Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-28
In MenOrIam.

Passed from earth, April 8, 1888, Major
William Carthy Chambers. He was born
in Sumner county, Tennessee, August %.
1902 He was a grandson of General
Rutherford, of Revolutionary fame, and
nephew of the Henry Rutherford who
gave the historical name Of Key COrnerto
. that we'll known portion Of the State He
was worthy the blood Of his ancestors,
and only a week before he left the mortal
body he wrote for the Historical Society
at Nashville Il clear, concise, interesting
history of the Key Corner and its origin.
With this grand old man passed away
much Of interest TO the State. His eighty
years held beautiful, pure life.
He possessed the stately dignity and
old time courtesy Of manner so rarely
seen in this generation. A gracious sim
plicity and sincerity Of heart with an in
tellect bright to the very end. To the
end2 Let il not be written so, but TO the
beginning We do not say with woeful
face and solemn signs che is better of. -
g Vague sounds that once made youthful
grief insane despair; but we say in the
sunshine Of certain belief that he lives;
and with vision clear and step erect he is
about the Fathers work This life is but
a narrow schOel-rOOm where we are fitted
for a wider sphere.
He Of whom this is written, had been a
student in life's school for eighty years
Many difficult lessons were given him by
the Master hand. Not one was left un-
learned-not a task was left unfinished OF
a duty unperformed. Yet his heart held
so many aches. Five sons given TO ''losi
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Houses and lands swept from him by tho
evil days failed to crush his royal nature
or dim the splendor of his honest soul
,a For him the morning sun still shone; tho
evening shadows fingered.
AT last a day came when the narrow
walls Of this earth-life grew irksome Il
him, and he said, 81 am tired, will res
awhile In a moment he had put on hi
spiritual body, and only the dear worr
garment was left these who loved him.
His hand had taken on divinity ant
lifted the veil that divides the morta
from the immortal Like a flash the dis
embodied spirit stood ready with the poo
flesh that aches and humanity that fails
What can il not do now2 Rest has indeed
come, but il means not the dresmles
sleep Of the grave, not the quiet stumble
Of centuries to be awakened by trumpe
sound at the last day. For him res
meant the spirit which came from tn
eternal God was ready for the upwar
fight of progression,
Earth's pains were over, and at one
this immortal soul, this breath of God, WI
freed from its clog Of clay and could b'
gin a grander work in the life eterna
Ifnot this, then indeed is the Words a
empty sound, and the Christians fat
meaningless. What men call death
but the opening of the palace door whic
divides this earth world of shadows frol
the real world to vhichiwe all are goin,
There our beloved has grown young agai
the dear brown eyes have put away ii
dimness of the cruel earth years, and ha,
received instead the beauty Of FIRST maj
hood.
And now, notwithstanding the shade
of this long separation, and the heart hu
because Of his absence, there is vol
within us which cannot be doubted, M
which says
There is no DEATH an angel form
Walks Ger the earth with silent trea
lie bears our best loved things away
And then we call them dead.
81 And ever near US. though uneeen,
The dear immortal spirits tread,
Forall the boundless universe
Is life-therois NO dead,
'MARaA.'