The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-30

On entering the Congregational church
Sunday morning for services, the dec
oratlonsand large letters "H.B.N." hang
Ing from the pulpit indicated that the
services were more than OF ordinary ma
ture. The choir opened the exercises by
singing those lines written in memoriam
OF the late professor for the DAILY NEWS
by"Ruth HAdley," the lines having been
set 70 music by d. o. Jones. After the
reading OF Scripture by the pastor and
tbs singing OF several appropriate seIec-
uons Rev. r. T. Ingalls, introduced the
Rev. Il. d.. Tunnel and In
his remarks said that there are
some men whom We love and
whose influence We feel. though We have
never seen them. Such men help to
swell that stream Of influence which will
finally bear US on the great ocean OF
Gods truth. We are here TO
commemorate the life OF one whom the
people Of EmporiS knew 70 love.
Rev. Mr.. Tunnell took his text from
the oath Psalm and ID Verse-"I said,
oh my. God take me not away In the
midst Of my days" The speaker said:
This psalm Is o prayer, and from the
text We may take TWO thoughts. At first
II appears a. wall Of griet, but from IL
we may to-day take q ray of hope. Our
living and our dying are all in the per-
sonAl will Of God. God does not turn
Us loose TO the laws Of nature. We recOg-
nize that God Is IN death. What is
. premature deathf want 70 show you
hae Il.Af
net yet hity years old-yet he did not
die prematurelY. Death that oVertakes
. man before he determines what life
is for 10 premature death. Not length
OF days, but manhood determines
whether death Is premature
or not To have attained the end
of life u to live 30 that one can say that
IL - not l that lives but Christ that
ltveth N me. A multitude OF you In
this town remember Prof. Norton. There
were In him some marked resemblances
In outward appearance to Abraham Lin
coin as well as q similarity of chaEact-
or. His appearance marked him as no
common place man. He had q great
gift of common sense and could see
things At once as by intuition. The
study OF subject by Morton ment
thoroughness. He had also q great
power OF concentration. He could put
all OF Morton 70 work at one point. his
classmates At college once tested his
powers. He was to commit q certain
passage while the pupils were turned
loOsed 20 mako the most disturbance
possible. He won. Prot. Norton could
OF plants on the battle field
OF Gettysburg. Professor Norton was
gentle man, he was q man of charity,
patience, mercy. i remember how he
pitied the weak, the silly and the wicked
with q divine pity. yet he made no CON-
promise with evil. HIS tolerated no
sham. He was u very hopeful man, and
always saw the bright side of the pic.
ture. Ho always looked starward.
Many rapids that would have wrecked
lighter oarsman gave him strength and
inspiration. lie had q great love for
God. "BY his solicitation" said the
speaker, al preached my first sermon in
this church." Though Professor Norton
moved from you, his name can now be
enrolled among your hOnored dead.
After Mr.. Turmoil had finished speak
ing, Joseph II. Hill, a pupil of Prof.
Norton delivered a handsome eulogy on
his former teacher, who. he said, was the !
broadcast and best man In his profession,
q man of extraordinary ability that |
could embody the thoughts of an entire |
page in one sentence, and with his pres
ence inspire his pupils anew for the con-
fiict of life. ITO me-" said the speak.
er. "Ihe GROWING beauty of Prof. Nor
toms nature was his purity" Mr.. Hill
then read a few extracts from the origi-
nal manuscript OF Prof. Norton's fare
we'll sermon To the Emporia people,
which closed with these words:
"MAy our past plans and hopes ripen
in future harvests, my dear friends,
never before SO dear as now. God bless
you. Farewell"
Judge Kellogg, who knew Professor
Norton better than any present citizen
of Emporia, delivered the following
beautiful eulogY upon his old and Inti.
mate friend:
The death of u good man is a calamity
10 the world surviving. / cannot con-
ceive Il To be loss 10 the man himself.
Unless all our conceptions of life in the
world to come are absolutely and
Viclously wrong, Henry d. Morton Is the
gamer by reason of his removal from
his beautiful mountain home at Skyland,
IN California, to his present homo In the
purer air and moro blissful heights of
the mansions of the blessed.
Professor Norton was very happy In
his Kansas and California life. His
work, teaching, lecturlng and culIlVating
his fruit trees and vines, was congeniaI
and In this work he had achieved q
substantial success, gratifying to honor
able ambition. / am advised that his
acquaintance upon the Pacific slope was
well nigh universal, and his hold upon
the affections Of the people a repetition
OF the high esteem In which he was held
by the people Of Kansas, and especially
by the people OF Emporla, with whom
he spent many happy and busy years.
am using the words happy and busy
As being the two most expressive words
TO characterize the life OF Mr.. Norton
both In Kansas and California.
That his life was happy was due large
ly 20 the intense pleasure afforded by
the wondrous activities Of his marvellous
mind, and TO the possession In so large
degree OF that attribute OF the human
mind denominated hope. No man was
more hopeful than Norton. As once
heard DIR. Cordley remark In this house
OF worship, Il is q good deal to say of
any man that all clouds 70 him have
silver lining. With Henry d. Norton /
there were no clouds. The future was TO /
him ever roseate. The sky like that Of
. California summer. / never before
saw = man so CHEEKY, helpful and hope
full under the blasts of adversely. The
Ills Of the present were as nothing 10 the |
Joys OF the future.
His faith In the better days 10 come, ]
both In this world and the world beyond !
the grave, was unbounded. And IL giVes
me pleasure 70 state that In many ways
ana IN large degree Mr.. Norton's bright
antlcipations for this worlds future were
realized In his California home. And
that they viii be more than realized In /
his heavenly home, none acquainted
with his goodness OF heart, and excep.
tIonally trusting and faithful Christian
life on earth, can doubt.
IL was my good fortune 10 be IRlma ate |
~ acquainted with Prof. Norton Tor
many years. We were associated to-
gether as students in the same univers-
ity, he be- ny my senior in the course of
study by two years. / was acquainted
with his highly respected father and
greatly beloved mother at their quiet,
comfortable farmers home la the his
toric Stillman valley dozen or fourteen
miles from the city of Rockford In nor
thern Illinois. knew his highly &C
complished and gifted sister Mary,
scientist and teacher. tor many years as
socIate principal Of the Rockford Sem-
mary for the education OF girls.
and now professor in the State Normal
school At San Jose, California was
acquainted with HE wife before and
since their marriage knew her first
as one OF the most brilliant, sen sitive
and accomplished students of the Nor
NAL University of illinois, pocIess and
mathematician combincd-as much al
home with the most intricate Irigo-
nomelrical formulate as with the highest
string OF pearls IRON the depths or shall
Iowa OF poetic fancy. l knew her later
a. the loving wife OF this most gifted
man aud the tender mother of his child,
rem, sharing with ham tie Joys and sor-
rows OF life as Il existed here at EmpO-
ria In the early days, and upon The farth-
eat frontier OF IL ansas. IN CoWlev countv