True Friendship A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Character of the Rev John Overton Choules, DD, Delivered in the Second Baptist Church, Sunday, February 24, 1856 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from True Friendship: A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Character of the Rev. John Overton Choules, D.D., Delivered in the Second Baptist Church, Newport, R. I., On Sunday, February 24, 1856

WE have met in this temple to-day to honor the memory of a departed friend. The hand of Death has struck a blow which vibrates throughout a wide sphere of acquaintanceship. We are participants of a common sorrow; the sense of painful bereavement which so deeply affects the family-circle, the church, and the parish, is largely shared by the whole com munity, and is felt by multitudes far distant, who, were it in their power, would fain be present here to swell the solemn dirge which gives a tongue to grief, to express their cherished love for one whose name awakens fond and pleasant memories, the like of which will rarely come at any other bidding.

Very seldom has the announcement of a man's departure from the quiet walks of the living world overspread so many pleasant households with an air of sadness, or caused so many warm and genial souls at once to throb with sympathetic anguish. The fatal shaft has often mitten down the great men of the earth, removing them suddenly from the giddy heights of honor or of power, and then a whole nation has been summoned to behold the funereal display, to show forth the signs 'of official respect but in all this formal demonstration it might be seen. That scarcely a single heart of man, or woman, or child, had any real concern, and that the whole mournful pageant had been fashioned according to some conventional law of propriety or of precedent. It has been truly said.

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