The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-10-24

Remarks of Rev. DR.. Robert at
the Funeral Of Col. A. w.
Slayback, Last Sunday.

, at the funeral of Col. A. w. Slayback.
Though brief, they are eloquent:
On Sunday morning last there sat before
me perfect type of manly vigOr. With
physique that was citadel Of health,
| brow that helped TO dome in a magnifi-
, cent mind, an eye that could fash in the
fury of heroic wrath, or melt, as the eyes
Of all the brave, with the tenderness of
love and friendship, or the gentleness Of
pity, he sat absorbed i'm the story of re-
, demption through Jesus Christ our Lord.
To-day that eve is glazed and dim, that
mind has leaped forth iutO new conditions
of existence in the great beyond, and We
have now that cit.del overturned, and
and have gathered around il to show honor
to the memory OF him whose place will no
more be known among inen.
We have gathered tog, Their abon, the
body of a man. There was a sentiment
ute red many centuries ago by grand
minded heathen, who. cropping his way
through the darkness of spiritual ignp-
rance, must, by inspiration, have fallen on
this truth IL am a man and count moth
ing alien to n,e that is human" For af-
forwards the divine religion declared with
authority that "tiod is no respecter of per-
this sentiment and he who lies here be-
fore me, did you ever know him to refuse
his sympathy TO the humblest or the high.
est? We're ever any that were human bid.
den away from him N their hour of sor-
row or OF want?
We have gathered to the burisl of law
yer: here is 10 need for me To seek for
words to say how great was his success in
A =. l., H..
nate tue man who was his client, for this
great assemblage of his brethren Of the
bar is an event that speaks more forcibly
than the BEST chosen words of their sorrow
at his taking of and the esteem in which
they held him.
He was soldier too He was cOmrsde.
He was always found where the fray was
fercest; To which he never babe his men
10 60. but always called OH them 10 come.
How strange that he, who passed almost
unscathed through forty tights, should
have been struck Gown i'm time of peace SO
suddenly that his spirit must have been
startled at the quickness with which it
leaped from its tabernacle of flesh into new
conditions of existence i'm the spirit world.
He was son, and brother, and father, and
hnsband-this man now gathered 10 his
fathers But those relations are veiIed
from the public eye by a sanctity SD great
that but to attempt to lit ii away, even
with the utmost tenderness. is 10 touch it
with finger that is coarse and rude. Yet,
to his dear ones, i'm after time, il will DE a
comfort indeed to recall what husband.
and father, and brother and son he has
been.
He was our brother knight i'm the Le-
gion OF Honor. He loved To visit the
council room, and none were better fur
nished thsn he with ready quip aud jest.
and with wit that spark led genialIy. His
entrance wss always followed with signs OF
pleasure from his brethren, and it will he
many month before we become accus-
toned to an absence that must now be
perpetual.
There is a place in his life history that is
we'll to make public. For months past his
mind has turned with more or less intent
ness TO religions duty. Sometimes old GUS
toms might assert themselves, but his bet. /
ter nature was gaining the ascendancy. |
And the man who bent his knse with her
that was dearest to him, telling TO God his |
weakness and mis- wants, would not Consent |
Il think he was wrong aud he would |
have corrected ito say yet to the world |
that he had hope In jesus Christ. but 1
those who know him must know that those |
were burning words that his lips uttered |
when he held such sacred communion with |
his God
/ cannot trust myself to speak of the |
manner of his taking Of" But this |
much / will say, that if this event shall /
teach this community the difference be- |
tween the liberty of the press and its Ii
centiousness, then Alonzo Slayback will
have monument erected 10 him more en- |
during than marble.
And now we aust say farewell, and as /
We look upon his placid face We shall 60 |
away and remember that he looked like one |
WHO hath
Wrapped the drapery of his couch
About him and laid down to pleasant
dreams"
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