Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-06
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elder. So that for nearly forty years he has |
been one of the highest officers in this
church, and with what faithfulness and de-
votion, ability and acceptance, he has served
this people, those who know our history,
are perfectly familiar. In the counsels and
administration of this church, he has ever
shown timely and pertinent wisdom. He
has guided our affairs in all things with dis
erection. In the meeting of the session, in
the ecclesiastical gatherings of the Presby-
terry and Synod, prudence, efficiency peace
concession have ever characterized his
words and actions. To this our officers, old
aid young and all our ministerial brethren
bear grateful and united testimony He was
informed in church history, in doctrine and
polity, in precept and practice and precs-
dent, and knew the entire machinery and
details of chuach work.
When at home, in this city, he was never
absent from his pew in this house, except
from sickness, and the same merorabls fact
was true during his entire residence at the
National Capital The Sabbath WAS day
of rest and worship, and he kept in con-
scientiausly in Knoxville, in Washington,
and in foreign lands His place Was
never vacant In the social meetings Of the
church, and he always occupied the Same
seat and that In sympathy and support,
close up in front beside the pastor, where
he said again and again all church officers
and Christians ought to be- He was quick
and cheerful helper in every. department of
religious work. He was ready to pray or to
speak, as the duty required, and seldom or
never declined to heed call or discharge
an appointment. He often lead our prayer
meetings with appropriate remarks and
spiritual fervor. He gave on principle and
literally to every enterprise of charity and
the church. By his punctilious attendance,
reverent bearing and participation in sacred
service he was an example to our Entire
membership. 1t was prseIple and
habit nth nth hin, without faul-
finding or criticism, to stand by his
pastor on all occasions and to the fullest ex-
tent possible, with kind words and helpful
counsel. With his especially religious life
student of the Bible, lover of the church,
friend of the kingdom, defender and ad-
vocate of Christian missions, and by pro-
fession and practice loyal and devout be-
lever in the Lord Jesus Christ and with
that record and testimonial l AN content.
Since coming back to Knoxville this last
time he has been more than usually tender
and devout. I am informed by his wife
that he was losing his wonted interest in the
politics of the day. For the last six months
he has given much time and thought to the
Old Testament Friends and members of
| the family have observed growing spirit
of religious meditation, mellowing of
| word and manner, and a charity and kind
| ness of spirit and remark about men and
euents and differences which we now see to
| have been the gracious inworkings Of the
Gospel of God, in preparation for the event
| which came to him and to us all so suddenly
| in the midnight of the day.
1t is pleasant to recall the last address he
| ever gave in public was on the last Sabbath,
and that at a church in this city, on the
| duty of parents to their children, to educate
| them in truth and virtue, and by precept and
| example to guide their feet into the king
dom of Jesus Christ. And it is pleasant for
me, as pastor of this people, to remember
that on the morning of the day of his death,
| | addressed him brief note requesting him
to say few words at our Wednesday night
social meeting ON Christian missions in
| Siam, and that the last study and thought
he did on earth were in acswer to that re-
quest and in reference to the coming and
| establishment of the Redeemer's reign in
that far away heather land. Such, am
sure, would have been his last employment
the study of the kingdom of God, its
| coming and its grandeur, its glory and ita
| righteousness, its light and its unspeakable
blessings.
The Son of Man came to him indeed like
thief in the night without warning or
! time for prayer or consultation or a single
farewell word, and by q painless death
opened the gates and let him through into
the mystery and vision of the life beyond.
| The last sermon he heard in this church
was on last Sabbath morning, and on Soul
Rest" May we not speak in confident faith
| and with deep, comforting assurance that
into that Southeast, calm, grand and eter-
nal, of which Jesns Christ is the center and
readily he entered; and that whatsoever his
infrnlities and shortcomings, and we would
not disguise or belittle them, instant change
was instant perfection, and sudden death
| was sudden glory.
Mr. Maynard has left behind him record
/ of worth and usefulness of which his family
and fsllow-citizens and countrymen may be
highly proud. A family's, a city's, ma
TONS most royal legacy is q character,
simple, pure, true and grand To this
church has been left the monument of an
exemplary, faithful and triumphant, Chris
tian life. In his words and works every
good cause, education, liberty, missions,
tenn perance, the Bible, the Sabbath, phi
lanthropy, the family altar, law, justice
and the Kingdom of God finds ample memo
rails; and every lover of his country and
his kind has abundant occasion for graft
tude and acknowledgement lhat such maj
has lived among us-statesman, uprigh
and incorrupt, citizen of the Republic, il
all things useful and exemplary, and, abov,
all else, Christian who avowed his pro
fession before the world and kept to th,
faith that was once delivered unto tn
Saints
DIR. ,Humes read the 11S9th hymn, sc
would not live alRays," &c, which was rem
dered by the choir.
REMAINS REVIEWED BIZ THE MULTITUDE.
At this point, in accordance with an an
nouncement by the pastor, the cover wa
ard, and the multitude were allowed to pas
| by and take q last look at the remains o
the honored dead For quite lonI
time after the congregation passed by, Their
was constant stream of persons from on!
side the house, there being noticeable ,
large number of colored persons who too
this method Of manifesting their respes
and regard for the distinguished deceased
After order was restored the benedictiol
was pronounced by DIR. Park and the con
: gregation remained standing until the re
mains and the family passed out of tn
house. -
THE FUNERAL PROCESSION.
/ | The battalion of University of Tennessee
Cadets, under command of Col s. B. Crrv
ford. sommandant, had repaired to th
scene to join the procession and were draw
| NY near the Custom House. The proce
sion was then taken up to Gay street IN
, out Gay to Gray Cemetery, in the followin
, | order:
A detachment of four policemen, Office
Kinzel, Davis, Porter and Youngblood, t
; clear the way.