Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-07
Tribute 10 DIR. Francis T.. SirlD-
ling.

At a meeting of the Vestry of Trinity Church,
held on Friday the oath day OF July. 1874 on
motion of Judge Shetfey, the following resolA-
tons were unanimously adopted:
/. Again hath Death been doing its strans Z
work. in our midst Within a few brief moths
the ranks of our Congregation have been thinned
by the removal Of its chiefest men lis leaders
in intellect, ia usefulness and in high morsA and
reg lous influence. One af er another thelights
ha We gone out and we have b en- left to mourn
their withdrawal and now, with fresh sorrow
, with II sense of loss and bereavement which
words cannot adequately express we have INT 6
to record the death in the slit. htth year Of his
age of Dr. Francis Taliaterro StIinling for ma
nv ears an hoEored member of this Vestry and
of the Church to which We belong
O. While others ay and doubtless will speak
of him as cue of ,ht masters of his noble profess
sion, rs great practical phianIhropst, whose
heart WAS filled wit III the tenderest 5; mpathy
with the insane the stricken ones for whom
he cared rs Il mother for her helpless ch rges
as one whose wisdom and great learn ny,
in his special vocation, was frightened BY faili,
and cousecra ed to Gods glory whose life
long devotion 10 the cure and. restoration of
th use who grope their sad way under the cloud
of mental gloom whose matches combination
of in1exible frmness, womauly KenIleness, al
mos uneIring insp hit into the fatking places OF
insanity, aud subtle art in healing. the mind
diseased" whose consumate skill in the admin
istration and systematic ordering of The lnsti-
tution over which for nearly forty yeats, hi.
presided, had won for him. mo- only the thanks
givings of many grateful loving hearts, but a
fame W hich has spread over our whole country,
until his same has become household word i'll
in the lind While others may speak of the
great void which hi. death will leave In the sci
entifc world, and OF the irrepnrable loss to So
ciety and humanity caused thereby we, Lis
friends and brethren. desire to ex press our warm
personal and loving regard for hin. MS a man, t.
counsellor ~ d a christian. He HIS b ECU with
ns man, years and sorey shall miss his
mani, courtesy. his scrup o Is devotion to The
true an the right h gene Gus Iiberality, his
Chris i'm temper his z-lI for the we'll
being Of the Church he loved SO we'll, and his
conscien icusues, in the discharge of every du-
ty of his Office and sorrow for ourselves
when we think we shall see his face no more in
our midst
3. That amid the sorrow of this entire COM
munty the members of this Vestry, peculiar
friends desire to express their profound sympa-
thy with the widow and famil, of their deceased
brother and they reverently pra, that the
Father under whose Hand the, passing,
may reveal unto them the comforting smile of
His merc,, and the lieh of his gracious favor
and may teach them 10 realize thai lie doeth all
things we'll
A. That the members OF this Vestry will wear
the usual badge OF mourning and in body at
tend the funeral of their drcea,e ed brother
s. That the Register transmit copy of these
resolutions to Mrs Slribling, and cause the
same 10 be published in the city pa pers and in
the Southern Churchman.
A copy from he record.
THDS C ELDER REGISTER.