The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-06
REV. FIELDING f. PAGAN,

There is q strange, but almost universa
desire in the human heart to he remembered
By future generations, and TO live in the
memory Of posterity long after we shall have
ceased to be susceptible to its praise or CEN
sure. While he had no more of the love o.
about him than any other man
ought to have, yet perhaps no man PLACED q
higher estimate upon the good opinion Of
these whose friendship he valued than did
the ReY. f.. +. Pagan, late of the Tennessee
Conference. So very assiduously did he no
tiee everything said and done by his friends
that many oonsidered him morhidly inquisi-
tive. Perhaps be was sensitive, but no man
with so highly an organized nervous system
as his could be otherwise than sensitive; and
this made him highly appiecAtive No man
was more sineere IN his attachments; his
was not the hand to clasp the hand of friend
in insiDcerity; though he was never demon
strative, but rather the converse, He was
one of those peculiar temperaments capable
at times of being wrought TO q very high do.
gree of tension, and at other times he lapsed
IN 10 9 state bordering upon melancholy, and
Mt such times his feelings SO oompletely con-
trolled HE actioua that many Of his friends
misconstrued his intentions and thought him
indifferent and even cold. During the last
year of his life he was often afflicted with
spells Of gloom aud sadness and often said
Il will not live ayear." Thought II was
sort Of mental hallucination at the timo
Dub WHO Chu say 4OH buhb IL rs not q Ehl0L-
cd mother who had been appointed as
guardian angel TO watch the meandenngs Of
her own commissioned boy ever since she
babe him farewell on earth who communities
ted to him that in one short year more she
would DO present and conduct him TO that
high home where farewella are not brekthed
againl In writing this little tribute Of re-
spect We must be permitted TO disclaim anJ
intention at eulogizing his ministerial charac
ter OF his intellectual endowment. Otherl
more competent than myself have done that
But in view of some facts we viii mention We
have felt it due him that some one Of thu
church (Trinity, } and of this neiRhborbood
should put upon record some little memenfC
commemorative Of their kind remembrance
ee5aaps sss qntx heyssIEPs s1 sR &c os
could perform the work with more cheerful
ness.
Fifteen years ago Rev. Z. L. Pagan, the
father Of Fielding, was the preacher Ia
charge at Trinity. He remained here during
the time that tried mems souls. he was
my personal friend, he did me many kind
nesses and favors which he perhaps has fof
gotten, but whatever faults / may have
ingratitude is not among them, and II over we
cease 20 be grateful for a kindness. may the
sun refuse us light, tho earth living and
heaven q home. Yielding grew up 70 DO a
man IN this neighborhood. He went into
the array with the boys Of this neighborhood.
He returned, and his father sent him of to
college; but his health failed and be had 70
leave; he returned and was licensed 10 preach
NJ TBinity; he married in this neighborhood,
and sftsr being away for several years he
WAS sent 70 Trinity A. its pastor, WHORE he
spent the last two years Of his life. The
writer was his family physician aud attended
him in long aud painful illness, and also
his wife and child, and Il would be strange
If he bad not been attached 70 him. Well
do we remember the last sermon be preached
at Trinity, whom he said he felt like he was
leaving home, and his feelings suppressed
his words and he failed. donot know ow
be died but We know how be lived. He feared
God and loved bis father and mother. With
two such qualifications how could boy fail.
To his father allow us 70 nAy, though You
have lost . dutiful son, yet there Il one TIE
less now 70 bind you 20 this ain stricken
and God forgetting world, and one strand
more added 70 tho cord that draws you
heayeuward. To hissorowIng wife
.Judge not God BY feeble sense,
But trust him tor his grace,
Behind 8 frowning providence,
He hides 9 smiling face"
To his little girls, remember the lesson 20
often inculcatod By your father upon others:
Remember thy Crestor 10 tho days Of thy
youth
However bright, however drear.
May be LIES coming, changefal weather,
The friends Of youth win stiii be dear;
And dear the hours We spent together,
Farewell, Fielding. We meet 90 more,
AZ We met IN days Of yoro,
And cherished hops that once we're mine,
Alas! now sadly resign.
Thy song is hushed, thy mnsic's Town,
And We are leh The past 70 mourn,
THos. D. DAvK,FFonT, n. ID.
yALE MLEs, May 18th, is7s.
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