The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-05
MOURN DEATH Of
GENERAL MALE
RESUME OF CAREER OF VIRGINIA
SOLplER-TRieUTE PAID BY
PASTOR.

! A close personal friend of the late
I Adjuianf-tfenerai Male, requests the
! publication of the following resume Of
/ his career and details Of the funeral
! services held on Tuesday at Culpeper.
General W. Naiie "A graduate OF the
Engineering Department or the Viz
gltia Military Institute at Lexington.
va, Adjutan. General under Governors
Tyler and Montague, and one of IN"
most distinguished citizens OF Cujpeper
county. died at his home in Culpeper
GA Sunday. July 80, 1871, OF typhoid
fever
In his death. not only his community.
but the entire State soses a most val
liable citizen. Gen. Male was in the
sixty third year OF his age. lilo In eur .
vived By his widow. three sens and
two daughters.
His father, Thomas Bolts Male, was
for many years pnrser III the United
States Navy, and later a member OF
the Virginia Legislature. HIS mother
was Coiumbsana Major Male.
General Nalle was given q military
funeral. To the second regiment OF
Virginia, now in camp at Camp sale,
was given the honor Of preceding to
the grave the body Of General Nalie,
who for many years was captain OF
the Gulpeper Minute Men, passin
through the grades OF Major. Lieuten-
ant Colonel and Colonel of the Third
Regiment, Virginia Infantry, in which
capacity he served IN the Spanish
American War
The. military escort, composed Of the
Second Regiment Virginia Infantry,
from Camp Sale. unuer the command
OF Colonel Leady. preceded the pro-
csss3on and ndded solemn impress
siVeness to the occasion. Gen. G.. c.
Vaughan and staff. according to mill
tary custom. taking position in rear
of the carriages occupied by the fam
lily,
Just before starting from the resi-
dence, q very brief service was con-
Quoted by DIR. Winfrey. the Baptist
Minister here. for many years a warm
personal friend of the Generals. and
pastor to the Generals family. The
Intense heat and the fact that some
Of the men standing In line were suf
fering from the fierce direct rays of
the sun. compelled the minister to alb
breviate his remarks, but he has fur
nishsd the following which compre-
bends the substance of what he said
after reading very short selections
from the Goth and 34th and 39th
Psalms and Offering prayer.
Il have been thinking OF some of
the things as to each of which we
may now say. 1t Ii WELL First OF all.
il is well to have known such q man
as was our neighbor and friend whose
form YOU will presently lay beneath
the sod. AS he was In body and In
bearing. so Was he also in mental
mold and habit Broad. strong, high,
noble So gentle, gracious. charita-
BILE, kind-he might sometimes have
been thought easy and overindulgent
But, SO strictly Just. so thoroughly
and uncompromisingl upright and
honest~--he might sometimes have
been mistakenly thought to be Sc
we're: A man no was so tender ana
kind, and Yet SO unswervingly true
and honorabie--nis influence will
abide, uplifting and inspiring. with all
who knew him.
1T is we'll that we do not eeTapre-
hend the wisdom of God~--are not able
to trace out His ways. Why was
this man, friend, citizen. husband. ia
Their, brother-so strong, SO Well en-.
dowed. 50 hoonrad and SO honora Bile
taken from us? 'Ah. here is for US a
call to humility and meekness and pa
tient waiting, to faith and hope, to
reverence and alteration before the
reverence and alteration before the
Sovereign and only Goo.
1T is we'll that we DO not know the
love of God-that We are not able to
ods: In how many ways IT worketh.
how full and deep and wide and high
it In. how persistent, how prevailing.
And il is we'll that. although We
do not fully know His love. and can
not trace out His WAYS. we do know
Him-know Him as the God and Fa-
ther OF our Lord Jesus, the Christ
kcnwn Him as our Father in heaven
and know that with all Of our In =
terests and in all OF our experiences
We may trust Him, and that trustin z
Him We shah he sheltered and guided
and kept by Him"
The paste raise offered a PRAYER at
the grave and when the mound had
been made above the sleeping citi-
/ zen soldier and the RICH. fasa, tribute
had been laid upon IT, the benediction
was pronounced by Chaplain Hall, o,
the regiment, the hugier then sound
ed taps the cuipeper Minute Men
/ fred three VoileYs over the mound
and this closed the mournful eere-
monies.