The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-12-08
MEMORIAL SERMON.
BY REV. II. W. HARVEY.

into life temporal March 18TH 1929
Born into life eternal. Nov. 17h. 1882.
Thus date the beginnings of earthly and Heavenly
Born amid the shadows and within the limits of the Vermont
hills he lately passed where the celestial landscape
there no shadows and no encrcing hills
AngSaxon in his ancestry New Engander by instinct and
sympathy. well by birth he started upon life with noble
heritage of blood and deeds his possession.
AS boy he had ambitions, who has not! Life fair and
sunny to one SO Young and hopeful His ardent thought no doubt
swept over his native hills into great may
that his dream boyhood has been fully realized he trusted
would be- Yet in the oes truest and most beautiful
has for even in the boy arose the spirit
Generous sympathetic and unselh i'll his youth told as
we have seen him manhood age thought
others more than for himself AS years by
and contact with the world wened his vision and toned his young
ambition the deeper purpose life boy he
only sun side existence later years behed the
shadow Where in his youth he had anticipated only JOY the
world observed mingled with it, Where he had
purity discovered and its misery.
Wherever he looked he deeper shades of meaning that
vest this human life, and sometimes sadly darken it.
possession of sensitive and sympathetic soul is almost
gift such world this To overflow the bounda
res of SELF to enter other lives to suffer with suffering weep
with sit down in the circle of the distressed and share it
with them brings its sharp PAIN if also brings its own
joy All it wonderful transition from the world of the
child the broader world of the 1t through ardent
hopes deep realities through unfeteed spirit the soul
that bears its burden through the light and Joy to the often
times sharp edge of pain
Shall we look upon the transition sorrouy and mourn for
Not to-day Not in the of this life whose
Not in the of who has known him youth
Not before Him who reads the human heart and the soenng
power of the Christening hand upon the inner lfe
Rejoice that the child has passed into the youth the yonh into
the and the into the immortal with widening
view of what human life may, and should be-
Twenty he emerged from college in New Ham
shire and entered the actual world More than
that time nearly quarter of century, has been passed
Here has been his home Here he has loved and soowed
struggled wresd with the problems
his and others m Here he has laid down the his
years natured thought in rpened judgment and
impulse. Here he has fought battle for the right
showed honest face whose force and truth could mistake
Here have his hair white and step weak and
strength fail him. while yet in the prime of life At
the messenger bore him from midst his better home
high
Life commonplace year by year writes record
of deeds But the best of life is hidden and its ncrp
ton lies toward God rather than Motives purposes
and large conceptions Of life and truth which always
divine understood by Him who reads the human bear TO
appreciate life must be in sympathy with it. To under
this fe enter its thought share its feeling conpre-
bend its motive put its noble charity and breathe its vital air
of love, and hope, and trust.
From his viewpoint then i'll sympathy with what his
mind seemed right and study
his life. And first iFItrtt
He American. He loved intensely the genius and
this country He believed in exalted destiny
citizen he based his creed upon the Declaration of American
,C9ettau,d on fourth IhiGel