The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-01

| these sad occasions in the capacity of an obitu
airy speaker. They, the deceased, were all my
| friends and am but fulfilling the duty the
living owe to the dead, when we commend their
| virtues, aud give expression to our feelings of
| sorrow for their loss,
When friend and fellow-traveler is removed
from us by the hands of Death, the occasion is
generally used, by our teachers of well-doing,
Whlle our hearts are wrung with grief and de-
SPAR, for reminding us of our sins and short
| comlngs; which we are told, must be abandoned
ere we can hope for the enjoyment of blessed
| Immortality.
| 1t Is confession that we do not live as we
should live; that we lead false life; that there
is no truth in us, Why do we not live as we
should? That is thcquestion; and it is ques
that we all should ask ourselves, and ponder
well. am free to say that havcno confidence
IN The theory that man may live long life of
evil, and ultimately be saved by death-bed re-
pentancc, and thus secure all the after-good that
is attainablc by those whose daily walk from the
| cradle to the grave has been within the path of
| recttude and Truth. We should do good and
be truthful every day,-every hour of our lives.
IrWh Is the basis OF religion; and he who OBJ.
serves it under all circumstances to the best of
his abilities, can not be bad man.
Onr religion should not be extra garb laid aside
during the week, to be worn only on Sundays and
Holidays should our constant aud protector,
like the halo of the blessedever present monitor
guide aud shield from all evil Every man should
live each day rs though 1t was his last Then deaths
summons Won find HIM ready to obey the calf.
DR.. George Thomas Hays, of the organizers of
our Society," one Of the most regular and active aten
dans at its meetings. and who during the year ending
May, 1876, occupied the high and honored position of
presiding officer, has departed this life after very
brief illness, supernduced am informed, by exposure
| in visiting patient upon remarkably cold and
biustcry night aud day in December astthu illus.
trailing again, as has been done in thousands of in-
stances before, the sesacrihcing spirit governing the
heroic members OF our sympathetic, humane and
| BILE profession.
l am not able state how many Years Dr. Hays has
tl,a Lt,N
tween twenty-five and thirty. His residence having
been in distant part of the county from my own il
my privilege, though often most cordially
aud warmly invited, to meet him at his home: where,
have often heard, the honOrs of the house were al
| ways dispensed with true Southern hospitality And
for the reason-the distance between us-though
often through the last twenty years, meeting each
other at various places we never had occasion
IN professional consultation. Their fore l am not
qualified to place proper estimate upon his abilities
AS practitioner of medicines but from the glowing
terms in which have heard his professional CHI rae.
ter exolled by those who had been his patients,
quite ready to believe that he occupied an elevated
position in the estimation of those who enjoyed the
advantages of his skill asa physician and his conf
dence as a friend The widely extended community
in which he we'd and in which he practiccd his pro-
iession and with whom he exercised large political
influence, will sadly miss him and mourn his loss for
many day.
Death, g0utlemen, is subject that ever has and,
from its very nature ever must engage most seri
Gus and our most solemn reflections. Whatever our
peculiar tenets may he regarding tho great unknown
future from which no traveller returns, it is binding
upon us in this life, is beautifully portrayed in
the language Of tho venerable American poet, Bryant
that We
Z" So live that when the summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but sustaind and sOothd
By an unfaltering trust, approach the grave,
Like one that draws the drapery Of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams"
The Society, after having paraken of the bOuatiful
and elegant dinner provided by the host then adjourn
eds to meet, by invitation, at the residence of DR..
John II. Cochran, in lIavre de Grace the second
Tuesday in November next.
II. CLAY WMTEFoRD,