The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-01-21
Or. Marshall Dead.

DR. G. X. Marshall died at his home
in Wick burg. last Wednesday. lie
was considered by many the most elo-
quent divine in the state, and was one
of the best known and most dearly be
loved ministers.
lie will be remembered as paying his
last visit to Port Gibson in June Of
last year, when he preahced the com
mencement sermon before the young
ladies Of the Port Gibson Female Col
lege. The COmmgc al Herah edito-
rally pays him glowing tribute:
The bar of mississippi points to Prem
tiss rs It's highest expression Of gcniu-
aud oraiory. The pulpit of 'lssissipli
now that the Rev. DIR. G. *. Marshall
has preached "the word" for the last
time in this life, will point 10 him ~
one man, az least, in the ministry oi
Christ. whose cloquencc is not surpass-
ed. The writer has heard Bcrchrr
aud Bellows. James Freeman Clark
and Talnage. College bred as ihcy
were. yet in Ofi-repcatc,l periods of
c!laste English, suggesting beauty an
sublimity Oi thought. an i unique {, re =
Iulncss Of expression. he was we'll nigh
their equal. In voice and cnrapiurcd
clnquencc of delivery, emphasized rs
they were by his lofty mIcn. hc was
fHnfr pftf4a1 ff nN fllt.t eel
lcge training of the ministers named
gave them the advantage over him of
a purcr grammatical knowledge. In
this alone do they excel him. Natures
intellectual stamp, impressed witt thr
gift of clOquencc, beauty Of thought
aud Happiness Of expression, was as
strongly indicated in him rs in them
and. had he possessed the same syste-
malic knowledge of rhetoric that the
higher colleges give 10 their disiin-
guishcd graduates, he would, in all
probability, have lef' much prose lit
rraiure in the way of sermons and va
ried writings that would have made
his fame as wide rs that of Meihodism
itself.
The Methodist church in Mississippi
has produced many grand, noble,
Christian men Its pulpit has been
filed from The time that first minis
ter, Randall Gibson, preached the story
of Christ in Mississippi, by many min
listers whose names are interviewer
with the historic threads Of that church
in this state. Now that DIR. Marshall
is gone from our midst, that he is
"asleep in Jesus" truly can all SAY that
there are no threads in the history of
the Methodist church in Mississippi /
that he did not have n baud in inter- |
weaving. Fifty years ago, then 10 |
years old, and just beginning the hum
bic ministry OF the Savior. hc preached /
near the city hospital in a blacksmith
shop. This was the beginning. Near I
ly fifty years after, in the worlds
greatest centre, in the presence of one
of the grsndest religious councils ever
assembled. he uttered words for the
Master, the beauty and cloquence Of
which so thrilled his hearers as to win
for him the praise of being one Of The
grandcst men of his church.
Yet the lips that thrilled
Are the lips now stiled.
And no more forever in life here
will he be among ns, among us rs the :
most notable man in our midst.
Quitting forever the stirring scenes
of this life, he has gone 10 another and
better one. Behind him is memory
which will remain for enduring years
a monument to his grand. Christian
character.