Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-06-23
OBITUARY NOTICE.


Milton Hebard, son of Mr.. Samuel He
bard, died of Consumption, East Bethel
Vt May 22d ult, aged 20 years. The
deceased was member of the present
Junior Class of Brown University, Prov.
r. |. The event Of death ought always
to teach US lesson of humanity. But
! when death bears to the land Of silence
1.-The pious young man, from whose labors
and influence there is sufficient reason TO
expect much future good we are forcibly
Reminded of our own frailty and of the
Sovereignty Of God. His ways are in
deed dark and mysterious ;~~but incompre
hensible as they may be, it is the unfail-
ling source ofjsy to the christian that God
ireigns 1t is his pleasure to believe that
the Divine administration is conducted in
love and mercy; and though he does not
always see present good resulting from
! his Affections and bereavements, still, he
does not doubt but that they are the means
necessary to some ultimate end in the Di-
4 vine plan. ,.-..
! However severe be the stroke that de-
lprives us o. friends-that sewers the cords
of cherished affections and disappoints, our
1 brightest hopes, if such be the pleasure of
Infinite wisdom, the humble believer ac-
quiesces.
In the death of young Hebard loss,
not soon to be forgotten has been sustain
ed by his friends and by humanity. Not
that he was taken from field of active
labor, for upon that he had not yet enter
ed; but because that life OF extensive use
fuIDess, which those who knew him, cher
shed, in reserve for him, has closed, while
its sun was still in the eastern sky. Nat
nrally of delicate health, it was thought
/ that he might never be able to endure the
fs:igueing exercise of manual labor
This, with strong desire on his part, in
duced his friends to decide upon a coilegi-
ate course Of education for him. 1t is sci.
dom that young man enters upon q
course Of study more eagerly or with
higher hopes than did our young friend
Having completed his preparatory studies
lin the summer of 1888 he became mem
Der OF Dartmouth College, where he re-
I z
manned but one year. A.thecommence
ment Of his second collegiate year, he en-
tered Brown University Providence r. /
e. Meantime his constant application to hi
studies appears to have been too much To-
him to bear; his health was becoming
more delicate. but not sufficiently impair
ed to give him any serious cause Of alarm
Al the close Of his Sophomore year he re
turned homeito his friends in Bethel, wit
leave of absence from College, for III
purpose of teaching if necessary. Nofa
vorable opportunity TO instruct presentin
itself, he spent the fall at home. He SO
gagged in teaching for the winter, but III
laboTs of his school, together with vIoler
cold WHICH seized upon his lungs CON
PEELED him to leave it. Soon after tn
the melancholy truth that he was the vi
: tim Of consumption began to develop ]
- self. The power Of disease baffled a
. medical aid, and the symptoms OF h
: malady, ifthey sometimes fattered, ga,
but little if any reasonable ground to e.
ou pect his recovery
oi AS a scholar he was ardent, perseve
oy ing and Successfully and if ambitious,
on' was OF that kind which we are more i
- ciined to admire than blame. except sol
as il might have been at the sacrifice
ord Ibis heahh. a jealous lover Of literata
'ich and science his friends predicted for b
you no humble station, if permitted 10 col