Middletown transcript., 1895-03-09

ETHESDA Methodist Episc
| C pal Sunday-school held
IN Memorial service last SUI
ukC day afternoon in Memory
I@ a Pastor, Teacher and
Scholar who had passed OF
during the year. The service was not onl
impressive and appropriate but beautiful.
| There was q large attendance not only {
the school. but many others from the tow
and community, including those of all d.
nominations, who came to hear the lovin
tributes paid to the life and character {
"Our Crowned Ones"
The prayers offered, the scriptures rea
and the music rendered were all in hal
mony with the occasion; the songs and rt
QUEENS were all in the minor key, and fe
as gently as a vesper chime upon the be
reaved hearts; soft and sweet and reposefu
Never were the hallowing and soothing in
fluences of music more sensibly felt.
The Memorial cards prepared for the oc
casion bore the following inscription:
NICHOLAS MANLY BROWNE, Pastor.
Translated, Feb. 9 1895, Memorial paper b.
MARTIN B. BURRIs.
MRS. JAMIE L. WALKER, Scholar
Fell Asleep, Dec. 10 1894. Memorial Paper b!
Miss ADDIE P. HAZARD.
EDWARD B. RICE, Teacher,
Released Feb. %, 1895, Memorial Paper b.
Miss MARY F. BURRIs.
After the reading of the memoirs Their
were number of voluntary tributes. Tn,
Superintendent, A. G. Cox, expressed il
tender terms his esteem and regard fol
the departed ones. w. E. Wright. ESQ.
gave brief but eloquent eulogy of Rev. N
NJ. Browne. Other tributes were paid by
Rev. J. B. Roberts, and W. P. Wilson. Mis-.
Lottie Jones read an appropriate selection
We give below few passages from the
memoir of Rev. N. NJ Brown as given by
NJ B. Burris:
1t has been said that we dwell not 50
much upon the activities of the living pres
ent. as We do III the fond and hopeful an
to US, or else in the mournful, though
blessed contemplation of memories that
come floating down to us from the mystic
Isle which we call THE Long Ago" where
our hopes and our fears, where our losses
and our treasures, all, alike are buried, and
toward which we turn with yearning heart
and brimful eye, and from which, fond
to her duty true, brings back
many. very many faded forms to view.
NICHOLAS MANLY BROWNE
He was my Pastor and honored and re-
vered him be was my friend and loved
and trusted him. These words in a mea-
sure, express that which is in the mind and
heart of every one within the sound Of my
voice. this afternoon. The chief character
istic of this great and good man, was that
he loved God, and all of Gods creations and
they all knew it.
We are not here to-day to commemorate
our bereavement. We are not here to-dsy
to call to mind the great loss we have sus-
tained, for lively sense of these are always
with us. But rather. we have come hither
10 place besides life's toilsome and dus ty
road, way mark, humble though our eff
,rt, yet commemorative of our love
md devotion to one, about whose life
md character, crowd thousand beautiful
Our thought. most naturally recurs to
hat sunny Sabbath afternoon, when Nicho.
as Manly Browne stood for the first time
It this chancel, and looked into the eager
aces of the members of this School and
vas introduced to you as the one who had
'een sent to minister to you in holy things,
md you and know how fully have been
called the anticipations kindled in our
learts that afternoon, as we looked into his
indy face. of bright and happy relations
or the days and years to come.
And now, that that, which then lay along
he unknown vista of the future, has be
ome retrospect. we sit down in the quiet
neditations Of our own hearts, and think
# the loving ministrations we have re-
eived at his hands, the beautiful character
f Christ, manifest in him, the noble man
ood, the social joy and Christian fellow
hip, four beautiful years, we say, four
eautiful years; and may l say it, years
which, to me, will never blend with other
ears, but will stand out memory of soul
plift and sunny hours, that have passed,
mt too swiftly by.
knew him as I have known but few
men, and after four years of intimate and
aried associations, it is my deliberate
Judgement that he was one of the noblest
Natures nobleman ::In all those associa-
ions, I never knew him to speak in harsh
r unkind criticism of any one: never knew
i'm to tell story of questionable color:
ever heard fall from his lips one word that
vas not in strictest accord with virgin pur-
ty. In the midst Of professional perplexi-
les and the hurry of busy life, I al
rays found in his society that relief and
est SO much longed for. Ihave good rea.
on for believing that was close TO his
reat and warm heart, and from his lips
'oN Ahohy assuring uiu CuCOuIdSluS WOIus
n hoLrs of doubt and uncertainty. l
ever spent an hour in his society, but that
went away feeling the better and stronger
or it. and he never went away for any con-
iderable length Of time, but that during
is absence, I received from him a message
n evidence of his friendship and fraterna
egard.
His quiet and unostentatious devotion to |
lis home and the loved ones there, was a |
beautiful to witness.
But his love and an xietv was not con.
med to those of his own home. He was
yer silent as to his own griefs and cares,
ut where the we'll being and happines of
thers was involved, he was as expressive
nd tender as woman.
There are those in this town, who, suffer. |
ng from the pangs of poverty and misf,r-
une, received bestowments from an unseen |
and, and do not know to this day, that It |
vas Nicholas M. Browne who did it. Great |
aturss are always simple and unostenta.
ious; and such were his chief character
tics. I'll
Buff you were unacquainted with him |
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