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Excerpt from In Memory of the Rev. William Rogers Richards: Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, Madison, New York, 1902-1910
This telegram was read from our pulpit on January loth by Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, who had returned to counsel and to console us in our sorrow and bereave ment - sheep left again without a shepherd.
At this service Dr. Van Dyke said: Dear and old friends, for the second time within ten years we are suddenly called to mourn the loss of the beloved minister of, this church. On Thursday Dr. Richards was here infull strength and vigor, working with you in Christ's vineyard. Now he has gone up higher and the Master has said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
A preacher of rare intelligence, refinement and force, at once deeply spiritual and thoroughly practical; a pas tor, faithful, sympathetic, wise and gentle; a presbyter, judicious, sane, serene and strong, caring not only for his own church but for the wide cause of Christ in the great city and in the whole world; a man of quiet power, brotherly and firm, with a clear mind, a kindly sense of humor, and a large, steady, loving heart; in all that he undertook he gave his best to his work and to his fellow-workers. Therefore he earned success. The church prospered in his care. The city was the better for his presence. We all honored and loved him, and we love him still with that grateful, tender, Christian love which shall keep his memory fragrant with the name of Jesus folded like a ?ower among the leaves of his book of life.
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