The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-22

lar one, there another working on square one,
aud not one Of those laborers can tell you why
he is shaping that block this way or the other.
All he can tell you is that the master workman
told him to make the stone into that shape
He knows not why 1t is. lie knows not where
that block will be placed. But yonder. IN his
Office, sits the architect OF the building. He
keeps a set OF books. Every one OF those stone
is numbered, and the number Is down In the
books. The architect can tell you where each
block will be placed and by and by, when the
building goes up, story upon story, until the
summit OF the imposing dome Is reached, then
il is found that none OF the work IN which those
aborers had been engaged was meaningless.
but 1t was just the work that needed to be per-
formed for the successful completion OF the
edifice.
| You and work here. IL we are asked what
| our work amounts to we cannot tell. All we
can say is that we arc here and must stay until
death calls us away. But yonder, high above
all principalIties and powers sits the Architect
OF the Universe. A set of books is kept there
Your name and mine are down. And whom
the grand spiritual building that God has
planned shall be completed, we will fiud our life
WORK uoTe was nOt al dcciucut, Dut tudt ~ hau
a purpose as far-reaching as eternity.
In travelling over the mountains to the Con-
tennial noticed that when the train was down
in the valley we could see only a little way,
The mountains arose all around us and hemmed
IN our view. But when the cars came upon the
mountain SUBMITS then we could see for miles
and miles in nearly all directions yonder the
spires OF a city, yonder little village, there
forest and here river. In this life we are
down IN the valley. thousand and one noun
tans loom up all about us, aud we can see but
a short distance in any direction. But by and
by, when we shall have come to the mountain
top, we will have broader view Of the work
ings of the Divine government, aud these mys-
teries will be swept away like the dew before
the morning sun.
To-day we follow LEWIS ID. ANDREWS to his
grave. An aged father and mother now mourn
the loss of an only son, and the only remaining !
child, a daus liter, is now called upon to pay
her last respects to brother. Father, Mother
and Sister, this loss is indeed severe MARY,
fayorite in Paw Paws best society, and the
Joy of the home circle, left you about three
years ago. To-day LEWIS has gone on the same
journey. Thus one by one, this family ia leav
ing the homestead on earth to be reunited in
the homestead up yonder.
To the wife we would extend the warmest
sympathes. You had been married not quite
three years. The blow falls heavily on you,
but little George is still left you, precious
charge and may the God who comforts like
mother, comfort you.
The citizens of Paw Paw and especially the
young people, have lost valued friend. This
loss will BIO severely felt in many social circle.
The brethren of the Masonic fraternity, whom
1 am glad to see 80 largely represented here,
have lost brother OF whom they were justly
proud. Bury him with your highest hopors,
for he was worthy of them.
L would not dwell longer on these medta-
tions lest l might lacerate still more the hearts
already bleeding. l would heal the wounds
rather than make them deeper. God forbid ..
that l should so far forget the purpose OF
funeral sermon as to seek to play upon the
feelings OF these mourners, and make them
weep moro bitterly To check the tears, not to
make them flow more freely. is my mission to
you to-day =
In conclusion, let me express the wish that
lone OF you, either OF the relatives Of our de-
,ea sed friend and brother, or Of the great null
tude assembled here to-day, give up your
nope OF the souls immortality. These flowers
20 profusely displayed III decorating the coffin
nay fade, and the loving hands that have 30
astefully arranged them may crumble into dust,
,ut the soul of the departed shall live forever
nd forever