Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-05-01


Mr.. Maddox paid all the funeral ex-
penses ofhis family. $1,000 and the
friends Of Chas. f. Smith will pay their
share. IL is likely, then that the sur
plus will exceed $500.
BODIES REMOVED.
Last Saturday Rev. F. p. Smith, a
minister In the United Brethren church,
who is located at Sedgwick City, a
brother. accompanied by brother-in-
law OF Charles F. Smith one of the par
.'-.drowned, arrived here and learned
,,sO ~'iT'ilars of the young mans
death. Tn -. lad tie body Ia
ken mp and that nignJ ss.----- with it to
the railroad. II will be inferred in the
family burying ground in Cowley coun-
ty. nj. Smith vas very thankful for
the kindness extended to him while
here and announced that the family
would pay all expenses incurred in car
ing for the body OF his brother.
The bodies Of the Maddox family. six
in number, were first inferred in an OBJ
scure part Of the cemetery. This week
I Mr.. Maddox purchased a lot on higher
and better ground and had the bodies
moved to this spot. He ordered a large
monument 10 mark the last resting
place Of his loved ones. w. w. Cook
will have charge of its erection.
The Maddox family are out the fol-
lowing property, which if found should
be left with W. w. Cook: New saddle,
McComb Bros, Wichita, make, double
sinch; bear skin robe with the claws on;
double WOODEN shawl, plaided, with grey
or brown stripes; double-barrel shot
gun, muzzle loading, thin ut the end,
barrel dressed at the muzzle so there
is u hole ut the rib.
| CHURCH SERVICES.
Last Sunday afternoon, according to
announcement, union funeral services
were held at the Presbyterian church,
under direction Of Rev. Gillian. Of the
NJ. +. church and Elders Mulkey and
! Quick of the Christian church. The
| spacious auditorium was filled to over
flowing long before the services COM
menced, and hundreds were unable to
/ get even standing room and had to go
away. Mrs. Kessler presided at the
organ, with most excellent choir to
assist her, and appropriate music was
rendered in a most satisfactory man
ncr. Elder Mulkey read the Goth Psalm
and made a prayer as feeling and elo-
quent as was ever heard by an audience.
Rev. Gillian then delivered mastery
funeral discourse, the substance of
which we publish, as follows:
FUNERAL DISCOURSE.
The great calamity which occurred i'm
| this community ON last Monday night
! and TUESDAY morning, by which "A large
/ number of fellOw-beings lost their lives,
| with all the details and circumstances
| Of the character and lives of the yari-
| Gus sufferers, have been SO graphically
and accurately portrayed ia the news
papers published here, and are so wei
/ known To you all personally. that we
/ shall only make Il few general remarks,
! bearing on the whole subject.
We have no recourse. my friends. i'm
d
/ God, and an abiding faith Iva His over
| ruling and almighty providence. Sup
I pose Tor instance, that demons had
| wrought That awful catastrophe i'm those
walCts-had maliCiOusly plunged help
| less men, women and children into the
colt waves 10 die; or suppose that un-
controlled diabOllcal agency, had in
vOlVed Us in the calamties on land.
which from time TO time we have been
called To suffer, what could We do, but
gnash our teeth i'm unavailing despair,
with none To take our pgrtp But no!
There IL wisdom in all events, though
finite minds cannot fathom IL. Divine
goodness does not fOrsake us even in
scenes Of utter calamity. ! doubt not
there were hearts there on last Mondav
night, which IN the few moments OF
consciousness that were V0uclsagTd tn
them. which felt that God was near
them, even in that awful scene of con-
fusion and observation-disclosures that IN
their confidence and trust. would re-
buke cur deaponGing, complaining spir-
its. Nor do doubt that, in that feel
ing. there was a divine calmness and
serenity unknown To the distant obser-
vers. and that the eye of triumphant
faith looked through the intense dark
ness. ard beyond the momentaTy strug-
gle, TO the calm heaven atOve. even to
the presence Of the Infinite Fatherl
why them" one may ask, did not
Almighty compassion interpose 90 save
them from such n dreadful deathp"
Had II been best-truly best, for both
the living and the dead, in the whole
economy Of time. and for eternity, |. for
one. cannot doubt that il would have So
interp0sed. But you may say that, this
was not the work of Providence. but
the result OF error i'm the judgment of
the sufferers, in locating themselves i'm
the pathway OF danger, and of the COM
binatiOn of natural causes. While /
would not assert that it was by the di-
rect inteTpOsitiOn of Providence. or the
immediate work of Divine Power. yet
none can deny, we think, that it was by
the permission of Almighty God, and
that the operation and outcome of nat
ural causes, are in perfect harmony with
the general plan of Divine Providence.
Though / do not insinuate that any
mistake was made an this instance, per-
init me 20 say in general terms. that as
Tn mistakes, or errors in judgment, no
human being is endowed with sufficient
penetration into the future, to even
surmise what the next hour may bring
forth.
llut, error is not, as some suppose, n
| wild power, ungOVerned and uncOn-
trolled, that has invaded the rightful
domain of Providence. We are not Gre
ated perfect, and being bound up as we
are with others, we must take our part
with inlrmity, weakness and imperrec-
ton, and not unfrcquently we fall vic
Tins TO them. IL might be said of al
most every man that dies that he would
not have died at that time. perhaps. If
he, or others had been wiser or have
DurSued a different cpurSp of cOnduet
IN all particulars; SO that the same com
plant that rises over the most dreadful
catastrophe by which hundreds perish,
through mismanagement. or mistake.
might be made over the agonies of every
death-bed. The martyr dies victim
To error and prejudice. but we are accus-
toned To say that Lee dies for n Drincinle