The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-30
MEMORIAL

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Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Chapel Hill, N. c., November II.
Thursday November 25th found on
the bulletin boards of the university
and throughout the more conspicuous
parts Of our little village the following
notice:
Presidents Office,
The University of North Carolina.
There will be memorial service in the
chapel tomorrow at $50 o'clock in
honor of the late David CASTOR Worth,
1853" ~
Agreeable to the notice, faculty and
students, together with a number OF
friends from the village assembled at
the apDointed hour.
The Rev. H. N. D.. Wilson in the open
ing prayer made tender reference to
the beautiful character Of Mr.. Worth,
thanking God for the example given US
Of a life so upright, guileless and pure.
DR.. Manning spoke impressively or
the great lessons taught by Mr.. WORMS
life. His life was one well spent
crowned by virtue, distinguished for in
tegrity, honesty and purity. He was
one who did his part nobly and dld II
well. and his life gives US the Des les
sons that human life can give.
DR.. Battle reviewed personally the
incidents in Mr.. Worth's college life
paying feeling tribute to the beauty OF
the character Of the deceased. DR.. Bat
tie had been intimately associated with
both Mr.. Worth and his father, Cover
nor Jonathan Worth, and in his review
pointed how the good qualluleS OF an
upright father were reflected in the
noble son.
DR.. Alderman spoke as follows:
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The death of David CASTOR Worth
of the class of 1853, after some years OF
grevious sickness bravely borne, is now
known to you all. The university
pauses for an hour today in the work
it has to do to contemplate this noble
life, to catch a glimpse, through us
u~nvarying course, of some OF the en-
during realities of life, to rejoice that
he was Of fellowship with US in the
things Of the mind, and to set him be-
fore the eyes Of youth as yet another
bit Of gold in the garnered wealth OF
manly beauty and vigor falling to US
always here as a priceless heritage.
Well born, we'll reared, we'll endowed,
well educated, David CASTOR Worth en-
tered upon life as one fit and worthy OF
success. He found his work Immediately
in what we are accustomed to regard,
falsely enough, as the more tollsohle
and more mechanical employment OF
trade. For over a generation IN the
city Of Wilmington he gave the
strength Of his brain, his energy, ms
character to the work of his choice,
only LAYING it down under the stress
of declining health.
1t was fortune to know Mr.. worth,
better perhaps, than men OF my age can
usually know men of his.
I knew him in his home, so clear, so
lust and Withal SO tender; l knew MN
-o ,,r;rnSc Unn1n1IS far
sighted, upright, honest as the day; L
knew him in his church, humble, toler-
ant. hepdful Of every just cry of suffer-
ing or distress; / knew him in the coun-
sells of this university, silent ana sa-
gacious, but with q touch Oh DoylSn
love and sentiment for anna mater
lighting up, as with a fame, the stern
self restraint of his character;l knew
him in society, modest, approachable,
kindly, lacking in fOrwardness but in
slant in good action, and impeding a
wholesome respect and a trlfle Ot awe
by reason of the native dignity OF the
man and a feeling that he had not
uttered all of himself.
Knowing his thus and having in
mind also our great roll, Graham,
Badger, Castor, Polk, vance,
praeclara ct v~enerabilia nOmlna, L yet
declare to you, young gentlemen ina
this university has nOurished on heI
broad bosom no wOrthier son, nor one
who better used the time appointed &c
him to live.
The spell of the world and the gla-
mour and pride of it did not fall across
his path, neither did any fevers of am
bition fret and waste his well ordered
days.
Wealth came to him honestly won
children grew III around him worthy
of his name, friends multiplied abou1
- .:o ~, With nnyUpr and were
not shirked.
Through the inevitable conflicts o.
life upon which We enter SO often full
of nope and belief and faith, ana ou'
of which we drop so soon dlsllluslon'
ed and weary and bitter, he had tn
strength to keep the first bloom OF M:
youth quite unassailed, and even the
nower. at least, to look with calm, un'
troubled eve through the awful mystery
of physical pain and anguish, at Tn
glorious, distant scene. Ana TINS II
why a whole state has watched Will
sympathy at the bedside OF a slmpl'
gentleman adjoining a private station
as a king might be proud to adorn NJ
throne. and mourns his loss as the los
of one who illustrated in tbs highe
form the dignity and majesty OF repuo
liCan citizenship.
We loved him here at the universlt!
a. a mother might love a tender sol
who had not forgotten her IN the I'd!
of his strength and in the hour or ne
nead His hands were ever quick t
serve us. You know full we'll what
did here. Almost to the end he Woul'
put aside his affairs and come to GU
annual festival-a welcome guest al
ways-the latent humor OF his natur
twinkling in his eye, his strong Tea
lures informed with pleasure as IN
ouip and lest and happy memory Wen
around the board.
He seemed happy here with the que
happiness that men of his type reel
the happiness of duty done and tn
consciousness Of 1t.
Sweet as a lutte at twilight bloWI.
Such was this strong, serious, genti
nnn mhn counted himself hut little.