Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-12
hose with whom be has been most init.

who ministers to the physical, intellectual
or spiritual wants of man, who relieves
tho distresses of the poor and oppressed
who succors the needy and whose influ.
ence IL felt in promoting intelligence
social order and virtue, and in bringing
the world to Christ's Gospel, is in this
following the example of one who is at
once the worlds Savior and exemplar. II
was thus that Jesus spent the time of bis
, soiourn on the earth
, And he who thus out of love to Christ
and from desire to please him, "serves
his own generation" can, at the close OF
this service, go down to bis grave in peace.
And how can the peacefulness and hope.
fulness of the death which closes such q
life be better expressed than in these
words.
David, after be had served his own
generation by the will of God, fell on
Sleep" Fell on sleep" When day OF
toll and care is ended, how pleasant for
the weary laborer to rest his head upon
bis pillow and lose himself in that repose
which will secure and introduce the re-
fresbed energy and renewed life of the
morning. So in the christians death.
Wearied with the tolls and anxieties of
! this life, though he finds much in it TO
enjoy panied perhaps with the tendencies
of his own heart 10 evil, az we'll as with
the selfahness and suffering around him.
at his Masters call, he lays himself down
to the reposa of the grave ia the Joyous
expectation of waking in the likeness OF
Christ, and being satisfied in the bliss of
immortality.
Ought we not all to be aiming to live
such a life. even rs we would hope to die
such q death Whether be whose death
has called IA together 20 day lived such a
life and died such death, is not for me
to say. I am epea!,iug to tho7e who knew
John L. NarSb far better than / can claim
to- and he HIS gone into the presence of
one who knew him in his motives. feel
ings, views and principles, far better than
any Of IL did, whose provocative it il, and
ever will be, to judge Of him and ne all
Some thirty years ago met Mr.. Marsh
here in ri. own homo; since that time I
have bad passing, though never inti-
mate, acquaintance with him, and mainly
as have seen him outside the limits of
his own town, but have frequently seen
him in places where think be could have
been drawn by no selfish motive.
In the struggles in the State and in
!
ance reform, while yet dram drinking was
common and the sale of ardent spirits
almost unrestricted, he took prominent
part; was present and active in our con-
ventions when, amid much Indifference
and no little opposition, the public senti-
ment was being trained to correct views
as TO the folly of using Intoxicating
drink, and the iniquity of dealing in
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created which resulted in our present
prohibitory law. He early also took anti
Slavery ground, joining with those who
strenuously pressed q consideration of this
suhject upon the community. class, as
most OF US remember, whose zeal was not
diminished by the opposition they re-
ceived. or the obloquy heaped upon them
and who worked faithfully and earnestly,
though sometimes perhaps unwisely, at a
time when they could have had no expec-
tation of being so speedily permitted toI
rejoice in the emar cipation of the whole
colored race, and in their elevation 10 the
rights of citizenship. And of the sun
wisdom" of their courae, it does not be-
come any of us here to speak. since the
results they were aiming ar have been
already more than accomplished.
II you were rome Oh you speaking H.
stead of me. you could tell how Mr.
Marsh served his own generation in the
town and neighborhood. quite as earnestly
and efficiently az in the more public
spheres Of which I have spoken, where
his conduct came to my knowledge. Ofhis
doctrinal views, which it may be thought
rather separated him from me. l can
only say that they were undoubtedly as
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pressed. But while maintaining through
life what seems to me to be a grave error,
there is reason to believe that the error
did not make him-as | fear it does some
who embrace it-indifferent to religious
things and the claims of God upon him,
nor keep him from looking personally to
Christ AS his Savior, and honestly aiming
TO "eerve his own generation by the will
Of God"
This is what would urge upon you,
my friends, and urge it in sight of this
coffin and with the open grave before us.
Commit yourselves to the care of that
Being who Is ahla to keep that which vou
shall commit unto him against that day
whose ioyousness aud guidance and pro-
lection you will need in life. in death aud
ia eternity, aud remember that Christ
died for all that they which live should
not henceforth live unto themselves, bat
unto him which died for them and rose
agrin. Living for him and dying in him
we may change worlds in the glad hope
Of being with him in the place which he
has prepared for them that love him.
At the conclusion of the address Dr..
Wa k-r cffered fervent and touching
prayer, ana the quartette rendered nnoth
er anthem.
The singing hy Mr., Jerome billiard
aud daughters and J. Dunhom Green, of
Rutland. was far better than ary it has
ever been our fortune TO listen to on any
previous funeral occasion.
The body was then borne to the neigh
boring cemetery and deposited by the
side Of two generations of his ancestora,
who lie sleeping in that pleasant county
grave yard. Il was a beautiful autumn
afternoon. that seemed fitting for the
burial of one ",gho had served his genar-
atiou' and had fallen ION sleep" when the
autumn of life had come to him
Messrs. Eloch Saith, John E, Nvlsen,
Joseph Fuller, Joseph Congdou, N. M.
Powers, T. K. Horton, Hiram f. Button,
Daniel Plat, William S. Weeks, Frank
lin Billings, Eihu Kelley and Samuel
Kelley acted as pail bearers.
The general direction of the funeral
was under the charge OF Lensey Round,
E-q.
ADDENDA.
Ia our biographical sketch one or
two errors occurred which we take this
opportunity to correct. The person l
liberty bill 10 which reference was made
was not enacted until 1858, year after
Mr. Marsh left the Senate. He made
strenuous eff ,rts - SECURE the passage of