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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 I Biographical Sketch 1 
 
 II Death and Burial 8 
 
 III Funeral Addresses 25 
 
 IV Tributes 37 
 
 V Memorials 50 
 
 VI Reminiscences 78 
 
I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 REV. ROBERT ERNEST CALDWELL, D. D. ; 
 fell asleep in Jesus, at half past three o'clock on 
 Sunday morning, January third, 1904, at the age of 
 forty-five years, two months and sixteen days. 
 
 He was the only son of Walter Pharr and Nannie 
 Weatherly Caldwell. 
 
 At the time of his birth his parents were residing at 
 Statesville, North Carolina, but moved to Greensboro 
 in his fifteenth year. 
 
 He connected himself with the church at that place 
 in November, 1876, under the pastorate of Rev. J. 
 Henry Smith, D. D. 
 
 After his course was completed at the University of 
 North Carolina he first adopted the profession of his 
 father, who was an eminent lawyer; but feeling the 
 divine call to preach the Gospel, he soon devoted him- 
 self to the ministry as his life-work. 
 
 For two hundred and fifty years his ancestors had 
 been Presbyterian preachers in an unbroken line, run- 
 ning back to the time of the persecution in Scotland 
 and the settlement in the north of Ireland. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 His father, who was the youngest son of Rev. 
 Samuel Craighead Caldwell, of Mecklenburg County, 
 North Carolina, was the first break in that illustrious 
 line, which included some of the most distinguished 
 preachers and teachers in the State, notably Rev. Dr. 
 Alexander Craighead, the first Presbyterian preacher 
 who resided in western North Carolina, and Rev. Dr. 
 David Caldwell, a celebrated preacher and patriot dur- 
 ing the War of the Revolution, and principal of the 
 most famous classical school in the South one hun- 
 dred years ago. 
 
 After abandoning law, Mr. Caldwell studied the- 
 ology at Union Seminary, Virginia, from which he 
 graduated in 1884, and was licensed the same year 
 by the Presbytery of Orange. 
 
 It was at Chapel Hill that he preached his first ser- 
 mon after licensure, and it was there also that he was 
 called upon to preside for the first time as Moderator 
 of Orange Presbytery. 
 
 He had in his possession a time-worn Sabbath School 
 diploma presented him by his honored teacher, Mrs. 
 Cornelia Phillips Spencer, when he was a student at 
 Chapel Hill, and it was always a source of gratification 
 to him that in the early days of his ministry he was 
 offered the pastorate of the church at that place, a 
 position of greater importance and influence than he 
 then realized. 
 
 In 1884 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Louis- 
 ville, Kentucky, as first pastor of the Southern Presby- 
 
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 terian Church at the capital city, Frankfort, where he 
 labored two years. 
 
 The membership of this young church grew in 
 eighteen months from forty to one hundred and eighty. 
 
 After a year spent in post-graduate study at Prince- 
 ton, he became pastor of the Highland Presbyterian 
 Church, Louisville, Kentucky, which doubled its mem- 
 bership in his four years' pastorate. 
 
 During these years he held a number of successful 
 revival meetings in the principal churches of Kentucky, 
 and in 1892 the Synod elected him Evangelist for the 
 State at large, feeling the need of one who had proved 
 his fitness for such work. 
 
 The Highland Church, through its commissioners, 
 expressed its sense of his usefulness in the past and 
 pleaded for his retention, but the Presbytery felt the 
 importance of the synodical call, and, as Mr. Caldwell 
 accepted it, ordered that his relation to the Highland 
 Church should terminate. 
 
 The responsible trust as evangelist he discharged 
 with fidelity and success until, after repeated calls 
 to the pastorate, he accepted the charge at Winston- 
 Salem, North Carolina, and, from April, 1893. until 
 his death, served the First Presbyterian Church of 
 that city. 
 
 During this period he received frequent calls and 
 overtures from other churches throughout the South, 
 none of which were seriously considered, however. 
 
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 on account of the importance of his work in Winston- 
 Salem, where he was wonderfully used of God. 
 
 In 1898 he was granted leave of absence by his 
 congregation, and for several months he traveled in 
 Europe, Palestine and the Orient. 
 
 In June of 1900 Central University of Kentucky 
 honored him by conferring upon him the degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity. 
 
 His first teacher, Miss Lydia Salmon, of sainted 
 memory, in commenting upon one of his boyish photo- 
 graphs, wrote : 
 
 "You really already begin to look like a Judge, but I 
 hope you will turn out to be a D. D. !" 
 
 Prophetic words, and no doubt these two friends, 
 reunited in Heaven, have spoken together of the influ- 
 ences set to work in those days of boyhood. 
 
 At the meeting of Synod in Charlotte, in 1901, Dr. 
 Caldwell was elected Moderator, and the Charlotte 
 Observer, in its report, has this to say of him : 
 
 "The present Moderator has presided over this large 
 body with much ease, grace and dignity. Not a single 
 one of his rulings has been disputed. 
 
 "There are many who are not aware of the appro- 
 priateness in the election of Rev. R. E. Caldwell as 
 Moderator. 
 
 "The Synod is now meeting in the shadow of the 
 first church of Mecklenburg County, Sugar Creek. 
 
 "Dr. Caldwell is the grandson of Rev. Samuel Craig- 
 head Caldwell, who was for thirty-five years pastor of 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 Sugar Creek Church — from 1792 to 1826 — and is the 
 great-great-grandson of Rev. Alexander Craighead, 
 D. D., the first pastor of the church — from 1757 to 
 1766. 
 
 "When the Moderator was inducted into his office, 
 he received, and has wielded, the gavel which was 
 made from a sassafras tree that grew from one of the 
 poles on which was borne the lifeless body of Dr. 
 Craighead to his grave. 
 
 "It was presented to Synod eight years ago by the 
 citizens of this county." 
 
 In his youth, Dr. Caldwell visited the graves of his 
 venerated ancestors in old Sugar Creek Church-yard, 
 and after his death, among his private papers were 
 found the following verses, composed at the time : 
 
 'In an ancient country church-yard, 
 'Mid the weeds and vines, I found 
 An humble grave, whose plain headstone, 
 Thus marked, as hallowed ground — 
 
 'Preserve, O, venerable pile, 
 Inviolate, thy sacred trust, 
 To thy cold arms the Christian Church, 
 Weeping, commits her richest dust.' 
 
 I bowed my head for I stood at the tomb 
 Where my grandfather slept, 'neath the sod, 
 Near the very spot where his own grand sire 
 Had preached the great goodness of God. 
 
 And here I, another grandson, stood, 
 With a heart young, warm and glowing, 
 And I prayed that God would bless the seed 
 Which His Spirit then was sowing." 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 God indeed heard that whispered prayer and the con- 
 secration of that moment was the mainspring- of a 
 devoted Christian ministry. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was a member of the local lodge of 
 Masons, and for several years Chaplain of Piedmont 
 Commandery, Knights Templar. He was also a mem- 
 ber of Damon Lodge, Knights of Pythias. 
 
 In 1 90 1 he was appointed by Governor Charles B. 
 Aycock, Chaplain of the First Regiment, North Caro- 
 lina State Guard, with the rank of Captain, under 
 command of Brigadier-General Jos. F. Armfield, of 
 Statesville. 
 
 In 1902 he was appointed by the General Assembly 
 Commissioner to the Pan-Presbyterian Council, which 
 met in Liverpool, England, in June, 1904. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was never married, and is survived 
 by his mother, Mrs. Nannie W. Caldwell, of Winston- 
 Salem, and six sisters, Mrs. James R. Thompson, of 
 Atlanta, Georgia ; Mrs. Sterling Jones, of Greensboro ; 
 Mrs. Andrew Buford, of Salisbury ; Mrs. John Walker 
 Fry, of Greensboro; Mrs. D. H. Barger, of Shawsville, 
 Virginia, and Mrs. Henry Roan, of Winston-Salem. 
 
 During the last year of his life one of the causes 
 nearest the heart of Dr. Caldwell was the erection of 
 an annex to the church for the Sabbath School and 
 general congregational uses. 
 
 In this he was ably seconded by eight young men 
 of his flock, who volunteered their services, and the 
 plans were almost matured when the pastor was trans- 
 
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 ferred to the church above, leaving his co-laborers to 
 complete the undertaking. 
 
 This they are accomplishing, with the co-operation 
 of every member of the church, and the "R. E. Cald- 
 well Memorial Building" will one day stand as a monu- 
 ment, not only of their zeal in good works, but of the 
 devotion as well of an entire congregation to the 
 memory of a beloved pastor. 
 
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II. DEATH AND BURIAL. 
 
 [From the Daily Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 4, 1904.] 
 
 DEATH OF REV. DR. R. E. CALDWELL. 
 
 Beloved Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 
 This City Passes Away After Undergoing 
 
 Surgical Operation in a Hospital 
 
 at Philadelphia. 
 
 REV. DR. ROBERT ERNEST CALDWELL, 
 the beloved pastor of the First Presbyterian 
 Church, is dead. The end came about 3.30 o'clock 
 Sunday morning in Dr. Joseph Price's private hos- 
 pital, Philadelphia. 
 
 The news of his death was a terrible shock to the 
 entire community. A brief dispatch was received here 
 Sunday morning stating that Dr. Caldwell was criti- 
 cally ill. This dispatch was sent from Philadelphia 
 late Saturday night, after the telegraph office here was 
 closed, and a few minutes after the first message was 
 received another came announcing that Dr. Caldwell 
 was dead. 
 
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 Dr. Caldwell had been indisposed for several weeks. 
 He spent a week or more in the hospital here, receiving 
 treatment from local physicians. Upon the advice of 
 friends he decided to go to Philadelphia and consult a 
 specialist. He left here Monday morning, December 
 28, and went direct to Dr. Joseph Price's hospital. 
 
 Thursday an operation was performed upon Dr. 
 Caldwell for appendicitis. The operation was con- 
 sidered successful and telegrams and letters received 
 here up to Saturday night reported the patient to be 
 doing nicely. 
 
 Shock to Congregation. 
 
 A large congregation gathered at the First Presby- 
 terian Church at 10.30 Sunday morning to hear Rev. 
 J. A. Scott, of Statesville, who had been invited by the 
 pastor to occupy his pulpit during his absence. When 
 Mr. Scott announced the death of Dr. Caldwell great 
 grief was manifested by the entire congregation, and on 
 this account it was decided not to hold any service. 
 Many of the members wept like children. The scene 
 was indeed touching. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell's last sermon to his congregation was 
 delivered on Sunday morning, December 27. It was 
 an earnest message. The pastor made a personal 
 appeal to every member individually for reconsecra- 
 tion and new pledges of fidelity to the church. 
 
 Several pastors announced to their respective con- 
 
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 gregations Sunday the death of Dr. Caldwell. Earnest 
 invocations were also offered in behalf of the bereaved 
 relatives, especially the aged and heartbroken mother. 
 In speaking of the deceased, one preacher said : "Those 
 who knew him best, loved him most/' 
 
 The funeral service will be conducted from the First 
 Presbyterian Church at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. 
 Below is given the order of the service as suggested 
 by the Twin-City Ministerial Association and which 
 will likely be carried out : 
 
 Choir selection. 
 Hymn. 
 
 Scripture Reading. 
 
 Sermon by Dr. E. W. Smith, of Greensboro. 
 Remarks by Rev. Dr. H. A. Brown and Bishop 
 Ronthaler. 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Harold Turner. 
 
 Hymn. 
 
 Benediction. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was an honored member of the Masonic 
 order and the members of the two lodges here will 
 attend the service in a body. A committee will also 
 accompany the remains to Greensboro. The interment 
 will be in the cemetery there, in the lot where the 
 father was laid to rest several years ago. 
 
 To Attend in a Body. 
 
 The Twin-City Ministerial Association held a called 
 
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 meeting this morning. A committee was appointed to 
 prepare suitable resolutions to be read at their next 
 meeting. It was agreed that the ministers attend the 
 funeral in a body. 
 
 It was an informal meeting, the ministers talking 
 in hushed whispers as one and another would express 
 with deepest feeling their sorrow at the sudden death 
 of the brother so beloved. 
 
 The pall of sadness which has fallen over the city 
 is nowhere heavier among the many friends of the 
 lamented gentleman than it is upon his brother min- 
 isters ; every one of them was his close personal friend. 
 
 [From The Journal, Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 4, 1904] 
 
 REV. DR. R. E. CALDWELL, PASTOR OF THE 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, DEAD. 
 
 He Succumbed to Operation Performed in Hospital in 
 Philadelphia, Pa. — Funeral at 10 o'clock — Inter- 
 ment at Greensboro — To be Buried 
 With Masonic Honors. 
 
 Since Sunday morning sorrow and grief, deep and 
 piercing, has filled the hearts of our people. Tears 
 have filled the eyes of strong men and trickled down 
 their cheeks, and women have wept like children. 
 
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 A righteous man, a good man, is dead. One in 
 whose life and teaching was exemplified the beauties of 
 Christianity. His life-work had been devoted to the 
 elevation of humanity to a plane from which glimpses 
 could be caught of the dwelling place of the great Jeho- 
 vah. He had won the hearts of the people by a sunny, 
 congenial nature that spoke friendship and purity of 
 motives, and a sympathy and interest that lifted and 
 strengthened and spoke peace through the teachings of 
 the blessed Redeemer. 
 
 This good man, so universally beloved, was the 
 Rev. Dr. R. E. Caldwell, pastor of the First Presby- 
 terian Church of this city. He died in Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania, early Sunday morning as a result of an 
 operation for appendicitis. 
 
 The news of the death of Dr. Caldwell was a great 
 shock to the community and a terrible shock to his 
 congregation. Many had assembled in the church 
 Sunday morning to hear the services to be conducted 
 by Rev. J. A. Scott, of Statesville, who had been invited 
 by Dr. Caldwell to fill the pulpit in his absence, and 
 there received the intelligence of the death of their 
 pastor. No services were held because of the great 
 grief manifested by those present. Many of them wept 
 like children, while others left the church to keep from 
 witnessing a scene so touching and pathetic. 
 
 Just a week ago Dr. Caldwell preached a sermon, 
 the subject of which was close to the heart of every 
 member of his congregation. It was a direct, personal 
 
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 appeal to every member individually for reconsecration 
 and new pledges of fidelity to the church. Now that 
 he has passed away so unexpectedly this eloquent ser- 
 mon comes vividly into the mind and forces convic- 
 tions of the sincerity and purity of the motives that 
 actuated it, and when considered in the light that he 
 must have felt that it might be his last sermon, the 
 effect upon the congregation, when reflected upon now, 
 cannot fail to make their grief more poignant. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell left for Philadelphia last Monday. 
 The operation was performed Thursday. Telegrams 
 received up to Saturday night after the operation was 
 performed stated that the patient was doing well, 
 and the news of his death Sunday morning was a 
 terrible shock. 
 
 [From the Daily Record, Greensboro, N. C, Jan. 4, 1004] 
 SAD DEATH OF DR. CALDWELL. 
 
 A Beloved Winston Minister Dies Unexpectedly. 
 
 Was in a Philadelphia Hospital Being Treated for 
 
 Appendicitis — News of His Death Caused a 
 
 Severe Shock to His Relatives 
 
 and Acquaintances. 
 
 At the First Presbyterian Church, Sunday, while ser- 
 vices were in progress, a message was sent to Rev. Dr. 
 
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 Smith, announcing the death of Rev. Dr. Robert Ernest 
 Caldwell, for ten years the pastor of the Winston- 
 Salem Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was greatly beloved here, where he 
 was raised, his father being Hon. Walter Caldwell, 
 a prominent lawyer in his day, and his mother being 
 a Weatherly, one of the most influential of Guilford's 
 old families. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell's remains will reach here this evening 
 at 7.10 o'clock and will be carried through to Winston, 
 where the funeral will be held in his church at 10.30 
 o'clock tomorrow morning, the sermon being preached 
 by Rev. Dr. Egbert Smith, pastor of the First Presby- 
 terian Church here, and a life-long friend of the 
 deceased divine. From Winston the remains will be 
 brought to Greensboro on a special train at about noon 
 to be interred by the side of Dr. Caldwell's father in 
 Greene Hill Cemetery. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was about forty-five years of age, and 
 had accomplished a great work in life, as well as in 
 the pulpit. His death has caused widespread sorrow 
 throughout the State, nowhere more than here where 
 from his boyhood he was always a favorite with every- 
 bodv who knew him. 
 
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 [From the Daily Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 6, 1904.] 
 
 DR. CALDWELL LAID TO REST. 
 
 Impressive Funeral Service Held at the First Presby- 
 terian Church This Morning. 
 
 Beautiful Tributes to Beloved Man of God. 
 
 Address by Dr. Smith, of Greensboro, and Remarks 
 by Dr. Brown and Bishop Rondthaler — A Large 
 Concourse of Sympathising Friends in Attendance 
 — Floral Offerings — Remains Sent to Greensboro. 
 
 The funeral of the late Rev. Dr. Robert Ernest 
 Caldwell was conducted from the First Presbyterian 
 Church at 10.30 o'clock this morning'. The service 
 was conducted by Rev. Dr. Egbert W. Smith, pastor 
 of the Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, assisted by 
 Bishop Rondthaler, Rev. H. A. Brown, D. D., and Rev. 
 Harold Turner. The church was crowded with sympa- 
 thetic friends who had gathered to pay a last sad 
 tribute to one whom they all loved and admired and 
 who loved all. Seldom has there gathered a congre- 
 gation upon whose faces grief and sympathy were 
 more apparent. The pulpit was draped, and arranged 
 around it were the beautiful floral tributes from friends 
 both far and near. The display was magnificent, to 
 say the least. 
 
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 Preceded by handsomely uniformed Knights Tem- 
 plar and the Ministerial Association of both of which 
 he was an honored and esteemed member, the remains 
 were conveyed to his church which he loved so well, 
 for which he labored so faithfully, and which will ever 
 stand as a monument to his noble work. 
 
 The services began with the singing of "Jesus, Lover 
 of My Soul," a favorite hymn of the dead pastor. 
 Bishop Rondthaler offered a beautiful and touching 
 prayer, beseeching the Almighty to comfort the hearts 
 of the bereaved family and congregation, and thanking 
 God that such a man — so true, so upright and so manly 
 — had been given to cheer mortals onward in this sin- 
 cursed world. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Brown read the Scripture lesson, which 
 was taken from the last chapter of the Book of Revela- 
 tion — a picture of the reward that is awaiting the 
 righteous beyond the grave. 
 
 Dr. Smith, in broken and quavering voice, began by 
 saying that he felt that he should be there with the 
 bereaved family rather than in the pulpit, for the death 
 of this good man was a personal loss to him, but that 
 he had come to lay a tribute on the casket of his friend 
 and to weep with those who weep. He gave a short 
 sketch of the deceased, following his career from his 
 birth in 1858 until his death. 
 
 Dr. Smith offered a fervent prayer petitioning the 
 Heavenly Father that this great affliction would draw 
 the church yet closer to Him. 
 
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DEATH AND BURIAL. 
 
 Dr. H. A. Brown spoke feelingly of the deceased, 
 saying that as Jonathan was to David and David to 
 Jonathan, so were he and the deceased. The speaker 
 said Dr. Caldwell was the leader in temperance and 
 Sabbath observance reform, and was bold and fearless 
 in God's work. 
 
 Bishop Rondthaler followed in a few brief remarks, 
 saying that this death was indeed sad, as the prospects 
 were so bright for a life of much greater usefulness, 
 but that God had seen fit to call him to his reward 
 while yet in his prime. The Bishop referred to the 
 grief-stricken mother and sisters and prayed God's 
 blessing upon them. 
 
 "Servant of Christ, Well Done," was sweetly ren- 
 dered, after which Rev. Harold Turner closed the 
 service with prayer. 
 
 The lid was then removed from the casket and the 
 congregation took a last look at the dead pastor. The 
 scene was very pathetic. 
 
 The remains were removed to the depot and placed 
 upon a special train for Greensboro, where the inter- 
 ment took place. The remains were accompanied to 
 Greensboro by the family, the Knights Templar and a 
 large number of friends. 
 
 The pall-bearers were the elders of the church, 
 Messrs. T. J. Brown, J. W. Shepherd, J. M. Rogers, 
 W. B. Carter, T. A. Wilson and Thos. Patterson. 
 
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DEATH AND BURIAL. 
 
 [From the Winston-Salem Journal, Jan. 7, 1904.] 
 
 GRIEF-STRICKEN FRIENDS PERFORM LAST 
 DUTIES TO THE HONORED DEAD. 
 
 Beautiful and Touching, Eloquent and Impressive Tri- 
 butes Paid to the Character of Dr. R. E. Caldwell. 
 — Remains Laid to Rest with Masonic Honors. — 
 Floral Offerings Magnificent. 
 
 The last sad duties that can be performed for the dead 
 have been performed for the late Rev. R. E. Caldwell, 
 D. D. With sad hearts and streaming eyes his body- 
 has been lowered into the grave. 
 
 How fortunate are those for whom the terrors of the 
 grave are dispelled by the teachings of the blessed 
 Saviour — by the doctrine of the resurrection of the 
 dead. All that is mortal of the dear brother, the strong, 
 gentle friend, the beloved pastor, the honored citizen, 
 the loving, thoughtful son, lies sleeping in the ceme- 
 tery at Greensboro beside his honored father. The 
 bleak winds are singing their requiem over his newly- 
 made grave. But the spirit, untrammeled, has taken its 
 flight, and stands unterrified in the presence of its 
 Creator. The glories of Heaven stretch out before 
 his vision. The songs of angels and the shouts of 
 redeemed souls, many of whom, perhaps, his burning 
 expositions of divine truth have led to salvation, break 
 upon his ears, above which sounds the cry, "Well done, 
 
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 thou good and faithful servant." Our loss is his eter- 
 nal gain. Grief and sorrow should take flight before 
 this blessed hope. Death is but the doorway through 
 which we step into a glorious world of redeemed saints, 
 if so be our duty has been performed on earth. The 
 life of him who has just passed through this doorway 
 forces upon the hearts of all who knew him the con- 
 viction that he is a citizen of that glorious world, and 
 instead of grief there should be rejoicing. 
 
 The program of the funeral service as stated in the 
 Journal was carried out. The funeral procession left 
 the house at io o'clock a. m. The service at the church 
 began at 10.30 a. m. The church was crowded to its 
 utmost capacity, even standing room, by sorrowing 
 friends. The services opened with that beautiful hymn, 
 "Jesus, Lover of My Soul." On the rostrum were 
 Rev. Egbert W. Smith, D. D., of Greensboro, Presby- 
 terian ; Bishop Rondthaler, Moravian ; Rev. H. A. 
 Brown, D. D., Baptist, and Rev. Harold B. Turner, 
 Methodist, all of this city. 
 
 After a fervent, appropriate prayer by Bishop Rond- 
 thaler, invoking divine aid in comforting the hearts 
 of the family, the congregation and friends, and after 
 a beautiful Scripture lesson read by Dr. Brown, Rev. 
 Egbert W. Smith delivered an address in which the 
 excellencies of the dead pastor were held up before 
 the people in a light in which only those so intimately 
 acquainted with the deceased, as was Dr. Smith, could 
 present it. Going back to his entry upon the study 
 
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 of the ministry, nearly twenty years ago, he made 
 it plain that he, whose body lay enshrined in death's 
 stillness before the congregation, possessed in a much 
 higher degree than is usual with men those attributes 
 of character which approach nearest the blessed 
 Redeemer. It was a beautiful tribute to a good man. 
 Every sentence was a gem, made more beautiful by 
 the fact that he of whom he spoke merited all that was 
 said. It was a touching tribute and all over the church 
 tear-dimmed eyes and quivering lips testified to the 
 truth of his remarks. 
 
 Following Dr. Smith, Dr. Brown paid tribute to the 
 dead, to him of whom he said "Our souls were knit 
 in friendship like those of David and Jonathan/' He 
 spoke of the earnest prayers they two in secret had 
 offered for the people, in which divine guidance was 
 asked for the bringing about of a greater consecration 
 of the lives of those over w r hom they presided as pas- 
 tors, for strength, for more light, for more influence. 
 He made clear the motives which actuated and con- 
 trolled the consecrated life of the departed brother. 
 
 The remarks of Bishop Rondthaler were appro- 
 priate, beautiful and full of tenderness. They were 
 the testimony of the patriarch to the sterling qualities 
 and unusual promise of a life of usefulness of the 
 young man of God he had known so intimately and 
 respected so highly. They told of that special gift that 
 enabled Dr. Caldwell to incorporate in his sermons, 
 and develop so beautifully for instruction and for good, 
 
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 the many useful ideas that came to him by earnest, 
 thoughtful study and research; of that wonderful dis- 
 pensation, so hard for us to understand, by which God 
 often cuts down in the fullness of usefulness and 
 power of mind and body, those whose lives promise 
 so much and mean so much for the good of mankind, 
 while those grown old in service are left to continue 
 their labors. 
 
 Taken together, the addresses of Dr. Smith, Dr. 
 Brown and Bishop Rondthaler shed a light upon the 
 life of Dr. Caldwell which showed unmistakably a 
 consecration few men ever attained. 
 
 The services at the church being concluded, the 
 Knights Templar took charge of the remains, and the 
 cortege moved in solemn procession to the special train 
 which bore the remains to their last resting place. 
 The pall-bearers, Knights Templar, were J. L. Lud- 
 low, W. J. Roberts, W. C. Brown, George S. Norfleet, 
 J. H. Foote and J. D. Loughenour. 
 
 Many friends, including the elders of the church, 
 accompanied the remains to Greensboro. The trip was 
 uneventful. The train arrived on time and was met 
 at the depot by a detachment of Knights Templar of 
 that city and many friends. 
 
 Arriving at the cemetery the beautiful burial cere- 
 mony of the Knights Templar was entered upon. The 
 services were conducted by Past Grand Prelate, the 
 Rev. Dr. Chrietzberg, assisted by Grand Prelate J. K. 
 Norfleet, acting as Eminent Commander. A more 
 
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 beautiful, solemn and impressive service could not 
 have been devised by man. It teems with lessons of a 
 beautiful life, lifts the thoughts and the soul into a 
 closer relation with the Creator and breathes a spirit of 
 humanity and purity that can be found nowhere except 
 in the teachings of Christianity. 
 
 With love and tenderness, and eyes dimmed with 
 tears, which detracted not from their manhood, they 
 lowered the body into the grave. 
 
 The floral designs in beauty and profusion could 
 not be surpassed. They many times covered the newly- 
 made grave and when it is remembered that each rose- 
 bud and each spray spoke an eloquence of a sorrowing 
 heart that felt too crushed to speak in any other way, 
 their richness and their beauty can be more fully 
 appreciated. 
 
 The funeral train returning reached this city at 5 
 o'clock p. m. 
 
 [From the Greensboro Record, Jan. 7, 1904.] 
 
 DISTINGUISHED MINISTER BURIED AT 
 GREENE HILL. 
 
 The Remains Brought Over From Winston on a 
 Special Train and Met Here by a Large Concourse 
 of People — The Services at Winston. 
 
 The remains of the late Rev. Dr. Robert Ernest 
 Caldwell, late pastor of the First Presbyterian Church 
 
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DEATH AND BURIAL. 
 
 of Winston, were brought here on a special train, arriv- 
 ing at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. 
 
 Many Greensboro people were at the depot to await 
 the arrival of the funeral train, which came in on the 
 main line and stopped conveniently near Buchanan 
 Street, where the hearse and carriages were in waiting. 
 
 The train consisted of a baggage car and two pas- 
 senger coaches. The casket containing the remains 
 of the honored dead and scores of floral designs occu- 
 pied the baggage coach. Pall-bearers, flower bearers, 
 relatives of the deceased, and his acquaintances, includ- 
 ing many of the most prominent citizens of Winston, 
 occupied the passenger coaches. 
 
 The casket was removed from the train by the pall- 
 bearers, all of whom were Winston Knights Templar. 
 The full commandery of Knights Templar of Winston 
 came over in a body and were met and joined here by 
 an escort from Ivanhoe Commandery, as follows : Gen. 
 James D. Glenn, Dr. John Thames, Mr. Butler, C. H. 
 Ireland, A. E. B. Alford, C. M. Vanstory, C. A. Bray, 
 Dr. G. W. Whitsett. All the Knights Templar wore 
 full uniform, making a most imposing appearance. 
 
 The Knights Templar formed in a double line near 
 the train and down the two lines thus formed the body 
 was borne to the hearse. 
 
 At the cemetery the service, with the exception of a 
 prayer by Rev. C. E. Hodgin, pastor of Westminster 
 Presbyterian Church, was entirely in charge of the 
 
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DEATH AND BURIAL. 
 
 Knights Templar, the Knights burying their dead 
 according to the impressive ritual of the order. 
 
 The Ministerial Association of Winston-Salem, as 
 well as the Knights Templar, came over in a body to 
 attend the concluding exercises of the obsequies of 
 Dr. Caldwell. 
 
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. 
 
III. FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 i. 
 
 [By Rev. Egbert W. Smith, D. D., Pastor First Presbyterian 
 Church, Greensboro, N. C] 
 
 MY FRIENDS, if I consulted my feelings today 
 my place would be on the other side of this 
 casket, among the mourners. I can hardly trust 
 myself to put into words my sense of the greatness of 
 the loss that has fallen upon this church and commu- 
 nity, upon our Presbytery, our Synod, our State, in the 
 falling asleep of this beloved brother, whose absence 
 we shall mourn, and whose memory we shall cherish 
 
 "Till with the morn those angel faces smile 
 
 Which we have loved long since and lost awhile." 
 
 We have come to lay upon this casket which 
 enshrines such precious dust our tribute wreath of 
 brotherly affection, and to weep with those who have 
 entered Sorrow's Holy of Holies and whose hearts 
 today are full to breaking with thoughts of the noble 
 son, the strong and loving brother, the generous friend, 
 the faithful and devoted pastor. 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1858, in the 
 same county which a century before had witnessed the 
 abiding life-work of his great ancestor, Dr. David 
 Caldwell, there flowed in his veins the blood of preach- 
 ers, scholars and patriots. After a boyhood spent in 
 Statesville, he returned to make Greensboro again his 
 home, and to begin, after a course at the University, 
 the study of law. 
 
 My intimacy with him dates back to that crisis in his 
 life when, abandoning his legal studies, he began his 
 preparation for the ministry. To the Saviour's call 
 to preach "the glorious Gospel of the blessed God" 
 he responded with all his heart. The secular aims and 
 ambitions of his former life he turned his back upon 
 for Christ, and having put his hand to the plow he 
 never looked back. Distinctly, I remember, in those 
 dear days of the past, the enthusiastic joy with which 
 he looked forward to a life wholly given to the service 
 of his Lord. 
 
 His first two seminary vacations were spent filling 
 the pulpit of Alamance Church and supplying a mis- 
 sion station of the First Church of Greensboro which 
 was afterwards developed into Westminster Church. 
 At both these places his preaching, even at that early 
 day, attracted large congregations. His manifest con- 
 secration and his charming social gifts, that winning 
 grace of cheerfulness and geniality which so beautifully 
 characterized him throughout life, greatly endeared 
 him to the people. After the lapse of twenty-three 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 years, in these early spheres of but a few months' 
 student labor, there are yet many, to my certain knowl- 
 edge, who rise up and call him blessed. 
 
 My first year at the Seminary was his Senior year. 
 I shall never forget the characteristic kindness with 
 which he welcomed me on my arrival, a stranger in a 
 strange land, and how he spared no time or effort to 
 make me happy and at home in my new surroundings. 
 I found that he was already a man of mark, popular 
 in all circles, and recognized by students, professors, 
 and townspeople, as one of the foremost men and finest 
 preachers at the Seminary. The best sermon I ever 
 heard from a Seminary student during my three years' 
 course was preached by him. It made a profound 
 impression upon me and upon all who heard it. The 
 text was "For Jesus' Sake." It gave the motive and 
 motto of his own noble and useful life. 
 
 He was licensed in April, 1884, by Orange Presby- 
 tery, and in December of the same year was ordained 
 and installed by the Presbytery of Louisville as pas- 
 tor of the South Frankfort Presbyterian Church, Ken- 
 tucky. After two years of successful labor in this field 
 he was called to the Highland Presbyterian Church of 
 Louisville, where he spent four years of eminently 
 fruitful service. These years in Kentucky had brought 
 him into such deserved prominence that in 1892 the 
 Kentucky Synod called him to be Evangelist of the 
 State at large. He did effective work in this great 
 field and held innumerable meetings at various points 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 throughout the State. But his heart hungered for his 
 own people and his own State, and in 1893, in response 
 to a unanimous call, he became pastor of this, the 
 First Presbyterian Church of Winston. Here his gifts 
 as pastor, preacher and worker found fruitful exercise. 
 For several years the church was in an almost con- 
 tinuous state of revival, the membership growing by 
 leaps and bounds. To his consecrated energy, building 
 on the excellent foundations laid by his predecessors, 
 is mainly due under God the development of this 
 church into one of the foremost churches of our Gen- 
 eral Assembly, known throughout our Synods for its 
 abounding liberality and good works. 
 
 In our Presbytery he was conspicuously useful, influ- 
 ential, and beloved. He was a wise counsellor, an 
 able debater, a thorough parliamentarian, willing to 
 do his part in everything, gentle and courteous in 
 bearing, and ever regardful of the feelings and the 
 reputation of his brethren. He was chairman of the 
 Presbytery's Committee on Foreign Missions, and was 
 always a favorite preacher at our Presbyterial meet- 
 ings. The last sermon I heard from him was a notable 
 discourse delivered at Reidsville to a large audience 
 on the Observance of the Sabbath. 
 
 He was as prominent and beloved in Synod as in 
 Presbytery. For years he has been Synod's Chair- 
 man of Foieign Missions. In 1900, when the Synod's 
 Twentieth Century Fund movement was started Synod 
 appointed him Chairman of the Supervisory Com- 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 mittee in charge of the work. The same year the 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him 
 by Central University, Kentucky. In 1901 Synod 
 bestowed upon him the highest honor in its gift ; n 
 electing him Moderator. 
 
 It was a frequent remark among the brethren that 
 we never had a better presiding officer, one who 
 blended more beautifully grace with dignity, fairness 
 with courtesy, gentleness with firmness. 
 
 I have known this beloved brother intimately almost 
 from my boyhood. In church courts and committees, 
 in constant personal touch from year to year, we have 
 counselled and labored together in the service of our 
 common Lord. I wish to bear my public testimony 
 to the sweetness of his spirit, without malice, without 
 bitterness, to the depth and fervor of his consecration, 
 to the purity of his character, to the warmth and gene- 
 rosity of his heart, and to the closeness of his fellow- 
 ship with Christ. God grant that that mantle of his 
 brave and sweet and sunny spirit may fall upon his 
 brethren in the ministry ! God grant that his memory, 
 so inwoven with the history of this church, may be 
 an abiding benediction upon all its members and an 
 inspiration to them to labor like him for its prosperity. 
 
 We cannot sorrow for him. While we worship in 
 this poor earthly temple, his eyes behold the King in 
 His beauty. While we are left to stumble onward in 
 our sin-soiled, tear-stained pathway, he walks with 
 Christ in white in the Paradise of God. 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 "For he has gone where his Redeemer is, 
 
 In that fair city on the other side, 
 And at the threshold of his palaces 
 
 Has loosed his sandals ever to abide. 
 I know his Heavenly King did smiling wait 
 To give him welcome when he touched the gate." 
 
 That gate, I doubt not, swung inward for his 
 entrance before the hands of many whom his own 
 faithful ministry had blessed, and who were waiting 
 there to welcome him into that vast and bright Eter- 
 nity, all vivid with God's love, where instant vision 
 is perfect joy and immortal labor is immortal rest. 
 
 Beloved, the parting is only for a little while. We, 
 too, are going home. May Heaven ever lie upon our 
 horizon, luring us on. And when at last we sink to 
 rest and dream that we behold again the faces kept in 
 memory, may we awake and find it is not a dream, but 
 that we are in Heaven. There will our loved ones 
 come to greet us, and there, sweeter than all else, we 
 shall behold the face of our Saviour and Lord, and be 
 like Him and dwell with Him forevermore. 
 
 "Oh. these parting scenes will end 
 Some sweet day, by and by ; 
 
 We shall gather, friend with friend, 
 Some sweet day. by and by; 
 
 There before our Father's throne. 
 
 When the mists and clouds have flown. 
 
 We shall greet our loved ones gone, 
 Some sweet day, by and by." 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 II. 
 
 [By Rev. H. A. Brown, D. D., Pastor First Baptist Church, 
 Winston-Salem, N. C] 
 
 I cannot trust myself to say some things I would 
 like to say this morning. The relations which have 
 existed between Brother Caldwell and me have been 
 so friendly, so intimate, so tender, that I feel more 
 like taking my place with the bereaved family than 
 I do like speaking at his funeral. When he came 
 here eleven years ago, a comparative stranger, he 
 quickly walked into the affections of my heart and 
 won my confidence, and through all the years that have 
 intervened since then there has not been so much 
 as a shadow to fall on the good feelings between us. 
 I come now to lay on his casket my tribute of unfail- 
 ing love and tender friendship. Four times since I 
 have been in this town we have been called upon to 
 bury our pastors and each affliction has been harder 
 for me to bear. Bro. Caldwell and I walked together, 
 and talked together, and prayed together, and wept 
 together. What David was to Jonathan and Jonathan 
 was to David, this man was to me. I am sure I voice 
 the sentiment of all the preachers here when I say that 
 we all carry with us a sense of personal bereavement 
 in his death. 
 
 A few weeks ago he sent for me to come to his study. 
 I went. We talked of personal consecration, of trying 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 to know the mind of the Lord in all things, of being 
 willing to do or suffer His will. We then knelt and 
 prayed for a larger, deeper, wider consecration of life 
 and service. He was greatly moved and I felt when 
 I left him that I knew more of his heart than I had 
 ever known before. And now that he is gone, I think 
 I have a better understanding of it all. It was the 
 infinite longing of his soul for the larger and better life 
 upon which he has now entered — it was the ripening 
 of his spirit for the inheritance of the saints in light. 
 
 This town has lost one of its most aggressive citi- 
 zens. He was interested in the material welfare of this 
 city. He prayed for the prosperity of all our people. 
 He believed in a high form of civic righteousness. 
 He stood for law and order. He was our foremost 
 advocate for temperance reform, Sabbath reform and 
 all those other reforms which tend to the amelioration 
 of the welfare of all our people. He had strong convic- 
 tions and he was not ashamed of them nor afraid to 
 express them. He stood here as a faithful watchman 
 on the walls of Zion to declare the whole counsel of 
 God, and clear his skirts of the blood of all men. 
 
 As a preacher he was earnest and strong, and his 
 sermons always had a Biblical basis. They were char- 
 acterized by a broad and catholic spirit. I shall 
 never forget a scene that occurred here a few weeks 
 ago when a series of meetings was going on in this 
 church. One Sabbath afternoon he invited his brother 
 pastors to take a seat on the platform, and he delivered 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 to all the people gathered a stirring address on ''a 
 deeper spiritual life and a more determined effort to 
 save the unsaved among us." The impressions of that 
 address will not fade from my mind with the passing 
 years. It proved to be his farewell message to the 
 people of Winston-Salem along this line. As a pastor 
 he was loyal and loving. He possessed the true shep- 
 herd spirit. He knew the meaning of that passage 
 which says, "Besides all these things there come on 
 me daily the care of all the churches." 
 
 He loved the young people and the old people, and 
 tried to be helpful to all. He was specially gifted in 
 rendering the higher and tenderer ministries of life and 
 service. He knew how to start influences to work 
 for the good of others without letting his hand be seen 
 in them at all. He was so genial and cheerful and 
 optimistic always — he was so largely human ! His 
 presence was to me a benediction and an inspiration. 
 His closing acts were illustrative of his beautiful spirit. 
 His last sermon was preached on the last Sunday in 
 the year, and during the joyous Christmas time, on 
 the subject of peace. It was a prophecy of the blessed 
 and unending peace upon which he was about to enter. 
 It was appropriate that his last public prayer should 
 be offered with his mother about the family altar. He 
 went away from us with a prayer on his lips. It was 
 fitting that just before the opening twilight that 
 ushered in one of the most beautiful Sabbaths ever 
 seen on earth his spirit should go up to God. 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 "How blest the righteous when he dies, 
 
 When sinks a weary soul to rest, 
 How mildly beam the closing eyes, 
 
 How gently waves the expiring breast." 
 
 Farewell, friend, brother, fellow pastor, till we meet 
 again ! 
 
 III. 
 
 [By Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, D. D., Pastor Home Mora- 
 vian Church, Salem, N. CJ 
 
 We have been so greatly afflicted over this sad dis- 
 pensation whereby a beloved friend and pastor has 
 been suddenly removed from us, that we have hardly, 
 as yet, found time or heart to consider how beautiful, 
 after all, this departure has been. 
 
 A few days ago our brother was still busy with the 
 cares and the struggles of the pastorate. He was out, 
 as we his fellow pastors still are, in the glare and the 
 heat and the dust of this great and difficult task. He 
 was exposed to its strain and anxiety and disappoint- 
 ment. Then, suddenly for him, a door was opened, 
 and opening inward, it ushered him into his rest and 
 joy and triumph of his heavenly reward. Of all of us 
 pastors, intimately associated with him in the toils 
 of this calling, he has been the first to see the Master's 
 face and to behold the King in His beauty. 
 
 I have during these years been intimately acquainted 
 with Dr. Caldwell, and have had great admiration for 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 the varied gifts with which he adorned the ministry. 
 He was a fine scholar and had made Biblical study the 
 especial effort of his life. He had, withal, the happy 
 talent of incorporating whatever he gained from books 
 and all that came to him in the genial converse of daily 
 life into his sermons, so that he spoke with a fullness 
 of resource as well as with an energy of utterance, 
 and was, in the the very best sense, a pulpit orator. 
 I had noted his growth and development in these 
 respects, and judged that God would make use of this 
 man's wide and deep preparation for an extended min- 
 istry of still richer fruitage. I had thought that my 
 brother would be eminent in his beloved calling long 
 after my own head was laid to its rest. 
 
 But God's thoughts have not been our thoughts, nor 
 have His ways, in this mysterious dispensation, been 
 our ways. Suddenly our brother's earthly task was 
 ended, and what he had grown to be and had become 
 able to do was, by the divine decree, reserved for those 
 eternal scenes where work will be without weariness, 
 and where tasks will be wreathed around with trium- 
 phant praise. 
 
 You will have noticed in your own observation and 
 experience of life, that when God's thoughts and ways 
 differ from ours, it is because, in the long run, they 
 are so much wiser, better and higher than ours. And 
 such will be the result of submission to God's Provi- 
 dence in this sore bereavement. In the end it will 
 prove to have been the best for an almost broken- 
 
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FUNERAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 hearted mother, and for sorely afflicted sisters, and for 
 a grieving church, and for a sorrowing community. 
 And for our departed brother, this sudden home-taking 
 will be supremely best. 
 
 "Servant of God — well done, 
 
 Rest from thy loved employ; 
 The battle fought, the victory won, 
 Enter thy Master's joy." 
 
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IV. TRIBUTES. 
 
 [By Miss S. O. H. Dickson, Winston- Salem, January 5, 1904I 
 
 IN MEMORIAM— MY PASTOR. 
 
 No flowers I took to lay upon thy bier, 
 
 Instead I place this simple tribute here. 
 
 The seed-thoughts in my sorrowing heart were sown 
 
 Which blossomed into words I've made my own. 
 
 So here are pansies— pleasant memories culled 
 Of helpful words, and kindly deeds that lulled 
 The troubled fancies which thou wouldst beguile, 
 And every one bears in its heart — a smile ! 
 
 Like violets I count the words which filled 
 The air with fragrant promises that stilled 
 Rebellious murmurings and turned my eyes 
 Unto the rest and peace beyond the skies. 
 
 And here— ah, here a laurel wreath I place, 
 Won in the fight for God in life's stern race. 
 Who faithful fights, and patient courage shows 
 He can be generous even to his foes. 
 
 No need hast thou for earthly, withering flowers, 
 No need for human sympathy like ours. 
 Yet still, that all may know I grieve for thee 
 I bring this tribute of my loyalty. 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 [From the Winston-Salem Journal.] 
 
 IN the death of Dr. R. E. Caldwell, of the First Pres- 
 byterian Church, this city, society loses a good man, 
 an active man, a congenial man. The city loses a strong 
 friend and the church a faithful, zealous pastor. 
 
 There was much in his life worth studying. He was 
 not only devoutly religious, but a Christian, and car- 
 ried that Christianity into his daily life. He loved his 
 church and was full of zeal for its advancement. With 
 it all he was modest but firm and never uncongenial. 
 He did not wear a long face or cultivate an austere 
 manner. He was natural and happy. He got comfort 
 out of his Christianity. If he worried few knew it. He 
 opened his lips and let the sunshine pour in. He was 
 a good friend, a man of hearty handshakes ; so much 
 of a philosopher that it is said that no one ever saw 
 him with his temper ruffled. 
 
 For nearly twenty years he preached the gospel. 
 They were years of usefulness, of honor and dignity. 
 
 As pastor, hundreds have listened to his plain, sensi- 
 ble, expositions of divine truth, and have been led to a 
 realization of the true end of the creation of man, "to 
 glorify God and enjoy Him forever." 
 
 He died in the full vigor of manhood : At a time as 
 it appears to mankind, when he was best fitted by expe- 
 rience and growth in grace to accomplish most good 
 in winning men to paths of truth and virtue. But He 
 who has ordained that all things shall work together 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 for good to them that love Him and serve Him has re- 
 moved him, and grief and regret and disappointment 
 must be lost in obedience to that cardinal principle of 
 Christian duty, which teaches us to say, "Thy will be 
 done." 
 
 And he died crowned with honor, loving and being 
 loved, and left the world better for his having lived. 
 
 [From the Winston-Salem Sentinel.] 
 
 DEATH OF DR. CALDWELL. 
 
 The community was deeply shocked and inexpressi- 
 bly grieved yesterday when the intelligence came that 
 Dr. Robert Ernest Caldwell was dead. The news was 
 almost entirely unexpected. Although it was known 
 that he had undergone a surgical operation, it was 
 thought that he was in no danger. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell's death is a severe loss to his congrega- 
 tion and to Winston-Salem. He was an able preacher 
 and a faithful, zealous guardian of his flock. Devo- 
 ted to his work, his church grew and prospered. He 
 labored earnestly for the moral welfare of the whole 
 city, and his influence was potent in shaping public 
 affairs. 
 
 He was a consecrated Christian. He was always 
 amiable and had a pleasant greeting for everybody 
 that he met. His life was exemplary, his great heart 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 was wrapped up in his work and he has richly earned 
 his reward in the mansion in the skies. 
 
 [From the Charlotte Daily Observer.] 
 
 The tidings of the death of Rev. Robert Ernest Cald- 
 well, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of 
 Winston, will be received with deep regret by many in 
 the State. He was a man of force, a consecrated Chris- 
 tian, zealous in his work, amiable, sweet of spirit. Dr. 
 Caldwell was a native of Statesville, but of the Meck- 
 lenburg family of that name. His father, the late Wal- 
 ter P. Caldwell, was born in this county, but spent the 
 greater part of his adult life in Statesville, was for 
 many years solicitor of that district, was a lawyer of 
 ability and as clean-cut a gentleman as ever lived. Dr. 
 Caldwell was never married, but a devoted mother and 
 several sisters survive him. 
 
 [Winston Correspondent Charlotte Observer.] 
 
 Sunday forenoon a shadow deeper and darker than 
 the Twin City had ever known before fell upon the 
 whole community, when the news flashed over the 
 wires that Rev. Robert Ernest Caldwell had succumbed 
 to an operation performed for appendicitis in a Phila- 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 delphia hospital. It seemed incredible, and the whole 
 community spoke in hushed, choked voices of the un- 
 speakable loss his death would entail. Such grief and 
 sympathy as are felt for the stricken mother and be- 
 reaved sisters have seldom stirred the hearts of any 
 people, and well may we sorrow, for a more loyal, 
 devoted, faithful and efficient pastor never served a 
 flock. His sweet, sunny, brave nature, his untiring 
 service and zeal, and his usefulness and efficiency in 
 his Church, all combined to win him friends among all 
 sorts and conditions of men, and we may truly say his 
 friends were co-extensive with his acquaintance. 
 
 Hard, indeed, will be the task of filling in a satisfac- 
 tory manner the pulpit left vacant by Dr. Caldwell's 
 death. The Presbyterian Church is rich in her scholarly 
 and consecrated ministry, but it will be none the less 
 hard to find a fitting successor to the efficient and de- 
 voted worker who has passed to his rest. 
 
 The Statesville Landmark, in referring to the death 
 of Dr. Caldwell says : "The news of his death will bring 
 sorrow to many people in Statesville, who knew him 
 and loved him. He was a son of the late Walter P. 
 Caldwell, a well known lawyer, who for twelve years 
 served as solicitor of this district. Many residents of 
 the town knew both father and son intimately. Two 
 years ago last fall Dr. Caldwell conducted a revival in 
 the First Presbyterian Church here, which was very 
 successful. Large numbers professed conversion and 
 joined the church under his preaching. He was an able 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 preacher, a pleasant and agreeable gentleman and ex- 
 ceedingly popular wherever known." 
 
 [From the Christian Observer, Louisville, Ky.] 
 January 13, 1904. 
 
 DEATH OF REV. R. E. CALDWELL, D. D. 
 
 The people of Kentucky remember with tender affec- 
 tion and high regard the former pastor of the Highland 
 Presbyterian Church, Rev. Robert Ernest Caldwell. 
 From 1884 to 1886 he labored with the young church 
 at South Frankfort, Ky., and then from 1888 to 1892 
 with the church at the east end of Broadway, in Louis- 
 ville. His bright, cheery face, his pleasant greeting, his 
 concentration of aim on the upbuilding of his church — 
 these all remain as fresh memories to the people of 
 Louisville. 
 
 Recently he has been troubled with symptoms of 
 threatened appendicitis. Two weeks ago he went to 
 Philadelphia to consult a physician. The operation 
 seems to have given a shock to his system from which 
 he did not rally, and about half-past three o'clock on 
 the morning of the first Sunday of 1904, he was taken 
 to the mansions above. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell never married. His mother and sister 
 ever maintained for him the home life, which is so 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 essential to a preacher's highest usefulness. But he was 
 always effective in winning the young people. As a 
 preacher, he was instructive and attractive. As a man, 
 he was full of noble purposes and useful deeds. 
 
 [From the Presbyterian Standard, Charlotte, N. C.l 
 
 The editor of the Standard feels a personal sorrow 
 in the death of Dr. Caldwell. We had known each 
 other since his seminary and our college days coin- 
 cided at Hampden-Sidney and his career in this Synod 
 has been followed with much interest since he came to 
 us from Kentucky, came back home, as he was a native 
 of North Carolina. 
 
 As preacher, evangelist, pastor and presbyter, Dr. 
 Caldwell filled a large place in the Southern Church. 
 The Synod of North Carolina fittingly recognized his 
 worth in making him the Moderator at is meeting in 
 Charlotte, a position which he filled with credit to him- 
 self and honor to the Synod. 
 
 He was a man of most lovable traits of character and 
 the outpourings of grief from his congregation have 
 been the best test of their real affection. We received 
 a letter from him the day before the operation, to which 
 he finally succumbed. He was most cheerful over the 
 outcome, said he expected to be in his pulpit again in 
 four weeks, and the letter was taken up with the details 
 of the trip to the Presbyterian Alliance at Liverpool 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 that we had planned together. And now he has gone 
 the long journey, from whose bourne but one Traveler 
 has ever returned, bringing life and immortality to 
 light in His gospel. Let us not say that our brother 
 was cut off in his prime. Let us rather think that "His 
 servants shall serve Him." 
 
 [From the Raleigh News and Observer.] 
 
 A NOBLE LIFE CLOSED. 
 
 The sad news of the death of Rev. R. E. Caldwell, 
 D. D., Presbyterian pastor at Winston-Salem, will carry 
 the deepest regret to his hundreds of friends. At the 
 University of North Carolina, where he was educated, 
 he was universally popular, and made many lasting 
 friendships. In the busy pastorate, where he had 
 already won a large measure of success, he was all that 
 our ideals demanded in a preacher — able in the pulpit, 
 sympathetic in the homes of suffering and sorrow, 
 sunny-tempered and joyous in homes of pleasure, being 
 "all things to all men" in the true Pauline sense. He 
 had never married and was a model son and brother. 
 He has fallen before he has reached middle life, but it 
 cannot be said his life is unfinished. No man dies be- 
 fore his time. Happy the man whose short life is 
 crowned with the loving service and noble deeds that 
 filled the life of Dr. Caldwell. He was ready, for he 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 lived daily in the presence of his Master. When he 
 "put out to sea" and met his "Pilot lace to face," he 
 knew that the sea of eternity upon which he would 
 enter would be calm and serene and he could walk 
 upon its quiet bosom with his Pilot. 
 
 [From the Greensboro Record.] 
 
 A LOVABLE MAN. 
 
 The Presbyterian Church suffers a distinct loss in the 
 death of Rev. R. E. Caldwell, D. D. He was a brainy 
 man, a hard worker, systematic, and kept always at it. 
 He had been at Winston ten years and his congrega- 
 tion is well-nigh heart-broken over his untimely death. 
 He was a son of the First Presbyterian Church in 
 Greensboro, having studied and entered the ministry 
 under its guardianship, and the people of this place 
 who knew and loved him are as deeply grieved as his 
 own congregation. Pie was never married, but devo- 
 ted his life to the comfort of his aged mother. He had 
 a genial smile for every one and was a lovable man 
 in every respect. 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 [From the Greensboro Telegram.] 
 
 WILL BE SORELY MISSED. 
 
 Greensboro and section have seldom been so severely 
 shocked at a death as at that of Dr. R. E. Caldwell, late 
 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Winston. 
 This was a token of the prominence and worth of the 
 man. Having led a most useful and godly life, he will 
 be sorely missed. 
 
 [From the Charlotte Chronicle.] 
 
 ONE OF THE MASTER'S FAITHFUL 
 SERVANTS. 
 
 One of the ablest ministers of the Presbyterian 
 Church in this State, and one of the most lovable of 
 men, passed away in the death of Rev. Dr. Caldwell, 
 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Winston, 
 which occurred Sunday morning, in Philadelphia. His 
 death is an event that will be mourned by all who knew 
 him. One of the Master's most faithful servants has 
 been called from his labors in the vineyard. 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO REV. ROBERT 
 E. CALDWELL, D. D. 
 
 Some of the friends of his early youth have mourned 
 here in Massachusetts the loss to our Southern church 
 in the death of Rev. Robert E. Caldwell. We have 
 recalled his bright and interesting personality during 
 his college days in Chapel Hill, and later how that 
 interest and friendship was heightened by the sur- 
 prising news that his life was to be consecrated to the 
 church. 
 
 And we have followed his career until he has been 
 caught upward and lost to our view. 
 
 As we stand "gazing up into Heaven after him," 
 we pray a blessing upon those dear to him left behind. 
 
 Julia Spencer Love. 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 [Philadelphia Correspondent to The Moravian, Bethlehem, 
 Pa., Jan. 7. 1904.] 
 
 The departure in the early morning of the first Sun- 
 day in the new year of the Rev. R. E. Caldwell, of 
 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, filled our own as it 
 will have filled the heart of the entire community in 
 which he lived and labored so long as pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church, with the deepest sorrow. Our 
 friend and brother had come to our city only a few 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 days previous to his departure which followed an ope- 
 ration for appendicitis. He was one of the most genial 
 and lovable of men, and one whose presence will be 
 sadly missed not alone in his own but in many homes. 
 How beautifully our own Montgomery has expressed 
 our own feelings in his touching hymn : 
 
 "Friend after friend departs ; 
 Who hath not lost a friend? 
 There is no union here of hearts, 
 That finds not here an end." 
 
 [From the Memoribilia of 1904 — Home Moravian Church, 
 Salem, N. CJ 
 
 On January 6 we committed to the earth amid gen- 
 eral sorrows the mortal remains of our dear Dr. Robert 
 E. Caldwell, a ripe Christian scholar, an able preacher, 
 a great worker for souls, and a beautiful spirit in every 
 way. 
 
 [Dr. J. B. Alexander, in Charlotte Observer.] 
 
 Rev. Robert Ernest Caldwell had every advantage 
 that a young man could desire. He was handsome 
 and had perfect manners, was easy and graceful. He 
 was a popular and most lovable minister and pastor. 
 He died at the age of forty-five years, lamented by the 
 whole State. 
 
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TRIBUTES. 
 
 [From the Union Republican, Winston-Salem.] 
 
 Truly a beloved pastor, an honored citizen and a 
 consecrated representative of the Master has suddenly 
 and unexpectedly been called from the scenes of a busy 
 and useful life to his eternal reward. In the meridian 
 of physical manhood and vigor, intellectually gifted, 
 and loved by all, his death causes widespread sorrow 
 and regret, but God so willed and we bow in humble 
 submission. Dr. Caldwell has fought the good fight, 
 and is wearing the victor's crown. Though lost to 
 sight, the memory of the good he has done as a minis- 
 ter, citizen and friend will long survive him. When 
 the summons came it found him busy, but ready. Let 
 us who knew him well emulate his example. Then 
 life will be worth the living, and death but the gateway 
 to joys eternal. 
 
 [Mt. Airy Correspondent, Charlotte Observer.] 
 
 This whole community was shocked and grieved to 
 learn the sad news of the death of Rev. R. E. Cald- 
 well, of Winston. He was a great favorite in Mount 
 Airy, and on the third Sunday of this month he was 
 expected to dedicate the handsome stone chapel 
 recently built by the Presbyterian Church at the rock 
 quarries near the town. 
 
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V. MEMORIALS. 
 
 [Memorial by Synod of North Carolina at its Ninety-first 
 Annual Session First Presbyterian Church, Durham, Novem- 
 ber, 1904. Prepared by Rev. R. F. Campbell, D. D., of Ashville, 
 North Carolina.] 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 ROBERT ERNEST CALDWELL was born Octo- 
 ber 18, 1858, and died in Philadelphia January 
 3, 1904, after a serious surgical operation. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was descended from a long line of 
 distinguished Presbyterian ministers, among whom 
 were the Rev. Dr. Alexander Craighead and the Rev. 
 Dr. David Caldwell, whose names are indissolubly 
 linked with all that is most glorious in the early history 
 of Presbyterianism in North Carolina. 
 
 After spending three years in study at the State 
 University, Mr. Caldwell entered the famous law 
 school of Judges Dick and Dillard at Greensboro, 
 intending to devote himself to the profession that had 
 been graced by his distinguished father, the Hon. Wal- 
 ter Pharr Caldwell. But before he had completed his 
 
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 course of study in the law, there came to him a louder 
 call, which echoed and re-echoed in his heart in the 
 solemn refrain, "Woe is me, if I preach not the Gos- 
 pel !" In obedience to this call, he entered Union 
 Seminary, Virginia, in the fall of 1881, and after com- 
 pleting the full course in this institution, he took a 
 year's post-graduate work at Princeton. 
 
 He was licensed by Orange Presbytery in the spring 
 of 1884, and later, in the same year, was ordained by 
 Louisville Presbytery and installed the first pastor of 
 South Frankfort Church, Kentucky. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Caldwell received the degree of Doctor 
 of Divinity from Central University, which in confer- 
 ring this honor upon him was only setting its seal to 
 the testimony of the Presbyterians of his adopted State 
 to his ability and worth. 
 
 The larger part of Dr. Caldwell's ministry was spent 
 at Winston, North Carolina, where for eleven years, 
 as pastor of one of the most important churches of the 
 Synod, he found an ample field for the exercise of his 
 rare gifts. During his pastorate at Winston, more 
 than five hundred new members were added to the 
 church and over $50,000 was contributed to ecclesi- 
 astical and benevolent causes. 
 
 In addition to his laborious work as pastor, he was 
 one of the most faithful and efficient members of his 
 Presbytery and of the Synod of North Carolina, and 
 his brethren in these bodies will miss his wise counsel 
 and his energetic and unselfish service. 
 
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 Dr. Caldwell was "a man of cheerful yesterdays and 
 confident tomorrows," full of magnetic optimism and 
 warm comradeship. The cordial handsake, the con- 
 tagious laugh, the sunshine of his face, as free and 
 spontaneous as the light of day, — who that knew him 
 can ever forget these? And, best of all, "the beauty 
 of the Lord his God was upon him," shedding forth a 
 holy "light that never was on sea or land." 
 
 [Memorial by Orange Presbytery during the meeting in the 
 First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, N. C, April 13, 1904.] 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 The Rev. Robert Ernest Caldwell, D. D., whose 
 lamented death took place in Philadelphia on January 
 3, 1904, at 3.30 o'clock a. m., was born October 18, 
 1858. His death occurred when he was in the prime 
 of his life and usefulness at a little more than forty- 
 five years of age. He died far away from home, having 
 submitted to a serious surgical operation. We feel 
 assured his end was peace, and that he calmly com- 
 mitted his soul into his Saviour's hands. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell traced his descent through a long and 
 illustrious line of Presbyterian ministers, running back 
 two hundred and fifty years to the time when the 
 family came, first from Scotland to the north of Ire- 
 land, and thence to America. In all this time his father 
 
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 was the single exception in the lineal descent when his 
 ancestors were not preachers. Some of them have 
 been greatly distinguished in the work of planting and 
 developing the Presbyterian Church in North Caro- 
 lina. Dr. Alexander Craighead, one of his ancestors, 
 was the first Presbyterian minister in western North 
 Carolina, and the third in the State. The Rev. Dr. 
 David Caldwell — "Clarum et venerabile nomen" — the 
 great-grandfather of the subject of this memorial 
 sketch, was one of the most distinguished and success- 
 ful and useful ministers the Church has ever had in the 
 State. He organized Buffalo and Alamance Churches 
 in this county (Guilford), and was their first pastor, 
 and at Alamance his pastorate covered the long period 
 of sixty years. His son, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Caldwell, 
 was for many years the beloved and successful pastor 
 of Sugar Creek Church in Mecklenburg Presbytery. 
 His son, the Hon. Walter Pharr Caldwell, was an 
 eminent solictor and served as district attorney in the 
 western district of North Carolina. It is only what 
 we might expect that one who had a heritage of such 
 a long line of pious and consecrated ancestors — "who 
 lured to brighter worlds and led the way" — should 
 follow in their footsteps, and give himself to the service 
 of the Master. 
 
 Bro. Caldwell spent his boyhood in Statesville, mov- 
 ing to Greensboro when he was about fifteen years of 
 age. He was prepared for college in Lenoir, thence he 
 went to Chapel Hill, and spent three years in a special 
 
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 course at the University. His earlier plan was to 
 become a lawyer, but after studying for a while in the 
 law school of Judges Dick and Dillard, both of whom 
 were distinguished jurists, and both elders in the First 
 Presbyterian Church of this city (Greensboro), he 
 heard the call to a grander service, to preach the Gos- 
 pel, and instantly said : "Here am I, Lord, send me." 
 After taking the full course at Union Seminary, Vir- 
 ginia, and a year of post-graduate work at Princeton, 
 New Jersey, he was licensed by Orange Presbytery 
 in 1884, and later in the same year he was ordained 
 by Louisville Presbytery and installed the first pastor 
 of South Frankfort Church, Kentucky. Here and in 
 other places he was successful, but his great work was 
 done at Winston, North Carolina, where for eleven 
 years, until his untimely death, he was pastor of one 
 of the largest and most influential churches of this 
 Presbytery. His work here was large and faithful and 
 successful. During this pastorate more than five 
 hundred new members were receievd, and more than 
 fifty thousand dollars were contributed to all the causes 
 of the Church. As pastor of that church his work was 
 solid and substantial, and will stand as a lasting monu- 
 ment to his memory. His people were devoted to him, 
 and the entire community, irrespective of denomina- 
 tion, wept in sadness when the sorrowful tidings came 
 that Sunday morning that Dr. Caldwell had passed up 
 to be forever with his Lord. 
 
 In 1900 Bro. Caldwell received the degree of Doctor 
 
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 of Divinity from Central University, Kentucky, and 
 the honor fell on worthy shoulders and was modestly 
 worn. In the work of the Presbytery and Synod, few 
 of the brethren were more useful. He was always 
 ready to do his part in the service of the Church. He 
 was a fine parliamentarian, a wise counsellor, a safe 
 and prudent leader, and an energetic and active worker. 
 He was kind and charitable in all his thoughts. There 
 was no guile or malice in his heart. We shall sadly 
 miss him in all the work of the Presbytery ; there is a 
 big vacuum created by his death, and our hearts are all 
 sad over a great bereavement, for we all loved Ernest 
 Caldwell. We shall miss his hearty hand-shake, his 
 merry smile, the sunshine of his disposition, his warm 
 and ready sympathy from a heart that rilled all his 
 bosom, and, above all, his deep and contagious spiritu- 
 ality. Let us who are left a little longer in the work 
 stand closer together, be more in touch with one 
 another and be more faithful in every good word and 
 work. 
 
 Egbert W. Smith, 
 B. W. Mebane, 
 W. F. Carter, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 On the adoption of the Memorial, the Rev. D. I. 
 Craig, of Reidsville, said, in substance : 
 
 Brethren : As we are gathered here today in this 
 beautiful church, and have listened to this beautiful 
 
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 and fitting Memorial, read by Dr. Mebane, of our 
 deceased brother, my heart and soul have been stirred 
 within me. I have thought of the past, and of the 
 future, and have wondered if the "spirits of just men 
 made perfect" are permitted to look back upon the 
 scenes of earth, and to be consciously present in an 
 assembly like this ! I recall the venerable form and 
 face of Dr. Smith, the former pastor of this church, 
 as I have seen him sit in that chair, and as I hear the 
 very tones of his voice in prayer and praise to God. 
 He was the faithful pastor and wise teacher of the 
 boy — the merry, happy-hearted boy — Ernest Caldwell, 
 who was once a member of this church, and whose 
 noble life we remember today, and sadly lament its 
 untimely end. They are gone, teacher and pupil, from 
 this beautiful earthly temple, to the "Temple of God 
 not made with hands eternal in the heavens ;" and 
 within these walls seem to be a proper place to bear 
 testimony to the value, the beauty, and the simplicity 
 of that noble life so suddenly gone from us. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was of a nature and temperament 
 easily approached by any one, and while he was uni- 
 versally popular, yet it was only those who knew him 
 best who loved him most. 
 
 He was naturally full of life, fun and merry-hearted- 
 ness — God made him so, and he usually looked on the 
 bright side of things, but he had his dark days, his 
 clouds and shadows, like us all; and it was then, 
 in times of deep reflection and sober thought, that the 
 
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 beauty and force of his character were best seen. In 
 the midst of perplexities and in the face of stern duty, 
 his soul seemed to become transparent, and his earnest 
 desire to do right, his gentleness and tenderness of 
 spirit, and his simple and abiding faith in God, were 
 seen and felt in such a manner as to draw men to him 
 and to make his influence a strong and lasting power 
 for good. It was this guileless and childlike spirit, 
 after the pattern of his Master, seen in the intellectually 
 strong man, and always accompanied by a hearty and 
 friendly greeting, which made him conspicuous and 
 lovable among men, and successful in winning souls 
 for the Master. 
 
 He was a conspicuous factor in the Synod of North 
 Carolina, having often held positions of trust, and 
 having once been honored by being made its Moder- 
 ator, and his preaching was widely and favorably 
 known as being sound, practical and impressive. His 
 worth and usefulness in this Presbytery are well known 
 by us all, and indeed he will be missed by all the 
 Church in North Carolina. 
 
 Yes, we shall miss him, as has been beautifully 
 said in that Memorial : "We shall miss his hearty 
 handshake, his merry smile, the sunshine of his dispo- 
 sition, and the warm and ready sympathy that filled 
 all his bosom" ; and yet, "he being dead, yet speaketh," 
 for the influence and usefulness of his life can never 
 die. I thank God that he lived, and that it was my lot 
 
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 to know him as a friend and as a brother beloved in 
 the Lord. 
 
 "With us his name shall live 
 
 Through long succeeding years, 
 Embalmed with all our hearts can give, 
 Our praises and our tears." 
 
 [Memorial by Session of the First Presbyterian Church, Win- 
 ston-Salem, N. C.] 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 Rev, R. E. Caldwell, D. D. 
 
 We, the elders of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Winston, North Carolina, desire to offer a tribute of 
 love to the memory of our beloved pastor, who has been 
 so suddenly called away to enter the House not made 
 with hands, eternal in the Heavens. 
 
 While the sadness and sorrow, the breavement and 
 loss, are ours, we are cheered by the thoughts of life's 
 work well done, of a victor's crown, of the glories of 
 immortal life, of the everlasting peace and joy into 
 which he has entered. 
 
 During the nearly eleven years of intimate associa- 
 tion, we would bear testimony to his consecrated loy- 
 alty to his church ; to his devoted energy in the work 
 for the Master whom he served ; to the consciousness 
 
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 of the sacred responsibility of his office as preacher 
 and pastor; to the spirit of love which dominated his 
 life, and to the purity of his life as he walked among 
 men. 
 
 His influence was not bounded by the lines of his 
 own church ; he was honored and esteemed by many 
 of all faiths, as was evidenced by the many expressions 
 of sympathy, not only for our church in its loss, 
 but of high esteem and appreciation of Dr. Caldwell 
 himself, coming from every part of the community. 
 
 As a citizen he stood for civic righteousness and 
 everything that would promote the moral and good 
 order of his community. 
 
 He was a very positive believer in the correctness 
 of the peculiar creeds and policy of his own church, 
 but he manifested to his fellow Christians of other 
 communions a liberal spirit, sincere regard and the 
 kindest courtesy; and few pastors have enjoyed more 
 highly than he did the love and esteem of his fellow 
 pastors. 
 
 In the death of Dr. Caldwell, there is a personal loss 
 to ourselves, a loss to this church and community, 
 but, in a wider sense, there is a loss to the entire 
 Church. As a Presbyter he was useful, wise and 
 active in the courts of his Church, and the many 
 positions of trust and importance he filled both in 
 Orange Presbytery and in the Synod, testified to the 
 confidence and regard in which he was held. 
 
 As a preacher he was remarkably clear and forceful 
 
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 in the presentation of the Gospel themes, and he was 
 never more so than when pressing upon men the call 
 to repentance and the acceptance of salvation. 
 
 As a pastor and friend, visiting the homes of his 
 people, he brought his genial, cheerful manner and 
 bright countenance to cheer the sick and comfort the 
 sorrowing and afflicted members of his flock. The 
 poor welcomed him as a friend, and found his visits 
 a benediction. 
 
 His labors are now ended, and he has entered into 
 his reward. "Well done, enter thou into the joy of 
 thy Lord." 
 
 In connection with the foregoing, we would offer 
 the following resolutions : 
 
 First, Resolved, That while we feel deeply the sud- 
 den departure of our pastor, Rev. Robert Ernest Cald- 
 well, D. D., on Sunday morning, January 3, 1904, in 
 the city of Philadelphia, under circumstances that 
 appeal most strongly to our sympathies, yet we recog- 
 nize the Divine Hand and Will, and do bow in humble 
 submission to Him who doeth all things well. 
 
 Second, Resolved, That we strive to emulate his 
 example in those admirable traits which tend so greatly 
 to enlarge the sentiments and feelings of Christian 
 fellowship and which promote the cause of Christianity 
 among our fellow men. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of our proceedings be sent 
 to the mother of our beloved pastor, with the assurance 
 
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 of our deepest sympathy and our earnest prayer that 
 the richest blessing of our gracious Lord and the pres- 
 ence and precious ministry of the Holy Comforter 
 may ever abide with her. 
 
 T. J. Brown, 
 J. M. Rogers, 
 T. A. Wilson,* 
 J. W. Shepherd, 
 W. B. Carter, 
 Thomas Patterson. 
 *Died February 4, 1905. 
 
 [Memorial by Board of Deacons of the First Presbyterian 
 Church, Winston-Salem, N. C] 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 Dr. Robert. E. Caldwell. 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to 
 remove from us our beloved pastor, Rev. Robert E. 
 Caldwell, D. D., whose death has cast a shadow of 
 gloom and sorrow over the hearts of all who knew him ; 
 and 
 
 Whereas, We, the Board of Deacons of his church, 
 which he loved so well, desire to offer a tribute of love, 
 however inadequate, to the memory of our departed 
 
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MEMORIALS. 
 
 pastor and friend, and to tender our heartfelt sym- 
 pathy to his bereaved family ; therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That while we recognize the hand of a 
 wise and merciful God in this sad dispensation, and 
 humbly bow to the divine will, it is with profound 
 emotions of sorrow that we contemplate the lamented 
 death of our pastor. By it we feel the personal loss 
 of a faithful and wise counsellor in our official relations 
 to the church, as well as the loss of a true friend in 
 all the relations of life ; the Church, the loss of a con- 
 secrated, earnest and faithful minister and pastor, and 
 the community the loss of a patriotic, upright, Christian 
 citizen, whose kind and gentle disposition won for him 
 the love and esteem of all who knew him. 
 
 Resolved, That we will endeavor to emulate the 
 many virtues and noble qualities of our deceased 
 brother. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender our sincere and heartfelt 
 sympathy to his loving and devoted mother and sisters 
 in their sad bereavement. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread 
 upon our minutes, and that a copy be sent to the mother 
 of our deceased friend. 
 
 E. D. Vaughn, Chairman. 
 D. P. Mast, Secretary. 
 
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MEMORIALS. 
 
 At a meeting of the Annex Committee of the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Winston, held at the office of 
 the Wachovia Loan and Trust Company, January 12, 
 1904, the following resolutions were unanimously 
 adopted and ordered to be spread upon the minutes of 
 the meeting: 
 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 Inasmuch as it has pleased the Great Head of the 
 Church to call to his reward and transfer from the 
 visible Church on earth to a place among the redeemed 
 of God in Heaven, our beloved pastor, Rev. Robert E. 
 Caldwell ; therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved, First, That while we feel our loss almost 
 irreparable, and our hearts are heavy with grief, yet 
 we trust our God, and bow in humble submission to 
 His divine will, feeling He will not leave us comfort- 
 less nor forsake us in the hour of our great need. 
 
 Resolved, Second, That we push to a speedy comple- 
 tion this work which was dear to the heart of our 
 deceased pastor, and name this building which is to 
 be erected as an addition to our church, the R. E. 
 Caldwell Memorial Building, erecting therein a suitable 
 tablet bearing an inscription to his memory. 
 
 Resolved, Third, That it is the purpose of this com- 
 
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 mittee in its name to place in our present church build- 
 ing a memorial window in memory of Dr. Caldwell. 
 Annex Committee of the 
 
 First Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Geo. S. Norfleet, Chairman. 
 
 Thos. Maslin, Sec. and Treas. 
 
 E. L. Anderson. 
 
 Robt. C. Norfleet. 
 
 Geo. T. Brown. 
 
 R. W. Gorrell. 
 
 E. W. O'Hanlon. 
 
 MEMORIAL. 
 
 [By the Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church, Win- 
 ston-Salem, February I, 1904.] 
 
 We, the members of the Ladies' Aid Society, desire, 
 to express with sorrowing hearts our love and esteem 
 for our pastor, Dr. R. E. Caldwell, and to render a 
 tribute to his memory, both tender and true. 
 
 The tie between the pastor and this society was 
 possibly closer and more sympathetic than between 
 any other organization in his church. 
 
 How we shall miss the bright and radiant face, as 
 he so often stood amongst us, full of the work in 
 which he would claim our aid and co-operation. 
 
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 We want to bear record to his unceasing watchful- 
 ness of the stranger, the poor, and the wandering in 
 our midst ; to his constant endeavor to make us a 
 working power in the kingdom ; to his loving efforts to 
 secure mutual acquaintance and fellowship between all 
 classes of his flock. 
 
 May we ever be grateful for the memory he has left 
 us of a hopeful, joyous, sunshiny service for the Mas- 
 ter, as well for its courage and faithfulness. May we 
 endeavor, through the days that are to come, to fulfill 
 in ourselves the work he would have us do, deeds of 
 loving kindness and tender helpfulness to others. 
 
 Resolved, That this tribute be entered upon the sec- 
 retary's book, and that a copy be sent to dear Mrs. 
 Caldwell, with the heartfelt sympathy of this Society. 
 
 Mrs. T. A. Wilson, President. 
 
 Mrs. W. P. Reid, Secretary. 
 
 [Memorial by the Ladies' Foreign Missions Society of the 
 First Presbyterian Church of Winston-Salem, N. CJ 
 
 The following resolutions were adopted by the 
 Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society, January — , 1904 : 
 
 Whereas, In His infinite wisdom, God has suddenly 
 called home our beloved pastor, Rev. R. E. Caldwell, 
 D. D., thereby making us realize the uncertainty of life, 
 and that we shall no more have his earnest prayers 
 
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 and his unfailing interest in our work, we feel that 
 it is becoming in us to give expression to our love, our 
 sincere grief, and our sense of our loss. 
 
 Resolved, Therefore, that while we mourn with a 
 sorrow as sincere as it is deep, we would still endeavor 
 to submit to the will of Him who we are sure makes 
 no mistakes, and who, in the person of the Comforter, 
 will speak words of comfort to us, and will remind 
 some of us at least, that the parting will not be for 
 long. 
 
 Resolved, That through all our remaining lives we 
 will be grateful to God for the example of zeal and of 
 love which was set us, and we pray that when we are 
 called to go we may be able to look back on lives as 
 faithful, as loving, and as honored as his. That we 
 may recall his sunny smile, his cheerful, cordial greet- 
 ings, his earnest efforts to present a church without 
 spot or wrinkle, and that we may thank God that it 
 was our privilege to have worked with him and prayed 
 with him for the upbuilding of Zion ; and that we may 
 take henceforth, as our motto, "Be ye also ready." 
 
 That we may draw nearer to God and Heaven, since 
 we have another link binding us to the Throne. 
 
 That we desire, as a society, to tender our heartfelt 
 sympathy and love to her upon whom the blow falls 
 heaviest, and to those sisters with whom we sincerely 
 grieve. 
 
 That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the mother 
 
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 and sisters of our pastor, and another be spread upon 
 the minutes of this Society. 
 
 Mrs. J. M. Rogers, 
 S. O'H. Dickson, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 [Memorial by the Wiley Mission Band.] 
 
 The Wiley Mission Band of the Presbyterian Church 
 of Winston desire to give a tribute of love to their 
 beloved Pastor, Dr. Caldwell, who always met them 
 with a smile and who won all the hearts of the dear 
 children by his bright, attractive ways. 
 
 Well do we remember when we gave out the little 
 blue stockings for the children's Christmas offering, 
 how he asked to have one to fill, saying he wanted to 
 have his name on the cradle roll of the Wiley Band. 
 
 He always encouraged us in our work and was ever 
 ready to help us plan for larger work. 
 
 With his encouragement this Band took a fifty-dollar 
 share in our medical work in Korea. 
 
 Mrs. C. H. Wiley, 
 
 Leader. 
 Mrs. Mary Norfleet Shepherd, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
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 [Memorial by the D. C. Rankin Missionary Society.] 
 
 In the death of our beloved Pastor, Dr. Caldwell, we 
 feel that not only has our Society lost a staunch friend, 
 a wise counsellor, an ever-ready helper, but that the 
 cause of missions has sustained an irreparable loss. 
 
 We recall with what earnestness and enthusiasm Dr. 
 Caldwell labored for the cause we represent, how ready 
 and willing he was to help us in every way and to 
 encourage us in our work of spreading the gospel. 
 
 We feel that under his ministrations our zeal for 
 missions was deepened, our love for the work strength- 
 ened and enlarged. 
 
 We pray that the memory of his noble life, his love 
 for the Master, his zeal for His work, may cause us to 
 labor more faithfully, more zealously in our work as a 
 Society. 
 
 Mary Callum Wiley, 
 Mrs. R. C Norfleet. 
 
 [Memorial by the Ministerial Association of Winston-Salem, 
 January II, 1904.] 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father in His 
 wise and inscrutable providence to remove from our 
 Ministerial Association, and our community, Dr. Robert 
 Ernest Caldwell, Pastor of the First Presbyterian 
 Church in our city. Therefore ; 
 
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MEMORIALS. 
 
 Resolved First. — That we bow with humble submis- 
 sion to the will of Him who walks in the midst of 
 the golden candlesticks, and does with His servants 
 what seems best to Him. 
 
 Resolved Second. — That we will ever cherish his 
 memory as a brother beloved, as an able Minister of the 
 New Testament, rightly dividing the word of truth and 
 giving to every one his portion in due season, as a 
 faithful pastor whose unwearied labors, and wholesome 
 Christian influence wrought mightily for good in our 
 Twin City. 
 
 Resolved Third. — That we put on record our appre- 
 ciation of his presence, his power and influence for 
 good while among us, and our sense of personal be- 
 reavement and loss in his death. 
 
 Resolved Fourth. — That we will emulate his manly 
 virtues and imitate his example as he imitated the ex- 
 ample of Christ. 
 
 Resolved Fifth. — That we tender to the Church of 
 which he was pastor an expression of our sympathy in 
 their sorrow, and our sincere desire for the guidance 
 of the Holy Spirit in all their future work. 
 
 Resolved Sixth. — That we commend to the tender 
 mercies of our God, the devoted Mother and Sisters of 
 our dear departed brother. 
 
 Resolved Seventh. — That a copy of these Resolu- 
 tions be spread upon our Minutes, sent to the family of 
 
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 the bereaved, and given to our city papers for publica- 
 tion. 
 
 Dr. H. A. Brown, 
 
 Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT ADOPTED BY 
 WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Missionary Union of 
 Orange Presbytery in Westminster Presbyterian 
 Church, Greensboro. N. C, in April, 1904, resolutions 
 of respect for Rev. Robert Ernest Caldwell, the late 
 lamented pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Winston-Salem, who was chairman of Foreign Mis- 
 sions for Orange Presbytery, were adopted as follows : 
 
 Whereas, Since our last annual meeting the Rev 
 Robert Ernest Caldwell, D. D., the beloved chairman of 
 the Foreign Missionary Committee of Orange Presby- 
 tery has been called from earthly ties into the "Blest 
 Communion Fellowship Divine" — we therefore, the 
 members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Union of 
 Orange Presbytery do hereby record our sorrowful 
 conviction, that in his death our Union has lost a wise 
 and faithful friend — the cause of Missions a noble ad- 
 vocate. The Church of Christ a consecrated minister 
 and the world, a golden-hearted Christian gentleman. 
 
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MEMORIALS. 
 
 To his dear mother and sisters, and the wider circle 
 of bereaved relatives we offer our tender sympathy. In 
 the hush of this great bereavement, we pray that all 
 of us may hear : 
 
 'That inward, that unspoken speech, 
 
 That greets us still tho' mortal tongues be dust 
 It bids us do the work that they laid down, 
 Take up the song where they broke off strains, so jour- 
 neying 'till we reach the heavenly town, 
 Where are laid up our treasures and our crown, 
 And our lost ones will be found again." 
 
 [From The Journal, Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 15, 1904.] 
 
 MASONIC HONORS. 
 
 Resolutions in Memory of Dr. R. E. Caldwell. 
 
 By Knights Templar, of which Order He was Prelate 
 
 — Heartfelt Condolence Tendered to Bereaved 
 
 Relatives. 
 
 The late R. E. Caldwell was a distinguished member 
 of the Masonic Order, Knights Templar. By this 
 order he was most highly esteemed and by this order 
 he was laid to rest. 
 
 Their love of the man living and sorrow occasioned 
 by his death is expressed in the following preambles 
 and resolutions : 
 
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 Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father in 
 His all wise Providence to remove from earthly scenes 
 and activity and gather unto Himself our dearly be- 
 loved prelate and frater, Dr. Robert Ernest Caldwell, 
 and 
 
 Whereas, Piedmont Commandery, No. 6, Knights 
 Templar, of Winston, N. C, feeling keenly the loss 
 it has sustained, in common with this community and 
 the Christian world, by the death of this true and 
 consecrated Christian gentleman and Sir Knight, which 
 in our poor and imperfect understanding seems so 
 untimely and unfortunate ; and 
 
 Whereas, By the traditions and practice of our 
 order and the precepts of our beloved brother, we are 
 taught to humbly bow in meek and humble submission 
 to the will of Him from whom comes all our blessings 
 and whom we acknowledge as an allwise and unerring 
 Father. 
 
 Resolved, That we bow in humble submission to 
 His will, and recognize that our loss, great and irre- 
 parable as it seems, is an inestimable gain to our dear 
 departed brother and friend, and the just reward to 
 which his good works, while on earth, entitle him as a 
 faithful and earnest worker in the vineyard of our 
 Lord. 
 
 Resolved, Further, that we will ever cherish his 
 memory as a sweet and gentle benediction wherever 
 and whenever it was our good fortune to come within 
 
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 his presence; his every thought and act in life was to 
 make the world better and brighter and men nobler, 
 and we shall ever count it a blessing that we were per- 
 mitted to live and associate with such a brother and one 
 who so well exemplified the manly Christian virtues of 
 truth, charity, kindness and brotherly love. 
 
 Resolved, further, That to the bereaved mother and 
 sisters we tender our deep and sincere condolence and 
 assure them of our heartfelt sympathy in the great 
 loss which they have sustained. 
 
 Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolutions 
 shall be incorporated in our records, a copy sent to 
 Mrs. Caldwell and to the city papers for publication. 
 
 Piedmont Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar. 
 
 D. P. Mast, 
 
 J. K. NORFLEET, 
 
 J. L. Ludlow, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 [From the Daily Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 21, 1904] 
 A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE 
 
 To Memory of Rev. R. E. Caldwell, by Masons. 
 
 The following beautiful tribute to the memory of 
 Rev. R. E. Caldwell has been adopted by the Winston 
 Lodge, No. 167, A. F. and A. M. : 
 
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 The special committee appointed by Winston Lodge, 
 167, A. F. and A. M., to prepare suitable resolutions on 
 the death of Brother R. E. Caldwell, beg leave to sub- 
 mit the following report : 
 
 Brethren — Death has entered our ranks and taken 
 from us one of our most worthy and esteemed mem- 
 bers — Brother R. E. Caldwell. While our .fraternity 
 has sustained a great loss we bow with resignation to 
 the decree of Providence and offer this tribute of reve- 
 rence to his memory. 
 
 Brother Caldwell possessed in a striking degree all 
 the characteristics of a lovable man and successful min- 
 ister of the Gospel. He was endowed with a moral and 
 a physical courage which was equal to every emer- 
 gency. Calm amidst excitement, patient under trials, 
 earnest in his allegiance wherever it rested, loyal to 
 every great cause and work he was engaged in, loyal 
 to his state and town and loyal to his God. These 
 noble traits, combined with a sensitive nature and a 
 singularly tender heart, showed him to be a living 
 exemplification of Masonic virtue and graces. 
 
 His was a sunny nature, bright and beautiful. His 
 heart was attuned to gladness. He looked for the best 
 in men and sought to make the world joyous and 
 happy by sending out from his own glad heart an influ- 
 ence that lingered in our memory like a fragrant flower, 
 sweetening the memories, the thoughts, the feelings, 
 the affections, the temper and the heart. He made duty 
 the jewel clasp to bind the beauties, loves and hopes of 
 
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 earth's fragrant spring time to the spring mount of 
 God, with malice toward none, with charity toward all, 
 our brother has passed from our view. We shall not 
 meet him again until he stands forth to answer to his 
 name at the roll call when we are all summoned to the 
 service and worship of the Great Master in the Heav- 
 enly Temple. He has left the richest legacy which man 
 can leave to man, the memory of a good name, the in- 
 heritance of a great example. May we emulate the 
 bright example he has left us and at last receive the 
 welcome applaudit, "Well done, good and faithful 
 servant." 
 
 May the healing balm from the unfailing supply of 
 the Saviour be poured into our hearts and into the 
 hearts of the bereaved and stricken family. 
 
 O. B. Eaton, 
 George S. Norfleet, 
 R. E. Transou, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 [Resolutions of Damon Lodge, Knights of Pythias.] 
 
 Castle Hall, Damon Lodge, No. 41, K. of P., Winston 
 North Carolina, January 14, 1904. 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased an allwise Providence to 
 remove from among us our beloved Brother Robt. E. 
 Caldwell, be it Resolved: 
 
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MEMORIALS. 
 
 First. — That while we bow in meek submission to 
 the inscrutable ways of Providence, we are highly sen- 
 sible of the lofty aims, noble life, and spotless charac- 
 ter of our departed brother, and we are deeply grieved 
 at his untimely loss to us, both as a citizen and a loyal 
 and honored member of Damon Lodge, No. 41, 
 K. of P. 
 
 Second. — That we tender our sincere sympathy to 
 the bereaved relatives in their hour of sorrow and 
 commend them to the care of the Author of all joy 
 as well as sorrow. 
 
 Third. — That these resolutions be spread upon the 
 Minutes of the Lodge, published in the local press, and 
 that the Keeper of Records and Seals send a copy of 
 the same to members of the family. 
 
 A. B. Bynum, 
 R. C. Taylor, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 [Tribute of Salem Lodge, No. 289, A. F. & A. M., Jan. Q. 
 1904.] 
 
 Cherishing the remembrance of, and very great 
 friendship for, our deceased friend and brother, R. E. 
 Caldwell, although not a member of Salem Lodge, 
 No. 289, A. F. & A. M., this organization did, in regu- 
 lar meeting assembled, on the evening of January 5, 
 by unanimous action, express deep regret at the appar- 
 
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 ently untimely removal from our midst by dissolution 
 of our friend and brother, and does further extend 
 to his family, most sincere sympathy in this hour of 
 sad bereavement. 
 
 We commend them to Him who gave, and hast, :n 
 His all-wise Providence taken away, for that comfort 
 which He alone can give in times of sore bereavement, 
 and our sincere prayer is that we all may be happily 
 reunited in that better world where partings never 
 come, and supreme joy and perfect peace remain 
 forevermore. 
 
 "When those we love in Jesus sleep, 
 
 How sweet the strains their spirits pour ; 
 Oh! why should we in anguish weep? 
 They are not lost, but gone before." 
 
 E. A. Ebert, Secretary pro tern. 
 
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VI. REMINISCENCES. 
 
 [By Prof. J. H. Hill, Statesville, N. C] 
 
 MANY tender associations endear the memory of 
 Robert Ernest Caldwell to the people of States- 
 ville, his native town, especially to the Presbyterian 
 congregation of which he was a baptized member. 
 
 Here he spent the first fifteen years of his life. 
 
 He was a typical boy, active in mind, buoyant in 
 spirit, with a merry countenance upon which a quiet 
 smile seemed ever ready to resolve itself into a hearty 
 laugh. 
 
 Who can estimate the possibilities of boyhood? 
 How much depends upon circumstances, how much 
 upon the kind of influence that shapes its course ! 
 
 One fact connected with the early training of this 
 only son deserves special notice. 
 
 Under the guidance of a faithful mother, he was 
 required to be in his place at the prayer meeting, in 
 the Sabbath school, and at the church service. His 
 subsequent life bore grateful testimony to the wisdom 
 of this requirement. 
 
 After graduation at the State University, it was 
 natural that he should select for his life-work the 
 
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 honored profession of his father, an able lawyer and 
 high-toned gentleman. 
 
 But his was a godly ancestry, noted for the number 
 of ministers in the Presbyterian Church. The great 
 King and Head of the church militant had chosen, 
 qualified and appointed him to the same high calling. 
 
 The friends of his boyhood rejoiced to learn that 
 he had made a profession of faith, and consecrated his 
 life to the ministry. 
 
 Having completed his theological training in that 
 excellent school of the prophets — Union Seminary — 
 few young men surpassed him in natural and acquired 
 qualifications for his chosen work. He was possessed 
 of a high degree of culture, affable and easy in manner, 
 gentle but firm in disposition, and was endowed with 
 a large measure of common sense. 
 
 Twice after his licensure he returned to his native 
 place to perform important service. In 1893, after the 
 erection of the new building now occupied by the 
 Presbyterian congregation, by the unanimous request 
 of the beloved pastor, Rev. Wm. A. Wood, D. D., 
 and people, he preached the dedicatory sermon, which 
 was appropriate in every sense of the word, and greatly 
 enjoyed by all who heard it. 
 
 Again, in October, 1901, at the earnest solicitation 
 of the pastor, Rev. C. M. Richards, the session and 
 congregation, he came to conduct a protracted meeting 
 which continued two weeks. 
 
 Never within the recollection of the oldest memb'jr 
 
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 had our people been so stirred as on this happy occa- 
 sion. Christians were greatly revived and many pre- 
 cious souls saved. 
 
 Forty-two young persons, most of them boys, pro- 
 fessed faith in Christ, and were received into the 
 church. 
 
 It was indeed a glorious season of grace, never to 
 be forgotten. The series of sermons could not be 
 surpassed in appropriateness. They contained the 
 plain, simple truths of the Gospel, presented with so 
 much earnestness and warmth of affection as to move 
 even the hardest hearts. 
 
 So delighted were the session with the preaching 
 and wise mode of conducting the meeting, that at their 
 entreaty a promise was secured for his return at the 
 proper time to conduct a like service. Alas ! The 
 uncertainty of life ! 
 
 The sainted brother now enjoys a perfect service in 
 the upper sanctuary. 
 
 Strange to us that he should have been called away 
 in the prime of life, and in the midst of increasing use- 
 fulness. But the Lord says, "My thoughts are not 
 your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.'' 
 
 Let us thank Him for the gift of so useful a life. 
 
 The early death of a good man means only less of 
 the sin and sorrow of earth, and more of the joys of 
 Heaven. 
 
 Who can measure the power of a holy life? How- 
 grand the calling of the consecrated minister ! 
 
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 [By Rev. E. A. Osborne of the Episcopal Church, Charlotte. 
 North Carolina.] 
 
 I have seldom known a person possessed of a more 
 lovely and attractive character than that of our dear 
 deceased brother, Rev. R. E. Caldwell, D. D. 
 
 As a child he was lovely and beautiful in person 
 and character, as I knew him in his boyhood days at 
 Statesville. As a man he seemed to fulfill all the prom- 
 ise of an unusually bright, amiable and talented youth, 
 and the hopes of his fond and devoted parents, who 
 bestowed upon him all the care and attention that 
 parental love and affection could suggest, were fully 
 realized in him. 
 
 As a minister of the Gospel, while firmly attached to 
 that branch of the church to which he gave his life 
 and labors, he was full of charity and good will 
 towards all Christian people, and always seemed glad 
 to make the most of such principles as were held in 
 common between him and them. 
 
 We can truly say that the Church, the State, and 
 society are immensely poorer for the loss of this good 
 man. 
 
 [By Mr. G. S. Bradshaw, Greensboro, N. C, Jan. 4, 1904] 
 
 REV. ROBERT ERNEST CALDWELL, D. D. 
 
 The Passing of a Great and Good Man. 
 
 Twenty-five years ago — a quarter of a century — 
 
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 there might have been seen in the whirl of Greens- 
 boros' young life a group of boys whose faces and 
 names come trooping down memory's aisle as this pen- 
 cil wanders back to those halcyon hours. 
 
 "Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, and 
 linked by many a hidden chain." No jollier or happier 
 boys ever stood under the mistletoe than those who 
 made up that merry group. Nor can there be found 
 in time's tireless calendar more joyous hours than those 
 which filled the holidays for that aspiring group of 
 splendid fellows. And in that proud group there was 
 one whose sunny soul never knew the shadow of an 
 eclipse, whose gentle impulses were always warm, 
 whose nerve was always knightly, whose handsome 
 face was ever beaming, whose every instinct was gen- 
 erous and chivalrous, whose kindly word and ready 
 wit were the charm of every hour, whose noble heart 
 was upon his sleeve in every thought and in every 
 deed, and whose life was fragrant with the flowers 
 of its own sowing. Ernest Caldwell he was and is 
 to those who touched his life in those swiftly speeding 
 days. No one of that group will wonder that bitter 
 tears unbidden bedewed the yellow paper that bore the 
 sad tidings of his demise to his faithful flock on yes- 
 terday, or will marvel at the evidences of devotion 
 which mark the record of the last sad honors to his 
 memory today. No one of that group will ever forget 
 the frank, brave and winning way in which he told 
 of his high resolve to forsake and quit the chase of the 
 
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 empty phantoms of worldly ambitions and to spend 
 and be spent and to stake his all in the service of the 
 meek and lowly Nazarene. How wisely he chose, how 
 splendidly he has wrought, and how gloriously he has 
 won. Along the unballasted track of these twenty-five 
 years, athwart which is strewn the debris of the wrecks 
 of some of that proud group, he has escaped every 
 wreck, and at the end finds the exit placarded with the 
 welcome "Well done." I pause to weave and hang a 
 simple wreath upon the cold door of his silent chamber 
 today, and across it I would write what Leigh Hunt's 
 angel wrote of the Arab chieftain, "And lo, Ben 
 Adlem's name led all the rest." 
 
 [By Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Cambridge, Mass.] 
 
 A little over twenty-five years ago, Robert Ernest 
 Caldwell, when a student at Chapel Hill, was a mem- 
 ber of my class in Sabbath school ; but after he left 
 the University I heard from him only at intervals. 
 
 I have often recalled with much pleasure his two 
 days' visit at my house in Chapel Hill, not long before 
 I left North Carolina, the only time I had seen him 
 since he graduated. I thought he had developed admi- 
 rably, and I observed him with affectionate interest, 
 as one of my boys, apparently destined to a long life 
 of great and growing influence in our beloved church — 
 
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 a model Presbyterian minister, manly, genial, culti- 
 vated, yet serious and devout, and inspiring in all his 
 conversation. 
 
 I once had a letter from one of his college mates, 
 whose life had been reclaimed from foolish dissipa- 
 tion, and who, telling me of his reformation, ascribed 
 the turn to the right to a conversation he had had 
 in the railroad station at Greensboro with Ernest Cald- 
 well, and wrote, "What Caldwell said to me I never 
 could shake from my mind — it cured me." 
 
 He was then living in Kentucky, and met his old 
 friend by what we call accident. But there is no such 
 thing as accident or chance. He had many warm 
 friends who loved and appreciated him thoroughly, 
 and I have felt his death a cruel blow. 
 
 [By Rev. A. L. Phillips, D. D., Richmond, Va.] 
 
 When small boys, Ernest Caldwell and I played 
 together, and then became friends. 
 
 As the years went by, we met as students at the 
 University of North Carolina, and as we had some 
 classes together and were members of the same literary 
 society, these college days drew closer the ties formed 
 in boyhood, and I grew to love him more and more. 
 
 When he became a minister I greatly rejoiced, and 
 it gave me the keenest pleasure to come in touch with 
 him through all the years until his home-going. In 
 
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 every relation he was always the same cheerful, hearty, 
 and genial companion. 
 
 His church work was characterized by great good 
 sense and faithfulness. 
 
 I watched his career with the deepest interest, and 
 was so thankful that God honored him again and again 
 in special evangelistic services, when many souls were 
 led to Jesus through his messages. 
 
 In the daily and ordinary work of the pastorate he 
 was truly beloved and blessed. 
 
 His brethren in the dear old Synod of North Caro- 
 lina respected him truly, and rejoiced to honor him. 
 
 His character developed with the years, and was 
 adorned by a touch of his Lord until it became not 
 only strong but beautiful. 
 
 When the news of his death reached me it came 
 as a shock, and my heart cried out for my brother 
 with whom I had had sweet communion. 
 
 His work will endure forever, being constructive In 
 the best sense of the word. 
 
 [By Hon. E. B. Jones, Judge Eleventh District, Winston- 
 Salem, N. C] 
 
 It was my pleasure to first know and admire Dr. 
 Caldwell when he crossed the threshold of boyhood 
 and entered the law school of Judges Dick and Dillard 
 at Greensboro, North Carolina. 
 
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 There his associates in the study of law learned to 
 appreciate and love him as a true friend. 
 
 He was a knightly young gentleman, full of courtesy 
 and grace. I left him at the law school, and entered 
 the arduous life of a lawyer, and several years passed 
 before we met again, as he soon after made his home in 
 the State of Kentucky, in the service of the Master, 
 where he won deserved distinction and love in his 
 life's work. 
 
 In after years, when called to the pastorate of the 
 church at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I happily 
 welcomed him once more into a closer friendship. 
 
 His father was a lawyer of marked ability, always 
 kind and considerate to the younger members of the 
 bar, ever ready to hold out his hand to encourage 
 and lift up a struggling brother. What Dr. Caldwell 
 did in the noble work of his Lord and Master is an 
 earnest of what his character, influence and ability 
 would have given to the profession of the law. 
 
 Cut down in the prime of life, just when his ripened 
 experience was adding force to his well developed intel- 
 lectual powers, his death was a great loss to the State, 
 his church and to the cause to which he had so earnestly 
 and faithfully dedicated his young life. 
 
 When I saw him on the day he left us, never to 
 return, there was a shadow of sadness hanging over 
 his kindly smile, but pain could not eradicate the gentle 
 courteous manner, the warm greeting to friend and 
 stranger alike, that characterized him in young man- 
 
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 hood, and was ever present through life. It was al- 
 ways the same. 
 
 God had given to him those traits of character that 
 o-o to make the true man and Christian gentleman, and 
 
 to 
 
 they could not be effaced. 
 
 One feels better that it was his fortune to have 
 known such a man, and happier still that, through his 
 short but useful life, there was one continuous thread 
 of friendship unbroken till severed by death. 
 
 [By Rev. Robert P. Pell, President of Converse College, 
 Spartansburg, S. C.] 
 
 Just as the College was reorganizing after the holi- 
 days I was shocked to read a telegram announcing 
 the death of my comrade and friend, Robert Ernest 
 
 Caldwell. 
 
 I wish to speak of my personal debt to him which 
 I have never forgotten, and will never forget. 
 
 I will not stop to recall the delightful association 
 I had with him at the preparatory school at Lenoir. 
 North Carolina, and at the University at Chapel Hill. 
 
 In after years, when, on one night I was stopping 
 at a hotel in Greensboro, he called to see me, occurred 
 a conversation which had more to do with my becom- 
 ing a Christian than any other earthly influence. He 
 was then a theological student, previous to entering 
 
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 the ministry, but was already trying to do his Master's 
 work. 
 
 While we talked together, he discovered my diffi- 
 culty, and then, with the faithfulness of a true friend, 
 did not hesitate to tell me as plainly as possible some 
 truths about myself to which I was wholly insensible 
 before. The memory of his words lingered with me 
 many months, until I eventually surrendered my life 
 to Christ. 
 
 This experience bound me more closely to him than 
 ever before, and though we have rarely met during 
 recent years, I have watched with eager pride every 
 step he has taken, as far as I could learn of him 
 through mutual acquaintances and the press. 
 
 I do hope one day to stand with him up yonder, and 
 tell our King how true and loyal he was in his ministry 
 here. 
 
 [By Rev. Walter W. Moore, D. D., President Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Richmond, Va.] 
 
 My acquaintance with Brother Caldwell began in 
 1883, tne y ear I began to teach in Union Seminary. He 
 was then a member of the graduating class. Though 
 his work lay chiefly in the central west after he left 
 the Seminary, our acquaintance was renewed from time 
 to time, notably on the occasion of my marriage, when 
 he was one of our attendants, and also in the years that 
 
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 followed, especially after he became pastor at Winston. 
 Throughout this long acquaintance and friendship the 
 thing that struck me most about him was his bright- 
 ness and buoyancy of spirit. He was like a burst of 
 sunshine. He was a Christian of the happy and help- 
 ful type. He had a sunny disposition, but better than 
 that, he had a sunny faith. In my memory of him noth- 
 ing stands out clearer than this cheeriness and hopeful- 
 ness, growing out of an assured and peaceful trust in 
 God. And it gave a joyousness to his general bearing 
 as a minister, which was in itself, a benediction to the 
 community. 
 
 Along with this he had a tender and sympathetic 
 heart. And he was a deeply spiritual preacher. His 
 sermons were those of a man of God, profoundly im- 
 pressed with the responsibility of his office, full of 
 prayer, loyal to the Scriptures, and rejoicing in the 
 privilege of preaching the gospel of the grace of God. 
 
 Such a character, such a life, such a ministry, do not 
 cease to exert their beneficent influence when the man 
 in whom they were embodied is called away from us. 
 They abide still to bless the community and church 
 for which he labored. And so, "he being dead yet 
 speaketh." 
 
 [By Rev. Thompson M. Hawes, D. D., Pastor Highland 
 Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ky.l 
 
 It was my privilege to enjoy a personal acquaintance 
 and friendship with the lamented Rev. Robt. E. Cald- 
 
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 well, D. D., during his pastorate in the Highland Pres- 
 byterian Church. I also had the honor of being called 
 to succeed him, when, on the protest of the congrega- 
 tion, his Presbytery directed him to take up evangelis- 
 tic work in the State of Kentucky. My relation to him, 
 therefore, enables me to speak out of personal knowl- 
 edge of his character as a man, and his work as a pas- 
 tor and preacher. He was a man of high ideals, and 
 possessed a character in which beauty and strength 
 were blended ; positive in his convictions, but persua- 
 sive in presenting them, and, withal, manifesting a win- 
 some personality. He was faithful as a pastor, and 
 after the lapse of more than twelve years, is still affec- 
 tionably remembered in many homes where his sudden 
 death brought genuine sorrow. 
 
 [By Rev. Peyton H. Hoge, D. D., Pastor Warren Memorial 
 Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ky.] 
 
 So many things crowd my memory, so many pictures 
 rise in my heart, for which a brief page gives no scope. 
 
 Days at the seminary with Robert Ernest Caldwell, 
 when our lives were before us, and our hopes buoyant 
 and strong; his installation at Winston when he was 
 addressing himself with all his mental and spiritual 
 ardor to the work of a new field, and had already won 
 the hearts of his people ; delightful reunions at Synod ; 
 a visit to my own home at Wilmington, N. C, where 
 
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 his warm, spiritual preaching, and his bright genial 
 spirit made him many friends in the old coast town. 
 Most of all, the months together on ancient rivers and 
 balmy plains, and golden deserts, beneath Egyptian 
 suns and Syrian skies : and 
 
 "In those holy fields over whose acres walked those blessed 
 feet, 
 Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed, 
 For our advantage on the bitter cross." 
 
 There is not a spot in all those lands the memory of 
 which is not in some way intertwined with his. 
 
 And then, after several years, I met him at Clifton 
 Springs, New York, with the same bright smile, the 
 same genial ways, and the same thought for others, 
 the same ready, responsive sympathy. 
 
 I believe if I had to single out one quality as most 
 characteristic, it would be that he drew people to him- 
 self because of his personal interest in them. 
 
 Others may speak of his accurate scholarship, of his 
 Biblical and theological thoroughness, of his attractive 
 style, and his pastoral activity. I have preferred to 
 speak rather of those qualities that made him my 
 friend and a friend to many. For in these qualities it 
 was, I think, that he was most like his Master. 
 
 [By Rev. J. S. Lyons, D. D., Pastor First Presbyterian 
 Church, Louisville, Ky.] 
 
 The friendship which existed between Dr. Caldwell 
 and myself dated from our seminary days at Hampden- 
 
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 Sidney. We belonged to different classes, but we had 
 much in common, and were often together. Later, our 
 lots were cast by Providence in the same synod, and for 
 some years we were neighboring pastors. 
 
 The ties of friendship were strengthened by his min- 
 istry in joining me to my helpmate in life, and subse- 
 quently by baptizing our baby boy. 
 
 Exchange of pulpits, and pleasant and intimate social 
 intercourse, gave me an estimate of his character, 
 which imparted to the tidings of his death the sharp- 
 ness of an arrow in the heart, and which leaves as the 
 result of an earthly acquaintance, all too short, a 
 strengthened conviction of the truth of our holy 
 religion, and the blessedness of him whose meat and 
 drink is to do his Master's will. 
 
 He studied to show himself approved unto God, a 
 workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly 
 dividing the Word of Truth. He has fought the good 
 fight, he has laid hold on eternal life, whereunto he 
 was also called, and concerning which he had professed 
 a good profession before many witnesses. 
 
 His character was an interesting complex of strength 
 and gentleness, of courage and humility., of the sterner 
 qualities of manhood and the attractive graces of a 
 little child. 
 
 "His life was gentle; and the elements so mixed in 
 him that nature might stand up and say to all the world, 
 'This was a man.' " 
 
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 [By Rev. D. Clay Lilly. D. D., Pastor First Presbyterian 
 Church, Winston-Salem, N. CJ 
 
 It was a great grief to me to hear the sad news of 
 the death of my esteemed friend, Rev. Dr. Caldwell, 
 and it was more of a shock because I knew nothing 
 of his illness and thought he was in perfect health. 
 
 I want to give expression to my sense of personal 
 loss in this sad dispensation. 
 
 I have known Dr. Caldwell most pleasantly for 
 fifteen years, having formed a delightful acquaintance 
 with him in the years of his ministry in the Synod of 
 Kentucky. 
 
 I knew him first at Central University, at Richmond, 
 Ky., where he held a series of meetings with especial 
 reference to the students. 
 
 Dr. Caldwell was the first Pastor of the Southern 
 Church at Frankfort, now under the leadership of the 
 Rev. William Crowe, who was converted at the meet- 
 ing referred to above. 
 
 In a recent visit to Frankfort, although many years 
 had intervened since the pastorate of Dr. Caldwell, I 
 found his memory still fresh in the hearts of the people, 
 and many were the references to his work and preach- 
 ing. After he left the Synod of Kentucky, I had the 
 pleasure of seeing him at different times, and I always 
 delighted in his companionship and counted him one 
 of my staunchest friends. 
 
 And now that I have succeeded him here as Pastor 
 of this church, I see very markedly the evidence of his 
 
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 abundant and successful labors. Comparing the mem- 
 bership of this church at the time he became its Pastor 
 with it at the close of his work, I see every possible 
 evidence of his devoted and efficient labors. 
 
 The influences for good started by him will live 
 through untold years. What the harvest of his faithful 
 work will be in eternity none of us can even guess. 
 
 He rests from his labors, and his works follow him. 
 
 [By Rev. Edward O. Guerrant, D. D., Wilmore, Ky.] 
 
 It was a strange Providence which called away 
 this gifted young man, Robert Ernest Caldwell, in 
 the midst of his life and labors. Only the eye of faith 
 can discover any explanation, and that alone in the 
 wisdom of God, "who doeth all things well." Though 
 we do not know now, we "shall know hereafter," and 
 commend the goodness which promoted him to a 
 higher service in a glorious world. 
 
 I first knew Dr. Caldwell when he served the 
 churches at Louisville and Frankfort, Kentucky; and 
 afterwards when he was evangelist of our Synod. 
 I knew him more intimately while in his last charge 
 at Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 
 
 During his ten years' pastorate of that large church, 
 T had the pleasure of assisting him on two occasions in 
 protracted services. I may therefore speak with some 
 confidence of his character and work. 
 
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 No one who knew him could fail to be impressed 
 with the buoyancy of his spirits. He was brimful of 
 life and energy. The most trying experiences of minis- 
 terial work never seemed to dampen his ardor or 
 depress his spirits. The "joys of salvation" were not 
 more real to him than the joys of service for his 
 Saviour. 
 
 He was an unusually fine preacher, both in the man- 
 ner and the matter of his discourse. With no effort 
 at oratory, he was an eloquent and convincing speaker. 
 
 Among all the devoted and excellent brethren with 
 whom I have labored, I do not know any who pos- 
 sessed more wisdom and earnestness in evangelistic 
 effort. One of the most successful revivals I ever 
 remember was in his church at Winston-Salem. He 
 was most ably assisted by a fine corps of officers, but 
 the burden of the preparation and work fell on his 
 shoulders. 
 
 Every detail was admirably arranged and success- 
 fully carried out. Nothing was left to luck or hap- 
 hazard. The victory was organized before the battle 
 was fought. God honored his zeal and faith, and 
 scores of souls were won for his Master, who are 
 now stars in his crown. 
 
 That such a man, in the maturity of his manhood, 
 and the fullness of his strength, should be so suddenly 
 and unexpectedly called away, is one of the unsolved 
 mysteries of Providence. 
 
 His removal was a great loss to the Church; an 
 
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 irreparable loss to his widowed mother and sisters, 
 and a personal loss to hundreds of friends, as well 
 as to myself. 
 
 But he left behind him a rich legacy of faithful ser- 
 vice for his Master, and of loving devotion to family 
 and friends. He has gone to a glorious reward at the 
 hands of the Lord he loved so well and served so zeal- 
 ously. We hope to meet him there in the General 
 Assembly and Church of the First Born, still in the 
 bloom of an eternal youth, and the vigor of an immor- 
 tal manhood. Until then, farewell, our friend and 
 brother, Ernest Caldwell. 
 
 [By the Hon. Robert Glenn, Governor of North Carolina.] 
 
 Rev. Robert E. Caldwell, our friend and beloved 
 pastor, is dead, and deeply we mourn his loss. 
 
 A year ago, with a heart full of joy and gladness, 
 with hope kindling his eyes, and lofty purposes filling 
 his soul, strong and well, he stood amongst us, an 
 active, vigorous man, an humble, true Christian. 
 
 Though he had complained of feeling unwell and 
 went North to a hospital for treatment, no one rea- 
 lized that his condition was serious, and the sudden 
 announcement of his death came as a terrible shock 
 to the community. 
 
 In his death, his church lost a most earnest, zealous 
 pastor, the State a patriotic citizen, his friends a genial, 
 
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 helpful companion, his mother a devoted, tender son, 
 his sisters a faithful brother, and the world a con- 
 scientious, Christian man. 
 
 He was noble and true, strong yet gentle, brave but, 
 oh, so tender. Full of fun, enjoying life, feeling it 
 not necessary to look austere nor wear a long face, 
 still whose eyes dimmed quicker at the story of suffer- 
 ing, whose hand more ready to place to parched lips 
 the cool drink of water, or break to weary souls the 
 bread of life ! 
 
 For nearly eleven years, as pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church in Winston, he went in and out among us, no 
 blot of scandal ever touched his name or marred his 
 Christian usefulness, and no word could be uttered 
 against his purity of character, his fidelity to duty, 
 or his nobility of soul. 
 
 Courteous and kind to all his members, both rich 
 and poor, and ever full of deepest solicitude for their 
 needs, both temporal and spiritual, still he was firm 
 as a rock in the discharge of what he conceived to be 
 his duty, and never made a compromise with sin for 
 the sake of popularity. His sunny countenance 
 bespoke his simple, Christian spirit, that showed he 
 walked with God. 
 
 His cheery voice and gentle manner made him wel- 
 come everywhere, bringing joy to the sick, consola- 
 tion to the weary and desolate, and courage to the faint 
 and weak. 
 
 Though dead, his life, his example, his teachings, 
 
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 still speak to us, and if we profit by them, and, like 
 him, follow in the footsteps of our Master, we, too, 
 may live again with him in the life everlasting. 
 
 Peace to his ashes, for while we sorrow over our 
 loss, in the death of this good man, our friend, we 
 know he dwells in endless bliss, in the glory-world 
 of God's eternity. 
 
 [By the Hon. Clement Manly. Winston-Salem, N. C. Jan. 5, 
 1904.] 
 
 My regard for Dr. R. E. Caldwell and admiration 
 of his high character and purpose, suggest this tribute. 
 
 I had the honor of his acquaintance for ten years. 
 I esteem it a privilege to have known him and to have 
 shared in the light he cast about him, a light always 
 reflected on the path that led to good. 
 
 He was indeed a Christian and a gentleman, and 
 his life in this community has been above reproach. 
 
 He goes for the reward of those who have helped 
 their fellow men, and made them feel and do better. 
 
 He had won of the entire people their respect, admi- 
 ration and love. 
 
 [By Miss S. O. H. Dickson, Winston-Salem, N. C] 
 
 THE SUNRISE SERVICES OF THE TWEN- 
 TIETH CENTURY NEW YEAR. 
 
 One of the most beautiful and impressive services 
 of the pastorate by Dr. Caldwell was the Sunrise 
 
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 Service on January I, 1 901, at 7.30 o'clock. 
 
 This he planned, and doubtless prayed over. Any 
 doubts as to its success were speedily dispelled when 
 the people, men, women and children, began to gather, 
 and soon the spacious church was filled. There were 
 members of all the churches present to worship and to 
 praise their common Lord, and ministers of the Bap- 
 tist, Methodist and Moravian churches assisted in the 
 beautiful service of song and prayer. After the Dox- 
 ology and prayer and the Scripture reading, came, 
 perhaps, the most impressive part of the service. Dur- 
 ing the singing of the hymn, "How Firm a Founda- 
 tion," the elders passed through the congregation and 
 collected papers upon which had been previously writ- 
 ten "an expression of the desire of the heart, together 
 with some chosen promise or motto text, without 
 signature." 
 
 The congregation had been requested by the pastor 
 to do this, and the response was most gratifying. 
 
 These were not read, but placed in one large basket 
 and "laid before the Lord." 
 
 After a moment of silent prayer the intercessory 
 prayer was offered, and all together the petitions and 
 desires winged their way to the Great Hearer of prayer. 
 
 Who that was present can ever forget that hour? 
 Above us hung the pale star that reminded us of Him 
 who had come to save us from our sins, and "to pre- 
 sent us faultless before the presence of His glory !" 
 
 Outside the first rays of the rising sun were remind- 
 
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 ing us of the Son of Righteousness to whom we looked 
 for light. 
 
 After the singing of a hymn and prayer for the 
 children and young people, and for schools and col- 
 leges, and the Twentieth Century Endowment Fund, 
 the pastor delivered a short sermon from John 21 : 4 — 
 a beautiful and most suggestive talk it was. 
 
 Another prayer and the hymn, "All Hail the Power 
 of Jesus' Name/' the benediction was pronounced, and 
 the large congregation dispersed quietly, under the 
 spell of this lovely and remarkable service, and grateful 
 to him who had planned it. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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