Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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r. 1boge as a llbreacber. BY XVALTER XY. MOORE. OF UNION Sl-EMINARY,X'lRLi1NlA. EW men in any walk of life have ever so deeply impressed an entire com- munity with the power of a noble personality as the lamented servant of God whose virtues and labors we commemorate to-day. Certainly no minister of the gospel in all the history of this ancient commonwealth was ever accorded a position so eminent by the public at large. This popular estimate was deliberate and exact. The people knew him. For more than fifty years, through storm and sunshine, in peace and war, they had studied his character and watched his work, and they have rendered their verdict, that Moses D. Hoge was a man, a strong, wise, high-minded, great-hearted, heroic mang that through all these years of stress and toil and publicity he wore the white Flower of a blameless life, and that he preached the gospel of the grace of God with a dignity and authority and tenderness, with a beauty and pathos and power which have rarely if ever been surpassed in the annals of the American pulpit. Long before the close of his consecrated career he had taken his place in public interest even by the side of those stately memorials in this historic city 18

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which men have come from the ends of the earth to see-the bronze and marble reminders of the men who have forever associated the name of Yirginia with eloquence and virtue and valor. No vis- itor who had come from a distant state or a land beyond the seas to look upon these memorials of the great Yirginians of former days felt that his visit to Richmond was complete till he had seen and heard the man who, though an hum- ble minister of the Cross, was by com- mon consent the most eminent living citizen of a commonwealth which has always been peculiarly rich in gifted sons. lt was his privilege to preach to a larger number of men whose com- manding influence in public life. in the learned professions, or in the business world, had conferred prosperity and honor upon the State than any other spiritual teacher of the time. He was more frequently the spokesman of the people on great public occasions than any other man whom Richmond has delighted to honor. He was more fre- quently the subject of conversation in the social circle than any other member of this cosmopolitan community. In every community where he once ap- peared his name was thenceforth a at present to speak of these things. I allude to them only in order to empha- size the fact that the explanation of this preeminence in public esteem lay largely in the character of his work in the pulpit. ' That was his throne: there he was king. In attempting to comply with the request of the session of his church to say something to-day in regard to this out- U household word. lt is not my province I d standing feature of Dr. Hoge's work, a feeling of peculiar sadness comes over my heart. It will be many a long day before any man who knew him can stand in this pulpit without a sense of wistful loneliness at thought of that venerated figure, with its resolute attitudes and ringing tones, which for fifty-four fruitful years I9