Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-01
In NIcnOrianl.
From the Richmond Dispatch.l


If there is any human relationship hoier
than that existing between q Christian m IL
i.ter and his people, it has never been reveal
ed to our experience and when that minister
has been Il faithful PASTOR and that relation
ship has endured through long years of varied
and loving and tender service; when the
same unfaltering friend has buried our fathers
and mothers married the men and women OF
our generation, and baptized our children;
when, rs good shepherd, he has led and fed
q I'd guarded and nurtnred as well the lambs
is the sheep of his ilock-then, when God calls
such minister home 3 tie is severed which
had i'll it much of Heaven and the very best
of earth.
More than this can scarcely be said of any
Christian ministry, yet more than this must
be said fifty 10 portray the life and service of
the reverend father and beloved friend We
miss and mourn to-day. Every man has
about him more or less that is individual and
that DIR. MINNIGERoDE, both in personality
and in history, was ono of the marked men of
this generation.
In him were blended tho simplicity of
childhood, the passion of youth, the strength
of manhood, the glory of age, the tenderness
of woman, the culture of the scholar, the cour-
age of the hero, the chivalry of the paladin,
the constancy of tho martyr. the zeal of the
apostle, the charity of the Christian.
OF the best blood of Germany-five years
of his youth political prisoner in his native
!anc-l political exile casting his lot, his love,
his faith, his life with us-diverted not for a
moment, but entering Immediately and reso-
lutely upon that life's work as teacher, 4
college professor, Christian minister, for
more than generation pastor of st. Pauls
= church, and-such ministry, such pastor
a.!
Four years of bloody war in the capital of
au infant nation begirt with armies, shudder-
ing with the mufllcd thunder of artillery, de-
vastated by fire, the devoted President OF the
Confederacy and the peerless commander-in-
chief of its armies his parishioners, minister
ing the Holy Communion to the comfort Of
that same President, now, in his turn, po-
ltical prisoner in q dungeon in his native
land founder and builder Of sweet charities
president of Bible societies; pouring forth
from pulpit now and ever his shining mem
orial, sermops and addresses powerful, finish
ed, fervid, spiritual. and. all these years en-
tering into the experiences of his people, their
burdens and blessings, their joys and sorrows,
with self-forgetful sympathy and genius
for consolation SUI h as we have never found
in any other human soul.
In view Of all this, and of much moro that
cannot b expressed in words, and because.
for him, God hath turned the shadow of
death into the mourni g." therefore, by the
vestry of his own dear chur h, be it
Resolved, / That we give glory to God
who hath given such grace unto men.
=. That We praise and bless His Holy name
for the consccrated and beautiful life of His
servant among this people, for his unfaltering
love and his devoted service to this city and to
this church.
g. That we beseech the members of st.
Paul's congregation, aud exhort our own souls
also, to follow our beloved father and friend
tv,'n rs he hath followed Christ.
4 That while sorrowing with his beloved
and bereaved family, we yet congratulate
them that the record of such of life has closed
and is now become their precious and price,
less heritage and inspiration; and especially
do we pray God to comfort and sustain and
gently to lead her. who, beyond all others,
must feel the sundering of such ties and the
loss of such companionship.
8. That copy of these resolutions be sent
to the family Of DR.. Minnigerode and a copy
furnished the Southern Churchman for pub
LEGATION
By the yestry of st. Paul's Church.
WM. c. BENTLEY, Registrar.