The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-11-22
IN 1IEWORIAfE.
Testimonial OF rdenton street VI. T..
Sunday school TO NEr. ID. w. Rain.


1t is not often that we mourn as we
are mourning now.
In the history of every person ard |
church or other organization there is at
some time a supreme grief which over
shadows all otLer sorrows and in the
darkening gloom of which every other
less. a,ss iss stii cticn seems
slight and trivial Such is the supreme
and overshadowing sorrow that has set
tied upon this Sunday school
We have had frequent Dereavements
by which pious and devoted officers and
teachers, and pure and promising pupils
have been separated from their colleagues
and colaborers by the hand of death, but
these losses, while they left wounds and
scars, did not drive the iron into our
hearts as the death of our dearly beloved
Balm has done No one connected with
this Sunday school can remember the
time when our departed brother was not
an important part of it if not its most de
voted and jealous officer and member;
and there are but few, if any, members
Of the church, heightened though their
lives be by borrowed years whose recol-
lection of this Sunday school and its
work does not bring vividly to their
minds the gentle boy and gentle man
who has Just been laid to rest in our
City of the Dead His benevolent face
and kindly manner, his gentle voice and
cheerful greeting SO familiar 70 every
one who attends this school and church,
are sadly missed to day.
The history of this Sunday school,
| should it ever be written, would not be
accurate or complete did it not tell, upon
almost every page, of something that
Donald Balm said or did for its upbuild
ing and prosperity, and should its histo
rian desire to depict upon his pages a
model of piety, zeal and virtue, the life
and character of Mr.. Balm would afford
him at once and completely the materials
for his work
1t is proper that, upon the death of
such man, so closely related as he was
by a lifetime service in this Sunday
school, we should give expressions to our
sense of loss and place upon record our
estimate of his worth; therefore
Resolved. That in the death Of our
brother, Donald w Balm, assistant super
intendent of the Edenton Street Method
ist Episcopal Sunday school, we have
sustained a loss that is severe, grievOus
and IRE parable-one that seems per
sonal loss to every one who, as an officer
or teacHer or pupil, has come within the
influence of his gentle and Christian life
and presence.
Resolved 2d. That in every relati on
of life domestic, social, religious and
political Brother Balm was true, honest
and faithful 70 every duty which that
relation imposed upon him; pure in
heart and lie, assiduous in labor, dill
gent in business, Jealous in Christian
work, never forgetful of his allegiance
to his Lord and Master, charitable to the
poor, as kind courteous to those in low
station as to those in higher sphere o
life, honest, manly, clean hearted anC
clean handed
Resolved Sd. That a record be mad.
of these resolutions, a copy be furnished
the Raleigh Christian Advoc ate for pub
lication, and CO oy be sent to the fami J
of our deceased brother with the assur
ance of our sincerest sympathy and col
dolence for and with them in their grea
bereavement.
j. n. COLE,
". II. HUGHES,
Jos. G.. Brown