The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-10-17
REV. TIIOS. GUARD.
The sudden Death Of tho Pastor. and
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The following from the Baltimore An,eri.
can will DO Of interest 10 those who ut.
tended the Sunday School Assembly , at
Mountain Lake Park, last summer, Rev.
Guard being one Of the lecturers, and who
w'as interviewed at length by tho ISrEltl.
dEScEn reporter. The american says:
Sometimes n sudden death Ia 80 tragical
TINT It's infinite patlos seems 10 beggar oil
The wealth OF human speech. Some one
widely known and h0nored and loved,
and worthy in every way offender homage
anu affection, Is abruptly arrested In lila
career by disease or by accident, md
passes nwny from all the abounliiig al,
fractions OF life to join the innumerable
multitude OF ttose whose slumbc,s will
n crcrm0re be broken. II Is needless for as
tosay thatt The unexpected announcement OF
the decease Of the brilliant writer who died
yesterday caused widespread, nay, a uni.
vcrsal, expression ol sorrow and pity
among NIL ranks aud classes OF our people,
lle was so thoroughly n gentleman, go
true to all his convictions so brave in the
utterancG ol all Ills senlimqnts; 80 kecnly
alive, foreigner though he was, to every.
thing noble and grand in our institutions
SO cordially lover Of freedom OF thought
nnd conscience ( so sturdy. 4 latcr Of
eeciesiasticism; 80 responsive at all times
to the great impulses which lii. men Of
all classes aud crceds to the plane OF n
common brotherhood-that the silence
which has stilled bis tongue will be hailed
wherever he WAS known as no ordinary
calamity. q s u ~ 2IyN :
He vas an 1rishmun, and had ali ,hebcst i
qualities Of his race. lie WIS u preacher,
but Of no narrow creed. Ele was an orator,
but he stood always under the Gross, and
not before It. He was n scholar, but his
extraordinary acquisitions were devoted
to the uses Of u genuine piety. lie knew
something and not 4 little OF all philoso.
phies, past and extant, but no cunning Of
human reasoning, no array OF oratorical
fActs, no exploration oiscience, no subtlety
Of metaphysicians. could make him less Il
Christian in heart, or less an honest, out
spoken Christian teacher. y He had read
and 1t is no exaggeration to say, it-almost
every tlingthat invitedhis criticalstudy. lie
bud been student OF institutions, ancient
and modern, and had followed political
evontions from the earliest rudimcnts Of
government to the magnificent systems
which lend their aid 10 the maintenance
and expansion Of Christianity. lie had
studied all philosophers from the early ut.
terances OF pythasolas to the last puhlica.
tons Of his contemporaries. lie loved poe
try and the drama and music and all grand
art with unaffected sincerity and apprecia.
tion, and with his unsurpassed powers as
all. orator he converted all arts aud sciences
and philosophers into hand.maidens Of
the doctrines in which he believed. His
memory was marvellous; no one even
knew him to misquotG text OF Scripture
or 10 give an erroneous date, or n wrong
authority for any citation. His diction WIS
at times exquisitely beautiful; his yocabu.
lary was practically limited only by the
bounds OF our noble English Language,
and his imagination gave him facilities for
generalization and port rai,ure, illustration
and description, in which he had no
snperiors among the great pulpit speakers
Of our time. II heseened 10 be times re.
dundunt, it was because he saw all
the richness of his subject and
lis mnltiform suggestions, and
when he had finished his dis
course, however long, the most critical
We're the first to admit that it had been
harmonious and artistic from beginning to
end. lie had passion, TOO, without which
no man can move the hearts or the intel.
lects OF great audiences. He was not a
man OF italents-he was n genius. He loved
books as few menl love them. And vet, he
WAS us modest, as gentle, rs kindly MS WV
acious, and as genuine 4 gentleman us ever
owned a human heart. At his best he
was one Of the most attractive and elo.
quent Of men; ut worst, he was as
simple and transparent n human be-
ing us ever went from earth through
the gateway OF death. Among the most
memorable sermons he delivered iii .Balti-
more we're one on the Pauline text "Faith
is the evidence Of things not scen," and
another on the beautiful words, "He giye,h
his beloved sleep" Well, his faith has
reached its fruition In the possession Of
the substance OF all things hoped f1r, and
he is sleeping the sleep Of those TO whom
there is nevcrmore q yesterday or u to-
morrow. Ct, 5r', !i}l;iGi55i. p&