Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-12-14
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A telegram was received here on
Friday afternoon as follows: "WlLI.-
IAN H..RRIs is dead His friends
were shocked at the announcement
and the inquiry from one to another
was can it be that one so good, so
useful, is stricken down in the full flow
of health without a moment S warning
to us ?" so it is he is gone The home
that one week =. 90 was cheerful, that
rang with the melody of his sweet
song, is now left desolate The cheer
ing voice of the father is huShed i'll
death, and the kind, aiiectlonste hus
band is torn from the embrace of one
who shared his JOYS and sorrows for
twenty years, leaving more than wild
owed heart
Can it be that in the whirlpool
of busy life he will soon be for
gotten? Will those with whom he
has associated most soon forget theJnst
claims which those little ones have up
on them? In what sense will the God
wimne he served be Father to the ia
therless, awd a Husband to the widow :?
Will those who represent the visible
Church on earth-wi.l they, or will
they not, recognize themselves as the
instruments of the great God to care
for the ones who have been hereaved
of one of the most tender of fathers.
Time only can answer these questions.
With one other added-Nill the intlu-
entail and rich corporation, whom he
has so faithfully served give practical
evidence of their reco@nllion-ot their
appreciation Of his services? We mist
wait. Memory is treacherous =; some
times they are held /" n'enaortam which
is not a'fecte bv time.
Whatever mrv come to pass in tn"
future as to those he has left behind,
one fact stands out lac was man
Christian In his character there
was something to emulate. He spent
his life in doing good
HIS life was work, his language rife
With rugged m,XjnS hrwn from life;
Whatever record leap to light he never shall
I've S.,ancl.'
His heart FINGERED to comprehend
the fnlne<s of truth, not only in rela
ton to his God bat to his fellows
He was guided hy the golden precept
| DO unto Others as We would they
should do unto you.' lie reached af er
ideal goodness. grasped and held it
with firm hold He CLEANED useful
knowledge from every available source.
and literally impaired to those who
had fewer opportunities. With an
pasiness of temper, vet untinching
frmness in the right, he won all hearts
to him, His faults were virtues, be-
cause he was virtuous in his faults.
In the social circle he was the sun.
He had an inexhaustible fund of an
ecdotes, and every one pointing to a
higher grade of morals Intending to
elevate those " no We're lower than he in
their estimate of truth and its binding
claims upon them in social and domes-
tic life. He sought not the society of
those in higher life because he believ
ed his mission was to them he could
influence most for good, The aim Of
his life was to molly exemplify the
character of true manhood, to make
al with whom he came into contact
better. In order to obtain knowledge
of human nature 70 more than TWEEN
ty Years he carefully noted in his Jour
nal or diary, which he always kept,
the peculiar characteristics of every
one he met and to a few confidants
would make it known. No one ever
knew him to enjoy a joke at the ex-
pense of any one who was beneath
him in the scale of social life, vet he
abounded in them when they We're
not personal. He would give With
cisms hot from the lips of Douglas
Jerrold, Thomas Hood. Dean Swift and
others, and astound all around him by
his marvellous memories. Withal, he
was diligent in business to fault.
Such and much more was this man
who fell on last Friday at his post
For the short term of his residence in
this county, we doubt if there is one
who is so extensively known and be-
loved We have been prompted by
no other motive in giving this short
sketch to the public of some of the ex
celencies which we know of him, than
TO honor his memory, and with the
hope that some way be constrained tc
initiate them We leave him in full
confidence of a brighter and happier
meeting whence he has gone, having
outstripped the winds in their flight
and will remain in waiting to hal
those he has left behind as they ap.
proach the golden city, when they
like him, shall have fought the GOOD
fight and have finished their course