The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-02-01
MEMORIAL ADDRESS.

BY REV. J. I. GREGORY.

HoPE, PROTECTION. >
Charity is habit Of good will or !, !
in the soul, which dis, y
,oses us to the love, assistance ana h
elief of those who stand IN need OF q
L In the highest or scrlpturai 4
sense charity means love, universal :
owe. love to God and good VIII
men. Viewing men IN
charitable light; putting the best !
construction on all their actions;
having a fellow feeling and affec-
tomato tenderness for every human.
The most learned cynic will get
new heart by learning thoroughly
to believe in the virtue OF one man.
Our estimate Of human nature Is IN
nroportion to the best specimen OF
n we have witnessed. When thel
precept Of love has been glven' an
image must be set before the eyes
! 81 those who are called upon TO
lobey it. Did not Christ do this!
Did the command to love 60 forth
10 those who had never seen a nu,
man being they could revere!
3 Could His followers turn upon Him
and saw, how can we love creature
; 50 degraded, full Of vile wants and n,
, contemplate passion, whose little
life is most harmlessly spent, wher
il i. an empty sound Of eating an'
sleeping; a creature destined for tn
,lIpraye and for oblivion when III
, Allotted time Of fretfulness and Toll
t.Ihas expired? OF this race Chris
1 himself was member, and to TIL
? dav is it not the best answer to a
blasphemers Of the species, the be'
consolation when our sense OF !
~ degradation is keenest, that ~
3 man brain was behind His forehea.
- and a human heart beating in n
: breast. and that within the who
"a creation of God nothing more el
"a lvated or more attractive has y
a been found than He? And II II
answered that there was IN ms
ture something exceptional and
Mt culiar. that humanity must not
YES measured by the stature OF Chr
let us remember that it was precl
ly thus that He wished 1t TO
vas measured, delighting to call
He meanest Of mankind His brotht
Christ believed it possible to D
men to their kind, but on one 9
dition that they were first bot
=" fast to Himself.
9, Hope is that pleasure OF the M
'oo 90 which every one finds in HIM
- zupon the thought Of probable
- ture enjoyment Of a thing whic
capt to delight him. Hope q
~ ~ three things it assures good TIL
10 - to come; it disposes US tor them
90 .. waits for them unto the end, 9
30 % Of which will be Of singular U.s.
. ,dS 10 fit US for pious sufferings. 1t Il
10 20 fiction that is to test the natui
~ >, our experience. An anchor Is
81 bad when it lies upon the dec'
~ Is convenient when We use 1t In
80 tranquil harbor; but when the !
% are hidden, and the storm Is on
20 deep, and you are driving In
= the coast, then it is salvation.
= brothers let us one and all resi-
90 promptly to the assessment cal
'eo o. our brothers by the fixed time,
20 slour hope takes hold OF the y
+" a00lfor the thirty days, and the 81
:. ~ oldo not affect US. Hope is the
.'4o q moral vitality, and any ma y.
society Of men, who would Il
ports the moral sense Of life must be
n re- inc forward to something. WI
ng in .ns 80. ..;.hout the future?
DIE 20 How is the force Of moral IN
'. a q veloped and strengthened?
70 oe not by successive conscious {
10 act and to suffer at the 9
often duty? So it is also in the G
= IA societies. The greatest OF all
Wi, ,ties among men at this MON
killeu the church Of Christ. As the
J, y noo characteristics Of christianity,
V,Vo Hope and Charity, and "
these man is a totterlng wa
e colds an entire failure in the sight
Prof. God. So to the great founda
Acade- the Ancient Order OF United
discov- men. we have the massive pi'
ired byCharity. Hope and Protection
expert we are here to-day in mem
ng him the noble founder Of our Or
hen ne J. Upchurch, allow me
W min that the heart never beat
enously breast Of finite man with mn
nted on and enthusiasm for Charity
short and Protection Of his fam
ct gave fellowman, as the great SYM
sspepsia and compassionate heart
lis kind. Upchurch, our founder.
ing used from the ,sa1 :, ~ 4
ad cars. Ana nAA ,,,,
,er tube, Why 90 we as wo. a
han an, ,ruch emphasis on hoPeY
=" hop. is the power that me