The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-24
DIED.


MEYRR-nn Monday morning. APrl2l 1873,
Al 6k o'clock, wILIRLsKElA, Vile Of A. f.
Meyer, In the ssh year Of her age.
Funeral from the residence Of het husbInd, NO.
22l9 Main street, on Wellesley afternoon at hall
pnt one o'clock. Friends Of the family are In.
yited. Intrrnent at Mount Zion Cemetery.
Al the resljenee Of his sop.In-llw, Rev. D. A.
Cunningham, d. D, lIS3 Chapllne street, on Tues
DAY morning, April IS. 1878. the Rev. JOHN Y.
SINCLAIR, 10 the 18th year Of his age,
The Bey. Mr.. Sinclair IVES born on the Island o.
Three, one Of the Western uebiites group Argyll
sbln, scotlADd, on the 18th Of August, 1890. DC
studied Of the upiTenliles Of EdinburS and GlRs-
gov, 10 the latter Of which be graduated rs . Hpe
scholar, particularly In the elHss!es aid mAthemat:
10. He studied theology under the reytred and
ItuIenis and friends such distinguished men u,
Pollock, the poei; EAdle, the lingnlst, eomlnenta;
tor aud exPHctisi; Bullion, this author Of q school
aRd college series Of classic ] text books In New
York hilte, and othes marked for high attain
meniS 10 the dsld Of science, medicine, liF, Ltters
aud theology.
With hs iamiIy, In 1885, he enigraied to Pieiou,
Hoya scOuIL now 4 part Of the Dominion Of Cana
a, and bteGmaA minister 10 what va then known
a the Presbyterian Church oil Nova Seotii. His
ripe schOlarShip, varied literary and theological
a%ttalnmsnts, itiTent IiSty, and ~nagnstic platform
ana pulpit eloquenre, made him one Of The most
attractive and popular ministers Of bis ehnrrh'
| Wherever he was announced TO prescl be never
failed TO draw the people Ailer hlEiI rs the older
living mstnben Of the churches In Roger Hill.
Middle River, aud Little uArboi In Nova sc:ttA,
AMI the churches OF Albtrton aud West Point 90
we'll remember. De!hlg 10 plIee q son, . eandi-
date for tbs sacred ministry, In Princeton, or ALLIE
| Rheny, he accompanied him TO the United Sutea
10 lSS2 and was ~ pleased with the country AID
It's Institutions thit he determined 70 become .
| l. anl Ia. RaFnaRnl Ri0h kta family IA Nav,
butyport, Mas , where he remllned only for a
short time Very soon he located In Pittsburgh
Pa, connecting hlmielf With the work OF the
American and Foreign Christian Uni IN. Ia which
work among the ioIelsn population Of Pittsburgh
ant Allegheny be was wonderfully successful,
enjoying he eetOem and coGddenceoi the churches
and ministers Of all the evan eleal denominations
| Of those cit Is. In 1873 he rtee'Vet unanimous
calls I ON the Presbyterian Churches Of GAlItLA
and Longstreet, North T~aroliua, which he accept
cd, aud IL,ached 20 those eau eaet with g'eat nc
~cept4hce and suece 9, adding Ia his then growing
old age, amopg bond and free. many u jewel 10 hls
Redee ner's crown. Ills idency rs n Gaelic
hchoAr and preacher -iAde him very attractive 10
thouSands Of his Scottish Highland fsl oH-sountry-
men and their deseendents 10 the old North Stale.
UWing 10 tue sadd-n failure u bis yolce, caused
By oai -lDor pre- lohing TO the Fteedmsr, be csISed
10 1859 from the active work Of the ministry, TAX
ing up bis rraideuce, ~ II suited him, with bis SOC
In-'aw, Rev. Dr.. CUNNINGHAM, aud his son, Tho
Rev. A. slarlIr. Since 1870. he has, fLr the must
pat, made bis home with the former, 1t whose
iesideuce, he died Of typaold pneumonia, yester.
day morning.
10 bis day, Nc Sinclair was On ardent, scholar.
", yet evangelical preacher, an untirins church
worker, al Of executive tact, liberal toNJrds all
who loved Christ, butfaithiul and uncompromit-
Ing In bis Pre- BY terianltm. None more than be
reVerental % thu aged, nJns more winning and
c1mlanionable to The young The little children
loved him, and eTen after he hid lang pl,sod kli
seVcutIeth year, be, the oil inau u white haln
aud snow bIIrd, ffolIcked and gamboled with the
little ones 10 t6eir delight, as II he were one Of
thsins .lVes. lie vas standing type Of a pHSing
generation 81 oil tlne Eeotiemen-mOde,t, yei
wise, courtly 10 mInners, yet hrm 10 principles,
eco Mig the evil, yet Charitable 10 all, u1assunlnE
aud reIlhny, yet digniaId aud easily RppIoseh'
able. lie has for nearly 6fty years served biz
church and his day well. lie has passed quietly
away from the Atriies and deluJlOns q earth, moi
"Ast the galley slaye chained To hlstar,
"But Is one who wIups the drapery Of his couch
around him
"And lie, down to pleasant dreams"