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VOL. LXXXVI1. R1CHM
The Holies
We knew it was the room of death,
The solemn hour had come;
One of the Master's chosen ones,
A ViCtOrV npnrlt." i
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A holy silence brooded 'round.
The death-damp on her face;
She spoke?" 'Tls but one sinner more,
A sinner saved by grace!"
A shock of corn all fully ripe,
And heaven's own impress;
We long had felt the lofty worth.
The loving saintliness;
And here in sight of gates of pearl
She takes the lowliest place
Among earth's poor, unworthy ones?
"A sinner saved by grace!"
Her pastor stood beside her couch
mere on the borderland,
And gloried In one triumph'more.
The waiting crown at hand*
Yes. take me to the church," she said.
The dear old sacred place,
And tell them that, and that alone?
A sinner saved hv
Rev. Richard Mcllw
PRESIDENT (IPC
The announcement of the death of l)r. Hichard
Mcllwaine has been received with profound regret
by hundreds of the alumni of Hampden-Sidney
College. For more than two decades he served
that institution with*rare fidelity and distinction.
i ne personality of no man, living or dead, has
been more deeply impressed upon it. My own
undergraduate training was essentially the product
his care and friendship. Four years later I
began my career as college professor under his
administration. I have it in my heart, therefore,
to render a brief tribute to the memory of the
man whose friendship and inspiration has meant
so much to me. In rendering this tribute I ant
speaking, not merely for myself, but for hosts of
others who loved him and tire indebted to him.
The Central Prpshuipri/tn_ in iliannaainfr I !>
Mcllwaine's resignation of the presidency <>l
Hampden-Sidney, very justly referred to him as
"the first citizen of the whole Southside of V irginia.'
It was characteristic of Or. Mellwaine
that he always found time to be a good citizen.
He was pre-eminently a man of the people, lie
lived in a trying period. His young manhood
Mood the test, of both war and reconstruction with
lortitude and with faith. He was a soldier and
a patriot. It was a fitting tribute to his high
standing as a citizen that the people of Prince
Edward made him their representative in the
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901. Ho
became a leader in that able hotly of men. lie
served as chairman of the Committee on Education.
His speech on the suffrage question touched
the high-water mark of patriotism. It was worthy
of the man and of the occasion.
V)r. McTlwaine's career as a minister of ..the
gospel and as secretary of missions is well known
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' Don't praise me there?it is God's house?
The pulpit was not built
To laud imperfect souls of earth,
The blemish and the guilt;
Tell them of Him, tell them ot Him,
Who took the sinner's place,
And if I'm mentioned, tell them this?
A sinner saved by grace!
"I've lived and loved through faulty years,
A woman?that is all;
And now I'm dropping by the way
Just as God's sparrows fall;
A lowly woman?that is all,
Least of a
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Let pulpit tell but this alone?
A sinner saved by grace!
"It was no credit, pastor?no?
No cerdit to poor me,
If Jesus held my wayward hand
Through each infirmity;
Go tell them that?one sinner more
Plucked from sin's heedlessness,
And resting in the saving blood?
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to the readers of our Church papers. My father
followed him in one of the charges of his early
career. My own boyhood was largely spent in that
cjihrgo. I am in position, therefore, to testify
to the affection and admiration felt for him as a
Christian ininMer h\ the people of Amelia, re
DR. RICHARD McILWAINF..
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MEMBER 17, 1913. NO. 37
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"The Sacred Desk was never meant
To flatter humankind;
Go tell them that In Christ alone
All merit is enshrined;
And if my funeral must be preached,
Xow with Him, face to face.
Go tell them this is all my plea?
A sinner saved by grace!"
Celestial light was on her brow;
We knew the gates were near;
If holiness were known on earth.
It surely must be here;
And yet so np?"
_ v..c great rewards.
She claimed the humblest place;
"Go tell them just one sinner more,
A sinner saved by grace!"
"Christian doctrines are not merely ancient
symbols or undisputed truths; they are formulas
for solving the eternal problems of Ife."
Work is the very salt of life; not only preserving
it from decav^Jjul '
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I'd in Farmville and in Lynchburg.
J am convinced that Dr. Mcllwaine is entitled
to high rank as a preacher. It was Kmerson, 1
believe, who said: "There is no eloquence, unless
there is a man behind the speech." Undoubtedly,
the sincerity and strength of Dr. Mcllwaine's
character gave power to whatever he said. He
was always instructive and clear. He scorned
artifice and sophistry. His appeal was, everywhere
and all the time, to the understanding and to the
conscience. He was logical in his method, and
powerful in his sincere conviction of truth.
j'tv- career of Dr. Mellwnine as secretary of
missions is familiar to all who have any intimate
knowledge of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
He served the Church in its most important work
with ra'c ability and success. His remarkable
eveeutivo genius did much to organize this work,
and to place it on the high plane of efficiency that
it hn* since occupied.
Hut the great work of Dr. McTlwaine was as
president of Hampden-Sidney College, and as
prof( s-oi of moral philosophy and Hihle studies.
1 pause here to say that he was one of the few
really great teachers that I have known, fie
demanded a thorough mastery of fundamental
principles. He insisted on a thorough knowledge
i details. He was master of the Socratic method.
\'o one could deeeive him. lie held eaeh student
r<' ponsible for the origin and the exact definition
< T every word used in tlm text-book, especially in
case of a word of uncommon type or of classic
derivation. But the host thing in connection with
his service as teacher was his affection for, and
interest in, his "bova," his sympathy with them
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111 men wurK, aim uniauing lovaltv to thorn.
This was truly a passion with him, and it hound
them to him as if with hands of steel.
But it is of Dr. Mcllwaine as college president
that the great public would desire me to speak.