Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
New Series, Vol. %, No SO.

DEATH OFREV. ISAAC ERRETT.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Dec. 90
Rev. Isaac Errett, President of the
Standard Publishing Company, and edi-
tOr-in-chief of the Christian Standard,
died yesterday morning at l o'clock, at
his residence, Terrace Park, near this
city. Mr.. Errett had been in i'll health
for some months, but his sickness was
not regarded as Immediately serious,
consequently his sudden death will Gre
ate a sad surprise in addition to the sin
cere regret of large proportion of the
community, where he was honored and
revered.
Mr.. Errett was born in New York
January 2, 1920, and began to work at
the printing trade when only seven years
of age. He afterward went to school,
which he attended until his fourteenth
year when he again worked at printing
until his 20th year, when he began to
preach, his first essays in that direction
being at Pittsburgh, Pa. He became
staunch friend and cOadjutor of Alexan-
der Campbell in the establishment of
the Christian or Church of the Disei-
pies, and since the death of that prom
inent divine has occupied position
next in Importance among the members
of that denomination.
In April. 1866, the Christian Standard
was founded in Cleveland, and Mr.. En-
rett was placed in charge. Here he re-
manned for two years, when he was
elected President of Alliance College,
and the paper went with him to that
place, he still remaining manager and
editor n-chief
In 1869 proposition of Mr.. R. W.
Carroll was accepted, and the paper
which had now become the official or
gan of large and fourishing church
was removed to Cincinnati, where it
still remains the leading journal of the
denomination.
Mr.. Errett's confidential intimacy
with Alexander Campbell still contin-
ued, and with that distinguished lead
er he was largely instrumental in found
ing Bethany College. For some years
he was also correspondent of the Gener-
al Missionary Society, of which for one
year he also served as President. At
the founding of the Foreign Missionary
Society in 1875 he was elected PreSi-
dent, which position he retained until
the time of his death.
Mr.. Errett was was devoted to his
work, and so conscientious in its per-
formanee that he Overtaxed himself to
the extent that some years ago his health
began to fail, and he was sent abroad,
where he remained for five months, dur
ing which time he travelled in Europe,
and extended his journey to Egypt and
Palestine. He returned apparently
greatly improved in health, and again
devoted himself to literary and minis
terial work, with the zeal that character
lied every undertaking of an earnest,
useful and honorable life.
1t was the unceasing ardOr sand un-
conservation, dOubtlesSly, that
caused return of his disability, and
for some months he had not been phys
ically able to attend to the manifold du-
ties of which he had so long been the
central spring of action. He passed
away peacefully, surrounded by his de-
voted family. AS preacher Mr.. Errett
was well known and appreciated for his
pure and vigorous writings, and his fu-
neral sermon on the death of President
Garfield is among the best remembered
specimens of pulpit Oratory in the eOun-
-rv