The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-09

A GOOD MAN
PASSES BEYOND
DR.. Hunter Dies After Only A
Few Days Illness.

On Tuesday, April TIN, 1914, the
much beloved pastor of the First Pres
byterian church of Yale, the Rev. DR..
If. ID. Hunter, after very short illness,
died at his post of duty while in the
midst of his special preparatory SER
vices in his church for Easter.
The Presbyterian church has lost a
leader who had an eminently SUGGEST al
record as pastor and church admin
strator. His ministry of forty years
and more was divided between Ohio,
Illinois, Missouri, i eXas and Michigan,
including nearly ten years in London,
Ont.
lie was born in Mount Albert,
Canada, in 1851, OF Irish parentage.
His father, John Hunter, and his
mother originally were members of the
Presbyterian church, later of the
Methodist.
The late Rev. Dr. Samuel j. Hunter
and the Rev. DR.. William j. Hunter
were brothers Of the decea,e ed.
His executive abilities IN guarding
the manifold activities of a large cOli-
gregatiOn were OF high order lie
was distinctly an edllier ol the religious
lives of his people, confirming their
faith, dissipating their difficulties and
encouraging their hearts.
he appealed to the best in man,
reached their finer impulses and quick
ened their higher natures. He guided
men into sound and wholesome reli.
gious thinking and healthful religious
experience and cultivated in them a
lofty Christian sentiment and taste.
He excelled as a pastor. "None bore
with more graciousness and effective
ness the Shepherds crook for the
guidance and protection of the flock of
the great shepherd, than did he"
He was quick to find out people III
their sorrow and trouble and to bring
them comfort and tortitude and he did
it with fine pastoral delicaoy and
Christian sympathy.
1t was a beautiful elimination OF
his ministry TO see the respect shown
him by all the various churches aud
townspeople of Yale, rich and poor,
DR.. Hunter was united in marriage
to Miss Charlotte Price White, of
Weymouth, England, on the 11th day
of May, 1871. Two children were theirs,
j ohm Edward and Pearle, and the
latter's death occurring in May last
year, deeply affected the father. His
only surviving sister and member of
the family Mrs. William Munns, OF
Toronto, and her husband have been
with Mrs. Hunter during the most OF
the doctors illness,
The sudden and great sorrow which
has come upon Mrs. Hunter this week,
has also fallen with heavy uumbing
force upon the Presbyterian church,
III the full activity Ot his passlontide
services, for which weeks of prepaTa-
tiUn had been given by the pastor and
from which he was anticipating such
harvest, with his heart aud soul bound |
up IN his beloved work and so eX-
pectantly waiting Tor the Easter cul. |
1t is beyond his peoples |
that he could be called |
to rest, TO fold his arms in peace, TO lay
down all his burdens and 10 hear it
said that his work on earth was done
when IL seems to his people here that
his presence among them ls 50 utterly
necessary.
His pastorate In This church of over
two years has been one Ui loving kind |
ness ana faithfuluess and efficient ser
vice The sympath, of the entire
community goes out To the bereaved
family and TO the church.
The body of Rev. Dr. Hunter will lie |
in state in the Presbyterian church !
from III a. m. on Friday till p. m.,
when the services will be held, conduct
I'd by Rev. +. IL. BradGield, of Lapeer,
with music by the full choir.
Last respects to the beloved dead |
will be given at the resting place in
ElmwOOd cemetery.