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WALTER WALKER 1902-1939
AN INTRODUCTORY WORD By M. P. HUNT It is my privilege to say a word by the way of introduction to the following very tender tribute of an older brother minister to the memory of his younger brother in the flesh following in his steps, who in the very morning of his promising ministry suddenly sickened and fell asleep. Life's sun had by no means reached its noon day. The lives of these two brothers were closely intertwined. Clarence was to Walter much more than a brother. He was his Spiritual father, his father in the ministry, his director and associate in his early ministry. A veritable Paul and his son Timothy. It was beautiful to see them in their team work. That we were privileged to do when they were with us in a most gracious meeting at Eighteenth Street Baptist Church. Walter's sudden and unexpected home going, humanly speaking, a tragedy, was to Clarence a tremendous shock. He was all but beside himself with grief. His great faith in God enabled him in the trying ordeal to deport himself as a good minister of Jesus Christ. The funeral from Clarence's church, the Ashland Avenue, Lexington, was a never-to-be-forgotten occasion. Walter's Providence Church joined Clarence's for the service and friends and loved ones from all the country where they had labored were there. The auditorium and Sunday school room were packed and the yard was full. The funeral procession was forty-nine minutes in passing the bier. The funeral was a most remarkable tribute to one so young in the ministry. To have made by his short life in the ministry such a funeral possible was in itself a great tribute. Clarence's tribute seems to me in every way fitting. 1 read it with deepening sense of appreciation and a growing conviction that it would not only help and comfort the many brought to Christ by these brothers; but many others into whose hands it is destined to come. Why it had to be I do not know; but some day we shall understand and in His light see light. Heaven's benediction upon his widow and three little children. "Walter Doesn't Live Here Any More" but Glory to God, he lives in the lives he blessed here and with his Heavenly Father in the Glory World. │>Next│ |
