The record-union., 1892-10-31
THE LATE EBEN OWEN.
His Remains Followed to the Gene
terry by Mourning Friends.
Rev. c. p. Massey's Touching Remarks
on the Spotless Life and Charac-
ter of the Deceased.

ISA VI llI0 AGCOaSeus
The funeral services of the late Eben
Owen were held yesterday afternoon at
the family residence, 1912 D street. They
were very largely attended, some coming
from abroad to be present at the obse-
quies of their departed friend. The pail
bearers were Joseph Sims, H. S. Beals,
Lee Stanley and Messrs. Neal. Tuck and
White, the latter of San Francisco.
Rev. c. P. Massey otficiated, and after
speaking of some of the prominent incl
dents in The long life just closed, paid the
following beautiful tribute to the worth
of the deceased:
And now, his labor ended, in the pres
ence OF SO many of his quondam associ-
ates, we are met to pay our last offices of
respect to his gentle but manly worth
we pay II, therefore, to the citizen, to the
man who, restraining Willfulness and the
entlcementS OF passion, was able to put
his affairs upon substantial foundation,
and by the accumulation of property felt
that he himself had an interest in the
State and personally contribute to its
perpetuity.
I'VE pay it to the pioneer who shared
the honor with the pilgrim fathers who
Pls~hOSOi OuL CINIllEdllOD OIL our Eastern
SnoreS; IN being one among those who,
upon the Pacific Coast, has redeemed a
realm to industry, to religion, to law, to
letters and to art.
I'VE pay it to the business man, who,
IN that crucial test OF character which
business presents, comported himself
ever honorably with his fellows and only
retained what was justly his in that fierce
competition with one another, where so
many encounter shipwreck, and whether
one loses or wins, frequently does so in
peril Of his soul.
wv e pay 1t to the companion, the father,
the friend, who, whether in the intimacy
OF his own family circle or without, dis
pensed the cheer of his disposition, the
charities of his heart or hand, the ex-
ample of his high integrity and purity of
purpose, so that with his memory will
ever come pleasant recollection of so
much That, III our mutual intercourse,
contributes TO make life gladstone and
good.
And, lastly, we pay it to the religious
man, who, recognizing the material and
the tangible as things appointed for our
use, and by the employment of which
we are to learn the moral and spiritual
lessons that are important to us here, yet
believed that they were simply suggestive
III their character and had each their
analogue in things which transcend the
realm OF the physical and natural world.
MIR. Owen chose to be known as a
splrItuallst, as one who believed that
there was no obscure demonstration
vouchsafed us here of things which
pertain to an eternal life and for
many years lived happily in this faith.
Some of us may think that this faith of
his was simply the deep teachings of our
moral and spiritual nature, which refuses
to be satisfied with the evanescence and
insecurity of the things of time, and so
projects its hopes and its affections upon
larger and an eternal scale. Our dead
we Will not lose, we deeply feel, but to
such enc as Mr.. owen they come with
spirit ministries and kindly words, to
still make rich the sphere of our daily
life, with sweet cOmpanionships ofheaven.
I'VE all are SpirltualiSts here, / hope
spiritualists in the belief that love, and
truth, and goodness, and all gentle
virtues, are of unending life; that the
pure and true are not even at death car
ried whence their influence can no longer
be eXerted upon US, but are safely kept
III our heavenly Fathers house, amid
whose many mansions we are again to
have them as our own. Some of us, how
ever. must continue to live, as far as
these beliefs can so, entirely in the
region of faith.
Demonstration has not been fur
nished, as we think, and our nature sim
ply throws itself upon its greatness, list
enSto its whisperings, tests its intuitions,
and so believes that this
"Qur birth is but sleep and forgetting;
The soul that rises with us our Ines star
Hath had elsewhere it's setting,
And cometh from atar.
mot In entire forgetfulness,
And not i'll utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds OF glory do we come
From God, VINO is our home.
LAS citizen, then-as a pioneer of civil
lization to this western coast, as a inst
man of affairs, as kind relation and a
trusted friend, and as man whose belief
was fixed on eternal thIngs-we hold the
memory of him who has Just left us in
hign esteem.
But word remains to be added
word TO be addressed especially to those
who in our friend had found a father. a
counselor, companion, and a protector.
too. until the hand finally failing. and
the virile nature somewhat slack in
It's activity. they in turn were privileged
to take up the abandoned work and be a
protector Of him who erst had protected
them. And richer than anv material
legacy is the heritage of the choice mem
Ory their father has bequeathed as he be-
comes to them an eXemplar teaching all
noble things, upholding honor, present.
ing duty, instilling affection, inspiring
beauty this prosaic life of ours and light
ing it with light as from celestial sources.
In glancing at the brief epitome of
Mr.. OWENS life, found in a local publica-
ton, | learned fact which, merely Incl
dental as its record was, impressed me
deeply. 1t was that connected with his
marriage, as it proclaimed how, from the
land of his wandering, like another Isaac
of Jacob of old, he returned to his fathers
home to take a companion from among
the scenes where for generations his an
cestors had pitched their tents.
with his childwife eleven years of his
California life was subsequently spent.
and now, after a separation of over a
quarter of a century, the husband and
wife walk hand in hand again. where
disparity of years can have no meaning
on heavens eternal scale.
1.-The light that never was on sea or
land brightens the landscape that clouds
shall darken nevermore, and the peace
which passeth understanding has come
at last with dove-like wing, to rest per
petually upon the toreheads of those
whom God has blessed"
TAKING ELT MHRC