Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-02-12
FUNERAL OF c. E. T.
Fine Tribute to Dead Teacher Paid by
the Rev. 7. c. Smart

The funeral of Charles Il. Putnev was
held Friday afternoon at two O'Clock
ct the College Street Church, and was
attended by q large gathering. A prayer
service was held in the morning at 10:30
O'Clock at the house for the family, the
Rev. 7. G. Smart officiating at both serv-
tees. The body was taken to the church
TO lie In state from Il m. to one o'clock
and was viewed by the pupils Of the high
school and friends. The honorary bear
ers were Prof. G. II. Perkins, Prof. Evan
Thomas r. S. Pease, Prof. w. E.. Aiken,
G. ID. Sherman, A. C. ~Stoughton, Gen. c.
p. Miller and J. Fl. Brooks. The active
bearers were Principal j. e. Coiburn, l..
A. Orr, II. C. Millington, Edward Kreb-
ser, William Morrison and Superintend-
ent M. ID. Chittenden. The Rev. Mr..
Smart paid the following tribute to Mr..
Putney's memory:
TIE FUNERAL SERMON.
1t takes a man to adorn any calling;
caliings require or bring special fitness,
but manhood crowns the fitness-gives
1t added scope, completeness. power and
beauty-and besuty-rejoicing the heart.
Good doctors, good lawyers, good men of
affairs, good teachers, are better If they
are also good men. The man In men
counts, counts heavily, counts beyond
reckoning. Wisdom is an intellectual thing,
"a property OF tho mind but when II Is
perfect the heart pours through 1t as the
rivers flowed through paradise. A poem
In the scriptures says that wisdom created
the world. not as a task, but as a pastime.
Speaking Of God, wisdom says, 81 was
daily his delight, sporting before him,
sporting in his habitable earth When
one sees a man investing his work with
personal charm, one knows tho difference
between a photograph and n painting
a photograph with It's hard, incisive fl
delities, and IL painting with it's living
colors, its appeal to feeling, its lovely
beauty, something luxuriously human in
ii. a teacher has 4 special reason for
floating his service, If 1t may be upon
a stream Of personal worth and personal
charm, because he deals with children
and youth who respond to what he Is, as
well AZ to what he teaches. Daniels says
THE teacher shall shine as tho stars"
Our friend here had much of the oak,
much of the granite in his make up: some
thing also of the morning scattered upon
tho hills, something of the sun, of con-
ISOLATION and no mellowcd with The years.
He planted climbing roses side his
strength, and in the heart Of o. tender
and delicate consideration; scr = you
loved him more and more to nd.
IN MS carry youth ne naQ n o. ~
tune TO serve his country du1. the
Civil War. The ardorrs OF thai crisis
elowed in his heart to the end; the
scorching heat gone. the flashing tighten
ing gone. but never the remaining glory
Of those years when he enroblod his
young manhood by riski1r rfs life for his
country, He might have said what Gala
had said OF the Holy Grail Never yet
hath this holy thing failed from my side
nor come covered, but moving with me
night and day"
He was n faithful member of Stan
nard Post, ami long its commander. lie
!; kept the Friday night of the Post meeting
for the Post. Every Sunday afternoon he
passed my house, going to visit n com
rade whom illness kept al home. And hc
was a religious men-a Christian man
Faith was mixed with his life. Goo
strengthened him with strength In his
, soul. He was n deacon Of this church, and
while his strength permitted, a teacher II
the sunday school. He lived by his faiti
and he thought about IT. 1t was one o
;, the great interests of his mind. There l
plenty in every mans experience to limi
him-to confine him-to make him SINAI
and petty. This man had at least tw'
enthusiasms which lifted and broadene'
t his spirit-his patriotism and his religion
V The last word he spoke was the name o
his native town In New Hampshire-Bow
a A great light came into his eyes wit
the name, as II he saw the place In
vision. He loved his old home and Wis
tied IT when he could. He went back a
least in imagination and desire 20 tn
rockhold of his life, and that was we
and fair, FOR he represented the finenes
of that New England inheritance. on
perhaps should not boast, but at leas
one may say that II Is q goodly inheri
ID lance Of solidity. fidelity. seriousness
\. Fitness to live In a community and TAX
part in its affairs.
II Is said Of Elisha that he took up tn
mantle of Elijah. The mantle was a sym
" Dol Of the spirit; 1t had become almost
II personal thing. Elijah had wrapped hi
lface IN 1t when no stood in the cave