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Rev.
Samuel Tucker Moorman
ON Sabbath morning an old man with bundles of religious papers can be
seen bending his steps towards the State prison in Richmond,
Virginia. He is of large frame, yet
stooping with weight of years. His face, lit up with a "light
never seen on land or sea," tells of a Divine radiance from
within. Behind him follows an ever-faithful companion-his little
dog. The Methodists of the city know them well. This volunteer
chaplain to the Virginia penitentiary is Samuel T. Moorman.
Without money and without price, he visits the prisoners and
proclaims the liberty in Jesus Christ.
He is beyond, by nearly a decade, the allotted time to man. His
ear is dull and he is almost cut off from the commerce of social
life by his deafness. Domestic afflictions have burdened him for
years. In all this he sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. With
his own hand he ministers to his helpless household.
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By the old Methodists in the country Samuel Moorman is remembered as a
man of considerable power in the pulpit, full of zeal, and of saintly
life. He has served in the various positions of a Methodist Itinerant
Missionary to the colored people, on a circuit, in town, in city, in the
eldership, covering a period of thirty-nine years. , He was licensed to
exhort by the Rev. W. H. Starr in 1824. In 1828, at Raleigh, N. C., he was
admitted on trial into the Virginia Conference. Bishop Soule ordained him
Deacon in 1830. Bishop Heddings laid his hands on him as Elder in 1832. He is a native of Campbell county, born April 15,
1803. His parents were Methodists. They so taught him the way of
the Lord that he was religiously inclined from early years. At
a. campmeeting at Limestone Spring, Campbell county, he was
converted in 1822.
Having served his own generation, he is now ripe for heaven. |
Source: Sketches of the Virginia Conference, Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. by Rev. John J. Lafferty Richmond, Va.,
Christian Advocate Office 1880.
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