The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11

this year. Thus, in less than two years
though still so young in years, he had
been successfully pupil, second assistant
first assistant and house surgeon, in the
same institution.
This last position he held only one
month and twenty-eight days, when, by
the will of God, on September % he re-
ceived his final promotion, and entered
that home where "the inhabitants shall
never say, am sick"
His last illDess was brief, lasting only
five days. A telegram announced to the
family his dangerous illness and sum
moned his mother to his bedside, who
with mothers promptness, started
within an hour with her daughter. They
were Joined by the father at Fort Worth
and together they made the long, weari-
some journey, only to find that the be-
loved son and brother had not stayed
their coming, but had passed away.
The best of all is, he was ready. He was
chri5tened in the Methodist Episco-
pal church south of this city
when an infant, and was converted, and
voluntarily assumed the VOWS of the church
ia 1872, and was a consistent member OF
few years his faith and devotion have been
beautiful. Sometime before gong 70
New York he renewed his conservation to
God, and soon after reaching there ne
wrote for his church letter that he might
enter the church there. In the institution
where he died there were able men who
were unbelievers, and omitted no oppor-
tunity to express themselves a. such. Doc
tor Walton, at such times, boldly, fearlessly
and uncomp romislngly defended the
Christian faith.
His letters home have breathed the
spirit of trust in God and of fidelity to
religion that showed he was not only
steadfast amid his unfavOrable surround
ing5 and oppositions, but that he was
growing in grace.
In his last illness he appreciated the
gravity of the situation. He suggested
the surgical operation that was per-
formed on him, and when il was over he
asked the surgeons and physicians to state
plainly the facts, stating that he was not
afraid to meet death, and did not shrink
from going into the presence of his God
and Savior. When told he must soon die,
he only expressed wish to live till his
parents and sister should raech him, butGod
ordered otherwise. Conscious to within a
few seconds before his death, he quietly
tell asleep without pain or struggle.
The Reverend DootOr John Hail. who
said TO the family and friends:
His faith was firm, his trust implicit and
lis resignation perfect. His death was but
,oing into gentle sleep from which he
iOped to awake in the bright sunshine of
leayen" Thus can the Christian only
lie. Not in stolid Indifference nor smO'h-
red dispair, but with buoyant Astounding
lOps. Far from the home
If his childhood, denied the tender minis
rations of mother and sister and the
trong sympathy and courage of father,he
,Ould meet the last monster without fear
for he was not alone. He, without
whose care not sparrow falls to the
ground, was there, and, amid the strangers
lands that did him kindly Offices, there was
)ne MOI strangers whose touch was as
whose chalice was hope. On,
beautiful fruit, lripening in a foreign |
slime, whose end was a mothers planting.
That holy calm in the hour of death had .
Is fruit in the nursery of the southern .
home, and the manly son Of praying |
mother shook the golden fruit of faith in .
he very lap of the enemies of the cross ,
md taught them how Christians die. /
When, on the long journey the mother
prayed for the comforter to be with her |
BOY, the same voice that spoke peace to
Ter heart welcomed him to the Fathers .
louse on high.
Some men are thinkers, some are work |
RS, only few are men. Early Walton .
,2s one of that few. He was generous,
rue, manly. He had a way of winning
carts. While in his profession he won .
he esteem and confidence of physicians,
% had always the love of his patients, and |
nd even the walters and stewards of the |
nfrmary whore he died Joined the rest in
touring out their libation of tears to his
memory. The warm-hearted, genial
outhern boy chad. won the hearts of
hose people of the north, and their de-
oton and tenderness Eprove that worth
nust ind recognition in whatever zone
# the earth, and that the heart, when true
O itself, knows no latitude.
Doctor Walton's remains were followed
o the grave by very large cortege of
riends.