San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-09
In MemOriam.


! AS we look out upon life there is no sight
| which satisfies our sense of justice. Hs much
| as that of fully Obedient child. Especially
is 1t so, when the child becomes the young
| man, and still continues, towards the parents,
| mat hlIal duty. which begins n submission
| and ends in love.
| Then 1t is that we feel that even in this life
| there is sometimes full fitness in things and
| that the years of care and love on the part of
| the parent, are justly treated in the obedience
| and love of the child.
| How beautiful it is when this obedience
| seems to increase with added years, Instead
| OF: as too often, becoming less
what JOY, to the father and mother, when
me increase of stature only brings greater re-
cara ana more tenderness from the child.
is there moment more fully enjoyed, by
| the parent, than the one when the child stands
almost prepared to go forth aud battle alone
Ia ne ana yet fingers full of obedience, care
and tenderness for father and mother. and. as
ne thlnks Of them, almost content to let the
future tarry?
And what blasting of Joy. and Of limitless
hopes when at such moment, the child lies
down, not to sleep and dream, but to wreste
III the clutch OF shifting fever, and to pass out
from it, into the mystery of change that we
call death From sympalh by of iOy with such
parents. over such a son, we are cast down,
into deeper sympathy with them, in their
apparently comfOrtless grief
1antis Duncan was born in Shehyvil!e,
Hneloy county, Missouri. February 9th, 1868.
Nnen just past his majority, in the present
year he was stricken with typho fever, and
-
zeal skill he lay unconscious for days and died
May 18th, 1889
There was peculiar sadness for these par
ents, in this aifiiction. in that all their other
children had preceded this one into death and
now their last, and because Iheir last, their
pest loved, in the very midst of life, was in
death
1t is for the lonely home of which he was so
great part, to speak of his various familiar
virtues in detail. Let US here, as we drop our
tears upon his yet ungrass6d grave, refer to
thls distinguishing trait, that he was dutiful.
cheertully obedient SOn,and became more and
more tender of Father and mother, as they
stepped towards old age, while he strobe on,
INTO vigorous young manhood.
CutSlde OF his home, the few intimate
IIeuus' tnat ne made, were of the church and
sunday school. A memento of his regard, for
ms aboath'school teacher, was found, after
Rls ueath, IN letter written home from
Mhich he refers to this teachers having
written b. IN, and calls it, lone OF the most
touching letters, l ever received from any
body"
This Sunday-school class held a weekly
meeting, underline kind care of the teacher,
ana none prepared for and took interest in it,
more ZeaIOusly than The subject of our sketch.
lantts was not member, IN full cOmmun-
ion, with the church. but il was his purpose
to become such. He had been carefully
trained, in the duties and privileges of a
christian child His lifewGs such as to lead
those who knew him best, to believe him u
sincere christian.
May every young man who reads this re-
solve 90 follow huutis Dunulu, us tar as he
followed his God, and by Gods help, to So live
at home, that he may deserve the ppitaph
which so we'll dts Nuntis' tomb; "hcre lies
one, who next 10 his God, loved and faithfully
ooeSed parents A FRIEND.