Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-21
Rev. w. II. lord, d. D.

seven o'clock last Sunday morning. His
funeral will be ut Bethany Church this
afternoon at three o'clock.
Few words are needed to mark for the
public the close OF powerful life. A man
shall work third of n century, put into
that work big brain and big heart, and
some day one says " he is dead" Ills
fellow men, with too gross sense, accept
the statement and think it true. But to
whom is such man dead? To his Creator
and HIMSELF God forbid; it is just when
we say "he is dead" that the man first
kRoWS, rs his God has known, that there
is for him no death. To his fellows? No;
for his work and influence live and repeat
themselves from life TO life us long us men
stay on the earth.
The work of minister Of the gospel
while one largely of routine, is when well
done that which is most certain to be a
powerful factor in the lives of individuals
and communities, not only of those who
have been the direct objects of that work
but of those 50 far distant in place and
time us never 10 learn the source of in
huences that bear upon them. 1T goes by
common consent that DR.. Lord was the
leading clergyman of his denomination in
this state, and this could not he without
brains, culture, energy and faith. With
these he has worked and with such effect
that it may with truth be said that no cti-
zen of Vermont remains whose impress
upon the life of the state is more marked
than is that of Dr. Lord.
He was a scholar and Il gcntlcman he
had at his command logic and eoQuence,
No man we know could so marshal Eng
lish words and sentences in grand pro-
cession of thought. The Saxon captains
of tens and the classic captains of hundreds
alike responded TO his summons. His ser
mons and his editorials we're alike models
of strong English.
DR.. Lords work in the pulpit and us ed
itor of the Chronicle, together with his ed
itorial labor on the Watchman, did not
bound his activities. He was engaged in
many outside matters, was president of
the Vermont Historical Society, was the
trusted friend of large part of the lead
ing men of the State, and not only in pub
lie but in private eXerted IN influence far
beyond the immediate scene of his usual
labors.
Added to the elements of strength were
those lighter gifts that made him in social
life a delightful companion, and that one
great gift that nature sometimes bcstows,
n great and kind heart. This loving heart
was, we may truly say, broken when
his little daughter, Bessie, was torn from
his hands and carried before his eyes to II
certain and horrible death. Since then lie
has loaded more and more WORK upon
himself in vain attempt to bear down
the memory of that event, and whatever
complications Of disease the physicians
may have discovered in their autopsy, his
death came from the breaking down which
was upon him from that great grief and
his very efforts to outlive it. lie wccom-
ed death for himself now us he fought it
for another on that summer day, for ii
now unites the two whom it was then
parting.
1t does not become the writer of these
lines who had come to know but in small
degree this large man now gone, to at
tempt to measure or record by words the
life work of Dir. Lord. The place of that
record is in the hearts of his people; it is
there he wanted it written and from
thence should it be given to the world.
William Hayes Lord was born in Am
herst, N. H., March II, 1924. In 1926
his father, Nathan Lord, became president
of Dartmouth College, where William II
graduated in 1913. Mr.. Lord then attend.
ed the Theological Seminary at Andovcr
graduating in 1916 but remaining there MS
resident graduate.
He preached his first sermon in Mont
pelier, January l, 1917, and was ordained
and settled over the first Congregational
Church here in September of that year
June LIST 1913 he married Harriet Akin
Mrs. Lord and five children survive him
The youngest of the family, Bessie, wa
killed by being thrown from carriage il
July 1875. DR.. Lord had been sick fo
some two months before his death.
We take from long notice of DR.
Lords death in the st. Adams Messenger
the following:
He belonged to Vermont, to Congrega
tionalism, to the public almost REGARDLESS,
of denomnatonal lines, to letters and tt
history.
As sermonizer, few men in the Unite,
States were his superior. His mind wa!
strong, his intelligence broad, his name
large. Owing to a certain huskness ant
monotone of voice, strangers were not FL
vorably impressed during the first few
minutes of his discourse, but they usual
forgot all about that before he had pro
ceeded far, and were borne unresistingl
upon the stately, majestic current of hi
eloquence and logic.
Thousands outside the immediate circl
of his labor, realized
How large place his presence filed"
And yet it is in Montpelier, where h
lived and loved and labored, in youth an
maturity, in health and sickness; where h
shaped the intellectual mould for nearly
generation; where he had the pityin
tenderness of father for the faults an
misfortunes of the people; where the yer
children learned that underneath the out
ward semblance of his Intellectual dgnit
glowed warmth of affection that the
could always approach in confidence; IN
where he was so much honored and love
that his faults-the few that he ever had
were pardoned, and his msforlunes-
which were most trying and sad-wer
taken up and tempered by an almost un
versal sympathy and benevolence-it is i
Montpelier where his real loss will be fel
and where, even for long time, tn
mourners will "walk about the Streets
The Senate adjourned Saturday. Their
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