Early Friday morning, February 14, 1913, death, caused from apoplexy, removed from our midst Brother Richard F. Woodroof, of Nashville, Tenn. He was born on December 2, 1849, in Rutherford County, Tenn. and was married to Miss Mary E. Bradshaw, of Wilson County, Tenn., on August 9, 1872. There were seven children born to them, three boys and four girls, all of whom survive him. All but one of the children were able to be present at the funeral services. Brother Woodroof was baptized at about the age of eighteen, thus early in life entering into the Master's vineyard. Like those mentioned in the parable, he did not shirk the burden and heat of the day; but, unlike those, he was eager to see others enter even at later periods and receive all the reward the Master sees fit to give. It must have been gratifying to him to see the most of his own children, one by one, accept Christ and begin in his service. Brother Woodroof was a carpenter and builder by trade, but he had a nobler calling than that. Almost every Lord's day found him in the pulpit somewhere, proclaiming publicly the truth of God. It may be lamented that he could not have turned loose his secular work and devoted himself exclusively to public preaching; but when we remember that "pulpit preaching" is not the most effective, but the kind the disciples did when scattered by persecution from Jerusalem, the kind Philip did when riding beside the Ethiopian eunuch, and the kind Priscilla and Aquila did when teaching Apollos more accurately, we are satisfied with his work. It was this kind of preaching he did when he came down from the house with a fellow-workman convinced of his duty, baptized him, and went back to resume his work. This silent, unobtrusive, plodding, faithful life is the kind that counts with God and leaves an impress upon the world for good. A large gathering of friends at the residence, among them a number of the preaching brethren, attested the esteem in which Brother Woodroof was held by the people who knew him. May his wife and children feel resigned, and strive to act as he wished and now wishes them to act, that all may be well in the end. S. P. Pittman. - Gospel Advocate, March 6, 1913, page 233.
Early Friday morning, February 14, 1913, death, caused from apoplexy, removed from our midst Brother Richard F. Woodroof, of Nashville, Tenn. He was born on December 2, 1849, in Rutherford County, Tenn. and was married to Miss Mary E. Bradshaw, of Wilson County, Tenn., on August 9, 1872. There were seven children born to them, three boys and four girls, all of whom survive him. All but one of the children were able to be present at the funeral services. Brother Woodroof was baptized at about the age of eighteen, thus early in life entering into the Master's vineyard. Like those mentioned in the parable, he did not shirk the burden and heat of the day; but, unlike those, he was eager to see others enter even at later periods and receive all the reward the Master sees fit to give. It must have been gratifying to him to see the most of his own children, one by one, accept Christ and begin in his service. Brother Woodroof was a carpenter and builder by trade, but he had a nobler calling than that. Almost every Lord's day found him in the pulpit somewhere, proclaiming publicly the truth of God. It may be lamented that he could not have turned loose his secular work and devoted himself exclusively to public preaching; but when we remember that "pulpit preaching" is not the most effective, but the kind the disciples did when scattered by persecution from Jerusalem, the kind Philip did when riding beside the Ethiopian eunuch, and the kind Priscilla and Aquila did when teaching Apollos more accurately, we are satisfied with his work. It was this kind of preaching he did when he came down from the house with a fellow-workman convinced of his duty, baptized him, and went back to resume his work. This silent, unobtrusive, plodding, faithful life is the kind that counts with God and leaves an impress upon the world for good. A large gathering of friends at the residence, among them a number of the preaching brethren, attested the esteem in which Brother Woodroof was held by the people who knew him. May his wife and children feel resigned, and strive to act as he wished and now wishes them to act, that all may be well in the end. S. P. Pittman. - Gospel Advocate, March 6, 1913, page 233.
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