The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-03
BROOKLYN LETTER.

guisneu WAN ffOstrateu Oy VScf-
work, Rev. DIR. Eggleston.
Special Correspondence of the STAR
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Eov. 80.
Fifteen hundred persons seated in pro-
found silence, a pulpit draped in mourn
ing, and over and above all music soft
and low issuing from an organ-loft-such
was the scene from which | have just
come. Yesterday Rev. DR.. William Ives
Burlington breathed his last at the age of
sixty-fve; to-day his peop'e met to find
him gone, and the chair beside the COM
munion table 50 long occupied by him,
occupied for well nigh quarter of a
century, vacant, and proclaiming in the
mute eloquence of sable the loss that had
been sustained. When l wrote you a
week ago I had a mind to referto the ILL
ness of DR.. Burlington, but the press of
other matter occupied all my space, and
l deferred alluding to the subject until
some time in the near future, believing
that in the nature of things he would
last some weeks longer. But yesterday
Death laid his chill fingers on the vet
eran's heart, and claimed for his own the
body that for over two years had defed
his attacks.
Dr. Budington's malady was that dis
ease that has so often batfled medical and
surgical skill, and so long defied scien-
tifc inquiry-cancer. Two years ago it
appeared in tiny spot on the lower lip,
and it was spot that the able surgeon,
dear friend and devoted parishioner, DR..
Joseph c. Hutchison, well understood
the character of, and he proceeded to
treat it with all the skill that his long
experience and deep study gave him.
For a time it seemed as though the
operation was successful, but eight
months later it had to be reperformed,
such eminent surgeons as Dr. Willard
Parkes and DR.. Sands associating or ad-
vising. Then seemingly cured, the pa
tient went abroad, but in England was a
third time attacked. Two of England s
greatest surgeons Kilbery Fox and
Sir james Paget-operated upon him,
seemingly successfully, and with renewed
hope he set sail for home. He arrived
here in October, 1878, but the very next
month had, for third time, to apply to
DR.. Hutchison for relief, the cancer
having by this time worked down into
the chin. 1t is needless to say that this
fourth operation, though performed with
eminent ability, failed to eradicate the
terrible disease, and further cutting being
;, decided out of the question, the sufferer
tried first DR.. Hueson's earth cure
at Philadelphia, and then DR.
Thornton's constitutional treatment al
, Boston. His friends speak of surgeon,
and physicians with the greatest respect
as indeed one and all helped him fgh,
against death though seemingly unable
!, to avert the final result; indeed one
friend speaks especially of Dr. Thornton's
treatment in the highest terms, and
thinks if the patients vitality had been
greater, the chances of cure would have
been not small. But the patient was ad
! vanced in years, and the probability il
that more tissue was involved than coulC
be overcome either with knife or medi
cine, and the result was that yesterday
less than two months after his return
from Boston, he peacefully breathed ou
his spirit in the midst of the weeping
members of his household just before thu
sun reached its meridian splendor. 1t i
said that his pain had been SO intens'
: that he had looked forward to the fna
j.. j.. physical stru sgle with considerable trepi
dation, though his breast was the seat o
= spiritual calmness, sense of heavenl,
t. peace that found expression in "Thy Will
Be Done" But thanks TO sci nee h
= passed away without consciousness Of sui
. . fering.
y y DR.. Burlington was not great man il
!, the sense of being distinguished orator
!, a famous litterateur, or renowned
: theologian; indeed / doubt whether hi
- name would have travelled on the roll o
:, fame far beyond the precincts of thi
!, city had it not been associated with TIN
. . calling of the great Ecclesiastical Counci
u that considered the polity of plymouth
? Church in dropping Theodore Tiltol
i from its membership. He had the credi
:. IL also of eyeing Plymouth askanse durin,
e the great scandal trial; but, as remarked
!, one Of his most intimate acquaintance
! yesterday, "Dr. Budington's opposition
= : 10 Plymouth Church was entirely Oh th
y y question of ecclesiastical discipline.
know that before those troubles arose h
had strong admiration and affection
for Mr.. Beecher. and on any Of the pei
- sonal issues that arose / never heard hin
;, express himself one way or the other.
But if he was not great preacher il
:. the sense that man like Rev. Henr
: Ward Beecher is, or Rev. Dr. R. S. Storr'
! he was a man who knew how to bull
- up a church, to win the affections of hi
!, people and to utter sound doctrine, an
n such was the love his congregation Dor
him that for months they refused t
accept his resignation, and finally onl
h accepted it by inducing him to accept j
v turn the position Of pastor emeritus, o