Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Page: 46
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46 CENTRAL TEXAS CONFERENCE JOURNAL
lighter work. Consequently he was sent to Jeffersonville, In-
diana. At the end of this year he was transferred to the West-
ern Virginia Conference and station at Johnson Memorial Church
in Huntington. This proved to be his last work. Before the
close of the year his health gave completely down and he was
forced to leave the charge in the hands of his son Ernest to
complete the year. He came to Texas in quest of health. But
alas! disease had sapped the foundation of life so that human
will power, endurance and fortitude, assisted by medical aid
were impotent before the encroachment of death. One year
ago from this writing, the 13th day of November, 1913, in Steph-
enville, he passed through the valley of the shadow of death to
the home of the good. Physically he was robust, large and well
developed, and of commanding personality. Of impressive ap-
pearance, a notable character in any assembly. He was endowed
with a massive brain. Although his educational advantages were
limited yet, by close application and with his natural endowments
he moved in all the circles of life with facility and was the peer
of college-bred men. From the beginning of his ministry his
advancement in the church was rapid, attesting his gifts, grace
and application to books and the work in hand. His home life
was beautiful. The family he and his good wife raised is a
standing testimony of a well regulated Christian hore. And
the eight living children and the one dead reflect the devotion
and efficiency of their sainted father and live to honor his name.
May the mantel of the father rest upon his preacher son. He was
a strong, interesting, convincing and attracting preacher. He
gave no uncertain sound but preached the Word, Christ and Him
crucified. While logical, he was lucid and practical. Absolutely
free from affectation or sensation. He drew and held large
congregations and was eminently successful as a pastor.
He was a great and good man viewed from any angle of
life. He was broad, genial and free from selfishness and con-
ceit. Large in body, intellect and spirit. He exemplified the
virtues of genuine and deep spiritual life. Free from cant or
affectation. He was honest, sincere, chaste in life. He was a
congenial Christian gentleman, and an ardent and constant
friend. He was a man of prayer. His faith in God was remark-
ably strong, which served him unfalteringly during the fiery or-
deals through which he was called to pass. He did what he
conceived to be the will of God heroically, never stopping to
count the cost, or consider himself or fear results. He endured
as seeing the invisible. He had a deep religious experience,
which was satisfying and abiding. As one of his personal friends,
I remember him with brotherly love and great esteem, and de-
light to record this tribute so justly due him. But my friend,
and yours, for he was the friend of mankind, has gone to join
the redeemed hosts, and as we say farewell to him and others of
our friends who have so recently passed over the cold river of
death, we rejoice in the doctrines of the immortality of the soul
and the resurrection of the body which inspire the glorious
hope of a happy reunion in our Father's House not made with
hands.
R. C. ARMSTRONG.
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, periodical, November 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49828/m1/46/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church.