The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-21

he writes: 81 am to read an essay on
Oliver Goldsmith tomorrow, which
have written for several weeks.
His diary was notable for the rev.
citation it makes of his interest in the
sick who were about. l thought ]
would let him tell us in his own un.
conscious manner whether he was
what we call Gathers boy, or mothers
boy" He will not do this. On diff
ferent occasions he tells of his mother
being very tired from over work, but
he tells of himself and his father
taking his mother to ride, as if he
and his father were one. Though
there be great freeness of u.terance
in his record, not word of complaint
is written. He lived most in the
love he had for others. He did not
like to speak of self, and at times
when he had to, in order to make
the record of events he would; he
says a." and the Railways l." as if he
disliked, even on the page thus written,
to refer to self. In one place he says:
"Attending school is one of the duties
OF the world, If we are attentive
and diligent we will. with Gods help,
benefit ourselves thereby"
have recited these extracts with a
purpose wish now to bring before
you. We are not to measure life by
what we see when we look on the
external form one wears. The real
nature is the spiritual. The eternal
body is the spiritual body. One may
be hampered in this world so that we
can no more form conception of
his real worth than we can form a
fair estimate of the wealth of person
by the clothes he wears. 1t is one of
the most blessed thoughts relative to
death that let's the spirit forth from
the bondage of the flesh and allows it
work unhampered. l want you to try
and see this young man as he was in his
real life. During all the years of in
tense suffering and pain, no word of
complaint escaped his lips.
In his religious life l can make no
report of any great change as occur
ring in his feelings or his purposes
save those which we would expect to
see come along the line of real
growth. He never wandered far into
the ways of life beyond that innocen.
cy of a childish faith and love. His
talks about religion were of the same
calm kind as the talks on other mat
tiers. He was in profound sympathy
with all the attempts to lift men and
women to better sphere of life, and
an earnest defender of the purposes of
the Salvation Army no less than the
church.
My friends we are to take down
from this home to-day not simply the
remains of one whose chief attraction
was that of the power of weakness
but that Of great strength which few
knew of but which that few fully ap-
preciated. A life was his that in all
its purposes was with Others. To the
measure of his ability he lived life
of suffering service. When we come
in contact with such life, we can
read with new meaning the words
portraying a class who are recognized
in Heaven as having come up out of
great tribulations and have washed their
robes and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb, therefore are they
before the throne of God and serve
him in his temple. Do you wonder
that l more than hesitate when the
thought comes to the mind that am
to recall Gods law of COM
pensation and find some words
that shall come as words of
hope and comfort to this bereaved
family at this time?
single breath, q low drawn sigh
Can break the ties that bind us here,
And watt the spirit to the sky.
But who can speak back to the
heart the glow that departs when the
soul of lover and friend goes out on
The ocean of eternal love. To our
mortal ken the conditions of that
farther life are unknown. We group
in darkness at the mouth Of the grave
and ask questions to which no answer
comes save through the pure lips of
the Son of God, 81 am the resurrec.
lion and the life" says he, "Where l
am there shall also my servant be-"
If in its hinderances, this life now
gone out from earth was so great, what
must it have become as it entered
upon the new scenes and the better
activities of a perfect world.
Bonnie is in Heaven now. Let that
thought comfort you mourning friends
and LIT it it add to the consciousness
of your own lives the mighty attrac-
ton of new and dearer presence.
His speaking voice will not be for
few days merely but for all of your
lives. The angels of love will linger
in the place where we leave the loved
dust, and through the long and lone
r. IL L