Identifier: briefhistoryofre00sher ( find matches)
Title: A brief history of Rev. Samuel Lander, senior, and his wife Eliza Ann (Miller) Lander : their two sons William Lander and Samuel Lander, and their grandson Samuel A. Weber
Year: 1918 ( 1910s)
Authors: Sherrill, William L. (William Lander), b. 1860
Subjects: Landers family Lander, William, 1817-1868 Lander, S. (Samuel), 1833-1904
Publisher: (Greensboro, N.C. : The Advocate Press)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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n. All the years had been preparinghim for his work and now a ripe scholar, well furnished inhead and heart, he was ready to do better work than ever be-fore. From that time you well know his history and thewonderful service he rendered to the church through the col-lege at Williamston. Among the strong points in the character of this goodman I would say: That he had faith—an unwavering faith—in God and inJesus Christ His Son, and his whole life to the minutest de-tail was built on that truth. He knew in whom he believedand he considered it his only business in this world to fearGod and keep His commandments. Life to him, therefore,was a serious fact, an eternal truth, and to be faithful, andconsequently useful, he regarded as the service due from himto God and to his fellowman. The possession of such a faith quickened to the tensestdegree an already sensitive conscience. He was painstaking inall he did and was never guilty of shoddy work, for he puthis conscience into every task.
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OF THE Lander Family 57 If it was writing a copy or preparing a lesson or teachinga class or preaching a sermon he, for conscience sake and lovefor righteousness, was careful of details; appreciating thegreat value of what we are pleased to call little things, hemagnified duty and did his best, and, hear me, he who livesby this rule is charged with righteousness, even td the fingertips, for his common work becomes sanctified service and heworships God in all he does. He was a good man—guileless, unsuspicious—he had con-fidence in human kind and every man who knew him wellloved him for his goodness sake—and while he, like all men,was subject to human infirmity, yet I have never personallyknown a man whose life was so nearly ideal, so free fromblemish, so full of commendable traits, so rich in good works.His motives were never questioned and from his childhoodeven down to old age I never heard of an act of his that de-served or called forth an adverse criticism. He came to his own

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