Rev. John F. Burrows, D.D., Page 2

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0a5d05a3.jpg"> <div> Orange County, New York</div> <div> American History and Genealogy Project</div> <div> Rev. John F. Burrows, D.D., Page 2</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="0a6d2123.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/orange/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/or"><U>Orange County AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/"><U>New York AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://ahgp.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ahgp.org"><U>AHGP</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://alhn.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://alhn.org"><U>ALHN</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="623" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 571 WIDTH="617"><div>      A local paper says of him as Pastor of the Church of Chester, that the deepest affection and the greatest respect existed between him and the members of his congregation.  He was sincerely beloved by rich and poor.</div> <div>      Perhaps no member of the Presbytery of Hudson did more preaching during the past six months on the plan of minsterial visitation instituted by the Presbytery September, 1893, and his quiet, persuasive earnestness is remembered with tender affection wherever he went.</div> <div>      He was a faithful student, carefully preparing his sermons, and an orthodox theologian, believing that the whole “Bible is the Word of God and the only infallible rule of faith and practice;” a scriptural preacher, knowing that this Word is able to save our souls; a loyal alumnus of his alma mater, which in the year 1886 conferred on him the degree of D.D.; an American citizen, true to all the institutions of his country in sentiment and expression-in a word, true and faithful and good in every relation of life, for words fail us to express our estimation of him as son, husband, father; surely, wherever he lived the Gospel of the Christian family was preached by example as well as by precept.</div> <div>      His wife, daughter and son were with him during his brief and painful illness until the end came, and he had “entered into his rest.”</div> <div>      During his long ministry of a third of a century he had not been laid aside from work by illness; for the last month he had suffered from the grip, but had preached every Sabbath, omitting the evening service. His session urged him to take a vacation and allow them to supply the pulpit, and he promised them to do so soon.</div> <div>      It was too late. He had finished his course.</div> <div>      At the very beginning of his ministry, in 1861, he was married to Miss Clara Davis, the cultured daughter of Josiah Davis, Esq., of Easton, Pa.  His family consisted of a son and daughter, who, with their mother and aunt are now living at Bethlehem, Pa.</div> <div>      During his ministry in Chester souls were gathered steadily into the Church, the Christian Endeavor Society was organized, the rotary system of Elders was introduced, and Gospel Services held in other places than the Church.</div> <div>      Five new Elders were added to the session at the beginning of his ministry.  These were Alfred B. Roe, Samuel S. Durland, Chas. B. Roe, John N. Bernart and Thomas B. Roe.  His was a splendid work well done, carried forward grandly from beginning to end.  The last of his labors were not the least, for he sowed the seed more faithfully, possibly, in these last years than in any of all the preceding.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="pg22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rev. Robert Houston McCready, Ph.D., Pag"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pg1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>