North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . tion of H. M. Blair to the task assignedhim by his brethren. But we attempt no eulogy of our , we give the following excerpts fromthe comprehensive appreciation of our fallencomrade that Rev. J. H. Barnhardt read at thefuneral services: Appreciation by Rev. J. H. Barnhardt. The great soul of Rev. H. M. Blair passedthrough the gates into the City of God in theearly morning hours of May 19, 1924. This friend of man and servant of the churchhad lingered for many days along the border,and since he has slipped so quietly from amongus we fe
North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . tion of H. M. Blair to the task assignedhim by his brethren. But we attempt no eulogy of our , we give the following excerpts fromthe comprehensive appreciation of our fallencomrade that Rev. J. H. Barnhardt read at thefuneral services: Appreciation by Rev. J. H. Barnhardt. The great soul of Rev. H. M. Blair passedthrough the gates into the City of God in theearly morning hours of May 19, 1924. This friend of man and servant of the churchhad lingered for many days along the border,and since he has slipped so quietly from amongus we feel that his will, as well as the Lords,has been accomplished in his going. And nowthat the storms are hushed in the harbor, andthe tempests lie quietly in the lap of the de-clining day, we behold in him the after glow ofqualities and virtues which were partly ob-scured in the midday splendor of his vigorousmanhood, and which we were too blind to seewhen we worked by his side in the stress of thedays toil. There is always a lingering halo of. REV. HUGH McLEOD BLAIR precious memory surrounding the life of a goodman or woman—a kind of intangible, thoughreal, presence—which may be observed profita-bly by us, but which can never be translatedinto human vernacular, nor handled even bythe gloved hand of neighborly sympathy andlove. Hugh McLeod Blair was the eighth child ofMorgan Blair and Mrs. Elizabeth McLeodBlair, of Caldwell county. He was born Sep-tember 9, 1853. He grew up on a farm in hisnative county, and when a young man attendedRutherford College, from which institution hegraduated with the B. S. degree in 1875. Laterhe received the degree of A. M. from the sameinstitution. Practically all of his life he feltthe call to preach the gospel. With him, aswith his contemporaries in those days, the min-istry was a calling entirely too high for him tobe worthy to enter it, and if he should enter itat all, he felt that it was incumbent upon himto exert his utmost endeavor by way
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