Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-24
MEMORIAM.

OF THE REy ". j. MoISERYY, PAsTo1 or
MoEwENs, HUMPHREYS COUNTY, TENN,
WHO DIED Nov. II, 1914
'sOhl there are grefs for nature too intense,
Whose 1irst rude shock but Supplies the SOUL
Nor hath the q agile ani o'erburdened sense
Strength cen 70 feel at once their dread control
BIT when 'tis past that still and speechless hour
OF the sealed boscm, and the fearless eye,
Then the rous- mind awakes, with tenfolO
To grasp the fulness Of its agonyi
It's desth-like tOrpOr yanished-and It's doom
To cast its own dark hues DER Life and natures
bloom"
Alsd How fleeting and uncertain are The
transitOry DAYS Of mani He cometh torth hke
flower and is destroyed. All our golden dreams
of worldly happiness terminate but IN the oo-
scurity of the grave, from which neither wealth,
nor power, nor genius, nor virtue itself can res
cue US.
This most estimable Young clergyman had COM
S.=.eA hss snnasiate course but few months,
and was therefore In the discharge OF MS clerical
duties but short time when str eken by death.
The discipline of college life, together with tne
trials and AT OF his selfsacrinciDg voca-
ton soon underm nded q naturally delicate con-
s..tution, and It's victim succInbed TO consump-
ton.
Oi how noble, how self-sacrincingi Leaving
hn-ne and country and repiing the dearest ties
of affection Z l.i,os IN the cause OF religion Yea,
even now in that loyeir sainted Isle, lar aCiosS
he ocean, wall is heard on the winter Wipos. =
father raises his hEnes TO Heaven in GgOSsS ~
weeps for his loved aHd lost son, whose eoree 81
pose far away in that Western world far t1om
the home of his childhood and the friends Ct Irs
youth. And that d .scOnsOlate mother, whose
brow is silvered with the blossoms Of the grave,
D,o=s..,s PRAYER 70 Heaven; tits borne by angels
across the Western wAUeEs, va ,-tshfiV Esep
their vigils At Lis client grave. such Is the fate
OF the mssOnary-An exile from home always
obeying the call of suffering humanity and Of
fering his own life as a sacrihee fOT others. AT
in northern zones, where Arctic SHOWS are tail-
ing, there YOU will find him; travel through the
burning sands Of the desert or the blooming val
leys of the south, aga n you lind him; journey on
through the Western plains, solitary grave
with = cross above 1t, an In1ian chief kneeting
BY arrests your attention; his fervent prayer and
mOistened eye says, "It is the lonely grave OF our
beloved missionary" He left the verdaEt fields
and smiling vail - Of his own lovely sea-Strt
Isle 70 teach he fZner art.
aAnd there are haunts in that green lAnd-oh,
who NAV dream or tell
OF all the shaded loyeliness il hides In grot and
delli
BY fountains Hingsng rainbow spray on dark and
And bowers wherein the forest dove her nest IN
troubled weaves;
The myrtle dwelis there, sending round The rich
SySS OF ~ slr>iv-6-
and tL>.vIoI-.< s@---, s.fc Src$I-stls tIy= IT,
dewy moss beneath
Peaceful be thy sleep, o blest departed, in thy
cold and silent gravel The winter winds Wiz
. eas tho gfl the fright STAYS OF
heaven, In the silent gloom Of night, watch Ger
thee. When spring returns with its buds and
blossoms, friendly hands viii strsw fair flowers
DER thy grave, and the night dews of GUNNER
viii Teep calmly and softly above thee.
'Calm on the bosom OF shy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee noWi
Fen while with ours thy footsteps uod,
Htz 80 WAS on thy brow
Dust, 10 its narrow house beneath
Soul, to Its place ON highl
They that have seen thy look In deaf
No more may fear TO de"
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