The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-09-29
IN .NE,NORIA.
Sermon Delivered by DIR. Forbes at the
Thompson Avenue VI. T. Church.
Sept. Is. ia Memory of DIR.
Charles s. II. Dunn.


Charles $. II. Dunn.
/ Such services are held, in part, be-
cause of our respect for the memory of
the dead, and, iii part, that the living
may be profited thereby. OF the facts
I concerning the life of Brother Dunn all
/ that | have to give you today are that
he was born, nearly forty years ago,
/ 1854 or ), away in Maryland; was edu
Gated at the Illinois Wesleyan Univers-
! ity, and entered the Minnesota confer
ence in 1873; served the church at
/ Moorhead, Redwood Falls, st. Peter,
} Saltwater, Duluth, Burlington; later he
was editor of one of our church papers
! in southern California The last part of
his life he devoted to business, and in
search of health went across the ocean
/ and died in the city of London, August
J 18th last. The immediate cause Of his
! death was blood poison. An liberated
tooth was extracted, and, somehow,
/ blood poison set in and he died III that
far off land. My information says that
he was buried on Tuesday last in
Bloomington, Ill.
/ do not know what the experiences
of his boyhood were, away there in
distant Maryland, but we are sure that
he gladdened some mothers heart, and
filed fathers heart with JOY; he pratt
tied at his mothers knee, and learned
to walk and talk, and entered upon the
sports of bOyhood. Some time, early
in life, his ambition was aroused within
him; | know not what his struggles
were, but am glad that he yielded to
the promptings of his better nature, to
the call of the spirit of God, sought for
and secured liberal education, and be-
came minister of the gospel of Jesus
Christ
He is dead; this strange muddle that
we cali life, is over with him. l know
not what death is, because | know not
what life is. If | understood lie, then
might be able to tell you something
about death, but life itself is a mystery
unsolved. Oh. the philosophers can
tell you great many things, and the
! preachers will talk sometimes dogmati-
cally, but after all, your anxious heart
will think of thousand questions that
I no man can answer. We must die to
know what death is.
| want to talk to you today little
about the minister's life. 1t has
bright side and it has dark side; l
want to talk to you a little about both
! sides. | do not know what life is a sue
cess and what life is failure, because l
| do not know enough about the facts in
any life. I see the bent old man,
! doomed to toll six days IN the week,
never heard of half a mile from home,
or the blessed old woman, whose face is
/ covered with wrinkles, and who is not
! known in the other end Of the village
| in which she lives. AS God writes down
the successes and failures, these names
may be among the most illustrious lives.
He who fills his place, be it large or
small. fills it faithfully, fills it well, hon
orably and conscientiously, | feel sure
! that the "well done" of the angels and
| the "well done" of the Master Himself
will fall upon his ears as he passes over
into that other world.
| But | am to talk to you today about
the minister's life. 1t is a great thing
to have the opportunity to preach. 1t
| is a great thing that at least twice every
! Sabbath, at least twice every week,
sensible men women and children
? thor ,,looa &c y-nroI;,N -hnrn
! have them for an hour; and it is a great
| thing to have willing hearers for your
message. That is one Of the bright
! features in minister's life.
| Another is his time for reading. |
/ know of no man, in any calling, who
| has such an opportunity for mental
| culture, such an opportunity for read
! ing and study. The man who has been
in the ministry few years, and has
/ not, by virtue Of that fact, secured for
/ himself good degree of culture, is a
/ lazy indolent man; every minister has
| this magnificent opportunity; the days
Of the week and the hours of the dav
/ are his. Books are cheap, within his
reach; though his salary be small there
| is no excuse for his remaining in ig-
norance. This Is another of the fea-
lures of the bright side of minister's
/ life. The poets are his; historians are
/ his; the novelists are his; all truth is
/ brought within his reach, and it is
worth a great deal to have such an OPP
/ portunity as that.
Again, he has for himself and family
nearly everything that the man of
wealth can secure by his wealth. What
can man who has wealth secure that
! Is not within the reach of the honest,
honorable, upright, diligent clergyman?
BY virtue of his position in life, he can
secure an education for his children
! He is a welcome guest in the best
homes of city or country. Again, his
is the unspeakable privilege of being,
in himself, a blessing to a thousand lives
In every parish, Life is what YOU make
/ it, and it is enriched by what YOU can
do for those around you. BY virtue of
his position, he is welcomed to the
homes of the rich and the poor. the in
teiligent and the ignorant, the saint and
the sinner; he is permitted to say
word that will comfort the sick,
strengthen the week, steady the foot
steps of the thoughtless boy, and to say
a word of encouragement to those
around him; how much is that worth
to the man, in whose bosom there
throbs a manly life? The joy of doing
good Is the greatest joy that God gives
us.
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