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of his brother-in-law, Mr. Charles Munroe, on the 29th of October, 1857,
were borne to the city of Portland, Maine, on the Monday following, and
entombed, under the charge of two sorrowing brothers, and his brotherin-law (Hon. F. O. J. Smith), and Charles F. Wood, Esq., Superintendent of the " New-York and New-England Telegraph Company," of which
Company the deceased was a Director, Secretary and Treasurer, from its
origin. The funeral ceremonies were held in Brooklyn by the Rev. E. H.
Chapin, of New-York city, and Rev. B. Peters, of Brooklyn, in a manner
solemn, instructive, and every way consistent with the known convictions
and quiet judgment of the lamented deceased.
Of the life, and performance of its duties throughout, of Mr. Sadler,
others, to whose service in the ministry, as well as in secular affairs, he
was devoted, will hereafter speak more becomingly than we can here;
but a brief allusion to his characteristics is an appropriate tribute to his
past relations to this company. IHe resided several years in the city of
Portland, Maine, among numerous devoted friends. There he was also
married in 1841, and there, also. he ably discharged the duties of pastor
of the First Universalist Society, until broken health imperatively demanded that he should somewhat change his pursuits. None knew him
but to respect him to the fullest extent of their knowledge of him,
whether in secular, social, or temporal relations.
Previous, and down to the time of his call as pastor in Portland, Maine,
he resided, and for some period of time he officiated as pastor of the Universalist Society, in New Bedford, Mass., where still survive many, very
many, to whom his memory will be forever endeared by associations of
profound mutual esteem and attachment.
From his early manhood he was deeply imbued with a mastering love
and reverence for the teachings of the Gospel, and became a sincere convert to the doctrines and faith to which he clung throughout after life,
and in which he felt ever prepared to encounter the demands of death.
Among his first labors, we believe, when scarcely having reached manhood, was a mission of his own conception, that occupied many months
in execution, through western New-York and Ohio, in the formation of
numerous local religious societies of the Universalist denomination, looking forward in them to what has since been, his judgment joyously reaiized in various localities, the growth of vigorous, and useful, and permanent associations of worshipping communities, where tall church-spires
attest the footprints of this early pioneer of the doctrine of man's ultimate redemption from a condition of sinfulness and sin.
We allude to these sectarian labors of Mr. Sadler only in illustration of
his life and character, and not as the sponsors of his religious views, nor
to sit in judgment upon their merits or demerits as a creed. It is our
high gratification to believe that in him, however, they never suffered
detriment by affectation or abuse in any way. He was always tolerant,
however decided for or against the views of others.
He was engaged for some time as pastor of the Universalist Society in
Columbus, Ohio, which we believe was one he had organized; and at another period, before ministering as a permanent pastor in Portland, he
was engaged in like duties in Bangor, Maine. But we leave to others,
more conversant with his labors in the ministry, to particularize them.
In the funeral service, Rev. Mr. Chapin alluded to them as within his
own knowledge, in the most feeling and eloquent terms of eulogy and
pleasurable remembrance. Suffice it to say, everywhere he resided he
commanded the respect, and love, and confidence of his acquaintances in
all his associations. both social and religious, for his ardent and sincere
convictions, for his scrupulous advocacy of the right, under all circumstances, and in respect to every being and every creature, of every condition, under God's providence.