Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-28
GEORGE ". BUSH EULOGIzED
Memorial Services in Central
Presbyterian Churcha y
THEY WERE HELD SUNDAY NIGHT
Judge Spruance Was One OF
the Speakers.

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Services 10 memory Of George ~.
Bush we're hsld in Contra PresbJ terian
Church Sunday night. The pastor, the
Rev. T.. A. McCurdy, ID. D., presided,
and addresses were made BY Judge
William o. Spruance, Judge j. Frank
Ball and William X. Crosby. Mr..
Bush was an elder in the church and
had been Unidentified with IT since its
organization. Judge Spruance, In the
course OF his speech, said
1.-THE daily walk and conversation OF
q good man Is to the common everyday
business man far more effect for good
than thousands OF moral maxims or
feams Of learned homilies. Business
men, and especially young business
men, often think, and sometimes say.
that pookmnkers and sreechmakers and
sermonmakers know but little Of the
needs and practical methods OF purely
business life and are apt to give little
heed to their admonitions and counsel:
but show them man who has attained
success in business by q strict adler
anoe to the hilhest rules OF morality
and You present to them ar object
lesson which is at once recognized as
worthy OF attention. such man and
such life is presented TO You this
eyening."
Referring TO bis 40 years OF acquHint-
anca with Mr.. Bush, Judge Spruance
said: Above all and beyond all, In
frf nrOaparitu and in all ftn,oo nj
adversely, he was an honest man in
the highest sense of the word. He had
been carefully instructed In his child
hood in the principles OF morality and
religion, and he had back OF him tbe
example OF hundr ed years of honora-
BILE commercial ancestry. He lived up
to those principles and followed that
example, swerving not hairs breadth
from the straight aud narrow path Of
rectitude.
The high character OF Mr.. Bush was
well known and appreciated by his
= business friends and acquaintance, and
when their confidence was needed 1t was
given without stint. His sound common
sense mado bin a valued and prudent
adviser in times of difficulty and doubt;
his good judgment and fairness made
him trusted arbitrator OF differences
between his fellow citizens, and his
wide experience In business and his
adamantive honesty male him safe
and useful manager OF the affairs of the
several financial institutions with
which he was connected.
Every public enterprise which
tended to teautify the city Of his birth,
to enlarge her commercial prosperity,
or promote the improvement and happi.
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earnest and efficient helper and oftimes
best thought were freely given to every
movement which promised to bring
purer politics and better government to
his city, State and country. ~
Young men Of Wilmington, COIN
mend for your imitation the purity and
simplicity Of this mans private life,
the gentleness and courtesy which
smoothed and softened the asperity Of
business and won for him hosts of adj
miring and loving friende; the breadth
and courage with which his large and
varied enterprises were planned and
conducted; the strict integrity which
marked the whole OF his long career as
business man, and the love Of bis
fellows. which held a helping hand to
every movement for the promotion Of
their prosperity and happiness. "
Judge Ball spoke OF Mr.. Bush's work
as trustee OF Central Church, and read
the following resolutions adopted by
the board of trustees:
Whereas, God has been pleased to
call into His upper kingdom our
brother and co.laborer, George W.
Bush and b
Whereas, BY reason of his long SER
vices as member of the board OF
trustees and as chairman Of that body
we desire to acknowledge our apprecia-
tion OF the valuable services rendered
by him to this church and to record
our great sorrow at his death; there
fore. be it
Resolved, That while We recognize
that God in His Providence doeth all
things we'll, we cannot but lament that
our brother has been taken from us and
that we have been deprived of his wise
counsel.
Resolved, That in his death this
board has lost the services of wise
and safe counsellor and ITS most valued
member, whose sincere and ready in.
terest lie behalf of this church We shall
ever gratefully remember.
Resolved, That the remaining mem.
bers of this board desire to ASSURE. the
family of our friend Of our sincere
sympathy with them in the great Attic.
tion that has befallen them.
Resolved, That a copy of the fore
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