The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-10-18
The Stuart Robinson Invalid
Endowment Fund.

In the last will and testament of the
late Stuart Robinson, D. D., of Louis
vile, KY, the following clause is found ::
In case l shall not have contributed before
my decease $25, 900 toward establishing an In
valid Endowment Fund for the Southern Pres
bYterian Church. then 1 give and beoueath to
the Trustees of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States
(known as the Southern Church. the sum of
twentyfy thousand dollars, the income of
which is to be expended by the Assembly's
Agency for the relief of invalid ministers and
shall be paid IF deceased ministers. But this
raj Assembly or s, "a condition that the Gene
and organize an effort to increase this endoW-
ment to the amount of one hundred thousand
dollars"
In accepting this generous bequest, the
General Assembly took the following &C.
ton:
Touching the large bequest left by the late
Dl. Stuart Robinson for this particular fund on
condition that the General Assembly shall en-
courage and organize an effort to increase the
amount to one hundred thousand dollars. it is
recommended that the General Assembly crate
fully accept this large donation on the condition
specified, and that the Executive Committee at
Baltimore be directed to take such stems as in
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fund to the specified amount and that the fund
be called The Stuart Robinson Invalid En-
dowment Fund"
These extracts sufficiently explain the
benevolent intention of the testator and
the wishes of the General Assembly. in
turtherance Of which the Executive Com
mittee of Home Missions begs to make
the following statement:
Perhaps no man within the bounds of
our Church, during the last quarter of a
century, has had larger knowledge oil,
and truer sympathy with, the peculiar
trials Of our ministers, or has been able
to do more for their relief than DR..
Robinson. His heart was always touched
by their distresses, and many were
blessed by his personal liberality and eff
tort, 1t was but natural then, that in
the latter days of his life and in full
view of death, his generous mind should
turn with solicitude towards brethren of
whose burdens he was aware, and that
his gratitude to God for the providential
blessings bestowed upon himself and his !
household, should find expression in an
effort to make permanent provision for
their relief. Had his life been spared. it |
was his expressed purpose to donate
go 900 to the last General Assembly, |
and to ask their authority to spend the
evening Of his days in raising $4,000 in
in order to secure the full
amount deemed necessary to accomplish
The object he had in view. This coveted !
service has been denied him, but it has
been left as a sacred trust to the Church !
be loved and for which he lived.
The object in view in the establish
nent Of this fund is to supplement the
Annual Collection for this purpose and
.hus secure an amount sufficient to give
adequate relief to those for whose benefit
t IS intended. 1t is known to those &C.
Iuainted with the life Of our ministers
shat most Of them are able to make no
provision for their declining years, or for
he support and education Of their fami- |
les after their decease; and it has been
, matter Of much concern that so many |
aithful brethren who have spent their |
manly vigor in the service Of the Church |
should be consigned to an old age Of de-
oendence and be pressed with anxiety
about the support Of their loved ones
'tter their departure. There are few