In Memoriam: James Lyons Chesnut, D.D.

~!• 10 IN MEMORIAM The Funeral. Friends from distant places had learned by wire of the passing of the revered min– ister; and, notwithstanding the severe char– acter of the weather, a number had ·arrived in Cedarville, Ohio, to attend the funeral. These friends and relatives, with others, gathered at the manse at 1 o'clock P. M. Sat– urday, February 9, 1918, and, after a brief service, proceeded to the Reformed .Presby– terian Church, which was already filled with a loving people, waiting in silence, awed. with the sense of the greatness of their loss. The pall-bearers were men who were close to Dr. Chesnut~Messrs. E. L. Stormont, N. L. Ramsey, Clayton McMillan, S. C. Wright, Walter Iliff, J. E. Mitchell, Earl Crow and ·Frank.Creswell. The undertaker, Mr. James R McMillan, was himself an intimate friend of Dr. Chesnut and a member of his congre~ gatio:q. . The casket was placed in front of the pulpit from which ·Dr. Chesnut had so frequently and so earnestly proclaimed the Wo'rd ·of God. The funeral services were in the charge of Rev. W. R. McChesney, D. D., President of Cedarville College, who was so closely and so happily associated with Dr. Chesnut in his work in Cedarville, and who, in addition to his own arduous tasks, assumed much of Dr. Chesnut's work as it became impossible for Dr. Chesnut to carry it. The choir of the congregation, of .which Mr. George Creswell is the leader, led th~ congregation while it joined in singing the 23d Psalm. Rev. J. S. E. McMichael, of the