The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

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ERECTED
BY THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ AT NASHVILLE TO THE MEMORY/ OF
THEIR LATE BELOVED AND/ LAMENTED PASTOR, THE REV./ OBADIAH
JENNINGS:/ D. D. WHO DEPARTED THIS/ LIFE JANUARY 12TH, 1832:/
AGED 53 YEARS. / DR. JENNINGS WAS BORN NEAR/ BASKINGRIDGE, NEW
JERSEY/ DEC. 13TH 1778/ HIS ORIGINAL POWERS WERE/ NATURALLY
STRONG AND HIS/ DISCERNMENT UNUSUALLY CLEAR./ HE WAS A RIPE
SCHOLAR A/ PROFOUND THEOLOGIAN, A SINCERE/ CHRISTIAN, A
LABORIOUS AND FAITH/ FULL MINISTER./ IN HIS SOCIAL FEELINGS,
AND HAB/ ITS HE WAS MOST HAPPILY CONSTI/ TUTED, AND IN HIS
DOMESTIC RELA/ TIONS, NO HUSBAND OR FATHER COULD BE MORE/
DEVOTED./ HE HELD FAST TO THE FAITH, ONCE/ DELIVERED TO
THE SAINTS./
AMONG ALL HIS ATTRACTIVE QUAL/ ITIES HIS DEEP HUMILITY, AND/
HIS ACCUSTOMED SPIRIT OF DE/ VOTEDNESS IN PRAYER, WERE THE
/MOST PREEMINENT./ HE WAS, BOTH IN ARGUMENT AND/ IN
SCRIPTURAL EXPOSITION, REMARK/ ABLY LUCID AND INSTRUCTIVE./
HIS MEMORY IS EMBALMED/ IN THE AFFECTIONS, BUT LIKEWISE/
IN THE AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE FLOCK TO WHOM HE AD/
MINISTERED IN GREAT TENDERNESS/ AND FIDELITY AND WHO BY THIS/
MONUMENT WOULD EVER PERPETU/ATE THEIR HIGH ESTEEM OF HIS/
WORTH AND OF THEIR LOSS.
HE RESTS FROM HIS LABORS/ AND HIS WORKS DO FOLLOW HIM.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; OLD CITY CEMETERY