The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-04
Death of Rev. w. S. Plumer, ID. d

The name of DIR. Plumer has been
familiar to us all our life long. We eau
net .eca!! . :;Iio when NC WtTo nut hc-
quainted with it. When we were not ten
years Of age We heard much talk of
sermon which he had preached at or near
Hampden-S Sidney College, frors the text,
"On that day shall there be upon the
bells of the horses, holiness unto the
Lord" For many. years past We have
seen him at intervals. We saw his ven
cradle form in the Democratic National
Convention of 1868, whoge daily sessions
he twice opened with prayer. He pre-.
sented the same striking appearance then
which n few years later caused Chicago
journal to compare him to Moses coming
down the Mount. We have heard him
preach several times since the close of
tue late war between the States-once,
we think, within the, last year. At all
times, and in all places, and under all
circumstances, he looked TO be tho great
man that he was.
DR.. Plumer was most distinguished
theologian. Yet he was of o tempera-
ment naturally belligerent. and rather
sought than avoided cnntroTesy. He
was match for great lawyers when the
subject to be discussed was in their line,
rs he was for the ablest doctors of divin-
ity when the subject to be discussed was
in their line. He was master of logic.
He was skilled in dialectics. Some of
ais great successes 10 controversy was un-
doubtedly owing to his fine personal ap.
pearance; but of course not much of it,
else Paul had not been q formidable an
Itagonist. DR.. Plumer's. very voice Was q
fortune in debate His powerful blows
came down with. a steady, deliberate req
ularity that was terrible to the man who
had dared to encounter him. He ap-
peared, too, to be the king of the council
as truly rs the lion looks to be the king
| of the forest.
Among the Presbyterian diyines of
Virginia Dr. Plumer was, we suppose,
.fdciie princeps-tbat is, of course, some
thirty CT forty years ago, when he had
been living in the State all his life We
think no one will doubt that it was by his
efforts and influence that the Virginia
| Presbyterians we're anchored in the Old
School denomination when that church
was some forty years ago severed into the
New School and Old School divisions.
The denominational organ; here sided
with the New School but DR.. Plumer
atr once began. the publication OF the
Watchinan of the South, and soon had
almost the whole Presbyterian denomina.
ton in Virginia Mt his back. Happily
: there is no longer any division in thai
church in Virginia; and even those who
were engaged in the contests of that day
of whom there can be but few Left on this
i side of the dark river. must be ready and
willing to confess that DR.. Plumer had
| no foenlan who could stand before him
however worthy of his steel many of his
opponents might have been.,
Though Pennsylvanian by birth. DR.
Plumer was Virginian and q Southern
er in every fibre of his composition
Ever he title nf HE religious weekly
Wdtchman Of the ,Souih-showed how
ready he always was to rush TO the de-
fense of the people whom he loved ana
as he was incapable of hiding his .p.,iu
dices or cnncanlino hia avmnnfhies he nf
doubt offendeda good many of his North
erh brethren. We believe that before
the war, during its continuance. and aftel
its close, he was always and dverywher,
an av v,wed Democrat. But nobody evei
doubted his sincerity, and nobody in thil
city tina. no know OF ever became offend
ed with him on account of his party pre-
dilections
This rambling notice is, we fear, un
worthy OF its subject. It 10 not intended
to be anything elao than sketch hur
riedly pennedI Iof what DR.. Plumer ap
peared to be to ono person-the write
hereof Our admiration of him was, w
may say, handed down to us. We in
herlted it. And we could not but say Il
few words whsn shis Prince of Preacher
went down to the grave. - Richmond Dis
/ NIL