Connecticut western news., 1893-12-07
THE SERMON
Preached by the Rev John DePeu at
 Dr. Eddy,s Funeral.

Preached by the Rev John DePeu al Dr. Eddy's Funeral.
 Leviticus XIX S2 "Thou shalt rise up before
 the hoary head and honor the face of the
 old man."
 We are here to-day in obedience to the spirit that spoke through Moses of old. We are here representing far larger company who are to-day one in sorrow. We have come hither in re- sponse to the impulse of reverent af- lection to pay tribute of loving honor to the hoary head that has so long moved among us with bearing as kingly as the name 1t bore and to the loved face that has been radiant with fatherly tenderness blessing us as an ever present benediction.
 Hiram Eddy was richly blessed in his inheritance. His father was deep ly consecrated minister of the gospel who willingly endured hardness as a good soldier and chose by preference laborious and difficult fields of labor.
 His mother, a deeply devout Christ ian of signal piety, trained her six sons and three daughters in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, by her strength of character exercised strong infu- ence over her children and by her ex- ample made the Christian life beautiful and noble in their thought. From these strong souls, the children received Q double heritage of the righteousness which is promised of God to the child ren and children's children of such as keep his covenant. It was due to the religious theory and habit of the times, that Hiram, in spite of his heritage of righteousness did not become a Christ ian disciple until he was seventeen years of age. Meantime he had been carried, child three years old, from Pittsfeld, Vermont, where he was born March 17th, 1913, to Locke, New York. From there, when boy twelve years old, he had moved on with the family to Jamestown, N. r., where his father was the minister of frontier church.
 In Jamestown, during a general re- vival of religion, the Spirit of the Lord called him. His personal awakening was characteristic. The covenant of righteousness had not failed. His na- tive character was pure and true Chastity and honesty, the instincts of morality, ruled him from his childhood. Conversion in such case could not mean merely formal change. But now he awoke to the consciousness that he had been so far living as without God in the world. With this conscious ness came deep and distressing convic- tion of sin. After period of great darkness, the light shone through up- on his soul suddenly and resplendently. It was the white light that shines from the throne of the Lamb of God who talk eth away the sin of the world. Then began the sixty-three years of Christian living that has left path of light on earth, the first stage of an eternal life that advances ever from glory to glory. His was distinctly Christian living. Christ was the inspiration of his life; it's model and its goal.
 Early in his boyhood he had that strange vision of the face of Christ, of which some of you have heard him speak. The influence of that vision never left him. It made Christ always very real and very near to him-and when, in the last days of his weak ness, he saw again in clear vision the face of the Savior, it was as though the 1 out-stretched arms of the Crucified had gathered his whole life into one loving embrace. Christ was the rule of all his thinking. It is little, to say that his theology was schristocentric. Christ was the circumference as well. Christ was all and in all. have never known anyone who more fully appreciated the lovliness of Christ. When he spoke on that theme his face was suffused with glory, his whole body seemed full of light. This assured communion with Christ made all the spirit world seem near to him. From that Heaven which ''lies about us in our infancy he never passed, perhaps because he never grew | old. Or shall We not rather believe that he kept his youth through eighty years because he drank daily from the river of life-that proceedeth forth from the throne of the Lamb carrying life to | all the Heavenly ones?
 After his conversion, friends in Jamestown urged him to study for the ministry of the Word. Though hither- to without fondness for books or study, under the inspiration of the new pur- pose he bent himself with all his DOW CTS to the acquisition of liberal educa- tion. Promised help failing, he was left dependent upon his own strength to meet the expenses of his collegiate and theological course. His brave heart and sinewy arms bore him through. He studied at Hamilton and Oberlin colleges and received his theological training at Dunkirk and in private study. In 1889, at the age of twenty six, he began his ministerial life in