Identifier: edwardjudsonint00sear (find matches)
Title: Edward Judson, interpreter of God
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sears, Charles Hatch, 1870-1943
Subjects: Judson, Edward, 1844-1914
Publisher: Philadelphia, Boston (etc.) The Griffith and Rowland press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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restrained in the father; the same fondness for lin-guistic and literary pursuits; the same aptitude for teach-ing; the same loyalty to conviction and unreserved com-mitment to a task; the same buoyant spirit, unconquer-ably youthful to the end; the same pertinacity of purposeand dogged determination; and the same sustaining faithin the heavenly Father. His mothers influence upon his character was hardlyless marked. Those who knew intimately both EdwardJudson and George Dana Boardman say that there wasa stronger resemblance between the half-brothers thanbetween Edward Judson and his own brothers. Hisappearance, his manner, his artistic sense, his gift fororganization, as indeed his scholarly tastes, were in-herited quite as much from his mother as from his father. This closing chapter does not give opportunity for arestatement of his significant service. Through the oldBerean Church—perhaps truly called the first institutionalchurch; through its successor, the Judson Memorial—the
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INTERPRETER OF GOD 147 creation of his own indomitable will; through his writ-ing; and by his conspicuous example Edward Judson,perhaps more than any other man, helped to check therout of the Christian church from Americas greateststorm-centers, the down-town city fields. He led thechurch from a disgraceful defensive into an aggressiveoffensive. The inspiration of his example has gone outfrom lower New York to every city and town wheresimilar conditions are confronted; where, because of theflux of the population, the inflow of foreigners, the out-flow of the older American stock, the congestion of busi-ness and multiplication of pleasure resorts, the churchhas found itself bereft of support and outside of thesympathies of the people who jostle past its doors. Hestruck telling blows where blows had been hectic. The impact of these blows was widely felt. PresidentFaunce, of Brown University, in a letter to Doctor Jud-son, once said: The work you have accomplished is in no way to be meas

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