National Republican., 1883-07-19
IN nIEnIORIApI.

Judge THOMAS g. THEAKER, whose death oc.
Cured on Sunday last at the Oakland house,
Maryland, from sufrusion of blood OH the brain,
has been long known as a man OF prominence aud
influence In political life. lie was Tor number
OF Ohio, and subsequently held for q considerable
time the position of commissioner of patents ON
leaving this office he became a resident of New
YORK city, and year or two since, accompanied
by Mrs. Theaker he travelled extensively in Eu-
rope. He spent his last winters in Washington,
having quarters at the National hotel. About
three months since he was seized with paroxysms
IN the throat, which, from their severity, threat
came tins much impairsd and owing to- n com.
plicaton of causes he was not able TO rally, but
gradually grew weaker and weaker till about q
month SINCE when IL was thought best to repair
to the Oakland house. where he finally expired
He was man of powerful frame and COM
manding presence, upright, simple aud straight
forward man Of sterling integrity and the firm
est convictions. He was governed by principle
more than policy and believed in the power of
fact and truth to win the victory over all shams,
sophistries, and pretences. lie was n strong union
man, and during the struggle for the preservation
OF the government no man was more earnest and
his antecedcnts of blood and birth, of training
aud association, of experience aud reflection,
presidential canvass, which resulted in the elec-
ton of Gen. Garfield, he took AN active pnrt. His
manner of speaking was not to deal in orna-
mental oratory, but 20 array facts and figures,
which were his weapons of war, and became in
his hands irresistible His mind was stored with
an almost exhaustless fund of Information con-
try; His memory was ready and tenacious.
and his faith that the right must ultimately pre-
confidence was unshaken, and he impaired
largely to Others his own intrepid spirit. As
companion and conyersationalists he was de-
lghtful, pouring out from his mental treasury
wealth Of anecdote. poetry, aud reminiscence Of
His religious faith was of the true old Scotch.
Irish Presbyterian stamp, and in all the ex:
perences of his varied life grew stronger and
brighter to the end. He never concealed his
lt.Vhf tagtt tt0,ar,, htvN ~ oaN IN Nhn
truth OF the Christian doctrines, and the hopes Of
the gospel of Jesus Christ was always clear and
SIl,p emphatic; For ~ many years professor OF & re-
ber OF the First Presbyterian church of Washing
ton, d. c., of which the Rev. DR.: Sunderland has
been SO long the pastor. When residing IN
the city he was always present at the church
services. and felt the deepest interest
in the prosperity of the church and the
his last illness his faith in Christ shown forth re-
splendent, He showed in the most satisfactory
acquainted with the Scriptures and ON whose reve-
latIon his life-hope had been built He scarcely
wished to speak of anything else AS the scenes
Of time and earth receded the glory Of his future
inheritance came rising into view What graft
hed him most was the converse Of Christian
friends and the voice OF fervent prayer to God. He
had every attention tina medical skill or devoted
affection could suggest. His loving wife was with
him lby day and by night, exhibiting a tender
ness and assiduity which knew no bounds. To
her in her deep sorrow the hearts of their hosts of
friends will turn with earnest sentiments of SYM
pathy ana coincidence. She returns from the
scenes SO trying to New Bedford Mass, where the
expressions OF many in all parts ofthG country will
doubtless reach her. She cannot mourn as
one without hope, for the life of
q good mana patriot and Christian
has only ended upon earth to begin anew in
heaven. Then, after a few years of separation,
even at the longest, they will meet again in that
more perfect state where earthly grefs will be for
gotten and the tears be wiped from off all faces
To his sole surviving sou of a former marriage, a
young man still in the military service of his coun
try as well as TO his now desolate but heroic wife,
these memories and hopes in connection with one
they loved so well and who was worthy of their
love- must be precious and consoling. In the fer
vent lines of the sanity Faber we may say:
Dear voices and dear faces missed,
Sweet households overthrown
And what is left more sad to see
Than the sight ofwhat has gone.
All this is to be sanclited,
This rupture with the past,
For thus we die before our deaths,
| And so die well at last.