Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-20

fident, for mere popular effect during
his whole ministry He was great
enough to be humble; he was able
enough to be modest.
And yet, in the deepest significance
of the words, DR.. Cutler was one Of the
most constructive preachers the city
has ever had. He was a man Of intense
convictions. He was man of master
full personality. No one ever enjoyed
even chance interview vino did not
leave him feeling that he had been in
contact with one of Gods elect-think-
ers. He was thorough scholar; a sa-
gacfous reader of men, an unsurpassed
dialeetician, a balanced and accom-
plished theologian. He was, moreover,
master of lucid and felicitous English
style, style however predorninatingly
severe, concise and inornate. He seldom
give free rein to his imagination, at
least not in the pulpit, or INDUCED in
flights of rhetoric. He preferred to rely
on simple and clean-cut Bible state
ments to do it's legitimate work with his
people. He uniformly addressed the
reason and the conscience. AL times he
dfscoursed with amazing power on the
deep things of God. AS 4 rule, in his
spiritual huSbandry he chose a subSoil
plough rather than modern cultivator,
with which to break up the fallow
ground Of his church and awaken inn
penitent men
when DR. Cutler was at the height
of his ministry, our city had not more
than third Of its present population.
This congregation then contained a
large percentage of our most prominent
citizens Socially, Internationally and
| financially, it perhaps stood second to
no other within our limits 1t contained
a large number of our leading manufac-
turers, eminent lawyers, distinguished
civilians, successful merchants accom-
plished teachers and abla financiers.
No inconsiderable part, then, of the
brain and culture of Worcester was at
that time gathered within the walls of
Union Church.
DIR. Cutler was thus called at this
period of his ministry to be largely an
educator of educ3tors-an invisible
| force behind visible forces, a power
behind the bench, the school, the bar,
the counting desk, the municipality. DR..
, Cutler believed in the Ten Command
ments. He believed in the whole Bible
from cover to cover, as an inerrant text
book for the schooling of men in prac-
teal righteousness. He believed in the
New England Sabbath as the only con-
servator, in the long run, of American
homes, the American church, the
American commonwealth. Believing
these things, he preached them fearless
ly and faithfully, and so that his people
could understand him. And let me saw
to you that the Worcester Of today
would be very different city from what
it is If, a generation ago, Ebenezer Cut
Ter had not lived and wrought for God
within it's borders.
For nearly 20 years, through failing
health, he has been laid aside from the
| active ministry. They also serve.
Milton tells U.S. who stand and wait.
But, to my thinking, beloved it
puts an immensely greater strain
on character to serve God in
the passive voice than in the
active voice. 1t is incomparably easier,
in my judgment, to do Gods will than
it is to bear it. Many soldier, daunt-
less in battle, has collapsed utterly amid
the excavations of camp life. Elijah,
a mighty champion of the living God,
on Mount Carmel, few days later, in
! the solitude at the foot of Horeb, lost
all heart and wanted to die.
But twenty years of suffering inva-
ifta have Only Nvsnght out tiia ptI1e
| god OF this elect character. Most sig
| nally he has been called to live out the
religion he preached. His faith has
never faltered. Patience has had its
/ perfect work. His unique and fine-cut
| personality has seemed to broaden and
| deepen and mellow and sweeten with
each passing year, until at last earth
| has melted into heaven and God has Ia
ken him. .
After the eulogy Rev. DR.. Merriman
offered prayer, and the quartet sang,
Servant of God, well done" Rev. DR..
| futile pronounced the benediction and
then an opportunity was given those in
| the church to view the body
The interment was at Rural ceme-
| terry