Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-01-04
Death Of Dr.. CaIEinS
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FRBND OLIVER 1t is with mingled emotions
of grief and joy that announce TO you tho
death Of our friend and townsman Dr. HmAp
L. CALKINs, which took place about o'clock
A. NJ. of the 18th inst, of typhus fcvcr. Will
the feelings above described feel like saying
something as to his life and history. He wa
born in 1918. His father died while he was
child leaving his mother and two children in
low circumstances in comparatively nov
country. Consequently his advantages for &C.
quiring an education were limited. During
! several Of the years OF his minority lie in a
great measure lost the use of ono arm. Early
in life he manifested an investigating mind and
promptncss to act, giving unmis;akab evi.
dencc that one day he would be found in the
front ranks Of virtue or vice. lie chose the
path of virtue and made this his motto: Try
all thnss-Prove all things and hold fast that
which is good" lie had an ardent tcmpcra-
mcnt what he did, he did withhis might. lie
learned the trade OF joiner and carpenter, mar
ried, moved to the West, lost his wife and fami-
ly and returned TO this place. After his return
he worked at his trudc and married a second
time. During the rage of protracted meetings,
or revivals, as they were called, he was not be-
hind, but took hold with great zeal. But as
he increased in years and knowledge he became
convinced that pure and undcfled religion was
a tangible, practical thing that it fed the hun
cry and clothed the naked, opened the eyes Of
the blind, unstoppcd the deaf cars, and opened
flR t.Fta Il. Il. Al.
with zeal worthy of the cause he reached out
his hand to the sick and the ignorant without
stopping to inquire whether they were white
or black. lie dctcsted hypocrisy. Ills last
public speech was made at a meeting of citizens
OF this town, called without distinction of sect
or party, to denounce the fugitive law and the
makers thereof, in which meeting there was Il
move made by political Frccsoilcrs to turn the
acts of the meeting to their own account or to
make political capital of the meeting. In this
effort he held up before the meeting the hollow
prctensions OF Frccsoilcrs in such vivid color.
that trust it will not soon be forgotten, and
trust the honest hearted among us will avoid
the party as they would a whited sepulchre i'll.
led with corruption and dead mems bones. Fol
the last few years he worked ut his trade and
studied the Homeopathic practice Of medicine,
and IN the latter was considered among the first
as a scholar and successful practitioner. lie
was so much engaged in promoting the health
and comfort of Others that he lost light OF him
self. He was socialist in theory and so much |
so in practice that lac accumulated little or no |
prol erty and as is the case with phianthropists
in general, he died poor, but rich in faith. lie !
had faith to believe that mankind would ulti- |
mately be redeemed from all the Ills OF this lilc
both moral and physical, and was indelatigable
in his cxertions to strip the wolves in sleeps
clothing that now so much infest the world, that
the people might sec them in all their dclormi-
ty. As an evidence of the real estimation in
which he was held by those who knew him best, |
his funeral was numerously attended yesterday, |
showing alrcsh to the world how slow men and |
women are to acknowledge the virtues and val.
ue of such in their lifetime. In all my acquan-
tance with him l never heard him express one
desire for wealth. lie has left wife and little
son, some or years old, giving another OPP
portunity to the world to test their desire for
eternal Life and to professed Christians an op-
portunty of testing the purity OF their religion,
by visiting the widow and the iathcrlcss.
OLIVER o. BROWN.