Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-03-19

ument. do not know that there was house
of worship here when he came among you. I
know it was at first but temporary frame
structure, afterwards changed into one of brick
and of the plainest appearance, in which you
continued to worship until, in the last two
and commodious edifce, so creditable to the
taste and piety of himself and his people. His
heart, know, was earnestly set on other inn
provements, Vestment Room and Belfry,
which he has now left for you to carry to COM
pletion. After an arduous ministry of forty
seven years, it was one of the most pleasing and
comforting thoughts of his last days, that he
should leave as one of the fruits of his labors
this commodious temple for his people to wor-
ship in.
In the last visit of his Bishop he had not only
this temple to present to him for conservation,
but he also gladdened his heart by the presen-
tation of forty candidates for confirmation, as
the fruits of his successful ministry of the word
Alas the cry of this Waterman on the walls of
Zion, telling you what of the night will never
again break on your ear. He was faithful
sentinel. Who ever heard him in the pulpit
that did not feel that he spoke as one that must
give account; under the solemn responsibility
that if he failed to give the wicked warning,
the wicked man shall surely die, but his blood
will God require at the watchman's hands
What fidelity is here demanded? Fidelity to
the Systematically to the wicked-fdelity to
the Waterman himself. How often is the fear
of giving offence a snare in the discharge of
his high trust. But with him it was very
small thing to be judged of mans Judgment
He was the bold, fearless, uncompromsing am
bassador for Christ, giving to all their portion,
in season and out of season holding back no.
thing that is profitable for doctrine, or for cor
rection in practice. And yet he spoke with O
brothers heart and in brothers. sympathy :;
and in his intercourse with the afflicted and the
penitent, he ever carried with him the tender
ness and the affection of the sympathizing Pas
tor. Those of you, my hearers, who have re-
sisted his earnest pleadings to the last will you
not now with relenting hearts follow him to
his grave, and bedew it with the tears of I'M
feigned repentance? A few more days, or, at
the most, years, and you know that the grass
will be waving silently and unobserved over all
that is mortal of you; but you know too that
you have spirit whose existence is not to be
measured out by days and nights. 1t is for
you to determine whether it shall pass from its
religious privileges here to the purer and high
er services of the New Jerusalem, or to exchange
the songs of Zion here for the wailings in the
world of despair.
1t remains for me to take you into the cham
Der OF the dying, that you may see how he met
death, in the calm confidence of glorious i'm
mortality. A thickness Of speech gave the first
warning that he was stricken with paralysis.
His first words of utterance, after the attack,
sufficiently indicate his own impression how it
would terminate, and they do, also, no less
plainly reveal his hope and expectation as a
christian-'I have finished my course; have
kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for
me crown of Righteousness" No words
more fitting and appropriate on the lips of the
dying veteran. They were first on the lips of
the aged Paul, then closing his career of con-
fict and trial, and with Heaven full in view
81 have finished my course" Tie labors and
sufferings of a long life are now soon to be
ended already have reached the hither part
of the dark valley; the crown of Righteousness
begins to- glitter on my eye, and strains of
heavenly music fall sweetly on my ear. The
paralysis was soon followed by loss of consci-
business, and profound slumber but there were
intervals of resuscitation and partial returns of
consciousness; and in these intervals, he would
articulate some portion of verse, or these
words of favorite hymn-''O Lamb of God
come .L9rd Jesus receive seu .n;-;4 y D'e~~
I will not detain you longer. Let as follow
him to his grave, and there, as we bend OVER
his mortal remains slowly and silently descend
ing into the tombs, We will cheer our hearts
with the reasonable, religious and holy hope
that his spirit has passed from the trials and
sufferings of earth into the rest and expectation
nf ParadiSo Amen