The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-06-17

| ried for an hour with one who had been eX
PEELED from our Society. l preached one,
more at North East; Bishop Mcliendre'
eXhorted.''
In 1910 Cecil county again appears in til,
minutes, with Thomas Smith and George
SChuts as preachers and James Smith a.
Presiding Elder. Mr.. Thomas Smith was
| born in Kent county, Md, in 1916: was
awakened to a sense of his lost condition
by the graphic description of Heaven and
| He'll given by a schoolmate, and was hap
PLY converted when but nine years old
| When eighteen he felt that he was called tt
preach the gospel, and soon began to call
sinners to repentance. Relin0uishing very
tiattering business prospects, he entered the
itinerant work in 1893 He died in Ches-
tertown, Md, in May, 1914. His end was
exceedingly peaceful. He requested that
there should be no sermon preached on the
occasion of his funeral, but that as his bretl-
rem and friends bore his body to the tomb
they should sing the hymn beginning
Children of the heavenly King,
AS we journey let us sing"
He was inferred beneath the pulpit in the
NJ. f. Church, Chestertown, Md. He was Il
man of unqueStioned piety, of great urban
lty, Il superior pastor, an acceptable and
useful preacher. His sermons were short
and tervent He refers to his assistant, Mr.
otHulS. DIS IL IleiSitul ColIti,ue anu uSc-
full i'll the Lords vineyard
In lSll-l2, the preachers We're lanes Ak
ems and William Torbert. Mr.. Aikens had
cmigrated from Ireland in 1892, and was
converted eight years later and died of can
Ger in 1923. Mr. Torbert was born in Cam
den. Del, in 1919, was converted at twenty
seven, and entered the itnerant field four
years later, Cecil Circuit being his .econd
appointment. For thirty one years he was
t,;t AL II
Ter Of the gospel: every unaSsuming, amia-
BILE, cheerful, and devout." SO often would
he retire for private prayer that friend
declared, 'she believed Mr.. Torbert was
almost always on his knees" He died in
holy triumph III GreenShurg, Md, June 3,
1871. In his will he gave legacy of 5000
to the Missionary Society of the NJ. f.
Church. He married Martha, a daughter
of Tobias Rudolph, Esq, the gentleman to
whom Bishop ASbury refers in his journal
as follows: " Wednesday, May s, 1897, many
attended 1T Elkton. We (Asbury and Coke
were received by the Rudolph family with
great respect Mr.. Torhert's widow sur
vived him about ten years and followed his
example i'll bequeathing part of her prop
erty to the church. The valuable dwelling
and lot on North street in Elkton now occr-
pied by Jos. $. Terrell, was left by her as q
home for the preachers who should be ap-
pointed pastors of the NJ. f. Church in Elk
ton. OF Mr. Torbert's children, one son
was long an acceptable local preacher, an
other for about fifty years a faithful Sunday
school superintendent one of his daughters
became the wife of Rev. Henry +. Hurn, of
the Philadelphia Conference, and another
the wife of Francis A. Ellis, Esq, a highly
respected local preacher and lawyer in Elk
ton. Seven years later Mr. Torhert spent
two years ON Cecil Circuit Us preacher in
charge. In lSl2, Mr.. Aikens was returned,
with Thomas Miller us his assistant and
John McCloskey as Presiding Elder. Mr..
McCloSkey was born i'll lS56, III Ire
land. His parents We're mem berS of the
church Of England. He was converted in
1852, and five Years after Joined the Phila-
delphia Conference. He was a christian of
=" deep religious experience and mighty in
the scriptures He died in eXulting
triumph, in Charlestown, Md. Sept. ,, 1911,
during the third year of his Presiding Elder
ship.
In 1872, James Moore was appointed and
Thomas Miller returned. MI Moore had
been on Cecil circuit from Oct. 90 to Oct.
% as Junior preacher, with Isaac Robinson
He was born in Ireland in 1860 and came to
this country when twenty-Six years old
He joined the conference in 1874, and rend-
cred efficient service for thirty-iiv years.
ON his way to America his wife died and
was buried at sea. lie never remarked, but
devoted himself entirely to the work of the
ministry. His early opportunities tor meat-
al culture We're few; but though not a man
of learning, he was a Iuau of power and
many thousands We're brought 10 an exper.
mental know edge of the truth as it is in
Jesus, by his ministry. His piety was deep,
constant and uniform. His habits metho-
dical he would rise at four in the morn
ing, recltlng passages of scripture and sing,
ing songs of praise. He was pra.npt and
punctual III all his engagements, never
missed 4 camp for IUrty-eight years. His
public addresses We're conversations rather
than formal sermons and always moved his
hearers. He WAS Il great singer and would
almost invariably descend the pulpit steps
after the sermon, singing one al his favor
lite songs. He was mighty in prayer and
tervent i'll spirit. Gu arriving ut a stopping
place, after the usual SalutaIions he would
ask leave 10 retire to his room, where he
might be heard pouring out his soul ia God
i'll supplication for the family, so fully
was this understood by Us children" (says
one, then y child) thai we would say Father
Moore is UP stairs praying for us, lie al
ways returned for private prayer after every
meal, even if lie would remain but min
ute. lie was model of auatpess His at
tention ia children made his visit 4 jubilee.
Taking tho .itti3 ones upon his knees, he
would tell them Bible stories and ask them
if they had given their hearts to the dear
Saviour, and, i'll family devotion would
pray earnestly for each one by name, No
wonder such a man should have wonderful
success.
vt the .GsS ~ two years on Talbot circuit,
he reported eighteen hundred conversions, a
net gain of sixteen hundred and eighty
three members. The next year on Queen
r. ba =
hundred and twenty-five. a-., so in every
charge his labors were crowned with abund-
ant fruit. generated by saint and sinner,
he came to his grave like ripe shock of
corn, i'll his eightv-second year.
For three weeks he suffered from Li!i.us
pleurisy. Patient, cheerful, deya,,, and re-
signed he showed he co%,,I, uher as well rs
10 the will Of God. So long rs he was able
to sit up he refused to lie down in the day
time, SAYING y have not lain down through
the day for fifty Years and cannot think of
indulging so INDECENT a ha1it until com
PEELED" Among .aaRs Wogds Of triumph
uttered through his illness, he said on the
daY before he died, :t.lesus is with me all
the time, nigh at h;sa.l 40 help whenever |
call upon him -
Just as he breathed his last, Mr.. James
Rogers who was near his bedside says, 81
heard sound, soft, sweet, celestial, that
seemed to fill that room, which at1er i little
passed ont of the Wit,'low and thought it
was ia apseis bearing his spirit to the
Skies Soon after this, lsev. John Ford
Crouch who lived opposite, a few hundred
yards of, came to the house MN sad 81
hear Father Moore i. ,.>-...." ''Ies he's
gone, Was ~, apply" What time did Lee
die. asked MIR. Crouch" \ little after six
was the answer. at is verv strange"
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