The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-02-14
Obituary.

Died, at TIE residence or BIS iat9ef
Or. J. Nj. Mask, atshalf-past so'eloelt %
the. evening .of February 10, 1873, w. D.
Mask, after a. hort lluess. Thus another
has spassed on 50 view the solemn scenes
lof zeterHjtys
II The deceased was a young man of
| twenty summers, and had SO lived as to
win for himself a conmehdable-yea. en-
viableLeharacter and a host of friends.
who forsook bin notzin The hour Of his
extremity, bat, with fearful eyes and
fnqurpfal hearts, stood t'ntite with grief
around his bedside tiff the dread sum-
mons came and bore him but into the
Great Hereqf1sr -
How awfully sad the occasion Of death
under any circumstarcc5. The AGED and
deesspit, who have iiyed out their three
score. and ten geaEs-wI1 80 have q ran ( the
mixed cur. oflife, and drained it to its
dregs-Who have seen the utter vanity of
all earthlygOod, and. signing for deliver
ance from LIES CALLING chain, even long
to be gathered to their fathers in the land
of boundless beatitude beyond the river
when they die the heart is touched and
the eye Of the phi!anthropist is suffused
with tears. The little infant whose guile>
+ less soul has never known sin2zwbose
4 tender lips have tasted not the gall Of
/ life-when it falls a victim to the mex
oruble monster and its pure spirit passes
to It's home beyond the blue sky ia the
bosom Of its God, the heart Of the most
tboughtless becomes sad, and this, the
most beautiful feature Of death, has
something about it that throws a chill
upon the soul and horror upon the
mind But when a young man, in the
bloom Of youth and vigor of his strength,
is suddenly cut down, and all the bright
prospects and cherished schemes which
a youthful fahey lasp painted IN tie future
are Suddenly obseured By the cleaning
Of death, and his radiant HOY es and buoy
ant dEeams,all vanish like the variegated
clouds of sunset, leaving him enveIoped
10 moral nigRf, the mind IS seized With
saddest thou q tssahdz1ise pest emotions. 8
What a lesson this should teach US.
BY it We are reminded of our frailty.
From it we derive the sad truth that we
too are travelling on the level Of time and
must soon take our voyage on that ocean
that is trackless, waVeless and shoroIess.
Then let US so I've and act that,
"When our summons comes .f
To join the inpumerable caravan
That moves to that mysterious realm,
Where each must take chamber
In the silent halls of death,
We so. not like the quarry slave,
At night scourged to his dungeon,
Bot soothed and sustained
BY an uniaitering trust
Approach orr graves, like one
Who wraIs the drapery of
His couch about him
And lies down to pleasant dreams, -
Let us emulate the example Of our de-
parted friend, the rectitade Of whose con-
duet and purity of whose life will fail not
to guide him across the river and gain
rest in the shade beyond"
% As the bird to its sheltering nest.
" tlch iAie .elDIui tH tite lBt.S Is dDTGaQt |
80 his spirit hath fpwrf from this world of |
unrest,
TO repose on the bosom of God
His loss NfIIl,be deeply felt by all Who
knew him lie leaves behind him to
mourn his loss father to whom he was /
ever Tespeotftsi;z dusiGsl.- elys=lleut;i
two sisters whom he loved almost to
v
idolatry a brother to vhomshe was at all
times warmly alFsctionate, and host of /
friends, not one Of whom he ever forgot !
Gener .us and brave ,courteoes ard aGnblc,
noble and virtuous, with a heart that ever
wept when humanity wept and swelled in
unison to the harp cfz les rejoicing, be
lived and moved in the circle Of his ac-
quaintanee, beloved, respeesed ahf adj
mired, and died lamented and bemoancd
by al who knew. him.
- ''His life was bat summer r0ae,
That opened to The moruing Ky;
And ere the Shades OF evening" close,
lis scattered on the grcund to die@
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