“In the death of Rev. L.G. Ware, who for nearly thirty years has been the minister of our church in Burlington, Vt., we are called upon to part company with one of the finest spirits that has ever graced our ministry.  We cannot do better than quote from the Christian Leader the following discriminating and appreciative tribute to him from the pen of Dr. I.M. Atwood: ‘Mr. Ware held only a modest rank as preacher, and his neighbors in the pulpits of the city easily surpassed him in the art of building and administering a parish.  But he was more a part of Burlington’s best life than any minister or man who lived there. How he accomplished this cannot be written: to those who knew him it was natural and inevitable.  He loved the town and studied its higher interests.  He loved the children, and was brother and father to them all.  He loved books and pictures and flowers, and was a delicate connoisseur of the choicest of them.  He loved truth, righteousness, goodness, and made them the strength of his life.  He was one of the few men who having no family of his own, was welcome in everybody’s family, a gracious, cultured, gentle, pure, and widely useful man. Dr. Ware has left on the social and religious atmosphere the most lovely of American cities an aroma that will prolong for aye the sweet savor of his life.’ ”

Reference Data:

The Unitarian, Vol. 6, by J.T. Sunderland, Editor and Frederick B. Mott, Associate Editor, 1891, page 284