The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-24
INGERSOLL ON DEATH.
Grafton Delivered Over the Grave
Of John G.. Mills.
From the Chicago Iaier-ocean

From the Chicago Inter-ocean.
Washington, ID. g., April b.
Col. Rubert u. Ingersell delivered
another funeral address to-day over
the remains ofO John u. Mills, who
has been known some years as labor
reformer and greenbacker. The ORA
ton was listened to by about 15O
people, and was as follows:
Again we are face to face with the
great mysteries that shrouds this
world. We qestion, but there is no
reply Out on the wide waste seas
there drifts no spar. Over the desert
of death the sphinx gazes forever, but
never speaks. In the very May of
life another heart has ceased to beat.
Night has fallen upon noon, but he
lived, he loved. he was loved. Wife
a d children pressed their kisses on
bis lips. This is enough. The long
est life contains no more. This Ellis
the vase with joy. He who lies here
clothed with the perfect peace Of death
was a kind and loving husband and
good father, a generous neighbor and
honest man, and these words build a
monument Of glory about the humblest
grave. He Was always q child, sin
cere and frank, rs full of hope as
spring. He divided all time into to-
day and tomorrow. Tomorrow was
without cloud and of tomorrow he
borrowed sunshine for to-day. He
was my friend. He will remain 81
The living often become estranged.
The dead are true. He was not a
christian. In the Eden of his hope
there did not crawl and coil the ser
pent Of eternal pain. In many lam
guages he sought the thoughts of
men, and for himself he solved the
problems Of the world. He accepted
the philosophy Of August Comte. HUI
manity was his god, the human race
the supreme being. In that supreme
being he rested. He believed that
men are indebted for what We enjoy
to the labor. the self.denisl, the hero
ism of the human race. and as We
have plucked the fruit Of what others
planted, we, in thankfulness should
plant for others yet to be. With
him immortality was the eternal con-
sequences of his own COED acts. He
believed that every good thought,
every desinterested deed, hastens the
harvest of universal good. This Is q
religion that enriches poverty, that
enables us 10 bear the SORROWS OF the
saddest life, that peoples even soli-
tude with the happy millions yet to
be: religion born not of selhshness
and fear, but of love and hope; the
religion that digs wells to slake the
thirst of others that gladly bears
the burdens of the unborn. la the
presence of death how belief and
dogmas wither and decay. How low
ing words and deeds burst ints bios
som. Pluck from the tree Of any life
these flowers and there remains but
the barren thorns of bigotry and
creed. ALI wish for happiness beyond
this life. All hope to meet again the
loved and lost. In every heart there
grows this sacred flower of eternal
hope. Immortality is a word that
hope through all ages has been whis-
pering 10 love. The miracle of
thought we can all understand. The
mystery Of death and hope we can
not comprehend. This chaos called
the world, has never been explained.
The golden bridge of life from gloom
emerges and on shadow rests. Be-
yond this We do not know. Fate is
speechless, destiny is dumb, and the
secret of the future has never yet
been told. We love. We wait, We
hope. The more We love the more
we fear. Upon the tenderest heart
the deepest shadows fall. All paths,
whether filled with flowers, end here.
Here success and failure are the same.
The rag Of wretchedness and the pur-
pie robe of power lose difference and
distinction in this democracy Of
death. Character alone survives.
Goodness alone lives. Love alone is
immortal.
"But to al there comes q time when
the fevered lips of life long for the
cool, delicious kiss of death. Tired
of the dust and glare of the day, they
hear with joy the rustling garments
Of the night. What can we say of
death :? What can We say of the
dead! Where they have gone req
son can net 60, and from thence rev.
citation has not come. But let US be-
lieve that over the cradle nature
bends and So lies, and lovingly above
the Aoad In honadicfian holds ont her