Excerpt from Address at the Funeral of the Rev. Henry Augustus Boardman, D. D: By the Rev. Prof. A. A. Hodge D. D., June 21, 1880

The sorrow which fills all our hearts to-day has not its ground in a mere sentiment. We weep not merely because our affections are wounded, and the tender and sacred associations of the past abruptly severed, or simply that one of the noble monuments of the good old times is removed from its place. But we have all in various ways experienced a terrible positive loss. Although our Father and Friend had lived well beyond the appointed period of human life, and had completed a well-rounded life-work, he had never for one moment ceased to be a positive beneficent power in the present, and we had fondly hoped that he would continue to be so in the near future also.

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