Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-30
PRAISES REV. Mr.. DETMILER.
methodist Organ Speaks Highly Of

Late Deceased Minister.
The North Carolina Christian Adyo
cate speaks in high terms of praise O
the ability and service of the Rev. G
II DetwiIer, an account of who's,
Ideath appeared in last weeks Demo
crat, and who engaged in his frs
work in Western North Carolina az
president of the Judson college q
flendersonville
The following, which is only par
If the contents of the Advocate, viii
doubtless be of interest to the many
fliends of the deceased in this ser
ton:
DIR. Detwiler was in his sixty-first
year. He was born in Illinois in An
gust, 1853. While yet a young man
he went to Iowa and, entering the
ministry, became a member of the Des
Moines conference, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. After severa'
years of arduous work in that confer
apee. including much eyangelistf~'
work among the cowboys of the wes-
tern frontier, on account Of the i'll
aealth of his wife and some impair
l2ent of his own, he removed to Yves
tern North Carolina, and engaged in
educational work, preaching occasion
~ as had opportunity. In the year
1895, at the session of the Western
North Carolina Conference held il
Sslisbury, he was received by transfer
rom the Des Moines conference and
appointed to Rutherfordton. It was
SION discovered that we had in him
PREACHER and pastor of very marked
ability. Learned, consecrated, and a
man of apparently inexhaustib1e re
sources for pulpit work, he was, nev.
ertheless man of simple and unas-
cunning nature With all the bril-.
liancy and power of a Jowett in his
Pulpit ministrations, he never seemed
in the least disposed to parade his
talents or make any display of him
self. His forte was the pastorate Of q
large city church.
He was man of deep-and abiding
sympathfes; and as pastor, was no
of persons.
Those who sat under the ministry Of |
his great man of God will never for
get the prayers that" he offered, es-
2ecially in his opening service. These
;rayers were apparently the impromp
u utterance of the occasion, yet they |
moved with the rythm of inspired |
'csey. and would have read like a
rose. poem. How the fire burned |
lpon the altar, and how the heart of
he attentive listener -IeapEf forth to
atch the coming message! And the
reaching, who can describe it? The
est description is that inspired &C
t.of the effect of the word of God
Sharper than any two-edged sword
iercing even to the dividing asunder
f soul and spirit, and of the joints
nd marrow and a discern
7 of the thought and intents of the
cart" Who that ever heard hin,
rom time to time but felt that his soal
ad been laid bare under the dazzline
eht of truth. The greatness of thu
AN as q preacher was often put
le test, but never more, perhaps.
IAN during his last pastorate at Wes1
I'D, Nashville Here he minfstered
J congregation composed largely of
re, faculty and students of Vanderbilt /
University. Difficult as the situatiop. | ]
to be, he held this eongre
ton With grip of steel; and .an.8ye Fl
itness of his last service with them
'stifes that the scene was pathetic |
ere, as elsewhere, he had found his
az rlht into the hearts of the peo-
~ 'and- they gave expression of til,
aepest grief when they found that the
'saf1 sgese4 {
:Dr: Detwflst asiTEeed RltheFfordton. ,
Ast6tiia, Trinity and Tryo1s Street. I
narfotte, West Market street. Greens
,ro, and Central, Asheville, as pastor. /
Id was one year on the Salisbury
strict as presiding elder, making a
al of fifteen years in our confer :
ice. During these years he formed :
reng attachments and it is well :
1own to those most intimate with
m that he longed to come back again :
the dear people of his adopted !
omeland. II