West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-05-18
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Died, near Aurora, April 80,
1898, Daniel Ami Stemple. son of
Jackson and Mary Stemple, aged
IL years, Ii months and 90 days.
The fiat of death is incxorable.
There is no appeal for relief from
that great law which dooms us to
dust. For the aged, who have out.
lived tho friends of their youth,
who stand bending on their staff.
waiting the elimination of a life
well spent, the call seems bot a
happy transfer into the port Of
paradise but when the summons
comes to the young with all the
pleasant possibilities of life lust
opening, we revcrently pause in
obedience to the impulse of human
nature TO contemplate the profound
est mystery Of human destiny. the
lmpenetrablc, insoluble mystery of
death.
The subject of this sketch was a
promising youth, his bright Young
life before him. He had been en-
ployed in Merchandising for some
time, where he contracted the all
ment which led to his death. On
Saturday, April %, he was brought
by friends to his homo, where all
that loving care and medical skill
could do, was done but whore the
decree OF death has gone forth, all
human skill, protestatfons and
bitter. lamentations of dcsoIated
households are powerless, and OIL
the following Friday merning at
twenty minutes past six, "God's
finger touched him and he slept.o
the sleep lie gives his beloved he
fell asleep and awoke in the gray
mlsts OF morning i'm 'sThe Palace
OF the King" He has looked his
last upon the setting sun, yet has
viewed the rising OF one whose
beams light mp forever the glorics
OF an endless day; his soul returned
to It's own. original and glorious
home What a supcrlative, grand
and consoling thought comes to MS.
that death ia but an Initiatory step
into higher life, its arched door
way being but the mystic entrance
into the realms of Paradise. The
ways OF God are beyond our com
prehension-what He does we know
not now, but we snail know here
after. 1t seems hard whensfriends
thus linked departs harder still.
when the earth entombst All the
heart holds dear. Why God, in his
infinite wisdom has it so, shall not
be made known to us till we too.
JOIN this garnered spirit in that
bright, deathless, stormless Ser.
ever
Tbc fatal decree that dooms our
loved ones 10 death, opens the VISION
OF an endless life beyond this
'sbore and bank of timo." We
know their Illumined spirits whis-
pers to us from the golden courts
OF heaven that ne shall meet again.
We never think of the great event
OF death until the shadow falls
across our own threshold, hiding
from our eyes the faces of loved
ones whose living smiles were the
sunlight Of orr existence such it
was in the passing OF this life out
beyond eartf's sight, and his going
is the first broken link eut Of the
family chain.
There ,sns + no flock. however watched and
But one dead lamb Is tbersf
mere rs no hreside, hOWsOfer defended
But bus one vacant chair"
Now Danas chair 10 vacant
Dana, as he was Familiarity known.
was always CAV, cheerful, and full
OF health and happiness, and his
sudden and unexpected death We a
shock 10 the family and all who
knew HIM. Though the closest
vigil was kept over him, the family
did not realize the seriousness Of
his ailment ill the pale angel bout
man came to row him DER deaths
chilly tide. a few moments before
he died, he sang "Lord Make Room
for Little Child" and oft re.
peated his desire to 60 home, and
ere Aurora's rosy fingers had back
ward pushed the gates Of day,
Dans's spirit, pure and white,
assembled heavens bright stair.
That brother breast was warm with truth.
Was bright with bonor's purest ray
he WAS the dearest, geutlest youth
OH Why then was he torn awayf
such was tho youth we loved 80 wens
Such were the hopes that fate denied
wo loved, but sh we oouid not tell
Hew deep. how dearly, tll be- died 80
Ills funeral was preached at tho
Stemple Ridge church by Rev. n
r. Faulkner bis text vas Job. l.
II. "I'he Lord gave and the Lord
hath taken away blessed be tho
name Of the Lord" Aud on
sunny slope in tho Stemple RIDGE
cemstery, where the golden SIM.
light and the pale moon. beams
latest fell, and where in spring tho
+ bright green grass and sweet Wild
i flowers are earliest seen tL.~ III