Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-04-12
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pR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS LORD.
Dr. George Augustus Lord wA- born IN Sur
ry. May l., 1851 lie was the son Of capt.
Samuel l.. Lord. aud Mary Wool Lord. H.
went 10 sea 10 bis boy hood, and followed that
business for several years crossing the Atian
tic many times. Nature gave the boy mar
yelousIy perfect physical frame. so tall, erect
snd ~el-rounded young man l. rarely SEEN
was George Lord. A, might be expected
in .uch noble temple Of Gods spirit was an
erect, clean soul, a mind hungerlng aud thirst
ting for know ledge from the first.
Not long after bis completion Of his cour-,
IN the Castine normal school, Dr. Lord entered
the Boston university school Of medicine.
Graduating in the class Of -, be was elected
house surgeon OF the hospital connected wiih
The university. where he served one year. lie
then went 10 Europe and stsdied another wear
ON returning he beg the practice Of mcdl-
iciue in Cherry field About This time be mar
ried Jennie Dorman Of Harrington. And it
mas the fragrance, power and beauty Of the
inner life Of this patient. eNer-cheertul wife,
that helped much to Elake the last i've Year,
Of the doctors stay with IL, To -pte Of it,
deep agony Of pain, - full of patient waiting
FOR the end. 50 hopeful OF the future.
After comparatively short stay Ia Cherry
field. Dr. Lord laborei IN his profession sac
ce-sively At Ellsworth and Amherst. II wa-
at the last-named place that disease began to
bring upon him the series OF msfortunes " birb
at last destroyed his fair frame, and In their
rude way forged in the furnace Of pain that
sweet endurance and warm love OF the [ IT,
World Of the spirit which ~a- maui
fest 10 those " no came nearest to him In those
last Year..
Or. Lord wa- worthy physician. Iii,
-pft, nFRpNraftnu in fhi- "a
studies abroad, lifted him few are fitted Tor
the medical profession. But after the -acTi-
fees and priSatious 10 get this preparation for
his iife's work, and with all the promise for
most useful and happy future with hi. young
wife snd baby girl just beginning 10 lisp her
fathers name, 10 hear the attending surgeon
say that he would never 20 home alive, seemed
hard indeed. These heavy words fell upon
his heart four years ago this month. The ~ick
man looked up 10 his wife and said: Il rW
20 home.n That VW carried him home, aud
bore him up TO the end which came last Fri
day, April d.
To those who came nearest him from the
time Of this declaration. what a revelation bis
life wa. What revelation OF the powers
of man, Who would have imagined the bu-
man viii equal TO this: Though struck down
thus while on the threshold Of full life, v hat
optimism he always manifested
We would look for means and omplaiuiug-
OF his bad lot. But instead, how he would
call all things good, very good. What rev
citation OF The imperishable riches OF man. In
ner world. OF all men he would have seemed
TO have been without hope. Yet never met
one 20 full of hope, whose faith grasped, not
all 'the grand hereafter" but grasped all it
could and held patiently, contidingly on like
q child.
The dark spirits whom we fear and that
neither he nor we could understand. brought
him these precious gfts-fath. hope and en-.
durance. and as we saw through our tears
their radiant forms 10 him, we were strength
ened. To those who came often In that room
of pain there was not sombrene-s nor any
darkness whatsoever, but growing conscious
ness or the mellow light that shone out through
that prison OF clay. To them, that crown OF
tborns Is fast changing into halo OF light
May we not trust also that to his brave spirit
now free. the wreath of thorns is already seen
to be halo of glory: l.. d. CoCHRANE