The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-26

scenes and surroundings of his childhood and
| though prophet may be void of honor in his
own country, he promptly rose to prominence
| III his profession. The war commencing, the
wall from blockadcd South, suffering for medi.
| cal men and medicines, made too strong an ap.
| peal TO his sympathzing nature to be resisted.
He went South and served with distinction as
field and hospital surgeon until the termination
OF the struggle, when he returned to his home
ana resumed practice, with Judgment ripened
and expanded by great experience and obserya.
ton. lie needs no better eulogy than the crowd
OF sorrowing friends who had collected around
| his bier to take last look at the noble form of
one who had been the companion and friend of
lneir Joys ana sorrows, and the skillful physi-
clan in their sickness and suffering who follow
cd him in solemn procession to his last resting
place, and dropped silent tears around his grave
III aifectionate remembrance. lie had his faults;
and who of us have not but they belonged not
TO his professional character Chat was without
reproach) but were rather the outgrowth from
heart filled to overlooking with generous i'm
pulses, and keen relish for social endowment
10 the critic we would quote the Divine Mas
lers words of reproach to the womau's accusers,
Let him without guilt cast the first stone
AS the fallen snow, in pure white, will in days
10 come robe the rough earth of his new made
grave, so let the mantle of charity cover and
obliterate all not pleasant to remember.
Whereas 1t has pleased the great Ruler of the
universe to take from us our brother and fe-
Il.
Be III ReSolyed, That the Medical Society has
lost an active and honoled member; the pro-
lesion one of its brightest ornaments the
community in which he lived a symputhizing
charitable friend and skillful physician; and
his family an atfectionate son and brother
RcSot0ed, That we tender his family and friends
our sincere sympathy in their great atiliction.
HeSotVed, That these resolutions be printed in
each OF the county papers and a copy forwarded
TO his family as proof of our sympathy and es-
teen.
Upon the speaker taking his seat, DR.. For.
wood arose and seconded the Resolutions which
mad just been read, and proceeded to say that :
III was custom of antiquity for each passer-
by to casta stone upon the spot which vas
marked as the last resting place of fellow.
mortal, who had fallen by the way in Life's pill
grlmage. With our almost eXhaustless Ian.
guage, and, too, with the printers art, we can
give but little additional expression of respect
and affection for the dead to this mute and
touching ceremony of our rude ancestors.
In The presence OF death, how vain, how futile
are words All is over, all is ended then Yet,
stll, 1t is our duty to those who survive to show
oy some sign, our esteem and appreciation ofthe
friend and fellowtrnveler who has been taken
from our midst by the hand of Death.
De@h Is inevitable. This lesson we all have
learned. this thought We all do dread We
into decay and Death.
Inc hopes OF youth, the accomplishments of
mature life, soon, all, how soon vanish in the
darkness of Death And then
THE evil that men do, lives after them,
The good is oft inferred with their bones"
Asprofessional brothers, and personal friends,
we, as representatives of cur county Medical
Society, OF which he was a worthy member, are
this day called upon to give some expression to
the sorrow that fills us, for the loss of one who
has fallen in the full maturity of his ntellectu-
al powers, and in the full career of his useful.
ness-Dr. George II. Roberts.
we enter this life without our consent or yo.
lltlon ana against our will, as a rule, we quit
it, or lay it down. We fulfill our DESTINY so far
as we may, according to the talents with which
we are gifted. Whether we might do different.
ly, or better than we do, is not for our fellow
men to Judge. Each must act in accordance
with his own light and there, of necessity, his
responsibility ends
Ueknow not the incentivcs-the irresistible
inducements, that Others have, compelling them
TO pursue different paths from those that we
ourselves might choose. Not possessing their
light as our guide, we are incapable of passing
judgment upon their actions. Some are called
10 the pulpit, some to the bar and bench; some
enter the exciting whirl of politics, while others
prefer the calm pursuit of agricultural life, and
the quiet pleasures of the fircside. And then
comes our profession-the most varied of all
with its pleasures and its SORROWS, with its
smiles and Its tears, trcading, alas, how Oft in
These diverse walks in Life appear to be es.
sentiol to the harmony and to the general good
of society.
What we regard in the conduct of our fellow.
mortaS as good, it is our duty to applaud and
commend; should there be traits Of character
i'll others that, with our light, we can not com
prehcnd, and hence may not approve, it is like
wise our duty to exercise toward them that no.
blest of all virtues-Chariiy.
In the character of our deceased friend, how
ever, there were many cstimabc qualities for
us all to commend-qualities of the head and of
the heart that distinguished him as one above
the ordinary level of men.
Personally, l never enjoyed large opportuni.
ties of meeting DR.. Roberts professionally
which enables us more fully to understand each
others qualifications for the treatment of dis.
case; but, Judging from the few cases in which
we have met together, and from many CONVEX
sations upon medical subjects, formed very
high opinion of his knowledge of, and of his
skill and ability in the management of many of
the diseases which atflict humanity.
None ofyou who were present at the last
meeting of our Society," can have forgotten the
eminently practical and forcble remarks which
were made by our deceased brother on that
scourge OF our race, typhoid fever. His large
experience in the treatment Of this disease had
given him an almost CG catheaya right to speak
and his Impressive language Immediately made
it clear TO us that he had greatly profted from
his opportunities of extended observation |
was myselfdcepy interested in his remarks from
the tuct that had some cases of the disease un-
der treatment at the time, which occasioned
great anxiety of mind. Two of them died with.
in few days after, rs was TO be apprehended
from the Doctors prophetic remarks
DIR. Roberts was remarkably urbane in man
ner, and happy in the use OF well.chosen Ian.
guage. He was popular with all classes with
whom he came in contact, and was especially
kind and considcrate to the poor; and many,
~ fttl a elm l..
his body 10 its last resting place.
His convictions of right and wrong were strong
and unwaverng, and he was ever ready TO main.
tain them.
When our late civil war broke forth, he be-
licvcd that the principles of free government,
and OF personal liberty were placed in jeopardy
by the course pursued by the North. He al once
separated himself from home and friends aban.
doned large and lucrative practice, and,
through many difficulties in GLIDING the vigilance
of the sentinGls, succeeded in joining the Con-
federae army; in which, his qual ions soon
becoming known, he was Immediately promo
ted TO the important Office of hospital surgeon;
which position he filed so far as we can learn
with great satisfaction to the authorities, and
with distinguished credit to himself
lis believed that his death was greatly hasten.
cd by the exposures and privatons necessarily
incident to army life, in battling for cause-a
great principle, as lie believed, for the success
of which he was not only willing to, but, as it
proved in the end, really did yield up his life
Whether he was right or wrong it is not for us
now TO consider. Might has decided the cause
foi which he fought against him. Time, the
tombstone of Truth, may or may not decide
otherwise. He believed that he was acting in
the cause of Truth and Justice, and therefore
did his duty.
Our friend, and the "causcn for which he
fought, are, for the present, both "lost" to us;
but we are taught by Faith TO believe that there
is n resurrectian for the one, and in the posi-
bililies of the future, there may be realization
of the principles of the other.
Words of consolation offered to surviving rela-
tives and friends for their losses by the hand of
DEATH are vain and unavaling. In response to
the incessant calls of the anguished heart, the
loved lost ones come not back again We
must look to "Time-the only healer when the