The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-04-06

be was as ready to take as TO give.
His critical mind sometimes eX-
posed him to repartee.
Halfa-dozen ministers were sit
ting on the piazza of Congress
Hall at Saratoga; DR.. Parks, of
West Point, continually addressed
him as DR.. Plu-mer. At length
the DR.. turned upon him and
said:
"Dr. Park, my name is Plum.er,
not Plu-mer."
"Thauk you,' said the other,
tiny name is Parks, not Park" DR..
Plumer enjoyed this as much as
we all did, and not long afterward
he picked me up for remark in
which | had made the sentence so
involved, that the relation of the
latter part to its proper antece-
dent was obscure and perhaps lu.
| dicrous. / forget what it was,
but | said: sit reminds me of
| DR.. Plumer's first sentence in a
sermon, when be said: i once
made a journey of a hundred
miles to see my aged mother on
horseback ~
He was orc of the ablest de-
baters Of the age. His power in
the General Assembly was i'm
mensc. On the. platform or at
the bar, if be had been io civil
life, no orator or statesman Of the
day would have surpassed him.
When be was settled in Rich
mond, Va, legal question in re-
gard to taxation Of ministers came
up, and the clergy appointed DIR.
Plumer to represent them in re-
sistance to the proposed measure.
The bar Of the State was arraycd
against him. The gentleman who
related the result to me said !:
HE beat them all, and was wrong
BESIDES"
He probably never did better
work, and he said so himself
when dying, than in the mighty
meeting in Philadelphia, when he
stood up and answered Mr..
Moody's questions in regard to
the plan of salvation. The ques-
tions and answers were reported
in thousands of newspapers, and
were then made into a tract of
universal circulation. DR.. Plum
mer was as full Of the Holy
Spirit in giving those answers as
the divines of the Westminster
Assembly when they answered,
"Wbat is God?"
Yet he was a man Of sorrows.
All great natures are disciplined
by trials, and it may be that such
men need far greater burdens
than others TO make them feel the
weight. Probably the two great.
est Of these were his separations
from the two Seminaries which he
served with vast ability and use,
fulness. When be was constrained
to retire from Allegheny, the
pressure nearly broke his heart.
He came TO New York and
poured the grief of his soul into
mine. l asked him to ride out
with me, and strove TO divert him
by pleasant talk and the sight of
pleasing things. As we were re-
= turning at the edge Of evening,
when I thought be was less dis
turbed, be bowed his head on my
r shoulder and wept sore, saying
81 am in anguish Of spirit: ii
seems as though were forsaken
of God and man." TO me there
was something awful in the sad
ness and dependency Of such g
man. So it pleased God to brulse
him. Then grace triumphed, and
the saint was made illustrious over
the suffering man. Greater use
fulness remained for him, and he
, went away TO his newly-openec
field, a willing worker anywhere
bringing sons unto glory, like the
Captain whom he followed, made
, perfect through suffering.
: He brought forth fruit, "e'er
, down to old age" A son Of thun
, der and a son Of consolation
blended, with a voice like th'
voice Of many waters when ht
shouted, and soft as any lutte il
it's lower tones, bis natural force
! was not abated under the weigh
4 of eighty years. Children and pa
rents hung on his lips as if on'
2 were speaking who had risen from
Q the dead. This is one Of the ole
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