Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-12
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
We'll Known People Who Have Been 
 Called Away.

II S~AsSS HWWJs
 The funeral of the late Professo
 David c. Porter took place yesterda,
 afternoon from the family residenc, { on the Cheshire road. The activ,
 bearers, all deacons of the First Bap ( tlst church, were A. !. Shipley, E. |.
 Ashley, James H. Mintie, s. A. Ris
 don, William O'Neil and Newton c
 Smith The active bearers, member,
 of Mad River grange, were Dwigh | Webster, Archer Blewitt, Harry Cot
 and Robert Haskins. The Secont
 church quartet, composed of Mis-.
 Carrie Kingsley, soprano; Mrs Isaac
 Beecher Clarke, contralto; Merritt
 Tompkins, tenor; and Isaac Beechel
 Clarke, baritone, sang Lead, Kindly
 Light" Forever With the Lord" ant
 Abide With Me" The floral tributes
 were profuse. The interment was il
 Riverside cemetery.
 | Rev Dr Haywood read the service
 and delivered the eulogy. He said in l part:
 "The best gift of God to nations
 and communities is the gift of ap. | right men. Howsoever bountiful the
 heavens may be, howsoever rich the
 earth in harvests; though every wind
 of heaven wait prosperity to it's ports till the land Is crowded with ware
 houses stuffed to repletion with treas
 ure, that country is poor whose citi.
 Zens are not noble. When God means
 to do well by nation that has back l slidden, among the earliest tokens of
 his beneficent intent is the reappear-
 ance in high places and low places of men of integrity and honor-men who | live for their fellows and not for them I selves The beginnings of New Eng | land, as you remember, were eminent | ly religious. Our fathers came hither | to establish new and notable dis pensation, seeking to build it upon foundations of righteousness. For
 generations they succeeded and on
 this soil made sacred by their pray
 CTS, there was builded Christian in stitntions which have blessed all man.
 kind, but greater than the churches
 and schools have been the men pro- duced by them and the ideas and sys- tems of ideas evolved from them. From this land first populated by Eu- rope have been sent back across the sea those influences which have re- constructed European life It would appear that for the past fifty years we have been passing through period of religious decadence and many good men have lost heart because of this condition of things. But there are many signs of returning faith and af ter the long winter we see the fore tokens of Gods promised springtime. One of these signs is the reappearance of the prophetic temperament, godly men who give themselves to devout mediation upon the mysteries of re- ligion and such a one was our friend whose sudden and unexpected death we mourn now.
 "The unselfishness, the generosity, the quiet, unconscious power, the pur- ity of thought ahd speech and life of D. G. Porter attracted you to him and won for him without design or effort on his part, the soulful friendship of that limited number of his fellow citi- Zens whose good fortune it was to find way Into the reserved domain of his intimate acquaintance. The noblest monument to any man is that which is built up day by day, patient ly in the after life of those who loved him and who try to reproduce in them selves that which they loved iii !, h ftl-, The tendency with many persons of culture is to fall back from the com mon struggles of men and in some de licious solitude nurse their slothsome loves and dainty sympathies, and, some may think that this was our friends ideal and disposition. and if so they misunderstood and mlsinterpreted brave and modest gentleman. His sympathies were enriched by wide observation through travel and an ac- curate knowledge gained from books, and he brought to the help of all those with whom he talked the sweet and tranquil philosophy of Christian opti, mism.
 He believed that the music of the spheres is set 10 the note of victory and that the divlnely ordered course of the world and the universe is mak- ing for righteousness. With him Je- sus' doctrine of God the Father. om- nipotent and ever loving was the so- lution of every baffling human proh- lem, and above all the tumult and disorder of mortal life he saw the Hv- ing Redeemer standing at the right hand of the Almighty. The worlds sorrow was never so dark but that he could see over and through 1t the com ing dawn of the day of the Lord, for he believed that the sorrow of the world is the sorrow of God and the 1 Redeemer of the world is God him. | self. A heart overburdened with the world problem of misery and threat l ening ills was frightened and lifted by | an hours silent chat with Professor | Porter. and yet he was a man of se- | rious soul. His optimism which was ever undimmed was inspired by the | upward look to faith but 1t was q faith | whose handmaid was reason. There were characteristics strongly present In Mir Porter's intellectual life which are much needed and seldom con- Dined in our day and country, One was that he combined the highest and 1roadest Christian charity with the firm attachment to truth and fidelity Q honest conviction. It was one of he practical problems of our time to associate these, not sacrificing either O the other
 And the other characteristic was his-at a time when political and Ocial evils spread widely and struck locnlr when many man x.-i, ,,-a-,,9f