Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-08

friends and to enjoy your good Will at your homes
We shall not elsewhere meet so many attached
friends. It is with sense of loss that we bid
YOU adieu. 1 would not mar the pleasure of the
hour, but confess there is a trace of melancholy
mipgling with my own feelings this evening as l
reflect that it must be long before we meet thus
again. But we will look to the future with hope
and courage. May God grant you prosperity in
this life, give you happy homes and prepare for
you place with Himself at last.
Later in the evening, the leave taking
began, aud continued till half-past eleven
o'clock. This was a scene of very affect
ing interest. DR.. Beardman and wife
will depart from Binghampton, by way
of the Albany and Susquehanna railroad,
on Wednesday morning.
We express the general sense OF our
ton of DR.. Boardman's pastoral relations
here, and of his more general relations as
representative man, is very deeply re-
GREETED. DIR. Boardman'ss position has
made him leader among leaders in the
Presbyterian church in this section of the
state his eminent qualifications for the
ministerial work, and for higher work,
have been universally recognized and
his varied scholarly requirements have
placed him among the first Of the citizens
Of the state. While DR.. Boardman is dis
tinguished particularly by his pursuits in
the fields of theology, he is not in an ex-
elusive sense a theologian. We have had
occasion to know of his extensive acquain-
lance with the men, the measures and the
interests of his day---with literature, with
law, and legislation and politics---not ex-
actly, we suppose we should say, as the
politician would have acquaintance but
sufficiently to make him in broad sense
a citizen, scarcely less than divine. So
he is valued. and is to be, in future. Chi
cago is not likely to over-estimate him, on
short acquaintance. We should add, that
Mrs. Boardman has contributed her full
share to DR.. Boardman's success in his
charge here and that, together, their
place in the high esteem of our people,
and in the affections of large proportion
of them, is not the least of the evidences
which they leave of the usefulness of
their residence in Binghampton, and
of the loss which our young city sus-
tains.
We take from the Binghampton Daily
Democrat of the same date the following
additional testimonial:
A PLEASANT AFFAIR.-A large num-
Der of the personal friends of Rev. DR..
Boardman assembled last evening at the
residence of M. T. Morgan, to pay their
respects to DR.. and Mrs. Boardman pre-
vious to their departure from the city.
In behalf of those present, and as a
slight token of esteem in which they held
their former pastor, Lewis Seymour, Esq,
in neat and eloquent address presented
him with purse containing twelve hun
dred dollars, also a costly and elegant
gold headed cane-the personal gift of E
G. Halbert, Esq.
DR.. Boardman accepted these gifts in a
brief, impressive aid feeling address, dur
ing which many of the hearers were
moved to tears. The occasion is one that
will long be remembered with mingled
feelings of pleasure and sadness.
We cannot allow this opportunity to
pass without adding to the above record
of the aft -ctionate regard of our people
for the Rev. DR.. Boardman, our regrets
for the loss of one whose name has become
household word, and whose spirit is
identified with all that is pure and good
in the social life of our city.
1t is needless to add that DR.. Boardman
is man of broad culture and catholic
sympathies and whose name is associated
with many, very many memories. No
man can come within his presence with
out feeling the better side of his life
strengthened, and his memory is pre-
served in the sacred shrines of hearts
kindled by his oounsels to higher and
holier aspirations to all who know him,
regardless of denomipstional ties or social
station.