The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-11
FUNERAL OF The LATE
REV. WILLIAM F. EDGAR
Services Conducted in the Dunmore
M. E. Church, of Which He Was
Formerly Pastor.

The funeral of the late Rev. William
| l.. Edgar, of Owego, n. Y, occurred
yesterday afternoon from the Dunmore
Methodist Episcopal church, of which
he was formerly pastor. The spacious
edifice was crowded with friends and
| former pariShoners of the deceased
| " no We're anxious to pay their last
| tribute of respect to one who had been
so beloved in life.
| The service began with the rendering
by the church choir of the hymn, my
Times Are in Thine Hands, after
which Rev. Charles II. Newing, of the
Dunmore Methodist Episcopal church,
offered a most fervent and touching
prayer Rev. j. f. Warner, presiding
elder of the Honesdale district, read
the Scripture lesson and Rev. DR.. L. l..
Sprague read resolutions eulogistic of
| the deceased, which had been adopted
by the Methodist Ministers associa-
ton of Wilkes-Barre. Rev. c. H. New
| ing read similar eulogies from the
Providence and Dunmore Methodist
Episcopal churches
Rev. H. Fl. Dresser presiding elder of
the Owego district, made a short ad-
dress, during which he paid the highest
honor to the deceased as preacher
ana as Il Christian. He said that he
had never known. a man with less
| faults and more virtues than the de-
parted. He impressed the thought on
his hearers that their efforts should be
to live as truly, as nobly. and as grand
| ly ae had the life just closed.
| Rev. Austin Griffin, presiding elder
! of the Wyoming district, delivered d
short eulogy. Among other things. he
| said:
"lt is appOrtioned to but very few to
accomplish what the deceased had
wrought out. His faith was beautiful
~ shown in his last hours, when his
| only thoughts were of those dear ones
who had gone before and who he was
so soon to meet. He was possessed of
an unusually well-rounded Christian
character. In the pulpit, he was
| thoughtful, in the home life, meek and
generous; in the social meetings, spirit
ual and in the management of church
aiiairs, conservative. He was in all
| ways successful as Il Christian minis
| tor"
| Or. Griffin closed by invoking the
hcarticst sympathy of the church for
those bereft of both father and mother
|
so recently.
The rendering by the choir of two
favorite hymns of the deceased Beau
| tiful Isle Of Somewhere" and Sweet
Bye and Eye was very touching, the
last one being the last hymn upon his
, lips before the spirit left him.
The pail bearers We're Revs. III. G.
| McDermott A. IL. Chaffee f. p. Doty,
Frank Young, James Benninger and q.
! \. cure. The flower bearers We're Clin-
ton and Edward Benjamin and A. Il.
| Wagner.
Among the ministers present, the fol-
| lowing We're noted: Revs. q. A. Cure,
William Hitler. c. NJ. Suydam, C. b.
Nlurdock w. j. Hill, j. b. Davis, c. b.
| Henry, Il. b. Singer, NJ. d. Fuller, G,
| NJ. Bell, M. S. Godshall, A. j. Van Cleft,
David Evans, w. ii. Crawford, G. II.
| Prentice, j. n. Bailey and T.. NJ. Pas
coe
Among those from afar in attendance
| were: Mrs. Samuel Fairchlld, William
Andross, Mr., Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Colby. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Henwood,
Mrs. Bailey and Dr.. Dresser, all of
Owcgo; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Edgar,
Mr.. and Mrs, Roy Colville, Mrs. Haz-
zard, Alex. Edgar, William Ralph and
Edgar Rogers all of New York city,
and a. II. Rogers, of Genessee, N. Y.
a union memorial service will be held
| in Owego next Sunday, to be partici-
rutcl in by all the churches of the
town,