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THE SALEMITE
Saturday, February 7, 1931,
MINISTERS PAY TRIBUTE
TO LIFE OF LATE BISHOP
EDWARD RONDTHALER
We, the members of the Ministers’
Association of Winston-Salem, would
hereby give expression to our sincere
love for Bishop Edward Rondthaler,
and to our great appreciation of his
many years of fruitful labor. He
has been a tower of strength for
every worthy cause and for every
righteous pupose in this city and
througliout the Southern Province
of the Moravian Church. He has
shown the power of his great per
sonality as preacher, pastor, teach
er, college president and bishop.
At the time of his death he had
become not only our leading citizen,
but also our best-loved man. The
Chamber of Commerce awarded him
the “distinguished service cup,” and
the whole city echoed its warm ap
proval.
This association of ministers, his
fellow laborers in the gospel, has
always held him in most cordial af
fection as a brother-beloved. His
genuine modesty and his unfailing
courtesy, and his sincere love for
his brethern in the ministry has
maintained a most happy and bless
ed fellowship with us all, at all
times. There has never been the
slightest misunderstanding
tion between him and the manifold
church interest which he represented
and the others of us who labored
the same territory, building up o
churches at the same time in which
he was enlarging and extending his
To him is due in a large measure
the unusually cordial fellowship
among all the ministers and church
es of this city and province. This
is evidence of a real greatness of
spirit which was his, and his
failingly.
His studious habits and wide
readings were inspiring to us. His
diligence and his fidelity encouraged
His wealth of love and sympathy
which he spent so liberally in the
homes of the people challenge us
to go and do likewise.
We feel that not only is a prince
and a great man fallen today, but
we feel a sense of personal loss in
his going from us. The shadow
which rests so heavily in this com
munity gathers us likewise into its
gloom. There is perhaps no other
body of men which knows so well
his value to the spiritual interests of
this city, and no other group here
which will miss his leadership so
sadly.
We extend our loving sympathy
to his family, and to his fellow work
ers of the Southern province of the
Moravian Church.
D. CLAY LILLY,
V. M. SWAIM,
R. E. GEIBBIN, Committee.
BISHOP RONDTHALER
“I am the resurrection and the
life.” Year after year, the world
the spring, in the chill of Easter
dawn, the assembled multitudes
have been stilled to hear the trumpet
voice of Bishop Rondthaler pro
claim over the hallowed ground
where the Moravian brotherhood
sleep, “The Lord is risen; he is
risen indeed.”
Faith has had no other such spec
tacle of manifestation. The good
bishop passed his threescore and ten,
passed fourscore, neared fourscore
and ten; the throngs for the annual
ceremony at the burying ground of
old Salem increased. As a spectacle
attracting the curious, it began with
the era of rapid highway transpor
tation; before that it had mainly at
tracted the truly devout. But of the
great audience that has regularly
filled that part of the city in latter
years, surely every one who has any
reverence, any sense of the sublime,
and smallest, endowment of faith, no
matter what motive started the pil
grimage, must have felt a benediction
But a few months ago the Win-
ston-Salem community which, like
others, is acpustomed to make
awards; to citizens from ’time to
time for distinguished merit, said
“Why not an award to Bishop
Rondthaler?” It was not for any
isolated thought or achievement; it
was for the life he had lived, the
sum of his thinking, of the influence
of his spirit on the life about him.
Why not, indeed? Therein Winston-
Salem, if belatedly, took thought of
the higher values. A little later, and
the honor would have had to be to
his memory. The city honored it
self honoring this aged and saintly
scholar, who kept a spirit sweet and
youthful.
Now he rests with the brethern.
Another voice will make the proc
lamation of resurrection, to be an
swered by the echoing harmonies of
bands of music, to be echoed in the
hearts of the throng of believers.
But surely his spirit will dwell in
that place while time lasts—Greens
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