The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-12-04
(CoMMUNICATED,)
Judge Oakley Case.

ennobies the thoughts as to watcl
q star glowing in the deep vaull
Of night as it moves serenely
!; through pathless space unweari-
ed, answering and unchanged
+ quickening and gladdeuing :
hundred circling worlds, ant
darting It's rays TO the utmost
verge Of the universe. And we
are flied with reverential won
der when we consider that if il
were hlotted from. existence on
the Instant, though unspeakabIy
great would be the calamity tC
! IFS dependent orbs, yet genera
tons of men would rise and pass
away, thrones would crumble
!ynastles would fail and its flash
ing beams would still rush on
ward through the boundless abyss
proclaiming the awful praises OF
the Creator, Even so it is with
a man, when, having lived with
reverence to God and love to his
| fe low, and having done his duty
with a patient and untiring en-
ersy, he puts away his working
tools, takes off his iOii worn robes
and calmly lies down to deaths
gentle, dreamless sleep. Sorrow
and tears are to those whom he
loved and left, and many will
miss the genial smile, the kind
voice and the helping hand, but
for him life's weary day is done
| ard she rests from his labors and
his works do follow him" And
so it is with our friend and broth
er, Judge Oakley Case. His long,
active and useful life was gently
brought to a close in the bosom
Of his family and among those
who loved and honored him
$50 fades summer cloud away,
So six: ks the gale when StOrnaS are DER,
So gently shuts the eye ct day,
So dies Il wave along the shore."-
and the sorrow for his death will
be healed and the tears dried
long before his manly worth and
virtues and The influence of his
life are forgotten. Others have
undertaken TO give the main
points of his history as relates to
his public and private life, and il
would be Useless and improper
here to refer TO it. Bat as Judge
Case has lett his impress upon
The institutions and society of
our community. much more has
his influence been marked and
will his loss be felt among the
Brethren and Companions of that
Order with which he had been
so long and so Intimately con-
nected.
He was a member of Mingo
Lodge No. III, F. & A. NJ. from
Nav %, 1857, till his death, and
during almost all that time, serv
ed it in some Of The official capa-
cities that demanded a skilliul
and intelligent workman. and for
five years was its Most Worship
full Master. lie was the first
Scribe Of Logan Chapter. No. 20,
and, with the exception Of three
years. was the High Priest from
1864 to 1882, when his health
failed, Il years in all He was.
a charter member Of Hook Hook
ing Council, No. SO. and was its
Thrice Illustrious Master, which
station he filled for three years.
and afterwards served several
years as Principal Conductor of
the Work. He was, when he
died, a member of Columbus
Commandery, No. /, of knight
Temp!ars, which Commandery.
assisted by Lancaster Comman-
derry No. 2, and Athens Comman-
derry No. -, and Mingo Lodge
No. Ill, of Logan, assisted by
Philadorean Lodge No, =, of
Nelsomville and New Straitsville
Lodge No. -, of New Straitsvl'e,
and large number OF brethren
10 other Lodges, conducted the
ceremonies of his funeral.
Besides his Masonic labors
among his own immediate brelh-
rem. Bro. Case did much for Ma
sonry at large AS Proxy for the
Grand Master, lecturing lodges,
ins;ructing their officers, ETC.
AT al! times and in many ways
he did much for the craft that
none but Masons know, and much
that only the Supreme Gland
Master knows. for he ''let not
his right hand know what his left
doeth.'2
He was an exceedingly well
infokmed Mason, there was per-
haps none better in this part Of
State. interchangeable in the prac-
tice of the rites of Masonry and
careful for the purity of its ira
ditions, he sought earnestly to
put in practice in his dealings
with all men the Loble principles
it inculcates, and 10 prove to the
world that the better Mason a !
.lan is the better man he is; and |
despite human weaknesses and |
Eoi!ies, and The vicisitudes, an
tagonjsms and temptations OF a
long and intensely political and |
business career, his life has dis
played the noble tenets OF our