Biographie Gegoux Theodore

Theodore Gegoux, Junior - Pastor Nash - Jan 4, 1928

I have been asked to put upon paper an, appreciation of this true man, who was my close personal friend and intimJate co-worker.  The sense of my own loss in his going makes the task difficult.  But in remembering that the qualities in him which won my esteem and affection, wrought the same attraction throughout our fellowship, I find a motive for setting down what those qualities were.

Perhaps the first and outstanding one was that of cheery amiability, which was no veneer of mere courtesy, but born of innate kindliness and trust in fellow men.  Add to this a certain spiritual attitude to life, a mystic sense of the unseen, which he conceived as dynamic and available when earnestly called upon for human re-enforcement and uplift.  He had besides a marked aesthetic endowment, which not only showed itself in the profession to which he finally gave himself with a joy and abandon no other vocation had ever supplied, but was wrought into his fiber and manifested in his very physical being.  His considerable talent for music was another flowering of this artistic temperament. In the combination of these qualities he was democratic, happy-dispositioned, versatile, thoughtful, studious as far as he had leisure, a lover of good reading, companionable, and deeply Christian.  His willingness was so great that he was doubtless taxed beyond his strength by the many calls which recognized his fitness for such various forms of service.

And thus it resulted that his life was inwoven with the activities of the church in such numerous ways that his going bereft us in every department and function of our work. We miss him everywhere. But we are grateful for his comradeship, and our hold on realities is firmer because of him.