The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-23

prosperity. I can almost see the earn
estness of the man, the glow Of his face,
almost TRANSPORTED, as he bent upon
you his gaze while uttering these preg
nant words: Your pastor may have
| the heart Of john whom Jesus loved;
! the fire and enthusiasm Of a Peter, who
preached with such power on the day
| of Pentecost; the eloquence of Paul,
before whom Felix trembled; but with
out your help results will never come,
for which you hope and pray and dream
| tonight These We're the last utter
| ances of Dr. Twitchell to you. | now
emphasize them and beg you never to
| forget them. Jesus could perform no
mighty work where the faith and con-
fidence Of the people were lacking In
my own recent family afllction I have
in dream seen my noble son stand
forth TRANSPORTED in strength, in glory
and joy; so, too, it appears to me that
my brother beloved, your own faithful
pastor is thus Respondent with joy and
glory and calling you to remember how
no pastor ever had more devition to
your interests and more love for you
which devotion and love are not a whit
diminished from his new standpoint,
where now In vision we behold him.
What a JOY 1t Is to our hearts to rise
above our earthly loss and see that our
friend has been called up higher where
pain and sorrow and disappointment
and sin are no more, and where use
fitness that was clogged and hindered
here at the best has become enlarged
and perpetual lin the immediate sum
shine of Christ's tender care and love.
Rev. DIR. Phillips followed General
Howard. In part he spoke as follows:
Every public man makes an impress
sion upon the community. OF the i'm
preston made upon, me by Dr. witch
ell I would say few brief words. He
stood in this and other communities
as the recognized ambassador of Chris
tian truth Men have been made bet
ter by what they saw of him, as well
as by his teachings. As preacher his
chief characteristic was earnestness
and simpleness. He was conservative,
but generous and accorded to all men
what he wished himself. But he could
not endure flippancy of the proclama-
ton of i'll digested theories. And so a $
a preacher he was ever characterized
by the evangelical simpleness and
earnestness which sent his teachings to
the hearts of men. But DR.. Twitchell
was something more than a preacher,
he was a man, kindly considerable |
man, No home in this parish and |
hardly one in this city but what well
coined his smiling presence. As citi- |
zen also, he was a man to be proud of. |
His interest in all pertaining to the |
public welfare was intense, and it never |
tagged. His attitude on all questions
of political nature was known and re-
spected and of great influence in the
Men respected him as a
large hearted man who was striving
as best he could to fashion the city in
which he lived according, to the best
of the age.
DR.. Twitchell was also a soldier In the
highest sense of the word. He knew
and was known to soldiers in the ar
mory, on the field, in the hospital and
In the annual encampment of the G..
A. r., where hong and tale bring back
TO those tried hearts remembrances of
former days In all he was comrade
in the highest sense, and all who came
IN touch with him felt him to be such.