The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-11-03
Obituary.

The Rev. Granville,W. jenkins died at his
home, % Grove stret<, Oct. 10Th, after an i'll
ness of ten days, at the age of IL. He was
born in Boston in 1851, and was educated in
the public schools of Chelsea He prepared
for the ministry at Tufts college, Boston,
and was ordained as pastor OF the Universal
ist Church in Orleans, barnstable county,
Mass, in 1873. He subsequently preached
in Belfast, Me-. and from that parish was
called to this city by the First Universalst
Church the successor of the Rev. Mr..
Davis in 1887 His ministry in this town
has been most satisfactory to his people, and
during his inspiring leadership the church
has been completely remodelled and wholly
freed from debt He has been a faithful pas
tor to his people and an earnest and courage
Gus preacher of the Gospel. He had the
courage of his convictions and never let sec
tartan lines interfere with what he deemed
to be his Christian duty. He was social and
genial and was beloved by his people and
held in high esteem by wide circle of
friends and acquaintance outside of his de-
nomination. The Rev. Mr.. Jenkins was a
member of Uncas Lodge, No. II, 1. O. O. F.,
and on several occasions preached memorial
sermons for the decreased members of the
order. He was popular i'll the fraternity
and an enthusiastic advocate of its benefrent
work. He was an open and aNOwed prohibit
zionist, and was always an earnest advocate
of temperance principles. He liberal,
right-minded, God and man loving minister
OF the Gospel, as he understood it, and he
walked in the paths of truth and righteous
ness, an example to his felow-men. He
was taken i'll on the 9TH of October with an
abScesS i'll the ear He grew worse rapidly,
and meningitis and blood poisoning follow
ed. Five days ago surgical operation was
performed as the last means of relieving
him of his distress and putting him on the
way to health. He was conscious and ia
tional at times last week, but on Saturday
morning sunk into comatoSe condition,
and died on Sunday at O'Clock p. M He
leaves a wife and four children the
youngest of whom is years old His family
have the sympathy of the whole community
in their bereavement. and he will be sim
cerely mourned by all his people. Norwich
Ct, Bulletin, Oct. II,
A cablegram was received at Augusta Oct
%, announcing the death in Paris of Mrs
Ralph G. johnson, of Augusta, daughter of
the late Allan Lambard. Mr.. johnson, who
had received the news of her illness, intend
ed'to sail from New York the Goth. "K. w.
NJ: contributes to the Kennebec Journal the
following appreciative notice of the deceased
cit is difficult to find words in which to ex-
press the universal sorrow caused by the
death at Paris of Mrs Julia Lambard John
SON. Language which would appear to a
stranger fuIsome and overdrawn. would. to
those who knew and loved her-t was i'm
possible to do one without the other,-fal
far short of her deserts. Handsome, noble,
gifted to an unusual degree, large-lninded
and great-hearted she lived for others, with
hardly a thought of self. To her. as regard
ed her sympathy and love, there was no
high nor low, no rich, nor poor all stood on
a common plane, all We're "hrothers and sis
tiers in Christ" From the little birds that
came at her call, and the little kitten that
curled unbidden on her skirt, to the suffer-
ing man or woman who turned to her for
material aid, the sorrowing man OF woman
who turned to her for sympathy, all We're
SURE If welcuine and help, even III the last
days If her beautiful. unsetish life. Not
only those who We're 50 blessed as to claim
kinshp with her, or those who had been
honored by her friendship for long wears.
mourn for her to-day those to whom the
privilege of knowing her had come but in
recent wears, claim the right of feeling that
the world Is i poorer place t. live in now
that She has gone ont Of It, And yet, that
she has lived, and loved. and aided and Shed
about her the sweet sunshine of her unset
fish sincerity, her daily walk with God is
enough to make us al nohler in aim, more
fit to have been her friends =