Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

gentle, helpful friend! Your death shall sad
\ den us to nobler purpose even as your life
cheered us to lofty resolves.
May the Father with infinite comfort put
/ his arms about the little family whose
earthly light has thus gone out! May He
guide the church into richer career of use
| fulness. sanctihed by the life and death of its
shepherd
OF John McQuod 1t may be said
| Ills life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world: This was
FRANK CRANE.
Rev. Mr.. Mnckny's Tribute.
Rev T. j. Mackay, rector Of All Saints
| Episcopal church, was introduced as a
! friend of the dead pastor and among other
| things he said:
! "If anything more were needed to give
| evidence of the love and esteem in which
MIR McQuoid was held it is furnished in
the size of this congregation. All sorts
and conditions OF men are gathered here,
men of all creeds and of no creeds. 1t is
a grand tribute to a man we all loved. |
| have met MIR. McQuod in all of his moods.
! l have clasped his hand when the tears
were in his eyes from the load he seemed
| to be bearing and again when he had
reached the height of good feeling. A week
ago | told him l had vacant night and
wished it. Would you really? he asked. l
assured him | would gladly do so. and l
am sure he would have requested 1t had he
| lived. He has told me that the time was
coming when old issues were growing less
! sharp and added that while he loved his
church he was ready to clasp hands with
every man and woman working TO uplift
| humanity.
your Easter day will be clouded by the
| shadow of death, but l believe that could
| this dear man speak now he would say:
| Sing no requiem for me, but sing the glad
| song of Zion. Go on with your songs of
| rejoicing, because there is now one more
link binding you to the future. Stand by the
dear ones | leave behind and do by them
as lovingly as you would by me- That l
believe is the heritage of this church"
Rev. MIR. MitchelTs Address.
Rev. Charles b. Mitchell of Minneapolis,
a warm personal friend of Mr.. McQuoid,
their association dating back a number of
years, made the funeral address. 1t was
MIR. McQuoid's request that his friend should
perform this service for him. Mr.. Mitchell
took for his text l Timothy iv., c: "A good
minister of Jesus Christ" He said if he
were asked to write an epitaph for his friend
he knew of nothing better than the words
on the casket in front of me-" he said, AZ
see the term engraved there, "A Helper Of
Men, 1t is a more terse term than the
words of the text. The great business of
Jesus Christ was in going about doing
good. The true minister has caught that
spirit from his Lord. His work is not to
be minstered unto, but to minister. One
day a member of his church said to Mr..
McQuotd, I want you to go with me to see
a friend in trouble. I'll go quickly he
replied; that is my business The true
business of the minister of Jesus Christ is
to minister to those for whom Christ died.
ITO be good minister he must have had
personal experience OF what comfort to a
man shedding tears is a minister who him
? self hath not shed a tear? God sends as
helper of men one who has himself needed
; help. An angel so glorifed one cannot look
into its face is poor evangel to man. One
} day John McQuoid found the secret of
power to be in Jesus Christ and his one
ambition since was to get other men in the
same place. So he went about getting men
like himself into the same victory. He had
the first requisite to be good minister OF
Jesus Christ because he had had religious
experience.
I care not for his views about things
upon which thoughtful men differ One
thing ! am assured Of he could stand be-
fore his congregation and say. I was a
sinner and by the grace of God I have
been redeemed With such experience he
was the right kind of man to be a helper
of men When you look in the face of a
man opening the scriptures you want to
5 feel that he knows of the help he would
| bring to you. John McQuoid could pick
out of his congregation dozens of men who
; probably knew more about science than he
l knew, or more about philosophy. or many
other subjects. But none of them could
l say that they knew more of the power Of
l God to save IA sinner than the man who
5 was in the pulpit. He was a specialist
: and of whom you could say, That man
=. knows what it is to be sinner and knows
how to help me-
t "A good minister must be more than ar
eXhorter or relator of personal religious ex.
perience. He must be a student. with ap.
( plication for research, and power for clari.
flying the truth. John McQuoid in his early
S life was deprived Of the opportunity o.
these privileges, yet all his life time ht
was student He was always a thinker
, an Unsuitable reader, continually searching
for facts He lived in the realms Of the
highest and the noblest. He had a remark
able faculty for seeing and grasping quickly
a thought, and gave it out with rare genius
He was growing man.
, Il think | can hear some of his own peo-
I pie say to me- You did not know him as
we knew him.. ! knew him better I knew
j, the books he was reading, the thoughts ht
p was thinking, and the plans he was build.
ing. The essential needs for a good min
! lister he had in abundance. He had bis
heart. He was simple and so guile.
/ less he had no conception of deceit. He re,
, joiced to see others rejoice, but he was
= sorrowing when they were in sorrow. He
was ready at a moments notice TO do wha
s he could for his fellow men. | brough
0 him into the Methodist church. | tool
e him in on probation took him into full
D membership, gave him an eXhorter's license
: found him discouraged sitting on a coun
! try fence, wondering what action a schoo
i beard would take upon his application fol
z a position teacher.
IF ever a pastor loved people John Nc
/. Quoid loved the congregation Of the Firs
, church. You have worked together day by
, day through the hard times holding up Tho
burden which was upon you. 1t was
heavy one for your pastor. / doubt not
there were many times when he wished
there might be some honorable way in
which he could get from under it. He has
I Fo2,. hoo ,,1,, III,