The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-24
OBITUARY.
Mr.. HEREFORD

DIED-At the residence of his son-in-
law, Rev. ID. A. CUNNINsHAM, d. Dr. Ildj
Chapline street, on Tuesday morning
2Srd inst, the Rev. JOHN c. SINCLAIR in
the 18th year of his age.
Rev. Mr.. Sinclair was born in the
Island of Three, one of the Western
Hebrides group, Argylshire, Scotland, on
the 18th Of August, 1900 He studied at
the Universities OF Edinburg and Glas-
gov, in the latter OF which he graduated
as ripe scholar, particularly in the
classics and mathematics. He studied
theology under the revered and lsmented
Rev. John Dick, u. D., and had for fell
low students and friends such distinguish
ed men as Pollock the poet, EadIe the
huguist, commentator and exegetlst,
Bullion, the author of school and college
series of classical text books IN New
York State, and others, marked for high
attainments in the fields Of science,
medicine, letters and theology. With
his family in 1888, he emigrated to PIC
ton, Nova Scotia, now part OF the
Dominion of Casada, and became a min
lister in what was then known as the
Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia.
His ripe scholarship, varied literary
and =. theological attsinments, fer
vent pIety and magnetic platform
and pulpit eloquence, made him
one of the most attractive and popular
ministers of his church. Wherever he
was announced topreach, he never failed
TO draw the people alter him, as the
older living members of the churches in
Rogers Hill, Middle River, and Little
Harbor in Nova Scotia, and the churches
of Albertou and West Point IN Prince
Edward Island do we'll remember De-
string to place son, candidate for the
sacred ministry, in Princeton or Ale
gheny, he accompanied him to the
United States in 1852, and was so pleased
with tie country and its institutions that
he determined TO become citizen, and
he removed with his family TO Newbury-
pert, Mass, where he remained only for
short time. Very soon he located in
Pittsburgh, Pa, connecting himself with
the work OF the American and Foreign
Christian Union, in which work among
the foreign population of Pittsburgh and
Allegheny he WAS wonderfully success
tai, enjoying the esteem and confidence
OF the churches and ministers of al the
evangelical denominations of those cities.
In 1853 he received unanimous calls
from the Presbyterian Churches OF Gal
alta and Longstreet, n. g., which he &C
cepted, and preached in those churches
with great acceptance and success, adding
in his then growing old age, among bond
and tree. many jewel to his Redeemer's
crown. His huency as G@ilc scholar
and preacher made him very attractive
to thousands of his Scottish Highland
fellow Countrymen and their descendants
in the old North State. Owing to the
sudden failure o! his voice, caused by
outdoor preaching to the Freedmen, be
ceased from the active work OF the minis
try in 1869, taking up his residence, as 1t
suited him, with his son.in-law, Rev.
DR.. Cunningham, and his 500, the
Rev. A. Sinclair. Since 1870 he has for
the most part made his home with the
former. at whose residence ne died OF
typhoid pneumonia yesterday morning.
In his day, Mr.. Sinclair wsa an ardent,
scholarly, yet popular Evangelical
preacher, an untlrlng church worker, tull
of executive tact, liberal towards all who
loved Christ, but faithful and uncompro.
missing in his Presbyterianism. None
more than be reverentisl TO the aged,
none more winning and compsnionsbie
to the young. The little children loved
him, and even after he had long
passed his seventhleth year, he, the old
man OF grey hairs and white beard,
frolcked and gambo.ed with the little
ones, TO their delight as il he were one Of
themselves. He was standing type of
passing generation of old time gentle
men, modest yet wise, courtly in man.
ners, yet firm in principles, scorniDg the
vile, yet charitable TO ali, unsssuming and
retiring yet dignitied and easily ap-
proscha5le. He has for nearly fifty years
served bis Church and his day well. He
has passed quietly away from the strItes
and decisions OF earth, not
GAS the galley slave scourged to his oar"
"But as one VINO wraps the drapery OF his
couch around him,
Ana lies down 10 pleasant dreams"
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