The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-08-25
Obituary - Samuel ROush,

SAMUEL RCUsH passed unto new life
August 8tb, 1881. He was horn in Union
township, Highland county, o., March
lst, 1928, being aged 50 years, months
and days at his death.
He early in life ideut fed himself with
the people Of God. lie jIinei the Baptist
church at an early age, and afterwards
transferred his membership to the Chris
tian church and no more conscientious
man ever tried TO follow his Lord and
Master than he. In Whatever he engaged
his first query Of himself was, ''Is it right
in the sight of God 2
He wOrshiped his God with u reverence
seldom witnessed AID to him every day
of the year was a day Of Thanksgiving and
prayer, and in everything he gave thanks,
for he thanked The Giver OF all good and
perfect gifts, not only for food and raj
meut, aud the water that quenched Lis
thirst, but for the very breeze that famed
his brow, fevered with the tolls of the
field.
He was an ardent lover Of the beautiful
ami the sublime in both All ard Nature,
and especially the latter and each season
brought to him some favorite charm.
Spring with its buds and birds, summer,
with its fragrance aud flowers, autumn,
With its wealth Of gid and purple, winter,
with its SHOWS and storms, each in its turn
brought some sweet delight, and all these
things spoke to him Of the God he so dear
ly loved. Every beauty and wonder of
Nature was to him an unquestiorable evil
dsnce Of great God. The lightning of
the heavens ,eas, to him, the p5nmanship
of God, recording his power, and the
thunders II the air, the audible tones Of
Jehovah, speaking His might.
Possessing a soul naturally full Of mu-
sic and song, the sin girg Of birds and even
the chirping OF the cricket furnished him
delicious music; and often wOaId he
pause from his lnbors to catch the first !
notes of some favorite Sol. gs:er, OH its re-
turn in spring,ime.
As a neighbOr. he was guided by: "Him
that would borrow Of thee, turn him not |
away" viewing this III its broad sense.
AS father, he almost wOrshiped family 1
and home; and it was his delight TO a>s- mble |
the mother and children around the family /
board and winter hreside, and engage them
in family worship and in pleasant conver,
,atiun, and there teach his children lessons
Of duly and Of God, and having been all
bis life an earnest advocate of Temperance,
it was especially part Of these home and
ireside lessons, to teach bis children to
.bhor the intoxicating cup and no father
ever took greater pains TO warn his chill
iren of this curse than he. lie frAquen p.
asserted that he would burn his gruiu
'atLer than sell it where he knew it would
De manufactured into strong drink.
Honest almost to q fault, he was not
Without faults, but possessed as few as the
,5st of men, and was willing at all times
o acknowledge these few and his chill
Iren must say of him, that to follow his
eacLing and advice is TO reach Heaven,
Though, through the workings OF that
mysterious Providence whose ways we
Oor, weak mortals cannot understand.
be last few years of his life were shrouded
D mental darkness, yet at the close he left
D his family and friends the most precious
f leeacies, namely, the assurance of a
right hope Of a blessed and blissful hereaf-
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