14 LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE

had not risen. The Final Summons had called him beyond.
There was sorrow in the home that the morning light could not
dispel. There was the pall of a stunned grief over the city of
Gainesville. There was sorrow in Tallahassee, the capital
city where so many years of his life had been spent and where
his beloved wife had been laid to final rest some four years
before. A great wave of sympathy welled up and came in a
tide from alumni, friends, citizens. Florida's outstanding
citizen and leader had gone.
 The funeral service was conducted the next day at the
First Baptist Church where during his entire time in Gaines-
ville he had worshiped and served. In the sorrowing group
of survivors were his daughter Alberta, who is Mrs. David G.
Worth, and his two sons, John A. H. and A. A., Jr. Martha,
the other daughter, who is Mrs. R. G. Wallace in Chicago, was
hastening to Tallahassee to be presenttat the interment. The
host of friends crowded into the auditorium of the church,
members of the faculty of the University, students, alumni,
citizens of Gainesville-friends and associates in all walks of
life-they came to pay tribute to the departed leader.
 Dr. Thomas V. McCaul, minister of the First Baptist
Church, paid the great educator this tribute in the funeral
sermon:
 "As the minister of this great and good man there are
many things I would like to say, but I shall not speak them
now. It is difficult to refrain from expressing my love for
and my appreciation of my cherished friend. But we are
here to pause for a few minutes in God's house which he loved
so devotedly, and to which he loved to come in humble and
grateful worship.
 "The presence of this great throng of sympathetic friends
is a fitting testimony of the large place he occupied in the love
and esteem of the people of this community.
 "At some other time we hope to pay a worthy tribute to
his memory, for a 'Prince in Israel is fallen today!'
 "He was a true friend, a wise leader, a loving father, a
devoted husband, and an humble and faithful Christian.
 "The cause of education, the state, society, the church,
and Christianity has suffered an irreparable loss, and we shall