The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-21
The Late Henry Cobia.
D. T. CoRBIN,
United States Attorney.

Surrounded BY the sable emblems of grief tor
the loss Of their late president the associate pas
tor, after q few pertinent remarks yesterday
morning. read from the altar of st. Johns Luth-
ran Church, to the congregation there assembled,
the subjoined extracts furnished from the records
Of their vestry:
Resolved That the preamble and resolutions
| just read be unanimously adopted aud spread on
CoBIA be inscribed on blank page OF our record
book; that the present proceedings or this body
be presented through one or our pastors to the
congregation OF st. Johns Lutheran Church; that
copy of them be supplied the family OF the late
HENRY CoBIA president OF this vestry and cor
poratiOn, and that they be published In the Luth-
ran Visitor, Of Columbia, s. c., and In the Courier
| and NEWS OF this city. =
TRIBUTE BY THE vEsTRY OF ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN
CHURCH, IN HONOR OF THE MEMORY OF THE
LATE HENRY COBIA, ITS PRESIDENT.
Self-immolatlen on the altar OF duty and be.
nevolence has involved our community In COM
mon gloom and deprived this church, especially,
OF one OF Its most highly esteemed and cherished
members Having to oil human appearance pass
ed the crisis which seemed to threaten at any
moment the end OF his emlnently useful llfe and
rallied to degree that inspired hope OF rapid
convalescence, 1t may be readily conceived, With
what saddenIng effect we received the melan-
choy intelligence, during the hour OF divine SER
vice on Sabbath morning, February 18th, 1870,
that HENRY CoBIA, late President OF this Vestry,
and also Of the congregation Of ST. Johns Church,
had, at about the hour Of A. II. that
morning, peacefully, calmly and In entire
consciousness, passed to his eternal rest and re-
ward. We profoundly mourn this sad bereavement
| and heavy Christening by the Divine hand; and
| while here with rlvea hearts and bowed heads, to
| give perpetuity to our estimate Of the worth OF
the lamented deceased, let US give eX' else also
to those excellencies OF faith which Will mould us
into willing submlsslyeness to, and IN entire &C
| auiesceuce In, the decrccs OF that Providence
whose visitatIons such erring beings as we are
should never for an instant attempt even to hold
In question. Other pens than ours, doubtless,
will seek to do ut honor to the memory OF the late
| HENRY CoBIA Those rare virtues which had
marked him leading and controlling mind In
the different marts OF trade, commerce and
finance, and those yet higher ones which had so
constantly and unostentatlously employed him
In extending kindness and relief to the widow
and the orphan, Will oil receive our enduring re-.
| cord. But from us, whose relations win him
throughout long series of years had been OF the
closest and most cordial character, quite diner
ent aad perhaps more grateful record may be eX-
pccted. Without invading the sanctity, there.
fore of any circle OF trcnchlng In any way on the
prerogatiyes specially belonging to any organiza-
lion to which he may have been attached, we claim
it as our privilege particularly, to hold up for tmita
ton and emulation among ourselves as Vestry
and congregation, those exalted and sacred char
| acterlstics which had always made the late HEN.
| RY CouIA usefully conspicuous and prominent In
| excellence OF character as one OF our number
! ALWAYS deyotedly attached to this church and her
various Institutions and ever scrupulously zeal
ons TO advance her best and most vital interests
lie never failed either as our associate or h cad III
endeayorlng to influence ,Gs for good by his time
ly and judlclous counsel and ripe judgment in the
same direction AS practical and quick of apprc-
bension. as he was courteous anu friendly In dis
posltlon, our late lamented head, although NOV
ing among US almost nolseessly IN the proseca
tiou of his plans, his influence aud worth, never
theless were always acknowledged and greatly
felt. With o keen appreciation OF the true amenl-
ties OF life, anu the conviction that the exercise
OF those amenities should invariably prove guild
ing influence and power ut this board, our lste
president, both by precept and example, eVel
sought to provoke In US full and sacred ooserV
ance of them. As embracing all and crownine
all OF real worth that then be said OF the late
HENRY CoBIA, we would crave no truer sentence
cut in the marble covering his sleeping dust, than
that HENRY CoEIA liUed ana died CHRISTIAN.
Therefore,
Resolred That in the death OF the late HENRY
COBIA, this vestry has lost an associate anu mead
whom they greatly esteemed, and the corpora
tion of St. Johns Lutheran Church president
| whose place it will indeed prove dimcult 10 sup
ply. oo,,r,,rio, ir
Which the lamented deceased had manifested
deep interest has also sustained great loss, ant
| will We know, feel consoled with MS In the asSur
ance that his peaceful and happy end is sut
another evidence, when all earthly props are iall
ing, OF the sustaining power OF that religion
whose profession, even from carly manhood, ht
had always greatly adorned.
| ReSOlged, That the warHlcSt sympathies OF TINS
yestry are extended to the afflicted family OF tht
late HENRY CoDIA and the congregation OF ST
JOINTS Lutheran Church, In this their day Of sort
trial and sad bereavement, and that our action o.
this hour lind such expression as this Doaru may
| deem appropriate.
b INESS NOT o e s..