The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-10-12
DIR. STUART ROBINSON

menV ol Cne ueatn or REV. DIR. STUART
ROBINSON. Anything that we could say
would carry no news to them of the great
loss which the Church has suffered. In
Louisville especially, and in Kentucky,
the loss will be felt; but that is but
small part of the story, for he was tower
of strength to the whole Presbyterian
connection in the West and South, and
IN fact in the whole country Cut down
too In the very ripeness of his power
Gods will be donel "Not by might,
nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith
the LORD of hosts" He is able to raise
up another that shall carry the standard
which has fallen from the hands of the
dead soldier.
DR.. Robinson died at his home, on
Fourth street, in Louisville, on the morn
ing of the 9Th instant, at o'clock. His
health, as is well known, had been very
precarious for over a year. Last spring
he gave up his pastoral work, and he
passed portion of the summer at At
lantic City, whittier he went in search of
relief from his sickness. He returned to
Louisville about the first of the present
month, since which time he has been
gradually sinking.
He was native of Ireland, having
been born in the county of Tyrone in the
north of Ireland about the year 1914.
His parents emigrated to this country
when he was yet boy, and settled nea,
Martinsburg, in what was then a part
of Virginia. Subsequently the family
removed to Charleston, Kanawha coun-
ty, West Virginia (then Virginia), where,
still youth, he attracted the attention
of the Rev. James M. Brown, D. D., at
that time pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Charleston DR.. Brown sent
him to school, and he subsequently
taught school at the Salt-Works near
Charleston, after which he went to Am
herst College, Mass. We think he also
spent some time at Jefferson College in
Western Pennsylvania. At Amherst he
had among his classmates the Rev. DR..
3. P. Humphrey, of Louisville, DIR.
Palmer, of N. Orleans, Governor Bullock
of Kentucky, and Henry Ward Beecher.
He married Miss Mary Brigham, daugh-
ter of William Brigham Esq, an Eng
lishman, a gentleman of wealth at the
Salt-Works. His first ministry was in
Greenbrier Presbytery at or near Kan
awha Salines, whence he was called in
1916 to Frankfort, Ky. In 1854 he was
called to the Central church, Baltimore,
where he remained till 1856. At this
time he was called to the professorship
OF church government and pastoral theo-
logy at Danville Seminary in Kentucky,
where he remained two years, when he
resigned in 1858, to accept call to the
Second Presbyterian church of Louis
vile, which position he filled until com.
PEELED, as stated, to resign it last spring.
DIR. Robinson was almost as active with
his pen and on the platform as in the
pulpit. During his pastorate in Balti-
more he was one Of the editors of the
PreSbyter'ol critic, and published a vol
ume entitled "The Church of God as an
Essential Element Of the Gospel, and the
Idea, Structure, and Functions Thereof, 4"
which went through second edition.
When the war broke out he commenced
the publication in Louisville of THE True
Presbyterian, which, however, gave Of
fence to the military authorities and was
suppressed during the next year. He af-
forwards resumed its publication, but the
office was again closed by the military in
1864. In the meantime, having been ar
rested, he left Louisville, and went to
Toronto, Canada, where he remained un-
til 1866. His fame as apulpit orator had
preceded him to Toronto, and when he
reached that city, he found there a few
hundred Americans, mostly Southern fu-
gitives, who rented small hall, in which
he delivered lectures every Sunday night.
He soon attracted, says the Courie7-Jour-
nal, the attention Of the Canadians, and