The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-03
PROF. HosHoUR's FUNERAL.
Graceful Tributes Paid to His Memory by
Some of His Lifelong Associates,

The funeral of the late Rev. Samuel Kline
relter Hoshour took place yesterday forenoon,
the services at the Central Christian Church
beginning at IL O'Clock. at which hour the pail
bearers with their burden passed up the north
aisle of the church and placed the coffin before
the pulpit. Tho audience was as large as ever
gathered In tho church, and would even have
been larger but for lack of seating capacity.
The pall-bearers were DR.. Ryland T. Brown.
Wm. Wallace, John D. Eagle, Judge Jacob B.
Julian, Rev. Thomas A. Good win, j. NJ. Tilford,
j. L. Avery and DR.. w. Ii. Kendrlck. A great
number of white heads were in the audience.
Rev. Samuel r. Moore, of the Third Christian
Church, led in prayer. fervently giving thanks
TO God who had sent us the example of the
beautiful life that had just closed. This was
followed by the choir singing Nearer, my God,
TO Thee"
Rev. T. 81. Lynch, an almost lifetime friend of
the deceased, spoke for ten minutes on The per-
sonal piety and Christian liberality of Elder
HoshOur. He said it was a mournful and at the
same time a joyful privilege to be permitted to
stand there and call into remembrance the asso-
Citations of many years. 81 need not" said Mr..
Lynch, multiply words on the personal piety
of the departed. His record is on high. A long
life filed with almost u~nexampled piety and
love and honor to God has ended. He remem-
bered his Creator in the days of his youth and in
a long life of activity as a minister of the gospel
OF Jesus Christ. In visiting him the other day,
when he was on his bed of sickness, I leaned
down to ask him the question, DOes the gospel
that you have preached to so many comfort you
now as you are crossing the stream that leads 10
the unseen landP He answered firmly, Yes
Nearly forty years ago when taking his daugA-
ter to school, he paid me a visit at Pennsylvania
University, where L was then engaged, and
from that time on his personal piety has shOne
out on his long pilgrimage OF life. A beautiful
Christian spirit always characterized him. Ii is
not going beyond the truth when / say [ never
have met him nor parted with HIM hut he has
thing of the blessed Master he adored. One day
| asked him to preach for me. Il will he said,
'and the subject shall ne cid age, aud how to
grow old gracefully and comfortably And he
did preach and most feelingly. Surely no one
better knew how to grow old. When he walked
these streets his very tenderness showed him TO
be the good old gentleman of the good old school,
and told that within his heart was the religion
OF Jesus Christ. His thoughts were broad and
liberal. | shall carry down to LIES last moment
of memory his farewell grasp. say here, fare
well old friend, | hope to grasp your gentle
hand on the other side"
Rev. David Walk spoke briefly, calling to mind
that Elder Hoshour. thirty years ago. preached
the first sermon preached in the Central Chris
tian Church. His last vas preached on the first
day of last August, when sitting in his chair.
All who then heard him thought never TO hear
him again. Mr.. Walk spoke of a recent visit
maid TO the sick man, who, when asked If he
knew that his end was near. answered Yes" in
a clear voice, land nc terror the prospect be-
gets. l am not mOtality's slave" And later,
when unable to speak, and s~ightless, when
asked, sis 1t all brightness and peace with you,
this morningP' he nodded his head three or four
times.
DR.. Ryland T; Brown spoke of him as a miHis-
ter and "A pulpit teacher. DIR. Brown said it was
his privilege to be a fellow-laborer with him for
nearly half a century. He was not "A preacher
in the sense of IA pulpit orator. He never aspired
to be an orator., and, indeed, disdained all ora
tOrical tricks. He was a pulpit teacher, and
adapted himself TO be that as but few men
have. He was a teacher every where aad ar all
TInlaa- One nnnld NOT meet him and talk va
minutes with him without being taught. II is
no disparagement to him to say that he was not
q genius. He was a student, and a most success
ful one, retaining all ne had acqulred-and a
hounteous store of knowledge it was-until the
last. He broke down physically. but the knowl-
edge he had acquired was always at his tongues
end, and he never failed to use it effectively. He
has reared a monument to his memory IL thou
sands of minds and thousands of hearts that will
be more enduring than brass or marble.
Prof. a. r. Benton spoke of him rs an edu-
Gator and scholar He said that Elder HoshOur
touched society at a great many points. No
man has touched society more etfectually. more
usefully. He left his impress upon the youth of
our State as no other man has. He came to the
State at an opportune time, when everything
was in a formative state. 1 have been thinking
Of the persons upon whom he left this impress.
Many of them are here to-day. He laid his hand
of wisdom and intellectual strength, purity and
integrity, sweetly hut powerfully on young men.
It is no small blessing for a State to have "a sin
gle man of that character. / learned from his
own lips that he had in his youth little oppor-
tunity for education. IL WAS when a young man
that the fascination of learning came upon him,
and he entered upon the pursuit of knowledge
with an ardOr that was indOmitable. He was a
man OF the amplest intellectual resources,
gathering knowledge from every point. No
man ever stood as Il stronger defender of our
public school system, or had a deeper or more
abiding sympathy for that work. He impressed
the sweetness, the power of a rich spiritual ma
ture upon young men and young women in a
very remarkable degree. He stands to-day in
our thought and memory as a force in the COM
munity for great qualities, all that is good in
our citizenship, in our social, political and re-
ligious life.
From the church the remains we're taken to
Crown Hill cemetery, where the concluding
services were held The deceased was a mem
Der of the TippecaDOe club, and that organiza-
tion attended the funeral in a body.
A CELESTIAL VISITOR.