The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-20
Rev. William n. Lord. d. d.

Rev. William H. Lord, D. D.
A great man has fallen. An honored
and esteemed citizen of Vermont has pass
ed away. A useful christian life has end
ed. Rev. William II. Lord, d. D., died
at his residence In Montpelier, on Sabbath
morning, at halt past seven o'clock, after
a severe illness of several months, at the
age of SO. He was the eldest son of Rev.
Nathan Lord, d. D., the long time Presi-
dent of Dartmouth college. He graduated
at Dartmouth college in the Glars of 1913.
he was ordained to tho ministry and in
stalled pastor of Bethany church, Montpe.
lier, September 81, 1s47, at the age of "a
years. This relation ho has maintained
for period of 30 years, resisting all ap-
peals and invitations to large and more in
vitiDg fields of labor. He believed God
had called him to work IN that particular
vineyard. he loved Montpelier and her
pcople-he loved Vermont and all its in
terests and here he resolved to labor and
| die.
Dr. Lord was among tho profoundest
| thinkers, best sermonizers, eloquent epeak-
ers and ablest writer's in New En- gland. A
| mau of great earnestness, he was power
In the Congregational church. Strong in
mind, of ready intelligence aud broad in
culture, he had few superiors in the pulpit.
| His work has been great in many direc-
tions, and while his people loved him, the
state honored him for his labors in varied
fields, for the upbuilding ard promotion
of everything that tended to aid the CON-
monwealth of his adoption.
On the death Of Geo. F. Houghton, esq.,,
he was elected president of the Vermont
historical society, a field of labor in which
he took special delight, and many frag-
ment of our history that otherwise would
have been lost he has gathered in and
placed on permanent record. No son of
our own state has paid a more eloquent or
glorious tribute to her history or people
than Ia contained in his address delivered
before the historical society some years
since, and which has been repeated In lee
ture courses in different sections of the
state. With Pliny II. White, Hiland Hall.
George F. Houghton, e. P. Walton, A. d
Hager, L. i. butcher, II. d. II ,pkins and
| others has he labored earnestly and faith
fully to bring to light and preserve
| our unwrilten history. On his voluntary
retirement from the presidency, at the last
annual meeting, life-like portrait of him
was presented 10 the society, and as the
citizsns of Vermont shall gather at the
capitol in future years, none of the por-
traits OF the distinguished men Of our state
will be looked upon with more interest,
reverence md affection than that OF DIR.
Lord. TO many other fields of public Ia
Dor which bear the impress OF his master
hand, we might point with pride, but the
limits of this Article forbids further elabora-
| ton.
There are hundreds, among the leading
men of Vermont, who in his death will feel
the sense Of a personal loss. He was the
associate of the public men of the state,
and was frequently the trusted and chosen
counsellor in many important matters per-
tanning to legislative affairs. The church,
Montpelier, the state and society loses one
of its brightest ornaments aud gifted clti-
zens, whose place cannot be easily filled.
| He leaves a widow and five children,
three daughters and two sons. We cannot
better complete this article than by making
extracts from just and graceful tribute
to DR.. Lord from the pen of Col. Albert
Clarke of the st. Adams Messenger, which
appeared in that journal on Monday even
ing
He belonged to Vermont, to Congrega-
tioDalism, 10 the public almost regardless
of denominational lines, to letters and 10
history.
AS sermopiz.r, few men in the United
States were his superior. His mind was
strong, his intelligence broad. his manner
large. Owing TO a certain huskiness and
monotone OF voice, strangers were not ia.
vorably impressed during the first few min
utes of his discourse, but they usually for
got all about that before be had proceeded
TAR, and we borne INCREASINGLY upon the
stately, majestic current of his elequence
and logic.
Thousands, outside the immediate circle
of bis labor, realized
'How large place his presence 1lled."
And yet it is in Montpelier, where he lived
and loved and labored, in youth aud ms
turiiy, in health and sickness where he
chapel the intellectual mould for nearly 6
generation; where he had the plying
|, tenderness of father for the faults
and misfortunes of the people where
the very children learned that under
: meath the outward semblance OF his in
; tel ectual dignity glowed a warmth O
} affection that they could always approach
in confidence; aud whtre he was so much
nonored and loved that his fsults-the few
that he ever had-were pardoDed, and hi
S misfortunes-whichw were most trying anC
sat-were taken up and tempered by Al
almost universal sympathy and benevo
leDce-it is In Montpelier where his rea
oss will be felt and where, even for lonl
I time, the mourners will "walk about tn
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