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DEATH OF HON. HENRY KEELING ELLYSON.
The funeral orator over the dead Turrctin said: Small troubles are
noisy; great sorrows are silent. One greater than this orator or l:is
great subject said: Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speakelh. These aphorisms seem contradictory. A profound divine
of the middle ages reconciles them by the remark, that one is best
prepared to speak when he would prefer to be silent. It is when the
stunning effect of calamity is overcome by the swelling title of grief
that the tongue and pen are most inspired. After the lire bia/.ed bv
musing, the Psalmist uttered his inmost soul. I’nbidden comes to the
lips, after the startling fall of the good and great man whose name
heads these lines: ** How is the strong staff broken and the beautiful
rod.” How strong was he in convictions, in character, in conduct, in
counsel, in contest. In many a trial, mental, moral, municipal, he
stood to his purposes and position like a granite column, like the pil¬
lars of Hercules, dashed against by Atlantic and Mediterranean! And
how beautiful his countenance, his candor, his clearness, his calmness,
his courtesy, his charity, his constancy! The grand magnolia of the
Gulf States, with its oak-like vigor and crowning foresccnee, is a fit em¬
blem of this man of God, of whom it is fitly written : “ All ve that are
about him bemoan him; and all ye that know his name sav: How is
the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod !"
II. K. Ellyson was born in Richmond, Ya.,July Hist, 1S2.”>. He died
November 27th, and was buried, after appropriate services in the Sec¬
ond Baptist Church of this city, in the Hollywood Cemetery, Novem¬
ber 29th, 1K<)0. Many tributes to his memory have been offered and
published. The following was mournfully adopted, December 2nd,
1890, by the Bo reign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Conven¬
tion.
Action of Foreign Mission Board on Death of Hen.
Ы.
K. Ellyson
at their Meeting of December 2d, 1 S90.
With sad and stricken hearts, and yet with reverent submission
the Divine will, we record the death of a member of this Board :
Hon. Henn K. Ellyson died November 27th, 1890.
