Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-16
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Church's battles. They together helped
her to win many Of her victories. A
notable instance Of their effective hand
INLAND work was the bringing the Synod
Of the South" into organic union with our
| own Church. If DR.. Dabney was tho
greater setter-forth Of truth TO the stu
dents OF the Church, DR.. Hoge has been
a great pOpularizer of the same truth
| They have been each wonderfully adapted
to his own work. Not many classes In
! any college Of any age have had two
such men. Everybody felt that DR.. Hoge
| must help bury Dr. Dabney. The hour
was postponed, that he might be here.
DR.. HOge commenced by saying that
| IL was not his purpose 10 attempt any
portraiture OF Dr. Dabney, or even an
outline of the work he had undertaken
and accomplished in the world, further
than 10 remark that a man was ordina-
riy regarded as having fulfilled the great
end of life when he had been successful
in any one department Of useful labor,
but that it had been the privilege of the
man whose loss we mourn to-day TO be
distinguished. first as an able and i'm
pressive expounder Of the Word in the
pulpit second, as one Of the strongest OF
writer's on philosophic. secular, and theO-
logical themes; and, third, as one Of the
most successful OF teachers in a seminary
devoted to the training of young men
for the Gospel ministry; that il was his
rare lot to combine all these-all OF them
sources Of wide and permanent influence. |
The loss Of such a man makes q great |
void In the world, and all who appre- |
ciated his worth bemoan the bereave- |
ment and say, How is the strong staff |
broken and the beautiful rod
THE Bible contains a record of the reg
nant men Of the race-the kingly men Of |
the world-not because Of hereditary rank |
and power. but because Of commanding
influence through services rendered by |
which the intellectual and moral progress
of mankind has been advanced.
But outside Of that inspired register,
and continually adding TO its length and
numbers, are the men Of distinguished
influence, who in the providence Of Cad
are raised up from age TO age Some
are endowed with such genius, and their
natural capacities have been so strength
ened and illumined by vast and varied
learning, that they are compelled to oc-
cupy conspicuous positions Their own
might induce them TO seek pri-
vate stations, but those who appreciate |
their worth and power will not consent, |
and insist that they shall not be allowed
to abandon the high positions 10 which
they have been elevated.
ACkNOW LEDGED LEADER.
Such men are the acknowledged leaders
n the State-they are the lights and land
marks in the Church-they are the grand
illars in the temple which God is rearing
n the world to the glory OF His grace. {
Among the gifts of God are the gifts
# such men to the Church and to the
world. For they are the instruments by
which society is moulded, and the moral
nd spiritual influence Of mankind sweet
ned and advanced from age TO age
When such men are snatched away we | '
tempt 10 console ourselves by saying: ,
The workmen die. but the work goes on c
{ does go on in the sense that God can a
ot be thwarted in His purposes that He 4
never at a loss for instruments TO carry b
hem on 10 completion. Moses and Aaron {
ray drop out OF the ranks on that mag l.
iicent march OF the tribes to the Land II
( Promise, but Joshua is there at the '
ver 10 conduct them on and 10 establish II
lem in their Inheritance. Then Samuel Il
ONES TO lay the foundation Of Justice b
nd order; then David. to give them an C
lspired liturgy and 10 frame a wise con-
.itution OF religious worship One by one il
Ie lights in the golden candlestlcl1 are q
but the temple still CLOVIS h
18th the radiance OF tho glory OF the Il
ord. The Church still lifts up its voice &
Tough tremulous and full of tears. and Al
les. Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling el
Ace in all generations and IS measurably bl
,mforted. But there Is another sense et
which it is true that when the work
an dies the work does not 20 on as sue
ssfully and steadily as before. Indeed.
e death OF a single man often arrests IA
at progress temporarily and crpples, Al
ough II does not stop the work. e
GREAT LOSSES. on
During the last decade great has been
g loss OF the Church OF eminent men.
} say nothing Of our own Continent, be
ay look abroad and remark the blanks re
at have been made by the removal OF 10
ch men as Christlieb, OF Bohu: and Bes- ch
II. OF Paris; Liddon. of England, and Gu
urgeon-of what country zhall We cau 10