Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-18
Charles Miner Gilbert.

ChafkeS MIneE O1IDerts
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 About year and half ago there appeared in these columns an article entitled ''Georgs Edward Gilbert" the opening sentence o1 which was as follows: Of the Gilbert broth CTS, known to several recent generations of students of Yale and pleasantly remembered by multitudes in the city, but scarcely distin guished from each other. by any, one has al ready gone to the life beyond.
 It becomes the sad duty of the same writer to announce the fact that the other has fin. ished his earthly career. His departure took place on the afternoon of the 18th inst. at the house of his father, Rev. W. H. Gilbert now residing in South Norwalk.
 In speaking of Charles it is hardly necessa ry to do more than repeat what was said oi George. Of the same age, manner of life, general characteristics, tastes, pursuits al ways together in boyhood, school and college days the same religious faith the same in disease; the same in courage, patience and Christian resignation the same in sure hope of blessed immortality. "They were pleas. ant and lovely in their lives, and in their death they were but little divided In every worthy characteristic they were par mobile fratrum."
 Mr. Gilbert fitted for college at the Hart ford High school and graduated from Yale in the class of 1878, bearing with him the uni versal respect of classmates and teachers. After teaching for something more than a year he gave himself 10 the study of law, to the practice of which he purposed to devote his life.
 About year ago, fearing lest the insidious disease which had carried his brother to the grave was upon him, he dropped his study and made preparations for tour in Europe, in the hope that change might bring relief His path and the writer's crossed in old Rome It was glad moment to both when they exchanged salutations under the arches of the Colosseum, and happy were the days they spent together among the ruins of the Eternal City,
 But no relief came As the months of summer and autumn passed, it became evi- dent that he was sinking And now the ex- perience of the year before is substantially repeated There is the same patient endur- ance and accomplishing submission on the part of the sufferer the same tender care and trembling soicitude on the part of pa- rents and sisters. Beautiful and sweetly Chris tian were the declining days. He knew whom he trusted, he knew whither he was going and he went calmly and without fear A gradual decline followed bya rapid descent of few days, and Good Friday" became Charlie's Easter Morn"
 And so another of the good and true has gone Such can lilly be spared. The world hath need of them. And the immediate cir cle of friends-the family, ah, how sorely they need theml The Gilbert brothers! how many scattered widely over the world. How many here in the city pleasantly recall them sitting side by side in college, in church; walking together.up and down these streets And how many are sad to know that the places which knew them will know them no more! But they sit together, walk together again. Together they read over the earthly life, and see with perfect vision that ''It was all right, that there was no mistake about it" And ioyfully we leave them thus together, knowing that forevermore with them 'sIt is we'll" H. s. K.