The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-30
THE MINER MEMORIAL MEETING.

The Miner memorial service at the
Columbus Avenue church, Boston, on
Sunday evening, November 10, was
an occasion worthy of the great man
commemorated and the church which
he served as pastor for over forty
years. DIR. Miners successor in the
pastoral Office, Rev. Stephen Herbert
Robin, gave the first address replete
with expression of personal affection
for the great leader gone from among
us,and paying the tribute of a spiritual
son to the memory of the beloved ia
Their, eminent in wisdom and good
ness and always helpful and consid
crate of his colleague in the pulpit.
DIR. John Coleman Adams, of Brook
Ign, followed with an admirable me-
mortal address, in which the grand
character of the man was finely out
lined and the sources of his power
clearly presented. DIR. Miner was we'll
said to have had Fighting faith in
Almighty God and his infinite re-
sources. 1t was this faith which made
his heart so strong and his sword
thrusts so treuchant." This address,
admirable in every way, The UNIvER-
sAL1sT will present to it's readers in
full next week.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, DID,,
Unitarian spoke of DIR. Miner as a
neighbor and of his relation to Boston
as leader in reform and philanthro-
Ply, and of his courage in every crisis
of the city and the nation. "If DR..
Miner put his hand to the plow", said
DR.. Hale, che kept his hand upon the
pillow until the pillow was driven
through. He awakened the animosity
of his enemies; he grieved, do not
doubt, many, many of his friends, but
when the clock struck he was at the
place, and in the long run that com
mands respect"
Rev. Henry Irving Cushman, D. D.,
of Providence, who was DIR. Miner
colleague twenty years ago, holding
the position for nearly seven years
S6S-1S75-was the next speaker.
He gave tender and touching remi-
niscences of DIR, Miner as a pastor
and friend, and named him in the
company of the glorious prophets of
| the church universal. eff Phillips
Brooks was the Israel among modern
prophets" remarked DIR. Cushman,
"Alonzo Miner was the jeremiah!
For certainly no man has ever more
thoroughly learned by heart the les
son which jeremiah learned in the
potter's house, in the parable of the
potter and his clay, that God, the
great Artificer, is forever at work on
the unyielding clay of the nations
and will not be satisfied until the
marred and broken forms of all
human lives are fashioned according
to his pattern in Jesus Christ his
Son."
The last speaker of the occasion
was DIR. Elmer H. Capen, DIR. Miners
successor in the presidency of Tufts
College. His address was on DR..
Miners relation to education and it
involved an outline of his career and
services to the Universalist Church
and Tufts College in the infancy of
our educational movement, and to
the large place that he filled in the
educational work of Massachusetts,.
Of DIR. Miners interest in Tufts
College the speaker remarked that it
is enough to say, perhaps, that the
institution entered into his soul and
took possession of his whole being.
No other interest had precedence of
it. No other work called forth so
much of his energy. No other object
of whatever name or nature stood
higher in his affections; and his I'M
wavering loyalty and ardent devotion
to it, and his determination to serve
it by every power he possessed fol-
lowed him to the grave. His will,
like Caesars ment, is the witness
of love which death could not
quench."
This memorial service was eminent
ly worthy of the great memory it was
designed to serve and illustrate. The
several eulogies were each in their
own way successful in bringing out
the remarkable features of DR..
Miners strong personality an1 char
acter and his splendid service to the
Universalist Church, and to the State
and Nation as a patriotic citizen, in.
terested and aggressive in all that re-
lates to the upbuilding of society and
the moral and religious development
of the American neoDle. The Teader |