The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-03-03

At tis home, near Waco. ON sunday
February 2jlh, 1888, at mci-ic-, iullpwv,
bv pucumona, NJ. Jamr, c. puher
az Il % YEAR,
The deceased WAS the son Of Rev Geo
W. PGtNcr. who umuNod from llung,
county. I'nn., about thirty yeats we
when lli- son WIS a small boy, and locp
ted on he beluttu prairie near tie (thcn
small viiiHgc ui Waco. Here The -uhicc
OF ihi, sketch grew to mUnhOu i, md iron
tile home, around which clustered al the
fond II. suCiatiOns ot his early and OF hi
ripper years, he has just been borne to hi'
burial
The father left an honorcd name in thi,
community where he lived SO long. and
the Ion wore that name wOrhily and has
lcf II untarniShed. He wps nm upri ght
and Honorable citizen - generous and true
In all the relations of life.
He received liberal education 81 thu
re owned institution in Lexington, Va,
daring the lime when 1t. president was
the great Christian chieitain who Will cast
longer shadow into history thAn any
other man Who has lived In our day,
Re uruiug home, lie devoted himself
with i1triligent skill and indomitablc
energy TO the honorable avoCut on Of "a
farmer--a grand calling, which Is too
generally stunned by yougg men who
have had the good fortune to secure a
liberal education.
Ia 1879 he returned to Lexington and
welded Miss Agnes T. Harris, daughter
Prot. Carter j. Harris, OF Washington
and Lee University, an am able and ac-
complished Christian lady.
There WAS born to them bright aud
beau; mi boy, who Is too young to know
the reat oss he has sustained, but We
Trust he will be spared to solacc the
heart Of the stricken mother and TO per
ietuate the name aud emultae the Viz
tues Of the lameuted father.
Our deceased friend had never made
profession Of faith in Christ, and yet,
while this Is greatly 10 be regretted, We
do not mourn Tor him as those who have
no hope. lie was trained III Il
Christian home, trained under
the 'eaching and the example OF u cody
father and pious mother, and was The
subject OF their earnest and often uttered
prayer. When the need OF the great >tl
walton was at last pressed toryihly upon
him II was not n subject with which he
was unfamiliar, and the SAVIOR to whom
We tel sure he addressed his prayers In
the last days of lie was one with whose
namo, and wo and worth no had been
iW.,tT from his earliest years.
W men lalu upon tnat bed from winch he
never arose, he had the apprehension.
which proved TO be too wei grounded.
that it was dying bed. HIS thoughts.
during The days when his mind Was unlm-
paile', were turned toward the solemn
realities before him; and We have
good reason to hope that he
laid mold upon that savior who Is w.lling
As well as gblc to save unto the utmost.
We hope that the good his father and
mother had so often besOught for their
boy, was at last bestowed upon him when
he reached the time OF sorest need. On
the last day that he was rational minis
ter with wnOm he was acquainted. called
T. see him, and he, without suggestion
from any one, requested prayer, and gave
earnest heed while the word OF God was
read and supplications offered al the
tur zoe of grace.
This is sudden, and 10 us a sad end
ing of life that was so full OF hope and
seemed to have so much Of promise.
That one in the very prime Of his early
manhood and The full vigor Of a ripened
and cultivated intellect, with young
wife whom he loved with all the atiec.
ton OF his manly heart, and an infant
son upon whom he lsyished the wealth
of a fathers love, that he should be SO
early stricken down and they SO sorely