Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-21
FUNERAL SERVICES.

The Methodist church was crowded On
last Sabbath morning to it's utmost capac-
ity-perhaps hundred persons stood
during the service an d many more were
unable to gain an entrance and stood on
| the outside during the funeral service of
Harry Baldrich and Joseph Buchanan.
The Two boys were aged respectively ten
and twelve years. They were drowned
the day before in the lakelet about one
and one half miles north of the city.
The funeral services vera conducted by
Rev. G. Lowther, who said in The course
of his remarks;
Il speak for the living, not for the
dead. Character determines the state of
the dead and no words can change it.
But this event is full of lessons-among
them are the oft recurring truths that
things intended for blessings become
evils when improperly used, or not suf
ficiently guarded This lakelet was
looked upon by all as great blessing.
We visit it with pleasure-eyen delight.
What wonder that it should tempt us to
battle in its waters, and in this there is
no evil; but this implies danger. There
is point up to which there is no danger.
but beyond which the bather goes beyond
his depth, and, as it occurred in this case,
is drowned But this only illustrates the
common affairs of life.
Many pleasures are gsod within them
selves. which, by their excuses, become
sins, and the pathway of life is strewn
with the wrecks of humanity on account
of venturlng little too far. In all law
full pleasures there is a line of safety be-
yond which you cannot go without suf-
fering the consequences.
These boys could stand on the bank
with perfect SAFETY except in so far as
to view the lake tempted them to enter
it. They could wade IN and continue to
go farther and farther as the water grows
deeper and deeper and the pleasure be-
comes greater and greater, until they for
get that they are approaching the utmost
limit of safety, when suddenly down they
go into deep depression in the bottom
lake. the waters close over them. they
rise and sink, they rise again and sink,
they struggle for moment and all is
over. Oh! if they had not gone quite SO
far they were safe. But they went to
point beyond which they could not go
without danger. Other boys went fur
Their and were not drowned, but these
boys drowoned and that is proof of dan
ger.
In like manner many persons have been
eXhorted to restrain themselves in GER
tain indulgences but have argued that
there was no harm in them. Others
have gone farther and have not been
wrecked answer others sill have been:
and it is not better to 60 to the extreme
limit of safety.
If some philantropic person in this
city had thoroughly explored the bottom
and erected danger signals, pointing out
to the boys and places where safety ends
and danger begins, and then they had
disregarded them, they would have acted
just as we are acting in many of the af-
fairs Of life in disregarding the danger
signals in the word of God and the ex-
periences Of humanity. If they had will
fully disobeyed their parents in going;
they would then have acted precisely as
we act in disregarding the council of a
loving Heavenly Father.
We may not like the law that restraints
MS. or enjoy the danger signal that warns
US, but they are given in love by one
who loves us as parent loves his child.
To regard them il wisdom and salvation.