The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-06-26


From tile Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A large number of the members of the
Tabernacle Young Peoples Association
gathered at the College Building, in re-
Spouse to the call for meeting to take
action upon the death of and pay the last
tribute of respect to their late member,
Edmonson B. Medcalfe, whose death by the
accidental discharge of a pistol, was re-
ported in former issue of the Eagle.
In the absence of the President, Mr.. l
w. Hathaway, who is at the Syracuse Con-
vention, Mr.. J. E. Cover, the Vice Presi-
dent, called the meeting to order, and in a
few we'll chosen remarks announced the
death of the late Mr.. Medcalfe. Mr.. Wal
ter Leech, one of the oldest members of
the Association, paid a touching tribute to
the deceased, and in which he said:
REMARKS OF MIR. WALTER LEIGH.
MIR. President, for the second time in the
history OF our Association, we are called
upon to meet under the shadow of death.
Again we are called upon to mourn the
loss of a member stricken down by acct
dent, and taken from us in the full strength
of manhood. In the sorrows that fill our
hearts, the voice of dissention is hushed,
and we raise our voices only in love and
concord, to express what sympathy we can
for those who remain to meet and miss our
departed brother, and to speak in fitting
language of his gentleness and worth. A
stranger to most of the members. and hav-
ing been connected with this Association
but a short time, Mr.. Medcalfe was person.
ally known to but few, yet l know that
during his short intercourse with us he
had won many friends who will regret his
untimely end. Mr.. Medcalfe was in many
respects remarkable young man, possessed
of high ambition, and great perseverance,
he had by hard study and patient toll OBJ
tanned an education, and won reputation
as writer as few men of his age possessed.
Unlike most young men, he passed but
little time in the pleasures of the world,
but devoted his attention to
THE IMPROVEMENT OF HIS MIND,
and pushing forward the great projects of
his life, and yet though ever busy, he
always found time to engage in every good
work, and no one appealed to him for
assistance in vain. He was my friend,
faithful and just to me, associated with
him for many years, receiving a thousand
kindnesses unasked, and unsought, learn
ed to love his self denying spirit, and his
gentleness and worth. All who came within
the circle of his friendship, felt band of
influence surrounding them, which time
only made the stronger, and which death
can never part.
"None knew him but to love him,
None named him but to praise
Mr.. Medcalfe was a gentleman in the
highest sense of the word, and there was
no kindness or attention shown him, which
he did not acknowledge and appreciate, as
many of the members of the Association
well know. Mr.. Medcalfe had long been
connected with neighboring church and
Sunday school, and the boys of his class,
who were ever interested and instructed by
his teachings, will miss a friend who had
endeared himself to the hearts Of all. Mr.
Medcalfe was true Christian, and had
often told his friends that he had endeav-
ored to live such life that whenever death
came, it would find him prepared to 90.
1t has been said that our deceased friend
was eccentric, and in some respects it was
true; but underneath all his actions, and
ruling all, could be found a manly heart,
quick to defend his friends from every foe,
and yet acting with "Malice toward none
and charity for all" While many of the
young, as we'll as the old, are apt to devote
their attention to those who have already
power, influence and friends, Mr.. Medcalfe
was ever on the alert to show attention to
those who were neglected the most, and
were in need of a comforter and friend
The aged found in him patient listener to
their tales Of by-gone days, the young and
timid were encouraged by his assuring
voice, and the helpless and forlorn in him
were sure to find a friend.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DEATH
and the sad accident that caused it, are so
well known to you, that l will not dwell
upon them; my brother and some other
friends had been in his company until late
the night before, and on the morning of
his death, we were waiting for him to meet
us according to an engagement, when the
sad news of his death, told us he would
never come. The aged pass away from us
and We are sad, but the thought that life's
journey has reached its end, and their tolls
and troubles are over, takes away the pain
of parting, for we know that they rest from
their labors. But when the young, with
every path of life opening it's way before
them, health, surrounded by kind friends
and loving hearts, thus to be suddenly taken
away, for such grief we can find no con-
ISOLATION, except in the heart of our sympa-
thizing Saviour, who has said, 81 am the
resurrection and the life; he that believeth
in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live.' And knowing that our brother be-
lieved His precious word, we feel he is gone
to his just reward, and is now "where the
wicked cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest" The Association has lost a
member whose place it will be hard to fill.
His friends have lost warm hearted COM
panion, and his parents son who lived to
rise up and call them blessed. Kind heart
cd, tender, brave and true, "the love of
companions and the fidelity of friends"
will ever cherish the memory while time
shall last and friendship hold it's place in
the hearts of men. AS we place the flowers
of early Summer on his grave and drop the
parting tear, rising from these fragrant
memories of affection, l see pass away
almost as
QUICKLY AS THE FADING FLOWER,
a short life we'll spent-an example of work
and perseverance in overcoming every OBJ
stacle, that we may all emulate, and
Christian gone to his just reward.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Leech's re-
Walter Leech, VIM. H. Leech, H. c. Ray
mond, Geo. w. Gilby and John De F.
Voorhees, were appointed to draft suitable
resolutions expressing the feeling of the
Association. After short absence the
Committee reported the following which
was unanimously adopted:
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Almighty God,
in the exercise of His allwise and overruling
Providence, to take from among us, and
from his friends and home, Edmondson B.
Medcalfe; and
WHEREAS, We deem it to be melan-
choly pleasure and duty, imposed upon us
by the bonds of friendship and the ties of
humanity, to express the sorrow which the
sudden accidental death of our Brother
Medcalfe at the very threshold of his career
on earth, has aroused within our hearts,
and at the same time tender to his bereaved
parents and friends that sympathy which
we cannot but feel; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That while we bow to the
unalterable, acknowledging the unerring
wisdom of the great Author of our being,
in permitting the translation of our friend
and brother, we are unable to prevent that
grief rising within US, nor can we refrain
from wishing that it might have been other