The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-17


fully laboring I'm Africa. From the mo-
ment when at his first monthly concert
in December 1887, DR.. Robinson thrilled
our hearto with a description OF the Sy-
rian mission. to the present time. the
church's devotion to missionary enter
prise has never been permitted to flag,
and the monthly concert has never failed
to be the most interesting and stimulat-
ing of the social gatherings of the church.
To this more, perhaps, than to any other
cause is to be attributed the deep and con-
slant spiritual power of this pastorate.
HIS UNTIRING DEVOTION.
We highly esteem our pastor for his un-
tiring devotion to the eXacting duties of
his office for his readiness to respond to
every reasonable demand upon his time
and patience; for his tactfuness which
has enabled him to escape every threat
ened cause for strife or bitterness with
out sacrifice of principle or any lowering
Of the dignity OF his office; for his cheer
fulness without lcVity: for his courage
which nerved him against flinching in the
discharge of his duty as he saw 1t, in
spite of opposition, however determined,
of sneers, however cutting, Of mlsrcpre-
sentation, however gross, and this with
out any straining after notoriety or as
sumption of the role OF martyr; for his
unselfishness which has led him ever to
consider his work and his flock in prefer
erce to personal ease, comfort or advan-
tage; for his public spirit which has
prompted him to heartily support and
strongly commend every effort to sup
press evil or improve the material, social
or moral cCLditions of the community.
We esteem him for the fidelity with
which he had declared to us the whole
counsel of God. If Ills warnings and re-
proofs have not always been agreeable
to US, they have always been drawn di-
rectly from the word of God, and admin
istercd in a loving spirit
We love him for his lovolness. His
warm heart has warmed our hearts. His
frank demons trativenCss has thawed the
springs of our feelings. without OBJ
trusiveness he has ever been most PROMPT
to make his own joys and sorrows, the
trials and triumphs, the fallngs and the
risings again of all of his people. No
time of his has been too sacred or pre-
cious, no hour too mary, for him to re-
spond to the cry of suffering, sorrow or
dispair. Not only has he shared our
trials and troubles, but, what is often
much harder he has counted us worthy
to share in the deepest emotions of his
own heart. In times of JOY he has in
vited us to rejoice with rim. When once
and again the shadows Of affliction have
deepened over him. his voice has come
to us out of the cloud with messages of
hope and trust
WHY THEY LOVE HIM.
We love him for his upotheosis of love,
human and devine. The most sacred of
domestic relations Have always seemed
more pure and precious as they have been
irradiated with the light of his clear in
sight and warned by the touch of mis-
gentle spirit. Alike in the pulpit and IN
social meetings the infinite love of God
in gift in an ir"' itely loving Saviour has
been his fave - theme. Love has been
presented as tne basis Of Christian fell
lowship, the spring Of domestic happi-
ness, the alembic Of sorrow, the key-note
of the gospel message, The Greatest
Thing in the World"
Finally we esteem and love him for the
consistency of his pure and gentle life
with his ministerial position and teach
ings.
1--WE venerlte the man whose heart is
warm,
Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine
and whose life
CoinCident, exhibit lucid proof
That he is honest in the sacred cause"
We are permitted to believe that from
the mansions of the blessed there look
down tonight the sanity souls who have
been translated from our communion dur
ing this pastorate, and who would with
clearer minds and purer souls than ours
join in this expression of Congratulation,
esteem and affection.
In all that has been thus said of DR..
Robinson We would join with him the
helpmeet, TO whom in no small degree his
efficiency and success are due. She has
shared with him every burden, has been
a most active and willing worker in the
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor and the womans' societies, has
conducted with marked success the Boys
Missionary society has met the multi
form and, often trying obligations of a
pastors wife with cheerfulness, grace,
and efficiency.
We pray that they may long be spared
to exercise their high intellectual gifts
and their deep spiritual graces in slim
ulating the activities Of the church and
in winning precious soults for Him whose
they are and Whom they serve.
ADDRESS FOR PRESBYTERY.
Rev. DR.. s. c. Logan gave the ad-
dress for the Lackawanna Presbytery
in his customary clever manner. His
"reminiscences were interesting and the
greetings told of his sincere affection
for his clerical brother. He stated that
during his pastorate in this city sew
enty-one ministers had come into his
sphere of work, and among those who
had most helped and cheered him was
Dr. Robinson.
Rev. George f. Guild, of Providence
Presbyterian church. made one of the
happiest addresses of the evening in
his own inmitable style. His quantity
humorous sketch of the members of
the cleric seated on the steps of the
Manse, from which they were excluded
by the vagaries of an electric bell, and
the description of that body which he
declared to be more unique" than
even our CITY councils or the board Of
control which he termed pretty
unique" brought down the house.
The cleric, he said, started out with
the avowed intention of being theo-
logical, literary and social i'm charac-
ter, beginning with the first, it has
settled down into exclusive following
of the last. Having early in its career
settled such great problems as the
antiquity of man, the authenticity Of
the Pentateuch and similar questions.
His high tribute to the honored gentle
man of the evening in being treasurer
of a treasury containing no money,
was cleverly given. In conclusion, he
read the following resolutions:
RESOLUTION or CLERIC.
At the Presbyterian cleric in session
Nov 10, 1897, attention was called 10 the
recognition the Second Presbyterian
church are now giving to the services Of
our beloved brother, Charles T.. Robinson
in his ten years pastorate in Scranton.
1t was unanimously
Resolved, FIRST that the cleric brother
hood desires most heartily to unite with
the church in recognizing the grace Of
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