St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-04-01

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the living presence of man who couC
answer out of his own life the question
of the text a man who had made the
discovery that God was mindful of him
whose response had been dedication to
Gods will and work. Why, here was a
preacher sooner than we knew: bis virile
thought and force Of expression, the soul
OF feeling that spoke through him made a
strong impression on every one. If a
youth only half through the seminary
could handle the sword of the Spirit after
that fashion, we could surely toresee for
him future of commanding influence.
You and | today, looking backward,
trace the ful6llment of that early promise
through the years. We have seen the
ardor OF his boyhood ripening into the
consecrated energies of a man of God.
We have found how his genial wit and
| bubbling good cheer have spiced and
favored all his personal influence. His
sincerity and warmth OF heart have won
mems confidence and love, and brought
them by hundreds to the better life.
What stout shoulder he has put to the
worlds best work, hardest work, of lift
ing men to God. What a wholesome and
vtalizing current he has sent into the life
of his generation, like health-giving
breeze from the mountains. Year after
year, soul and spirit and body have gone
with full force, unsparingly, cheerily,
bravely into his expanding work. This,
in the exacting field of great and wide
awake city, is tremendous drain on the
resources of a man. Nothing but
sound constitution, braced with bouyant
spirits, consecrated to a great work
under God, could have held him up so
long. Now, suddenly, in the prime of his
most useful years, the silver cord has
loosed-the God whose work he did so
manfuly has taken him up.
In my thought, this quiet hour of Sun
day afternoon flooded with sunshine,
should be time of thanksgiving to God
for one more rounded life that did con.
spicuous good among men. This town,
his birthplace, should be thankful for the
honor of having given such life to the
world. We who knew him from early
life are thankful for every remembrance
OF his vivacious youth; and of his man.
hood years-genial, spiritual, sincere, in.
tense, rich with love and good work.
We're thankful for his gentle and brave
endurance OF the hard dsciplines that
smote him sore; for his modesty and per-
feet simplicity in the midst of flattering
We remember thankfully the
vital, vivid truths that he has given us
now and then from our pull pits, the ideals
of Christian patriotism that he lifted be-
ore us in the Memorial day address
three years ago. We're glad that his
heart always turned affectionatelv
toward the place of his nativity, toward
his early home and old friends-and that
against the coming of this very day, he
had, like the patriarch, purchased a par
eel OF ground Tor possession of a bury
ing place amongst US. With thanks in
our hearts and with hopes made more
sure i'll the light of our brothers Chris.
tian faith and dutifulness, we will COM
NIT his body to its resting place among
the hills and groves that he always loved
Rev. DR.. d. N. Beach opened his brief
tribute to his life in the middle west by
reading two tributes from Milwaukee
pastors, one of which is here given:
The Rev. Judson Ellsworth, pastor
Plymouth Congregational church-Dr
lde at the time OF his death was the
senior pastor among the Congregation
alists OF Wisconsin in respect to time of
service in one church. He came from
Lawrence, Mass, twenty-five years ago
to the Grand Avenue congregational
church. He has not only built the church
to foremost place in membership and
among the churches, but the
spacious edihce in which it worships was
the result of his labors. DR.. Ide was
thorough student, an indeiatigable read
er, reading fine class of books and mas.
terlng their contents; keeping we'll
abreast of theological progress. while
never giving any occasion for suspicion
as to his wisely conservative attitude
towards the vital questions of religious
thinking. He grew to his last day of life.
He was conscientiously faithful as a pas
tor and public teacher and could always
be relied upon to speak brave words for
what he thought the cause Of truth or
public policy. He was a man with big
heart and generous sympathies and had
the admiration and affection of the men
who had the privilege of association
with him IN ministerial fellowship. His
preaching was epigrammatic and fore
IDLE, straight from the shoulder and en-
phasized by his splendid personal pres
ence and fine elocution. DR.. Ide was
man of peerless physical courage. He
faced death more than once with a sever
ity which was marvellous and bore suf-
ferng in pathetic silence. He was a
manly man, whole-souled Christian,
loyal friend. Lite will seem impoverished
to many OF us now that he is gone.
In closing his personal tribute to his
dear friend he spoke OF how he had found
the Milwaukee church small and strug-
CLING and left it with 1873 members, and
had he lived until Easter he would have
received 80 young people into the church.
He said DR.. lde was noted for his broad
and simple humanness, for the growth
and breadth and mprehensiveness of
his intellect and for his absolute conse-
Grafton to his Masters work.
Chamberlin Post, G. A. r., attended
the service in a body and escorted his
remains to the grave. The bearers were
Elmore T. lde, Frank W. Mason, D. M.
Camp, Rev. Edward d. Mason, Howard
Thrasher and Thomas Camp.
Temperance in Texas.