The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-12-27
STATESMAN.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.
Beauresard Percy Gaines.


the JTth INST. were laid away yester-
day IN the cemetery iii this city with
appropriate ceremonies, Despeaking
not ouly the universal love felt Tor
the deceased, but the general sympa-
thyswhich all desired to express Tor
the venerable parent and 1ond
brother ~ no have been so sadly be-
reayed by this sudden and unexpect-
I'd dispensation in Gods providence.
Ii is seldom th = so sad an event In
ali its circumstances has sorrowed
this community. where among SO
MANY warm friends the deceased had
grown up and ripened into manhood
Only 10 be cut off in the very flower OF
his usefulness at the early age or but
twenty-five years. Alas, now
strangely is the cup of earthly JOY
sometimes dashed with sorrow.
The remains, which had been taken
anon their arrival here Sunday even
lug. to the residence of VIM. Z.
Gaines. brother of the deceased, who
brought them home from New Jer-
sey. were attended to the church hy
numerous cOrtege. The pall-bearers
from the residence to the church We're
Messrs. 4. j. Cavileer, Jno. I. Dickin-
son. Ed. II. Smith. Il. w. Randolph,
and Messrs. ROOT. l. Haralson, VIM.
Bowen, Jr., }. A. Riley, and Wallace
Miller. representing tue Washington
No. Fire company, AMI from the
church to the grave the same commit
tee of fireulen and Messrs. Joe Evans,
Charlie Hicks. D. NJ. Mitchell anil
Louis Horst. The hearse was prs,
coded TO the cemetery by Delegations.
from the following fire departments:
Washington No /, Colorado, Austin
Hook and Ladder. and Protection
No. 8.
The coffin was appropriately decor
ated with flowers as offerings from
friends OF the deceased. including one
from VI. Smoot, VIE of the pastor,
Rev Il. K. Smoet, of the Southern
Pres b sfeTtan church, at which DIR.
Smout preached the fuaeral discourse.
The fgheial cortege reached the
church AZ 3 p. N, the hour appointed.
during e hich the foil wing appropri-
ate selections were rendered by the
choir, Miss Lille Staples at the organ:
1--WE shall know each other there;
crest, asleep, in Jesus. "Remember;
so fades the lovely, blooming flow
err"
Or. Smoot, after reading the usual
scriptural chapters generally selected
for such occasions, offered touching
pray or Tor tie family. and for his dis
conrse selected more especially the
18th chapter of Paui's letter to the
Hebrews.
This letter. he said, was written by
the APOSTLE Paul when himself ad
vanced in age. As man who bad
lived with and without faith, he
- q - fNnI
and chasteneth us as IA father loveth
and chasteneth his own children.
The prssumption5 in all the dispense
tons OF providence is that
God eau mean no harm, and
jnst rs q pareat intends good for mis-
children God intends good for us.
WHAT God does lie does, tor '.ur profit,
and Els providence u;Iaprlies All the
minutite OF our private grielS ard sor-
rows, our lnlsfortuut4 aud calainilirs.
Every father that loses a child Is lid
Bile To form wrong CONCEPTIONS, and
Wonders at God's dl>pensJu ions. as in
this instance, when a yuung mar
who, but few weeeS ago. itIt acre
in perfect heaitt,-ll { e very a.! ON
, of manhood-i, suitirniy taken
away without ari.ugS to his
friends, aud aIp.ust without
warning to hinsrif. But there is Il
lesson in his death us well to the
young as old, who have been 50 star
tied and aeGonished at the news of his
sickness, and the death that came so
rapidly in the morning his lie. and
these are facts to which our attention
should be calltd, IN order that our
minds may lie brought back to God
There is "a tendency to put
away the consideration of death.
bf.t God does not intend
TO allow this. He intends we shall
have constant reminders of our NOR
talitv 80 we have to bear the shocks
and Jars Incident 20 the fraiity OF hu-
man AZURE, even at its best cobdi-
tions. Our hopes are cut off like
flower. They pass away like ship
that Is lost on the sea, Man perisheth
like a reed that is hrOkon; like a rain
bow of beauty, he quickly
fades from our view.
This yourg man. the pride of his
fathers heart aud the joy of a broth
er's love, WAS united with this church.
When he went to the country to his
fathers ranch. not many months past.
he wrote TO me calling my attention
to some passages of scripture which
he did NOT understand aud took great
interest in my interpretations. Gen
erosity abounded in his heart. As
met him passing by the Avenue one
day said. "Beauregard. | am trying
to raise 800 for ii young man who
IS studying for the ministry; won't
you give me So ?" He said, doctor,
l will give you $40" and seemed
proud to do it. He was a young man
of the highest prospects, full of
the vigor of youth, with a
fond circle of companions around
him. The future Was aglow with
brightness and success in the realiZd-
ton OF his hopes. A mau whose prln-
clples are those of the Christian relig-
ion may veer a little either one way
or the other, but the grand resultant
will give him the right direction and
bring out his character in proper equi-
poise, like that of Paul, through every
suffering Faith. and other things
were to be instanced in the hopes of
the Christian. God speaks in
words of tenderness and Christ ever
lives TO make intercession Tor us.
But the christian religion does not
say that a man shall never have trou-
BILE or suffering. butrather that we are
to be justified by Christening and af-
fiictions. and sorrows which we must
learn to accept as coming from God.
You may mol see and recognize in
your lives the necessity for that cor
rection that your father gives. but it
brings reverence from the child for
the father. So Paul says, shall we not
much rather be under subsection to
our heavenly Father. When we look
back upon our checkered lives we
may feel as Paul says, that our Attic
tions shall work to our good, even
though we cannot see why God
taxes this man and leaves
another, or that son upon
whom a father leans and leaves those
who have no father leaning on them.
But Gods providence and love is hid |
den behind a frowning face. There is
body earthly and body spiritual. |
We die that the mortal may pass /,
away and put on Immortality. The |
young. and even the old are too much |
disposed to POSTPONE the considera-
ton of the future. The young man |
imagines that he will live 90 or 60 |
years. But we have no lease on life |
for a day or an hour. The Injunction |
is we must be ready, and the assur-
ance is that we shall live after this
death. As you love your children,
Gods love is ever more abundant for
those that serve him. Wherefore,
grieving father, lift up those hands