The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-12-22
AN APPRECIATION.
BY REV. R. L. HoNIKER, d. D

BY REV. r.. L. HONIKER, ID. ID.
Rev. Charles Allen Fulwood. d. D.,
member Of the Florida Annual Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, was born near Fort
Valley, Ga, February 20, 1929, and
died at the altar of the church in
Ocala, Fla, December 7, 1906.
Hundred of hearts will long to place
tenderly the chaplet of love on his
grave, but there will be found none
to mourn for his going as SIN
cerely rs those who were taught the
lessons of life at his lips. For sixty
Yeas this man of God and minister
of the Lord Christ, went in and out
in the sight of his brethren, unstain-
cd, unsupported and honored By them
all.
l never knew one just like him.
lie combined in himself such ele-
ments Of strength with the softer vir-
tues Of modesty and patience, that
he was u man for whom one never
had to apologize. Those who knew
him best are his warmest eulogists
All over Georgia and Florida his
name stood for manhood and courte-
sy Ia the pathway of religious fan
al icisIh-in the march of that mod
ern Dissertation of things sacred, he
rose up like great rock, hurting
back with his single strength the on
coming forces of error and evil.
He can ill be spared at This time.
lie held the traditions of ancient gem
tility, of honor, of unspotted truth.
Often he grieved over the "evil man
ners of our times" but with an OPTIC
miStic faith he believed that God was
in His world and would eventually
make things right. His strength lay
in his power of self-cOhtroI. His
heart was always fresh with the as
piration to conquer by the newest Of
fer of truth. He grappled with the
keenest ZesG the most difficult prob
lens, and threw over II question of
morals or duty the glamour Of pathos
and fervor and eloquence. Though
the consumation OF his purposes was
sometimes delayed, his charm of life
finally Carried him to the goal.
His courage and devotion to duty
We're of the highest order. In the
yellow fever epidemic at Key West,
during his passionate there, he was as
all 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 dying, smooth
ing the passage of many to the un-
seen land, and inspiring them to II
trust which robbed death of its ter
rors and the grave of it's gloom. AS
the chaplain of a Georgia regiment,
9. S. A., in the days of hunger and
disease and death, his words and his
life won many TO the service of right
eousness-s of whom still linger
on these shores to venerate the MEM
Dry of their spiritual father in God.
AS he stood in the presence of the
bishop surrounded by his brethren in
the church in Misunderstanding to the
joy of the service of Christ-a beam
of 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 into the fellowship OF the
immortals to be forever with the
Lord.
The example of such II man cannot
be lost. Reaching across two genera
tions, he has left the impress of his
work on the hearts of thousands. A
soldier of the truth, the bright steel
of his armor was never furnished,
but threw back to the coming gene
rations as he sank to rest, the level
beams of the sun of righteousness as
brightly and divinely us wLeI, in tie
splendor of the morning Of his life he
caught the first rays of that earlier
rising. Amen.