The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-14

Bishop James Cannon, Jr., opened
the service with the reading of the
scripture lesson from the fifth chap
ter of the second Epistle TO the CO.
rinthans.
Fervent prayer was offered by
Rev. Richard ii. Bennett or Nashville,
secretary of the department of min
isterial supply and training of the
Methodist church, south.
Read Memorial
DR.. Il. II. Rawlings, secretary of
the foreign mission board of Nash
Vile, an intimate associate of the
late Bishop Lambuth, was introduced
by Bishop Cannon and read the me-
mortal, as well as delivered an Inn
pressLve and eloquent tribute to the
memory of his departed friend.
In opening his talk, Dr. Rawlings
told of the incidents of Bishop Lam
buth's last illness, which overlook
him early in September, while at
tending a meeting or the Japanese
mission board, and from where he
was rushed to the general hospital
at Yokohoma, where after an opera
ton he was reported getting better,
but suddenly died September &c.
With considerable emotion, DIR.
Rawlings read a letter sent by
Bishop Lambuth to the board at
Nashville on September Il, the day
before he was placed under the sur
geons knife, in which the present
status of the work in the orient was
explained in detail and various direc-
tions given in the event of a fatau
outcome of the operation.
Real Greatness
Bishop Lambuth was the SIM
plest great man l ever knew" said
DIR. Rawlings in part. He was great
in his thoughtfulness for others, but
with his simple naturalness the ele-
ments of real greatness were distin-
guishable. never knew man who
was SO little satisfied with here and
now, who had such vision of flu
ture and distant fields where others
had not ventured He was not sat-
isfied until he himself had explored
the mission field of Manchuria and
Siberia, and gone to places and into
fields where the difficulties to over
come seemed the greatest.
Born the son of a missionary, rep
resenting tho fourth generation OF
missionaries, and for many years a
missionary in China, his restless
spirit would not be satisfied until
he had carried the gospel into the
heart of the dark continent also ana
opened up the seventh mission in the
Belgian Congo. His story will be
read as one of the romances of the
modern mission. 1t was he who in
augurated and developed the Korean
mission and organized the Texas
Mexican mission, and he was the
bishop in charge of such fields as
Brazil, Mexico. Cuba, Africa, Siberia
and the Orient.
Vision md Courage
But his vision and courage were
no more remarkable than his achieve
ment. L found traces of his work all
through the Orient. especially in
China's great centers. / heard him
preach conference sermon of so
minutes duration in the Chinese
language to the delight of the Chi
nese Christians present. In Japan
he was even more wonderful In the
founding of hospitals and schools and
his Influence in building up the
Japanese Methodist church.
$50 quiet and accomplishing was
he that no one ever suspected his
own suffering and grief. His invalid
wife urged him on in his work and
was especially solicitous about the
Korean people. and when on his last
visit to his family he hesitated to go