The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-20
FUNERAL OF REV. CUSHING EELLs.
a Father Among Washington ConR resa.
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stoualists-His Noble Bene factions.
The funeral services over the remains Of
Rev. Gushing Eeils. who died at Tacoma
last Thursday. aged IS years, will be
held at the Plymouth Congregational
church this afternoon at o'clock.
Rev. Wallace Nutting officiating. Services
will be held in the morning at the First
Congregational church in Tacoma and
then the remains will be brought
to Seattle on the steamer Multnomah.
which arrives about II O'Clock. The
body will be met by many of
Seattle's pioneers, including Jesse George,
NJ. d. Ballard. DR.. G. A. Weed, A. A.
Denny, Dexter Horton and Ex-President
Anderson of the state university. At
the church the services will consist Of
prayer and memorial addresses by Mr..
Nutting and appropriate music by the
regular choir. Mr.. Nutting will speak Of
the good and great example the life of
the deceased has set.
In the death Of Rev. Cushing Eells the
Congregational church of Washington
loses one Of its grandest and most noble
characters. His life was devoted to
the work of raising the moral
standard Of humanity. He was q
man who practiced what he preached
and in the words of pioneer, His efforts
in the days when Washington was a will
derncss have contributed largely to tho
blessings which the present people en-
joy" Since his arrival at Walia Walla
in 1888 his Iabors as home
missionary have never ceased until
death robbed him Of power to act.
In all parts of the state he labored,
and the majority of the bells ringing in
40 of I'm in
Eastern Washington were his gifts, the
last having been given to the Chewelah
church last summer. 1t is q coincidence
tina. his last gift should have been to the
church in the place to which
he first preached to the In
dians. Rev. Wallace Nutting estimates
that during his life he gave So, coo out Of
his pittance as a home missionary to be-
nevolent societies. In addition to his la
bors as a missionary and preacher he was
an educator. and his name will go down
in the annals Of the state as the
founder of Whitman college. at first
. seminary. There was hardly an
advance in the Congregational
church work for years that was not pro-
noted by the assistance and presence OF
Mr. Eells. but it is probable that his last
public service was in Seattle in 1901 when
he delivered prayer a. tho laying Of the
corner stone Of the Plymouth Congrega-
tional church.
In talking Of the character Of Mr.. Eells
last evening. Rev. Wallace Nutting spoke
of his acquaintance with the old man and
conversation he once had with him.
Truly he was patron saint" said Mr..
Nutting. "The winds might blow and toss
him about, but his purposes were SO
clearly defined in his mind that nothing
could turn him. never saw man with
such tenacity. An object before him-he
would reach it il it took ten years. When
others would have given up in despair
he only digged the harder. He knew no
such word as failure and would keep
pegging away till victory crowned his ef.
forts. remember the wish he expressed
TO me, and I presume to others, that he
might live to be IS years old. IL IL not
remarkable thing that his wish should
have been 20 far granted that h died on
Els SD birthday Z"