The daily gazette., 1882-07-14
1sNsh
Secretary.
Bishop Levi scott, d. ID.

When man ofsecular life dies, the de-
partment Of commerce, politics, or of the
profession in which he has acted, is affected
almost exclusively by his loss but when a
man whose sacred calling has elevated and
sustained the morality of all occupations
within his range of influence dies, the whole
people may well contribute their sentiments
of sorrowful interest at his de-
parture. Bishop Scott was such
well-rounded character as TO be
the accepted friend and helper of every class
of people and employments on our Penin-
sula. Our statesmen, jurists, educators and
moral reform agitators, eounselled him and
had his hearty cooperation and the
benefit of his wisdom and the
poor had the gospel preached to
them. Ministerial sanctity in him never
tended to priestliness or the hermitage, but
rather sustained in him the statesman's
sentiment, ''Whatever concerns mankind is
''not foreign to me-" His life was not SO
diffusive as TO spend its strength Intellectually,
but by broad, consistent and long sus-
tanned moral pressure upon our people
his image is instr bed and his name will be
cherished on the Peninsula from religious
standpoint, as the name of Clayton is in
moral craftsmanship. In the still wider
field of his work as Bishop over the whole
Methodist Episcopal Church for 30 years, his
personal influence was no small factor in the
clurch's growth to more than double its
numbers IN that time. Our Peninsular
history is very rich in its product of great
men, especially of ministers for Methodism,
who have held and do now hold first rank
in the denomination, Many of these have
been but fully hedged when they have flown
and their fruits fall for others than our
selves to gather.
This may hardly be wondered at, since tn
Apostles furnish theprecedent for traversine
all seas and lands with the Gospel message
Itineracy in Methodism seeks to succeed tn
Apostles in this method and "sows besid
call waters its men as well as its message
Bishop Scott, as the Senior Bishop fn
many years, was the chief moto
in this truly great, distributiye system
this wheel OF destiny for more than thirtee
thousand ministers with their wives al
children. 1t seems almost phenomenal tn
lle oilohlh nave hic'l NntIt lit VAC bbIll,N
had by his authority sent so many men
the ends of the earth. But that
was Gods minister sent to do this work,
about as clear from an analysis of the ever
of his life, as that Joseph was ''raised nj
TO an Egyptian puTeyorship for the ul
mate rescue and maintenance of his father
family in which Providence designed grt
blessing to the church and the race.
His lack Of educational oppertunit
proved no barrier to the innate energy of
intellect. He pursued study for the love
it, and hence its hardships did not embit
his spirit, and the gentleness of his charact
which prophesied his greatness, was neN
rutiied lie attempted to give himself
several secular occupations, but by heal
and other hinderances, his purpose W
batiied and he was kept to fulfill even
earliest convictions and promises, to be
minister for the masses.
His dust, as the memory of his life, is
sacred treasure to us, and will hold
aftectionate thought of thousands Of Oh
tian people clustered about the place of
deposit