St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-05-03
IN MEM0RIAM.
[continued from first page ]


then there shone through his eyes a
intense desire for you and genuine a
lection that would lift were before yo
now charge all your souls with the 10y
OF purity and duty and lead you to max
Christ supreme.
Changing the thought a moment later
said lis Christ your Saviour now 2
With a smile he answered, you canno
cheat me out OF that" Soon howeve
he came back to the old message, over
and over. "tcll the men love them. -
Then he rested for while and gained
strength for other words OF truth ant
love. But this affection for you was
deep within him as he lay close by thu
gates of death waiting for the command
to rise up in the land where all are fellow
workmen of the Lord, and where, as he
said Il hope to meet my men,"
This service today is not funeral, the
quality and faith OF his life invite us to
give it its real name-a coronation.
Love brings its memories and sacred
tributes and places them as a coronal Of
fering on this completed life. We crown
the truth he loved and lived, the self-for-
gctful work he accomplished, his loyalty
TO his convictions OF truth and duty,
the great ahfectionate heart that loved
so many and so much and having loved
his own loved them unto the end You
rightly call this your servce-your day
OF memory, of gratitude and ofthe sorrow
and tears of love. But it is also his day.
Before he Tell asleep, in clear and wakeful
thoughtfulness he planned it. Il dono
wish it," he said, to be day of mourn
ing. | wish it to be day when men
may know that faith has conquered
death. wish on that day, he said, ito
speak to them through you. Live before
YOU die as youwil wishyou had, when
YOU come todie." 1t is the day ofyour
memory, but also the day ofhis message.
Tell the church, " he said, that it is good
TO have so many prayers answered, in
my heart feel them, they bless me,
keep on praying. Tell them that in my
religion of trust in Christ have had
happy hope all these years. Tell the
children to follow the Lord in their
youth, when they come where am
they will be glad in having the Saviour's
hand to lead them on Tell them all now
know that each one must come to death
by bimself-but he must get ready for it
before, in. dying one cannot get ready for
dying" So we meet, in this his spiritual
home, where he and the saints who from
their labors rest, have worshipped. |
Where for nearly third of century he
has been as pastor to the Sunday |
school, where so many of us have re-
ceiyed the bread of power and the wine
OF life at his hands, to hear the message
from the man who close to his immor-
tally speaks to us the undying fat and
love OF his soul.
The courage and hope of his death
tcdch us how to live. Out of that cham
Der of peace some of us came with faith
in the reality Of the spiritual life never
'clt before. Now we believe in the truths
rom and of Christ as the best, the only
-hings worth striving tor and living for
n this world where sellishness is so act
We and deceiving. Nurses and physi-
strangers-said, such cheerful
md fearless faiths wonderful Through
fearful eyes we seemed to say to each
other, "this which now shines in this
mans heart is the eternal truth, let us
trust it, and speak it and do it," God
is in His world. His truth is the strong
hing, let us all be true.
Two hours before he died he said
10 his physician, 81 shall soon fall
IsleepW "Yes," was the answer. And
hall l wake up again ?" NO." he re-
lied "Then before go to sleep let me
;ay good night to the friends" They
anne one by one. To each he gave some
word of tenderness, of thoughtful af-
ection. A word of prayer he said to
me. This was the prayer, Bless thy
hid who now falls asleep in thine arms,
when he wakes may it be to the good
II orning of Heaven" AS this prayer
penetrated his soul and was made his
,wn his eyes and face were lighted as
With a rapturous amen. And then as if
t were conscious act he turned his soul
oward God and slept, and woke to
meet his Lord and the life that was his
,ther self here, only few steps from the
-ates of Heaven.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep
from which none ever wake to weep"
The quartette then sang II Love
Thy Kingdom, Lord" after which
)r. Heath offered the following
'rayer:
Our Father in Heaven our Father in
arth, for thou art our Father every
where and always in this world, and in
very other world. In our joys and in
mr. sorrows, thou art our Father. We
ONE to thee at this time, o Lord, in deep
Our hearts are very sore, and
hat can we do but put them in thy
ands for healing and throw ourselves
nth all our burden of sorrow at thy
ct, to be ministered to as only heaven
: Father can minister Thou hast
.ricken down one we love, and that t
ONE upon the hillside that hitherto has
cen so full of sunshine and the joys Of
uman fellowship is now clouded and e
N of tears. Thou hast taken away the '
-ustfu Christian heart, and the church
in darkness and in sorrow because of \
: loss. Thou hast taken to thyself the
rong man from the affairs of the town,
I'd all the people feel that they have !
st friend. Thou hast removed him 6
pom whom so large burden Of care i
u on behalf of the working men, and 10, t
,ey are here and they are everywhere ,
the town today mourning /
ecause he has gone away. And the c
heels of the factory are still, and the
Disc of the anvil no more breaks upon d