Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-06-17
Rev. Dr.. Andrew II. CackIsy.

From the Baltimore Southern Methodist.
Andrew NJ Cackley was born in Pocahon
tas county, w. Va. May rs. 1s49. and dieS
in Roanoke. Va. April %. 1918.
When he was a lad his father moved tc
Greenbrier county. W. Va, and there be
grew to manhood. He was converted at N
early age and so Gear was his conversion
that people who were present q: the time
said that he would be preacher. Not long
after that happy event God called him /. to
the ministry. He wac Ii snsed to preach by
the late Rev. VIC. Coe. then presiding elder
of the Lewisburg District. He united with
the Baltimore Conference in theyear 1875
He was happily married to Miss Annie
Moomaw, of Petersburg, W. Va, who pre-
ceded him to the heavenly home in the
year 1901. Dr. Cackley was one of the clear
est expounders of the distinctive doctrines
OF Methodism the Conference has ever had
His own faith was so clear and the evidences
of his own acceptance SO unmistakable that
he could but preach to others the eternal We
rites of his own experience. We have had
greater preachers, as the world counts
preaching, but am sure no one has ever
more clearly illustrated in his life the doc
trines he preached to Others, or lived more
self-sacriicing life, for the sake of the things
be preached, than he.
His long devotion and gentleness toward
his invalid wife; his quiet serene peace; bis
kindly face and courtly manners of the
Christian gentleman he was, have made for
him place in the hears OF those who knew
him pest that few can ever fill Many hearts
have been made happier and brighter be-
cause he lived, and many wandering souls
have found the face of the King because he
preached the Gospel of the Christ.
He was a sufferer for several years with
what he thought to be stomach trouble, but
not until sitter his return from the late Con-
ference did he discover that he was slowly
being eaten up by malignant cancer. He
soon set his earthly house in order and made
preparation for his going. He gave minute
directions concerning his funeral and then
calmly waited, counting the slowly passing
days before his Father came to take him TO
the home he so longed to enter
His abiding faith aud only hope for saliva
ton was in the atonement of his Lord in
which he trust implicitly. As the hour
sped by his Lord came nearer and nearer to
him. Often upon his lips were the words of
the hymn OF which he was very fond, my
hope is built on nothing less than Jesus
blood and righteousness Like his Lord
he suffered the awful pains of the dread dis.
ease without taking an opiate of any kind
He desired TO die possessed of all his ran
somed faculties. The end came while sur.
rounded by his brethren Of the ministry
whom be loved and the members of toe
household.
Brief services were held at the parsonage
in Roanoke and his remains taken to Falls
Church, Va, where he desired to be buried
beside the sleeping dust of his wife and
child.
At the home in Roanoke the services were
conducted by Rev. G. d. White, presiding
elder, assisted by Revs J. Howard Wells
and S. T. Senter. in the presence of the other
ministers of the town and large company
of sorrcwing friends. At Falls Church. his
friend and former Presiding elder, Rev. "
III. Woolf, conducted the service, assisted By
Ress. w. ID. Keene, J. H. Dulaney, b. F
Ball, H. L. Hour, j. H. schooly and ID. II
Kern