Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-01-24
*, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, JANUARY, "a, 1896.

distinguished in public and professional
life. Among them he was marked as a
student of uncommon gifts and acquire
ments. Graduating at Union Theological
seminary in New York, he entered on the
Christian ministry in Lowvile, N. Y,
where for several years he discharged an
honorable and useful service.
His coming to Brattle 1oro in 1854 as the
successor of Rev, A. II. Clapp, who was
laid aside by infrmity, was like coming
home. He entered on the work in this
town of his fathers friends and his own
boyhood's associations with singular in
terest. And his work was successful.
About 100 persons were united with this
church as the fruit of his faithful en-
deavors The period of his service here
reached to 1866, covering the track of time
filled with the excitements and anxleties of
the Civil war. The national cause found
in him an ever constant supporter and the
bereaved and afflicted in that terrible strife
a constant sympathizer and friend
Dismissed from this place, TO the deep
sorrow of a chief part of the congrega-
ton, DR.. Tylers later ministry has been
| spent in another state, where, from his
quiet home in Lansingburg, he has now
| been brought here, "among familiar names
to rest, and in the places of his youth"
Thinking now a moment of the charac-
teristics of this good and venerable man,
one thing which attracts attention was his
remarkable simplicity and sincerity. He
| had no doubleness. 1t is impossible TO at
tach the idea of .fnesse and indirection to
him. He was straight out, direct and sin
gle.minded in all that he did and said. He
was, moreover, man of very unusual
freshness and originality of mind. His
| & 4, n,
trating and his powers of illustration vivid
and illuminative. 1t is very much TO be
regretted that no more of his sermons have
been printed as part of the heritage of
this church, to transmit the memory of
his gifts to other years. His fervency and
spirituality in prayer were among the most
remarkable of his endowments. Very few
ministers have power so TO uplift the
minds and hearts of their hearers with the
true spirit of devotion as did he AS pas
tor among his peoples homes he was sym
pathetic and tender; friend to the hum
best lover of all who had need of him.
And now that he lies silent here in this
room which has so many hundred times
echoed to the sound of his earnest voice,
the question may be safely asked of all you
assembled here today, Did ever other than
words of wisdom and righteousness fall
from those lips? Did ever he direct any
soul here in any way but that in which it
was best for that soul to go? Would you
, not, every man and woman of you here to-
day, be better at this hour had you followed
more closely the counses he uttered, and
{ lived more nearly as he eXhorted you sc
q earnestly to do? If so, let the memory Of
what he said, so far as any here can recall
it, be still effective for its intended purpose
I So remembering the counsels once Spoken
{ by this now forever silent tongue, thii
. silence may be even more influential TO
: your good. He is here-what is earthly o
him-for the last time. This spot, once 81
familiar to him and so full of him, will SCI
6 him no more. But recollecting what h
r said and did and was, this, his last coming
f within these walls, may be made the mos
q persuasive and effectual of all. God gran
! that ii may be so, and that you may so liv
!. as to know, even as he has learned, tn
4 truth of that utterance of holy writ
r. They that be wise shall shine as the firma
d ment, and they that turn many to right
, eousness as the stars forever and ever"