The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-12-22
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AN APPRECIATION.
In Memory Of the Late Rev. Charles
A. FuiwOOd.

Rev. CnarteB Aiten CuAWOOub ~ 80
a member of the Florida Annual Con,
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, was born near Fort
Valley, Ca, February 20, 1923, and
died at the altar of the church in Ocala,
Fla, December z, 1905.
Hundreds of hearts will long to place
tenderly the chaplet Of love on his
grave, but there will be found none TO
mourn for his home-going as sincerely
as those who were taught the lessons
of life at his lips. For sixty years this
man of God and minister Of the Lord
Christ, went in and out in the sight OF
his brethren, unstained, unsupported
and honored by them all.
never knew one just like him. he
combined in himself such elements OF
strength with the softer virtues of mod
esty and patience, that he was man
for whom one never had to apologize.
Those who knew him best are his warm
est eulogists. All over Georgia and
Florida his name stood for manhood and
courtesy. In the pathway of religious
| fanaticism-in the march of that mod
ern dissertation of things sacred-h
rose up like great rock, hurting back
with his single strength the oncoming
forces of error and evil.
He can i'll be spared at this time. he
! held the traditions Of ancient gentllity,
of honor, of unspotted truth. OFTEN he
prieved over the "evil manners of our
times" but with an optimistic faith he
believed that God was in His world, and
would eventually make things right.
His strength lay in the power OF self
control. His heart was always fresh
with the aspiration to conquer by the
newest offer of truth. He grappled
with the keenest zest the most dit1cult
problems, and threw over question OF
morals or duty the glamOr Of pathos and
fervor and eloQuence. Though the con-
firmation of his purposes was some
times delayed, his charm of life finally
carried him to the goal
His courage and devotion TO duty
were of the highest order. In the vel
low fever epidemic at Key West, during
his pastorate there, he was an angel OF
hope and consolation. Visiting through
the dreary days and dreadful nights OF
that scourge, his words of prayer fell
upon the fast-deafening ears Of the dy-
ing, smoothing the passage OF many &c
the unseen land, and inspiring them tc
a trust which robbed. death of its ter
rors and the grave of its gloom AS the
chaplain of a Georgia regiment, &. ),
A., in the days of hunger and disease
and death, his words and his life wor
many to the service of righteousness
some Of whom still linger on these
shores to venerate the memory Of theii
spiritual father in God.
AS he stood in the presence Of the
bishop surrounded by his brethren II
the church in Ocala- testifying to the
ioy of the service of Christ-a beam o.
, golden light filtered through the stained
glass window and rested on his face
and the wing of Azrael touched him
: and he was not, for he had passed int
l the fellowship of the immOrtals to b,
forever with the Lord.
The example of such man cannot b.
lost. Reaching across two generations
he has left the impress Of his work Of
|, the hearts of thousands. A soldier o
: the truth, the bright steel of his armo
3 was never furnished, but threw back I
! the coming generations as he sank 7
rest, the level beams of the sun Q
{ ! righteousness as brightly and divinel
2 as when, in the splendor Of the mornin
i of his life he caught the first rays Q
: that earlier rising. Amen. "A. l.. Hor
iker, in Times-Union.