 8, 1850 and in 1862 to Mrs
sarah s, Paul, of Boston, who survive
, him.
, Tn the earlier years of his mssionar
J. work, Mr.. Munger spent much of hi
- ime in itinerant labors, traversing tn
IF country on horseback and preaching i
Q every village on the route. He deligh
g ed in the work of an evangelist and d.
l. sired to make known the gospel us wild,
n ly as possible. The field was great, tn
laborers were few, and he did not spar
n himself. He had an admirable con
,e mand of the native language, great (;
al cility, earnestness and power in preacl
n ing, and powerful voice. The peopl
to heard him gladly, and in many a vi
At lage his solemn and affectionate me
II sage was long remembered.
ne Mr.. Munger had an extensive "a
Id quaintance with Marathi literatur,
m Several valuable tracts and books wri